[This transcript was generated automatically from audio using AI and hasn't been reviewed by a person -- it can contain mistakes, including plausible-sounding sentences that were never actually said. Treat it as a starting point, not a verbatim record.] [0:00] It is now eight o'clock. We will open the Keith County Board of Commissioners' Meeting. I do want to note that the Open Meetings Act is posted up on the northwest door. We will open the meeting with a moment of silence in honor of our Armed Services and First Responders, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. [0:17] I [0:32] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for [0:39] which it stands one nation under God in indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [0:48] Good morning, Sandy. [0:50] Good morning. [0:50] Can we get a vote called please? [0:53] Anderson. [0:54] President. [0:55] Yes. [0:56] President. [0:58] Yes. [0:59] I'll make a motion to prove the agenda. [1:01] Second. [1:01] Motion by Anderson, seconded by Wartman to approve today's agenda, roll call please. [1:07] Irvin? Yes. [1:08] Wartman? Yes. [1:10] Anderson? Yes. [1:11] Krandel? Yes. [1:13] I'll make a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting. [1:17] Second. [1:18] Motion by Anderson, seconded by Irvin to approve the minutes of the previous meeting, roll [1:23] call. [1:24] Wartman? [1:25] I have a state. [1:26] Irvin? Yes. [1:28] Anderson? Yes. [1:29] Krandel? Yes. [1:30] Yes. [1:31] I'll make a motion to approve the claim. [1:35] Motion by Whartman. [1:36] Second by Anderson to approve the payment of the claims. [1:39] Roll call, please. [1:41] Urban? [1:42] Yes. [1:43] Anderson? [1:43] Yes. [1:44] Whartman? [1:44] Yes. [1:45] Crandall. [1:47] Okay. [1:48] Public Forum is now open. [1:51] I'll look for some Chris again. [1:54] I think for us today. [1:55] I don't have anything to excite. [1:56] and working on rural things in the jail, started some work over the road for many, [2:03] as far as a couple of projects instead of starting up a date here, bathroom facilities [2:09] and stuff like that. [2:11] Same. [2:19] Anything on the, yeah, sorry. [2:21] I can't even change the lights over there. [2:24] You see, you see, you see, you see. [2:25] Thank you. [2:26] That's what I was going to do. [2:27] I just got a question, if they would have been a Saturday. [2:31] Yeah, Saturday. [2:32] A week ago. [2:34] Yeah, you went to Florida. [2:35] And then they also did an electrical update Friday. [2:40] So I was over-existing here and there. [2:43] There, I'm glad you're doing that. [2:46] Did you get that group we're going? [2:49] Yeah. [2:49] So it just needs a new plug. I'm waiting to hear back the electricians if they were going to replace it [2:55] Either way, it's still usable. It's just a plug at some point heated [2:59] That heated up a little bit [3:02] That's all it was [3:03] Yeah, it was nothing super they didn't have to rewire or no [3:09] They all they ran [3:11] Separate circuits to other stuff. Yeah, that was the major project [3:15] But the Poofer itself [3:17] Now, the plus dot protocol point needs to be replaced, and it was one of those where, you know, suggested replacing it. [3:25] It's okay, or you guys have a letter and you want to do it. [3:28] I'm still waiting. [3:30] Yeah, I think that's good. [3:36] Paul, you got anything for us today? [3:38] Our deputies are doing amazing in the Academy. [3:41] They're week five already. [3:43] They're chugged along through this dude remarkable with their education and I'd like to say that I'm the best time ever. [3:53] So they're having the best time ever. [3:56] We're getting closer to the truck outfit for the build. [4:01] Hopefully within February we'll have that thing on the road and running around like we've never seen it before. [4:06] We have 11 in the jail, six out of the jail, and one coming. [4:12] So, that's what we got going on? [4:17] Quick question on Academy. [4:19] They're down there all the whole time. [4:21] Monday through Friday. [4:23] Monday through. [4:23] They get to come home. [4:24] They come home on the weekends and go back on Sunday. [4:27] Okay. [4:28] I was just curious how that all worked. [4:31] Well, yeah. [4:32] Excuse me. [4:33] All right. [4:33] Thank you very much. [4:35] Thank you. [4:35] You know, time has got a report for us today. [4:39] We're just trying to learn, trying to hate everybody healthy [4:44] and there, did better so far this week. [4:47] Last, which, five weeks, we haven't had [4:49] a full staff any day. [4:52] We're looking at doing, kind of, coming in and giving [4:54] you guys a general high report for the road department. [4:58] Kind of, we've been going through and auditing our roads, [5:03] looking at assessing all of our equipment or pavement and gravel and we're just [5:08] kind of compiling a lot of information so we're going to kind of come in and [5:10] present that to you guys at some point but I wanted to meet Dave we're all five [5:15] meter here in the next month so I was kind of intimately looking at like March [5:19] 4th is the meeting not sure if everyone's here or not now in PCA I don't know I might [5:32] few days and trying to get something scheduled out to make a notice to the public too, [5:38] and we do them out just for kind of a thousand new leaders working in the show. [5:45] Really good. [5:46] We're still time waiting for things to balance on the roll over from electric to the gas [5:54] for the local governments in the bend. [5:56] So far we've already dropped 500 on our electric bills. [5:58] I don't know if we can have more of that than I can even have here, but so far so good. [6:08] Thomas, what's your computer situation here at Discuss? [6:13] We have new laptops. [6:15] Well, the two computers we have were they had no having a memory on them, so they were just paper weights. [6:21] I couldn't even open time lunch, or so I ordered [6:23] Caleb and Tom laptops for the office. [6:26] They could take a more of you, them and Docs. [6:29] We got those, I scheduled last week with five minds [6:32] for Monday and morning to get those online [6:35] and then come in a couple of days [6:37] to get all their tools and everything on there. [6:40] Get them up in that way, no problem. [6:42] But then trying to get the accounts actually set up [6:46] for probably driving roads, common driving, [6:53] We're going to pretty good on computers now, we have those, we're waiting on some monitors to show up today, so they can just plug in their laptop and add it rather than buying desktops, it's kind of a lot on that. [7:06] Since they're more on the go, they can have them as a pick up with them. [7:10] Right. [7:14] Yeah, I'm just just concerned about you know what they're doing for us. [7:18] Oh, every staff member I talked to at five, nine's was, they were great. [7:24] I mean, they were, the none of them were overly confident in their ability [7:27] when it came to doing something or not doing something. [7:31] It was just that we got a passion, a long passion, a long passion, a long night deal. [7:36] You know, when I opened that initial ticket for setting up the laptops, I explained it. [7:40] Who are the users? We're going to be what all features and functions are going to need to set up their computers. [7:46] And so I figured it would be a one-touch, one person would do it all. And he kind of got an attitude towards the end of what somebody else is thinking. [7:55] I'm not going to be able to do that. You've got to reopen tickets. So we had to open separate tickets for each computer twice to get that finalized. [8:04] So they started out really strong when it was kind of towards the tail end. [8:08] Right. [8:09] When it started getting tough. [8:10] Yeah. [8:14] Then on those laptops, I know we went back and forth on discussion with, you know, where [8:19] we put purchases. [8:20] I know it's been discussed. [8:21] It's like, okay, are we paying too much or whatever? [8:25] When I compared direct quotes with aerial with five nines, they were about $215 to $400 [8:30] $1 is higher depending on where they were at than us going directly through Dell. [8:37] Okay. [8:38] And there was one correspondence that talked about, you know, why we went through them and [8:45] getting the right equipment set up on there. [8:49] So I didn't, you know, she had an explanation of why not to, you know, why we purchase. [8:55] That was because she would guarantee that it came with Windows Pro Licenses, which Dell [9:01] for our government account always comes with Pro Licenses, regardless. [9:06] So I think when five-nine orders of them, they pay an upgrade fee where Dell just kind [9:11] of throws it in, and I think that was a price difference when I spoke with the gentleman [9:16] with Dell, who's a wrap, I can't remember his name. [9:20] But no, I cleared it with five nines, I had a warrant directly through Dell, there was [9:24] no added cost for them sending them up or anything along those lines. [9:29] And I don't necessarily believe that five nines has a markup on the laptops. [9:34] I don't think they're making money off of it. [9:36] I think that's just their pricing. [9:39] Yeah, because it's kind of interesting because the way that's supposed to be set up is [9:43] that we're supposed to have a, I wanted to call it a lead, but it's not a lead. [9:47] It's a premiere, a dental premiere account, and we do. [9:52] And the way that's supposed to be set up is that five nines is supposed to be able to [9:57] purchase those through our Dell premiere account, and