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All right. I'd like to call the regularly

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scheduled County, Douglas County Board of Supervisors meeting

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for the month of April to order please.

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Right. Let's do the Pledge of Allegiance, please.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of The

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United States Of America and to the Republic

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for gracious fans, nation under God, indivisible with

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liberty and justice for all. Alright. We need

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a roll call, Casey. Long, Sapak, D. Cummings,

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Pomish, Bong, Slay, Benesse, Baker, H. Hendrickson, Here.

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Glazman? Here. Scowland? Here. Peterson? Here. M. Cummings?

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Lear? Here. Sandok Baker? Losey? Here. S. Hendrickson?

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Lustry, Liebert, Here. Moen. Okay, we have a

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quorum. How many? Am I? One, two, three,

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four, five absent. So we have 16 present,

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five absent and youth reps Blix. Here. All

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right. Thank you for coming. We're looking for

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the approval of the minutes from the 03/20/2025

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meeting. Mr. Skolin, second by Mr. Baker. Any

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questions or changes? Seeing none, all in favor

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of the motion signify by saying aye. Opposed?

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Motion carries. All right. Tonight we have a

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presentation from the Lake Superior National Estuarine Research

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Reserve updates. And you guys remember back, you've

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been here long enough that we were supportive

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of them actually getting this in our city

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and we were in the running for a

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while and actually had to compete with a

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couple other cities. So, this was actually kind

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of a good coup that we actually got

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this. So now they've been operating for Almost

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fifteen years. Oh really that one? Long time.

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It's true. Well, I'd like to introduce Deanna

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Erickson. She is, I guess the easiest way

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to say she runs that place down there.

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I do my best. Yep. All right. Yeah,

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I got to tell y'all, I didn't know

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how rowdy Douglas County board meetings were until

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I came in So I feel like I've

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learned something just by showing up already. So

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my name is Deanna and I want to

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share just maybe ten minutes or so about

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what we've been up to down at the

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Lakes Pier National Estuarine Research Reserve. And I

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told her that the County Board is always

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willing to ask questions because they're a smart

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group. Make sure you pay attention. I'm ready.

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I'll find up there. Okay. So for folks

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who've been around, they probably have probably would

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remember we work on the mouth of the

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St. Louis River. So it's the largest port

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in the Great Lakes. It's the largest river

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in The United States going to the largest

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surface of freshwater on earth. It is the

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site of an $87,000,000 so far federal state

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tribal restoration and remediation of some toxic areas.

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And so it's a really important place and

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we're lucky to work here. And I won't

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say too much about what we do right

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now because I'll try to just give you

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some examples. So the land base, we were

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designated in 2010, there's over 16,000 acres included

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within the reserve. It's DNR land, City Of

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Superior land, Douglas County, UW Superior. And all

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of that was public and existing public lands

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when we were designated. So we're kind of

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like a friendly layer on top of those

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existing public lands. And really what reserves do

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is they leverage resources to do stuff in

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that place. So we don't have particularly a

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direct conservation role ourselves, we help things happen.

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And we're part of a national network. So

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there's 30 National Estrogen Research Reserves around The

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United States. They are led by the National

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Oceanic Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. And we were

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started by Congress under the 1972 Coastal Zone

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Management Act. I think the county has actually

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also benefited from our sister program, the Wisconsin

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Coastal Management Program. We're all kind of hanging

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out together in that law. So what are

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we up to? What have we been up

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to in these fifteen years since designation? And

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I should say too, the Douglas County is

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a signatory to the memorandum of understanding that

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made us exist. Like that was a really

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important act for us. We hold that MOU

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up whenever we want to describe the partners

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that care about our work. And so you

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know, that signature plays many roles. It offers

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a role on our advisory board, so Sue

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Hendrickson fills that role. Terry Wright is the

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alternate and helped us create some of our

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buildings down there. So we have like a

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kind of a special relationship with our signatory

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organizations. So we're tracking water quality. So how

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healthy is the St. Louis River? And something

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that we have a really good scientist, Doctor.

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Kate Reinall, working on is harmful algae blooms.

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So this is us out in the Bokagamore

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River out in the Superior Municipal Forest. Every

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green circle on here is a permanent water

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quality station. And what those things are doing,

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they have like an underwater computer. It's collecting

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things about how clear is the water, how

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much oxygen is water, what is the temperature

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of the water, things that change over time

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that can have real impacts on things that

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are stuck living inside water. So each one

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of those stations collects data every fifteen minutes.

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It goes to a website, you can access

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it. We've only got one station online right

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now. They'll all be online within the next

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two weeks. If you go to seagull,likethebird,.glos.org. You

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can zoom in there and you can see

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that data real time. There's also a new

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addition this year we had while studying last

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year, a buoy out in Lake Superior that

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was funded by the Great Lakes Observing System.

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The blue dots are spots where we've been

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collecting water quality after every storm event, so

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every big rain, for the last two years.

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county, and other partners identified as spots where

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there's maybe more problems than others where the

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algae blooms are emerging in particular. This is

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a graph that is more complicated than I

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would like, unfortunately. But what I will say

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is there's years running across the bottom. The

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temperature is denoted by red or blue. So

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red being warmer years. This is just a

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small finding of what we're seeing, but the

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algae blooms are coming out more in the

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hot years, and they're especially coming out in

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the drought years when the water gets really

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low. It also gets clear. Algae enjoys light

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as a way to grow. And that also

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concentrates nutrients that it needs. And so we're

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seeing algae blooms in years like that, hotter

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than normal, lower water levels than normal. So

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that's one of the things that we've observed

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over collecting twelve years since we've had those

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stations set up. So the buoy is new.

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And I just wanted to show this off

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because it's kind of neat. This is Dane

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Polkinghorn. He's from Superior. He went to UMD

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for engineering, and he built it. He built

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that buoy. And it was really hard. It

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had a lot of technical issues that I

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cannot fathom or even remotely understand. But this

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is the day that he launched it out

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in Lake Superior. And he was happy here,

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but he was pretty nervous until we got

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the boat back to the office and he

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opened his computer to see if it was

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transmitting data, and it was. So that was

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a pretty big accomplishment. The reason we put

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this buoy there is because when algae blooms

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are happening in the river, which is where

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they're a little more common, they go out

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into the lake and the nearshore current just

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drifts along there. And this is kind of

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halfway between the mouth of the river and

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the intake pipe where our drinking water comes

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in. So we want to be able to

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track and understand changes in water quality at

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that spot in particular. Algae can make toxins

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that make people sick. So that's why we're

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interested in that. Another thing we're doing is

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mapping wetland forests, or mapping the estuary and

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restoring wetland forests. We're losing a lot of

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ash trees. You all know that. It's kind

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of a bummer seeing those things fall down

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because some of them are really big, trees.

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and they create shade that keeps the water

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cooler, which is important for rivers. So with

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support from WISCORE and AmeriCorps program, we over

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the past couple of years have planted about

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23,000 trees along the St. Louis River and

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we're hoping there's 17 different species and we're

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hoping that'll kind of establish some of those

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benefits that we get from trees. The shade

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sucking up water, keeping islands in place, protecting

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wild rice beds that are out in the

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river. This is impossible to see. But it's

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habitat map of the estuary using satellite imagery

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and ground truthing over three summers by students

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to figure out what all of these habitats

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are. And this can be used to track

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change like it's a snapshot of what these

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places look like in 2024. So we can

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see how things change over time using this

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map. It is incredibly complicated to create. I

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thought it would be so much easier. So

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another thing we're doing is, supporting and engaging

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teachers and students and community learners. This is

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the group of Rivers to Lake teachers that,

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participated in our teacher professional learning program this

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year. They're actually still all in the program.

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They participate for a year. We help them.

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They get paid. They get money for buses.

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They get money for their classrooms. Admission to

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the Great Lakes Aquarium, they get to go

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on field trips in places that they think

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would be good to underscore what they're trying

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to learn about science. So that's our Rivers

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to Lake program. These are some of the

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schools that we've worked in since that program

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kicked off in 2013. The ones that are

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in bold are the schools that we're working

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in right now. So we're working with about

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four fifty students in all of the classrooms

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of those teachers. So we are in their

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classrooms helping them as well. We have community

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programs down on Barker's Island. So the river

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walks and river talks, you're welcome to come

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river walks in the summer when it's nice

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to walk, and river talks in the winter

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when it's maybe better to listen to somebody

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indoors. But it's all, you know, folks doing

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science on the river that come and share

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what they're working on. And then if you

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haven't visited, I do invite you the red

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building down on Barker's Island is the estuary.

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It's free. It has more regular hours in

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the summer and you can stop on by.

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We have a pretty cool exhibit hall. You

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can learn about the St. Louis River or

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bring kids to play. A project that I

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wanted to share with you all, and I'm

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going to be taking this to the Conservation

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Committee, is a NOAA funded project that is

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looking at several rivers that go into Lake

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Superior and trying to help communities identify places

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where roads do rivers do this when they

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flood. Sometimes that's associated with culverts, but the

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idea behind the project is to be prepared

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for emergencies resulting from flooding. And it's also

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to have tools that can help you describe

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the pre flood conditions of culverts when you're

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trying to work on funding a replacement if

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those blow out. So Mark and I have

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talked about this, but I also yeah, I

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think there's been a lot of work done

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already in Douglas County and this project is

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actually a lot further along than it would

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be in other places. But the Northwest Regional

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Planning Commission is running this. There I got

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the button now. So this is our Coastal

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Champions program. This is a training program. We've

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worked with several communities. But last year, were

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working with emergency managers who just wanted a

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really useful functional form that would allow them

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to track culverts that had washed out. And

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we figured we did that. It got shared

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across all of the coastal counties from Iron

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County to Douglas County and the Lake Superior

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region. And it allows people to in a

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very easy way and sometimes an offline track

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things that you need to know if you

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need to apply for funding to restore those

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places. So that's just an example of what

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this program does. We just help communities address

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needs, many of them associated with flooding and

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big storms. So the economic benefits of the

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reserve are I'll just talk money for now.

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I think there's other benefits, but right now

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we have open awards, not all that we're

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spending in one year, but about $4,700,000 that,

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comes into Douglas County from other places and

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gets invested through jobs and projects here. So

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we have 12 employees as of May 1.

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We've got one starting on May 1. And

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we fund, partial refund an additional 13 people

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in the region and we're generating local government

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revenues through that. We are unfortunately at risk

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of defunding as of November 1. November first.

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But we're trying to find ways to do

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this work and the county has been a

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good partner. And all of the partners around

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here have given me a lot of encouragement

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in what we're doing. The school districts, the

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teachers, the people who show up to our

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programs, the St. Louis River Summit, which is

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another large event that we have every year.

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And it's just been really amazing to watch

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this place grow. So thank you for believing

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in it in the first place as a

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government body. And thanks for the investment of

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the time and your time tonight. Thank you.

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We have some questions for DM. Put your

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light on Mr. Losey. There we go. Second.

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You're good. It's on there. Yeah, was on.

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It's on there, John. Oh, okay. So I

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got three questions for you. Oh geez. When

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you find the algae, is there a treatment

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thing you guys do or? Yeah, good question.

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And then I'll go through all three questions

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and you can answer them. And then the

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other one is when you say water intake,

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you're talking about the Duluth water intake or

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the Superior water intake? Let's see. Superior has

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wells in Park Point that we get water

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from. Yeah. And the water comes in from

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Lake Superior as I understand. Yeah. There's a

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pipe out under there. Nope. It's the other

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way around. Oh, let's direct the questions to

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Deanna here. Microphone. Excuse me. There's a big

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pipeline that goes to Cloquet, and we buy

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our water off of that pipeline, and it's

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laying out on the out on the lake.

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No. It's other way around, but that's okay.

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Yeah. And and then the the other thing

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the other thing that I was curious about

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is when you get this data put together,

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I mean, I think what you're doing is

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remarkable. It's a lot of data. What do

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you do with it? You know what mean?

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That's such a good question. Yeah. So I'll

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take the algae blue one first because it's

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a little more straightforward. So we scoop up

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water. We did it today actually because there

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was a green slime on Barker's Island Beach.

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And that happened last year about the same

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time. There's algae that will actually bloom on

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the bottom when the ice comes out. So

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that is going to get sent down to

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the Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene for testing.

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And what we're testing for is what species

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of algae is this because they do different

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things. And then was it making toxins at

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the time that we collected it? Like could

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it actually hurt us? We've also got a

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training coming up next month where it's already

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full, unfortunately, but people will be learning about

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you can actually dip a test strip in

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the water and tell if it's toxic. And

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we tested them for a year. They seem

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to be pretty reliable. It's a lot cheaper

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than sending things to the state lab. And

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we can tell people quicker because it drives

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us crazy when we're on Barker's Island and

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we know there's an algae problem and we

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can't be like, maybe don't put your kid

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in the water. So that's microscopes that we

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can look at those algae and speciate them

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ourselves. Anyway, the second question. With the monitoring

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data, we're creating reports every year. We try

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to distribute them as best we can and

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I'm happy to send them to you guys

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if you want. It's like what are the

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big interesting trends that happened? Kind of like

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that slide, the graph that my colleague Hannah

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Nickleigh gave me. There's kind of a different

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story every year. What does low water do?

