I feel like Oh, yeah. All right. March 6, 8:14 in the morning. We'll call the ST County Commissioners meeting order. Has everyone got a chance to read last meeting's minutes?
If so, can I get a motion to approve them? I'll make that motion. Motion by car. I'll second Perry. All in favor? I opposed car. Any additions to the agenda for
today? Yeah, I want to talk about the county road 10 area of ditch south of the culvert on the west side of the road that Paul Hansen has a complaint on. Okay. Is there required? They haven't
received all the paperwork yet, but well, we can talk about it whenever you want to. Okay. Any more additions? Okay. You want to do park board first? Okay. And call me the Steel
County Park board. Order. May 6th. May 7th, I guess, isn't it? Sixth. Yeah. Okay. Is there any agenda additions? If not, is there a motion to approve the agenda?
I'll make a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All in favor say I. I. Motion carried. Uh, everybody read the minutes for March and April. Is there a motion to approve the minutes? I'll make that motion. Is there
a second? Second. All in favor say I. I motion carried. Old business, the multiuse contract sound like Jenna emailed everybody the
Yeah, I got a couple too that anybody see any corrections that need to be done? Jason looked it over pretty good and I think he got most of it down the way he wanted it. No, we probably should have a motion to approve that if everybody thinks it's okay. Then Jenna can get some. Do we
want this contract or do you want to have it renewed? Is that a question? It's like a 10-year deal it says in here. And then we can renew it. It said I think it's Charlie put that. Where did I read that? On the bottom there. Yeah.
Remember I understand. So good for 10 years. Good for 10 years. Yeah. Unless the park board and the association agree on something that something's going bad or something that I think that that'll work that way. Is there a motion to approve this
memorandum? Make the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. All in favor say I. I. I. Oh, same sign. Motion carried. Jenny, you'll get that typed up then so Jason and I
can Y got one that Jason I can sign eventually then. If you you just have a plain copy, you can probably just have them sign that. I just printed it off last week. Okay, I'll get that done
then. New business restaurant update. I don't know. I haven't talked to Jake. I don't know what I think he's planning on opening up Wednesday. Next Wednesday. Next Wednesday. Yeah, he'll be open after Mother's Day. He's going to open up Wednesday, I think. Yeah. I think he said he'll be open just for
like dinner time on Sunday. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's going to do a Mother's Day deal or something like that. Yeah. I know what else he's got. Uh Charlie's just about got the roof. He's around all that hoods and stuff venting on the other side over there. He's just about
got that place hung up. But I think he's you said he's asked about $6,000. Yep. He came in the week on like the 22nd and then last week. Okay. So, and I told him to get a hold of you
and then we can write in the final check. Yeah. And then I think Jake was talking about getting them shelters done up too, but I haven't got a quote from yet on that. But I asked for a quote to make sure just have it on paper. Okay. Get it to us. I I'll give Charlie a call one day
and get a reminder that get that quote into us. Okay. Last I've got is the septic issues. I don't know if that Huh? It's working now. Is it working now? Yeah. My only concern is if we should
reimburse Jake for part of the some of the pumping. I know it got kind of spendy for him. I mean, it's possibly ours. It's kind of both ours and his responsibilities, but it's probably more ours because it's our building and everything.
Yeah. He went out there like once a week, right? 400 bucks a week, three or 400. 400 a week. Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Or 1,800 bikes. 1,800. What would be fair? 50/50. So, I was thinking right away. I
mean, and I talked to Curtis and he's he's recommending just trying it next year. put, you know, like a water tank heater in the septic tanks. He said just keep some heat in there. I wonder if that would help or not. He said they're like 40, 50 bucks. That'd be cheaper
than doing this every time. Even, you know, if you're not going to get any snow, maybe cover some bales. Yeah. You know, frost was so deep last year that I wonder where it froze up. It froze up. It froze up on that. When it comes out of the tank, it comes out. You think it
does? benefit between the two tanks. So, yeah. Yeah. So, that's I mean, if I put a vent heater in each one, it too would help quite a bit. You say if you got figure out and cover with some snow maybe. Is there a motion? I make a motion
to pay $900 of that $1,800. Is there a second? I'll second it. All in favor say I. I suppose sign motion
carried. You guys got anything else? Park board guys. Okay. Well, that's the case. Is there a motion to adjurnn? So move. Is there a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. Thank you
guys. Good luck this morning. Yeah. got to go see. So, good luck. See you. Thank you guys. You want me to unlock my pickup? Yeah, I'll drive that. Wait for Reed to talk about the roads or see that.
Does this mean seller mower? Yes. Well, is everybody gone through all that? Do you see? I mean, it looks like a hefty price at the bottom, but kind of estimates how many times mowing it. That's the thing. Yeah. Could be a lot. Could be a lot. Yeah.
I think this probably worst case scenario that price. Yeah. And then I think these guys got um trimming weeks and no trimming weeks, you know, different prices and all that. To me, I thought it was
fair. I didn't see anything. And I think if we use him, then we don't have to use all the other guys anymore. The only reason why I asked to get this up earlier was because they're actually here in town today this morning and he
said if this is something that you guys approve then he can actually start today on this stuff. So I make a motion we accept it. I'll second motion by Strand and second by Perry. All in favor? All
right. Well, that are going to keep the motor. That's a question for you guys. What do you guys want to do with the mower? Does it get used anywhere else besides the Did it get used anywhere else besides the courthouse? No. Great. No.
