County Commission 8:30 on Tuesday, August 18, 2026. Please rise for the
pledge of >> allegiance
[clears throat]
to the flag of the United States of America and to the
stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.
» Item number three on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Do I have a
motion to approve? >> So move.
» Second. >> Motion second. Any changes, corrections,
comments? Hearing none. All those in favor signify
by saying I. >> I.
» Oppos say nay. Motion carries. Item four is an invitation for a citizen to
schedule time on the ag on the commission agenda for an item not
listed. There's a five minute time limit per person. Anyone wanting to speak
during this agenda item must sign in prior to the start of the meeting. No
commission item action will be taken during this agenda item. Any requested
action may be scheduled for a future meeting date. We have a few signed in
today. First one is Mary Nsmush.
» [snorts]
» I'm going to ask you, please.
» Is this where you want me? >> Yep. Right there. Just speak into the
microphones, please. Mary
» Mary Nasbush. I live in Duel County. I'm here to talk to you a little bit today
about the um power on Midwest proposal to build a 765
kilovolt power line from Bigstone Power Plant down here to Brookings County.
What I want to talk to you about today is who has authority over what. We all
know that the PUC permits power lines in our state. Um, but I think there's a lot
of misunderstanding about what the PUC has the ability to do or not do. Um,
in Grant County, I was told by the commissioners that the PUC will make
setbacks and blah blah blah. There is no requirement in the law that tells the
PUC to do that. They work more as a judicial
um entity that reviews applicable laws and determines whether or not a project
meets the applicable laws, health and safety and then they decide on those
merits whether or not the project can be permitted. So what I have handed out to
you today is the South Dakota codified law that governs how the PUC will make a
decision. So, let's I'm just going to read it to you and read it into the
record here so that we all agree that these are the rules under which these
decisions will be made. It's South Dakota Codified Law Chapter
49-41B-22
applicants burden of proof. The applicant has the burden of proof to
establish by a prepundonderance of the evidence that the proposed facility will
comply with all applicable laws and rules. And this includes your county
zoning rules. The facility will not pose a threat of serious injury to the
environment nor to the social and economic condition of inhabitants or
expected inhabitants in the sighting area. An applicant for an electric
transmission line, solar energy, or wind energy facility that holds a conditional
use permit from the applicable local units of government is determined not to
threaten the social and economic condition of inhabitants or expected
inhabitants in the sighting area. The facility
will not substantially impair the health, safety or welfare of the
inhabitants. And four, the facility will not unduly interfere with the orderly
development of the region with due consideration having been given the
views of governing bodies of affected local units of government. That's you,
an applicant for an electric transmission line, a solar facility, or
a wind energy facility that holds a conditional use permit from the
applicable local units of government. And that's going to be Grant County,
Duel County, and Brookings County is in compliance with the subdivision.
Gentlemen, you hold the key. You alone are the one unit of local government
here in Brookings County that has the authority to protect your county
residents from overindustrialization of your egg land.
A 2,000 ft setback for a high voltage power line is a reasonable request for
the health and safety of your people. That's what we adopted in Duel County
back in March. Even the simplest structure to be built
in your county has setback requirements. Why not also require setbacks for
structures which are taller than the SDSU campal?
Thank you for your time today. >> Thank you, Mary.
Next up is Andy. >> Did I get that right?
» You did.
» Hello, I'm Angela Dailyaly or Angie Dailyaly. I go by both. I'm a member of
the board of directors for the Humane Society, Brookings Regional Humane
Society, and I am the chair, current care chair of the capital campaign.
Um, if you recall our presentation before the county meeting in April 2026,
we have recorded a significant number of pets brought to BRHS.
the cost of hiring staff at minimum wage to care for animals every day of the
year. That includes Christmas, Thanksgiving, and numerous other
holidays. [snorts] Um, has increased by 35%
in the last 10 years. I have looked at Brookings Humane
Society M uh meeting minutes and have observed that the county has given the
same subsidy for those last 10 years, which is $10,000.
So our our cost of simple labor to get somebody in there all the time to just
give meds, walk, water, feed has increased by 35%.
And our funding from the county has not increased at all.
It's difficult to operate this uh this valuable service to the whole county
[snorts] without sufficient funds. And we do a great job fundraising. We have a
boatload of volunteers both offering uh foster homes for animals that are in
need of a permanent home as well as professionals namely the veterinarians
who donate their time and skills to come out spay neuter and other simple medical
treatments for the pets that we collect. And if you look at information from each
of the different counties or each of the different cities within Brookings
County, most of them have some type of agreement
with the city of Brookings. The city of Brookings will take their
pets and hold them for 5 days. Period. five days for the owner to come forward
and then they are no longer the city of Bookings's problems.
So I ask you to keep that information in your mind as we go through these uh
budgeting processes for the year. Thank you for your time.
» Thank you. Thank you. [snorts]
Tamara Markle.
» Hi, my name is Tamara Markell and thank you for this opportunity to speak about
the um library voucher system. Um the voucher system I am I am against it for
two reasons. Um it is first of all the cost of it. it's
just extra cost administratively and um and then [snorts] secondly
it just it it puts up barriers to access and it is my belief that the library is
open for business for everyone and um
I I just I hope that you consider that when you vote on this. So thank you.
» Thank you.
Rufus Dilo.
» Yep. It's Rufus Dazo. You did a pretty good job with a lot of people. Uh
butchered a whole lot worse than what you just did. So, thank you for the
effort. >> I apologize.
» No, you're fine. Uh yes, my name is Rufus Dale. Uh I've came and visited
with you uh once before. Uh have visited also with the zoning uh committee a
couple times in the subcommittee as well. Uh the topic that I'm here to
discuss is the 765 KV line that Poweron Midwest is proposing to build on my
land. uh at the subcommittee meeting the other night, uh a gentleman from Excel
uh stood up and spoke and he he said a few things that uh I'd like to comment
on briefly. Uh the first thing he said was that uh when they were proposing
this route that they tried to do a a a really good job of negotiating with land
owners to try to find the best route. uh through this process, we've not had
anybody come to our place uh to visit with us about it. We've not negotiated
with them in terms of uh them asking us if we think the route is good and where
maybe we thought it should be. The only contact we've had with them is at first
a gentleman came and presented the easement papers and uh we had a nice
discussion and and kindly told him that we weren't interested. we weren't going
to sign the ement and he left. A while later, we got another packet in the mail
from a different place, a different company that was uh hired to se acquire
easements from a firm in Sou Falls. And so we get this great big packet in the
mail and in it were the same things that the first gentleman gave us. And there
were little sticky notes on the side of every place that it said, "Please sign
here and send back." To me, that does not sound like a good faith negotiation
effort. It just sounds like they're trying to steamroll the project through
us. One of the landl uh one of the owners uh
also where this land is going to or this line is going to be built u is pretty
close to 80. I know I don't know exactly how old he is, but he's I'm pretty sure
that he's approaching 80. He lives in an assisted living facility.