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What do big floods in the spring do?

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We can see different things. We also have

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published papers so that data goes into published

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papers. It also is going into creating a

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long term monitoring plan for the St. Louis

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River because those forest stations are either in

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the Pokagama Bay or in the Thalweg, like

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the middle of the river, which is not

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the same as like where all the plants

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are growing or the fish are. So that's

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a summary and not an exhaustive one, unfortunately.

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Mr. Cummings. This again was to the water

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collection or I should say water pipes because

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that's I had a similar question because I

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was always of the idea that we had

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we got our water from wells which actually

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many years ago, us older people remember saved

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us from the quote taconite tailings. Yeah. That

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Duluth had because they had a regular intake

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pipe. Never mind. But anyway, and so maybe

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there's a question, but I was also under

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the impression that we drew our water from

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wells. I'll tell you what I've been told

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over the years. It's not necessarily right. And

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now I'm like, oh geez, have I been

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told the wrong thing? Is that the water

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does come in from the lake and then

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goes into wells, which is actually a really

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big advantage compared to Duluth because Duluth doesn't

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have the wells in the middle and then

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goes into the public water system. I'll look

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it up. And I don't wanna get in

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the middle of this, but I took a

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tour out at, they had something we did

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for emergency management out at the water plant

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there off of East Second Street. And I

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had said the same thing to them. And

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they said, I had two answers to it.

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They said, Technically we have pipes buried nine

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feet in the point. He said, The water

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is coming through not much sand and it

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technically is just there, that's how we keep

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it. So we technically maybe have a filter,

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but it isn't much of a filter. Like

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when we were kids, we were told it

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was 90 feet down in the sand, but

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this is a short one. That's what I

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was told now, whether or not, so. Yeah,

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that's helpful. So it's not like I'm wrong,

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it's just like where the pipe Yeah, we're

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all right. Yeah. And then there is the

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cloquet one that does come off the pipe

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and go to cloquet. Mr. Marquise. Oh yeah,

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I was wondering, how long does it take

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for you guys actually cure the algae? What

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is that process? Well we can freeze them.

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It's unfortunately kind of a pain. We can

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freeze them if we want to test them

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later, but otherwise we scoop them up, we

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pack them in a cooler, we pack them

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with dry ice, we tape the thing really,

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really hard and then we ship it as

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fast as we can to the State Lab

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of Hygiene. You I think well, an unnamed

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service, mailing service lost something for us last

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year, which was unfortunate and we never got

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him back and we don't know what was

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in there. I'll ask. Oh yeah. I guess.

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Gradesman. You Mr. Chair Deanna. You mentioned funding.

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If that goes away, what safeguards are we

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going to have to make sure our water

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is safe? Well, you know, I'm going to

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do as much problem solving as I can.

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You know, 70% of our funding comes from

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NOAA. So that's the large bulk of staff,

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which is pretty important for all this stuff.

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It's foundational to all this stuff. You know,

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there's partners that we have that will maybe

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help us. There's, you know, we're part of

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UW Madison's Division of Extension. Every reserve is

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a state federal partnership and the responsibility of

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that reserve is shared, which is kind of

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neat. Know, sometimes it's confusing like I'm a

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UW Madison employee in Superior working with NOAA.

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But it will impact things. We will if

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we lose 70% of our funding, we will

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change possibly dramatically and part of my job

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right now is trying to figure out what

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that looks like. You mentioned the partnership you

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have with UWS and the EU system. I

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understand that they've been asked to drop plans

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for a 510% reduction in funding. That's true.

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Yep, so yeah, so we have that on

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the other side as well. So I was

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just talking with my boss about this morning.

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Deanna, I got a question for you and

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maybe it'll make it a little less dark.

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I was a kid, we swam at Billings

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Park against all smart, I mean, why were

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we swimming in Billings Park with all that

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contamination out there? It's, we stunk when we

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come out, the fish we caught, we couldn't

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eat, we used to throw them in the

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garden or try to give them to somebody

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or throw them away, they actually stunk. So

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there's been a lot of changes out there.

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Yeah. Now you're telling me that the clearness

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of the water, the more successful we are

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at making the erosion less and the clearing

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up during the rain events for that rush

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in there that the more successful we are,

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the clearer the water gets, the more chance

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of us to have this poisonous Algae. Algae

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growing and as the Yeah. So then are

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we gonna want the invasives that eat the

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algae? We're gonna want them to actually take

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better hold to get the treatment of I

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say either way. But, know, one of the

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other things that underpins that, light does matter.

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We get if you like fish on the

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river, you know we get tons of plants

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in the years when the water is low

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because the water gets really clear because everything

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is just like great, I'm gonna grow. And

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that's good in some way. It's just a

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cycle. That's a normal thing. With the algae,

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and I'm not the algae scientist on staff,

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but what happens is they can actually make

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their own nitrogen. Cyanobacteria, the specific kind that

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produce toxins, They can make their own nitrogen.

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So what limits a lot of other plants

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in the system doesn't limit them. So when

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the water goes low and nutrients become concentrated

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and there's plenty of phosphorus, which is the

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thing they can't make for themselves, they're like,

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great gangbusters, we're gonna go. So, and there's

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probably a lot more to that relationship that

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also has to do with ice. So we

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do winter monitoring under the ice, although that's

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been was harder last year, we didn't have

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good ice, but this year we had too

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much ice. But we don't fully understand what's

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driving it. There is sort of a hypothesis

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that the big spring storms like the twenty

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twelve flood that like blew everything apart, that

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those seed enough nutrients and then you get

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a drier later season and it concentrates down

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and then that's kind of like going. It

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seems like it's a little more complicated than

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that, but, trying to figure out that out

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is Doctor. Kate Reinle's job who is down

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the hall for me. Thank you. Mr. Skolin.

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Deanna, is there a counterpart agency in Minnesota

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00:28:09,430 --> 00:28:12,310
side for Oh, that's a great question. There

510
00:28:12,310 --> 00:28:15,590
are two national estuarine research reserves in the

511
00:28:15,590 --> 00:28:17,670
Great Lakes right now, and the other one

512
00:28:17,670 --> 00:28:23,225
is in Ohio. That's Old Wind Creek. And

513
00:28:23,225 --> 00:28:25,784
there's a third one where the designation process

514
00:28:25,784 --> 00:28:29,384
is underway. And that's a little bit stalled

515
00:28:29,384 --> 00:28:33,140
out right now because of Noah's ability to

516
00:28:33,140 --> 00:28:35,860
support that. But there has been tons of

517
00:28:35,860 --> 00:28:38,500
support for that in Green Bay, and it

518
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,340
would be great for us. We'd be able

519
00:28:40,340 --> 00:28:42,500
to look at what's happening in Lake Michigan,

520
00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:44,580
especially where those algae blooms are over there,

521
00:28:45,860 --> 00:28:48,924
and kind of cross check, like, what's happening

522
00:28:48,924 --> 00:28:51,325
for you? What's happening for us? Figure out

523
00:28:51,325 --> 00:28:59,245
problems more efficiently. Mr. Blix. I Hi. I

524
00:28:59,245 --> 00:29:02,280
just had a question kind of regarding, do

525
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,720
you guys do anything once you determine that

526
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:09,000
the algae is of the toxic kind? Like,

527
00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:11,000
is there a process that you follow once

528
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,160
that those lab results come back? Or do

529
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,840
you just kind of hand that off to

530
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,434
other people and let them handle that? It's

531
00:29:17,434 --> 00:29:21,835
actually the county that says like harmful algae

532
00:29:21,835 --> 00:29:25,275
blooms puts up the sign. And so we

533
00:29:25,275 --> 00:29:30,130
let the county know. And the city also

534
00:29:30,130 --> 00:29:31,570
plays a role in that. There's a little

535
00:29:31,570 --> 00:29:33,169
bit of back and forth. Sometimes we're like,

536
00:29:33,169 --> 00:29:34,450
we got the sign right here, we'll just

537
00:29:34,450 --> 00:29:36,049
go put it up. But we need to

538
00:29:36,049 --> 00:29:38,130
know that it's okay to do that. I

539
00:29:38,130 --> 00:29:41,570
think the test strip process could really change

540
00:29:41,570 --> 00:29:43,250
how quickly we're able to do that because

541
00:29:43,250 --> 00:29:45,090
getting it done to the state lab is

542
00:29:46,165 --> 00:29:50,805
too long. Mr. Juckus. Thank you Mr. Chairman.

543
00:29:50,805 --> 00:29:53,845
Couple points and questions. We got a lab,

544
00:29:53,845 --> 00:29:55,525
a health and human services lab up on

545
00:29:55,525 --> 00:29:57,445
the Fourth Floor that may be able to

546
00:29:57,445 --> 00:30:01,820
help you. They've been doing other things. They've

547
00:30:01,820 --> 00:30:04,380
actually installed new equipment to do different things.

548
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:06,940
That might be a good answer. Thank you.

549
00:30:06,940 --> 00:30:09,660
Help out for you. They've expanded what they

550
00:30:09,660 --> 00:30:13,265
are qualified to do too. Okay. That might

551
00:30:13,265 --> 00:30:15,025
be your thing rather than sending it down

552
00:30:15,025 --> 00:30:18,384
to Madison. That would be really great. Yeah.

553
00:30:18,544 --> 00:30:21,345
Okay. Another thing is maybe later on when

554
00:30:21,345 --> 00:30:22,784
it gets closer to that time you say

555
00:30:22,784 --> 00:30:25,600
that there might be funding pulled or stalled,

556
00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,320
this board can come up with a resolution

557
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,160
offering support. Let's keep that in mind. Foundings

558
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,480
are very influential in the world. Yeah. And

559
00:30:34,559 --> 00:30:37,120
with Casey's help writing resolutions and stuff like

560
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,285
that, that could work out very well. And

561
00:30:39,285 --> 00:30:42,165
then could you repeat that seagull? Yeah, yeah,

562
00:30:42,165 --> 00:30:51,045
totally. Seagull like the bird. Yep. So seagull.glos.org.

563
00:30:52,060 --> 00:30:54,220
You can also find our weather station on

564
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:56,780
there, is out at Pokagama Bay in the

565
00:30:56,780 --> 00:30:59,260
municipal forest, and that's live right now. I've

566
00:30:59,260 --> 00:31:00,780
seen that out there. Yeah, you're on what

567
00:31:00,780 --> 00:31:03,820
is that and why is it Yeah, so

568
00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:07,085
okay. And my one other question just this

569
00:31:07,085 --> 00:31:09,405
will be for Nick, where do you pan

570
00:31:09,405 --> 00:31:14,285
for gold in that estuary? No one's ever

571
00:31:14,285 --> 00:31:17,405
asked me that before. You get around I

572
00:31:17,405 --> 00:31:21,480
bet you see black sand and stuff. I'll

573
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:23,720
get back to this body when I have

574
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:28,600
an answer. All right, any other questions? Is

575
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,040
Can you see my hand up? You know

576
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:34,335
what Sue, I never look there. Just so

577
00:31:34,335 --> 00:31:35,855
you know, if you're not here, I miss

578
00:31:35,855 --> 00:31:37,775
you. So I'm missing you now. So go

579
00:31:37,775 --> 00:31:42,655
ahead Sue. Yeah, thank you. I had responsibilities.

580
00:31:42,655 --> 00:31:45,294
It's Holy Week this week. So you, you

581
00:31:45,294 --> 00:31:47,695
guy to choose God instead of you guys

582
00:31:47,695 --> 00:31:51,150
tonight. So I just wanted to welcome Deanna.