Shop guys use it every once in a while, but they kind of do their own stuff now. So, they don't have a whole lot to see it. Is it worth anything? If I'm thinking, is it 525 still? Yeah, it's pretty old. It's like 20 years old,
probably. No, it's a 525, I think. It's that like 20 30 years old. That's old. It's old. I mean, it's old. If we got rid of it, what do you want to do with it? Auction it or just advertise it? We can. I'm okay with that. We have an
auction or we can advertise it for Oh, I guess that was my question. Do you want to do wait for an auction when that happens or do you want to just put it in the paper? Well, let's talk to see see how much stuff we got to clean up out there if there's any more stuff we got to
seems to be. That would be a good idea for we got enough stuff to have a auction. I guess we maybe we've done that what every couple years get rid of some stuff. So, let's see about that. Otherwise, if we don't
then maybe we'll just take see bids. Next, man. Want to talk about roads? Sure. So, um, first and foremost, Reed said he apologize he couldn't be here today. Um, he's got some stuff going on, so he's a he's at home or he's got some
appointments today. Um, first thing that came up was that dip on Conor Road 11. The tri-state paving gave him a quote for about $14,352 to fix that. Pretty normal,
pretty average. Reed wanted your guys's approval to proceed with that. What do you know? Right before the bridge, I think it's on the west side on 11. Okay. So, is there any other ones that we got to He was talking about one more on county road. I think you're going to
include that in Okay. Yeah. Okay. State Pav's come out. They've done a lot of work for breed in the past and around here. They they know the area. They've done they've done a good job. Make a motion that we fix
that. That I'll second it. Second by Chris. All in favor? I post motion carried. Uh, next thing is grapple. So, you guys
should all have a map in front of you. That's the map that Reed came up with. Um, hindsight's 2020. We probably should have done this last month, but here we are today. So, the idea is is that we'll uh if you guys are approved this, we'll
go out to bid um for those roads. How many miles? 33 and a half. We do about 33 to 34 every year. And I know I talked to Reed. I just don't remember, but county
plans on we plan on doing some also. Yeah, there's always stuff that we wind up doing. I'm guessing probably 10 miles or so. Yeah, we always bit about 33 34 we and
the guys do about 10ish a year. Yeah, some of these roads, like I said, we need to probably get a few loads of gravel on spots, not all of them. Do you guys my qu if you guys are cool with this map um in June you'll uh
you'll award those bids at your June meeting. Um if you guys are cool with this in the past you've done like a 25 cent per yard incentive to get it completed by a certain date. Is that something you guys want to continue with? Yes. What's the date we do was it
last year? August one was July 15th. July 15th. Maybe we should bump it back. Maybe something this year. August one month. Bid a little later. August one. Yeah, I like that.
Comfortable with the map? Any changes or additions you want with it? I'll move to approve the gravel map. I'll second that. Motion by Perry and second by Ker. All in favor?
Opposed. Motion carried. Uh we had we hired three summer guys, two Maple State football uh graduate assistant coaches, and then one uh brother of one of the coaches. So the
the brother started here yesterday. He came back today. So we're excited to continue that. Hopefully the other two start on the 19th of this month to a couple weeks. As far as cracking that are down past
the curves on five one lane, they'll go all the way to them and we'll come back and other lane go north. He talked about it maybe working extra hours maybe on Friday. Did he mention that to you? Yeah, they they talked about putting in
a few extra hours on on Friday. Um they went to summer hours so they're at uh Monday through Thursday 410 and then Fridays are overtime for them. Um they'll probably put in close to 10 on Friday just to try and get everything done just for the cracks. Exactly. Just
for the cracks. So we get the 25 is probably the worst. It's a lot of the what I mean before the chip zero. Yeah. So then it's then they'll go back and and look at the new pavement and fill it
in there. Y the summer guys will be when all of them start those guys will be really busy doing cracking. Okay. Because once they get down with 125 they'll move to 11. and they'll finish 18 and then they'll do probably five and then eight
depending on where they're at. That'll be good. I don't think there's been no applied for the way position yet. I haven't had no qualified applicants there. Yeah, as far as I know, there's been no qualified. So, we're still we're still going to keep advertising them. I have
it advertised. Uh, it's currently in a statewide ad. Um, but it's not full state. They're able to do it in regions now, which I thought was cool. So, it's on the eastern side of the state is where I got it. Still keeping Facebook posts up.
So, keep keep looking. You need another job. some days maybe sell it all. Are they gonna be able to keep up being a man down? So Reed's been in the blade
quite a bit when he's here. So he's been he's been doing a good job. Yeah. So for too long, you know, the spring is really critical to get all the cutting done and and the roads back in shape.
I've heard nothing but good things from other people that have said he's doing a good job lately. I think uh Zerfus even said, "Well, maybe he shouldn't hire another guy. He should just let Reed be in the place." Yeah, but there's other things he needs
to do, too. Yeah, that's all I had on roads. If cell phone bill. Yeah. Um well, not all of it. You guys normally give a stipen every I think it's what is it? 60 bucks, 50 bucks, 60 bucks, 50 bucks. Um, for everybody that uses their cell, their
personal cell phone for work purposes, he's not getting a new phone or a work phone. We're just let him use his personal just motion. Motion by Strand. I'll second by Perry. All in favor?
I opposed. Motion carried. Thank you. Jasper says, "Awesome. Thank you to the commissioners. He'll be they'll be here after lunch every Tuesday."