I called him yesterday and I said I asked him I said so has this company
approached you about signing an easement for the line and he goes yes they have.
He says a lady came to visit me and uh presented the packet had all the things
in there and she said we'd like to have you sign this. And he goes I'm really
and after reading it he goes I'm really not in favor of this project. He said,
"I really don't want this transmission line to be built in my property, so I
don't want to sign the easement." And these are his words. She looked at him
and he goes, "Well, we'll just we'll just take it with by eminent domain."
Okay. He thought about that and like I said, he's almost 80 years old and he
and he thought, "I'm not going to I'm not going to win if I try to fight
against a great big utility company. I don't have the time. I don't have the
money. I'm not going to do it." And so he signed the easement here. Again, that
does not sound to me like a company that's that's doing a very good job of
negotiating a route. The other thing that uh the guy spoke
about the other night is something that we're obviously very concerned about is
having the line on our property and the effects that it'll have on us.
One of the subcommittee u individuals asked him about
routing the routing the line and when they come to the 345 line what do they
do? And he says well we'll parallel it for a while. He said but we but we'll be
really careful how close we put it to it because we're concerned about the safety
of our workers being close to it. Okay. This is a 345 line. But yet this route
is going to go over top of our land. We're going to be working under it,
around it, and it's a 765. Where's the concern for our safety? I
don't I don't see that happening at all. You know, you talk about setbacks, and
setbacks are important. Okay, setbacks do a couple things. They get
you away from maybe nuisances, annoyance, or whatever the case may be.
setbacks for our property will absolutely do us no good because of
where it's going to be placed. Okay, a 500 foot a 1500t setback gets you away
from the line, but the setback I'm concerned about is being under it. And
so the height of the tower is the setback that's going to affect us. And
uh to me that presents a lot of concerns.
Uh
you know at at the subcommittee meeting you know I asked the people on the
subcommittee it feels like the only uh time that we
have to visit with you guys 30 seconds. Yeah. I I understand that. you know,
you're concerned about 5 minutes and we're concerned about something that's
going to affect us the rest of our life. So, I apologize if I go over 30
[clears throat] and now I lost my train of thought. Um,
so at the subcommittee, I invited everybody to come out and I'd show them
where this thing is going to be built on our land, you know, and and nobody has.
And I understand that you guys are busy and all that kind of stuff, but a
project of this magnitude, I would sure hope that you would visit not just with
us, but everybody that's along along the line and see how they're going to be
affected because the decision you guys ultimately ultimately make could
potentially affect us for the rest of our lives. So, I apologize if I've gone
over uh but I don't apologize because like I said, this is the only chance
that we have to present our view. >> Thank you.
» Thank you.
Sean Morris.
[snorts] It's not built for me. Most things aren't, I guess. Uh, thank you
very much. My name is Sean Morris. Uh, proud, relatively new Brookings
resident. My wife and I moved here a little bit over six years ago from
Chicago. So, please don't hold that against me. I am a refugee, not a
missionary. So, let's just get get that out of the way. Um, I'm I'm here on
behalf of the Brookings Regional Humane Society as I guess you'd call it a
volunteer and also an early investor um in their proposed project. And I I want
to thank everyone here. I I was here in April when uh the presentation was made.
So, I appreciate the time you provided to the to the organization and your
consideration as you move forward. And uh just a little bit of a backstory
about my why my wife and I got involved and um when we moved here, one of the
things we brought with us was uh a rescue dog we had from Chicago. We lost
him and then we knew we wanted to get another dog. We waited a little bit. We
went to the Brookings Regional Humane Society. After Rudy passed away, I moved
back up to number two in the household. when we adopted Chief from the Brookings
Regional Humane Society, I assumed my previous role as number three in a
household of three and trying to hold on to that. But um it was really important
for us to, you know, give an animal a second chance and one of the reasons
that we love this community so much is just the quality of life and the people
and the quality of people and the quality of things that uh are available
here. And I I think um what really speaks to a community, at least as far
as I'm concerned, is you know, how do we take care of the most vulnerable? And we
all have a responsibility for that. And you know, sometimes the most vulnerable
have two legs, sometimes they have four. Um and some of the situations we deal
with, they have an un even number of legs through no fault of their own. But
it it's a tremendous uh I think resource to the community. I know the impact.
I've had an opportunity to see it. Uh I'm by no means an animal expert, but
being involved with uh the society as we have up to this point in time, my wife
and I decided, you know, if you care about something, put your money where
your mouth is. And so we decided to to do that. And we appreciate your
consideration of of anything that that might be available for us. And I I just
would uh also invite you if you did have the opportunity if you've never been out
to the facility to kind of see some of the great work if for no other reason.
You know, we all need to look for things to kind of be uplifting. You know, um
there's a lot of heavy subjects are going to be discussed here today and and
and in the country as a whole. And sometimes I know for us, you know, my
wife and I were looking for something that can uplift you. Um you don't have
to look any farther than what goes on there. So, thank you.
» Thank you. >> [snorts]
» Sue Engelman.
Sue Engelman, Brookings County. Imagine yourselves in the biblical era time and
you are the king of a dominion. A foreign group is asking to pass your
dominion boundaries. You are in charge of granting them or disallowing their
passage. Today you are that king and Excel Energy is the foreign entity. You
are responsible for your vassels and surfs, your constituents. You are
responsible for the safety of all in your dominion. The entity can only pass
through your dominion with your rules or they must go around your borders. Your
laws and ordinances dictate how and if they may pass through your dominion. I
have presented information from men that the state of Minnesota has deemed as
expert witnesses. These men, Dr. W. Ben Johnson and Kyle Johnson are currently
fighting the same transmission line in Minnesota. Our residents have
passionately spoke out on numerous occasions about their concerns for their
safety with Excel's proposal. In the past, I have asked for a 2,000 ft
setback to match Duel County's current ordinance. After I did more research, I
found an alternative that is before the Minnesota PUC right now, which is a much
safer way to provide the same or even better safety and financial electrical
coverage to Brookings County. The alternative is as follows. a 1.5 mile
setback from all residences for the 765 kilovolt AC transmission line and or
ultimately the most beneficial alternative which is to install the
industry standard 525 kilovolt DC underground line along the existing
transportation corridors such as existing highway corridors or existing
railway right ofways. A Brookings County underground line ordinance would end all
discussion of safety issues and landowner concerns. The line would still
be able to pass safely through Brookings County and into Minnesota. The motans
are putting the same alternative through their state PUC. Right now, the two
aforementioned Minnesota expert witnesses now have to fight Excel Energy
because their respective counties failed to have an ordinance in place prior to
XL filing in their county. Last Thursday at the 765 kilovolt subcommittee
meeting, I presented information concerning this alternative DC
transmission line and the many reasons why it is the safest option for the land
owners and the residents of South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and
Illinois where the 765 kilovolt AC line is now proposed to travel with its end
point in Chicago. This underground type of transmission line is already being
used in the PJM Heritage Mossby project in Virginia and the so green project in
Iowa to Illinois. This project is using the CP CPKC railway rightway. The 765
subcommittee has once again asked for the advice from the XL representative
what XL wants instead of listening to my proposal that is grounded in the
Minnesota PUC expert witness testimonies. The subcommittee also
wanted to hear what the XL's paid expert doctor has to say. I truly believe this
is a conflict of interest at the highest station. I will be passing this
alternative 525 kilovolt DC underground transmission line information to the
concerned citizens in both Grant and Duel counties.
