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[0:02] Monday, September 14th, 2026, Board of Equalization at 245, followed by Board of Commissioners at 3 p.m.
[0:45] Present Jeff. Here. Marty. Yep.
[0:47] We're Helio. Present.
[0:51] Do you walk through? I think I saw Rick walk back into the office.
[0:56] He's over yonder.
[0:58] He probably doesn't remember this. Over yonder.
[1:01] That's, yeah, that's good. That's on the new one.
[1:03] You fresh. He kids.
[1:05] And Rick is here now too.
[1:10] All right.
[1:13] Do I need to read the code accounting board of equalization
[1:16] Reserves right to adjust the order of items on this agenda necessary consent agenda
[1:23] Make motion approve
[1:25] I'd second that
[1:28] New business 245
[1:29] I know I do too I want to rule
[1:34] Rick yes Jeff yes Marty yes, oh Helio Brian. Yes
[1:40] All right, let's go to new business
[1:43] A, two pre-five, hearing for Heartland Counseling, applications for exemption, for more to
[1:48] vehicle taxes, and they have four new vehicles.
[1:54] Four new vehicles.
[1:55] Two thousand, twenty-six Nissan Rogue with the last five, four, two, five two, five two
[2:02] of the VIN.
[2:03] A two thousand, twenty-six Nissan Rogue, another two thousand, twenty-six Nissan Rogue in
[2:08] the rest.
[2:09] Okay. Number two would be last five of the Venice 75196. Number three AB
[2:17] seven nine two eight eights and number four is eight seven three one seven.
[2:23] I guess that's for six but all right. They're all brand new ones. They're just
[2:28] growing. That's a lot. Four new rated ones. Want to buy any for the county?
[2:41] there you go there we'll make it two out of the parking lot just like our
[2:50] standard uh-huh anybody got any issues or anything like that I'd make a
[2:57] motion to prove the four cars for Hartman thank you yep I'll wait for the
[3:08] Yes, yes to
[3:14] be and on see need corrections or air omens of tax list corrections anything. No
[3:23] No emergency business
[3:27] public comment
[3:28] I like to make motion adjourn
[3:46] I'll
[3:52] go ahead and current copy of the open meeting act I guess we're not free anymore
[3:56] as opposed to the back wall near the entrance, the boardroom, and is available for review by
[4:01] all citizens in attendance.
[4:09] Marty?
[4:10] Yep.
[4:10] O'Haleo?
[4:11] Brian?
[4:12] Present.
[4:13] Rick?
[4:14] Yes.
[4:14] Jeff?
[4:15] Here.
[4:17] 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 agenda,
[4:24] that. Now we'll do the time.
[4:31] Seeing none. We'll go make a comment. You back go right
[4:34] ahead. So the city of South Sue is taking public comment off of their agenda. So you
[4:43] can't go to a city meeting and just get up and talk. And I think that's wrong. Yeah, I
[4:50] agree. What's their purpose behind that? They don't want to be blindsided with issues.
[4:55] You know, I have no idea what their issue is, but I think it's wrong because now the constituents can't just come an era of you, and it might take five minutes, it might take a half an hour, but still you are elected to listen.
[5:10] No, I agree. I don't think I wouldn't foresee that happening here.
[5:16] I think I'm not sure that I was working part of time at the time, but I think it has something to do with the big ox situation that some of the families who were impacted by what happened with big ox.
[5:32] I guess they used the city council, took advantage of the city council's public comment to Harrison.
[5:38] So there's a lot of pressure.
[5:43] I mean, it's been gone for a year or so.
[5:53] And there's a process, right?
[5:55] Like, as a public elected official, there's a process that you follow with someone's
[5:58] not within line, it politely say, hey, you know, that's out of line, like, I'm likely asking
[6:03] to set the way.
[6:04] Like, there's processes to handle all of it.
[6:06] So I think that is the way you said, like, this is the way it is, right?
[6:10] No, I agree.
[6:12] There does be things they are...
[6:14] No, they're doing a way of freedom of speech.