Perfect. Do the burn van real quick. Yeah. Um I don't know if you guys saw that, but uh it's pretty dry outside after two inches of rain. It's still really dry. Um it's weather service
predicts a pretty pretty pretty dry summer. Um we do a fire deck every single year. This doesn't change anything with it. It's just usually it kind of works well within this time frame. So fire declaration burnband fire
declaration is um when the fire it ties everything into the fire index. So when you're in the very high extreme or red flag warning, it's an automatic burn men of all burning gives the fire departments a little bit of extra oomph when they have to go respond and they can start sending
bills to those farmers when stuff like that happens. There was a pretty big one on Sunday night. I got out of hand pretty fast when we were in red flag warnings. I'll make that motion. Mr. Strand, what was the duration of the
burn ban again? Goes to November 1st. Y automatically expires November 1st and then we revisit it usually in May again. You guys can resend that at any time though too. So if it's super wet or we get a bunch of snow
early can resend rescend it. I'll second. Second by Perry. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Do the exterior repairs and all
business. I know we're jumping around. Sorry about that. Does that work for you? That'll work. Um, exterior repairs. So, you guys, we talked last month. You guys, uh, agreed that we should go out and see what we
can get for architect services. Um, stuff went out. I sent it out to a couple of people and then our social media took place and we had a whole bunch of we had four firms that actually submitted for us to review, which I thought was pretty cool.
We usually I mean I didn't think we'd get that. One's out of Bismar uh toured out of Fargo Morehead area and one out of Buckton. So um idea is to sit down and meet with those architect firms. Um
we they'd have like a little presentation they would do for us. um we'd ask them some questions and then we'd come back to the commission with recommendations for what we should who we should have for those services.
Um to do that I would like to get a committee formed uh so not all of you have to sit through those but you're all more than welcome to sit through them if we want to do it that way too. um committee thought process. We usually do five people. We can do three. Um we can do seven, can do
just you five. It's it's completely up to you guys. But if you did three, the three at least I was thinking were myself, Wayne, and Chris since Chris has the courthouse portfolio. But do you guys want to add another commissioner onto that? And then if we add that, then
we'd add Janet as well. every single It's It's honestly up to you guys. I'm I'm fine with that. I'm good with that. I'll work with you and we'll get some dates set up for those guys. Sounds good. Good. So hopefully uh we'll meet with
everybody here in May and then we'll have a recommendation for you guys at your Zoom meeting on what you should do. If anybody knows what questions to ask architects, I'd be more than willing to listen to that because it's all Greek.
I'm sure they'll tell you what they need to know. I'm sure they will, but still have at least a couple questions prepared. Not sound like an idiot. Feel like you got a board member right there. That's true. There's a board member here. In fact, over in West
Trail, we got board organized. We're just getting set up. We got to get to get a bond and bank thing set up so we can, you know, pretty much receive the money and then give it to um the stuff on.
So, that's got to be done by June 30th. Williams final date. We'll probably meet before that next Kyle O'Brien. He's the treasurer secretary, so he's also too Mstro's
dead young and crazy last name. Went really easy. It'll be pretty simple. It's nothing new for me. We do the same thing I hope for their ambulance. You know, it's run through the fire department. So, it's pretty
simple. Sounds like we got the right people of that guy thrown under the bus to be on that port. Both mics here, but do the gold m permits real quick. And last year packet there's a couple like cash
boards and some gift cards and things like that. They do it every year for their association. So they just formally need an approval kind of that motion motion by I'll second
that. All in favor I approve. All oppose. I mean, okay. Motion carried. Was there some that PRC trust that on here somewhere? Oh, that wasn't um so the PRC trust, the state emailed
us yesterday with um the new house bill or the house bill that they adjusted to include trusts. So, there's like six different people that qualify
now because before they weren't doing trust, we just needed approval from the commissioners that it's okay to give these guys up to their $500 credit on last year's taxes. So, and all of them are um I know
Lark is on there twice. He's not supposed to be. That was a mistake by the state I questioned them on that. But just the top ones about that yellow line. So, it's a five of them. Yeah. So, and Casey's out this week. So, we're kind of waiting for Casey just to make
sure everything looks good on his side and then me and the S will go back and um update them and then I'll upload it to the state. So, I just need a um I'll make a motion for those five and then have Casey go
through it. Make sure you do that as well. A motion by Strand. I'll second it. Second by Chris. All in favor? I I motion carried and I'll keep going with Casey staff.