We the people are not going to take this Black Rockck owned entities crossing our
Dominion lightly. My good men, may I remind you this is an election year.
Your vote regarding the safety of your constituents will be remembered. Am I
asking for anything but the safety of our county? No. Again, I am asking for
either a 1.5 mile setback if the line is above ground or ultimately to install
the DC underground along the existing transportation corridors.
These are the two pages that from the Minnesota docket dockets that back up
what I'm saying as far as the 1.5 mile setback and the underground information
on the back and the detriments of 765 and the positive parts of
525.
[snorts]
Okay, moving on to cons. Number five, consent agenda items
include the minutes, travel and education requests, personal action
notices, sell your authorizations, human services report. Do I have a motion to
approve? >> So moved.
» Second. >> Motion a second. Any comments?
» Hearing none. Call the role, please. >> Vanderwal.
» Hi. >> Post.
» Hi. >> Miller.
» Hi. >> Jensen.
» Hi. >> Hustler.
» Hi. [clears throat] >> Motion carries.
» Number six. A approval of the claims. Do I have a motion to approve?
» Motion to approve. >> Second.
» Motion a second. Any comments? >> There is one additional or another
claims packet that I handed out this morning. There's some um I think it was
one a credit card statement came in a little bit late, but
we wanted to get that paid on time. So, that is before you this morning that I
handed out. >> Any other comments with the addition or
the the change? Hearing none. Call the role, please.
» Post. Hi. >> Miller. Hi.
» Jensen. Hi. Vanderwal. Hi. >> Hustler. Hi.
» Motion carries. >> All right. Let's move to department head
reports. We got four minutes. Highway. >> All right.
Good morning. >> More in Brian.
» So, I'll start with uh some of the projects that we've been working on here
the last couple weeks since we last met. August 3rd, uh, Brookings County Road
One was closed for a culvert replacement. Uh, the culverts are
installed and now we're waiting for, uh, the contractor to show up to remove the
sheet pile. But, uh, that project is moving along nicely. It sounds like
they're going to be here tomorrow to remove that sheet pile and we can wrap
that up and hopefully by the end of the week or beginning of next, we have that
open. Uh August 4th, uh under the patching
contract, Bose began, uh work on County Road 16A or 214th Street. And uh due to
some unforeseen circumstances, uh the paving wasn't finished by the end of the
week that week, but it spilled over into the next. And then at uh soon as they
got done paving, our crew immediately followed uh with the completion of the
shoulder widening. And uh we need to wrap up uh placing some gravel material
in the driveways along there. But uh I believe that's a much safer stretch. And
I also wanted to point out that we are going to build our traffic counters up
there cuz I I anticipate that the traffic uh counters will show the
evidence that with that being a much safer stretch that we're going to have a
lot of uh uh the traveling public on there and also probably most likely
speeding. So
August 7th, the Elkton phase 3 work was completed and County Road 33 was opened
up to the public. Uh future projects here, we had a precon
meeting for the 2026 Brookings County surfacing project that's on County Road
2 up by Lake Ponet. Uh, I was hoping that I could say they started as of
yesterday, but uh, those plans were moved back and I will let you know when
that project starts because we are going to be looking at a road closure when we
do that project. Um, and lastly here, I attended the highway superintendent
certification course and peer as a veteran I should say. I didn't go take
the class. I've already been certified, but we did have right around uh 26 new
highway superintendent attend that class. And for our state, if you guys
understand, we have 66 counties and 26 is a pretty big number for new highway
superintendent. And also in in lie of that the my
secretary did attend um as we had our office personnel workshop at the same
time. Is there any questions?
» Anybody have anything for Brian? >> Brian, I just have one question. Um
Banner typically does structure um inspections on the east half and the
west half of the county. Remind me what what half are they doing this year? We
are doing the east half. Okay. Thank you. [snorts]
» Anybody have anything else for Brian? >> Thank you very much.
» Thanks. >> All right. We're close enough to 9:00.
Uh we're going to move to number seven scheduled agenda items. Uh letter A
there is a public uh hearing and action to approve a one-day special event
license to J Street Pub for event to be held at the Bennett Barn on August 22nd,
2026. Do I have a motion to approve?
» So moved. >> Second.
» Motion a second. All right. I would open the public hearing. Do we have any
proponents for this? Do we have any proponents?
» [clears throat and cough]
[snorts] >> Um, I just ask you to look at the
application again. I believe it's at the Owl, not the Bennett Barn.
» That appears to be correct. >> All right. Y
» So, yeah. So, at the Owl Lodge, um, up by Oakwood, um, we're hosting or
bartending at a wedding. So, >> All right. All right. Thank you very
much. Thank you. >> Do we have any other proponents?
Any other proponents?
Do we have any opponents? Any opponents?
Hearing none, we'll close the public
hearing. Do we have any comments from the board other than the adjustment on
the the application is right just adjust in the minutes
» and and as you recall we did change our ordinance so this wouldn't necessarily
in the future need to be coming back to us but we we're in that 20 days of um
kind of 20-day wait actually the 20th this week is our when it will officially
go into effect so moving forward after this we won't have to do
» this is the last one of these we have to do Yes. [laughter]
» All right. So, hearing no other comments, call the
role, please. >> Miller.
» Hi. >> Jensen.
» Hi. >> Vanderwal.
» Hi. >> Post.
» Hi. >> Hustler.
» Hi. >> Motion carries.
» All right. Letter B. Public hearing and action to approve a retail onoff sale
malt beverage and SD Farm Wine license for CCNF Retail Inc. Friendly Fuel Court
in Elkton to begin July 1st, 2026 and end June 30th, 2027.
Do I have a motion to approve? >> So move.
» Second. >> Motion and a second. At this time, I
would open the public hearing. Do we have any proponents for this? Any
proponents?
Do we have any proponents?
Any proponents? Do we have any opponents? Do we have any
opponents? Do we have any opponents?
We'll close the public hearing and comments from the board.
» I guess >> Oh, go ahead. Go ahead.
