good morning it's March 14 March 4th it's 8:15 a.m. another regular County Commissioner meeting I'll call being ordered we got a chance to look over last meetings
minutes I'll make a motion to approve last month's minutes motion per I'll second it second by Chris all in favor cared any additions to this month's
agenda I'd like to to add a brief water district update that all for additions if so we can move to the cour coordinating all right I'll call it March 4th 220 2025 parkboard meeting
order uh anybody have any agenda editions if not is there a motion to approve the agenda some permits to approve there y all right no I'm good okay how about the minutes everybody read approved the
minutes motion to approve them make a motion is there a second I'll second is there any other discussion on him not all in favor say I po same sign motion carried old
business uh the multi-use court the contract Charlie got a hold of me he's meeting with us tomorrow at 1:30 but he wants to know exactly what we want in that contract all the details that we want in
it so what what are your guys' ideas how you want that written and stated I talked to Ed last night he said he couldn't make it but he said it's I think he said in the minutes it said something about that they own the court but it that's not
true I don't think the way the way they made it sound us we own the land and they're putting a court on our land and we actually own the pickle ball court is ours I think is what's going to be stated but what do you want in there for other references that they're
liable the liability will fall under our jurisdiction I talked to Shane about that and he said that's no big deal he said it's probably not even going to raise our premiums any but the rest of it is they're responsible for all maintenance upkeep
keeping the ground and all that any other specifics you want in there anybody any suggestions anything else and then they're paying for the gravel and all that take that Yep they're paying it up they're getting y they'll take care of the maintenance
of the parking lot and everything yep so essentially it's going to be our court it's on our landine it'll be our court they don't want anything that part of it to do with it so but they're going to maintain and take care of everything keep def fence up when they get it I know they've been they've been
checking into stuff and all're getting prices on everything and I think from my understanding I think they're going to drop the volleyball court CU that net is a complicated thing to take up put down all the time because it's got special polls and everything else and they just going to forget about
that and maybe move it to the sand somewhere because you don't really want to play volleyball on that cement anyway I don't think too badly might do something different later on but all right well I'll meet with Charlie uh Jason couldn't make it but I think uh
Justin's going to be there tomorrow maybe Tom too if one of you guys want to come there too it don't matter it's at 1:30 here so I think I think probably wants you there too Jah so you want to state in there somewh they're fully funding it is notable
maybe yeah probably put that in there somewhere too yeah that's later on we have a little money we can donate towards but that' be the only thing that we do is if we don't anything towards the cause of it but they're going to try and fully fund everything it sounds like
so okay we'll move on new business uh sewers all froze up at the the lake store again every year since we put the new sewer system and has done it Jake had it pumped 600 bucks he was going to get
charged he thought that was a little crazy he got him down to $400 for it but I talked to Curtis about it to see what we could do and he said next year he said he thinks we should try putting a he said there like 50 bucks put a tank float in the septic tank he said the
heater you mean the heater yeah tank heater and the CU he did that out the the probe s fin said ever since they've done that it's hasn't froze up she said it'll be shot after the year but it for 50 bucks it's cheaper than having it pumped all the time I don't know what else a guy can do
for it if it's just not deep enough or why it wants to freeze up out there well the problem is most septic tank or septic wines are shallow yeah and probably coming out of that tank it's got an Noble coming out of it and FRS right in there yeah but he ctis actually
said they tried to he thinks it's FRS all the way out to the it might the drain field this time because he said they they tried to steam it and it couldn't get very far so like you said when it's only being used two days two days a week it's not very good not enough right and then you your
condensate pump just leaks in there very slowly yeah just not a good yeah then when it gets cold like that it starts not enough no y y and I'm guessing it's right at the coming out of the tank and then where it
goes right back right at the start of the drink it work it goes into that old tank the old tanks are on there goes into that new the bubble tank or whatever and they it freezes in between that to for some reason we're running into a few issues same after that it got nice I think it drove that that's what
ctis said that's not the only place that's I see you got down water meter issues Janna did you get a phone call I got a phone call from Dakota Waters I did I sent them to you yeah the he said to uh water out there was almost $200 last
month and they were wondering if there was a leak somewhere or whatever but I got a hold of Jake and he was hoping it would help to keep from freezing up the tank so he left a faucet just trickling or running a little bit so I think that's why the meter was up was up more
so I don't know if this I have to get hold of him again to see if he shut the water off let them bu I'm sure he did know that he had to have the tanks pumped so hopefully he did anyway he said it didn't seem to help any much anybody got any
else we've got Aon he's got a few questions for us I know if you want to I just showing up inquir about the DNR land transaction with the lease Lots anybody knows anything about it I mean
it's all rumor stuff I hear you you know and nobody really knows what the hell is going on and I get a lot of questions and concerns from a lot of other people just because I'm on the board out there and I'm like I really don't know you know all the rumors are all at the lake
store and people want to know do they keep investing in their property fixing up their property or or is it going to be a complete loss or just nobody really knows nothing but rumors I guess
so just trying to find a direction and some guidance or something from somebody you heard any more on it Richard I talked to that Brian out there and his recommendations right now he
said I want to do a lot of investing into your Lots out there but they're they're working with he said they're planning on a meeting either this spring or early summer with all the lease lot owners to tell them what's going on and everything
else but they're working with the they had an appraisal done on the land did you hear that Richard but they the FED want to approve it they wanted to do a different one they made them do it like they call a Yellow Book they wanted more detail and everything on it so right now
it's kind of a mess and it's up in the herea yeah it's all game and fish I me it's all feds yeah the local game and fish are more willing to work it's all the Feds that are really making the big stink about it I I don't know what to really tell them we got till what
32 but after if something don't happen trying to find that land and stuff like that it could get to be a mess that's why that that Brian I'm talking he said they're they're working as diligently as they can to get this worked out so that in 32 we don't have
to wait till 32 that something happens that you guys a little more what's going on but so nothing could happen till 32 or in between there they're trying to get to be done before that when the contract's done they trying to get it as smoothly as possible they would they would like to have everybody has their
lot now they want them to own their lot yeah right that would be great but my fear is there's a transaction with so said person and they decide they don't want to sell this chunk of lease land or
something like that and that we we voice that to them as well um other option is to go to public auction with every lot that's not going to be a good deal either right so they're they think they can work out a deal us the people
they're working with now to try sell the lots to individually I don't know how they they really write that agreement but I that's what I asked how does that work say if there's another farmer that LS land around those L why wouldn't he get the
option to he could trade option anybody can we haven't found anybody that's really willing to do it yet anybody can yeah they just they want it to be as smooth as possible and they want the people that have the cabins to own the launs when it's done and they
