[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

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