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to the light.

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» Okay. Call the meeting to order with the
pledge of allegiance.

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I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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» Roll trader
>> here.

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» Come on, challen.

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» [clears throat]
>> Open meeting compliance.

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» Uh the agenda was posted on September
4th on the town of Fort Wago internet

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calendar as well as North Side Auto
Repair and it was sent by email to the

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daily register.
>> Very good.

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» Well, the agenda I'm happy if you guys
are happy.

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» Yeah. I make a motion to accept the
agenda as written and seconded.

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» Okay. We got a motion, a second to
accept the agenda as printed. All in

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favor? I opposed hearing. None. Motion
carries.

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Moving on to our minutes from our last
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» I read through them and didn't see
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» Let me make a motion to approve the last
month's meetings.

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» Okay, [clears throat]
>> I'll second. Okay, we got a motion, a

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second to approve our last month's
meetings as presented. All in favor?

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» I oppose.
Motion carries.

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» Treasures report. Kelly will give us the
highlights.

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» All right. So, for last month incoming,
we did have a fire bill. Just one fire

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bill that was paid. That's the one that
we got. That was that credit card um

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we're talking about. Um incoming.
Otherwise, we had just interest

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straggler dog payment. Um, big one that
was out of the norm for us is we got our

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general engineering permit
reimbursements, which are usually

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$30, $40, but because we've got four new
constructions and a few other things

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going on. It was considerably larger
than normal. Um, and then we did also

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get the August settlement from the
county. So that was a big payment that

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came in for the finalization of our
taxes for 2025.

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Um interest is still running in LGIP at
3.68. So just under four still. So right

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about the same it's been for over the
last few months.

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Outgoing we had was the bills we paid at
last month's meeting. Nothing changed or

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anything from that when they were
approved.

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Um budget wise getting towards the end
of the year. Obviously we watched a

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little bit closer. Um but so far
everything is looking really good.

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Nothing
nothing that we're concerned about or or

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is a worry of going over at this point.
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available still.

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» All righty.

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I make a motion to accept the budget
report.

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» Okay. I'll second it.
>> Okay, we got a motion, second to accept

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the budget as presented. All in favor? I
opposed. Hearing none. Motion carried.

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Thank you.
>> Our Columbia County Supervisor front and

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center already.
>> Yeah.

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Uh so there's a lot going on in the
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know that you guys are all that familiar
with it, but um

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actually today, tonight, by the end of
the night, is the night that you would

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have or the last day you would have to
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um
uh what do I say here? Just submit your

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concerns over that. And I know that
doesn't affect this township,

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but they're looking for everybody to
kind of submit

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um the concerns because it's it's a big
deal for our county. Um and what's

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happening is there's some state
requirements that are listed in order

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from one to four. And forgive me, I
don't have them memorized. But the first

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requirement the state would want you to
satisfy is to follow all the existing

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corridors, meaning
um interstate systems, railroad systems

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or existing um infrastructure that's
already there. And unfortunately, this

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uh route, which you guys may already be
familiar with, is just blazing a new

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trail in some cases through people's
yards. Um, it's a pretty big deal. And

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this is not your typical power line. So,
if you can think about our biggest power

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line in our county, this is
a, you know, four or five times bigger

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with the amount of energy it's it's uh
sending down it. So, it's a pretty big

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deal and I would actually very strongly
recommend that uh you would uh if you if

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you could you have interest submit
comment on it and the websites you want

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to go to is mgs-pros.com.