[6:18] Yeah.
[6:19] And it's wrong.
[6:21] I think the speakers said that they're all right to force you left.
[6:27] I think they were working on some kind of legislation to address that issue.
[6:37] I'm kind of speaking on the flood right now, but I know there were some some work done in the
[6:43] legislature on that, but I can't I cannot be exact details on it, but I agree with it.
[6:51] All right, consent agenda items. Approval of the previous minutes from August 31st, 2026. Approval of payroll claimed from
[7:01] August 30th through September 12th, approval of payroll accounts payable claims and then approval of monthly account payable claims if any, which there was not.
[7:11] I came in earlier and went through the budget, not the budget, the payroll and everything seems to be in order.
[7:20] All right, I'd like to make a motion to approve Senator Jenner's A3D.
[7:25] Is that you?
[7:29] Prohalio?
[7:30] Yes.
[7:31] Brian?
[7:31] Yes.
[7:32] Rick?
[7:32] Yes.
[7:33] Jeff?
[7:33] Yes.
[7:33] Marty?
[7:34] Yeah.
[7:40] New business.
[7:41] Kim Hanson, Dakota County Victim Assistance to provide an update on the program and status
[7:46] of the grant.
[7:50] And I just want you guys to know.
[7:51] Welcome.
[7:52] Thanks, girls.
[7:54] Worked our tails off.
[7:56] And they've got numerous points.
[8:01] Okay, so Sheree, did you get those if they don't have that kind of earlier?
[8:08] So sorry about that.
[8:09] No, they don't have to.
[8:10] So there should be two different spreadsheets there.
[8:13] One is showing it's our fiscal year again, which is July to June.
[8:18] So I know it's opposite of what you guys run.
[8:21] That's how the state set it up now.
[8:23] So it's always a little off and we're always in between two different grants for three months.
[8:29] So if you need me to create a spreadsheet that shows October to September so that we can see
[8:40] full on with both grants, I can do that if you want me to.
[8:48] So there's one for 25 to 26, which is the grant here that we just finished.
[8:53] And then there's the one where we're currently in, which is a different grant out.
[9:09] And how does the grant compare to the previous year's grant?
[9:12] We got a little bit more this time for starting in July of this year.
[9:18] How much more?
[9:18] to 62,428 last year it was 56 so it has gone up a little bit. There's still not a lot of funding
[9:25] to be spread throughout the state but they're trying to do their best to be equal with the agencies
[9:31] that are applying for them. I don't think they've cut any agencies at all so they're trying to be
[9:37] fair as much as possible.
[9:48] Do you ever want me to do the October or September one so I can give it's not
[9:52] to be completely accurate because there's going to be an estimate on some of it. I don't think
[9:58] that's probably necessary. You can always get a hold of Nancy too. She can show you the difference
[10:05] and she's the one that does all of that on her end with the family thing between the two grant
[10:10] numbers. She does all that stuff. She's usually really helpful with that. Do you happen to have the
[10:16] number, just your last grant year, the number of people that you deal with.
[10:22] Yeah.
[10:23] Is that on here somewhere?
[10:24] No.
[10:25] Okay.
[10:25] Yeah.
[10:26] Go ahead and give us the rundown on that.
[10:28] So at the end of June of this year, our total is 1374 clients, 190 of them are Spanish speaking.
[10:37] She provided 424 Spanish speaking services.
[10:41] We met with 110 people in person, phone, mail, email, 1,408 contacts and then court updates
[10:50] we sent out 2473, that's not everything that we do obviously track everything for you.
[10:58] And then so far this year from July 1st up until the 8th when we had our meeting with LAC last
[11:06] week. We're at 493 clients, 33 years Spanish speaking, 77 Spanish services, 18 in person,
[11:15] phone mail, email, 253, and then 538 court updates have gone out already. So we're keeping
[11:21] busy.
[11:39] Is that pretty steady or up or down from the previous year?
[11:44] It's pretty steady so far. Yeah. I think our largest year we had like, it's 18 hundred
[11:53] We're curious to see what happens once the casino is built and in blocks there, assuming there's a lot of us.