that's the way it would be. [10:04] You know, they're like code, you know, co-people on there. [10:10] So there's any difference on that that's still confusing to me when there would be. [10:14] That's basically the way the Delaware have explained it was the pro-license versus the [10:18] standard home. Is that Dell gives that to county governments? [10:26] Well, my understanding at [10:28] least, I mean, you know, you can ask Prime Board direct on that to somebody and get more [10:34] of an explanation, but that was my understanding. Well, while we're on it, I had a call from Jacob [10:46] This is Thursday we had one of their representatives came in to do a project and then he was just [10:57] wondering how we could do things better and you know one of those things where come [11:04] in did a project or was trying to work on a project did a couple little things and then [11:09] you know it's like everybody needed something done he had to do like seven different things [11:15] and it sounded like our Dell or our five-nines person went home a little bit [11:19] educated because couldn't get his project done because you know everybody needed [11:24] something and my response was you know a long time ago we asked for a Dell [11:30] rep or five-nines representative to come in and just check things out that's the way [11:36] this thing started like when I first became a commissioner that's kind of what [11:41] was going on. They'd come in, Austin would come in and look at your computers, make sure [11:46] everything's set up, make sure everything, and they'd go on to the next and just kind [11:49] of did it, walked you. Well, I think as they got busy, then they changed things and about [11:54] two years ago, is when they did the call in, and that's what I explained to them is when [11:59] things started to not be so great, is when we started to do the tickets about two years [12:05] ago, and then all of a sudden, we're not getting the service and things like that. [12:08] And on that note, though, I will try to amend since they've gone to a dedicated support team [12:14] since five-nines has gone to the five or six people that we call in and we're getting [12:19] one of those members from the team. [12:21] There has been a better familiarity with our system, I would say. [12:26] It's not trying to explain everything from nothing, and maybe that's just my experience [12:33] with them. [12:33] When I sat with Keith County, they just automatically are tracking with what our system looks [12:41] like, at least, which I know previously was a huge issue and then they would set something [12:48] up and they'd set it up for another theater. [12:50] We're not getting into that anymore. [12:52] So that is a pause. [12:53] I'm just trying to be honest to be honest. [12:55] They still have a lot of downside, but they have to be honest. [12:58] Well, I was still caught off guard when I'm getting this phone call saying, well, what can [13:03] do better. [13:06] You know Kyle was here but the problems we have yesterday he he [13:14] doesn't have an answer for and so you know when he left Kerry and I were [13:20] like I hope our system is not so messed up that somebody can't because it's [13:26] It's like our system wasn't this way before, you know, they come in and dental bunch of [13:33] stuff to our system. [13:35] Right. [13:36] Yeah. [13:39] Well, you know, I can understand the growing pains when we do updates and when we do things [13:45] and then it isn't the same. [13:47] It's just a little bit different. [13:48] Like we're discussing like a few updates that you're found. [13:50] It's just a little bit different and then we see this a lot. [13:56] Yeah. [13:57] So there's no one first touch response is kind of the the term for there's no [14:03] the first person that touches it really [14:08] has success in trying to fix your issue and I think that's what's frustrating to us all [14:13] The most it is is it's just right [14:18] Okay, well, I just kind of wanted to go touch base on that while we were on it. So anyway, all right, Cody, you got a report for us [14:25] I do. I'm just getting caught up from being gone a week vacation that I have January [14:35] permits. I only issued three permits in January so this is like the slowest [14:41] permits ever. [14:44] $2,248 is all we brought in for building permits. We still have [14:51] have folks that are asking for special permits and replats and things like that, but even that's [14:58] flowing down. [15:00] So, so far this month, we've caught up to January, for minutes, so hopefully, February will be better. [15:11] We got two things on at 8.30. Do you want to go before or after the 8.30? [15:17] Before, if I could, it's only one item. Okay, we'll just get you knocked out of 8.30. Okay, thank you. All right. Melissa and Rory, what we got today? [15:28] So we're going to have our juvenile program. [15:52] So what I need to do is get a, I believe, a resolution for our grant. [16:06] And I did kind of a timeline to kind of have everyone up to date on what we did. [16:15] I spoke with Jill, the auditor, to kind of help us with the requirements and how to [16:21] set it up back in July so that we didn't have to put it in that inheritance tax, really. [16:30] and then I put on the agenda to get into the board to ask for your approval and then you [16:40] said yes, emailed Caleb to with all the information, he set that up, the revenue and the expenditures [16:48] with those amounts in them. I think we think it was 85,000 is what we asked Caleb to put [16:57] on there and and then on December the 3rd I had done a couple of claims for [17:13] Dundee and Advent a program that we work with and well there was an issue because [17:19] there was no money in the account which I don't know what happened but you guys did a [17:25] resolution to try and fix that for now and I spoke to Jill about it the auditor [17:32] and she's like we can do it like that just do some transferring of inner [17:40] transferring of money at the at the end of that June 30th of 27. 26, yeah where [17:49] Yeah, yeah, yeah, we were in 2016 and so yeah, we're just here to [17:57] Get a resolution for this new [18:01] Juvenile program [18:03] Rory has agreed to be the administering authority over that fund [18:08] I talked to the state auditor about it or I talked to Jeff Shryer because when Jill sent out her little note and stuff because I think this whole last year [18:19] Communication on the budget was not necessarily well. We needed so anyway when I talked to Jeff Jeff said [18:26] Yeah, you can not you can take I mean you can put the money out take the money out [18:32] But there is no way to put it back in there other than through transfers at the end [18:38] So he said go ahead and set it up the 2330 which we do have to do by resolution so that [18:45] Ronda knows this is coming because Ronda was unaware of it too because again [18:50] I think there was a huge communication shortage there [18:53] But he said put an amount in it that would be seed money and [19:00] Don't put the whole amount in there, but just put some seed money in there and then let that build [19:06] Hopefully or deplete. We'll see whichever [19:09] Depending on how much money comes and goes, but [19:12] but basically then you have the account started [19:15] and then I said, you get your money about quarterly, [19:18] don't you? [19:18] You send out bills anyway quarterly. [19:21] Well, we should get a pass from that. [19:22] I mean, these, of course, we don't need [19:24] the $4,500, never get the $4,500. [19:27] Just enough to cover. [19:28] Just the seed money. [19:29] Basically, seed money. [19:30] And then what do you say? [19:31] Because those bills need paid a little faster. [19:33] So your third-party counselors, that sort of stuff, [19:37] you need to get them paid. [19:38] Right. [19:38] You know, wouldn't work with that accounting [19:39] we have a little more lag on that. [19:40] But yeah, enough to cover that until the stake is as paid for. [19:43] That's what he said. [19:44] And then at the end of the resolution, [19:47] that when this account or if this program ever ends, [19:51] then the money would all, the remainder of that balance [19:53] would go back into, at that point, [19:55] then that's the transfer thing. [19:57] But right now, we have to do a transfer over. [19:59] So we have to determine how much do we want to transfer in there. [20:05] Would 25 hold you for? [20:06] Well, I was talking generally at 25, well, 20 to 30. [20:10] And I think that certainly probably makes us safe. [20:13] Well, yeah, I don't think we should ever have an issue going over that. [20:16] I really don't because it comes in budget here. [20:19] I mean, yeah, that's what Jeff said we need to do. [20:22] And he said, then any of the things that have been done to make sure [20:27] that this past year is correct, you get to do ledger adjustments. [20:32] Or I need fake hairs. [20:34] Yeah, right. [20:35] Exactly. [20:35] Well, the bills have already gone through in the deposits that have gone [20:38] through in order to get it back where into that 2330 to make the corrections for this year. [20:45] That's what he said to do. Just go ahead and make that clean that up for this year. We don't know [20:49] what we'll do because Jill's whenever she gets the audit done, I guess. So we moved it, [21:00] moved basically seed money out of inheritance. We have it but we need to. Oh yeah, we spent [21:07] money out there. But yeah, and that's where that just was it one bill for this year that