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[0:02] Monday, September 14, 2026, Board of e-visation at 245, followed by Board of Commissioners at 3 p.m.
[0:18] I called it earlier in order to put a county board
[0:20] to be causation in their moderation.
[0:22] The pledge, please.
[0:24] The pledge leads to the divide of the United States
[0:27] of America and is to the Republic for which
[0:29] stands, one of the nation under God,
[0:32] and in the visual with liberty and justice for all.
[0:42] roll call.
[0:44] Brian.
[0:44] President.
[0:45] Jeff.
[0:46] Marty.
[0:47] Yep.
[0:47] We're Helio.
[0:51] We'll take the view up there.
[0:52] I think that's on Rick, we walk back into the office.
[0:55] He's over down there.
[0:58] He probably doesn't remember this.
[0:59] Over yonder.
[1:01] That's a good.
[1:02] That's on the new fresh thing.
[1:04] You can.
[1:05] I hear him.
[1:08] And Rick is here now too.
[1:10] All right.
[1:13] Do I need to read that?
[1:14] The Code of County Board of Equalization.
[1:16] Reserves the right to adjust the order of items on this agenda.
[1:19] Can set a agenda?
[1:23] I think motion approved.
[1:25] Can set a agenda.
[1:26] I'd second bat.
[1:28] New business, 245 would be great.
[1:30] Oh yeah.
[1:32] I know.
[1:33] I do too.
[1:33] I want to rule.
[1:35] Rick?
[1:36] Yes.
[1:36] Yes.
[1:37] Marty?
[1:38] Yes.
[1:38] Brian?
[1:39] Yes.
[1:41] All right.
[1:41] Let's go to New Business.
[1:43] A 2-3-5 here in for Highland Counseling,
[1:46] applications for exemption for murder vehicle taxes.
[1:49] And they have four?
[1:52] Four new vehicles.
[1:54] Four new vehicles.
[1:54] 2,026 Nissan Rogue with the last 5...
[2:00] Yeah, 5...425,525,525 of the VIN.
[2:03] A 2,026 Nissan Rogue.
[2:06] Another 2,026 Nissan Rogue.
[2:08] They're all these on.
[2:11] Number 2 would be the last 5 of the VIN is 715196.
[2:16] Number 3 would be 71928.
[2:19] And number 4 is 877317.
[2:22] Sorry, I guess that's for six, but all right, all brand new ones. They're just growing.
[2:29] Fair.
[2:33] That's a lot. Four new regular ones. One by any. Count me.
[2:40] I can bring it up to the board. There you go. There you go.
[2:45] And we'll make it too out of the parking lot.
[2:49] Just like our standard.
[2:53] Anybody got any issues or anything that we like that?
[2:57] I'd make a motion to prove the forecars for carbon.
[3:00] Why is that?
[3:02] Thank you.
[3:03] Yep.
[3:04] I'll wait for the vote.
[3:06] Okay.
[3:07] Jeff?
[3:08] Yes.
[3:08] Marty?
[3:10] Yes.
[3:11] Ryan?
[3:11] Yes.
[3:11] Yes.
[3:17] To be in the C need corrections or air moments or taxis or corrections anything.
[3:24] No.
[3:24] No emergency business?
[3:28] Public comment?
[3:32] I like to make motion adjourned.
[3:43] I like to make motion adjourned.
[3:43] Sorry to get.
[3:46] Okay.
[3:52] No go ahead and.
[3:54] Current copy of the Open Meeting Act.
[3:55] I guess we're not for redead anymore.
[3:56] It's posted the wet back wall near the entrance.
[3:58] The board grew and is available for you by all citizens and attendance.
[4:09] Marty?
[4:10] Yep.
[4:10] Okay, Leo.
[4:11] Present.
[4:12] Brian.
[4:12] Present.
[4:13] Rick?
[4:14] Yes.
[4:14] Jeff?
[4:18] So now would be the time for public comment.
[4:20] If there's anybody here that would like to comment on anything that is not on today's
[4:24] agenda, now would be the time.