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Um,
so if you look that up, it'll give you a

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portal or whatever to uh submit your
comments, concerns on it. Um

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there's a lot of concerns. There's nine
county [clears throat] board chairs that

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are getting together to meet and try and
push back because this is affecting a

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lot of other counties in the state with
the same concerns that we have. So, um

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with that, I don't know, maybe you guys
already have some of this information or

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or if you have any questions beyond what
I'm telling you, go ahead and ask. I'll

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try and answer them if I can. But um
going back to the order that the state

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requires um
the way they blaze this trail is like

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the last option in the line. So um
they're not really being all that

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sensitive to what the state requires. So
our big concern is that the state just

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follows its own rules and pushes back at
them. So that's where I really think our

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comments and concerns really pushing on
the state to say, "Hey, let's stay with

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on our own rules that we have as a
state." That's what I'd like to see have

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happen. Um, and um, I do have something
else. I don't know if you remember, I

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don't know if this was probably three
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horsedrawn vehicle stuff and I've got
some uh, copies from Oaklair County. I

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got four of them actually. I was going
to give them to

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the uh supervisors and then uh the
clerk, but if you look on this this

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these are just black and [clears throat]
white copies, but uh this first page

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just kind of highlights it. The second
page actually shows you what the

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ordinance that they adopted is. And I
like it a lot. There's some other

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ordinances out there, but I think this
is pretty simple and um gives you

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something to think about that is maybe
something you guys would consider

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adopting here in our town or your
township.

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» You had mentioned something about
Marcelin was looking in at something

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like this too if they
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guys are at. Not not nothing's been
lifted off the table yet, but uh I'll

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keep you informed if if if they start
proceeding and going ahead with it.

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give us something we can look over and
put on the agenda for another meeting.

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Anyway,
>> without having read this, does this deal

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with both their waste and deal with the
hubs problem or

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» Yeah, if you look at the second page,
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» you can see
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» Yeah, you can see damage to roads and
then the waste.

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» And I think it's pretty short, a little
not not overly

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uh exhaustive. It's pretty simple. Is
there some way they can put some

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identification numbers on their buggies,
too? So, if a person

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» Well, that's not a that's that's a state
issue. We can't I I we we can't address

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that. So, I I I would say yes. Let's
talk to our state and say, "Hey, can we

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get some more identification on these
things? Maybe get them licensed." I

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would like that for sure.
>> How do you identify? But I mean, for us

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as you guys as [clears throat] a
township, you don't have jurisdiction,

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» but
I think the state should should

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definitely consider doing something with
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» You know, they've been fighting. I mean,
slowing vehicle signs took them about 15

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years to get on there because of their
religious deals.

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» Yeah. Finally, the state got them to do
the flashing light

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» things. Yeah. They're really it's really
hard to

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» any type of reflection that is better
than nothing,

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» right?
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I mean because of their religious
concerns, which is religious freedom.

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But anyway,
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pretty simple. Then I think if you guys
had an interest in it, it's very

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» it's easy for you guys to to deal with.
The only problem is any ordinance that

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we pass, we have to the county won't
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And so,
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push on the county to embrace these
similar ordinance. Actually,

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» uh Don Nichols gave me that information.
So, he he's looking into it as a

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commissioner for the for the highway.
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brought me back with this and he really
likes that. not not overly exhausted,

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but just kind of it's the
>> So, if we get enough town interest and

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the county
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» adopts it, then we've got some coverage
anyway.

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» Absolutely. So, I'll keep working on
Don.

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» Well, I can talk to him, too.
>> Yeah, it would be good. Everybody that

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could kind of just same way with the 765
line, just kind of keep putting pressure

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on them. The more invoices they get
involved, the better. So,

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Yeah. And there's four routes on that
line. I've seen the map, but of course

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they haven't.
>> Yeah.

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» Is [clears throat] it going to happen
one way or another?

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» The line's going to happen.
Unfortunately, the way [clears throat]

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the executive orders got handed out the
first part of 2025, the line's going to

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happen. But
we do have the jurisdiction as a state

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to say no, you can't you can't blaze new
trails just through people's property

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like that. [laughter]
So, so that's where I think we really

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just need to get have the state say, you
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» stay in the corridors.
>> Yes. because there, you know, one of the

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comments that has been talked about, ATC
was one of the biders on that line and

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ATC didn't get the contract and they
have the main line going down the

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interstate. Well, ATC's now saying,
"Well, we don't want you guys along our

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lines." Well, it's like Spectrum and
Verizon go down the same ditch. We just

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got to work with each other, you know?
>> I mean, they got their antennas on the

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same towers.
>> Yeah. So we need to

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» so everybody, you know, has to just
learn to we can force them to get along,

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but you know, they're big companies and
they're trying to push their weight

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around
and unfortunately a lot of the private

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citizens are going to get hurt by that.
So that's where I think we just need to

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speak up, you know, otherwise we're
going to lose the lifestyle we have and

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keep letting these kinds of things
happen. But

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» any other questions?