don't want them to be overpraised they want them that's going to be up to theend idual that they make the agreement with too but yeah hopefully he's going to be fair and evid I mean I would guess it would be some markup on there I mean it's they
don't have to do it as well I mean it's not benefiting them that that much either but what that market upch charges I don't what is the point of the what I I mean what's the point of the trade what's the the let's say the farmer
benefiting he's benefiting from getting the cash from all the land and they the DNR is just benefiting from getting rid of it the DNR D fish would benefit is getting out of leas lot owners they don't want to have land that people are living on they they they want like
swamps sles yeah they don't want to do leot holders so he owns some swamp lines they may make [Music] exchang so yeah I think they want the transaction to be you know that's why they're doing the appraisals they want
to be kind of an even swap type thing right so it has to be yeah and I know the first appraisals come in I thought were were reasonable but Brian said the FED said no we need a more detailed for some reason Brian thought
it was a good deal was going on there and then the FED said no we need a more so that so we were back to doing an appraisal a different style appraisal again said so and I haven't heard anymore Brian said they were going to start getting on that so but yeah it's going to be
interesting so originally they when they first said if it gets to be too much of a mess they would just keep it the same whether or not they would go back to that I Del but then what happens in 32 they just keep renewing which they would renew it that way if it got be
such a mess where they couldn't get it to work out that's what they said originally but yeah that's thanks you know about as much as we know on it right now I've learned a little more I guess I mean I just don't
so it's not a life ending altering loss to me but hopefully they can come up with some kind of agreement and like I said he Brian they really want to get together they're going to have announce they must not be far off with numbers because
originally they said they could make it work right so yeah I would guess it's real close it's just the appraisal thing the feds wanted to more detail appraisal on everything the land and everything I'm sure so and maybe that's just more descriptions or something right so the
dollar all might be might work right y they might want know more where the land's at where they're exchanging and everything else but so anything else on that I talked to Charlie the other day
he said that he's got about two weeks on this other project he's doing then he was going to get hold of Jake and hopefully get started on the roof out there in a couple weeks we'll see how that goes anybody got anything else short sweet I'll get out your hair
then is there motion to adjourn make the motion is there a second second all in favor say I all right wish car thanks guys thank you read you're next we'
been car Christensen down here at Friendly Motors has got a couple pickups in um I'll start with the get a 2022 the 2022
350 P country four-wheel drive newly uh it has 58,183 6,500 [Music] uh and with a flatbed uh
purchase that would come to a total of $65,100 for that used pickup borrow has on hand uh a new
Dodge 5 50 four-wheel drive Dodge Ram and that has the flat bit on it for $ 79,3 44 it also has a 2023 which is brand
new but it's just a hold over 4500 LT HD LT for $84,999 what year was that last one the last one 23 2023
uh the different I what I'm looking at uh is for budgeted 65,000 what's that how much did you budget 65,000 is a budget we could take in I think for another
177,000 we could get a new the new Dodge that has full warranty on it uh which we could pull the money out of our overweight permits to make up the difference uh for an extra 177,000 have a brand new
pickup uh which I think is probably it's up to you guys they kind of talked about that in our meeting with u the other day there's 136,000 I think in the weights budget
for weights uh account um I kind of suggested that I think that'd be a good idea for us to go to the brand new pick up and use one I agree and a set up ready to go and it's already set up yeah so and it's a 550 so
yeah and it's a 550 what uh just refresh my memory what what are we doing that that's going to be used for crack ceiling and also we're going to use it for changing tires and stuff here we're going to take our our air
compressor welder generator off of our situation truck and put that on there and then just get a generator for the sign truck to run the crane and stuff so then we would have the welder generator on there
MH and then also they could use that to blow cracks out and stuff when they crack ceilings are you getting rid of anything if you get this pick up or anything going down the road no not at this time
and then it does have a fifth wheel plate in it so later on down the road if we want to get a gooseneck trailer I mean it's equipped for that our Ford is just it's so tough on
it it just I would make a motion we buy the 224 Dodge by 50 for 79 344 and take the is $65,000 budget of money and then the rest out the weights count motion by Richard for Rich a Dodge
I'll second second by Perry any more discussion all in favor I opposed motion carried thank
you um we also do have the crack in we're changing oil on it and stuff and and uh when you plan to start doing that he said you suggested that the temperatures got to be warmed up in the
pavement right no you don't want warm P just whenever get hard the sooner sooner the better okay so maybe we can start that next week how warm is it going to be 30s and
40s look oh rather do it we have to get that pickup set up first but I did get the the lights and stuff for the put on the headache rack and stuff and we have to get that equipped first before we go out
on we have to get the safety lights on there what you pull what you pull it with before what's that what you pull with before the crack sealer what did you pull it with before Oh the situation truck can we use out until we get it
going we really need to get this project going read is what we're getting out we want to get ceiling the cracks we got a lot of crack sealing to this year before our chip sealing we want to get going on that yeah yep sounds good thanks
re like the your turn all right morning everybody I kind of like having something to look at when we talk about these always put information together and put it on a map because it's just easier sometimes you can
visualize it just a little bit any hey so we had opportunity to meet with a coup of you last night and last week and then and Reed as well and uh just to to talk about as the agenda said talks
about your PR dog funds kind of where your funding is at and what your opportunities are to maybe continue to do some road maintenance and uh upgrades and I think after uh we kind of talk through how where the money could extend or how far the money would take you um I
think the uh um what distilled out of that is probably uh the uh seal coats or maybe the highest priority get some Pro seal coated and then on your map there I kind of uh circled and read a couple bridges that we talked about so taking a
step back for a second just uh to remind on where some of your uh funding so you've got some Bridge projects some federal aid Bridge projects in the northeastern part of the county um scheduled for 2026 um
it it uh got slipped a year just because after they came out with the big promise of all this bridge funding a few years ago things started getting kind of expensive and they realized they couldn't really fund everything that they had so a lot of these Bridge projects got pushed back so originally That was supposed to be a this summer
project um it's limped back a little bit what we know from uh um the dot is that the soonest you would be able to apply for Bri federal aid Bridge funding would be 2027 so the soonest you'd be able to apply which means year or two after that before
you'd actually probably be able to do another Federal Bridge um you do have some highway safety Improvement funds um slated for uh painting all of painting the center line and the edge lines for all of your paved roads which is scheduled for
2028 so 2028 is kind of part of the reason that we're talking about these seal coats with the idea if you're going to put on some expensive paint as part of that project that should last you at least five years like it did last time around um you want to make sure that you don't put that expensive paint on and then have to come back the next year and
still go the road so kind of part of the reason why we're trying to plan ahead um the thing to know about those federal aid Bridges is that when that particular money came out the intent with that money is that it would be 100% Federal money there wouldn't be any match for
you guys on with that um since that time when things have gotten more expensive those were all capped the way that money came up so just a heads up on that that depending on how the prices come in when we get to that um a year down the road um anything that's over that cap they