» Sorry, Jenna Baker from the finance office. Um, I guess the only comment I
would have I wasn't sure if there was a representative in the back here. Um, no,
that's okay. Um, so, uh, our office had received a second, uh, retail onoff
sale. Um, this would be their second one, but they are they have plans to add
an additional, uh, area in their in the, uh, facility
to basically house some more lottery machines. And in order to do so, they
need to obtain a second alcohol license. I have passed around to each of you the
existing plan of their business and then on the second page is um is their
proposed plans. Um and then in my staff report
you can see they have like a number of steps that they have to do and take. Um,
and ultimately the South Dakota lottery has the final say on whether or not this
gets approved uh to them or not. The commission just basically approves the
alcohol license, which as you know, we have an unlimited amount. Um, and as far
as I know, Burkings County doesn't have anything in ordinance that speaks to
lottery machines that I could find. Is there anything else that you had that
you wanted to add? I guess I don't know if the public comments's done. I don't
know if you would allow for him to speak.
» Yeah.
» Just come up and recognize.
» You all need a different copy. I have a copy as well. Also, general manager for
Whoa. for CCNF. We purchased the Elkton uh Sky View
Elton um for many reasons. Obviously, it's a
great little store. Unfortunately, it wasn't the most efficient store when we
purchased it. So, we knew going into the uh process that we would have to remodel
the location. Um
the proposed area where the two rooms would be right now currently is an old
kitchen that lasted I think 6 months. We our business model, if you will, is big
on customer service, food, and just taking care of our customers. Obviously,
we knew going into the project that the bathrooms are too small, too old. We
knew that the old the kitchen that we you the main kitchen that we use was
unefficient, and we needed to um make it larger. The security area or the
checkout area is too small. folks were coming in the front door. It's, you
know, jumping on each other. Some may be paying going through the front door. So,
for us, and we also have a liquor license that we haven't used yet because
there's no room on on the sales floor, obviously. Um, it's a small little
location. The proposed site that we're looking at re I mean for rebuilding this
location is a make the large make the large uh excuse me the restrooms larger
more efficient for the consumer uh increase the size of the cooler
increase the size of the checkout area increase the size of uh the kitchen
obviously and in doing that it's very expensive and
there's two players in in the video lottery. There's a non-smoker and a
smoker. Um, so we're going to have we'll have two rooms. One that's access I mean
folks can smoke in that's part of the South Dakota lottery where the big old
door open window all that look and then the second would be more uh non-smoking
obviously. Um yeah so I if you have any questions I
sure would love to answer them. >> Board have any questions? And keep in
mind too, this would be uh separate. So we've kind of identified it as um this
one would be the second license would be sweet B. They have their own they've
applied for their um they've applied for an additional um sales tax license. Um
so it would be completely separate. They have to have separate rooms, separate
doors, all that kind of thing. So >> and you know the city of Brookings has
many of these. I mean, this isn't uncommon. It just we don't see it a lot
in the the county businesses, but so >> Okay.
All right. >> Thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
» Any comments from the board.
» Hearing none, call the role, please. >> Jensen,
» I. >> Vanderwal,
» I. >> Post,
» I. >> Miller,
» I. >> Hustler,
» hi. >> Motion carries.
All right, we're going to move back up to routine business.
Uh, department head reports. Sheriff
[snorts]
» Good morning. >> Morning.
» Morning. >> Just a quick quick overview of the
detention center. We have 59 inmates presently. Um 28 of them are Brookings
County inmates and uh 31 are from uh other counties. Uh the biggest is the US
Marshall Service. We have 24 inmates from uh the Marshall Service. On the 247
area, we have 8 87 participants and that would keeps that area uh busy. Uh it's
been busy just like other departments. Uh it's been a busy couple last couple
weeks. got school opening this week. So that uh that brings on uh uh traffic and
that type of stuff and and uh so we uh we're going to be working uh around the
schools uh for speed and that type of things. Uh
also uh I think this is the second year maybe third year we have what we call
breakfast with the deputies. So with between Elton and Sou Valley, we every
other week or every other month we go into one of the those schools and have
breakfast with uh the kids and stuff. And uh Vulga Christian has opened up
their doors to school or my school resource officer too. So he's doing some
more things at uh at Vogga Christian which is which is good. Um, and just
talking about school resource, one of the commissioners did call me about our
school resource officer because there was some things going on with the city
and so forth. And and uh just so if anybody asks you uh um we don't charge
the school for school resource. That's uh the county. I always felt that that
was uh um my responsibility or the sheriff's office's responsibility to to
go into the schools. At one time, I think it was a year maybe a year and a
half ago, two years, I did approach the school boards about um helping fund the
school resource officer, but at that particular time, nobody had any money.
And uh to be honest with you, it's probably the
best how we're doing it. Um you know, sometimes when you pay for something,
then they expect you to be there all the time. Um I still have control over the
school resource. So if there is an emergency outside of his if he's got
nothing going on, he still responds to emergencies. He can leave the school and
respond to emergency, especially if he's in the town that he's the school
resource. If I didn't have him in the schools,
this would put more of a burden on my patrol department because he handles
everything in the schools and it's vaping, catching kids vaping, uh
bullying, fights, uh those types of things. So, he's there. If he wasn't
there, uh to handle those school investigations, he handles anything that
happens on the school grounds. And that would include ball games Friday night if
there's what, whatever. So, it u uh the way we have the system works good. Uh
also this uh Wednesday night uh we'll be going out to the u um um Good Roots they
have their annual uh international uh welcome back ice cream social for uh
international students and there's different vendors out there and this I
think this will be our second or third time out there and um we hand out a lot
of stuff to the international students. The biggest thing is I hand out his
driver's license manus. They all they want to come and drive and so I go
through a stack of driver's license manus at that event. But it's good. They
like to take pictures with the police. You normally the uh uh Brookings police
is out there also and they they like taking pictures with so a little bit I
feel like a celebrity for a little you know for about an hour and a half. So
anyway, okay. Last Friday night, I attended a flock camera uh uh discussion
uh over at the 21 building. Um uh there was two city councilors there, but
nobody from the police department. We and they talked about flack cameras and
and I think most of you have uh have uh been uh listening or about the flack
cameras. just for your information in case uh anyone asks you is that
Brookings County as you know we do not have any flock cameras uh that um
they're all in within the city limits of Brookings at the present time uh at the
time and uh uh [clears throat] since I was introduced to flock cameras probably
in 2021 when Madison put flock cameras in in 2021 and I remember their first
30-day trial period or whatever it was they caught up u the the flock
camera um uh um hid on a stolen vehicle. Anyway, but uh I did check into the
flock cameras and I just felt at that that time that uh um they were
expensive. The cameras themselves at that time were $4,500, but it was the
everything else, the maintenance contract and all that. So, I felt that
uh it wasn't it wasn't something that was a priority uh for my office. Uh
[clears throat] we've probably in visiting with my detectives, we've
probably at first we thought we probably have access not access but had put about
six things called the police department to put about six things on on the um uh
camera system. But in talking with him again, we narrowed it down to three is
that uh one was um endangered person that we did get a hit on that license
plate and we was able to locate that endangered person. And two other ones
were warrants. Um we would never put anything on the city's flock camera that
I don't have a case number so I can track it. In other words, we're just not
going to put put Sean on there to see where he gets his groceries at. you
know, it's it's going to have a it's going to have a a case number on on
that. Uh like I said, at present time, we probably used it about uh uh three
times. It has some good things about it and then with all the other thing with
the data and I understand and it's the thing that I'm very concerned about is
the audit on there. Who audits the auditor? It's just like now you're
hiring a new IT person, right? Okay. Who audits that IT person? You know, I just
was reviewing the IT policy the other day. He's got all this control over all
these departments to watch them, but who watches the IT guy? Something to me has
to be in place to watch that person. Who watches me? You guys. You guys watch me
and the public. So, everybody's got to have someone
watching them or making sure that they're doing their job. And uh I worry
about the auditing and things like that with with the flock cameras. I think
there are legitimate concerns. Um, so uh probably [clears throat] the last thing
is uh um and I talked to Stacy about this is is uh we're going to remodel the
upstairs. Uh my two detectives just just don't have enough room downstairs. They
have two offices, but things are getting busier and with internet u uh crimes
against children in the county. That's getting to be uh a lot of extra work,
too. Not extra work, but it's just uh uh and we just need more room and interview
rooms and and and different things like that. So, we're going to uh I have money
in the uh building fund to remodel upstairs. We need to put some walls up
and and some different things to have some privacy and things like that. So,
uh that way I can open up those two rooms downstairs. Uh DCI likes to come
and polygraph in my off at my place and I really don't have a place for him to
do it because we need to have recording and and and uh those so I'll be able to
set one of those offices up so that we can record and uh those those types of
things. So, uh, we're I'm getting some bids right now. Um, and so, uh, unless
do you guys have any questions about the remodeling at all? Um, like I said,
there's money there, um, for building and, uh, I might as well
get this done so we can open up some space and have more room for the
investigators. So,
other than that, I think uh I think that's it. Unless you guys have any
questions. >> Anybody have anything for the sheriff?