There's two statements and then I guess it's just one. He's in Bismar right now at his 300 class. So this final one is for
official efficient version and then he utilization um there's a few problem few concerns um we already fixed them or is currently fixing them I think you know earlier
some of them Um but overall it went really well. Um there's some c um some people that did show. Um hope was one of them. So other than I think I was the only one
that didn't show, but everybody else. That's good to hear when he did let everybody know too that they'll be assessing this cities now. So, Jared are on his list this summer. Okay. Just because the last year
want a Yeah. I'll make a motion for a motion by Cer for the abatement. I'll second by Perry. All in favor? All right. All
right. By opposed. Motion carried. And then at BNSF, I wasn't quite sure what this entailed although I included it all. Um it was terminated. I
don't know if that's we need to we need to approve that or act on that even or I'm not even I wasn't sure I included it because I wasn't sure about it. So they just letting us know they so I just wanted to make sure you guys were aware of it. But
I suppose it's the rail access at less otherwise. Oh and the elevator let the lease go. Is that what you got auto too? Yeah. So they're not going to be loading shuttle or loading anything right. Well, they haven't for Right. Yeah. So they're
going to load out. They're going to do it out of Hannerford. So it seemed more like a notice to me than something. Right. Okay. I think at most they would just park some of their equipment for fixing the rails there, you know. I didn't see any problems with it. Just that they're not going to be renting it
anymore, right? Just want to make sure that we will not be using that Northwood Spring Company. Correct. I can tell them that we don't need anymore. So, what did they normally charge? Um, they looked about $300 for one
application. So, it's in line with where Jton's are any about the new courthouse. You want to go over that? Yeah. Um, so I was kind of talking with SIA and Casey about an hour lunch break and
they said it's they're like one of three people that use the actual hour or the actual lunch break, somebody else's salary. So they were kind of saying that an hour's too long. Cia doesn't go home. I know Coraline also has she currently is only
taking a half hour lunch. Um, and Casey is like, I'm fine with going down to a half an hour. So, we kind of discussed hours, if we go down to a half hour and how we can cut it. So, we're still working at 37 and a half. I know summer hours are coming up at the end of May.
And so, I worked it out so we wouldn't have summer hours. We'd have straight across one like set salary or set schedule of hours. And I did include that in your packet. Nice. I see. I
mean, so it' be 8 to 4:30 Monday through Thursday and then 8 to 1 every Friday. Um, traffic is pretty slow on here on Friday. Um, sometimes a lot sometimes
people are gone. It's pretty quiet. So, um, that's of course going down to a half hour lunch. And then we wouldn't get we wouldn't have several hours either. Yes. So this would be year round. Yep.
And then with those new phones that we got installed can track who's calling and how many calls you're getting. Um so it'll be nice to see once the data builds up who's what time people are calling, if people are calling on Fridays, things like that. So, and then
again to almost every office is open at lunch hour two for everybody to come in because that's if people come in with concerns or problems, they usually come in around lunch hour. So, and then your phone's able to forward a call to your personal phone if
Okay. needed. Y can be working the way it should. I know like for the sheriff's line, um Satie actually is answering the sheriff's line, but then after 4:30 it'll call forward. Yep. Yeah. And then
if someone leaves a voicemail, it goes to an email to send an email their their message. But Okay. Love it. I'll make a motion to accept those hours. pushing my strand to uh
have the new hour set permanently. You have a start. I would like to would What do you think of 8 to 1:30 on Friday? So, it stays the same 37.5 hours. I mean, there's only two three hourly people in the whole courthouse.
So, I don't I mean, so it's not very a big impact. Yeah, because I mean, there used to be more employees here that were hourly, so it kind of affected it more. But was everybody except for the elected officials at one point, but it's not anymore. And we even discussed too, if
you guys really want that half hour, you come in at 7:30 on Wednesday, but I mean it's a half hour. It's not I don't know. I mean, like I said, everybody's pretty much salary. So, because then also um with that 8 to one, there's going to be no lunch. So I
will have all the employees sign a piece of paper that they are giving up their lunch hour that day. So just make sure we have that on the books. I'll second it. Second by Chris. All in favor start date. Oh, I guess
that's up to you guys when you want to start that. Memorial Day is a change over usually, right? Yeah. How about June 1st? It'll be about to be March 27th. May 27th, sorry. May 27th. Yeah. They
give us a few weeks to notice it in the paper and all that stuff. Be the Tuesday after Memorial Day. That works. That's usually when we start summer hours. Okay. The 25th. 27th. I'm looking at March. Sorry. I I said to do the day
after partly, the next business day after day. All in favor? I motion carried. Probably should put signs on the doors for a while. Yep. On Facebook
paper. Yeah. Thank you guys. Nice benefit. I want to make sure to comment one on Friday. You of all people do for Dennis that 50th anniversary for
the Vietnam War. Um he wrote up a little thing. Um he's planning on giving a little certificate with that writing on it plus this medal called the Vietnam Vets. It's 15th years this year. Um I believe he needs to talk to you about
Yes, ma'am. Okay. He is hoping to have one of the commissioners down in Hope for the Memorial Day service and to present these awards to the Hope Legion. I don't think Finley has really decided
they're going to do. Um, but if you do know anybody, please have them come up here. They're not going to attend the Hope. We can give them their I going to ask how many people we talking about here roughly or don't we
know? I do not know. Okay. That would be a good Dennis didn't know what number that would show up, but he had mentioned 30. Okay. and he just would like the support of the commissioners with the letter that
he wrote or the certificate and then hopefully to have someone present it in service in hope. So I don't have any plans for Memorial Day. So
you want to do that, Barry? Yeah. Yeah, I'll do that. I'll make a motion to approve the the letter that he wants as well. I'll second that. A motion may appear, second by Krueger. All in favor? I
opposed. Motion carried. I know he did mention something about putting it on Facebook or the paper. Do you guys want to put it in the paper? That probably be good. Yeah, Facebook's free. So, give me whatever you need and I can put it out there.
Now, continue to work. I'll send you guys the final draft of that letter. Um, we just wrote that on a rainy day, so I'll help him. We'll get that all printed out on nice paper. So, yeah, I wanted a bunch of those to hand out of
the letters to the Yeah. Vietnam vets. Like I said, he's really wants to get these medals into everybody's hands. The state paid for the the state paid for these as they used to all the vets. So, you know, anybody Probably should bring one of Tim
Quizley probably. Know Dennis would know where he is. He's in Mayville. May tell his last name. A G I S L E. You can think of anybody else. Let me know.