[4:31] Seeing none.
[4:33] We'll go.
[4:33] Make a comment.
[4:34] You back.
[4:34] Go right here.
[4:36] So the city of South Sue is taking public comment off of there agenda.
[4:42] So you can't go to a city meeting and just get up and talk.
[4:49] And I think that's wrong.
[4:50] Yeah.
[4:51] I agree.
[4:52] What's the purpose by that?
[4:53] They don't want to be blanks.
[4:54] I didn't want to be blanks.
[4:55] You know, I have no idea what their leadership issue is, but I think it's wrong.
[4:59] because now the constituents can't just come an era of view and it might take five minutes.
[5:06] It might take a half an hour, but still you were elected to listen.
[5:10] No, I agree.
[5:12] I don't think I wouldn't foresee that happening here.
[5:14] I won't say that.
[5:16] I don't know.
[5:17] I think I'm not sure of this.
[5:20] I was working part-time at the time, but I think it has something to do with the big
[5:24] situation that some of the families who were impacted by what happened to the big ox.
[5:32] I guess they used the City Council to announce the City Council public comment to Harrison.
[5:41] And this is a piece of the net.
[5:42] If you don't read this in any of those some personal time,
[5:46] I'll tell you.
[5:46] The time of your scope, though.
[5:48] Right now.
[5:49] I've been gone for it.
[5:51] I've been gone a lot.
[5:52] They just did.
[5:53] And their process, right?
[5:55] Like as a public, and officially there's a process that you follow,
[5:58] where someone's not with it in line, you,
[6:00] it politely say, hey, that's out of line.
[6:03] I'm actually asking to set the way.
[6:05] No surprises to end all of it.
[6:06] So like, that is, to me who said, like,
[6:09] that's fine.
[6:10] No, I agree with you right there.
[6:12] There does be things they are, they're doing a way
[6:16] of freedom of speech.
[6:19] But it's wrong.
[6:21] That is the biggest senator all right,
[6:26] should force you to have, I think, they,
[6:29] there were work on some kind of legislation
[6:32] to deal, address that issue.
[6:37] I'm kind of speaking about that right now, but there were some some work done in
[6:43] the last such on that, and I can't exactly exactly tell time, but I do.
[6:51] All right, consent agenda items. Approval of the previous minutes from August 31st,
[6:58] twenty twenty six. Approval of payroll claims, modest thirty-a through September 12. Approval
[7:06] of payroll accounts payable claims and an approval of monthly account payable claims. If any
[7:10] which there was not, I came in earlier and went through the budget, not the budget, the
[7:18] payroll and everything seems to be in order.
[7:21] All right, I like making motion to prove send genomes A3D.
[7:26] Is that it?
[7:29] Bro, yeah.
[7:30] Yes? Yes? Brian? Yes. Rick? Yes. Jeff? Yes. Marty? Yes.
[7:40] New business. Kim Hanson, Dakota County victim assistance, to provide update on the program and status of the grant.
[7:49] And I just want you guys to know.
[7:52] Thank you.
[7:53] Thank you girls.
[7:54] Worked their channels a lot.
[7:56] And they got rumors.
[7:59] We do.
[8:01] Okay.
[8:03] Sure, did you get those?
[8:05] Yes.
[8:06] They don't have.
[8:06] All right.
[8:07] That's kind of earlier.
[8:08] So sorry.
[8:09] No.
[8:09] They'll have to accept.
[8:11] So there's just two different spreadsheets there.
[8:13] One is showing.
[8:15] It's our fiscal year again, which is delighted.
[8:18] So I know it's off the set of what you guys run about how the state set it up now.
[8:24] So it's always a little off and we're always in between two different grants for three months.
[8:30] So if you need me to create a spreadsheet that shows October to September,
[8:39] so that we can see full on with both grants by can do that if you want me to.
[8:46] That is how you want me to do that.
[8:48] So there's one for 25 to 26, which is the grant here that we just finished and then there's the one where we're currently in, which is a different round out.
[9:09] And how does the grant compare to the previous year's grant?