» Marty, on these flock cameras, there's a lot of buzz about those [snorts]
um out there. How many are in the city? Any idea?
» How many >> how many cameras?
» Well, I think Well, I think there's See, I learned something today at this
meeting. I learned some things. is that um I think there's I think if you go on
the on on on there's a website and I think there's nine
um but some of these might have a contract with with retail stores you
know like Walmart >> at this meeting and I have not fact
checked all this so I'm just going by what I was told at the meeting is that
uh Walmart has fl cameras and Lowe's have have clock cameras, but those are
owned by them, but I haven't fact checked that, so I don't want to be
speaking out of turn. Um, >> my second part of that was question was
who funds those? Who pays for those? So, private businesses,
» some private businesses to my the way I came from that meeting is that they pay
for those. And then again, I don't I hate to talk about it because I I don't
know. I'm only going by what what hap what was told that that night. So, I
haven't factcheed a lot of this. Um, I'm taking it there was there's
contracts between private and I have no contract or any anything like
that with for information or with with u uh you know like the city
police because they they control the flock cameras for the city. So, but
there might be some private use that are paid by retail.
That that's what I took out of this meeting anyway. So,
» I don't know if that answers your question.
» It does. It does. Thank you. >> Yeah. I just don't want to speak out of
turn because I haven't fact checked anything. So,
» yeah. I guess I just add that I share your concern that you know, you're
watched and we know what you're doing and then well, Dan watches you and
everybody else and so we keep everybody on the level. But if that information
isn't just between Flock and Brooking Sheriff's Department,
» no. >> Who's the third person out there and
what is it being used for? You know, you'd hope it all be up on the up and
up, but it's this day and age with information sharing and buying
information. It's >> Yeah. And then you talk about auditing
and making sure, but you know, you you got to throw the human factor in there.
The human factor is sometimes emotions overtake common sense. So you
can have your things in place, but who's checking
» who's auditing and who's overseeing the auditing and things like that. So
» and everything gets hacked eventually. >> So
thank you. >> Thank you, Sheriff.
» Okay, Jen, come on up.
Good morning. >> Good morning.
» Morning. >> Um, today we just have the finance
officers report in the agenda. Um, be it noted items, auditors count with
treasur, payroll and additives total, register of deeds, statement of fees and
highway expenditure report. um the register of deeds statement of fees. Um
there is a little correction in there from the June one and there was a 45
cent error on her um on the register of deeds statement [snorts] like in June.
So we have an updated one in there in addition to the July one. Um
other than that our office other than the finance officer obviously is fully
staffed now. So we're that takes some pressure off and she's doing a great
job. So, um, other than that, that's all I've got. If
you've got any questions on the finance officer report or anything, let me know.
Otherwise, things everything's going good.
» Anybody have anything for Jennifer? >> Jen, just a quick question. Motor owner
vehicle stuff that's going a lot better than it was six months and a year ago.
» Vehicle. Yeah. Yep. >> It's pretty smooth.
» We We worked through those problems and you figured a way out to
» get that job done. Thank you. >> Yep.
» Good. >> Okay. Anybody else? Thank you.
» Thank you, John. >> Bob with Community Development.
» Good morning. First meeting we had was August the 13th. We had a pandemic
planning coordinating committee at the hospital. And the big thing that come
out of there is there is going to be a 2026 27
Department of Health grant to help fund the the um they call it the pod manager
which right now I'm acting as. Later that night we had on August the
13th we had our 765 kilovolt transmission subcommittee meeting.
During that meeting, at the conclusion of the meeting, it was decided we'll
have one more meeting in September, the second Thursday in September. And then
if all goes well, we plan on sunsetting that subcommittee and moving the the
discussion and everything over to the planning and zoning meeting. But but
that's only with the permission of the county commission. And I wanted to bring
that to you to you as a question today.
We're we're just spinning our wheels. We're getting a lot of information pro
and con. Now it's time to make the decision. The decision makers obviously
is the planning and zoning committee as a whole. And we just we we we just feel
it's time to get moving and we can do it as a as a planning and zoning.
What's the board's thoughts, I guess? any comments or
» ideas? Okay.
» Okay. We'll we'll keep moving along and of course that could be fluid depending
on what occurs at that meeting. But uh if it goes as I anticipate it, we will
and of course we'll notify you the moment that happens.
Uh yesterday I signed some paperwork on dual Brookings water. They they're doing
some upgrades to the water system north of Bruce and they had me look at some of
their some of their stuff. They're doing some good stuff with the with the rural
water up there which is a good thing. Tomorrow I'm going up to Buffalo Ridge 2
up on the county line. They've got a tabletop discussion. They're looking at
doing an exercise within the next month and they always include Duel County and
Brookings County and then the first responders of the area such as the White
Fire Department and the White Ambulance. So, that should be good discussion. On
Thursday, we've got our local emergency planning committee meeting over at the
East Fire Station. Next week, I've got Richard going down to Sou Falls to a
Western Planner Conference. That's the U South Dakota State Planning Association.