I think, okay, yeah. [21:15] Because we would have been over in that money that money that we'd spent initially because we've had initial seed money. [21:22] No, we never had a seed money. No, we never put seed money in there. [21:25] We never put seed money in there. We never put seed money in there. That's where we'll kind of miss it. [21:28] Okay, we paid the bills out of the guarantees. Yeah, instead of banking a seed money account. [21:33] Yeah, okay, and then as the money can basically another account in order to keep track of what comes in on this [21:39] Yeah, specifically for the version. It's yeah, it's it's a cleaner [21:44] Accounting of it and what we're seeing is we can't pay that back into inheritance. Yeah, we can we can do we do it at the end [21:51] We'll go ahead and yeah, Sandy will go ahead and make ledger adjustments so that money will not have come out of inheritance [21:58] We'll set up the account [22:01] We'll start doing things that way. [22:02] We reconciled before the end of this party a year. [22:05] Yeah. [22:06] Before the end of June of this year, [22:08] we will have to reconcile to take the money [22:11] that we received as part of the grant or payment [22:13] from the county back into the shared areas [22:16] to get that even. [22:17] So look, something like we used to do [22:19] when we were five vehicles, or it's basically [22:21] to look at it like a loan from inheritance [22:24] to this divergent partner. [22:26] And she can do ledger adjustments [22:28] that we'll clean up the inheritance account and it will all then go back into this 233. [22:34] We will still have to do by resolution probably next week to put like 30,000 into the 233 [22:41] account. [22:42] With the intent to say that it's coming out of inheritance and then it will be reimbursed [22:48] should this program ever end. [22:51] It will, we will clean this account out and put it all back into inheritance. [22:55] So the confusion I think started when yeah, there's basically no seed money and then December there was some bills do yeah, and so [23:04] Yeah, where did that money come from because I think initially we were hoping on the blast budget cycle there would be well was 85 [23:13] But then there was confusion and we had a lot of confusion about [23:16] The government goes or not was or was there money available to pay those bills in December [23:22] ultimately passed a resolution to see money from inheritance tax. I think we've got this cleaned up. [23:28] Once we passed the request, the resolution be passed to formally established at 2330 and put some money. [23:35] My question is, though, because at the end of the year, we had a balance in there. [23:40] Sandy thought it was out of that juvenile fund, that 12,000. You thought that had to do with salaries. [23:46] right where we're in the general fund. Yeah, it was put into the general fund and it was at a balance of around $12,000. [23:56] Yes, so that will go back in. You'll take Mary's salary out of the 2330 or you will continue to take that out of county attorneys. [24:09] That's how I'd like to take it out of the 2330. [24:14] Okay. [24:15] That makes sense because that's a good ministering that. [24:18] Oh, okay. [24:19] Is it her full salary? [24:22] No. [24:23] Okay, because otherwise, I mean, that would be simple to change about a table. [24:28] Yeah, she has two roles. [24:30] She has her diversion, the juvenile diversion administrator, and then the victim witness. [24:38] Okay. Okay. Because I have those two grants where I have her position paid for. Okay. So that's where that money from came from and that's because that was confusing. [24:49] So how do we do that? Does that be separate text? [24:51] Like at the end, when you get money in, then are you going to let me know to take the expense. [25:01] Am I taking the expense out of the county attorney's budget and putting it into this [25:10] 2330 or are you talking about actually where I'm taking it out doing personnel in 23rd? [25:19] Do you know what I mean the top of the budget the personnel part of what I [25:23] So the money coming in we will get the reimbursement and [25:29] And then, because I've asked for Mary's, Karen Baker's, and Admin right now, sometimes [25:35] Michaela Crawford or Councillor, we'll get that reimbursement in. [25:39] We'll put it in the 2330. [25:41] I will take Mary's, and I want to put that back into the general fund. [25:50] We would treat it the same way we treat child support reimbursement. [25:53] We don't take revenue in the county in terms of this. [25:55] No, we get that. [25:56] But I'm just saying what I'm saying is will that will Mary's wage is be written on the 2330 or will they be written on your? [26:07] Okay, so you so that reimbursement then we'll go back into the general, but it shouldn't it should go into which would be what Jeff was talking about building that account [26:20] Now that's building that seat. [26:22] But you're talking about basically putting it back into 2330. [26:25] Then you're building the seat. [26:27] Then you're building the seat. [26:28] He said you should be able to build in there somehow. [26:31] And I think we would do it. [26:33] That would mean we weren't using. [26:37] I mean. [26:37] Eventually we would reimburse the county for those costs, initial seed money. [26:42] And then that would become the self-sufficient account because we would build that. [26:47] Yeah. [26:47] And we're thinking that would that seed money would still to make this [26:51] self-sufficient, the 30,000 would be enough to seed money to get up and run. [26:57] Oh yeah, because they won't get reimbursed, because it was about getting all the [27:00] reimbursed money and money out of this. [27:02] Well, the one thing that's kind of should certainly is, is these ledger adjustments. [27:08] That's the kind of concern. [27:09] Well, the language you usually use is interfund transfer, and I don't know all [27:13] you want on that. Okay, you tell us how it doesn't work because you know, I'm just saying [27:18] that if Lindsey goes in and creates a payroll line item, then we're going to have to have [27:26] hours to go in there. So she, I mean, it's not like she can go, this is a salary and I'm paying [27:32] this lump sum. We wouldn't do that. Okay. I think we'd have to do that. We would do it the [27:37] the same way we do child support reimbursement, which is we submit documentation to give reimbursement [27:43] for Melissa's salary in part of my hours. We do that internally and then we turn around [27:49] and that money that comes back to you goes into the general fund. That's just a flat amount. [27:54] Just a flat amount that we get reimbursed, but that same thing would happen on this because [27:59] we're going to submit the documentation under the diversion grant money and when that money [28:06] it's sent back, we don't know if they would do a, I mean, they can decide to say we're [28:12] only going to do 90% of it, right? So we, it's really not going to be where we would [28:16] do a pay, pay us exactly this amount because it's just going to be whatever the grant gives [28:21] us. That's going to go back in general as a revenue. So how do we go back in the jet? [28:26] So we can't go, we can't go, I mean, the payroll can't go through, I mean, payrolls stay [28:31] the way it is. I think payrolls still have to stay where it's at and we would just do a [28:37] Okay. [28:38] Okay. [28:38] All right. [28:40] Okay. [28:41] And then we would just have to track it for our grant purposes. [28:45] Okay. [28:46] That's my hand it out. [28:47] Yeah. [28:48] That's helpful too. [28:49] Yeah. [28:49] You've got to see what we got. [28:52] Our expenses aren't. [28:54] Okay. [28:54] We'll have a revolution next week. [28:59] Well, that's for the city money. [29:01] Yeah. [29:02] Yes. [29:03] And to set up the account. [29:04] The account really has not been set up correctly. [29:07] You guys authorized it back, yes, we said okay, but we didn't do a resolution for that. So yeah, okay. [29:14] All right, then [29:15] Well, the resolution okay, so the resolution would be for the third class and and will the rest we shouldn't say anything about this [29:26] initial [29:27] the 85 [29:29] 85 is already set up as a budgetary. No, that's not what you're talking about kind of like [29:35] Think about the other accounts that the county attorney control where we have we set up a budget [29:39] But it's actually because there's really what we don't we have a set up a number on there [29:43] It's not necessarily what we will end up okay, okay, but we've got revenues coming in which makes up the [29:48] Five so we're okay. Yeah, we're okay. All right [29:53] That's yeah, just so I have to set up the fund and put in the [30:00] Good enough. Thank you for all that hard work that you keep doing on this Sunday. It's going to work. [30:08] Ten years from now, they're going to go, wow, you guys did a great job. [30:16] No, he can't. All right. There's too many counties now. [30:23] It's a good group. Thanks guys. All right. It is now 8.30. [30:28] We have our zoning administrator Cody Fenwick. What you got for us today, Cody. Well today I have one request. [30:48] Okay, the request that we have is [30:52] a request by John and Lisa Lebuff for a conditional use permit [30:59] 26-1 for a short-term rental located at lot one Lebuff administrative replat and [31:06] in 1640, commonly known as 28 Lakeshore, [31:10] Keith County, Nebraska. [31:12] And if you look up on the map, [31:15] you can see that little red dot [31:18] way over to the left in the upper corner. [31:22] John and Lisa Leopold are the owners [31:24] of the property subjects of this request. [31:26] The property subject to this request [31:28] is located approximately 18.8 miles west of Highway 61, [31:32] 92 junction south of Highway 92 west. [31:35] Yes, the property currently consists of a $2,000 [31:47] $24,554 square foot lot at a residential [31:52] rural and is not in a floodplain. [31:55] The home subject of this request consists of four bedrooms on the main floor and one bedroom [32:01] in the basement. [32:03] So there's a zoning in a floodplain. [32:05] And then you'll see the owner submitted these floor plans. [32:12] The owner did submit everything that was required per Article 25. [32:20] Signed application with appropriate fees were received. [32:22] 22 property owners with the 300 feet have been notified of the request. [32:30] and there were two written opposition letters sent and so one of them was on [32:42] January 6th by a juridic ripeth which is a neighbor and she was told that [32:50] there wouldn't be any more Arabian bees. I don't know where she got that [32:53] information. So now we just use a different name. I don't see any difference. I'm totally opposed [32:59] to the LeBuff being able to rent their house. I live on one way road so it's become a turnaround [33:06] and she's concerned about the traffic because it is a dead end. So this is the basement [33:14] and then this is the site plan that the property owner submitted and [33:24] then this is a site plan in [33:25] area of the property. So the property and the red, where is this? Yes, it's one in red [33:33] about the marine land. Yeah, look at that street in the front. That's what the problem is. [33:42] So there was another letter from Jerry Wilson and he is also very much against the multi-use [33:52] and for the same reasons and his is about emergency vehicles. So if you notice [33:59] down at the bottom right hand side of the screen you'll see that that road [34:03] dead ends right there and so if somebody misses that road when they come or the [34:10] house when they come in they would have to turn in on somebody else's property. [34:17] The Planning Commission did hear this and they recommended denial because of [34:24] the road not only because of the dead end, but because they do have a problem with the [34:28] road flooding out real close to the above property. [34:38] I had gotten phone calls, and this has been a year or more ago, excuse me. [34:44] I was getting phone calls. [34:47] The road was somewhat flooded before the house was built, but he had taken all of the [34:56] gutter system and put it underground and it dumps out right at the retaining wall that [35:01] you can see towards the bottom. [35:04] He dumps it right on the road. [35:06] Well he actually comes out onto his property, but it makes its way to the road. [35:12] Got good run off. [35:14] So all of his gutters, basically one location under the retaining wall and then they eat in [35:22] the his. [35:22] They go in a pipe underground, yes, come out by the retaining wall, which he shared with [35:28] me that he was going to put rock in like a French drain right there, but I don't think [35:34] that that's been done. [35:35] He's never called me to let me know that that was completed. [35:40] So that's just the history I know on this. [35:43] Are those private subdivision roads or those kind of roads? [35:46] Those are private. [35:47] Okay. [35:47] it's a mess. It's not something that we're going to have to go on. No, it doesn't need any more value and that one lady that's writing that letter lives on further down [36:03] and it's created a lot of stress on her. Further down with Quake, right now. She's down right in there. Yeah, I think Diane [36:12] And that's where it lives here. [36:15] And I think the Delaware, the letters right here or here. [36:19] And this, because you can see if you've got a fifth wheel [36:24] or you try to, you've got to come down through here. [36:28] And this is one lane. [36:29] Say she needs to go, you know, you've [36:31] got to pull into a driveway almost. [36:33] And then they come down here somehow and turn around. [36:37] And then you've got to both ways. [36:39] It's not that dead end there's no there's no gate there looks like it just goes on to [36:44] someone's property. [36:45] Well, it is just a matter of time. [36:49] Cody, what was the team to state again on the recommendation, what was the reason for [36:56] denial? [36:57] They recommended denial based upon the road being a dead end as well as being an inferior [37:03] road. [37:04] Okay, mostly it's dead in the emergency services for safety. [37:09] Is there any public comment? [37:14] That parcel that's got the empty looks like an empty lot on that bottom's got 1, 0, 0, the last 3. [37:21] On that j-shirt. [37:22] Yeah. [37:22] Okay. [37:23] But that's a private lot, right? [37:25] It looks like it is. [37:26] It looks like they've got posts to keep people from driving into their... [37:30] Yeah. [37:30] Yeah, those like that post right don't they have post and people right here. Yeah, so you wouldn't even have an [37:37] ability to turn around. Yeah, you gotta go over there. Yeah, okay. And and to the Redis defense for [37:46] chasing what she's running into guys on this white retainer rock wall and put it that red property [37:53] that drain when it let's go the reins we had last summer you know we had some pretty good size [38:00] rains. It flooded this sandy road and ruts were washed out by this gentleman and I don't [38:11] know how we can make. [38:16] If you can just throw a grain anywhere on to a private subdivision [38:21] road. That's their H and O A problems. It was county, there's a statute that talks about, [38:30] doing any sort of drainage that's significant on some of that property. [38:35] Okay, commissioners, but a lot of these people, Cory, she's a street lady, retired, bought this property as a retirement property. [38:46] And then Airbnb's have been, there is some on this road further down. [38:52] and we can't create more chaos and the planning commission divided so I think. [39:02] Well that's the main thing is to make sure that everybody's being treated fairly and we're doing things consistently. [39:09] And my question is, you know, up to the top left, that retaining wall looks like it goes clear up there [39:19] to the that top left corner of the lot and there's only like a little bit of [39:24] excess in there. Is that the way that works? I mean they got all this parking [39:27] here but it looks like this is the only spot really they get in and out of here [39:32] right? This is all retaining well up to about this point. I haven't been out there in a [39:39] long time. I believe that's true now. It's just kind of... Is that the same man? [39:45] It looks like it's a big port semen well go back to the lab. Yeah go back to his his drawing because it looks like he shows that that's all parking [40:03] Well he says more space if needed that's actually on the if you go back that's actually on the road [40:08] is it? He said that when he had that survey because he had to have that [40:16] replanted to build. It used to be too lots. And the retaining wall is actually [40:23] back off of the property line. [40:27] And that's a nice concept. Yeah. It looks nice. [40:29] But reality, if the subdivision is established, that's growth for the last decade. [40:35] They would establish that they become accords at. And he's been people [40:38] I mean, I can't, we wouldn't want people talking after emergency services. [40:43] Right. [40:44] Yeah, I think, I think you're off with, look at this, too. [40:49] I'm not. [40:52] So is that your motion to deny it based on that? [40:55] I'll make the motion to deny, use from that 26-stacks one. [41:01] For reasons of? [41:02] or reasons of just not as the finding commission wrote the road and what you've really had but emergency services. [41:16] Yes, I have. [41:16] I can't add anything. [41:19] Well, seconded. [41:22] Motion by Anderson, seconded by Wartman, roll complex. [41:26] Irvin? [41:27] Yes. Wartman? [41:28] Yes. [41:29] Anderson? [41:29] Yes. [41:30] Krampin. [41:30] Yes, what's [41:35] next an update on the [41:41] Sargent road that has a date on it [41:44] You remember that conversation that we had he was [41:52] This is [41:54] emails between Rory and [41:58] Property owners [42:01] significant other [42:06] So [42:11] he's kind of dragging his feet. [42:13] I'm sure. [42:14] He did call me and ask me if he could vacate that road [42:20] that runs in front of his house. [42:21] And if you remember, it did ends right at that property. [42:25] And I told him, no, because then that would landlock that property. [42:28] It's not vacated the road, it's in the landlock, something. [42:31] And this is responsive to a letter I sent here, basically, [42:34] saying with a documentation, basically, [42:38] You're built to get across. [42:45] So the update is that we are still working on this. [42:50] We get the gate removed. [42:54] He did indicate that he never locks it. [42:57] So if it weren't to be closed, anybody could open it and drive through. [43:01] There's one thing I want you to do is to get out of my car and then we're going to drive [43:04] in the gate. [43:05] Or if I should be able to drive down. [43:07] Or if they're going to get out of the road, operate in the ambulance. [43:09] Yeah. [43:09] for a fire department. [43:11] Hmm. [43:13] No. [43:14] Well, keep