[9:13] We got a little bit more of this time for starting in July of this year.
[9:18] How much more?
[9:18] to 60,428 and last year it was 56, so it has gone up a little bit.
[9:24] There's still not a lot of funding to be spread throughout the state, but they're trying to do their best to be equal with the agencies that are applying for them.
[9:33] I don't think they've cut any agencies at all, so they're trying to be fair as much as possible.
[9:48] Do you ever want me to do the October of September 1, so I'm going to give, it's not going to be completely accurate, because there's going to be an estimate on someone.
[9:58] I don't think, I don't think that's probably necessary.
[10:01] You can always get a hold of M.C. too.
[10:03] She can show you the difference and she's the one that does all of that on her end with the family thing between the two grand numbers.
[10:12] She's usually really helpful with that.
[10:14] Do you happen to have the number just your just your last grant your the number of people that you dealt with?
[10:22] Yeah
[10:22] Is that on here somewhere?
[10:24] I'm not sure.
[10:25] Okay.
[10:26] Yeah.
[10:26] Go ahead and give us the rundown on that.
[10:28] So at the end of June
[10:30] of this year our total is 1374 clients
[10:35] 190 of them were Spanish speaking.
[10:37] She provided 424 Spanish speaking services.
[10:41] We met with 110 people in person, phone, mail, email, 1488 contacts and then court updates
[10:50] we sent out 2473.
[10:53] That's not everything that we knew obviously.
[10:55] Correct.
[10:56] Everything for you.
[10:58] And then so far, this year from July 1st up until, what do you think was it, the 8th?
[11:04] Yeah, the 8th, when we had our meeting with LAC last week, we're at 493 clients, 33
[11:10] for your Spanish speaking, 77 Spanish services, 18 in person,
[11:15] phone mail, email 253, and then 538 court updates have gone out already.
[11:21] So we're keeping it busy.
[11:40] Is that pretty steady or up or down from the previous year?
[11:45] That's pretty steady, so far.
[11:47] I think our largest year, we have like,
[11:49] that's 1,800 somewhere, so I mean, it's pretty
[11:53] system or curious to see what happens once the casino is built and it is an influx
[11:58] there.
[11:59] That would be all.
[12:00] We're going to be winning so much money.
[12:03] It's a ring all around.
[12:05] Win-win-win.
[12:07] Of course.
[12:07] I mean it's going to be.
[12:08] Keep everybody.
[12:09] Excellent.
[12:10] It could be.
[12:12] For sure.
[12:12] Could make a difference.
[12:14] Any other questions about anything?
[12:18] No.
[12:19] No.
[12:19] No.
[12:19] No.
[12:20] No.
[12:21] The
[12:35] chair's office requesting border approval of Resolution 206C-017 releasing pledge securities.
[12:45] I, after I did a month and there's no need to have this extra funding so they are free like easy.
[12:52] There's no need to keep it off.
[12:55] Make a motion approved resolution 26C-017.
[13:01] All right. Thank you.
[13:04] Brian? Yes. Rick? Yes. Chef. Yes. Marty? Yep.
[13:08] Rob Helio? Yes.
[13:17] Board to approve or not approve.
[13:21] A special designation liquor license request for the Don sports bar in
[13:24] Grill for an event to be held October 10th at the rodeo arena at
[13:30] the Fairgrounds. They've done that in the past. Very well attended
[13:35] last year. So they're just asking for liquor license to be able
[13:41] cell during their event out at the former etiquette part.
[13:47] I'll leave it with you in a second.
[13:55] Rick?
[13:56] Yes.
[13:57] Yes.
[14:00] Yes.
[14:09] All right.
[14:10] Old business.
[14:11] You only need to wrote a part.
[14:15] Hi.
[14:19] We had 235.5 hours of maintaining three hours of overtime.
[14:25] 3.5 hours of tree removal,
[14:31] 48 hours removing the cover on 142nd street, 39 hours
[14:37] patching north-blath road, 17 hours mowing, 83 hours gravel, we hauled 525 ton of product
[14:45] out on the road and we called about 3-25 into the yard and then Anderson Trucking,
[14:55] called in 3-41, and we talked to them about bringing in another 30 loads.