And they there is a South Dakota State Planning Association and they combined
their meeting this year with the Western Planner Conference which is about uh 10
different states from the western side of the of the United States and he's
going to go down there and get trained on that. I felt with my time coming to a
close, it was was not appropriate for me to
go down. I my time would be better off up here and
keep doing some office work. Other than that, that's I don't have any updates on
the Maderi Township drainage project. I am
going to contact them as soon as this meeting's over and I'm downstairs and
next meeting we'll have an update for you on that particular subject. Any
questions? >> Anything for Bob?
» Thanks, sir. >> All right. Jen did uh mention the
finance officer report and be at noted items. So, those are listed. Uh moving
to letter A or letter number eight, regular business. Letter A, action to
approve resolution 26-30, a resolution declaring a fire danger emergency in
Brookings County and prohibiting open burning. Do I have a motion to approve?
» So moved. >> Do I have a second?
» Second. >> Motion and a second. Comments.
» I was contacted by Dave Jacobson with the Brookings County Firefighters
Association. He reached out to me earlier this month and um he just asked
to have this resolution on the agenda. At that point, you know, we were still a
couple weeks out to see if we were going to going to get any rain. Um, I don't
believe we've probably had any measurable rainfall since I've discussed
this with with Dave. And so this comes from the firefighters association with
representatives um from across the county.
» Mr. Chairman, if I may. >> Yes, Bob. the we are still in a moderate
drought category in Brookings County and and as
Stacy Stephenson mentioned, we have not had no measurable rain. Even last night,
it looked like it went to our south and I have no objections to burn ban being
enacted. >> Okay, sheriff, you got anything?
» I have I have no comments. >> Okay.
» Either it's dry. Yeah. >> The other night about two to three tents
I got at my pl north of town and soul. Yeah,
» I think for prevention it'd be a good idea.
» Any comments from the board. >> All right. Hearing no comments. Uh, call
the role, please. >> Vanderwal,
» I. >> Post.
» I. >> Miller.
» Hi. >> Jensen.
» Hi. >> Hustler.
» Hi. >> Motion carries.
» All right. Letter B. Action to approve three requests to fill vacancies for
full-time corrections officers in the detention center. Do I have a motion to
approve? >> Motion approved.
» Second. Motion and second. Any comments?
Sheriff? >> Just uh we've had a lot of resignations
uh due to uh [clears throat] uh one uh correction officer had a baby,
decided to be a full-time mom, and I I applaud her for that. And it just uh
been a lot of movement with the part with some of the part-time, too. um that
they you know it's sometimes it's hard to not to have romances within the off
within and then and then they move on and get married and so there's a couple
that did that and and are going to move on. So it's just been a lot of a lot of
that. >> Okay,
» that makes sense. >> It does. [laughter]
» All right, any questions or anything for sheriff?
All right, hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I.
» I. >> Post say nay. Motion carries.
» Could I could I ask for one thing? Absolutely. Didn't mean to interrupt.
No, Commissioner. >> Is that you have a uh I have a a limit
of six part-time people. You have authorized
uh my office to have six part-time. I'd like to increase that to one more
seventh because I do have a part-time person that is that uh is is pregnant
and she'll be going out soon. Um, and it's not that I'm going to add hours for
this seventh person. It's just that to help cover hours. Uh, especially and
maybe the 247 area could maybe help a little bit with that if I needed uh uh
uh we just uh we we we're seeing some violations in the 247 area that needs
paperwork and do different things. So, but I'm I'm just trying to get ahead of
uh another vacancy. And so, if I could go ahead and while we're hiring, if I
could hire a seventh part-time person, but I again, I'm not looking to add
hours. I'm just looking to help cover ours with that seventh one, anticipating
when this other part-time goes out on on leave. Of course, she has no uh she has
no uh sick leave or anything, but you know, we we guarantee that she can have
a job back if she chooses to come back. So,
» being that it doesn't affect budget and the do bottom line,
» it does affect the pay plan resolution. Um I mean, I think you could maybe do
like consensus to move that forward, but I would have to bring the pay plan pay
plan resolution forward to be amended >> and we could do that on
» at the next meeting. put it to the what's the board's uh consensus on that?
I think if it's not increasing anything and just having more staff to be able to
fill the existing hours, I don't I think that would be be good. But what's the
board's cons? >> Would that be a temporary position then?
» And the person comes back, you know, if this person that's leaving on maternity
leave comes back, then would that seventh position part-time go away or
does that stay there? Well, we probably just, you know, with things going, uh,
there's always somebody gone. I anticipate, you know, they come and go
so quick. Uh, again, we would not increase hours, but
to cover. So, the seventh person would probably be needed to cover hours. Uh,
if that because you have full-time that take vacation and things like that. So,
uh, again, they wouldn't be added hours. is just be a person to to cover those
hours >> that we need. Is that making any sense,
Commissioner? >> Sheriff, one question I have is, so if
you add another part-time person, then you're not asking other full-time people
extra overtime shifts, >> right?
» So, in a sense, it's it's saving the county some money. Correct. Or am I
wrong? >> Yeah. I know a few years ago when we
added the corporal positions and and that we we um reduced the number of
part-time people, >> right? Here's a question to you. What is
one enough to be able to cover those hours and miss times and things like
that? Or would would we want to do two? What what is the recommendation to do
that? Because I think we eliminated like 10 when we created those corporal
positions if I remember right. >> Well, it would uh for
» we always have we always have the hours and so if I don't
» see when I'm dealing with part-time now I'm dealing with college. they're going
to college, you know, and so now it's hard to draw from the six
» to cover. And then if I'm down, you know, we're we're promoting one
part-time person up to full-time, you know, so I've drawn that. And then of
course with with the pregnancy, I don't know when she's going out. Uh and if
she'll come, I hope she'll come back. She's a good employee. She does really
good. So I hope she'll come back when when that. But uh uh it is a struggle
for us to uh uh because we do have a lot of overtime in the jail
» because I don't >> because I don't have part-time to cover.
Uh and I know the deal was corpor
uh staff, you know, people. But again, I got to cover the hours. So it it would
it would be beneficial. >> The only downside I could see would be
reducing each employees hours. they wouldn't be getting as many hours per
employee, per part-time employee, which I depends on if they're busy with school
or other full-time jobs. That, you know, it might not be bad thing to do that,
» but it might it might be a >> a way to just to add to and and it would
help alleviate some of the scheduling strain.
What are your thoughts on that board? Yeah, I guess I'm I'm seeing what you're
saying is that the part-time people possibly would be not getting their
normal shift then and that my question was do they do the part- timerrs have a
set number of hours that they can or do work or is it are they expecting to
always get 20 or >> Yeah, it's 19
195 I mean 19 and a half hours. However,
there may be times now that I use them more than that just so I don't in a what
is a six-month period. They can't go over X amount or else you have to start
paying uh >> retirement.
So, I may have someone that works 25 or 30 hours because she's available to
work. So, she picks up more shifts than someone someone that's maybe got a
full-time job and doing this part-time. Most of mine are are going to are
college right now, you know. I I have one or you know, see, so now I got to
work around their college schedules and sometimes that's that gets to be
difficult, too. So, >> because some of your part-time, you
might only get them 10 hours in a pay period or a week or
» and they might only be able to work that.