going. [43:15] Yeah. [43:16] They're still working on it. [43:17] It's just another one. [43:18] Yeah. [43:19] Oh, it did. [43:20] Just another one. [43:21] At least you did your fault with the witches better than some of us. [43:24] Yeah. [43:25] So how much road do we have on the other side of this gate? [43:31] Sorry, but I don't want to say anything that doesn't have one way to work. [43:39] It's not a lot, though. [43:40] is it? Oh, you're not sure where it ends? Well, it just continues on up in the back. [43:47] Let's plot it versus what's in reality. You're too distinctly dented to say. [43:50] Okay. That's what you're saying. I think that's a nice way to put it so it's a mess. [43:56] Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. And then the comp plan, we did get, I emailed the, or forwarded [44:07] email from Stacy from Marvin Planning Consultants that gave the link of the most recent updated draft of the [44:17] comp plan and Joan and I are going to have a meeting tomorrow morning with Keith Marvin and we're going [44:27] to go over some things. Thank you Joan for picking up the slack while I was on vacation. She went through some [44:32] of the goals and they are some of them are absolutely not for Keith County. [44:38] They aren't Keith County's goals. [44:41] So anyway, we'll discuss that with him so we can have more corrections and I'm sure [44:46] that we'll continue to have corrections as we go through and start doing the [44:49] regs because then we'll say, oh, if the regs are going to read this we have to [44:53] change this in the comp plan so my first question to him is who did he talk to in [45:00] And we know he didn't. He has not talked. Has he talked to any of you about any of buddy that's Keith County? No, see, he hasn't talked to anybody and you know, we're going to be doing tiff in Keith County. You don't do that in counties. I mean, it's like and we also are setting up special funds for buildings and not doing that. I mean, it's like his goals in this are his goals. This is nothing to do with asking Keith County. [45:29] what are we doing? What is our plan? I am so burned out by this guy. [45:38] I do want to note [45:39] that it is 845. We will open the public hearing for News and Violations. We will get to that. [45:45] What's that hearing is now open? Yeah. But it's just aggravating to go through what his [45:52] expectation on instead of ours and who did he talk to and whatever. Nobody. He went to [45:59] the public meetings and that's as far as he went and that and a bus tour and didn't even [46:05] come back. [46:06] I don't know, but we're in something correct after this many you've been told. [46:12] And I know when I talk to some of the guys I'm planning and zoning, it's like a couple [46:18] of the people on this steering committee are very firm about the punctuation, the ends, [46:24] the butts, the whatever's in it are terrible. [46:28] And they said, you know, that's not important to us. [46:30] Well, it still is important because you know what? [46:32] This is a document and so, yes, I understand. [46:36] They want to do the rules and I get that and that's what they should be. [46:39] So I'm almost thinking that we need to kind of have two different groups working together. [46:44] You guys read it for punctuation because it really stinks and then you guys [46:48] to read a perigulation because I tell you he's overpaid. His daughter even says oh gosh I'm [46:57] not good at this so thank you. Okay there you go. But the meeting the other day when we met with him. [47:06] Yeah yeah thanks for keeping me up on that. Wouldn't you think it'd be part of his job to manage that [47:13] but there's so many things he hasn't done. If he were to just say you know you guys are too [47:17] I'd say you're right out and we'll go with West and that's exactly what I [47:22] wish I wish he would we're a tough customer for yes we are and I mean he walks [47:28] into these other places and they just paste and stamp it and we're not doing that [47:36] through those you guys I just frustrate those comp plans and the hands in the [47:44] exactly well yeah oh it's it's just poor vocabulary it's for creativity it's [47:52] really bad I guess it is it's a document we can have a discussion tomorrow you [48:01] can imagine again like I said I wouldn't care if you know we just we paid this guy [48:07] all his money well it doesn't matter he gets it on a basis I mean he gets [48:13] increments in it. So anyway, just so you know, it's not going to be pretty tomorrow either. [48:22] Okay. All right. Cody, thank you so much for the update. We appreciate that. I'll get the [48:27] working on that. [48:33] Well, it need to do begun. More than we thought we would have to do, especially [48:42] a lot of money. It's a lot of money to do these jobs for you. [48:47] Okay. Public, like I stated, public hearing for news and violation is open. [48:52] We have an application for news and program Dave Schaefer, Dave, what you got for us today. [48:58] Well, like I said, I sent you all something on your phones that shows that those trees aren't [49:04] mine. I mean, that's a news since, but it's not mine news since, and the trees were [49:11] From my property, I can apply for a new since you guys would pay part of it if I was okay. [49:16] But it's the other way around the trees you're on your part, fell on my part, and I'd [49:21] more or less be paying your half of the bill, or half of your bill, because it's absolutely [49:28] not my responsibility, but I feel that I can't see where it is. [49:42] I can forth on this. [49:43] And I think Tom is saying that or yeah, Thomas says one is what just latest stuff last night to be clear where it is [49:53] Put on what he filed and it says [49:58] Says the tree's wrong like property adjacent to property property and no one that was the nuisance [50:03] So that's not what it is [50:05] I said it was adjacent to a public road or a violation of 3090 control [50:17] But there's not a lot of property there on your property. [50:22] That's what the problem is. [50:29] There are 10 feet from the center of the road. [50:33] And the roads are about 68 wide. [50:38] I got about 20 feet where you hit my property. [50:41] And if you read that last part that I said everybody, [50:45] where the trunk of the tree is, that's my mom's it. [50:58] Newson's laws, did we look at this? Okay, which was one of our things. In Nebraska, [51:03] dead are disease trees within the right a way of streets can be classified as a new [51:08] sense by ordinance. You will receive a notice to evade and remove such trees with options [51:14] for hearings. Oh, you're getting that non-compliance may lead to the city or with us county taking [51:19] action, recovering expenses, there's special assessment. [51:25] That is what it says, Dave. [51:28] Let's get back to the statute itself. [51:30] Yes. [51:30] In the grassroots statute, 39-13, you've been given the notice regarding that. [51:35] That those who have an obligation, technically you have an obligation to [51:38] mode of the set of the road, you have an obligation on the trees to [51:41] trim back to 8 feet and all the bushes and other things that are not trees [51:45] are supposed to be trim back to 4 feet. [51:48] The standard steps would be, we're now here at the news since hearing I think you've all been provided the pictures previously I have additional copies if you want to look at them again. [51:58] I can have Thomas basically inform you that he went out and looked, essentially asked that he tell you what has been observed in the trees that are on Mr. Shaper's the equipment still remain the other trees that are in the pictures enough and take them. [52:16] The big tree that's on the corner, the Heson Roscoe and the first tree in Roscoe, he [52:23] limbed one of the big branches so I'm assuming it'd fall on the shop, but that's about [52:30] three of them on the line, text up to the other, so because we were having that big one the [52:35] next day and I told you that's going to go save my building because that tree's already [52:44] So with regard to the pictures that were previously emailed out on January 14, 2026, and [52:51] elected provided to Mr. Schaeffer. Thomas has said that with regard to those pictures, [52:58] none of the work that's picking on those and none of the needs of that. [53:03] That's been declared a nuisance or a nuisance hearing. [53:07] None of that has been removed or repaired. [53:14] There's anyone need additional pictures to see what we're coming up. [53:22] But look, I say it's your responsibility. [53:26] So I'll pass on the board to go ahead and receive the pictures. [53:36] Pass that to Sandy. [53:37] Sandy, I wanted to take the profession of that as it relates to this particular instance hearing you're receiving. [53:42] And as part of what the county would be presenting in addition to Thomas's statements that those [53:50] trees have not been removed and trimmed back because of part of our state standard. [53:59] So now we need a motion to make it a news that we accept is a news approach. [54:04] You would have to receive that, Mr. Shabrick. [54:06] Talk about it or whatever evidence he would want to present outside of. [54:10] So I don't know what he gave you, if he gave you something to, in particular, directly [54:14] to your phone's or your text or something, I wouldn't know what that is. [54:17] The less is what he's also emailing. [54:20] And then it would be before we can make a decision with regard to the actual nuisance. [54:27] He wouldn't even