[11:59] Probably be all out there, because everybody be winning so much money.
[12:02] Yeah, that means a win all around.
[12:04] Yeah.
[12:05] Win, win, win.
[12:07] I mean, it's going to be, keep everybody extra busy.
[12:10] It could be, for sure, could make a difference.
[12:13] Any other questions about anything?
[12:18] Thank you.
[12:35] Chair's office requesting board approval of resolution 26C-017
[12:42] releasing pledge securities.
[12:45] After I did month end, there's no need to have this extra funding so they are free like
[12:50] using, there's no need to keep it all.
[12:53] Good.
[12:55] Make a motion to approve resolution 26C-017.
[12:59] Say it.
[13:01] All right.
[13:01] Thank you.
[13:05] Brian?
[13:05] Yes.
[13:06] Rick?
[13:06] Yes.
[13:07] Chef?
[13:07] Yes.
[13:08] Marty?
[13:08] Yeah.
[13:08] Rohelio?
[13:09] Yes.
[13:16] Board to approve or not approve.
[13:20] A special designation liquor license request for the Don Sports Bar and Grill for an event to
[13:26] be held October 10th at the rodeo arena at the fairgrounds. They've done that in
[13:32] the past. We're very well attended last year. So they're just asking for a
[13:38] liquor license to be able to sell during their event out at the former
[13:45] Atticat Park.
[14:15] We
[14:18] had 235.5 hours maintaining three hours of overtime, 3.5 hours of tree removal, 48
[14:30] 48 hours, removing the culvert on 140 second street, 39 hours patching north
[14:38] blood road, 17 hours mowing, 83 calling gravel. We hauled 525 ton of
[14:45] product out on the road, and we hauled about 325 into the yard, and then Anderson
[14:53] and trucking, hauled them 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 and
[15:10] signs, two hours, spraying some weeds, and then some greeting concerns on 155th Street and 175th.
[15:18] I talked to Chad today about if Northrop Road is ready to put the paper off for bid, and he said
[15:25] But he's out of the office for the rest of the week
[15:27] and he'll have it done on Monday.
[15:30] So we'll go forward with that.
[15:32] Just getting a bit out there.
[15:33] Getting a bit out, yep, yep, yep.
[15:35] So we'll try and get that here.
[15:37] Yep, there's like, I don't know what he said.
[15:43] Last meeting, how many square yards he come up with,
[15:46] but he figured it's about $170, $80,000
[15:49] to go in and get some of them patching them for winter.
[15:52] So I thought there was a couple contractors
[15:54] that were pretty interested, had the time to do it,
[15:56] at this fall. For M Avenue, do you want me to talk about that now, or mail, or not M Avenue,
[16:05] 200 streets, with Andy's requests, we did get a letter from Norma.
[16:11] We just will talk about it now, I guess.
[16:13] Yeah, okay. And so, basically, he was saying, if he wants to do this, make sure all the expenses
[16:19] on him and have a contract in place so he knows what his responsibilities are
[16:25] and that he's responsible for all the costs you know and then
[16:30] painting it have it standards engineer stamp on the designs shoulders
[16:35] quarter one slow pavement marking seeding just different things like that
[16:40] make sure there's a contract in place I did talk to I did talk to Andy today and
[16:45] And I did talk to Steve Harris also, so I will let him know that if it would go forward,
[16:52] it would be based on everything that you just talked about, also a drainage plan.
[16:58] And then the signage, we would 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.
[17:12] 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 foot area.
[17:25] So, you know, we still have to do maintenance on it.
[17:28] So we would have to go out there to finish maintenance on it.
[17:34] I know I didn't talk to Dean, but they like to use different blades for hard surfaces, post
[17:40] to grab a light can't imagine running two pieces equipment out there just to do that short
[17:45] stretch.
[17:46] So we're going to be right there.
[17:47] I'm having it anyway.
[17:49] Yeah.
[17:49] Oh, yeah.