would use regular federal aid Bridge money which is an 8020 share so no different than your County Road 5 um bridge that was replaced with the box cartt kind of how that shakes out it there might be a little bit of a share with that but probably not a whole lot anticipated um at the time that the uh
application was put in for the highway safety uh Improvement funds for the the painting um the estimated cost of that project was a million dollars and that is 9010 money so your future cost to that um provided that paint doesn't
triple in price in the next three years um is supposed to be $100,000 so just kind of a recap on that just a little bit where some of that information's at um of course you've already got your uh PR dog funding for this BM and we're hopeful that uh that's funding that
continues to come uh typically um the conventional wisdom has changed in the last 10 years we used to wait at least three years before we would seal coat a road after it was paved nowadays A lot of times we're seal coating those roads the same year that
it's paved they just the research that they've done is that it helps preserve that pavement and you you get your bank for your buck doing that um you paved Conor Road 11 summer before last you pave g a road 18 this last summer so the thought process was that uh those should
definitely be on the docket to try and get those seal coated covered up and preserve that pavement part of our discussion on that um evolved a little bit to where your other roads are at and you can see on the bottom of this chart it gives you a rough idea um when uh these roads were
last seal coated um so you think of County Road 5 when that was overlaid back in 2012 or believe that's been 13 years already it was seal coded 3 4 years later that se Cod starting to approach 10 years old
already so time to probably think about doing that again um we talked about uh G5 that was actually s coded a year later than that um as Richard Brandon
brought up as the condition of 25 as a um maybe not quite as good as what five is in this particular case so drove those roads on my way home last week and I definitely agree so I think just that one year difference in that seal coat if you're going to spend a little bit more
money on that uh um you know 25 is probably your next priority so if you were going to seal all three of those roadways you're talking 30 31 miles at probably $40,000 a mile is what we're
anticipating this might be at this point um so your 1 point2 million probably is what you're ranges um we know that your prairie dog funds I believe
1.6 so you've got the funding to do that um and probably some extra funding there too if you see how this works out and how everything happens this year if you wanted to come back and S coat some additional roads next year you may still have some money to be able to do that if you wanted to go back and get some of
those roads that are approaching 10 years old seal coated in advance of when uh that comes out um depending on where the funding goes you could always skip next year wait till the following year hope there's an additional um input of some additional prog funding and you'd
still be able to seal those roads at least a year in advance of when that painting project comes so just kind of a recap a little bit on how we talked about those uh those seal codes so that's uh um you know it's it's March already March and April are the usual
months where SE quotes get bid um that's just kind of the way that we've always typically done it with volatile oil prices know you kind of try and bid those a little closer to spraying when you're a little more confident that the oil price is going to kind of stabilize where it's at and the contractor isn't
going to bid it in November and have to see what the oil prices are and he's going to have to factor something in to cover himself in case it goes up so probably time to get those bid um so that's what I'd be interested in uh um you guys' thoughts on that today if
you'd like us to go ahead and get that taken care of and get that out to bid so while you think about that um some of the additional funding that uh was there too and part of the discussion of the federal aid Bridges if you look at that bridge on County Road 6 soua hope um
when the rating got dropped on that just a couple years ago and dropped down to be a 10- ton Bridge which was a little surprising that that came on as fast as it did if you're going to wait until you get federal aid funding to do that bridge you're talking probably 28 29 you
know three four five years maybe until you can get funding for that and then we know that there is a bridge up on County Road 20 that is not a federal aid Bridge that's just one of your Bridges were the two bridges that were kind of brought up at the meeting last week that that might
have some sense of urgency to do something with just because uh they're on County Roads and interest with that so but the thought process with that is uh if you guys were looking to use some of the rest of the funding that you have to do something there um we could get
you some hydraulic studies and some c sizes on those and maybe you could plan toh tackle those bridges as well this summer you were thinking we do CTS and on Ro 20 correct y yep I think what you're going to find upstream and
downstream is all metal CTS so that would be the thought process on these since it's your local funding it' be metal covers on six cver 2 or that bridge CS yeah yeah you we uh the bridge down Downstream I think it might actually still be shown in a red dot there by
where it says 38 was done a couple years ago and those are metal CS double line of metal CS we kind of talked maybe those two Replacements we do 300,000 or less I think didn't we kind yeah yeah yeah I
would hope less than that I mean you're probably talking $50,000 wor C materials 50 60 maybe and if you double that yeah never did share this that sheot that I gave you guys I didn't share that
with that has all the dollar fun numers and stuff on I sorry so I think we man's going with that is that you have addition funds in addition to the pr do funds too the funding the funding is is geared towards
roads and bridges 505 account I think we want to try to get rid of that one we have to move that one done this year this year um and the pr dog money that's geared towards that also yeah there's very
specific thing that you can use for for funds what in the back of my mind is thinking about okay the you know there support we got to look at doing too but when we sit down and and look at this you want to put some money towards
roads but we also need to think about these bridges too that we have you know so I'm okay with moving forward looking at these two Bridge sites we're talking about right on the count one on County 6
one of those on 20 so Ben Ben can correct me if I'm wrong but I think the premise of the rest of that conversation is when you look at this that house bill 1505 money was one time Co money that came through and I think uh to uh Brandon's comment
is uh the intention there is that that probably is due to get spent so if you use that first on the seal codes and you have some of your prairie dog funding left um you know there's certain discussions that you can have there that uh um you know the pr doog funding can be used for graveling roads was the
other part of the discussion from last week so and I think we we kind of were thinking about some of that too as long as uh you know we don't stockpile it's just we got to go to the pit and get it we
can't we can't use it for stock can't use it for so it's got to go so the 15 five funding that was all only money from state that pass from the state um we used about 300,000 we did
the 18 out here last year I want to get that used up so that's going to be kind of the very first part of everything a lot of all that fun will come from there right away whatever is left will wind up coming from so we'll use a505 on the seal coats
or the bridges or whatever is needed with that um uh then we'll go into prairie dog uh and then the idea behind it is that we normally take uh our gravel from the 5 mil account um that F mil account is currently negative and
it's projected to be negative probably through the rest of this year at least um with it being hopefully positive by the start of 2026 type of thing so the idea behind it is that we can take gravel from pray God money we utilize
that couple hundred, winds up being um get that bit out grab all the Roes gravel do all that stuff let 5 mil build back up and then start using it again so the history behind that is that we had
a crap load of money in an account at one point and we needed to use it down needed to use it down needed to use it down we got in trouble we got a nice friendly letter from the state at one point many years ago saying we had to do that and so everything all the gravel stuff got switched over there five Mills
in SE county is $150,000 and we spend 250,000 and grab one every year but it's going to go down and if it did um probably could have been a little bit better from a management standpoint that's on me uh to try and equalize that out so we're whatever we're spending we're going