be eligible technically under a more than that opinion that you can request [54:35] reimbursement for nuisance cleanup without it first being declared a nuisance. [54:38] Right. And that's one of the parameters that's important because in the past we wanted [54:42] people to actually go through the entire process, not just show up and say, hey, because [54:46] they're not declared nuisance, and you give them the funds, you really don't have an [54:49] antique to say what you do with the work done. So I'm not declared nuisance. I don't have [54:54] to do that. That's why we're here with nuisance here. [55:01] This is declared nuisance. So what I've provided to you was, copy the email [55:07] the Senate on January 14, 2026, change within it. [55:11] And the matter that also was sent by a comes-wover, and then it contains five pictures with regard to I think you've all been presented as five pictures to the property of that or the specific trees that comes-wover, pursuant to Nebraska-Rastations, as said there's a nuisance that needs to be taken. [55:34] I'm not getting to know what you're saying, I'm talking about what you're saying. [55:38] Well, what I'm asking to receive is the email that was sent to you. [55:41] That contains Thomas Wilbur's letter, concerning the definition of the news. [55:47] And that five pictures, that's the big pictures. [55:51] Well, it's all the same pictures that we presented for the last week of two here and three. [55:56] Those three's any movies? [55:57] Correct. [55:58] So it's those pictures, essentially, [56:00] which are what have been designated by the roads by Thomas as relates because [56:07] that's presumed to Nebraska statute. Those degrees have not been removed. Now [56:12] the board's at a position where they need to make a determination as to whether [56:15] or not that fits within a public news since under Nebraska law. Can you read that [56:19] letter that was sent up to me? I can read it. I can read it. [56:31] If you want to submit it to them, and you want to tell them, we can make a copy, we can [56:35] make a copy. [56:37] Did you not receive the letter? [56:39] Yeah, yeah. [56:40] I sent it to you. [56:41] We all got it, too. [56:42] Yeah. [56:42] We've all received it. [56:43] We've all got it. [56:44] Sure. [56:44] I sent it to you on your phone. [56:46] Your phone number. [56:47] I just want somebody to read it. [56:48] So these people know what we're talking about. [56:52] They didn't affect those people. [56:54] Oh, thanks. [56:54] I don't care about any reading of trees. [57:00] Here's what to deal with, I don't care about the deal, I'm sorry, I'm going to shut your ears off. [57:06] Hey, hey, hey, how do you do treat people with respect in here? [57:09] So this is a news theory, if you have anything that you want to state about the issue, [57:17] then like you have stated about the trees, you know, stating that there are some word, you know. [57:24] This is just the hearing to explain that, and you've received the letter on what's been stated, and [57:33] Is there any other comments? [57:36] Yeah, I still say this is not my responsibility. [57:39] You're still saying it is or not? [57:42] No, we're just that that's exactly what you get to say. [57:48] That's what I'm saying. [57:49] And this is the nuisance hearing to declare the trees and nuisance. [57:55] Okay. My nuisance? Yeah. It's a nuisance on that one. You've been notified you have a nuisance, yes. [58:03] But how can they be declared a nuisance when you're in the middle of the road and not on my property? [58:10] 18 and 12 says on my property adjacent to a public property, what's that in what these are? [58:17] It's an out-of-my property adjacent to public property, that's just the way that is. [58:24] We can't turn around to anything else, [58:33] and that's the only way you can hook me with [58:37] it as if it was on my property, but it ain't. [58:40] Except for what fell over on my property from the road. [58:44] The [58:56] other public comment, [59:07] we need a motion to accept the evidence that's been presented. [59:10] We make a motion to determine if it is a new sense property based on the presented evidence [59:23] Close the public hearing first [59:27] Do we have a time period? [59:31] I'll think we have to [59:32] A reasonable amount of time and [59:37] Right. [59:38] You've got to be presented or provided. [59:43] If there's no other evidence being presented or comments, then we'll close the public [59:47] hearing. [59:48] Public hearing is now closed at 9 a.m. [59:58] Okay. [59:59] Any more comments? [1:00:00] On the commissioners to, I make a motion that we declare the property adjacent to 1st Street in Keystone, Roscoe Road, 833, Roscoe Highway 30, a nuisance, based on statute 39, 18, 13, and 18, 12. [1:00:25] We have a motion by Irvin, second by Anderson, roll call, please. [1:00:28] Yes. [1:00:30] Portland? [1:00:31] Yes. [1:00:32] Anderson? [1:00:32] Yes. [1:00:33] Durbin? [1:00:33] Yes. [1:00:34] Randall? [1:00:35] Yes. [1:00:41] All right. [1:00:45] Moving on. [1:00:46] The [1:00:49] Perkins County Health Department. [1:00:53] I'm free. [1:00:54] Oh, yes. [1:00:55] Are you free? [1:00:56] Yes. [1:00:56] And there you've got the public coming into the meeting. [1:00:59] Oh. [1:01:00] Okay. [1:01:01] Sounds good. [1:01:02] Okay, so we have the Audrey Worthy, we've got a big force from Adrian Smith's office. [1:01:10] Yes, I do. [1:01:11] I'm going to give you the podium. [1:01:13] Oh, what are we going to do today? [1:01:15] Okay. [1:01:16] It's been a while since I've spoken out. [1:01:20] Okay, well, we got you. [1:01:22] All right. [1:01:23] I appreciate it. [1:01:24] Hello. [1:01:25] It's very nice to see you all again. [1:01:28] Yeah, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Roger Worthing. [1:01:32] I'm a community liaison with some of Adrian Smith district offices. [1:01:37] When I'm not on the road, which I'm on the road a little bit, these last two weeks, I'm up [1:01:43] in Scott's block, Nebraska at his district office in that region, to cover all 80 of Nebraska's [1:01:52] counties covered within the third congressional district, the Congressmen opened. [1:01:56] three offices, one in Scots Bluff, one in Grand Island, and another one in Nebraska City. [1:02:02] That's our newest office to try and provide at least a little bit of representation in all the [1:02:08] different areas. We are the largest district of any multi-district state, so that's a little [1:02:14] variety, right? It does mean that we have a lot of ground recovery in a calendar year, but so far, [1:02:19] so good. We've had all the counties at least once last year, and we are on track to do that again. [1:02:25] and we're only in February. [1:02:28] So the Congressman of NDC, he is a senior member [1:02:32] of the Ways and Means Committee, [1:02:33] is one of the most prestigious and oldest committees [1:02:36] within the House of Representatives. [1:02:38] And so it's a tremendous honor for him [1:02:41] to be appointed to that committee again [1:02:43] to represent third district of Nebraska. [1:02:46] So we're very happy about that. [1:02:48] He's also the chairman of the subcommittee on the radio. [1:02:51] And so he keeps a very close eye on all things related [1:02:55] to train negotiations happening right now in the capital, especially those that impact [1:03:02] the district in the rest of the country. [1:03:06] And so he keeps a very close eye on that last year if he commented several times on trade [1:03:11] negotiations happening with Great Britain, with India, and with a few of our other international [1:03:17] workers. [1:03:18] So you can look at those on our website. [1:03:22] back down in the districts for those of y'all who don't know, one of the biggest [1:03:28] services that we offer is constituent case work. So if someone within the [1:03:32] community is struggling with a federal agency, whether that's the IRS or Social [1:03:38] Security, the VA, or even the Department of Ag or the Department of [1:03:43] Curious, you can contact our office, we'll get a privacy release sent out to y'all [1:03:47] Just so we have our ducks in a row, that gives us permission to reach out on a constituent's behalf. [1:03:54] And we act as the middle man. [1:03:56] We try to get them answers in a more timely manner and in wonderful situations [1:04:01] so you can help get things resolved. [1:04:03] For me, myself, my casework areas include Social Security, Medicare Medicaid, [1:04:10] part of the public payment services, the VA, the military, and I do a little bit of work [1:04:16] with the soon-to-be former Department of Education. [1:04:21] So, we have broad ranging options. [1:04:25] So, if you know anyone within the community who's struggling with an agency and doesn't [1:04:29] really know what to do, or they feel like an agency is responding to them in a timely manner, [1:04:33] I love my chat chat. [1:04:36] You'll have my work email in my office number, and they are welcome to call any time. [1:04:42] I'm not on the route. I'm going to be office in five. [1:04:46] So, another thing that we offer in this district is that each. [1:04:50] And so, it's coming to meetings like this one. [1:04:52] They're coming to events on behalf of the congressman to show support. [1:04:56] And any assistance that you might need for local communities. [1:05:01] And so you can send invites to any of our offices. [1:05:05] We of course have to check with the Congress in case it's something that you would like to attend if he's in district. [1:05:10] And