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I don't believe so.
Thank you for the information.

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» Yeah, if you don't mind, I'm going to
>> We appreciate why we got you up here

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early, Steve. I know you're a busy guy.
Thank you. Have a good evening.

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» Okay. Citizen input, questions,
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» I just had a question about the um
treasurer's report. I saw the country

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plumber $700. What was that for? Was
that for the new town home?

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» It will be. It was Oh, that was for the
Yeah, for the perk test.

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» The perk test.
>> Okay, thank you.

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» Yep, that was for the perk test.

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» Yes. Anything else?
Okay, moving on. Uh, new business. I got

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the Grey Drake Saloon special event
permit September 26.

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» Yeah. [clears throat] Um,
great Sloan has properly filed the

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paperwork and made the payment uh for
the application to have outdoor live

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music on the 26th of September
um from 3 to 7:00 p.m. and u the

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neighbors have been notified with no
responses either way.

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» That should be fine.
I make the motion to accept a special

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report
events.

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» Second.
>> Okay, I got a motion, a second to allow

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the graduates to saloon to uh have their
special event.

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All in favor? I oppose. [laughter]
None. Motion carries. [clears throat]

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Moving on. Danish farm structure.
you want to tell us about it?

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» So, we're asking to build a
to start a 30 by 40 going to be a barn

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to house our cattle and we get our house
up in the interim of between housing

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gathering be a storage shed till our
house is up and we move. If you look at

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the I know my wife emailed the kind of
tenative plan. I put two structures on

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there because we're also wanting to put
up a fabric coverall for now to also

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have a little bit additional storage to
house things over the winter.

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» Right. And just for board information,
they've got the

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we approved the reszone for a rural
residential lot. But now the way with um

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farmland preservation and the way it's
set up now, if you're going to put a

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building on the same owned property but
on a separate lot, you got to get a a

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permit [laughter] plus another emergency
response number for that second lot, the

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second building. So, it's something that
we're going to see more of in the future

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here.
>> Yeah. So, the second lot, what is that

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zone then?
>> Yeah, it's a a agriculture. Yeah. With

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an A4 overlay on it. So,
>> yeah. And it's But it's just the fact

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that if the building was on the
residential lot, then it wouldn't have

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to be redone. But see, it's on the lot
with no house on this always does that

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process. So,
>> so it's our hope to file this and

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emergency response form together with
the county.

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» Yeah.
>> Pending your approval.

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» Yeah. I make a motion to approve it.
>> Seconded.

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» Okay. We got a motion, a second to
approve the Spanish farm structure. All

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in favor? I see none. Motion.
I got something I need to sign.

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» [clears throat]
>> You want that copy or you want the copy

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we have filled out and handwritten.
>> Which one's better with the

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» Well, I need one for my record. So,
maybe give them both and then he can

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sign one for you and one for me.

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» I think it just

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» What kind of cattle you bringing in?
>> So, my daughter shows pigs and we show

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sheep. She took grand champion with her
Dur Rock down at state fair this year

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and made the governor's auction.
>> And then we have right now we have three

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head of beef cattle that we've gotten
bred to Cav in June next year. June.

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» We're holding off because just not
knowing exactly when we're going to move

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into the house
>> and then we've got some

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» so we can hopefully be there and cving
there. And then we have some dairy heers

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too. And then we'll have chickens and
>> stuff. That'll be good.