toting back every year type of thing um but we can fix that moving forward so as long as we have some prer dog money uh and then we also have farma market and some other stuff that if we need to use that for some traveling we can in the future years yeah graveling out of Baron we'd have to
just go to the pit we wouldn't be able to stock pilot read to throw a whole bunch here and already can't do that and from this the calculations we were doing and it's all going to come back to what these bids probably come back like and and look like um that we'd
be able to do that yeah so so I think we were thinking three steel coats and the two Bridge projects yeah for sure we were thinking between everything it was probably going to be about I think we said like 1.3 million I
think what the idea see if you had the 1.6 and. money plus the 500 and plus 1505 that's 2.1 to be conservative 1.3 we should have some funny left over we we we could have maybe seal coded one more or
thought but we wanted to see how the first ones went and projects and if any anything else helps and pops up because also up on them the bridges we were talking about possibly a road realignment that may need to get done yeah um there's patching that needs to
get done on some of these roads too so I don't want to get I don't want to get too you know overextended overextended basically that's second else comes up and goes all right here know we got to
look at this too so well that bridge that we were talking about redoing might not we might not be able to include the money for the to move the roller right yeah so the the bridge project uh um the federal aid Bridge Project up north that's the other issue with it at this point the other thing
that they came out and said at the time that uh um they had to cut back uh on the funding and move these projects out that actually originally included Three Bridges there's one Bridge right off of County Road 8 um uh kind of right a little low water Crossing into uh um
an Old Farm St up there that was originally part of that project and the idea with that is that we would make that into a low water crossing they've told us we can no longer include that as part of the federal aid process so they'll pay for the design part of it but uh um they won't pay for the
construction so if that is something that you guys do want to proceed with there's a pretty good chance there's no way they're going to pay for that one the other thing that they did is they said at that point that uh um the two bridges that are being removed part of the reason that we included a road
realignment to the east of that particular location is the current Township Road kind of goes Cuts right through a Farmstead grain beds on one side house on the other if you were putting in one new bridge and removing one Bridge so the idea of removing the bridge is that it could push more traffic to come around through that
direction so as part of the way that wrote that Grant application was to realign that road around the south side of that Farmstead to be able to um you know help them out just a little bit if uh traffic does get pushed over there I'm
not 100% convinced yet that they won't um still possibly bring that back into it know that things have settled out just a little bit but yes to to you guys' point there is a chance that you know there's a couple hundred, of that project that uh may not be eligible
anymore it kind of depends on how prices are coming in we know that prices for Bridges and box CTS have normalized a hack of a lot in the last couple years um for a while there it was almost impossible to get a box culbert and now all of a sudden the Box C guys are nervous because they don't have enough projects built up for this next summer
so prices are starting to normalize a little bit and we hope if those bids start to come in a little bit more where they used to be maybe uh some of the stuff will F still fit underneath that cap that they had but yeah there's there's potential that you may need some money to do some of that kind of stuff
too oh no one's there yep all that being said I think we have to really consider possibly not funding any Township r as then come in this year I think that needs to be a real consideration
isue just depending on where the funding goes and how the funding sits and it looks like there's some pretty decent money there right now but these projects that we're talking about in the future projects in the next couple of years could keep that all up very fast so I
think we would have to really normally you or historically you guys have been able to fund a couple of those if down trips come in and say hey we want to C share some of that stuff um I think you guys have to really seriously take a look at if that's a possibility to say
that because I know that's needed um but there's also some it's end of at the end of legislative session the flex funding Grant and the transportation Grant are going to open back up and there's a whole lot of money there that UHS and
can apply for I'd rather leave those we can apply for those as a county I my own feeling on it is I'd rather leave those to the town trips because the town trips going need that money a little bit more than what we do so that that's my feeling so that's what I'll be pushing out to the township at their annual
meeting um coming up here at the end of March let know that that's the stuff that need to apply for is there any known ones right now that we might get approached about one hug go okay that I
know I'm not saying you know I guess I'm you just need to be really considerate about and we did the the preliminary study of these minor minor structures too and when you go through that report there's quite a few Township Bridges out there that are a little Bleak so it's
not going to be a surprised yeah abely cop this I'd like to make we move forward the three seal Cs and two Bridge projects motion by
Richard all second motion 25 Ming 18 just to be clear on the bridges if we approve those to move forward now and they're going to become culverts instead of bridges is this going to
happen before 28 29 happen this year this year yeah I would I would anticipate coming back with a hydraulic study and a size and a cost estimate for your next meeting okay is what I'd be looking at so you could do it this summer I know the two bridges are on 20
and six yep I have a second motion oh all in favor so can I ask one um kind of take a formal poll um for one detail on those seal coats so we have quite a bit the
last quite a few years um fog seal on top of those seal Cates um it's a one way that can sometimes help hold those chips in just a little bit it's a little bit more oil that ends up on the road just curious to get uh I think we kind of decided maybe not to do that fog seal
but I look at a lot of the other projects out there for bid right now and they are doing the fog seal so it's not a huge additional cost but I guess I'm just looking for kind of informal opinions I guess if if you guys I don't know I I think the fog seal hold help
hold the chips down lot better than not doing it but the reason I think the reason why they don't like to fog seals because it's get slip is there something about the
slipperiness they had a problem with they did but that particular thing is what had become popular for quite some time is to fog seal on an overlay project had gotten really popular until they had fog seal that got applied a little heavy on a state highway and then
they had some serious accidents and stuff and makes it pretty slippery but on a chip seal you've got that rough chip surface and you don't put that much fog on it so I I don't think the slippery thing is as big a deal on the chip seal as on the on the pavement
itself how much were we talking again roughly per mile for the fog seal know I don't know if we actually had a number with that I hav did that recently well we could always bid it and then have an alternative we could bid as
an alternative Y and just make the fog seal entirely an alternative and then you guys can take a look at how much additional cost it is and decide at that time I think we should do that okay um last thing I was going to mention too because there was even at the uh way back at the N conference just
a a refresher on where your your federal aid money is at um as far as doing any federal aid road projects and uh you're almost $400,000 in the whole on that account for 2025 and you get about $190,000 a year so you're a couple years away from digging
yourself out of hole on that and that's that's pretty common the way that counties deal with that when you only get $190,000 a year it's tough to do much of a project with that so you let the account build up and the dot has to use the money every year so somebody else goes in the hole your account
builds up and then you switch with that so um at this point it's it's going to be a while before you're going to be able to do a federal a project and you've still got the garby bond on County Road 5 that there was still a promise that some of that Federal funding would be used to help pay back that Bond too so couple years from now