583
00:31:51,150 --> 00:31:53,630
Sorry I couldn't be there tonight. I'm glad

584
00:31:53,630 --> 00:31:56,350
you're here. There's lots to learn about the

585
00:31:56,350 --> 00:31:59,070
NERR and the center down there is a

586
00:31:59,070 --> 00:32:01,550
wonderful spot to go visit. So I encourage

587
00:32:01,550 --> 00:32:05,955
people to do that. I know we're we're

588
00:32:05,955 --> 00:32:09,955
looking at trouble and I'm wondering if if

589
00:32:09,955 --> 00:32:13,795
you might have a boiler plate resolution we

590
00:32:13,795 --> 00:32:18,240
could work from that would have, you know,

591
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,960
accurate data in it that we could use

592
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:27,840
to send on when it's needed. One of

593
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:31,395
the things about state employees is we're not

594
00:32:31,395 --> 00:32:34,355
allowed to advocate unfortunately, even for ourselves. But

595
00:32:35,795 --> 00:32:38,035
I can share information that might be helpful,

596
00:32:38,035 --> 00:32:41,715
Sue. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And thanks so much

597
00:32:41,715 --> 00:32:45,080
for being here. I'm glad you got in

598
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,160
so quick. Yeah, thank you. Thanks for asking

599
00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,960
the question. Sue is Sue invited me. That

600
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,240
was nice. Mr Cummings last one last quick

601
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,924
one. I know the. Over in Duluth, they

602
00:32:59,924 --> 00:33:04,245
had recently had a public protest in support

603
00:33:04,245 --> 00:33:05,765
of them and I'm trying to think of

604
00:33:05,765 --> 00:33:08,804
the EPA probably, maybe that one. Right, do

605
00:33:08,804 --> 00:33:10,565
you work with them at all? Yeah, do

606
00:33:10,565 --> 00:33:13,260
work with them. EPA has some crackerjack scientists,

607
00:33:13,260 --> 00:33:16,940
like really good folks over there. And that's

608
00:33:16,940 --> 00:33:19,180
an aquatic toxicology lab. So you can see

609
00:33:19,180 --> 00:33:21,580
how that might connect to the work that

610
00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:23,180
happens here and throughout the Great Lakes. It's

611
00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:25,420
the only lab in the Great Lakes that

612
00:33:25,420 --> 00:33:30,465
does that. And so some of what I

613
00:33:30,465 --> 00:33:32,304
guess I would describe as the most hopeful

614
00:33:32,304 --> 00:33:35,184
data, data that really shows change in fish

615
00:33:35,184 --> 00:33:39,585
tissue, in mercury, and other toxins has been

616
00:33:39,585 --> 00:33:43,030
coming out of the EPA. Good change, the

617
00:33:43,030 --> 00:33:48,710
kind you hope for. Yeah, they also have

618
00:33:48,710 --> 00:33:50,550
done a lot of the sediment studies that

619
00:33:50,550 --> 00:33:53,030
helped identify where some of the contaminants were

620
00:33:53,030 --> 00:33:55,030
that can move around and get into people's

621
00:33:55,030 --> 00:34:04,024
bodies and cause issues. Yeah, it's an incredible

622
00:34:04,184 --> 00:34:10,824
community. We have kind of the best, so

623
00:34:10,824 --> 00:34:13,880
we got that. All right, again, thank you

624
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:16,280
for coming. Yeah. When we have something that

625
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,640
we need from you, we'll be calling you

626
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:19,160
again. Thanks for your time and your really

627
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,120
good questions and your slightly rowdier nature. I

628
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:29,685
appreciate That's what we like. All right, this

629
00:34:29,685 --> 00:34:31,685
is the time for public comment. Public comment

630
00:34:31,685 --> 00:34:33,764
will be allowed on action items listed on

631
00:34:33,764 --> 00:34:36,085
the agenda. All comments shall be listed or

632
00:34:36,085 --> 00:34:38,405
limited to three minutes in length unless otherwise

633
00:34:38,405 --> 00:34:41,150
directed by the board. I have nobody on

634
00:34:41,150 --> 00:34:43,150
file to come. Is there anybody in the

635
00:34:43,150 --> 00:34:46,989
audience who would like to public comment? Anybody

636
00:34:46,989 --> 00:34:49,069
for public comment? All right, hearing none, we'll

637
00:34:49,069 --> 00:34:53,285
move on to resolutions. Resolution number seventeen dash

638
00:34:53,285 --> 00:34:56,645
twenty five, environmental health fee schedule amended, presented

639
00:34:56,645 --> 00:34:59,285
by the administration committee and supervisors on the

640
00:34:59,285 --> 00:35:01,685
health and human services board. Move to adopt.

641
00:35:01,685 --> 00:35:03,685
Motion by Ms. Jocca, second by Mr. Pete.

642
00:35:03,685 --> 00:35:05,925
Ms. Peterson, did I see a light on

643
00:35:05,925 --> 00:35:07,445
Al or did you not have a light?

644
00:35:08,609 --> 00:35:13,410
Got it. Okay. Any questions? Any questions? If

645
00:35:13,410 --> 00:35:15,170
not, all in favor of the motion signify

646
00:35:15,170 --> 00:35:19,329
by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution number

647
00:35:19,329 --> 00:35:23,089
eighteen-twenty five, Rural Housing Authority County Loan Limit

648
00:35:23,089 --> 00:35:26,365
Raise, presented by the Administration Committee and Supervisors

649
00:35:26,365 --> 00:35:29,805
on the Rural Housing Authority. Motion by Mr.

650
00:35:29,805 --> 00:35:34,605
Baker. Second by Mr. Cummings, Mark Cummings. Any

651
00:35:34,605 --> 00:35:40,760
questions, comments? Mr. Hendrickson. One question. We got

652
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:43,240
two Hendrickson's. I called on him too, sorry.

653
00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:48,200
Mr. Hendrickson. Does this change the fund size

654
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,640
of the fund in any way or is

655
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,755
it just mean the same size fund distributed

656
00:35:52,755 --> 00:35:56,835
over smaller? I mean, more fewer larger loans.

657
00:35:56,994 --> 00:36:01,235
I can answer that question. You can sue?

658
00:36:01,395 --> 00:36:03,635
Yes, can. Who did? Okay, go ahead, Sue.

659
00:36:03,635 --> 00:36:09,430
I serve on that committee. The problem is

660
00:36:09,430 --> 00:36:11,829
that the amount that we were offering just

661
00:36:11,829 --> 00:36:15,190
wasn't covering the needs that people had because

662
00:36:15,190 --> 00:36:18,924
of the increased cost of septic systems and

663
00:36:18,924 --> 00:36:21,805
other, kind of things that we fund. So

664
00:36:21,805 --> 00:36:24,525
we just need to give people a little

665
00:36:24,525 --> 00:36:26,525
bit of a bump in order to cover

666
00:36:26,525 --> 00:36:30,924
the their expenses. So it's making the loan

667
00:36:30,924 --> 00:36:33,885
more efficient for those folks that need it.

668
00:36:34,740 --> 00:36:37,620
Ron, did that answer your question, mister Henrikson?

669
00:36:37,940 --> 00:36:42,420
No. Not exactly. I understood the reasoning behind

670
00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:44,420
it. I'm just wondering whether that means that

671
00:36:44,660 --> 00:36:46,740
if your fund, if your fund size hasn't

672
00:36:46,740 --> 00:36:48,820
changed, it seems like larger loans are just

673
00:36:48,820 --> 00:36:50,645
going to reduce the number of loans that

674
00:36:50,645 --> 00:36:52,325
fewer people will get in them. Bill, can

675
00:36:52,325 --> 00:36:53,765
you explain how we get that money? Is

676
00:36:53,765 --> 00:37:11,700
that something you can help us on? Mark?

677
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:15,460
Sure. If I recall correctly, and Sue could

678
00:37:15,460 --> 00:37:18,345
answer to it, but I've heard in the

679
00:37:18,345 --> 00:37:20,825
past that all the loans, all that money

680
00:37:20,825 --> 00:37:23,945
wasn't going out anywhere. There's, I think, three

681
00:37:23,945 --> 00:37:27,145
different loans like this, and I'm not sure

682
00:37:27,145 --> 00:37:30,025
exactly myself. But I think generally the loans

683
00:37:30,025 --> 00:37:32,265
are not going out like they should be.

684
00:37:32,770 --> 00:37:36,050
And we had a in we asked the

685
00:37:36,050 --> 00:37:41,170
Douglas County County, a rural, members of the

686
00:37:41,170 --> 00:37:44,610
board to go out and encourage people to

687
00:37:44,610 --> 00:37:47,945
apply. Right. Back to if I remember right,

688
00:37:47,945 --> 00:37:49,865
Sue correct me, if I remember right, if

689
00:37:49,865 --> 00:37:52,265
we don't use all of the money allocated

690
00:37:52,265 --> 00:37:55,065
for Douglas County, another County's able to ask

691
00:37:55,065 --> 00:37:57,945
us for that money, correct? Not for these

692
00:37:57,945 --> 00:38:00,470
funds. Not for these? Okay. No, one of

693
00:38:00,470 --> 00:38:02,950
the funds is it's a one time deal

694
00:38:02,950 --> 00:38:05,670
and it's just getting smaller and smaller. The

695
00:38:05,670 --> 00:38:09,829
other one is self funding as people pay

696
00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:14,575
back their loans. So, and Nick is correct.

697
00:38:14,895 --> 00:38:17,694
We were also seeing that people weren't applying

698
00:38:17,694 --> 00:38:22,174
because it wasn't serving the purpose. So, I'm

699
00:38:22,174 --> 00:38:24,895
hoping that you'll vote to increase these funds.

700
00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:26,910
They'll be able to be used a little

701
00:38:26,910 --> 00:38:31,630
more efficiently. Thanks. Hendricks, Ms. Hendrickson, I'm not

702
00:38:31,630 --> 00:38:33,310
sure we've gotten to the bottom of your

703
00:38:33,310 --> 00:38:35,710
question, but I think it's pretty close. Okay.

704
00:38:36,990 --> 00:38:43,065
Okay. All right. Any other questions? Hearing none,

705
00:38:43,145 --> 00:38:45,065
all in favor of the motion signify by

706
00:38:45,065 --> 00:38:51,225
saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution number nineteen-twenty

707
00:38:51,225 --> 00:38:54,345
five, Rural Housing Authority Federal Loan Limit Raise,

708
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:57,520
presented by the Administration Committee and Supervisors on

709
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,960
the Rural Housing Authority. Motion by Mr. Jocas,

710
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,480
second by Mr. Fettisi. Mr. Slate. Yeah, is

711
00:39:07,359 --> 00:39:11,895
this would this have another name on it

712
00:39:11,895 --> 00:39:13,895
or because we just didn't want to raise

713
00:39:13,895 --> 00:39:15,975
it. So, is this another one that we're

714
00:39:15,975 --> 00:39:19,735
raising another percentage? Or they're two separate. Yeah.

715
00:39:19,735 --> 00:39:21,655
Yeah. So, they have two separate names or?

716
00:39:21,655 --> 00:39:24,160
One's county, one's federal. Yeah. Okay. And I

717
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,160
believe it's also where the money comes from.

718
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:34,320
Okay. Yeah. Any other questions? Seeing none, all

719
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,000
in favor of the motion signify by saying

720
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:41,615
aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution number twenty-twenty 5,

721
00:39:41,615 --> 00:39:44,335
District Attorney fee schedule amended presented by the

722
00:39:44,335 --> 00:39:49,775
Public Safety and Administration Committees. Motion by Mr.

723
00:39:49,775 --> 00:39:57,770
Skolund. Second by Mr. Losey. Questions, concerns? Seeing

724
00:39:57,770 --> 00:40:00,089
none, all in favor of the motion signify

725
00:40:00,089 --> 00:40:04,250
by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution

726
00:40:04,250 --> 00:40:07,305
number 20One-twenty 5, urging Governor Evers and the

727
00:40:07,305 --> 00:40:10,185
Wisconsin legislature to support the county courts presented

728
00:40:10,185 --> 00:40:14,265
by the Public Safety Committee. Motion by Mr.

729
00:40:14,265 --> 00:40:20,130
Jocas, second by Mr. Fennessey. Questions, Comments? Seeing

730
00:40:20,130 --> 00:40:21,890
none, all in favor of the motion signify

731
00:40:21,890 --> 00:40:26,609
by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution number

732
00:40:26,609 --> 00:40:30,369
twenty two-twenty five, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

733
00:40:30,369 --> 00:40:34,155
Surface Water Grants 2025 to 2029, presented by

734
00:40:34,155 --> 00:40:37,195
the Supervisors on Land Conservation and Zoning Committees.

735
00:40:38,715 --> 00:40:41,595
Motion by Mr. Lustry, second by Mr. Sandok.

736
00:40:41,595 --> 00:40:48,590
Ms. Sandok Baker, questions, comments? Sue? Yes. Look

737
00:40:48,590 --> 00:40:49,630
at that. I knew you were going to

738
00:40:49,630 --> 00:40:53,150
ask even before you did. This is kind

739
00:40:53,150 --> 00:40:56,030
of standard procedure and the next resolution is

740
00:40:56,030 --> 00:40:59,950
the same. It just gives our folks the

741
00:40:59,950 --> 00:41:02,055
ability to sign for these things if it

742
00:41:02,055 --> 00:41:04,935
comes between meetings. And land conservation only meets

743
00:41:04,935 --> 00:41:07,655
every other month. So sometimes we run into

744
00:41:07,655 --> 00:41:11,655
timing problems on these grant applications. It's something

745
00:41:11,655 --> 00:41:14,310
we do every year and you've okayed it

746
00:41:14,310 --> 00:41:16,950
before us. I hope you'll continue to do

747
00:41:16,950 --> 00:41:21,990
that. Thank you. Okay. Any other comments? If

748
00:41:21,990 --> 00:41:23,910
not, all in favor of the motion signify

749
00:41:23,910 --> 00:41:28,325
by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution number

750
00:41:28,325 --> 00:41:32,565
20Three-twenty5, Wisconsin Department Of Natural Resources Surface Water

751
00:41:32,565 --> 00:41:36,485
Grant Applications 2026, presented by supervisors on the

752
00:41:36,485 --> 00:41:39,765
Land Conservation and Zoning Committees. Motion to approve.