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» Few barn dads. 4 on steroids is what
this is.

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» So, originally we wanted to build the
whole 30 by 40 that was going to be the

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egg storage shop area. Well, when you
move, you're moving. We're not moving

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just a household. We're moving whole
lifestyle to a new property. So, it's

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» what is the necessities to actually live
there and it becomes well, if you're

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going to move, cattle are the necessity.
>> They come with us. So, let's see if that

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or sell them. And I'm not going to break
my kids hearts. They can't have their

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cattle. They work so hard. She was
placing really well with her dairy heers

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and shows. So, she's worked hard to get
these genetics and

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» herd built up for herself.
>> So,

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» yeah, we went through all that as a kid.
>> Good luck.

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» Thank you.
>> You have any more kids?

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» Just the two.
>> Yeah. One is interested in dogs.

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» Dogs. Oh, okay. We'll have to discuss
this later. [laughter]

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That is the number one priority moving
to the studio. [clears throat]

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» That was one of the things moving them
when they're like friends. Do we get a

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dog? Because we're our dog passed away
about two years ago and they've been

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heartbroken without like we're not
getting a dog too busy. We're gone.

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We're we're never home. Like don't put a
dog through it. And I was like, "No, get

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a dog. Get a fire dog.
>> There's always a place to take."

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» Yeah. [laughter]
>> Anniey's probably got one she'd like to

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get get through.
>> All righty. takes care of that. Uh,

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annual budget workshop will follow the
meeting tonight. So, if you're

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» not tonight,
>> tonight. Oh, I'm sorry. You're

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absolutely right.
>> Next month.

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» Justformational. So, next month.
>> Next month. Following October.

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» Need to stay a little late. Work on the
budget as as a board.

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» Yep. Sorry about that.
Okay, moving on to the old business

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then. Uh we got proposals for our town
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Um
the last meeting we uh kind of accepted

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the Davis construction one for the
digging. Well, we also need to move put

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more into that one because we didn't
have enough for him to get the driveway

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and stuff into the project. So, uh, we
need to ex accept the rest of that

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proposal they gave us for the black top
and the driveway

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gravel to get so we can get in there to
do the work in the basement. So, uh, we

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actually wrote a check out for that
tonight. So, um, I guess

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we can go down through these and we can
make a motion to do them all at once or

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we can do them individually. Do you want
to do

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» them one at a time?
>> Want to do them one at a time. All

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right. So, I guess I would ask for a
motion to uh accept the rest of Davis's

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proposal from
>> I make a motion to accept the rest of

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Davis's proposal.
>> I will second that.

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» All right. Thank you. We got a motion to
second to finish out the Davis proposal

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last month. All in favor? I opposed. He
none. Motion carries.

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We'll move on to the plumbing quotes. I
did get three of them back finally. Uh,

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country plumber was in at a total of
19,125

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for the septic and plumbing that would
need to take place. Um, Terry Town

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Plumbing was in it.
>> Let's keep septic se if we can.

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» Okay.
>> Want just plumbing right now.

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» You want just plumbing right now? Okay.
Country plumber was at 1084

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$10,840
for just the plumbing.

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Terry Town.
>> Terry Town is at $11,453.87.

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And Hoffman,
I think you got it all in one

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» at the very top.
>> Very top 15,000 for Oh, yeah. Okay, I

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got it. Uh, that's 15,000 Hoffman's.
Well, on that one. $16,800 for this.

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» No septic.
>> Not on that one. The septic's on the

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other
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» So, it sounds like Country Plumbers.
>> Yeah, seems to be our man. So, yeah, I

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guess I would ask for a motion to go
with country plumber on the plumbing

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part of it at 19,125
or Well, I'm sorry, just to get back

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10,840.
Yeah, I'll make a motion that we accept

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country plumber for our plumbing.
>> Okay, we got a motion second to accept

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country plumber at 10,840 for the
plumbing [clears throat] part of the

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new structure.
So, now we'll move on to the septic part

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of it then. Uh, country plumber was
$8,285.