there'll be opportunity maybe to have some federal mons funds to to apply towards that Bond so wanted to mention that too as long as that was part of our discussion and just to refresher what that is so Mike said he's going to remember that yep it's it's
been from 2012 when we can start applying our Federal a to that g b Mike's going to remember that so we even wrote down Mike you know I I bring it up I bring it up every year so I've been here for a
while so hope I'm going to be here for a long while so that's kind of what I had today andless you guys have any other questions on stuff with the infrastructure we'll get those seal quotes ready for bid and come back take a look at the calendar and the newspaper and stuff and come back and let you know what a good bid
date might work out for that so good preferably not during Harvest oh we like to see Sil quotes done by September 1st lot of times they leak out to September 15th but we like to see them by September 1st but the problem is this Harvest starts in July and doesn't
finish until November so that makes it kind of hard so yeah anyway lesser than anything else thanks everyone I was supposed to forward sorry yeah she did yesterday afternoon yeah all
right that's me again um so Bobby sent an email to myself Wayne and Chris uh yesterday we're going to schedule a zoom meeting to go through some different options they were supposed to get she was supposed to get that uh report back about the HVAC and
and that type of stuff um she's still working with for her mechanical engineer to get it all figured out she came here last week or the week before I believe uh went up into the attic took a whole bunch of pictures and some videos and that type of stuff while we've been
having uh Travis and Electro Watchman here so they've been all been up there roaming around doing some different things and and trying to figure out how the best way to do some of that is um so the other side of it too is that um
she's thinking that if we can get um electrical stuff figured out we could maybe get some uh they're going to do try to do an analysis on if we can get some electric by however we switch to type of stuff work for the HVAC and the
heating too um so that that's the idea right now U and we should know more Chris and I and hopefully be I'll sit down on a zoom meeting with her in a couple weeks I believe next week next week and figure out how to get all
that so we we'll sit down with her we'll get it an idea and then she should be here for your April meeting y the uh the outside so that's the inside the outside what I want to do is um after talking with Bobby a little bit
more in some other architectural firms and stuff I think going out to doing an RF FP for architectural services is probably needed at this point um I don't have anything written up on how that's going to read or anything like that um I
can definitely do that and come to your next meeting if you'd rather see something um but I think that's the route that you guys are going to need to go uh any dollar month you kind of looked at some of the dollar months that Bobby had in that report last time um and you're right at or above that
threshold for architectural services that you don't need to bid it and I think it's just spare if you do it that way so that's my opinion I think that's the route you guys need to be thinking I can write up an RFP if that would work and send it there and get it for your next meeting and then you guys can
formally approve it then or I can you guys can approve it and I can put it on the paper and have it ready you know to look at for your next meeting type of thing what you guys want to do would you guys rather see it first probably would be all right yeah
okay I can have it written up then and I'll I'll send it out to you guys ahead of time but U I'll have it ready for official approval through next meeting and then if you guys want to proceed with that we can proceed with that then good
yeah I can do Charlie's really quick he texted me he had uh if you're okay with that yeah go ahead he had a zoom hearing he has to join at 9: so um he said HR was report uh he willing to monitor organize the courthouse cleaning
Etc and report back next month that was the only thing I got one more thing while I'm sitting here if you guys want to talk through it we probably have to talk about the the janitor position too one day whether we're going to 15 hour deal
or something or Wayne's got an idea on that well I guess can talk to a little bit but you want to be so um there's two the two girls down in the health unit so they they could do the
cleaning continue to do the cleaning an hourly weight which I assume you guys would rather do an hourly weight and then they can keep track of exactly how long it takes to Del you know they would do it not on their schedule they would do it you know
before work afterward weekend is needed um they want to do that full time yeah they'll just they will just do that full time they think they can handle it and they have a couple other people they've talked to that if something happens that they could have from the
courthouse that they could do their work for them if they happen to be gone a training Bame which is a rare thing but could happen that they could uh have a couple failings that could do it so so something you guys need to talk I think you could talk about there there
they're willing to do it and uh that doesn't help us with the outside stuff but I think that can be done by outside sources and I think they'll I'm pretty sure they both do a very good job at it
um I think it's maybe a way to save some money um it' be nice to keep it in the house too it would be nice I mean there's other reasons I you know I get why sometimes we want a custodian around but I think this is worth a shot I think we can like I said I think we could save
some dollars if they want to do it bring that budget down to it's a good way to cut some money if it works it is but I think those two have enough on their plate they their plate but I think they have plenty of responsibilities they
have a lot they do I'm not going to Li you there so I think we can going back to what Charlie said of of looking at the uh organization of how that's going to
look maybe a a plan I mean of course if them if them guys are they want to do that down there them girls want to do that um to kind of see what it what's going to take I guess until you do that I suppose it's going to take the I think
the idea behind it is that you give it give it some time give it you know six months to a year to really figure out what your budget looks like what uh how much time it actually takes type of thing um I don't think this is a with them I don't think it's a next 10 years
type of deal I think it's in the meantime until we kind of figure out where we're at what we want to do um that being said I think it it might be beneficial to to do something similar to that if it's not exactly them uh do something similar to that to at least
get an idea of of how exactly long do they could even try it maybe even see if they if it does work for them and it does just too much them I agree I'd be okay with it if it was on a temporary basis I don't want to take and burn them off either no I think
that's the idea Hannah's online I know she's downstairs too but um you know she could come up and talk to you guys about it she will come up for on update so um yeah I think she could talk to you guys a about a little B more I think it's maybe maybe you guys can just talk with him before the next meeting and then get
some pricing kind some ages figured out and then um as far as our outside stuff I got some quotes for Mo and all that stuff I'll bring it out to start next meeting we maybe make a decision then do you guys want to do anything in the meantime yeah until then you want to
set like a rate right now in the meantime for anybody that's going to take on some extra CL I supp we have to set rate I would recommend 20 an hour thinking I agree with that I think it'd
be nice to if they would $20 what they were thinking to I thinking so I think it' be nice if they doing it keep track of you know how long they spend in the back you know everything's a little different the first couple times obviously more than the last few times
but I think it gives us a little more too if they can keep try to keep where they're at it's like the county chop does it they did this this you know at least start that and so we kind of have an understanding or you guys should I should say you guys have an understanding how long it takes to do this stuff I think that will help us a
lot too and then so if somebody else needs to fill in or vice versa you can Y what you got to do so I think we can we can we can work through that I think that's doable I I do kind of agree with Parry I don't we don't want to burn
people out either doing that we did last time that taking terms thing that didn't it started out really good and it kind of went the heck later on and I just yep all a sudden it was one person trying to do it for yeah 3 weeks and didn't work I think it's something something that if they can take turns doing it that'll