Wasn't he just always wars Vietnam had? So yeah, you guys want to do that? I can get a hold. Mike said he was going to come here. But I know Mike said he was going to come here. I don't see anybody.
I don't think so. They have inter micro quest. Yeah, Mike. Leave it to the engineer. Show him on time. Snuck me in at 8:45. Where's dyslexic? 8:54. So 8:45.
Morning everyone. Morning. Morning. Sil code bid opening. Everybody get copies of the bid tabs for that. I brought copies if you're interested in having too. Yes. I like to press some big I like big
numbers. This was uh the bid opening that was on April 15th for your counter roads 11 18 and 25 for seal coats. This is all uh divided out um in between each roadway. So there is uh
subtotals for each roadway and then what we did is we provided an alternate section for each of those roadways to add the fog seal on top of the chip seal and then also if you wanted the uh white edge lines prices came in pretty good. Um you
know our estimate was almost 1.4 million and you're about 1.1 million and change is what uh the total bid on this is. So that would be our recommendation to uh proceed with asphalt surface tech corp or your seal code project if you're
interested in doing the uh entire lot of everything for that 1.11 million. Anybody have any questions? What do you think of the fox seal? What do I think of the fog seal? It's kind of a horse a piece. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. It uh it does help
embed the chips a little bit. Um, you know, it does provide a little bit of more oil on the roadway, which there's benefit to. Um, it, uh, sometimes it just comes down to personal preference because you put the fog seal on top of the chips and it gets back to a dark
black roadway. If you don't, the chips stick out just a little bit and you end up with more of a a whiter looking roadway. So, it really becomes personal preference. My preference is I like it, but adding a box seal that
can that can make the blade last a little longer. Uh I don't know if I go two or three years or so what I it it can. Yeah, it can. It just depends. They know it's also going to depend on your
winter and your ice conditions and how how bad your blade scrapes it and chips it off. And so I just think it seals in the rock better chips better. Yeah, there's not a large cost um for
this particular project. For that you look at the uh alternates for each section are between 50 and 70,000 depending on the length of it which also includes the white edge lines. So at 25 cents a square yard, it's not a not a big
cost funding standpoint since all we budget. We're we're coming in more than what we thought. Coming in a lot less than what we got. Budget wise, we're we're well under 200,000.
Yeah. That leaves next year 300,000 available for the other projects that we were estimating. So next year when we're deciding to seal code two years instead of one year this one is not the seal. No, no. The
the courthouse was not included as part of this one. No. Oh, that was our misunderstanding on that then because No, we did not. We did 18. Can you get a price for that? We can. Yes. Yep.
Yeah, we certainly can because I don't believe that was included in part. But we sure can. It's probably not going to be a whole lot. Yep. Absolutely. So, I've got a notice of award to sign if you guys are interested in proceeding
with this project. I'll make a motion forward with the P code. I'll second that. Mr. Second by FY. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried.
So on this uh there's there's three copies of the same thing. On the right side of it um there's a space for uh um chairman to sign and then underneath and then on the left side there's an test line. Jenna, if you want to sign on a test line and then we will get the
contracts started um with that. We have I don't know if you move at 9:00 or no roots. No, they're coming in this morning. Okay, sounds good. Um I was unsure of where that was at. So I stick around for that. We'll make space for
them. Do you have anyone else? I didn't know. No, I didn't have anything else today. I've got a few things to follow up with you guys on to get you shortly, but working on those. That's the culver
road 20 and uh six for the culvers and a pavement patching on the north end I thought was fugber but okay I talked to yesterday Henry, they're not coming down unless unless we need them to come down for
clarification. So he and uh Tasha can come down. Morning guys. Morning. We're as I understand it, the water board had a stipulation in their permit that you guys also get a permit from the
commission correct. Yeah, he he Yeah, I think he called it like an utility or something. Okay. So, that's what we want to discuss today. I do believe, right, is getting
this finalized. Yeah. I don't I don't was it an actual another permit or was just part of their stipulation that they wanted the commission basically to sign off on it? There was letters sent out and the commission stated something to the
waterboards. So that that's why the commission got involved with this. If the the state never got involved because they did not respond to the uh any of the questions that came from the water. So that's where we're at today.
They the last waterboard meeting I was at that that you guys were at, it sounded to me like they issued their permit, the water board did, and they said that the commission will can issue their own permit. And that was their stipulation was that you know the
commission would give a permit. I think that's where we're at is if we want to give the permit and then you have every permit and we got the permit from the core of engineer and the water board has it's it's
recorded as a permit but there's no date on it yet. Okay. So that's that's where we're at. And then if we issue a permit, as Josh said, we can put our own stipulations on that permit as well. So I guess that's what we want to
do today. Well, the water board asked us to issue another permit to make sure all the bases are covered. What's the purpose of the utility permit? Well, so they have all the permitting
for the work that was done. Okay. You guys, just to clarify everything, are you guys digging south of the counter now or that's not going to happen? What? Digging south of you're not you don't you don't want to lower the culver. You don't want to dig south. No, but we don't care about the color.