753
00:41:40,990 --> 00:41:42,990
Ms. Sandak Baker, was that your name? Yep.

754
00:41:42,990 --> 00:41:47,950
Okay. Second by Ms. Pong. Any questions, comments?

755
00:41:50,350 --> 00:41:52,750
Seeing none. All in favor of the motion

756
00:41:52,750 --> 00:41:57,925
signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Resolution

757
00:41:57,925 --> 00:42:01,685
number 20Four-twenty5, meeting room policy amended, presented by

758
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the administration committee. Motion by Mr. Baker, second

759
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by Mr. Jocas. Questions, comments? Just so you

760
00:42:11,039 --> 00:42:12,559
know, Casey's had to work on this a

761
00:42:12,559 --> 00:42:14,319
little bit to get this. We've had some

762
00:42:14,319 --> 00:42:15,920
problems in there and we hope that this

763
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,799
amendment will change, double booking and all the

764
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other problems we've been having in there. So,

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any other comments? Seeing none, all in favor

766
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of the motion signify by saying aye. Opposed?

767
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Motion carries. County administrator report. Welcome, Dave. Thank

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00:42:33,484 --> 00:42:38,579
you. Staffing update. Right now we're at 93%

769
00:42:38,579 --> 00:42:40,579
staffing, so we've still been busy working on

770
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some recruiting and onboarding. Seems to have been

771
00:42:43,859 --> 00:42:46,980
an upward trend of the quality of candidates,

772
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which is a good thing. So we've had

773
00:42:48,660 --> 00:42:51,220
a fair amount of applications for all, or

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majority of all positions. And on the flip

775
00:42:53,515 --> 00:42:55,995
side, we have had, a fair amount of

776
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candidates that don't show up or call for

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00:42:57,915 --> 00:43:01,195
their, interviews. So but all in all, we

778
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seem to be in a pretty good spot.

779
00:43:02,635 --> 00:43:05,995
We're actually we'll be working on, eight new

780
00:43:05,995 --> 00:43:09,180
hires that are in the loading, period as

781
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well, and they'll be starting here, in the

782
00:43:12,220 --> 00:43:15,980
next few weeks. We are also working with

783
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the jail. As far as jailers, they have

784
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three spots right now where they have individuals

785
00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:23,545
out on leave. We're looking to allow a

786
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limited term employee hire to fill those three

787
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spots. Those should all fit within the budget.

788
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Again, we're trying to make sure that we

789
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have adequate staffing within the jail. As far

790
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as recruiting, we're recruiting for dispatchers, jailers, seasonal

791
00:43:37,065 --> 00:43:41,390
highway laborers, health and human service social workers,

792
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and then our child support office associate. We've

793
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had some recent retirees as of lately, after

794
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thirty plus years of service, Beth Bean with

795
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our health and human Services in the Economic

796
00:43:53,285 --> 00:43:56,484
Support role has retired. And then next week,

797
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after eight years, Donna Stone within our sheriff's

798
00:43:59,285 --> 00:44:03,924
department, our records custodian and legal assistant will

799
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be retiring. We've hired for a fair amount

800
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of positions since last meeting, health and human

801
00:44:10,910 --> 00:44:15,390
services office associate, jailer, clerk of court, the

802
00:44:15,390 --> 00:44:20,744
deputy position, our highway maintenance workers, our sheriff's

803
00:44:20,744 --> 00:44:24,184
department legal assistant, and a deputy medical examiner

804
00:44:24,184 --> 00:44:28,505
in our medical examiner's office. As far as

805
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some other employee updates, this week was nine

806
00:44:30,825 --> 00:44:34,280
one one telecommunicator week. So I spent some

807
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time down with my former crew down in

808
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dispatch. We get to celebrate with them. And

809
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April is actually also national county government month,

810
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so we hope to be celebrating that next

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week. So stay tuned. They may be looking

812
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for some county board support to help with

813
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an event here that we'll be working on

814
00:44:51,375 --> 00:44:57,055
next week. As far as capital projects, many

815
00:44:57,055 --> 00:44:59,775
requests have came in from multiple departments. We

816
00:44:59,775 --> 00:45:02,975
have over 3,000,000 in requests thus far. Obviously

817
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there won't be funding to allocate to all

818
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capital projects as there are still a few

819
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committees that need to hear these requests. But

820
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there is again some funding. We're probably right

821
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around that $25,000,000 that we'll have to allocate

822
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to fund the capital projects and I will

823
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be working to prioritize those once those come

824
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in. As far as the budget, right now,

825
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we have our financial auditors here. Mister Whiteside

826
00:45:31,845 --> 00:45:35,090
is probably fielding emails from the auditors in

827
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the corner of the room as we speak.

828
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The 2024 budget is essentially, closed out, and

829
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I've still been working on the 2025 budget

830
00:45:43,410 --> 00:45:46,450
review process timeline. So I basically kinda know

831
00:45:46,450 --> 00:45:47,970
what to expect for that because that'll be

832
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my first kick at that process. And you

833
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said was in yesterday, and we actually went

834
00:45:54,435 --> 00:45:56,835
through some of those timelines and has been

835
00:45:56,835 --> 00:46:01,395
a good good support mentor in regards to

836
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that role. We also met with our bonding

837
00:46:03,795 --> 00:46:07,579
agent last week or the week before. So

838
00:46:07,579 --> 00:46:10,619
the last bonding cycle that we issued was

839
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for $7,500,000 for a three year cycle for

840
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2022, '20 '20 '3, '20 '20 '4, all

841
00:46:16,460 --> 00:46:20,715
for our highway department road infrastructure improvements. After

842
00:46:20,715 --> 00:46:23,275
meeting with the bonding agent, there are some

843
00:46:23,275 --> 00:46:25,995
unpredictable times, even more so than COVID, that

844
00:46:25,995 --> 00:46:27,995
he's seen in his thirty plus years of

845
00:46:27,995 --> 00:46:30,555
bonding, just with all these tariffs and other

846
00:46:30,635 --> 00:46:33,035
federal pauses. So it is some time of

847
00:46:33,035 --> 00:46:35,910
uncertainty, but right now, it's basically an average

848
00:46:35,910 --> 00:46:38,550
time to bond for such projects. So we'll

849
00:46:38,550 --> 00:46:43,670
be evaluating our circumstances and potentially looking at

850
00:46:43,670 --> 00:46:45,910
a three year bond cycle for somewhere around

851
00:46:45,910 --> 00:46:49,030
that $9,000,000 We'll be meeting with our bonding

852
00:46:49,030 --> 00:46:51,474
agent again to hammer out a few of

853
00:46:51,474 --> 00:46:54,275
those specifications. And it's been great to work

854
00:46:54,275 --> 00:46:56,675
with mister Bill Whiteside, his finance team. We've

855
00:46:56,675 --> 00:47:00,275
also had Ann Doucette and then former finance

856
00:47:00,275 --> 00:47:02,595
director Candy Anderson. So if you talk about

857
00:47:02,595 --> 00:47:04,915
a trifecta of individuals that have been able

858
00:47:04,915 --> 00:47:07,029
to help me through this process, It's been

859
00:47:07,029 --> 00:47:10,069
nothing but great, so appreciate their support. And

860
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then lastly, continue with the Douglas County Drive,

861
00:47:13,109 --> 00:47:15,190
where again, I continue to try to connect

862
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and learn with all county departments. Just yesterday,

863
00:47:18,789 --> 00:47:21,135
I was with Casey and her team down

864
00:47:21,135 --> 00:47:23,615
in the clerk's office, Lexi and Melissa, and

865
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I learned a lot. Each time I meet

866
00:47:25,215 --> 00:47:27,935
with these departments, it's amazing the amount of

867
00:47:27,935 --> 00:47:30,415
things that they do on a routine basis,

868
00:47:30,495 --> 00:47:33,295
and it is in their memory bank and

869
00:47:33,295 --> 00:47:35,820
they can regurgitate what they do on a

870
00:47:35,820 --> 00:47:39,100
moment's notice. So it's really encouraging. You walk

871
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:42,460
through the passport process and how they create

872
00:47:42,460 --> 00:47:46,140
online appointments to do that, worked through some

873
00:47:46,140 --> 00:47:48,460
of the marriage license, looked at land sales

874
00:47:48,460 --> 00:47:50,685
evaluations. So a lot of different things that

875
00:47:50,685 --> 00:47:52,685
I didn't know all the specifics about. And

876
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again, hope to be able to share that

877
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with the county board and then also the

878
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community so that individuals know about what our

879
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county clerk's office does. And that's what I

880
00:48:00,605 --> 00:48:02,365
have for my report, unless there's any questions.

881
00:48:03,330 --> 00:48:05,250
Dave would have had a video here, but

882
00:48:05,250 --> 00:48:06,770
he did not do very good in the

883
00:48:06,770 --> 00:48:09,410
dance chorus line that Casey had lined up,

884
00:48:09,410 --> 00:48:12,290
just so you know. Very true. So we

885
00:48:12,290 --> 00:48:13,730
all know what that would have looked like

886
00:48:13,730 --> 00:48:16,930
down there. Anyway, thank you, Dave. Anybody for

887
00:48:16,930 --> 00:48:21,445
Dave, any questions? Alright, County Board Chair report.

888
00:48:22,405 --> 00:48:25,285
At the last admin, when Carolyn was asked

889
00:48:25,285 --> 00:48:26,965
did she have anything new to report and

890
00:48:26,965 --> 00:48:29,685
when she said, Ah, no, nothing new, I

891
00:48:29,685 --> 00:48:32,230
just about gagged cause I know how busy

892
00:48:32,230 --> 00:48:34,870
actually she's been on working with things in

893
00:48:34,870 --> 00:48:36,630
the county. So, there is a lot of

894
00:48:36,630 --> 00:48:38,390
things going on that don't show up in

895
00:48:38,390 --> 00:48:40,470
either the administrator report or the county board

896
00:48:40,470 --> 00:48:42,710
report or any of the committees, just so

897
00:48:42,710 --> 00:48:45,685
you know, it is a busy place. One

898
00:48:45,845 --> 00:48:48,245
of the things here is the assigned ordinance.

899
00:48:48,325 --> 00:48:51,445
We think we're there. We finally got a

900
00:48:51,445 --> 00:48:52,964
signed ordinance that we're gonna be able to

901
00:48:52,964 --> 00:48:56,405
have as we start removing illegal signs off

902
00:48:56,405 --> 00:48:58,790
of the county forest land. We've got an

903
00:48:58,790 --> 00:49:02,310
alternative that months, I guess we've been working

904
00:49:02,310 --> 00:49:03,590
on it and now we think we're down

905
00:49:03,590 --> 00:49:05,430
to the nitty gritty, we're gonna be able

906
00:49:05,430 --> 00:49:07,670
to have that in place here by probably

907
00:49:07,670 --> 00:49:12,070
the middle of the summer. Forestry updates. Forestry

908
00:49:12,070 --> 00:49:16,045
is preparing I guess to put our first

909
00:49:16,045 --> 00:49:20,045
carbon credits out. We probably will be doing

910
00:49:20,045 --> 00:49:22,845
that probably by fall, it'll probably take a

911
00:49:22,845 --> 00:49:24,845
long time for them to be sold. There's

912
00:49:24,845 --> 00:49:27,165
been a few credits sold in I think

913
00:49:27,165 --> 00:49:28,845
in the Bayfield, they were the first ones

914
00:49:28,845 --> 00:49:32,390
in the state to have carbon credits. Problem

915
00:49:32,390 --> 00:49:34,070
is, or not the problem, but is most

916
00:49:34,070 --> 00:49:36,470
of those early dollars go all to the

917
00:49:36,470 --> 00:49:38,230
people who actually do the selling of the

918
00:49:38,230 --> 00:49:40,790
credits. So it'll be a while before we

919
00:49:40,790 --> 00:49:42,654
see any money on there and at least

920
00:49:42,654 --> 00:49:44,654
it's encouraging, it looks like the process is

921
00:49:44,654 --> 00:49:47,934
still going forward. Wetland mitigation, I've met with

922
00:49:47,934 --> 00:49:51,295
more people, continue to move this process forward.