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Um, I lost Terry Towns right here. Um
they were $12,789

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» and um Hoffman was $10,550.
So Country Plumber was the lowest bid at

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$8,285.
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» I'll make a motion that we use country
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» I second.
>> Okay, we got a motion, a second to use

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country plumber for the septic system.
All in favor? I oppose hearing. None.

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Motion carried.

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Um, electrical po electrical proposals.
I only got one back out of four that I

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contacted. That one is in our town, uh,
which is H&M, which is Bean Hole over on

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F. and he came in at $6,571
and indicated that seeing he was a town

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resident there would might be a big
discount on the labor. So, but at this

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point he's $6,57167
and he was the only one that responded

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back. So, [clears throat]
>> I'll make a motion to accept.

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» I second it. Okay, we got a motion, a
second to accept

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H&M electrical
for the electrical part of the project.

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And
last but not least, I guess for tonight

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anyway, flooring in the structure. Um,
out of the four I contacted, I got two

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back. Um, Freedom here in Portage came
in at $9,345.

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That's uh for carpeting in the main
meeting room, the square carpeting, so

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if something happens, you can replace it
one of them, and then vinyl plank

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through the rest of the structure. Um,

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flooring center and Baroo come in at
$10,72064.

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So at that rate um freedom is $1,300
cheaper than the one in Barabou. So I

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guess my
uh recommendation is freedom. So I make

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a motion to accept freedom freedom
carping estimate.

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» Yeah, I'll second that.
>> Okay, I got a motion a second to accept

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freedom carpeting proposal
city. All in favor? I opposed

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non motion carried.
Thank you. Um

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» one question on yes stuff. So the
meetings obviously with the county

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completed.
>> Oh yes.

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» So
>> September 2nd first we had a meeting at

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the county or the county not to approve
our map change which we had to do for

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the land because it was agriculture. Now
it's going to uh light commercial. So

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that we had to change our land use map
and then our zoning was approved at that

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meeting. So it'll go to the county board
I think on the 15th here for final

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approval and our the land will be able
to be changed over to us anyway. So that

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part of it's done
and I think

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» how are we doing on the permits
>> permits? Um once we get zoning changed

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then we can get the permits get our we
got to get a certified survey before we

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can get our permits. Uh it's been kind
of a

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up and down ride.
We thought we were going to get by

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without having
to have to have it state inspected and

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there's been some misinformation. I
thought we needed need to be under

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22,000 square ft. Well, then um
Wisconsin Homes thought we needed to be

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under 25,000
cubic feet, but

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it's they well I actually thought we had
to be under 50,000, but the rule is we

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had to be under 25,000 cubic feet. Well,
when you start looking at cubic feet,

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they use the crawl space, the living
space, and the basement. And so, um, if

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we would have been one building on a
slab, we'd have made it. But when we got

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to have a basement under it or crawl
space under it, we're over that. And so,

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our plans right now are at the state
being inspected. And that's why they

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want our license numbers from our
electricians and our HVAC people and our

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plumbing for their state inspection
plans. And so it's been kind of an up

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and down week on getting things done a
month actually. Um and then of course

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then well now that we're in there, the
state inspector lives up north, way up

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north someplace. And so um he'll either
be have to come down or we'll have to do

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pictures. They got to look at the
reinforcing rods and the footings and

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reinforcement rods in the walls and all
this stuff has to be done one step at a

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time before we can move forward every
time. So, um the county and general

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energy is the town's inspector for your
any resident, but they will not touch

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anything that's uh commercial or
institutional. So anyway,

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um yeah,
that's kind of where we are. And I guess

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that's about where we are. And I was
hoping they were supposed to get the

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corn off here by the 1st of October. So
if they get the corn off and we can get

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in there digging and a few things, maybe
we can get a basement before

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November when they have to in November
they have to start heating the concrete

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and whatever and the price goes up. So,
if we can't get it in before November,

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we probably won't get it. So, if we can
get it in before November and get a

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septic and a well in, they can set the
structure in December or anytime as long

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as the weather's decent if we don't get
a lot of snow. So, we'll see if we get

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how far we get before fall or
[clears throat]

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» and now it's going before the county
board on the 16th, right?