help y I think they're talking about doing it every other week y so then fill in when they need it yep you need a motion for that uh 20 I'll make that motion for $20 $20 an hour rate Mo from C for 20 bucks an hour
for cleaning I'll second it second by Chris all in favor I oppos motion Carri can we do the courthouse uh oh Jesus Christ in a meeting forgot what I'm
trying to say it is the uh the hpf contract yeah that one the last one4 hdf contract that's what it was by can we do that one real quick sure uh so that is can you my Pap um remember I told you guys we had
Historical Society approved us for 25,000 on lights and stuff um that contract came back um I emailed it to Charlie I looked through it and I had them change some things mainly um everything was Renville County and Dicky
County and I had to changed it to Steel County um everything else flipped okay from what I could see in the contract but um I did have Charlie look at it I know he was going to look at it and I think he's got some other stuff going on right now but basically we need to uh in order to get started on this project and
get the lights done we need to accept the contract and you could do it pending Charlie's review Ty of thing too but um it also needs to be notorized Brandon so page 10 and 11 here need to be signeded and get all that
stuff I'll make a motion move forward with that second and a motion the second all in favor Clos want to do
the the uh brief water board update Brandon certainly hey I attended the waterboard meeting yesterday it worked out they they usually have it the same time as our meeting so I was able to make it and
two of the things they discussed was a drain complaint and the other one was one we all know about the fugleberg drain the one with the complaint uh they decided to act the waterboard decided to act on land west
of County Road 10 and some of that drain needs to be filled in 2 feet for a length of like 3 to 500 feet that comes up to the county road okay and what has happened is some of some of that going north on in our ditch was trenched up to the culbert or ditched up
to the culbert so we're concerned that if that's not filled in as well that that might create a problem for water coming from the north down past the culbert and pooling there so this entity is not required to
fill in the ditch so once they get their work done if they get it done I think we should probably we're gonna need to look at filling that in along County Road to yeah we need to fill that back in yeah for sure but I I don't I don't know
think I don't think we need to until the other work is done yeah just so we'll just have to keep an eye on that with Reed or the road guys maintainers and there is still
more complaint concerning the the land on the east side of County Road 10 but that has not been resolved yet the water board's engineer needs to go out and walk it take measurements and do all that before they can take action on it so
that will happen when he gets that done and then uh fugleberg drain they were going to hear from them contact them the waterboard was going to contact them before their next meeting and find
out what they want to do so that we don't have to worry about that for right now Randy Randy called me after our meeting that we had with him and probably a couple a week or two later after a meeting said that they're they're not going to do the drain anymore okay but the per he had filled
in or filed for that permit before that yeah so um I guess well the waterboard wanted to confirm their yeah their wishes first here so but if we don't they don't continue that we need to fill that ditch in as well
yep and then we probably need to replace that c on say we still probably got to replace and then we would just maintain the same height yeah yeah that that's all that's the update that I have from there okay I would just
make sure that you have that all in minutes really good yeah and I believe they were going to go to the meeting the water board meeting next month they G do some discussion it kind of sounded like he
might have to back all that stuff in any did is what it kind of sounded like but yeah the the waterboard will they have more work to do on it y to follow up on it you take a five minute quick resar
good make that motion second second all favors [Music] just saying now back here all
right you're good uh oh okay you know the password for the Wi-Fi steel and then the ZIP code I don't know if it's a
cap we're g find out how's it going going good yeah I think so anyway yeah yeah must be careful it's crazy busy but it's good I learn at least 20 new things a day so that's always fun yeah yeah it's fun learning
something new every day it is it really is when you start going backwards you know you're changed at that point yeah no I I'm sure it'll be probably least year before I'm so comfortable
with everything there's just a lot on both both sides so it all takes time yes yeah me to like I just want to know what I'm supposed to be doing the court stuff is
always yes having is very nice and I mean every cler has been super super kind awesome yeah that's really handy yeah I would just rather do it
rightly it wrong right legal proceedings and stuff so have to ask before I sure they really good manuals and stuff to for like the programs that we use so that's handy and then all the court rules and
rules like the Supreme Court website so you can always reference that so that's nice okay yeah okay yeah yeah it's good and then the recording aspect of everything to that's that's been really interesting I mean I
just have like no idea the history of property and like selling and cl death certificates I mean there's just so many like records but yeah yeah yeah I've seen the records
is crazy yeah yeah that Vault over there I mean I think somebody calls them the witch witch books because they're just yeah just full of all the history of these other titles it's kind of cool yeah build an
abstract I suppose yeah yeah that's interesting definitely drink water sounds good thank you J hey how are you good Wii password work yep okay thank you yeah I got iPads for iPads for the girls
oh yes just had to get Ste and do one because that other one was like you little so I just I just buy refurbished ones for them because they're so tough on them there you go that's smart what do you likeon Amazon got them
Amazon okay that is good to know I'm gonna not that for next time brand new very how's Brandon all right yeah day to day day to day that's how it works
yep that's how it works what yourself about the same day to day day to day yeah learning Lots so that's good my brain always always really tired at the end of the day it's very good there's a lot there's a lot going
on yes there always is [Music] spe like this graph yeah it was kind of interesting to see those all right all meeting back to
order we'll start out with you Macy hello everyone I'm just here to give a little update on rart and recorder position so far I started in December and feel like things are going pretty well I'm learning at least 20 new things a day and it's it's really
awesome actually to to see both sides of things um C of court and reporter kind of go hand in hand in a sense but are totally different too at the same time which I'm learning and um yeah it's been great um this Friday I'm going to go to
Cass County and observe some Court there and then I'm working with one of the clerks um in Cass and she's gonna do some training with me and then we're gonna attend um the in investure of honorable Judge Ryan youngren who took judge ir's place in the 11 judge
rotation um and exciting news for steel County they just decided that they're going to implement a two judge rotation versus the 11 Jud rotation that it's been um and Charlie touched on this that it was like a
really great idea for us here in still County considering we have court only about once a month and um just having two judges to work with we think that will be overall beneficial for everyone to kind of just build those good working relationships and kind of knowing you
know the the ins and outs of everyone so we're pretty excited about that and um Ryan youngren he is um one of the judges that was volunteered for steel County and then the other one is Susan
Bailey um so after the March court date is when the two two judge ration will take place um we don't have any Court in in August and just with all the scheduling changes um I'm going to send out an updated
Court schedule for what's to come um and then as far as recording goes I went to the event Capital Connection in bismar on the 18th and 19th of February that was really fun and interesting I felt like I learned a lot of the house and the the Senate and the whole bill
process and um the representatives you know spoke on their their take on each bill and that was really interesting and I got got to meet a lot of other County reporters so networking was really great and made some good relationships there and can
always reach out to them for questions and stuff so that was really nice and then U went to some legislative sessions at the capital building um and then for recorder 2 there's the southeast quad of Records is