[15:00] They're doing a $13 a ton, and it's a pretty good deal right now. The price of diesel.
[15:09] 22 hours in fines, two hours
[15:11] spraying some weeds, and then some greeting concerns, on a 150-5th street, in a 170-5th. I talked to Chad today
[15:21] about if Northup Road was ready to put the paper off a bid, and he said he's out of the office for the rest
[15:27] the week and they'll have it done on Monday. So we'll go forward with that.
[15:32] Just get getting a bit out there.
[15:33] Getting a bit out. Yep. Yep.
[15:35] So we're trying to get that.
[15:37] Yep.
[15:38] There's like, I don't know, what you said, less meeting how many square yards you come up with,
[15:46] but you figured it's about $1780,000 to go in and get some of them patching them before winter.
[15:53] So we thought there was a couple of contractors that were pretty interested
[15:55] of the time to do it yet this fall.
[15:59] For M Avenue, he want me to talk about that now or male or not M Avenue, 200 street with
[16:07] Andy's request.
[16:08] We did get a letter from Neurma.
[16:11] We just will talk about it now like you're up here.
[16:14] And so basically he was saying, if he wants to do this, make sure all the expenses on him
[16:20] and have a contract in place.
[16:23] So he knows what his responsibilities are and that he's responsible for all the costs, you know, and then
[16:31] Paying it, have it standards, engineer stamp on the designs, shoulders for to one slow, payment, marketing, seeding, just different things like that.
[16:40] Make sure there's a contract in place.
[16:43] I did talk to Andy today and I did talk to Steve Harris also.
[16:48] So I will let him know that if it would go forward, it would be based on that.
[16:53] everything that you just talked about, also a drainage plan, and then the signage, we would
[17:01] do obviously, but yeah.
[17:04] And you said he would stay away from M Avenue about a hundred feet.
[17:08] How does he plan on going past his driveway then?
[17:11] He said approximately 400 feet.
[17:13] I know at one time he talked about taking it up that hill, but he's not going to now.
[17:16] So I would say that he would take it to his place probably not much further than that.
[17:22] He's talking about 400 F-1 putter here.
[17:25] So, you know, we just have to do maintenance on it.
[17:28] So we would have to go out there to...
[17:31] Yeah.
[17:32] To finish maintenance on it.
[17:34] I know they didn't talk to Dean, but they like to use different blades for hard surfaces.
[17:40] Post a gravel like can't imagine running two pieces of equipment out there just to do that short stretch.
[17:46] So, you know, what they can do.
[17:47] We're going to be right there on the end out anyway.
[17:49] Yeah, for her.
[17:50] Oh, yeah, I forgot about that.
[17:53] Yeah. Nice painting there, right? So, yeah. We'll reach back out to him and see if he's
[18:03] willing to pay for that and we have all the proper paperwork. I would say there's probably
[18:11] reason that he couldn't. I don't know if I'm with it.
[18:15] Tom, can be able to drop a contract send for that or get a win.
[18:26] Maybe I mean he'd be responsible for the cost of it. Maybe he would have to drop the contract.
[18:32] I'll vote that by him. See if that works for him because he's going to have also get in
[18:39] contact with the engineer and all of those things. So maybe put the responsibility on him
[18:45] and then we can review it. Yeah, yeah. Fixed what we don't like. Yeah, work forward to it.
[18:55] Okay. All right. Oh, sorry. I had one, one call. Real nice guy. He just said on
[19:01] Neil, near Davis's, he said they've been out there but it's really flat so it's starting to hold water.
[19:10] He said just to think he'd get a little crown on it, he would make a big difference.
[19:14] He said, he's pretty good gravel on it, but it just got flattened out and that's holding water.
[19:19] And then again, we'll go back to here.
[19:22] Oh, and there's 28.
[19:24] So two weeks will be going back.
[19:27] I did two weeks.
[19:29] Anything else?