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» Yes. Yes. That'll be our final step.
Then we can start getting our permits.

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We have the same problem with you.
>> That's good. [laughter]

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» They don't they don't give us any
shortcuts.

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» And maybe more so because we got now we
got the state involved. So that's four

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to six weeks
before the game will start building. So

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yeah.
Um otherwise we had a county unit

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meeting
back here on I don't know early second

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first Thursday I think it was. Anyway,
um talked about that power line that

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Josiah just talked about. Uh it's a big
deal. A lot of the county board members

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are getting a lot of heat, a lot of bad
publicity on

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some of the

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[laughter] big public channels out
there. Um we also talked about data

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centers. Um, Columbia County is one of
the few counties that has a already has

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an ordinance on data centers. Um, in
order to do a data center in Columbia

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County, it's got to be on industrial
zone land. And the only two parcels in

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Columbia County are in Marcel and that
would be big enough. And one is out by

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the power plant and that one is all low
ground so it's not buildable. Marcella

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» or Marc did I [laughter] say Pacific?
I'm sorry there again my mouth didn't

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know what my brain was doing. Anyway, uh
Pacific. So the power plant one won't

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work and the other one is behind UNM and
that's in some kind of a wildlife

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privately owned thing. So that one's not
available to build on. And so basically

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Columbia County is somewhat immune to
any big data centers coming in. So, um,

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I guess if you don't if you like data
centers, it's bad news. If you don't

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like them, it's good news. So,
that was basically some of the

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information I picked up there.
Uh, otherwise, that's that

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communications, I guess.
>> Um, I put down there that the Department

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of Administration sent out our
preliminary population

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uh for 2026 being 816, which is
the same as it was in 2025. So, I'm just

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passing that along that our population
is staying the same.

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» And Mark just brought me a letter here
today that he got, but they were meeting

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back on September second, but they're
going to redo CX from uh basically the

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city limits by tractor supply all the
way over to um 16 basically Silver Lake

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Drive over there. So, that'll be a 2027
project. So, um,

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» is any of that in Fort Lago?
>> No, it'll be

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it'll it'll start right at the city
limits probably right there supply and

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it'll probably go through uh we own
property

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» on up there Henry Drive side of it, but
I don't think it goes down to

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» Well, it might be Fort Wayne, but it
would be

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The county actually owns the rightway so
it wouldn't be for the ditch.

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» Yeah, you won't have to drive down the
shoulder out there. So anyway, that

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would be good news.
>> You said that the 2027.

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» Yeah, there you go. If you want to take
a peek at it

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if we have any input on if you want us
to respond back or 16. So I don't know.

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I'm fine with it.
>> It's a rough one.

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Um, otherwise you don't have anything
else, sir?

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» I do not.
>> Okay. You got a

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Okay. Somebody want to make a motion to
pay the bills?

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» Make a motion to pay the bills.
>> I will second that.

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» Okay. We got a motion, a second to pay
the bills. All in favor?

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» I opposed. Hearing none. Motion carried.
The bills will be paid here shortly. So,

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they're already paid, but we approved
the truck. Okay.

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Uh, upcoming meetings. I guess the only
one we got is our next meeting right

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here on October 5th.
And like I said, there will be a short

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workshop afterward where we try to come
up with a new agenda or a new a budget

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for our 2027 year. So,

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you guys want to go home?

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Motion

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second. Okay, we got a motion second to
adjourn. All in favor? I opposed

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folks. Thanks for coming. Appreciate it.
Did you have anything, Annie?

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» No.
>> Just come to [clears throat] talk to

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» so we can see your smiling face.
>> Smiling face, huh?

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» Just find a home for those cats. I I
decided that she could find her own home