having a meeting um March 11th in Fargo so I'll be going to that too here coming up and then i' I've been to Trail County a couple times um also to observe Court in person and I've always felt like I've got a lot to take away from that so I'll
continue to do that as much as I can to um and then just attached is this case filing statistics report um that's ran right through Odyssey the program that they use for clerk of court and all the the clerk of court filings and um detailing back and forth with judges and
referees and all the good things and this is basically just um the statistics report for the whole year of 2024 so I just started in December so but yeah looking to see in comparison for
next year yeah I think that's about it as of now everything's going well when I think so anyway yeah hear thanks for the update yeah absolutely thanks ready
for that golden Lake raffle can we do that real quick y just need to it's going to go through the state and then through us so approve it the state approves it same thing they did last year the fundraising stuff there I'll
make a motion motion by I'll second second by Chris all in favor I all right any opposed motion approved morning morning Casey morning don't have too much for you guys
I got two building permits for you guys to look at I think jna sent them over in Pocket one's the T-Mobile antenna they're just going to upgrade it a little bit the whole golf source not major and Chris Thompson wants to put up
a green bin everything looked okay in there yeah they're all paid up give them a call if you guys approve them let them know they're good to go I'll make a motion to approve
both building contracts motion by bar I'll second that second by crer all in favor opposed motion cared and the only other thing I have is just give you a little bit of an update
what's been going on and uh what's coming up um the primary residence credit is still available or is available this year again they might be changing the limit from 500 to, 1450 either way it's a really good thing for people to sign up for and go to the tax
nd.gov I tell March 31st yep it's a really good program that saved a lot of people this year um I've been hanging up signs for it Ben's been updating the Facebook post for me state has commercials it's a real deal thing
so funding for last primary resident credit I believe in May so we just sent all that b me all that before St was there a deadline on that due before was that due February before and then they changed it or yeah they extended it
because people it was so new so people W sure about it we had 36 last year signed up for it so hopefully that number goes up by quite a bit this year now people are learning about it um I'm just gonna give you guys a
heads up I'm going to send out notice of increases um next week and those go out if true and full values increase by $3,000 and 10% there's only like 180 of them honestly um there's going to be
other increases too but not that drastic but I got to send those out at least two weeks before the equalization meetings in April and those will be for the townships it's going to be the 16th and 17th of April and I sent that to you
guys and I also sent it to the township officers to look at and then I will update that in the paper as well to let the public now and I called everybody all the cities senior centers make sure that everything lines up and it's available
to hold those meetings and then the County Board that would be June 3 which is uh right after the normal commissioner meeting that be about 10:30 about all I got you guys got any
questions for me no but sounds good to me and of those 180ish that are going to or get a notice of increase a lot of them like three4 of them are from Finley that I assessed this last year so it's
expected not the ones were because they built something new so I looked over them all and there's not a whole lot of surprises there so I don't think there'll be a whole lot of push back but let me know if you hear of anything and I can always check it out and it again thank
you thank you what should we do next should do the budget transfers and amendments yeah I did send to that list so don't have it again if anybody wants it um that top part is just um ones that did
not get a budget um some of them you don't really make a budget for obviously like the floods and a lot of that stuff is kind of like Ben's funding that you don't really make a budget for so we got aend those um f market and bond payment were
over a little bit funds over um kind of self-explanatory on the bottom yeah we were in The General we were still in budget for 2024 I think about $200,000 under so that was good
but we just have to make this to show the Auditors that we are transferring that Ming F over accounts Market is because of the TOs the to assistance fund that they got last year we kind of acted as the bank for
the townships and we got we got all the money back in so we're we're good there but the expense was not a originally improved expense when you do your bud decid anything with us do here you just need to approve that approve it there's
any questions answer them but pretty straightforward this year I'll make a motion we approve the 24 budget amendments motion from Richard to approve the amendments to the budget
I'll second second prepare you all in favor I post motion carried then one other thing too with our new software you guys got these new they look a little different um do you
guys still want all of the budgets they kind of a lot of reports they all kind of look like this fif question to them let me know but I can get you guys all the copies that we make every week or sorry sorry every month for all the department heads but I have a few of
them here want to look at them probably be good if we could they used to be on like a nice sheet and they were all nice and separated now they're on each individual page so you'll have a bunch of pages just so you're aware but there's anything that you want to look at or
have question on right now I can definitely give them to you or too doesn't matter but you can you'll email those out monthly yeah I'll email them out um when we when sa Des are in our facing I'll email them but there's
going to be a lot of pages just though but right now I mean we're it's begin of the year so there's not issues right now but Bill Hann ready to us oh she's on
[Music] there I was just going to text you morning morning bir everybody um okay so it's been a couple months the biggest news for public
health so our goal was to do 200 vaccines for the season we're currently at 252 so we went way above that um of those 252 I have about 230 of those claims submitted so
I've got about 20 claims with anomalies that I need to reach out for help so um those claims that I submitted are I think I submitted about 45,000 worth requesting reimbursement
we'll probably get about 90% so whatever we ask for they give us their rate back so I will keep you updated on those numbers once we get that funding back um but care is going really well Ashton has
12 clients currently so we're always adding new people which is great so some of those are home health clients and some of them are just foot care so that's a good thing um people are talking about us and recommending us and that's a good
feeling um what else so we had a regional event with our substance abuse program so I sent everyone an email about that that was that webinar where we had a speaker um we actually had a great turnout for
that the state was very happy with that and I thought it turned out really well and a lot of people are asking for that recording so that was a big deal for us um and it ended up only being about $200 out of our grant funding for that so
that was a big deal um we are still looking for a new Board of Health member um of health is meeting every other month now instead of every month so we'll meet again March
21st we added a radon detector to our inventory so radon radon is becoming kind of a buzzword I guess right now in especially Women's Health but uh for good reason women in North Dakota and
Minnesota are at increased risk of radon poisoning and lung cancer because of our soil content so we added we bought the radon detector and we're checking it out and people actually are showing interest like we have to call them and be like
hey we have someone who wants it can we get it back from you so we might buy another one just to be able to kind of keep that rotation going um and then so with our regional Grant like with Fargo cast Sergeant
Trail and Richland so there's like a regional grant that we've talked about before that's how we get our environmental health and everything like that so we're restructuring that Grant and so we'll keep our environmental health support which is good news because there was a
question about that in the past we'll remain supported by their environmental health program um but they're also going to fund this credible mind platform which is online mental health support so