» Correct. And I think that's why we added that extra one. It was to eliminate some
of that. >> Yeah. um a full-time person would be
more um inclined to be there all the time. But uh that was kind of the
reasoning behind all the part-time staff I had before.
» Yeah. >> So, correct.
» Yeah. You know, I only have one that works 24/7. You know, uh, uh, Tanya
Thornton works 24/7, but there's times in there that's busy, especially on
court day when they're sentencing and over and and sometimes I got to pull
someone from the floor to help her. So then eliminates one person on the floor.
Mondays are busy days for for jail staff because, you know, they're they're
sentenced to a scram bracelet or or or whatever or just setting them up. Tanya
has to set them up on the 247 program. So, um, an extra person there could help
a little bit too if I if I if that's needed and so forth. So, I'm not looking
to increase a lot of hours. I'm just looking to basically cover
» uh cover. >> I think it's good to be proactive on
that. And I I I can make peace with adding the seventh. Um,
I trust department heads to run their departments how they see fit. And I',
you know, when they come and ask for a another part-time, I guess I'm not
comfortable with saying, "Well, if you want one, let's give you two." Um, I'd
leave that to the department heads to let them manage income. If you at some
point want to add another one, then I think you bring it. So, adding a second,
I guess I wouldn't be comfortable with that.
» Well, and the only reason I brought that up is it's not increasing the wage, the
budget at all. It's just the amount of people to manage that budget and
alleviate alleviate scheduling concerns. And that's why that's the only reason I
said maybe two just with with the increased stuff because it's not and
correct me if I'm wrong, Sheriff. It's not it's not and he said it before, it's
not adding to the budget. It is just the amount of people to do that. um we're
just doing more I guess
the same amount with just a few more people and if we can find people
qualified people to work those hours it you know I was a part of that for years
and years and I know what the shifts and and the strains in the back can be so
that's why I just mentioned would it possibly work to add to to help with
that So
» right. So >> So the consensus is that
» Yeah. What's the I mean, >> yeah, I' I'd say put something together
so that Stacy can bring >> We'll have to bring it to as a
resolution on our next meeting to adjust that pay plan.
» We're going to meet again on September one.
» September one. So would we direct was it the consensus of the board to director
to bring one or two or what would the consensus be?
» You can do one now and one if he thinks one. Okay.
» Sounds good. >> All right.
» Okay. Thank you. >> You bet. Sheriff. Uh letter C. Uh action
to approve a request fill vacancy for a part-time female corrections officer in
the detention center. Do I have a motion to approve?
» So move. >> Second.
» Motion a second. Any comments hearing? None. All those in favor
signify by saying I. >> I.
» Post say nay. Motion carries. >> Letter D. Action to approve a request to
fill vacancy for a corrections corporal in the detention center. Do I have a
motion to approve? >> Motion approve.
» Got a motion. >> Second.
» Second. Comments.
Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I.
» I. Post say nay. [cough] Pot carries. Letter E. Action to authorize
chairperson Hustler to sign uh sub that thing
subsequent clarificate or certification of compliance with foreign national
vetting requirements. It is still only 9:30.
Motion to approve. >> So moved.
» Second. >> Motion and a second. Comments. This is
for, I believe, a grant agreement that at that uh county development director
Bob Hill is applying for. Um HR generalist Kristen Witchie does um she
provided a statement that was in your packet basically saying that Brookings
County does require all new employees or all employees to fill out the I9 form um
certifying that they are indeed eligible to work in the United States.
Any other comments hearing? None. All those in favor
signify by saying I. I. >> Post say a. Motion carries. Letter F.
Action to automatically supplement an unanticipated expenses incurred and
reimbursement made to to Brookings County in the amount of $2,115.70.
Receipt number 00779225 to general GL line 226-422-
4294. Do I have a motion to approve?
» So move. >> Second.
» Motion to second. Comments. >> Mr. Chairman, this comes from that South
Dakota Department of Health grant to our PPC-
pod. This is the monies that was spent. They've got a different fiscal year, but
2025 to 2026, that line happens to be in the red right
now. And this this supplement will put me back in the green in that line.
» Okay. Any other comments? Hearing none. All those in favor signify
by saying I. >> I. I.
» Post say nay. >> Motion carries. Letter G, action to
declare 10 tasers as surplus property transferred to Dual County Sheriff's
Office. Do I have a motion to approve? >> So move.
» Second. Motion a second comments unless you have some questions is that I update
so oftakes
care of me. Anyway, >> um it's always nice to have another
wife. Anyway, uh we update tasers every so often. These
tasers are still still usable. uh you know the smaller counties have sometimes
struggle with with budgets and stuff and and so I think it'd be a good to to
donate those otherwise they're going to sit in a drawer here so they can go
there and and and be used for a while. So
» you bet have any comments from the board?
» Well, it's good to see that you're reaching out to other counties and if
it's something that they can use uh to be able to get it to them. Um fire
departments do this and other departments also. It's uh good deal.
» Yeah, I have a couple red lights I think top two that I'll check with some fire
departments and see if they need any red lights. So anyway, thank you. You bet.
» All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I post name. Motion carries. All right.
Number nine, commission department director's report.
» The veteran service officer report for July. No. Yeah, July. Like August is
almost over, I feel like. Anyway, seven DAV rides. The best news is that the DAV
val the volunteer drivers have covered all of those rides now since February.
So, that is moving in the right direction. Um, a couple of outreach
events, coffee with vets, and then the VFW after hours that they do every
month. Um, Matt Pillar, our VSO, said, you know, claims processing is it has
slowed down. It was kind of going well. Well, now it's he's kind of been seeing
a slowdown kind of across the board over the past few months with that. So, um
the July general fund surplus cash analysis was at 33%. That is pretty much
spot on for our 10-year average of 33.3%.
Just continue to keep an eye on that now as we get uh closer to year end to see
if there's there's any money there that we need to possibly assign or um deal
with here at the end of the year. So, um, looking good there.
The conservation district tour is, um, next Thursday, next week, August 27th.
That agenda is included with my report. Um, the the the board received a thank
you from the Brookings County Youth Mentoring Program for funding here in
2026. So, that was included with my report.
Um the SDAC or the SDACCC proposed resolutions and policy statement changes
are also part of my report. There's quite a few resolutions this
year. So if um make sure that you do read through those um we will be
discussing those in a caucus uh format on September 15th at fall convention and
then they are voted on at the general business meeting the next day on the
16th. We only do get one vote um per county on those resolutions. So, if you
see anything in there um that you want to discuss further, we can kind of go
through them maybe at the next meeting, you know, one at a time to see if if
there's anything that there's questions about. Um there's usually some pretty
good supplemental information. A lot of them came this year from either Minihaha
County or Yankton County submitted quite a few resolutions. So, make sure you
take a look at those. Um, if you have any questions, reach out to me. Um, we
would like I would like to schedule the the highway and bridge tour that's
usually here in October. Um, what I'm guessing, you know, what's I
guess Brian and I haven't talked about it propose a date here, but um,
you know, we could do it a couple different ways. you know, meet
in the morning and then we get done by noon or, you know, if it works on a
well, the the 20th is actually department head, so it wouldn't work
that day, but then like the 6th if you want to do um that afternoon, like after
a commission meeting, something like that and go in the afternoon. Brian,
» I worry my projects are not going to be done
» by the 6th of October. You want to go later in the month or even into
November? deadline is for asphalt is the 15th.