[17:50] I forgot about that.
[17:53] Yeah.
[17:54] Nice paving there.
[17:55] Right?
[17:55] So, yeah.
[17:58] Yeah.
[18:00] We'll reach back out to him and see if he's willing to pay for that.
[18:05] You know, and we have all the proper paperwork.
[18:09] I would say there's probably not a reason that he couldn't.
[18:13] I don't know, probably.
[18:14] But can be able to drop the contract then for that?
[18:20] I don't know when.
[18:27] Maybe he'd be responsible for the cost of it.
[18:29] Maybe he would have to drop the contract.
[18:32] I'll float that by and see if that works for him.
[18:37] Because he's going to have also get in contact with the engineer and all of those things so yeah maybe yeah put the
[18:44] Responsibility on him. Yeah, then we can review it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, fix what we don't like. Yeah, work forward to it.
[18:55] Okay. All right. Oh, sorry. I had one one one call. Real nice guy. He just said on Oakdale near Davis's.
[19:06] that he said they've been out there but it's really flat so it's starting to hold
[19:09] water he said just to think it could get a little crown on it it would make a big
[19:12] difference he said there's pretty good gravel on it but it just got flattened out
[19:16] and it's holding water and the guys are going back to it yeah yeah so two weeks
[19:25] we'll be going back. I did see. Anything else? Not right off. Thank you.
[19:38] Commissioner
[19:38] committee reports.
[20:01] region meeting last Friday. Some information about the land use committee and they'll
[20:09] be doing a webinar here coming up. We'll satisfy the two-hour education commitment that
[20:17] we're supposed to do. Okay. Well, they'll probably email it to each member.
[20:30] I would
[20:31] If you want to do some fall wall, I wish that it's a nice area.
[20:38] Definitely cowboy country, my word to them, I've been a word.
[20:44] The one thing on the Commissioner Committee report, our old business, I did get a call
[20:48] from Joe,
[20:52] Joe Niel.
[20:54] And his concern, not a concern, something that they've been talking about at their meetings
[20:57] two is you know with everybody with room with regard to data centers they're
[21:04] just starting to look at some things and I know a lot of communities have
[21:07] gone with a one-year moratorium where they're investigating and trying to put
[21:12] things together so he was going to gather information and then bring it to the
[21:17] board to see what we think about that. We need to get going before it. We need to get
[21:21] educated on it because there's in the land use we put some stuff in there
[21:26] suggestions on like best practices and some things that other people have done
[21:30] across the country. I think it was Karnie who's currently working on it right
[21:34] now. Karnie actually I was working out that way. I know people are upset but I
[21:39] also have been looking at the like what they put in place and I mean they're not
[21:42] horrible regulations and basically what we've talked about in that land use
[21:46] committee meeting that's a really good way for I'm not saying I want it here but
[21:51] if you know it comes down to it there are ways in which we can like limit it so
[21:56] that it's not. It doesn't have all the negative impacts. Yeah, I don't know what they did with
[21:59] the solar firm. They talked about that a lot too. They've just come back from the national
[22:03] and they go, meaning, they'll build field view. And they said, well, they'll build, they'll
[22:10] he said, in whole county, even with the windmills, he said, you would, he's, people are coming in.
[22:15] You can request a lot of things. So he said, what's for the wind towers out there in
[22:18] whole county? He said, they rebuilt 100, he said 180 miles of gravel road at their expense
[22:24] to the county. They were talking about the national meeting was in Louisiana. They said that
[22:34] Louisiana is looking at data center in the particular county down there. The average teacher
[22:39] salary is $48,000. The data center came in to give each teacher in the county a $50,000 bonus.
[22:47] and then they talk about a lot of county Virginia which is poison and there is they are a tax zero county
[22:55] there is no property tax in Lawton County because of the data centers.
[23:00] I know there is.
[23:00] And the cheapest electricity rates in the country, all because of data centers.
[23:06] So I mean there's a lot of good they can come out of the lot of stuff.
[23:10] And then that's what they, you know, they push do is you know, don't be afraid to make some requests.