923
00:49:51,934 --> 00:49:54,974
Again, I found the need for this to

924
00:49:54,974 --> 00:49:58,490
continue to ratchet itself up. The last credit

925
00:49:58,490 --> 00:50:00,410
that was sold in Douglas County by a

926
00:50:00,410 --> 00:50:05,530
private banker, a mitigation banker, went for $150,000

927
00:50:05,530 --> 00:50:08,890
So we're approaching that kind of cost for

928
00:50:08,890 --> 00:50:11,690
these wetlands. Superior's raising their cost, and I'm

929
00:50:11,690 --> 00:50:13,145
not sure that they know what it's gonna

930
00:50:13,145 --> 00:50:15,545
go to, but Superior's also raising the cost

931
00:50:15,545 --> 00:50:18,744
of their wetland bank credit. So it might

932
00:50:18,744 --> 00:50:20,505
be the perfect time for us to do

933
00:50:20,505 --> 00:50:22,025
it. We're gonna invest some money to do

934
00:50:22,025 --> 00:50:24,585
it now and it'll turn out, I think

935
00:50:24,585 --> 00:50:27,145
we have that money allocated, not allocated, at

936
00:50:27,145 --> 00:50:28,670
least identify that we might be able to

937
00:50:28,670 --> 00:50:32,190
do that. WCA updates, I was downstate at

938
00:50:32,190 --> 00:50:36,349
Madison last week, I guess, and talking to

939
00:50:36,349 --> 00:50:39,869
Mark O'Connell and some other people. One of

940
00:50:39,869 --> 00:50:43,115
the things that we've been discussing is the

941
00:50:43,195 --> 00:50:45,435
elimination of Act 10 and how that will

942
00:50:45,435 --> 00:50:48,875
affect the counties. And when I went down

943
00:50:48,875 --> 00:50:51,035
there, all the information I was getting was

944
00:50:51,035 --> 00:50:52,875
that it's a done deal, Act ten's going

945
00:50:52,875 --> 00:50:54,800
away and we're gonna have to live with

946
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,840
the consequences of it. But evidently the state

947
00:50:57,840 --> 00:51:01,680
has identified, and maybe even opponents of Act

948
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,720
10 have identified how this would impact school

949
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:07,280
districts especially. They figured it could bankrupt them,

950
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:10,464
it could put them out of existence, And

951
00:51:10,464 --> 00:51:12,065
the counties are the next in the lines.

952
00:51:12,065 --> 00:51:13,905
The only one that probably would be okay

953
00:51:13,905 --> 00:51:15,744
out of it was the Towns Association because

954
00:51:15,744 --> 00:51:17,984
most towns, especially up here, don't have any

955
00:51:17,984 --> 00:51:19,825
town employees as far as that would be

956
00:51:19,825 --> 00:51:22,305
in a union. So there's some questions on

957
00:51:22,305 --> 00:51:23,984
how that's gonna go, but at least it

958
00:51:23,984 --> 00:51:27,070
looks like they're at least thinking about the

959
00:51:27,070 --> 00:51:28,830
impacts of that. So I'm not sure that

960
00:51:28,830 --> 00:51:30,670
means it's gonna be looked at, but that's

961
00:51:30,670 --> 00:51:33,310
what they're worried about now. Towns association, I

962
00:51:33,310 --> 00:51:35,950
was at a training for the Towns association.

963
00:51:36,110 --> 00:51:37,950
One of the things that came up in

964
00:51:39,015 --> 00:51:41,575
the legislative session where they talk about, and

965
00:51:41,575 --> 00:51:48,215
legislators are there, is the emergency response requirements

966
00:51:48,295 --> 00:51:51,335
continuing to be boosted up into almost full

967
00:51:51,335 --> 00:51:53,960
time status for some of these emergency who

968
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,960
are continuing to have harder times finding emergency

969
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:00,599
responders and the fact that the state in

970
00:52:00,599 --> 00:52:04,404
response to our complaints about the requirements end

971
00:52:04,404 --> 00:52:07,365
up actually increasing them again rather than reducing

972
00:52:07,365 --> 00:52:09,045
them. So that's gonna be something we're gonna

973
00:52:09,045 --> 00:52:12,005
have to think about. So, any questions about

974
00:52:12,005 --> 00:52:16,005
my report? Okay, and I don't have any

975
00:52:16,005 --> 00:52:17,765
listed here, but I do have some good

976
00:52:17,765 --> 00:52:19,630
news on some properties that we've been trying

977
00:52:19,630 --> 00:52:21,470
to sell for a little while, she'll let

978
00:52:21,470 --> 00:52:24,350
me say that anyway. All right, appointments by

979
00:52:24,350 --> 00:52:27,950
the County Board Chair, Douglas County Revolving Loan

980
00:52:27,950 --> 00:52:32,030
Fund Advisory. We're gonna put Nate Tepal, he's

981
00:52:32,030 --> 00:52:36,825
replacing Tim Foster. Annie Donahue has requested that

982
00:52:36,825 --> 00:52:38,985
he not be considered for replacement. So we're

983
00:52:38,985 --> 00:52:40,025
still going to have to look for one

984
00:52:40,025 --> 00:52:42,985
more replacement for that revolving loan fund. And

985
00:52:42,985 --> 00:52:44,745
then I also have one, if you guys

986
00:52:44,745 --> 00:52:48,630
are okay with it, of energy committee replacing

987
00:52:48,630 --> 00:52:51,829
Craig Tyson, he's retiring off of the highway

988
00:52:51,829 --> 00:52:55,430
department and Andy Johnson, who's one of our

989
00:52:55,430 --> 00:52:57,109
head, or is our head here for the

990
00:52:57,109 --> 00:52:59,589
building the grounds, he's gonna replace him on

991
00:52:59,589 --> 00:53:01,030
the energy committee. And I think Dave, you

992
00:53:01,030 --> 00:53:03,030
were on that committee until he got changed,

993
00:53:03,030 --> 00:53:05,385
right? Yep, I still chair that. Okay, all

994
00:53:05,385 --> 00:53:07,625
right. If nobody has a problem with that,

995
00:53:07,625 --> 00:53:10,025
I'm gonna add that energy committee appointment for

996
00:53:10,025 --> 00:53:14,025
Andy Johnson. It's okay, is there a second?

997
00:53:14,825 --> 00:53:19,780
Okay, by Mr. Cummings, Dennis Cummings. Any questions

998
00:53:19,780 --> 00:53:22,339
on the appointments? All in favor of the

999
00:53:22,339 --> 00:53:26,420
motion signify by saying aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

1000
00:53:26,579 --> 00:53:31,380
All right, committee reports. Administration, Mr. Jocas. Thank

1001
00:53:31,380 --> 00:53:34,105
you, Mr. Chair. Coming up on this, obviously,

1002
00:53:34,105 --> 00:53:35,944
we're gonna be talking about capital projects, but

1003
00:53:35,944 --> 00:53:37,785
other one that I found interesting today as

1004
00:53:37,785 --> 00:53:39,785
we went to the agenda setting meeting was

1005
00:53:39,785 --> 00:53:42,585
about how Minnesota has that sick and safe

1006
00:53:42,744 --> 00:53:46,070
legislation over there. And because we have numerous

1007
00:53:46,070 --> 00:53:48,550
employees that actually live over in Minnesota and

1008
00:53:48,550 --> 00:53:51,190
work more than 50% of their time in

1009
00:53:51,190 --> 00:53:54,310
Minnesota, it does cost Douglas County money. And

1010
00:53:54,310 --> 00:53:56,150
so we're going to get from our HR

1011
00:53:56,150 --> 00:53:58,870
director a summary of what that actually costs

1012
00:53:58,870 --> 00:54:01,244
and what that can look like in the

1013
00:54:01,244 --> 00:54:04,285
future. That should be an interesting little tidbit

1014
00:54:04,285 --> 00:54:07,724
of information. Yeah, thank you. Okay, thank you.

1015
00:54:07,724 --> 00:54:12,365
Any questions for Mr. Jocas? Alright, extension. Sue,

1016
00:54:12,365 --> 00:54:13,484
are you there? Can you give it over

1017
00:54:13,484 --> 00:54:16,850
the phone? Yes, sign in. Yep, yep. We

1018
00:54:16,850 --> 00:54:18,290
had a couple of things come up in

1019
00:54:18,290 --> 00:54:21,250
extension yesterday. Wanted to share with you. First

1020
00:54:21,250 --> 00:54:23,810
of all, Dave was there. Thank you so

1021
00:54:23,810 --> 00:54:26,450
much, Mr. Administrator. Always good to see you

1022
00:54:26,450 --> 00:54:29,755
and showing interest in our work. And I

1023
00:54:29,755 --> 00:54:31,835
think he was impressed with the work of

1024
00:54:31,835 --> 00:54:37,035
the extension staff too. Some updates on the

1025
00:54:37,035 --> 00:54:44,090
Bead program, broadband grants. And we had written

1026
00:54:44,090 --> 00:54:47,930
our resolutions for Mosaic and the one for

1027
00:54:47,930 --> 00:54:52,570
the city. And those are waiting for PSC

1028
00:54:52,570 --> 00:54:55,050
approval. We haven't heard about them yet. And

1029
00:54:55,050 --> 00:54:58,625
apparently we won't hear until round one and

1030
00:54:58,625 --> 00:55:02,625
round two and round three go through. Those

1031
00:55:02,625 --> 00:55:06,145
who didn't want to lay cable could apply

1032
00:55:06,145 --> 00:55:08,625
for money to put up cell towers or

1033
00:55:08,625 --> 00:55:12,480
a satellite system. And then there's round three

1034
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:19,040
other miscellaneous ways of broadband being propagated. And

1035
00:55:19,040 --> 00:55:23,120
of course, things are moving forward and we'll

1036
00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:25,120
just see how the funding comes out of

1037
00:55:25,605 --> 00:55:28,725
of Washington, but until we hear any different,

1038
00:55:29,205 --> 00:55:33,845
those grants are all being looked at. We

1039
00:55:33,845 --> 00:55:37,445
talked a little bit about recycling. We saw

1040
00:55:39,840 --> 00:55:44,640
Sheldon Johnson's annual report. They handle our recycling.

1041
00:55:45,040 --> 00:55:49,840
Apparently we get about 55 or $56,000 a

1042
00:55:49,840 --> 00:55:53,155
year from the state And our recycling program

1043
00:55:53,155 --> 00:55:59,555
is costing us about $160,000 But he said

1044
00:55:59,555 --> 00:56:03,795
the possibility, if you wanted to cut down

1045
00:56:03,795 --> 00:56:05,875
on the expenses would only be The only

1046
00:56:05,875 --> 00:56:07,850
thing we could do is eliminate some of

1047
00:56:07,850 --> 00:56:10,090
the sites and we could do that. Right

1048
00:56:10,090 --> 00:56:14,250
now, all our municipalities have recycling sites and

1049
00:56:14,250 --> 00:56:16,410
everybody doesn't do it that way. So, that's

1050
00:56:16,410 --> 00:56:21,210
something to keep in mind. Heard from the

1051
00:56:21,210 --> 00:56:25,475
folks that run their Strong Bodies exercise program.

1052
00:56:25,475 --> 00:56:28,435
It's a multi county program. They have 99

1053
00:56:28,915 --> 00:56:35,075
participants that do this on the computer twice

1054
00:56:35,075 --> 00:56:39,860
a week exercise program. Healthy for women. And

1055
00:56:40,420 --> 00:56:42,020
just wanted you to know that we're really

1056
00:56:42,020 --> 00:56:49,540
having effect, our two food people handle that

1057
00:56:49,540 --> 00:56:55,295
program and it's very, very effective. Last thing

1058
00:56:55,295 --> 00:56:58,974
is that you will find in your mailboxes,

1059
00:56:58,974 --> 00:57:02,335
this is our extension annual report. I hope

1060
00:57:02,335 --> 00:57:05,870
you'll take a look at it. The back

1061
00:57:05,870 --> 00:57:09,070
pages are what the extension agents do. The

1062
00:57:09,070 --> 00:57:12,350
first page you'll see is the budget and

1063
00:57:12,830 --> 00:57:15,630
you'll see the amount that we put in

1064
00:57:15,790 --> 00:57:17,710
compared to the amount that we get out.

1065
00:57:17,710 --> 00:57:20,255
And I think you'll see that we put

1066
00:57:20,255 --> 00:57:22,735
in about a fourth of what comes back

1067
00:57:22,735 --> 00:57:26,415
to the county for extension services. I hope

1068
00:57:26,415 --> 00:57:27,855
you'll get a chance to take a look

1069
00:57:27,855 --> 00:57:32,175
at that. That's all I have. Thanks so

1070
00:57:32,175 --> 00:57:34,175
much. I'm so glad we have this Zoom.