um we won't have to pay anything into that so when I looked at doing that just for steel County the cost was over $6,000 and so that was not feasible for our County at the time I didn't think that was a good way to spend our funds
um and now since we're going in with all the other counties it's of no cost to us and our residents get that service so I'm very excited about that I'm excited to publicize that in the schools um so
that's a big deal I feel like our funding with that Regional Grant and the support from Fargo cast has been a big deal for us so their new administrator has really gone to task to make the most out of that grant that we share and I'm
thankful for it it's it's really given us a lot of they're doing social media trainings for us they're going to do like our school nurse trainings for us so um that's become a really really really nice resource for us so
um I think those are the high points you guys have any other questions for me you sp me RA on gas and new one's houses what you follow your raid on gas anyone's else's yet or so the levels are kind of borderline so one of the things
is it's hard to know if people are using that meter correctly obviously um but anything about above a four or five you want to start considering yeah seems to me like it comes in with the ground water in your basement or it gets
in yeah and so the people who have done it so far I mean the gr the ground has been frozen and I feel like that probably helps the ratings but we are getting ratings at four and so um that could be but I mean it's the soil there
you know so the awareness is good but um yeah I think it is I think it's going to become more and more a thing because even some of the physicians in the area are suggesting that people has their homes for rate on so so I think it's
good I think it's good that we're implementing that you it's it's like I mean depends it's it's just a it's a gas that hangs out lower Bas like even a let's say if your closing DRS in your basement you run that it'll push all the gas out and get
rid of it yeah a lot of places have like a where your Su pump is have a vent printing outside just to get rid of that that's where the Chanel looks comes in with your growing water from what I understand it's like you can get a pretty good system for like $1,500 it's just making sure that
the person who puts it in actually knows what they're doing not just putting pipes in the wall true so yeah I guess one thing i' I'd add for all of you guys is the Public Health Board is we've been looking for another member for quite a while and I've I've reached
out to a few people and they're reluctant to join in with us and the other board members have too so if you guys have any ideas for anybody or want to mention it to anybody that might be interested did you ever reach out very helpful did you reach out to two people
I gave you names I did not you need to reach out to them both were interested you still got the name I could do that too I I think one of would take it I think they would one of the two they're both from that area which is
not their Lake through area which a lot of guess for a couple people I think they go on there as well okay yeah I can do that if you guys me okay that'll work anything else for me
and then um as far as the cleaning I just you know so when we talked about it Ashton works Monday through Thursday in our office so her her thought was she could come in on Fridays and do the cleaning um I would do probably evenings or weekends if this is something you
guys want to move forward with um both of us have said we'd be able to commit up to a year to kind of you know find the right person and also if there's anything about Ashton and M is we're going to be efficient
right so especially if this is after hours we're not going to be kind of hanging out so um just kind of getting you know this is what actually needs to be done this is how long it should take kind of thing um but we're willing to do it if that's what works for the county
or whatever and like we said we're willing to commit up to a year but once we get back into the busy season of vaccines next year we're not really going to have what it takes to keep going with that I think so okay
yeah all righty all good thanks thank you guys thank you right about me to sign I think that's all not stuff this will be this will be them this will be us you this one
yeah think because everything to the bills what is this one J who was that what was it for that's for grant that Ben had a lot of lot of do and stuff that we PID year
[Music] wow those Tyler bills are some of that little aspect or some training or some help that and that's built into that contract amount yeah and we're pretty much all done with all of our training so we're just on
like the It support now how is that process coming good good I mean there'ss and stuff to learn and different things but for the most part we're pretty much done and figed out that's a pretty good building
usually yeah are we still doing the on that side things are we still doing the the county time sheets for employees okay I believe now is it through Tyler you can do that or no we can do that through Tyler actually Trail
county is switching over right now and I was talking to Heather about it and she goes it's kind of a night and we only have like five to eight people that actually keep a time card here so I don't know how feasible I mean we pay like $23 a
month for the Times card that we use right now I just think it maybe in the future I haven't that's good enough I was wondering and have you guys all been getting your P STS theyve been email to
not not to figure I know there was a problem with h Gmail accounts and Travis had to go in and fix some kind of firewall so they can send to Gmail so send my Gmail or to I had to check which one we have in the
system but have you been a I I'll look after this and see what you're going when can I just mention burn band stuff sure we service came out and they said uh sounds more like a fire year than
flood to them so said it we can't anything without having a natural disaster it the other day it wasn't I mean pH had a bad fire but wasn't because of burning but that day we actually the state was in a burning so I
think we have to talk about that coming up because today is another windy day and uh doesn't look like there's any moisture for a while so I think we just have to be ready for that just so you guys don't I didn't say the bad stuff I
said the National Weather Service said um so it's just it we'll talk more about it from a chief standpoint VI but um it'll be pretty quick making happens one of those things will we
know sign you guys ratify stuff and we're here right now but legislative stuff you get B any of those bills at all I was passed all three of their uh tax proposition
[Music] bills one the other I saw those three and I don't know there's one that I like better than the other two I'll say I'll be completely honest I
don't know that caps are the right way to go but I think caps aren't the right way to go I unfortunately I think that's almost inevitable and that would restrict us a lot there was two that had caps and those are the ones that I that I didn't
like yeah well they all have restrictions right now everything uh when it crossed over it went to three it was at 3% just the flat rate 3% and 3% is is not feasible in my opinion to
restrict political subdivisions to increase because who knows what could happen Y which there are many exceptions but what Hoops does one have to jump through in order to utilize those exceptions it's going to be work and stuff for Auditors and everyone else
H 1176 is the big one that was the governor's push uh when he came through it so if you guys are looking at stuff off 1176 is that um they that got amended down to uh it could one of the exemptions is the political subdivision to go to the people and get a vote
to basically exempt themselves but it goes up to four years at a times so every four years if you're on something you'd have to go back and look I don't know like I said I don't think necessarily think caps are the way to go I think if you have a problem you should address the
problem I think there's counties are not the problem that's all I'll say but most most counties most counties but not the problem there's a couple bigger ones that are the other
side of 1176 if it does pass um our caps would take effect from the 2024 approved budget not5 else we did a lot of cutting in5 so it would look good for us because we would go back we would go high and
then we' cut right away but stuff but there's a lot of issues there that I think we need to work through there were some political subdivisions that increased their budgets by a lot anticipating this that there would be a restriction
on this budget that was this much so they increased it they're going back on 24 [Music] then budget come summer you interesting yeah
that's have to do then two months 1176 also had those away I guess that's a good benefit from it is that it took away the preliminary Tax St
Fant all right so everyone got a chance to look over the bills any questions on them got a motion to approve them make a motion to approve the b in favor motion make I second all in
favor thanks guys