[23:16] Yeah, and things of, you know, they're gonna pay for this and that 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 and
[23:27] In the data centers else not anything to be afraid of but like you say it's a learning process for I mean
[23:32] They've been building them in droves out east for a lot of years, but like everything is at spread's west
[23:37] It's just something that we'll have to look at and deal
[23:46] And I told him about the car you think too because I was just watching some local news out there
[23:50] and had that they had rolled that out and the some of the provisions they had in there.
[23:55] So I said that might be a template.
[23:56] I can help work off it, too.
[23:59] I think it's a bit mine.
[24:00] It was a bit.
[24:01] It's a bit mine center.
[24:02] That they're for Bernie or.
[24:04] It was just sort of.
[24:06] But I mean, if it's already there.
[24:08] Yeah.
[24:09] It takes a lot of power there.
[24:10] I mean, guarantee a bit pointing mine.
[24:13] As much as I know about it.
[24:15] Maybe they can.
[24:16] But so does it, they can.
[24:26] Yeah male or emergency business I'm just a reminder that the joint public
[24:33] caring is Wednesday next Wednesday not this Wednesday at 605 in South
[24:38] Stuart Memorial Hall and I know we have to have you have to be there
[24:46] Christie?
[24:47] Everybody else is welcome.
[24:49] And the last one.
[24:52] Also there's information in your packets,
[24:55] kind of the latest list of all of the tips into Go to County
[24:58] in reference to,
[25:01] there having some meetings coming up too that are addressing some things.
[25:05] No, not even really.
[25:13] Yeah, after six, that's what it was.
[25:16] Yeah.
[25:17] It was six, five more.
[25:19] No, no, six or five that,
[25:20] The pink card meeting, 6.05, next Wednesday, that's the same day D.N. is having a, D.N.
[25:33] Fire Hall is having a go-and-a-way deal. Emergency manners leave and we're advertising for that presently.
[25:38] It sounds like there's quite a bit of interest in that.
[25:40] There's an email sent out this morning about it, about splitting the cost of it between, like, I don't know.
[25:47] If we did it with a different county, etc. Yeah, it's not unusual to have an emergency manager cover more than one county
[25:53] I did some checking around the state the gallon North forks. She has three counties
[25:57] So it's is something that is available to do so
[26:01] We'll probably it probably depends on the candidate. We decide to hire
[26:09] Yeah, yeah, a listing listing a job description
[26:14] She's gonna 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 word of mouth is three or four people
[26:23] that are asked it anyway.
[26:24] Isn't that something we can shift up the county
[26:26] in terms of?
[26:28] Yeah, a road department.
[26:31] Actually, I do know that Dixon County President
[26:34] lead their head of their emergency manor
[26:36] and is also the head of the road department.
[26:43] Yeah, yeah. Okay, uh,
[26:48] other than that, uh, did hear that the new typo got ran into yesterday.
[26:54] Yeah, I saw pictures on it. Uh, on, out on the, with her on the way to, uh,
[26:59] Yeah, they ran down. Just about to the day of Academy. Was it really the same Grand Island?
[27:03] Yeah. No, he was in his phone.
[27:06] No, it wasn't. He got T-bone.
[27:07] And it was like the tail end of the car, too, was the, yeah, the tail end of the car, so.
[27:13] The new tail.
[27:14] Yeah.
[27:16] A week ago, I was over at my truck shop and I was working in there, on a truck, and all
[27:23] the sudden, I seen this car come by, did a cookie in the intersection of the one-style
[27:28] suitcase with right behind me, didn't ever stop, I think, it wasn't even the one that got
[27:34] to the apartment house.
[27:36] Oh, yeah.
[27:42] I also, I brought up last meeting, Rick, that they did get done with it, looking into
[27:51] the deal from the accountability, and there was no wrong doing on anyone's behalf.
[27:57] All right, mail-in emergency business, Brian, did you have something?
[28:03] Yeah, I do like I'd like to make a motion to church. All right. I'll second