1071
00:57:34,410 --> 00:57:37,130
I was feeling upset about not being able

1072
00:57:37,130 --> 00:57:39,770
to share with you tonight. Good to be

1073
00:57:39,770 --> 00:57:43,049
able do Thank you. Right. Forest Parks, I'll

1074
00:57:43,049 --> 00:57:45,369
give a quick one. The signed policy obviously

1075
00:57:45,369 --> 00:57:47,369
is one that we've been kind of moving

1076
00:57:47,369 --> 00:57:49,535
it forward, helping that out. But the Loggers

1077
00:57:49,535 --> 00:57:51,295
Forum was held Tuesday, we had a couple

1078
00:57:51,295 --> 00:57:56,895
supervisors that were there, Towns Boardsmen, loggers, some

1079
00:57:56,895 --> 00:57:58,655
of the DNR personnel, we had, I think

1080
00:57:58,655 --> 00:58:00,655
I figured around it was 50 some people

1081
00:58:00,655 --> 00:58:03,260
I think there, and it was well attended,

1082
00:58:03,260 --> 00:58:06,460
we've been doing it for nineteen years and

1083
00:58:06,460 --> 00:58:08,380
I think that doesn't include the fact that

1084
00:58:08,380 --> 00:58:10,300
during COVID we did not do it for

1085
00:58:10,300 --> 00:58:12,540
a couple of years, if I'm not mistaken.

1086
00:58:13,500 --> 00:58:16,735
And, but it started out, highway had to

1087
00:58:16,735 --> 00:58:20,495
have bodyguards there and now he just gets

1088
00:58:20,495 --> 00:58:22,335
up and he does his presentation and he

1089
00:58:22,335 --> 00:58:26,780
talks about the removal of the weight limits

1090
00:58:26,780 --> 00:58:28,859
and all that. And he gets a couple

1091
00:58:28,859 --> 00:58:31,579
of questions. And I think just to show

1092
00:58:31,579 --> 00:58:34,380
you how we've been responsive to the loggers

1093
00:58:34,380 --> 00:58:36,460
and they've been taught a lot. I mean,

1094
00:58:36,460 --> 00:58:39,915
last year, Jason brought the frost tubes that

1095
00:58:39,915 --> 00:58:41,275
are in the road and kind of explained

1096
00:58:41,275 --> 00:58:43,035
how we keep track of when the roads

1097
00:58:43,035 --> 00:58:45,275
have to be protected and when it's okay

1098
00:58:45,275 --> 00:58:46,875
to put them back on the weight limit.

1099
00:58:46,875 --> 00:58:49,355
So, we appreciate his help, all the other

1100
00:58:49,355 --> 00:58:51,195
help for all the other departments that do

1101
00:58:51,195 --> 00:58:53,435
that. So, that was for Parks and Recreation.

1102
00:58:54,200 --> 00:58:58,599
Land and Development, Scott. Thank you Mr. Chairman.

1103
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,799
At the excuse me the last Land Development

1104
00:59:01,799 --> 00:59:05,720
Committee meeting we passed a temporary limited easement

1105
00:59:05,720 --> 00:59:08,664
for the county to work on the County

1106
00:59:08,664 --> 00:59:11,944
Highway W project. That gets completed this this

1107
00:59:11,944 --> 00:59:14,905
year and the rebuild. The committee is also

1108
00:59:14,905 --> 00:59:18,025
looking at the property management agreements for the

1109
00:59:18,025 --> 00:59:20,790
fairgrounds and the racetrack. We had a couple

1110
00:59:20,790 --> 00:59:22,550
ideas. We just started kicking around. It's going

1111
00:59:22,550 --> 00:59:24,470
to process is going to take a while.

1112
00:59:25,430 --> 00:59:27,110
One of the couple of the ideas were

1113
00:59:27,110 --> 00:59:30,630
one one operator instead of both contracts out

1114
00:59:30,630 --> 00:59:36,585
there. Surcharge on utilities for RVs and then

1115
00:59:36,585 --> 00:59:39,145
future needs of the of the property. Those

1116
00:59:39,145 --> 00:59:42,585
agreements are up in the December or end

1117
00:59:42,585 --> 00:59:44,505
of the year. And then we also had

1118
00:59:44,505 --> 00:59:46,825
a little. We always get an economic report

1119
00:59:46,825 --> 00:59:50,309
from Mr. Jim Caesar and so he provides

1120
00:59:50,630 --> 00:59:54,470
economics for the county and he included a

1121
00:59:54,470 --> 00:59:57,910
little bit of talk on the hybrid closure

1122
00:59:57,910 --> 01:00:01,270
planning committee so our planning so anyway that's

1123
01:00:01,270 --> 01:00:03,935
what I have Sue, did you have a

1124
01:00:03,935 --> 01:00:06,655
question? I did, thank you for noticing. Was

1125
01:00:06,655 --> 01:00:08,815
just curious. Casey did, just so you know,

1126
01:00:08,815 --> 01:00:11,935
I won't take credit for that. Just wondering

1127
01:00:11,935 --> 01:00:15,455
if you had talked anything more about forming

1128
01:00:15,455 --> 01:00:20,990
a fair committee. I actually, I think me

1129
01:00:20,990 --> 01:00:22,430
and, trying to think, was it me and

1130
01:00:22,430 --> 01:00:24,350
you had it? Yeah, and we're going to

1131
01:00:24,350 --> 01:00:27,150
wait, but we are going to do it.

1132
01:00:27,470 --> 01:00:30,430
Okay, thanks. And it might be, we're not

1133
01:00:30,430 --> 01:00:31,790
sure of the numbers yet or how it's

1134
01:00:31,790 --> 01:00:35,895
gonna Yeah. Yeah. Still on the radar. You.

1135
01:00:35,895 --> 01:00:39,015
Thanks. Anything else for mister Lustry? If not,

1136
01:00:39,815 --> 01:00:44,135
public safety. Mister Fennessey. Thank you. At our

1137
01:00:44,135 --> 01:00:47,490
last meeting, the Mayo Ambulance Service did a

1138
01:00:47,490 --> 01:00:51,250
very nice presentation stuck around after took questions

1139
01:00:51,250 --> 01:00:53,730
from people in the audio that were there.

1140
01:00:54,530 --> 01:00:57,330
There's a few takeaways they are definitely looking

1141
01:00:57,330 --> 01:00:59,730
at the bridge planning and like everybody else

1142
01:00:59,730 --> 01:01:02,050
they're not sure exactly what the impact but

1143
01:01:02,050 --> 01:01:06,585
being able to supply adequate emergency service here

1144
01:01:06,585 --> 01:01:08,745
in Douglas County once the bridge is replaced.

1145
01:01:09,545 --> 01:01:13,225
The Hawthorne Station, some people there was some

1146
01:01:13,225 --> 01:01:15,065
concern that people thought it was not manned.

1147
01:01:15,065 --> 01:01:16,585
It's not manned all the time, but they

1148
01:01:16,585 --> 01:01:20,180
did say that oftentimes the drivers park their

1149
01:01:20,180 --> 01:01:22,660
cars in Duluth. They'll drive the ambulance down.

1150
01:01:22,660 --> 01:01:24,660
It's in the garage, so it is not

1151
01:01:24,660 --> 01:01:28,500
eliminated. And the and verified what I heard

1152
01:01:28,500 --> 01:01:31,859
before that if you call an ambulance and

1153
01:01:31,859 --> 01:01:34,885
they don't transport, they don't charge you. So

1154
01:01:34,885 --> 01:01:37,845
they emphasize don't hesitate to call an ambulance

1155
01:01:38,325 --> 01:01:40,805
and don't worry about the cost because if,

1156
01:01:40,805 --> 01:01:42,005
again, if you don't use it, you don't

1157
01:01:42,005 --> 01:01:45,045
get charged. And just and our meeting next

1158
01:01:45,045 --> 01:01:48,920
week on April 24, we are going to

1159
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:51,799
from three to 04:00 before the meeting, we're

1160
01:01:51,799 --> 01:01:54,599
going to do a court related tour. The

1161
01:01:54,599 --> 01:01:56,839
judge is gonna take us through everything related

1162
01:01:56,839 --> 01:01:59,319
to the court, hands on over there, over

1163
01:01:59,319 --> 01:02:01,575
on that side. And I encourage anybody who's

1164
01:02:01,575 --> 01:02:03,255
got the time to stop and I know

1165
01:02:03,255 --> 01:02:05,495
Dave does you know the good videos but

1166
01:02:05,495 --> 01:02:07,335
it's nice to be able to get in

1167
01:02:07,335 --> 01:02:09,175
their hands on ask the questions see what's

1168
01:02:09,175 --> 01:02:11,655
going on so did that memo go out

1169
01:02:11,655 --> 01:02:13,980
to everybody on you've got you should have

1170
01:02:13,980 --> 01:02:16,460
an email talking about from three to 04:00

1171
01:02:16,540 --> 01:02:19,020
and that tour. Again, encourage everybody to take

1172
01:02:19,020 --> 01:02:21,500
advantage if they can. Thank you. Alright. Any

1173
01:02:21,500 --> 01:02:27,855
questions for mister Pensey? Thank you. Transportation infrastructure,

1174
01:02:27,855 --> 01:02:30,735
mister Baker. I've handed out to you the

1175
01:02:30,735 --> 01:02:33,855
five year plan, and I would like to

1176
01:02:33,855 --> 01:02:36,975
explain what we're doing this year and some

1177
01:02:36,975 --> 01:02:39,630
of the problems with it. You'll notice we're

1178
01:02:39,630 --> 01:02:45,069
gonna spend about $10,000,000 this year. And first

1179
01:02:45,069 --> 01:02:48,990
of all, is the Namauchi River Bridge and

1180
01:02:48,990 --> 01:02:53,025
that is W. We hear about W being

1181
01:02:53,025 --> 01:02:57,985
closed for five years. We hope next Friday,

1182
01:02:57,985 --> 01:03:01,905
we will get a good bid. It's coming

1183
01:03:01,905 --> 01:03:05,670
in next Friday. We're opening, and Jason will

1184
01:03:05,670 --> 01:03:08,630
be calling me and telling me exactly how

1185
01:03:08,630 --> 01:03:12,310
it went. Right now, we're looking at a

1186
01:03:12,310 --> 01:03:17,990
$1,800,000. 5 years ago, it was 1,200,000.0, and

1187
01:03:17,990 --> 01:03:20,755
the state of the Fed set it that

1188
01:03:20,755 --> 01:03:26,275
rate rate. They're only giving us about 50%

1189
01:03:26,275 --> 01:03:29,155
of the cost, maybe less than 50% of

1190
01:03:29,155 --> 01:03:31,475
the cost of the bridge. We're gonna pay

1191
01:03:31,475 --> 01:03:35,330
the rest. And they're gonna give us about

1192
01:03:35,330 --> 01:03:39,970
$825,000 and we really don't know what the

1193
01:03:39,970 --> 01:03:44,130
rest is gonna look like until Friday. Z.

1194
01:03:44,450 --> 01:03:47,305
Z is changed. We were looking at a

1195
01:03:47,305 --> 01:03:52,585
$2,200,000 project. We wanted to widen Z so

1196
01:03:52,585 --> 01:03:58,425
we had a better road. And, we were

1197
01:03:58,425 --> 01:04:01,170
cut and we got a million. So what

1198
01:04:01,170 --> 01:04:04,290
we're doing is making a real good road,

1199
01:04:04,370 --> 01:04:07,650
but on the same size that it is.

1200
01:04:07,650 --> 01:04:10,290
We're not widening because we had to buy

1201
01:04:10,290 --> 01:04:15,315
property and that drove the cost up. And

1202
01:04:15,315 --> 01:04:18,995
so that is why it was gone that

1203
01:04:18,995 --> 01:04:22,915
way. The big one of course is Highway

1204
01:04:22,915 --> 01:04:26,690
C. We're doing three sections of Highway C.

1205
01:04:26,690 --> 01:04:31,730
This is the first section, and we're getting

1206
01:04:31,730 --> 01:04:36,210
about four just over $4,000,000 for that, and

1207
01:04:36,210 --> 01:04:39,535
the rest we're paying for. But we're going

1208
01:04:39,535 --> 01:04:45,615
to basically try to reconstruction all of sea

1209
01:04:45,615 --> 01:04:48,575
over years. We're gonna have to keep asking

1210
01:04:48,575 --> 01:04:51,830
for money, and we hope that they don't

1211
01:04:51,830 --> 01:04:53,990
hold it like they did for five years

1212
01:04:53,990 --> 01:04:56,470
when the costs went up and the rate

1213
01:04:56,470 --> 01:04:59,190
they're paying has stayed the same. That's not

1214
01:04:59,190 --> 01:05:02,710
nice, but that's how government works now. The

1215
01:05:03,110 --> 01:05:05,750
big one, that we're gonna be working on,

1216
01:05:05,750 --> 01:05:07,404
and this is the first part of it,

1217
01:05:07,404 --> 01:05:10,285
if you look down to 02/2006, we're gonna

1218
01:05:10,285 --> 01:05:14,365
be doing more of it for Highway B.