Do you guys want another culvert? The culvert. We took pictures of the culvert again yesterday and that culvert's getting worse than it was than it than the last pictures we took it. It's worse than it was now than
it was then. So you have you guys definitely have a problem on your end. Yeah, we know we got to replace we'll replace the holder. So we'll replace the cvers and then we'll put the same size cart in same height. Make sure uh Keith Jacobson, he stopped
by me or stopped by and showed me some pictures. He says the culver's not level. Yeah, we was high in the south end. Yeah. I don't know that for a fact. I'm just going by what he came by and and mentioned to us what was going what
he thought was wrong. And as if you go by there now, the water is not flowing through the culvert because of all the cattails and maybe the elevation is high in the south. I I can't tell you that. Do you have any heights on that culver, Mike?
Can you guys get height? No. No. No, we did not. They provided a map. Their contractor took Will you guys go and get heights on the culver before we install the culvert? We can. Yeah. We have to get to make sure we're correct going back in. We can if you want to
back in at the same elevation. It's my understanding from the elevations that you guys provided that the ditch that is north of the roadway is deeper than what the existing cover is. Correct. It's always been that way. I'm just stating the information you provided. That's
what was provided. That's And the only reason why you can tell that now is because we got in there last fall and mowed the cattails. And the reason why you can see the water now because the cattails are gone. If you look on the south side of the road, you can't see the
water, but there's water in there. Cattails are you just can't see the water in the cattails. So that's why the cattails are there on the north side because it's always sort and I know you guys are concerned about the water by the ditch on that
road. But there's something holding the water back on the south side. You get rid of a lot more water. So we say there's more water coming out the counter now than there haven't been in the past. Uh that's debatable.
Yeah. According to contractor, there shouldn't be any more water. Okay. And I think you stated that in this there's less well there's less water this year. For the last year there's been less water than just about any land. So currently
there's less. Okay. So basically we got to figure out as a commission what stipulations you want to put on to issue that permit if any. if any. But we're looking to issue a permit or
or not. For sure. Yeah. So I I got to you got to be in my opinion you got to be careful how you do this because if you start putting restrictions on people putting drains through culverts in the cony road you're probably going to have to go back to everybody who drains water
through a culvert in the road. Well like Greg said water it's a it's a blue line. It's a natural water. So I don't know what the effect and I'll explain one other thing too is
is when we do not lower the cur or change size of the cver the core engineer doesn't care what we do. It's if you lower the culvert,
change the diameter of the culvert, then you got to go through a whole bunch of different stuff. And we just don't want to do that. When we look at it like that, I think it's the blue line going through
there. Um, that culbert we know needs to be replaced. So that's on the docket. I think the Calbert will split anyone in same depth. I agree with that. That's, you know, that amount of water is going
to be there regardless, you know, and it's going to take, we got to a few different things there that have to be fixed for it to go, you know, all the way to, you know, like we just put it back the way
it was. Fix be done with it. It's all right. those the only thing I think I would urge is at least on the projects before you start them get your permission first. We
don't need it. We didn't need permission on this project. Well, you did dig deeper than the culvert. No, we did not. No, I thought it was No, if you look at if you look at all the diagrams that the contractor stated, there were 50 ft or more north of the
culbert before he started construction. It's all in the documents. So, we never did that. And it's a blue line. We cleaned it back in 2008. Everybody else made us go through the hoop something that we didn't need
to do. That's a problem. But now, since we've gone through the hoops, we're all done. No more. There's no more nothing. Cuz we've cleaned Blue Line before, never gotten permits. You just
You just don't need to do all this stuff cuz we've done it before and we've gotten the okay from NRCS and all that stuff. It's just that it it got to be such a massive project that everybody thought, "Oh my god, they can't do
this." Well, that's what we were being told earlier. So, that's why I brought that up, right? I still urge you to get make sure you all have permission done correctly. Well, that's all I'm saying. It doesn't hurt to check with the water. It doesn't hurt to cuz it's opened a lot of can of worms for all of us. For all of us. It
probably didn't need to go that far. It's all I'm saying. So, and this permit this permit for from the commission is due to the water boards condition that we that we do it. Otherwise, I think we just go with what
the waterboard Yeah. does. Yeah. So, I'll make a motion to approve the permit from the commission to the Fugleberg drain to I guess finalize what's been done up
to this point. Appreciate it. Motion may be. I'll second that. Second, maker. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried.
You you'll get that on a Janna official permit and mail it to probably R. Yeah. Does that go to the waterboard too or do I send that to them? We can get it. We can get it. We'll have to get it to the water as well. Get it all figured out for you. Okay. So, and then I'll mail it
out. Okay. All right. I know how to get rid of that water over. It is at a pretty good angle. Yeah, we got to clean that up. I see out there for your final thing. So,
coming around, you're up. Yeah. Don't sit down. Uh, Sades. Oh, yeah. Okay. My understanding, so Sadie used to do some of her, still does a little bit of her stuff. Um, but my understanding when she moved over to treasures, she
wasn't getting anything added on to her salary. And since she moved from the clerk um back to treasure, she can start to do a few more things she wasn't allowed to do before. So, I'd like to give her a little money.
Um I'll add that on to my budget for next year. But until then, my understanding is there's some money available talking to Janna that there's money still in her budget that was not being used from the previous
salary. I think we talked about it. I think it was going to be a total of 3,000 something. Um, you're right. That'll be for the year starting next year. So, anyway, there's some money there. I think you should probably
um think about uh adding some of that to your salary a little bit since there's money there. It still won't use that whole bud. You have to have Janna the details. About 3,600. Yeah. puts it and then next year budget I'll
put it in my budget so it's there I'll make a motion motion by 36 second by Chris I b Thank you. Anything
else? Is that it for me? Oh, good. Okay, good. Morning. I don't know if we should clarify something on that. Sometimes when people the public sometimes think we just give big raises to employees. Yep.