[19:30] Um, not right off, can you?
[19:33] Okay.
[19:34] Thank you.
[19:38] Commissioner committee reports.
[19:42] It's kind of the only city meeting.
[19:45] Good new deaths in there for the cops enter.
[19:49] They're worse around today.
[19:51] Yep.
[19:51] Yeah.
[19:51] I'm just running early.
[19:53] We're over the budget.
[19:55] In the grants.
[19:56] So we bring those covered.
[20:00] But they go reach a meeting.
[20:02] Last Friday, some information about the land use committee and they'll be doing a webinar.
[20:11] You're coming up.
[20:12] Is that a little satisfied with the two-hour education commitment that we're supposed to do?
[20:19] Okay.
[20:21] Will they, they'll probably email it to each member?
[20:23] I will.
[20:23] I'll email that out.
[20:24] And then the, let's say, the thing that will be said in the beginning isn't for well.
[20:29] I'm sure.
[20:31] You're going to do some Paul Wall, I wish that.
[20:33] I know you.
[20:34] I'm ready.
[20:34] I'm ready.
[20:36] That's a nice area.
[20:38] Definitely cowboy country.
[20:39] Go my word then.
[20:41] I'm in a word.
[20:44] The one thing on the not the commissioner committee report or old business.
[20:48] I did get a call from Joe.
[20:53] Joe Neil.
[20:54] And his concern, not a concern.
[20:56] Some that they've been talking about their meetings too is, you know, with everybody
[21:01] with regard to data centers.
[21:04] They're just starting to look at some things.
[21:06] And I know a lot of communities have gone
[21:08] with one year moratorium,
[21:10] either investigating and trying to put things together.
[21:14] So he was going to gather information
[21:16] and then bring it to the board to see
[21:18] what we think about that.
[21:19] So we need to get educated on it.
[21:23] Because there's some in the land use.
[21:25] We put some stuff in there.
[21:26] suggestions on like best practices and some things that people have done across the country.
[21:31] I think it was Carney, who's currently working on it right now.
[21:34] Carney actually, I was working out that way.
[21:38] I know people are upset, but I also have been looking at what they put in place, and I mean, they're not normal regulations.
[21:44] And basically what we've talked about in that land use committee meeting,
[21:48] that's a really good way for, I mean, I'm not saying I want it here,
[21:51] but if it comes to down to it there are ways in which we can like limit it so that it's not.
[21:56] and it doesn't have all the negative impacts.
[21:58] Yeah, I don't know what they did with the solar system.
[22:00] They talked about that a lot too.
[22:02] They just come back from the national naco.
[22:04] Me, they'll kill you, and try you later.
[22:08] And they said, well, I built, until he said,
[22:11] and whole county, even with the wind mills,
[22:13] he said, you would, he's, people are coming in.
[22:15] You can request a lot of things.
[22:17] So he said, what's for the wind tower's out there in whole county?
[22:20] He said, we built 180 miles of gravel road at their expense.
[22:25] to the county, they were talking about that.
[22:31] The national meeting was in Louisiana. They said that Louisiana is looking at the status center in the particular county down there.
[22:38] The average teacher's salary is $48,000 in the status center, can you give each teacher in the county of $50,000 bonus?
[22:47] And then they talked about a lot of county Virginia, which is the place of the year.
[22:51] Yeah, where there's, and there is, they are a tax, a zero county.
[22:55] There's no property tax and laws in county because of the debt centers.
[23:00] I know that and that she just electricity rates in the country.
[23:04] It's all because of that centers.
[23:06] So I mean there's a lot of good that come out of the loss of stuff.
[23:10] And then that's what they pushed us.
[23:12] You know, don't be afraid to make some requests.
[23:16] Yeah.
[23:16] And things of, you know, they're going to pay for this.
[23:19] Yeah, I know, it's not like Joe is afraid of that,
[23:23] but he just thinks it's something that we need to definitely have on our radar.
[23:26] and in the data centers, I was not anything to be afraid of, but, like you say, it's a learning process.