1219
01:05:15,164 --> 01:05:22,950
And basically, we're going, from, p to over

1220
01:05:22,950 --> 01:05:26,310
to Highway 53 if we can do it

1221
01:05:26,470 --> 01:05:30,310
or excuse me, '27. I'm sorry. Anyways, what

1222
01:05:30,310 --> 01:05:33,830
we're gonna do is tear it up. We're

1223
01:05:33,830 --> 01:05:37,665
gonna saturate the material that we tore up

1224
01:05:37,665 --> 01:05:41,905
and crumbled in with foam. Then we're gonna

1225
01:05:41,905 --> 01:05:44,625
put it back down, and it will be

1226
01:05:44,625 --> 01:05:46,865
much more solid, and we'll put another two

1227
01:05:46,865 --> 01:05:50,360
inches on top of it. And that's basically

1228
01:05:50,360 --> 01:05:53,080
the new thing we're trying. And they say

1229
01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,640
it works well in other places, and we're

1230
01:05:55,640 --> 01:05:58,120
gonna try it now. And it's a foam

1231
01:05:58,120 --> 01:06:01,720
injected materials. It makes it hard, makes it

1232
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,135
a cushion, and then you can build on

1233
01:06:04,135 --> 01:06:06,375
it. And that's what we're hoping to do.

1234
01:06:06,375 --> 01:06:09,095
And that is it. You have questions about

1235
01:06:09,095 --> 01:06:11,414
all of it? I'm sure Jason can. And

1236
01:06:11,414 --> 01:06:13,655
Jason, do you all need to correct anything?

1237
01:06:13,815 --> 01:06:18,710
Okay. He he taught me well. Thank you,

1238
01:06:18,710 --> 01:06:20,309
mister Baker. Any questions for mister Baker? Mister

1239
01:06:20,309 --> 01:06:22,630
Chakas? Thank you, mister chair. Nick, what is

1240
01:06:22,630 --> 01:06:24,309
the the second column from the right hand

1241
01:06:24,309 --> 01:06:27,990
side? It's titled ADT. What does ADT stand

1242
01:06:27,990 --> 01:06:33,015
for? Perfect, thank you. So then that goes

1243
01:06:33,015 --> 01:06:35,415
into my next question of that bridge on

1244
01:06:35,415 --> 01:06:37,975
W before its failure. What was the average

1245
01:06:37,975 --> 01:07:16,339
daily traffic? So thanks Jason. So I don't

1246
01:07:16,339 --> 01:07:18,260
think Sue could hear that without a microphone

1247
01:07:18,260 --> 01:07:21,685
but right so it's an important highway to

1248
01:07:21,685 --> 01:07:25,045
Carlton County. Maybe they want to share some

1249
01:07:25,045 --> 01:07:27,445
funds. Let's think out of the box, but

1250
01:07:27,445 --> 01:07:30,244
maybe they don't even want that bridge. When

1251
01:07:30,244 --> 01:07:32,645
Jay Cook washed out here back in 2012,

1252
01:07:33,050 --> 01:07:36,010
they had that whole Highway 61 run alongside

1253
01:07:36,010 --> 01:07:38,970
the river that wasn't opened up for years.

1254
01:07:38,970 --> 01:07:41,770
It was a nice road. Went there and

1255
01:07:41,770 --> 01:07:44,490
biking and hiking and stuff. Maybe these locals

1256
01:07:44,490 --> 01:07:46,905
out there, maybe they don't want that bridge

1257
01:07:46,905 --> 01:07:48,905
and maybe they've gotten so used to traveling

1258
01:07:48,905 --> 01:07:52,505
the other directions. You know, it's I don't

1259
01:07:52,505 --> 01:08:03,660
know but. Actually, I'll at. Thank you. Was

1260
01:08:03,660 --> 01:08:05,740
looked at to close it. Know, I mean,

1261
01:08:05,740 --> 01:08:07,660
that would be a tremendous savings to the

1262
01:08:07,660 --> 01:08:11,900
county. But if you remember in 2018, the

1263
01:08:11,900 --> 01:08:17,774
Black River Falls there, dam went out. And

1264
01:08:17,854 --> 01:08:21,215
that landlocked that whole quadrant of the county.

1265
01:08:21,215 --> 01:08:25,055
And the only way they got to some

1266
01:08:25,055 --> 01:08:27,135
of that area was Highway W. See at

1267
01:08:27,135 --> 01:08:33,340
eighteen, the bridge, The. Dam washed out, but

1268
01:08:33,340 --> 01:08:35,020
the bridge didn't the bridge just a little

1269
01:08:35,020 --> 01:08:37,580
bit of the approaches and within a day

1270
01:08:37,580 --> 01:08:39,820
we had the bridge open. See this bridge

1271
01:08:39,820 --> 01:08:42,380
is memorable actually since 2019. Everybody thinks it's

1272
01:08:42,380 --> 01:08:44,135
2018 because we had quite a bit of

1273
01:08:44,135 --> 01:08:47,575
flooding then and and the dam went out,

1274
01:08:47,575 --> 01:08:51,335
but that actually saved, you know, a lot

1275
01:08:51,335 --> 01:08:53,495
of travel time for people. I mean, they

1276
01:08:53,495 --> 01:08:55,654
would have been. It would have been a

1277
01:08:55,895 --> 01:08:59,439
nightmare, a landlock for, like, the Northern Part

1278
01:08:59,439 --> 01:09:03,840
of Summit and and I guess would be

1279
01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,720
the Western Part of Superior, town of Superior.

1280
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:11,005
So it it it it was we looked

1281
01:09:11,005 --> 01:09:12,684
at that and then that kind of proved

1282
01:09:12,684 --> 01:09:15,564
that we better keep it open. Okay. So

1283
01:09:15,564 --> 01:09:18,604
I'm satisfied with that. You. And the local

1284
01:09:18,604 --> 01:09:20,524
ones, Elle, the people actually have been showing

1285
01:09:20,524 --> 01:09:23,080
up at these meetings and have been pretty

1286
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:24,840
adamant that it needs to be fixed, and

1287
01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:27,800
they've actually been supportive of us taking this

1288
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,479
time to finally get it done. They I

1289
01:09:29,479 --> 01:09:31,320
mean, they understand what we went through to

1290
01:09:31,320 --> 01:09:33,479
try to get this funding. In in hindsight

1291
01:09:33,479 --> 01:09:37,000
too, they they, shortened the bridge in '93

1292
01:09:37,354 --> 01:09:40,314
when they replaced the the previous bridge. And

1293
01:09:40,314 --> 01:09:42,314
I I think that turned out to be

1294
01:09:42,314 --> 01:09:45,195
a mistake. And we've we've lived with it

1295
01:09:45,195 --> 01:09:47,835
ever since. And now with this this upcoming

1296
01:09:47,835 --> 01:09:50,715
project, we're actually putting the bridge back to

1297
01:09:50,715 --> 01:09:56,739
its original position, which no doubt will help.

1298
01:09:56,739 --> 01:09:58,579
I mean, it's not the cure all. Obviously,

1299
01:09:58,579 --> 01:10:01,300
there's there's no guarantee that it will never

1300
01:10:01,300 --> 01:10:04,260
wash out again, but what the project will

1301
01:10:05,235 --> 01:10:07,315
put in a lot of controls to prevent,

1302
01:10:07,315 --> 01:10:09,475
you know, and it would take a lot

1303
01:10:09,475 --> 01:10:12,355
of, you know, major eight hundred to one

1304
01:10:12,355 --> 01:10:14,435
thousand year flood to probably to do what

1305
01:10:14,435 --> 01:10:16,195
it has in the past with with what

1306
01:10:16,195 --> 01:10:18,900
we're doing. Okay, well, you, Mr Baker. I

1307
01:10:18,900 --> 01:10:21,140
was just gonna repeat what you said. We

1308
01:10:21,140 --> 01:10:23,540
had a lot of people at our highway

1309
01:10:23,540 --> 01:10:26,020
meetings wanting the bridge done. We even had

1310
01:10:26,020 --> 01:10:29,460
people show up at this meeting at our

1311
01:10:29,460 --> 01:10:32,565
county regular county board meeting complaining about it.

1312
01:10:32,565 --> 01:10:34,725
And at budget time, it was always a

1313
01:10:34,725 --> 01:10:40,165
big issue. Yep. Right. Any other questions for

1314
01:10:40,165 --> 01:10:43,605
mister Baker, mister Pendency? That foam injected, blacktop,

1315
01:10:43,605 --> 01:10:47,360
that's so that's recycled on-site. Right. Instead of

1316
01:10:47,360 --> 01:10:49,040
hauling it off and We don't haul it

1317
01:10:49,040 --> 01:10:51,119
off. We do it all right there. It's

1318
01:10:51,119 --> 01:10:54,079
pulverized. We bring in a company that does

1319
01:10:54,079 --> 01:10:56,800
the work. Cool. Yeah. It's they come in

1320
01:10:56,800 --> 01:11:00,245
with a little train. They don't know if

1321
01:11:00,245 --> 01:11:01,845
it's a little pug mill or something. Haven't

1322
01:11:01,845 --> 01:11:03,525
seen it yet. This is the first time

1323
01:11:03,525 --> 01:11:07,365
we've tried this in the county. They did

1324
01:11:07,365 --> 01:11:12,485
it on Moccasin Mike Road Years ago, but

1325
01:11:12,485 --> 01:11:14,380
I never went and I didn't I didn't

1326
01:11:14,380 --> 01:11:17,820
see that method. But yeah, they they basically

1327
01:11:17,820 --> 01:11:19,980
pick it up. They grind it up in

1328
01:11:19,980 --> 01:11:24,060
this little mill. They inject foam asphalt, which

1329
01:11:24,060 --> 01:11:30,905
is is basically emulsified asphalt in foam. Form.

1330
01:11:31,465 --> 01:11:36,425
Stay. Go ahead. And then they place it

1331
01:11:36,425 --> 01:11:39,704
back down and roll it. And then it

1332
01:11:39,704 --> 01:11:41,385
has to cure for about a week to

1333
01:11:41,385 --> 01:11:43,065
ten days and then we'll cap it with

1334
01:11:43,065 --> 01:11:47,130
two inches of hot mix. So it's about

1335
01:11:47,130 --> 01:11:52,090
a 30% savings compared to if we pulverized

1336
01:11:52,090 --> 01:11:54,650
and paved it, which if we just pulverized

1337
01:11:54,650 --> 01:11:58,665
it And then had to put two lifts

1338
01:11:58,665 --> 01:12:00,265
of two inches. So we're saving a two

1339
01:12:00,265 --> 01:12:02,265
inch asphalt lift and asphalt is the most

1340
01:12:02,265 --> 01:12:05,545
expensive item that we have in our projects

1341
01:12:05,545 --> 01:12:08,105
now. So we we think it's around 30

1342
01:12:08,105 --> 01:12:10,950
to 35% savings And we can do these

1343
01:12:10,950 --> 01:12:13,750
with roads that we've pulverized and paved in

1344
01:12:13,750 --> 01:12:15,830
the past. And then the ones that we

1345
01:12:15,830 --> 01:12:18,470
haven't done, then we'll we'll still do the

1346
01:12:18,470 --> 01:12:21,990
pulverized and paved method. Okay. Mark, one more

1347
01:12:21,990 --> 01:12:24,365
comment. Go ahead. One thing that we've been

1348
01:12:24,365 --> 01:12:27,405
doing is trying new ideas. We had a

1349
01:12:27,405 --> 01:12:32,125
trouble with highway f, and it was sliding

1350
01:12:32,125 --> 01:12:35,405
out all the time. We brought in and

1351
01:12:35,405 --> 01:12:39,230
put in about 20 feet of Styrofoam high.

1352
01:12:40,670 --> 01:12:43,550
And that is holding it in place. That

1353
01:12:43,550 --> 01:12:47,950
was something we never done. And this is

1354
01:12:47,950 --> 01:12:50,350
the thing the county is trying. We're not

1355
01:12:50,350 --> 01:12:52,865
trying to do the same old thing over

1356
01:12:52,865 --> 01:12:56,145
again. We're trying to try new things. This

1357
01:12:56,145 --> 01:12:59,265
is another new thing. We the styrofoam thing

1358
01:12:59,265 --> 01:13:02,305
worked out real well for us. I think

1359
01:13:02,305 --> 01:13:04,065
we may have to use it on you

1360
01:13:04,065 --> 01:13:07,739
too. But anyways, that's coming later. Highway you.

1361
01:13:07,739 --> 01:13:09,980
Not not Highway you. Jason, not Jason himself.

1362
01:13:09,980 --> 01:13:13,980
On Highway you. Yes. Highway you. Alright. What's

1363
01:13:13,980 --> 01:13:15,980
the what's the life cycle on that, if

1364
01:13:15,980 --> 01:13:18,219
I may ask? What? On the when you're

1365
01:13:18,219 --> 01:13:20,300
doing the The foam or the styrofoam? On

1366
01:13:20,300 --> 01:13:23,755
the foam. On the injection. Yeah, so how?