For sure if we're sure. Please make good. They understand why they got a raise. Wouldn't just All right. So this is technically for weed board. I don't know if we have to call
the meeting to order or are we having a lead board meeting? Yes. Okay. So uh I guess we board chairman Oxton if you could call the weed board meeting to order. Call the board meeting to order.
I need to recess the county one first. Sorry, I didn't know this was the meeting. Should that on the agenda? Okay, we'll take a break from the county commissioner meeting and we'll call the wheat board meeting order. All right. So, I received an email from
Sam McGrath from the North Dakota Department of Agriculture and she was following up on North Dakota Century Code 4.1-47-10 section 2 and that is before January 1,210 and at least every 5 years thereafter, each county weed board shall
review its noxious weed list and by majority vote may remove any weed from its list. The county weed board shall provide the commissioner with at least 14 days notice of the time and place at which its list will be reviewed and no later than 14 days after conclusion of the review shall provide the
commissioner with written notice of any changes to the county list. So I did give them notification of our meeting today. Um, and so I just want to remind everybody what a noxious weed
is. And by terms of sort of the North Dakota Century Code, a noxious weed means a plant propagated by either seed or vegetative parts and determined to be injurious to public health, crops, livestock, land, or other property. And so we as the county weed
board can add weeds to a county noxious weed list. And this list um you as the you guys are the as the county weed board may designate uh as noxious certain weeds that are not on the state
noxious weed list provided the county weed board consults with the North Dakota State University extension and that the designation is approved by the department of agriculture commissioner department of agriculture commissioner. So on our steel county list we have
Kosha. Would you guys like to add any other weeds to the list? Remove kosha. Let's uh let's keep kosha. We need to add water. You want to add water in? We sure can. So,
um I mean coming from NDSU, I would say that's a good a good ad. Nobody else has water hemp on Well, Ramsey County has water hemp. So, providing this noxious list, this gives us
this gives us that the enforcement power Yes, it gives you enforcement power. It also allows land owners to use the landowner or those $500 reimbursement funds to spray. They could have been using that for kosha and water hemp. So,
water hemp, they'll be eligible for that, too. There any other weeds you recommend? No biggest problem would be a good ad. What was the one that was found in Finley last year? That's already on the
noxious weed list and that is uh toad flax. Yellow toad flax. Chris, you mentioned Palmer. Hopefully, it was not found in Vinly. Won't be long, unfortunately.
Okay. So, Brandon, you are in favor of just maintaining Kosha. And then Chris was add a motion to add water hemp. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Hey. All right. Okay. Water hemp will be added.
Coach will be maintained on our county weed list. And that is all that I needed from you gentlemen this morning. So if there's a motion to adjurnn. All right. Thank Thank you. They're not on the agenda, but they're out here.
Okay. Which I guess is fine looking. Hello water. Is it one of Josh? Sure. Okay. Morning commission. You ready for us? I I guess any questions for us? I I know you guys have been kind of dealing with a a few different uh complaints
that hit the county level. Uh we did act on u a surface drainage application number 6640 which was from the Fugleberg land group. I don't know is that topic already been discussed? Yes, we approved
the permit from the commission. Okay. Okay. Well, I will submit this to you guys though too. This is the R noise a decision and maybe Cassie if you could there are conditions attached primary condition is is that they receive permission from the county
downstream flow strength or utility permit something whatever you guys are going to protect county re otherwise the permit would be with that condition okay we we didn't apply any conditions to it to the permit.
Going in at same That's up to you guys. Yeah. Okay. Um so if there's any no other questions on that, uh just a couple other verbal updates. Uh uh Elmer River Dam number one is of course completed
and we've gotten nothing but positive verbal verbal updates from the township officers and local neighbors in that area. Uh stating that the Elm River is as low as they've ever seen it. There was no localized flooding at all. So we view view that as a very positive
project. Uh also we are in the process of doing some new legal drain reassessments which is a standard procedure that most water ports go through. You you take your legal drains and you just go through a reassessment project typically every 10 years where
you've double check lidar make sure all the folks that are being assessed are being properly assessed and some of those that are maybe using the structure and not being assessed become assessed. Then all of a sudden, um, as far as any other things going, we've been approving
a few other beaver dam permits. And that's pretty much every drain tile. And anything else? Female projects are Oh, yes. That that is probably the most important thing. I guess most of our FEMA projects have have been wrapped up with the exception
of drain number two, which uh you know is going to require some additional information before we can present the commission with any kind of findings on that. So, okay. Okay. Did you was Paul
handsome up at your meeting? Yes. Yes. uh a determination was made um to have the ditch filled in on section 15 and on section 14. Okay. So So you guys are
requiring that we Yes, we that portion from south of the culvert over to the property lines. Let's see. Basically it's not that long of a distance. East of the culvert. Culver not so no no that's fine in the
county ditch is fine it's going west where all but that was that was one where if the county had an issue with it though because right because I I think we want to probably get the ditch filled in where that was estimated but we there's a question on to where where our
rightway is which I was going to talk to you about right that's what it was okay well as far as our official order but either way the county doesn't want to have to pay to fill it So, it doesn't really matter. We should just I mean, there shouldn't be hopefully with filling in out the field,
we'll eliminate any water sitting in that ditch from from here on out. Um, I don't suppose you have any pictures with you? I mean, okay. But I mean if you saw the P you I know you've seen them before Perry but I mean that water comes from the be from the west and it stops right
before your rightway and then that usually in your rightway is dry even though it's been excavated but yet no water gets to it. So okay. So the so the rightway was excavated and no
water gets there in our in our road ditch. No, we don't know if it's actually in the ditch or in the field. If it's in if it's in our rightway. Yeah, we need to determine that first. And if we want it filled in, yes, then we don't want to pay for it
either way, whether it's in our ditch or in we didn't dig it out. Okay. Then it needs to be put back, but we don't know if it's in here right away yet. That's what we need to figure out. Yeah. And that that should that'll be your guys's Mike will be able to do that.