» Okay. So, so maybe look at a little bit later in October or maybe even early
November too. Um >> I would be more comfortable with that.
» I mean the the first meeting in November is the 5th. That's a Thursday because
we're canvasing votes. Um
what do you think? Anybody have any suggestions?
I >> think [snorts] later would be better
just so everything's done. >> Yes, for sure.
» You want to do that? Can we do that Wednesday or that Thursday that first
week in November? >> The fourth or the fifth?
» Fifth after the meeting or the fourth? What's it's really up to you guys. So,
what you think?
» I'm good with whatever. Yeah. I guess it'd be nice if we could do it have
commission and after commission. >> Should we do it on the on the 5th then?
» November 5th. >> That Thursday.
» Sounds good. >> Yep.
» Okay. Um other than that, just a few other
dates. Um we they did hand out to you from Sou Valley Energy. They're doing
rats and kilowatts kind of uh town by town district meetings. Um they're from
4:30 to 7 on Thursday, August 27th. There is one in White at the community
hall and then um at the Mcnite community hall and then there is one on September
10th in Vulga and that is at the school at the Sou Valley School. So that
handout was there and I'll get some of those dates put on the the calendar here
as well. Um, as I said, the conservation district tour is next week. Monday is
September 7th, Labor Day. Offices will be closed. And then we have the next
week our um fall convention down at the Ramakota in Sou Falls. Kind of golf on
the 14th, but then the meetings are the 15th and 16th of September.
Um um on Tuesday, September 22nd, I'm just
kind of noticing that meeting at 8:30. Um that is the fourth Tuesday of the
month, which is a little bit different than what we normally do first and 3rd,
but that's due to that fall convention follow falling on that third Tuesday.
So, uh in September, we meet the 1st and the fourth Tuesdays in September, the
1st and then the 22nd. Um
Todd Kay's with the First District Association of Local Governments. They
have their annual membership picnic on September 24th. Um I know they'll be
sending out some additional information, but if you wanted just to get that on
your calendars, it's the Thursday, September 24th. And then looking out a
little bit further, um Native American Day is October 12th. That Monday,
offices will be closed. On the Tuesday, October 20th, we have our regular
commission meeting. And then that afternoon um department head review
starting at 1:00. October 24th is Hobo Day. So I'll be we
don't need to decide now but talking about um parade and activities for Hobo
Day. And then again as I had mentioned earlier that meeting that first meeting
in November is a Thursday instead of a Tuesday and that's due to canvasing the
vote votes from the general election that's on the 3rd of November.
That's all I have unless you have questions for me.
» Anything for Stacy? >> All right. Thank you. State's attorney's
office report. Moving to number 11, commissioner
reports. Commissioner Vanderwal. >> Thank you. On Wednesday, August 11th, I
attended the Brookings County 4H achievement days. And then at 1:00 that
afternoon, I attended the Samira Avenue meeting in Vga at 1:00.
On Thursday, August 6th, I attended the 4 uh barbecue and helped serve drinks
and milk and co or milk and juice and water. And uh and on Wednesday, August
12th, I attended the uh 10ount meeting in Bryant. And afterwards, uh we stopped
at the U Culbert project on County Road One on the west side of Oakwood. And
that was very interesting. I'm glad we had an opportunity to do that. and
understand from those two county uh highway workers what was going on and
why appreciated that. And then on Thursday, August 13th, I attended the uh
pod meeting um at the hospital at noon. And then that evening um
Thursday, August 13th, I attended the 765 KVA um meeting right here in this
very room. As uh as um Bob said earlier today, you know, we look for that um
September meeting to be the be the sunset of that the uh I'm just one of
the five on that committee. But after that um meeting here, I I I look forward
for the committee to uh make a recommendation to the zoning board for a
2,000 ft setback. Um and the zoning board would then possibly look at that
in the October meeting. So that's moving moving along.
Thank you very much. >> All right, Commissioner Post.
» My calendar just went dead. On the 4th, [snorts] I filled in for the planning
and zoning meeting and of August. Then I also was uh let's see tended to
765 on the 13th as well. Had some fill-in duty. So that was pretty much my
week. >> All right, Commissioner Miller.
» Thank you. Well, um, last night, the 17th, I attended a board meeting for the
Brookings Behavioral Health Center and, uh, I continue to be impressed with that
facility and the board. Mary Beth and Lana and Amy do an excellent job. Got
some challenges. They're expanding into some new areas and, uh, dealing with
funding issues on the state and federal level like several are, but, um, very
well-run organization and they're truly making a difference there. It's fun to
see be a part of that. That's my report. >> All right, Commissioner Jensen.
» Well, on the 4th, I attended National Night Out over in Vulga. Uh great
turnout over there. Uh was going to eat there. The the line was quite long and
uh we decided to go to Brookings and attend the National Night Out in
Brookings. Uh and that was also well attended. And uh
it's uh a kudos to all the people that volunteer, come out and uh to man those
booths with the you know the fire departments and the city police and
everybody that gets out there. Uh thanks to those guys for organizing and having
that event. The kids really enjoy it. On the 5th they stopped out at achievement
days. Uh viewed the exhibits and also took in a couple shows. on the six. Also
went out uh helped at the pork barbecue. Uh great turnout. We actually ran out of
food that evening. Uh it was a good turnout for the the meal and it was very
good. Uh on the 12th attended the 10ount meeting in Bryant. Uh a lot of
discussion on some of the proposals and the and the half cent tail tax uh still
coming up. Uh counties that have done it and counties that have not. Um, as Kelly
mentioned, we stopped by the Culver project at the on County Road One just
west of the Oakwood Lakes and looked at the project. It was going pretty good.
Uh, [snorts] unfortunately, we haven't had any rain, but that kind of helped
that project and didn't get flooded out and uh, looks to be completed here
shortly. So, that's my report. >> All right. and my report I was uh I was
gone for for a while so I didn't get a chance to attend 10 10 county uh thank
you commissioner Vanderwal for going to the pod meeting for me um but yesterday
on the 17th I had a committee meeting for the Brookings Regional Growth
Alliance uh and that is my report so then with that we'll move into number
12 executive session in accordance with SDCL 1252 two parentheses one for
personnel. Do I have a motion to enter an executive session?
» So moved. >> Second.
» Motion and second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I oppose.
» Say n. Thank you.