1367
01:13:23,755 --> 01:13:25,915
Foam injected asphalt, it's about the same as

1368
01:13:25,915 --> 01:13:28,155
as any other roadway, twenty to twenty five

1369
01:13:28,155 --> 01:13:32,475
years. Okay. Lifecycle on the pavement. But as

1370
01:13:32,475 --> 01:13:34,395
a saving of funds is what the, but

1371
01:13:34,395 --> 01:13:37,659
it's a saving of funds. Correct. And then

1372
01:13:37,659 --> 01:13:40,300
it also prevents us from keep building the

1373
01:13:40,300 --> 01:13:43,020
road higher and higher because of our, some

1374
01:13:43,020 --> 01:13:46,460
of our in slopes and slopes are getting

1375
01:13:46,460 --> 01:13:48,300
to the point where we can't keep building

1376
01:13:48,300 --> 01:13:53,175
higher. Alright, let's move on unless there's anything

1377
01:13:53,175 --> 01:13:55,015
I'll move on to zoning and I know

1378
01:13:55,015 --> 01:13:56,775
Joe's not here. Is there somebody from joining

1379
01:13:56,775 --> 01:13:58,295
that was owning that wants to add in

1380
01:13:58,295 --> 01:14:00,855
to what was happening if there's anything important?

1381
01:14:02,054 --> 01:14:05,495
Alright, we'll move on to youth representative report.

1382
01:14:06,050 --> 01:14:12,130
Mister Bilix. Alright. So we're currently on a

1383
01:14:12,130 --> 01:14:14,210
break. I think it's staff development or something.

1384
01:14:14,210 --> 01:14:15,650
They're not allowed to call it Easter break

1385
01:14:15,650 --> 01:14:20,005
for obvious reasons. But basically, we're on break

1386
01:14:20,005 --> 01:14:22,405
until Monday, which is very nice because it

1387
01:14:22,405 --> 01:14:24,485
gives me time to do homework. And it's

1388
01:14:24,485 --> 01:14:26,405
just kind of a break in the middle

1389
01:14:26,405 --> 01:14:30,085
of the semester, which is very helpful, especially

1390
01:14:30,085 --> 01:14:32,565
considering AP tests are coming up, which is

1391
01:14:32,565 --> 01:14:35,969
adding a lot of stress. Just a couple

1392
01:14:35,969 --> 01:14:38,290
weeks ago, we had our ACT and pre

1393
01:14:38,290 --> 01:14:41,409
ACT. So students are getting feedback on that.

1394
01:14:41,409 --> 01:14:43,170
And then we also got our scores back,

1395
01:14:43,170 --> 01:14:48,805
I think, just on Friday last week. Speaking

1396
01:14:48,805 --> 01:14:51,285
of Friday last week, our forensics team went

1397
01:14:51,285 --> 01:14:54,885
down to Madison for state, and every single

1398
01:14:54,885 --> 01:14:57,685
person on our team medaled. We got eight

1399
01:14:57,685 --> 01:15:02,420
gold medals, three silvers, and one bronze. And

1400
01:15:02,420 --> 01:15:04,340
then one is still pending because they're doing

1401
01:15:04,340 --> 01:15:06,980
it online. But this is the second year

1402
01:15:06,980 --> 01:15:08,420
in a row that everyone's made to state

1403
01:15:08,420 --> 01:15:11,060
and it's just amazing how well we did.

1404
01:15:12,340 --> 01:15:14,915
Our FBLA team went to state a couple

1405
01:15:14,915 --> 01:15:18,195
days ago, and they did amazingly as well.

1406
01:15:19,075 --> 01:15:20,915
We had a couple students made it make

1407
01:15:20,915 --> 01:15:23,554
it into the state honors program for music.

1408
01:15:24,355 --> 01:15:26,595
Two people from our orchestra, one from our

1409
01:15:26,595 --> 01:15:29,409
band and one from our choir. So they'll

1410
01:15:29,409 --> 01:15:30,929
be going to a summer camp in the

1411
01:15:30,929 --> 01:15:33,809
summer, and then they'll have concerts down in

1412
01:15:33,809 --> 01:15:37,249
Madison in October. And it's really special because

1413
01:15:38,130 --> 01:15:40,690
I don't know how competitive the other section

1414
01:15:40,690 --> 01:15:44,050
is, but at least for violins, there's only

1415
01:15:44,050 --> 01:15:47,505
like, I wanna say 50 spots throughout the

1416
01:15:47,505 --> 01:15:50,864
entire state. And we had one violinist go

1417
01:15:50,864 --> 01:15:57,720
and then a cellist go as well. We

1418
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,200
had a UWS math meet a couple weeks

1419
01:16:00,200 --> 01:16:03,080
ago, and our team from SHS took first

1420
01:16:03,080 --> 01:16:04,920
place. So congrats to them. I think it

1421
01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:06,600
was a team of about six people or

1422
01:16:06,600 --> 01:16:11,764
so. We had solo and ensemble just like

1423
01:16:11,764 --> 01:16:13,684
a week or two after our last meeting.

1424
01:16:14,165 --> 01:16:16,724
26 different groups made to state, and they'll

1425
01:16:16,724 --> 01:16:19,125
be competing down in Eau Claire in a

1426
01:16:19,125 --> 01:16:22,005
couple of weeks. We have our ninth grade

1427
01:16:22,005 --> 01:16:24,724
transition night on April 23 where we have

1428
01:16:24,724 --> 01:16:27,010
eighth graders come in and kinda check out

1429
01:16:27,010 --> 01:16:28,610
the high school work, see where their classes

1430
01:16:28,610 --> 01:16:30,929
are, join clubs, that kinda thing. It's very

1431
01:16:30,929 --> 01:16:34,050
important. It's been very successful in kinda increasing

1432
01:16:34,050 --> 01:16:36,849
our outreach and getting people involved in activities.

1433
01:16:37,810 --> 01:16:40,610
Yesterday, we had a jazz concert, which from

1434
01:16:40,610 --> 01:16:43,145
what I heard went very well. Then we

1435
01:16:43,145 --> 01:16:45,785
have prom on the twenty sixth, which a

1436
01:16:45,785 --> 01:16:47,625
lot of people are very excited about. I'm

1437
01:16:47,625 --> 01:16:52,185
already seeing posters and it's just chaos. We

1438
01:16:52,185 --> 01:16:54,505
also have student council elections going on right

1439
01:16:54,505 --> 01:16:56,745
now. I believe there's a debate coming up.

1440
01:16:57,510 --> 01:17:00,309
And then we also had NHS elections, which

1441
01:17:00,309 --> 01:17:03,030
we selected all of our new officers and

1442
01:17:03,030 --> 01:17:06,550
stuff for that. So overall, the start of

1443
01:17:06,550 --> 01:17:08,869
our fourth quarter is going pretty well. And

1444
01:17:09,429 --> 01:17:11,575
I think we only have like one or

1445
01:17:11,575 --> 01:17:13,495
two months left of school, which is kind

1446
01:17:13,495 --> 01:17:18,375
of terrifying, but you know. All right. Any

1447
01:17:18,375 --> 01:17:21,335
questions in for Mr. Blix? All right. Good

1448
01:17:21,335 --> 01:17:25,620
job. Thank you. I have a question. Are

1449
01:17:26,100 --> 01:17:29,140
you having a musical this year or play

1450
01:17:29,540 --> 01:17:33,540
this Yes, completely forgot to mention that. We

1451
01:17:34,020 --> 01:17:37,060
have High School Musical going on mid May.

1452
01:17:37,745 --> 01:17:40,545
I think it's around the thirteenth, around that

1453
01:17:40,545 --> 01:17:44,545
weekend. And from what I've heard, I'm not

1454
01:17:44,545 --> 01:17:46,465
actively involved this with this one because I

1455
01:17:46,465 --> 01:17:49,185
haven't had time. But it looks like it's

1456
01:17:49,185 --> 01:17:51,025
coming along very well, and I think it'll

1457
01:17:51,025 --> 01:17:53,840
be a very good show. Do you know

1458
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:57,199
what the title is? High School Musical. It's

1459
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:00,080
a high school musical at Superior High School.

1460
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:06,375
Thank Thank you. I think we're to the

1461
01:18:06,375 --> 01:18:08,375
point where we're gonna talk about future agenda

1462
01:18:08,375 --> 01:18:10,934
items. No. So I'm Can I make your

1463
01:18:10,934 --> 01:18:13,574
comments, sir? Sure. Sorry, mister Baker. Just I

1464
01:18:13,815 --> 01:18:17,415
wanna commend Casey and her team about now

1465
01:18:17,415 --> 01:18:20,750
having I've been meaning to do this at

1466
01:18:20,750 --> 01:18:24,750
a meeting before, the correspondence at the end

1467
01:18:24,750 --> 01:18:27,710
of the list. That makes it a much

1468
01:18:27,710 --> 01:18:36,894
easier using document. Thank you. All right. We

1469
01:18:36,894 --> 01:18:38,655
have the approval of the bills and claims,

1470
01:18:38,655 --> 01:18:41,215
pay the bills and the claims here. All

1471
01:18:41,215 --> 01:18:44,175
right. Motion by mister Jocas, second by mister

1472
01:18:44,175 --> 01:18:48,180
Cummings. Any questions? Seeing none, all in favor

1473
01:18:48,180 --> 01:18:51,220
of the motion signify by saying aye. Opposed?

1474
01:18:51,220 --> 01:18:54,739
Motion carries. Future agenda items next week or

1475
01:18:54,739 --> 01:18:56,980
next month, I believe if everything works out,

1476
01:18:56,980 --> 01:18:58,980
we're going to have the DOT here and

1477
01:18:58,980 --> 01:19:01,215
they're going to kind of respond to our

1478
01:19:01,215 --> 01:19:03,375
request to actually tell them what is the

1479
01:19:03,375 --> 01:19:06,975
plan for Superior. How are we gonna, which

1480
01:19:06,975 --> 01:19:09,695
roads are gonna be and what they're gonna

1481
01:19:09,695 --> 01:19:12,495
be changed to or changed from and maybe

1482
01:19:12,495 --> 01:19:15,120
what they're expecting. I hope that Jason's here

1483
01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:16,720
and he can ask her because I asked

1484
01:19:16,720 --> 01:19:18,080
her the same thing. I said, you know,

1485
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:19,760
our highway guy said you should close that

1486
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,960
bridge down for five days right now so

1487
01:19:22,960 --> 01:19:24,720
that you can see what the traffic patterns

1488
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:27,120
are in Superior. And then we'd have time

1489
01:19:27,120 --> 01:19:29,704
to actually prepare to fix them when the

1490
01:19:29,704 --> 01:19:32,665
bridge actually closes forever. So we'll see if

1491
01:19:32,665 --> 01:19:34,505
we can maybe ask her that question and

1492
01:19:34,505 --> 01:19:36,585
see what she's Pardon me, Mr. Not forever.

1493
01:19:36,585 --> 01:19:40,264
Sure. Pardon? It's not closing forever. Close enough.

1494
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,159
Thank Be positive here. I will be positive.

1495
01:19:44,159 --> 01:19:47,280
Seven years is a long time. How many?

1496
01:19:49,679 --> 01:19:53,280
Okay. Four to five is what they're saying.

1497
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,360
At some point, we'll have a bet on

1498
01:19:55,360 --> 01:19:58,215
the date and closure. We'll do that. Like

1499
01:19:58,215 --> 01:20:00,135
a pool. Arm wrestlers. That's right. No, I

1500
01:20:00,135 --> 01:20:03,655
want to make money on this. All right.

1501
01:20:03,655 --> 01:20:06,135
So, that'll be next month and so if

1502
01:20:06,135 --> 01:20:08,215
you've got questions, start preparing them because I

1503
01:20:08,215 --> 01:20:10,614
told her that, you know, what our requests

1504
01:20:10,614 --> 01:20:12,135
are and what our answers are are gonna

1505
01:20:12,135 --> 01:20:15,300
have to be asked and respond to us.

1506
01:20:15,620 --> 01:20:17,060
Any other future items, get a hold of

1507
01:20:17,060 --> 01:20:18,500
me, Casey, and we'll see what we can

1508
01:20:18,500 --> 01:20:20,179
do. Now, I'm looking for a motion of

1509
01:20:20,179 --> 01:20:23,699
germinate. Our next meeting is May 15. Okay,

1510
01:20:23,699 --> 01:20:27,085
motion made by Mr. Lustry, second by Mr.

1511
01:20:27,085 --> 01:20:29,085
Slay. All in favor of the motion signify

1512
01:20:29,085 --> 01:20:32,125
by saying aye. Opposed, we are now adjourned.

1513
01:20:32,125 --> 01:20:34,045
Thank you again for coming to the meeting.