Yeah. because you know we we determined we're going to fill in two feet for that 400 feet I believe it is just to the west there's the just kind of what we said there it doesn't make any sense if why was excavated then if the water she's there doesn't well yeah I I think
um I don't know did you ever drive out there and see it see the the drain comes from the west and it comes about up to the property line and then they excavated the property line okay up to our county road 10, right? And then they scratch back some that goes up to our
culvert that goes under 10. Okay. So, these guys are requiring that they fill that in from the road back 400 ft, but not that stretch. Okay. You guys have an issue with that stretch along the county road. That's what we're talking about yet. I don't know if they know if they
do. Mike's going to go look and see. I don't I didn't. But that's fine. I would think if he cleaned out by the culvert he didn't lower the cover. I would say going west is where that's really that's key. But I don't think along the road I
don't think there was this. Is there any hole that's up there that or is it the same height as the culvert? It's the same height as well. Yeah. I think it's as long as there's not a same hole or something that would cause if somebody went the ditch or
didn't have issue with that. Okay. When I met with Greed, did you lock that part? Yeah, I was out there with Greed, too. And at that time, but it doesn't really matter if it's in our ditch or in the field if we want it filled in. Yeah. No, I'm just I'm just saying if it doesn't be filled in, we'll take a look
at it. I think we got to figure out right away and if it's fine with Reed and it's fine with that, I'm doesn't There's two land owners concerned with it. Yes. Well, right. But I don't look Yeah. No, that's true. But
I think hopefully, you know, our decision today alleviated some of those most of those concerns. I would think, you know, I mean, hopefully all So, any other questions for the waterwork? Okay. No. Well, thank you guys. Thank
you. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll leave this copy if you went because we have we have a signed copy up top. All right. Thank you. Thank you. So I guess that kind of explains what I wanted to add to the agenda about that's
what I wanted to talk about. Well, and like I said, if that ditch is fine and it doesn't hurt anything, it doesn't affect the ditch. If it's deeper or whatever and it works, I guess that's fine. I'm just wondering why if it doesn't do anything, why did they dig it? That's what I'm saying. What these guys are saying is that the water from
the north shouldn't come down the ditch anyway. If they're going to get water, it's going to be a big event and come over land from the west. And then they they also those two land owners swear up and down that that
culvert is lower got lowered 18 in several years ago, but there's no way there's no documentation or anything. No, we can't really fight that either way. But if if we ever did anything and didn't have it as low, then it's going to be if we raise the culvert for some
reason, then it's going to be below culvert on the west side. So, so do we know we bought a game camera? Yeah, investigation
evidence and there's Wayne can probably talk more about it. Is Wayne out there? Wayne's here. Wayne, do you want to talk about the game camera? Oh, yeah. Well, 40 years. I didn't think it
would happen, but it happened. We had cleaned out the evidence room with all the paraphernalia we had in there. We had all ready to go in the thing, and then we cleaned some more stuff out, and I think lost the camera that belonged to an individual that was uh taken for uh evidence. Um
the camera we didn't need so much as we did the the SIM card which we have the SIM card that was taken out in a different spot. So somehow we lost $170 game cam for a guy. So had the county reimburse them. I we looked and
looked and looked and looked and finally gave up. So I'm thinking that's what happened to that thing almost positively. It was in the same looking bag as a lot of the drug piercing that we had. We burnt that here last spring and not sure where that's where it went.
So, that's what that was about. Okay. Any questions on that? It sucks. Never happened, but it happened, I guess. township defilization on there, but
that's wait for Casey to talk to people. Yeah. And things problems that people had got addressed. Okay. And they really push people to go to our website GIS and all the it stuff. They're going to do the county
equalization here. Correct. Yeah. So next your next meeting will have the county equalization meeting. Oh, please next week. stuff's not very cheap either. No, it's not. Mine.
No, I don't want to take that one home either. Pretty high power. It's better the more I use the problem. So I spray his own gun or anything. Oh Ben, can you uh meeting days? Can you open the doors a little earlier? Yes.
Like 7:45. what all of our meeting is or because sometimes just I mean cuz we're at 8:15 so you know just to be so people can get in and get up to the meeting I guess before it starts at 8 a little 10 minute
deal or something whatever 750 just is that be fine yeah it seemed like much but 10 minutes is probably good probably nobody see usually at 750
Yeah, I like to not have writing people. I I agree, but we got to have the court als They must have switched to their 8 a.m. usually 9. Mismatch Next The
head carry me. All right, we're looking for a motion to approve the bills. I move motion by Perry, second by Strand. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carried. Motion to
adjurnn. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All in favor? I need your you.