[23:32] I mean, they've been building them and drove out east for a lot of years, but, like everything as it spreads west,
[23:37] it's just something that we'll have to look at and deal with.
[23:46] Can I have told them about the Carnegie thing, too, because I was just watching some local news out there,
[23:50] and they said they had rolled that out.
[23:53] Some of the provisions they had in there, so I said that might be a template that I can help work off of, too.
[23:57] So I think they're converting over to, which I mean, if it's already there, yeah.
[24:09] Yeah.
[24:09] Yeah, it takes a lot of power there.
[24:10] I'm going to guarantee you at the Bitcoin in the moment.
[24:13] As much as I know about it.
[24:15] Maybe they can convert so as I can connect it.
[24:18] That is like a classic for that.
[24:21] No, we're using this.
[24:25] We're selling that.
[24:27] Mail or emergency business.
[24:30] I'm just a reminder that the joint public hearing is Wednesday.
[24:35] Next Wednesday, not this Wednesday.
[24:36] It's 6.05 in South Sue at Memorial Hall.
[24:41] I know we have to have.
[24:43] You have to be there.
[24:46] Christy.
[24:46] Everybody else is welcome.
[24:49] I'm going to last time.
[24:52] Also there's information in your packets, kind of the latest list of all of the tips
[24:57] in the GoToCounty, and referenced to, they're having some meetings coming up, too,
[25:03] that are addressing some things.
[25:18] No, no, no, no.
[25:19] No, no, no.
[25:19] 605, the Haink part meeting.
[25:22] 605 next Wednesday.
[25:26] And next Wednesday also is that same day DNF has happened to.
[25:32] DNF, fire hall has been going to radio, our emergency manors leave, and we're advertising
[25:37] for that present.
[25:38] It sounds like it's quite an interest in that.
[25:40] and email sent out this morning about it about splitting the cost of it between
[25:45] and late. I don't know if we did it with a different county, etc. Yeah, it's not
[25:50] unusual to have an emergency manager cover more than one county. I did some
[25:54] checking around the state, the Gallaudent North forks, she has three counties. So it's
[25:57] is something that is available to do. So we'll probably depends on the candidate
[26:03] we decide to hire.
[26:10] Listening.
[26:10] Listening.
[26:12] Job description.
[26:13] Can I think of the word?
[26:15] She's going to put it in the star.
[26:17] And then we'll run that and then we'll go for that.
[26:21] But I know just where the mouth is.
[26:22] Three or four people that are asked to anyway.
[26:24] Isn't that something we can shift up that kind of exercise?
[26:28] Yeah.
[26:29] Are a road department?
[26:31] Actually, I do know that I do know that Dixon County, presently, they're head of their emergency manner and is also the head of the road department.
[26:48] Okay, other than that, did hear that the new top, oh, got ran into yesterday, yeah, something to do with it on the way to the other end of that.
[27:02] I wouldn't. Yeah, I know if he was in his palm. No, it wasn't. He got tea bone, but it was like the
[27:09] tail end of the car too. Yeah, that they take a towel. The new towel? Yeah. We could go as over at my truck shop
[27:19] and I was working in there working on a truck. And all of a sudden I seen this car come by or did it
[27:26] cookie in the intersection of one of the south-south guys with right behind you? Didn't ever stop,
[27:32] I think it wasn't even one of the guys in the department house.
[27:36] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[27:37] Just don't be smooth.
[27:38] How can you reverse the ring?
[27:40] I would like that.
[27:42] I also, I brought up last meeting
[27:47] where they did get done with their looking
[27:51] in the deal from the accountability
[27:52] and there was no wrong going on and anyone's been asked.
[27:58] All right, thank you.
[27:59] mail-in emergency business, Brian, did you have something?
[28:03] Yeah, I do, I'd like to make a motion to turn.
[28:06] All right.
[28:06] I'll second.
[28:07] Mm-hmm.
[28:09] Yeah.
[28:10] Look at that.
[28:11] Then, I was joking.
[28:14] I was joking.
[28:15] No.
[28:16] Now.