if not, it's past me. [1:05:14] But, you know, I love coming down here and supporting you guys in whatever it is that's going on. [1:05:20] I've been to almost everything. [1:05:23] I've been to ribbon cuttings. [1:05:24] I've been to co-op meetings. [1:05:26] I've been to just about everything. [1:05:28] And so I'm happy to come down whenever my parents actually live right on the south side of the building, so keep counting as my home county. [1:05:35] And so I love coming down here and supporting you guys. [1:05:38] Some of those implications on a horrible way you'd love to come out. [1:05:43] Now, before I get to my real brief legislative update, I would be in this if I didn't spread a good news of what our office has for opportunities for our youth. [1:05:55] The biggest is our Youth Advisory Council. [1:05:58] That is just a wonderful opportunity. [1:06:00] They try to meet at least twice a year in person. [1:06:04] They'll go to a different part of their district. [1:06:07] And these students get to tour a local business [1:06:09] and then they get to pick up the congressman's brains, [1:06:12] ask him a bunch of questions of what it's like being in Congress [1:06:16] and being in the House of Representatives. [1:06:18] And they get to inform him of concerns [1:06:21] so there's things within their own communities, [1:06:24] issues that they wonder if he can take the mantle for. [1:06:29] But it is a wonderful opportunity. [1:06:31] I was a part of that council back in my high school days. [1:06:35] And it opened a lot of doors. [1:06:38] And you know, you make great connections. [1:06:40] And it does look good on a resume. [1:06:42] So if you know of any students, those applications [1:06:45] should be opening up here again in the next few months [1:06:50] for the next batch, probably here and of the spring semester. [1:06:56] So, I'm just going to school those applications to be opening up. [1:06:59] So, if you know any students, sophomore to senior, [1:07:03] that would be interested. [1:07:05] Have them go to our website or give us a call. [1:07:07] We can welcome through the application process. [1:07:10] We also have the congressional art competition. [1:07:14] Now, that is for students who are incredibly artsy. [1:07:18] They submit finished pieces of artwork, and the congressman picks his first place and his runner-ups. [1:07:25] The first place art piece gets displayed in the tunnels in the capital. [1:07:30] There's a big reception for all of the state winners. It is a big hoopla. [1:07:35] I block those tunnels a few times now, and it is all inspiring for work that these kids do. [1:07:42] and I'm sure there's plenty of artistic talent in Keith County so if you know [1:07:47] of any students or if you know of our teachers who would be interested in [1:07:51] mentoring their students for this particular competition, have them reach out [1:07:54] to our offices and we'd be happy to answer any questions. Of course a lot of [1:07:59] that information is on our website, they don't have to be called. But another [1:08:04] wonderful opportunity we also offer Academy nominations for our [1:08:12] students, now this can be in high school, this could also be students who are in college [1:08:17] who have decided, you need year, you know, I kind of want to go and do a question before [1:08:22] I want to go into the year first academy. [1:08:26] But [1:08:29] this is just, our military academy is a very cream of the crop, they really help mold [1:08:36] these young people and have standing citizens with amazing integrity. [1:08:43] They go through a very rigorous application interview process and we put together a panel [1:08:49] of interviewers that range from current former state centers, investors and lawyers from [1:08:58] throughout the state, other business leaders and most of them have had some experience, [1:09:05] the military, they've been in the military, they've worked for the military and so it's [1:09:11] It's a wonderful opportunity and it helped put Dean and me together a few years ago when our main person was on a paternal, paternity leave, and I'd love to see her again, so we're asking her to fight. [1:09:25] It is really a wonderful opportunity and even if they don't get an out of the nation, it really does prepare animalized skills, okay, but the need is they go down the road and they apply for different scholarships and internships and jobs. [1:09:38] and so wonderful opportunity and of course we offer internships. [1:09:43] We offer internships both in D.C. at our legislative office and here in our districts. [1:09:49] And so the interns who go up to our D.C. office specifically, [1:09:55] they learn about the legislative process. [1:09:58] They go and attend meetings with the congressman at one of the legislative days. [1:10:03] They've, I know, some of that got opportunities to go into hearings and sit down on hearings [1:10:09] which is always very cool. [1:10:13] They help with phone calls and emails and take in situate concerns, they give tours [1:10:18] of the capital. [1:10:19] It really isn't an all-encompassing program and it does open the door of the politics, but [1:10:24] they're looking to, you know, start the career in. [1:10:27] We actually just hired one of our interns for a full-time position with up in our DC office. [1:10:36] An example of a foot in the door and a tight moment where she did a wonderful job. [1:10:42] That position became available. [1:10:44] We offered it to her. [1:10:46] Now she's working full-time for us. [1:10:48] I want to talk to the interns that come down to our district offices, really learn what [1:10:55] it takes to run a district office. [1:10:57] They help with phone calls and emails. [1:11:00] They'll help with the beginning stages of case work and so they'll get their toe into [1:11:05] that area of district office operations. [1:11:09] They also get a shadow coming ladies on like myself at some local two office events and meetings so they get an idea but it's like it to outreach. [1:11:22] It's really a wonderful opportunity. We've had a new interns and grandmas every year and last year we actually had the first intern from Scott Free. [1:11:37] actually had an intern here to go into our scots club office. That's the first thing we've had in a while, at least excited to hear from you. [1:11:44] So, it's a one-fogged and we've already had a lot. [1:11:50] Now from my real brief, let us slide in the update. [1:11:55] Yesterday, the congressman was hard at work. We had the house of rappers like this, get the party shut down, taking care of the rest. [1:12:04] And they accomplished that. The appropriation bills were sent to the desk of the President. [1:12:12] They were signed yesterday. The shutdown is over. Thank the Lord. [1:12:16] Now we're in a two week battle over the Department of Emergency Community funding. [1:12:23] So that is probably going to take up a walk for the next two weeks as they work on that. [1:12:31] But a press release that we released yesterday really focuses on the congressman's love of [1:12:42] appeals and clean appeals. [1:12:45] The Treasury Department, just as you guidance on the 45-year tax credit, is a 45-year [1:12:53] I think the production of tax credit is such a lot to have at home. [1:13:00] No, we can't shut down. [1:13:01] Thank you. [1:13:02] Sorry. [1:13:03] We're just going to put up with the talking. [1:13:07] But I'll just go ahead and read his statement there. [1:13:11] During reconciliation, I thought to extend and strengthen the 45C clean fuel production tax credit [1:13:17] to empower our biowill producers and prioritize innovation over arbitrary [1:13:22] kindness standards. I am grateful for this administration's action and release [1:13:26] a highly of guidance to ensure that America's producers will fully utilize the [1:13:31] credit this year and in years moving forward. Looking forward I will continue to [1:13:38] support policies that expand a biowill school and get some more affordable from [1:13:43] grown in American energy. So that was just really [1:13:47] yesterday, so that was a brand spanky piece of art piece. But, um, yeah, I just think he [1:13:53] is really looking to try to get some of those types of things, like, finalize and [1:13:58] buy this next year before midterms come up. But that's all I've got for you today. I have [1:14:08] business press here. I'll just leave those. Some trash. If you need anything I might show you here for a mobile office for the next hour [1:14:17] ish. So I will be around. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any questions? [1:14:26] questions. [1:14:29] Okay. [1:14:35] Okay. Okay. [1:14:40] Okay. Okay. What's across the home? That she's going [1:14:43] to have her open and that's what we all have to go and visit with her. All right. [1:14:56] We'll [1:14:56] Yeah, we got notification, I guess it was actually Sandy got notification. [1:15:00] Education that Perkins County is back in our network. So we won't have any, the billing issues that we were having before. So, I mean, I'm sure it'll take them a little while to get up and running and doing it in that manner, but it's going to prove. And so you need to let everybody, you know, let employees know and whatever that we're back in network. It's great news. It's great news. Okay. [1:15:25] So yeah. [1:15:26] All right. [1:15:28] We'll move forward on the Frenchman Valley Services quail. [1:15:34] Last week we did oil bids. [1:15:37] There was a bid that was in the folder that was not turned into a town week where the question [1:15:46] these go to roads. [1:15:47] Yeah, and my request for quotes I had returned to the road department by 4 p.m. on Monday, and I didn't receive it. [1:15:55] So they've turned it into the clerk's office instead. [1:15:59] And so this was termed in on January 22nd. [1:16:02] It wasn't before the deadline just for their own office. [1:16:09] What does that mean? [1:16:10] I mean, it's not what we asked for. [1:16:13] I don't know this. [1:16:14] I believe you will go around to object an order to not be caught in the process. [1:16:19] Yeah, I think so too. [1:16:21] Okay. [1:16:22] I'm going to make a vote. [1:16:23] I mean, as it's got to be at a certain place at a certain time, right? [1:16:27] So I don't know how we can say we would be taken. [1:16:29] No, we're going to either. [1:16:30] I would make a motion that we deny. [1:16:31] Technical advantage. [1:16:32] Also, if I'm not going to mind before it's possible. [1:16:34] Because it didn't comply with our RFP. [1:16:39] Okay, motion by Urban to deny the Frenchman Value Services Oil Code, second by Anderson [1:16:49] Roll Caucus. [1:16:51] Yes. [1:16:53] Yes. [1:16:54] Anderson, Urban? [1:16:55] Yes. [1:16:56] Randall. [1:16:57] Yes. [1:16:57] All right. [1:16:58] Do you have on the agenda Star Wars Room Project discussion? [1:17:12] I had a conversation with the governor on Saturday, and we talked back and forth, and he was willing to go back to the commissioners. [1:17:29] I told him that we absolutely had to have the Lakeview, Lakeview Road Project and the [1:17:39] Burmer Road Project and the engineering money out of that Star Wars money, and he wanted [1:17:48] me to get back to him today with a figure, I don't know. [1:17:53] He's not promising them to hit him. He just wants a conversation. He listened to me. He [1:18:04] understood me and he kind of... I felt good that he wanted to remember and I [1:18:13] did talk to [1:18:14] Senator Stromman while I was in Lincoln last Thursday morning with a nice conversation. [1:18:20] and he said he had heard that the governor and Paul talked yesterday and we haven't heard anything about it that. [1:18:31] So what I was asked to do by the governor was to give him a number. [1:18:46] I'm just telling you personally that's going to happen. [1:18:50] But I mean, that's what you want me to go back to in your work. [1:18:54] That's what the Commissioner's vote on, that's. [1:18:57] I don't know how you can say that you're going to take a particular room instead of not [1:19:03] being out on a request. [1:19:05] I mean, just from a purely governmental standpoint, I don't know how you say, okay, we're going [1:19:12] to say give us X amount of dollars, that's not consistent with what was he has and was [1:19:17] is not consistent with our request or proposal. [1:19:22] That makes sense because I'm basically saying, [1:19:24] how are we going to say, here's the project. [1:19:27] Let's cut it down. [1:19:29] Let's get this money to pay for something [1:19:31] that we do not have any requests or allocations [1:19:38] to anyone to do the work. [1:19:40] I think that's how people get in trouble for, you know, [1:19:44] getting some of them to call it an emergency. [1:19:50] and then you don't have to get a bid or do the right procedure. [1:19:54] Well, then I'd like to oversee that. [1:19:56] Can you put me down as a consultant? [1:19:58] I'll start at LLC tomorrow. [1:19:59] The other thing is, is I sat and listened to the legislature yesterday. [1:20:03] I think the probably, as most of the people that testified, [1:20:07] I think there was his Neil Sullivan who likes his proposal for the budget. [1:20:12] And I think that was beat to death by a couple of other legislators. [1:20:15] I don't know his budget and his sweeping of the money is going to happen anyway. [1:20:21] I really question whether he's going to be able to sweep these funds like he thinks [1:20:25] he is because there was so much opposition and I mean it's like I don't always sit in [1:20:33] admire Kayla Kavanaugh but I got to tell you she went at Neil Sullivan pretty steep and hard [1:20:38] and over how can the disrespect that's shown to the legislature, currently, by saying we [1:20:47] passed this, we said this was all approved, we've moved these things on, and now, even [1:20:54] when you can't even hit the veto times, when you can't follow procedures, you still think [1:20:58] you can override what the legislature has done. [1:21:01] When funds are set aside, specifically for natural resources and environmental things, [1:21:10] and when these are different and not tax revenues, how you can sweep funds out of those [1:21:16] when that's not the way it's been established, I think he's going to find a ton of opposition this time. [1:21:21] That's my feeling as well. [1:21:24] This was already set aside. [1:21:27] This was done twice. [1:21:32] I don't like it, so I'm not going to do it, and I don't have the cooperation of all [1:21:39] the legislators that I want, so I'm going to make them do what I want them to do. [1:21:43] We can't come up with a figure, 18 million, that's what we're supposed to get in. [1:21:48] And if we return some of that money, the afterwards projects are finished. [1:21:51] That's great. [1:21:53] But you can't sit here and say, well, we'll take it down to ten or whatever the number is. [1:21:57] Because we don't know how much [1:21:59] Versus the negotiation point. [1:22:02] It's not negotiable. [1:22:03] It was already legislative bill. [1:22:05] That's right. [1:22:06] That's right. [1:22:07] Problem is, it's happening across all the [1:22:09] all of the different departments. [1:22:11] It is. [1:22:12] I mean, I don't know how he's doing. [1:22:13] I would say, like, look at all of them [1:22:15] else that. [1:22:15] And then I talked to Dan or veteran service officers. [1:22:18] Like, love, man. [1:22:19] They're just like the veterans money. [1:22:21] You're just, yeah. [1:22:22] How can you take that? [1:22:22] I mean, this is not a [1:22:25] I mean this is not a political party or this is how government is supposed to be done. [1:22:33] They passed a legislative budget and now you're basically going through these different [1:22:37] departments. [1:22:38] That all had plans based upon what they've been allocated to do stuff and you're essentially [1:22:43] just. [1:22:44] And where are the revenues are coming? [1:22:46] Listen, there's tax dollars. [1:22:48] These are special revenues. [1:22:49] some of these bills were passed by vote to put the money into these funds [1:22:54] and it's still this plan to take it out at those funds. [1:23:00] I don't know how he can even go against the taxpayers, but it passed these things. [1:23:06] It's a real aggravation, but I'd rather take it to the news. [1:23:12] I'm ready to go down and have a meeting in the rotunda with a couple of newspapers. [1:23:19] I think all the newspapers, if you saw the whole world peril, I mean they didn't have the [1:23:24] step about the pan-made names, or on the front of the Omaha World Paralympic, which [1:23:31] is kind of, you've seen the Nebraska inmates, they're on the front of the Omaha World Paralympic, [1:23:36] which is kind of surprising because that's not known to be a pretty, and it is about [1:23:49] No, we're not. There were a lot of people yesterday that spoke out to what's happening [1:23:53] to their to the funding for already approved projects. [1:23:58] Nobody's spoken supportive of what he's doing. [1:24:00] No, well, Neil Sullivan did. [1:24:02] Well, he tried very hard to support it. It's like, I mean, an actual person from the public [1:24:09] Yeah, no, there was no public support. [1:24:12] Yeah, that's the thing we got first in his camp. [1:24:16] I've helped somebody who's holding on to his job with his [1:24:19] career wife. [1:24:20] And like you guys have stated, the legislature [1:24:23] has done an excellent job of allocating the dollars [1:24:26] into the right spots. [1:24:28] It's been gone through twice already. [1:24:32] The Star Wars project started off over twice the amount [1:24:36] of money five years again. [1:24:38] Well, it was over 22, my blood, I know all of them when they came out here into the presentation, it was 50-something million presentations. [1:24:47] Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. [1:24:48] All these engineering, you know, all these types of things and, you know, it's too bad that it's gotten to the point that it has. [1:24:59] Yeah, it is. [1:25:01] So, it is, it's a set. [1:25:03] It's a set. So, any more discussion on that? [1:25:06] No. [1:25:07] Okay. [1:25:07] All right. [1:25:15] Here we got a couple minutes before we do a general inspection, so let's just do some [1:25:20] board reports. [1:25:21] John, you got it. [1:25:22] So we are not a Dave, I assume. [1:25:24] I think he just left. [1:25:25] Didn't leave his application. [1:25:27] Okay. [1:25:28] His position is, it sounds like he's not going to a file. [1:25:32] That's kind of the being I'm doing. [1:25:35] Okay. [1:25:35] Well, let's see, did do some more stuff on the comprehensive plan? [1:25:41] did talk with Jeff Schreiber. I will say that Jeff is, he did an employee want to [1:25:50] nervous things on that roundtable, and Jeff was there, and he said any time [1:25:56] any of us have any problems or questions on money that we, how should we do [1:26:01] certain things with our budgets and other things. Jeff is, he called me back [1:26:06] in less than five minutes when I called him. So he gives you answers right away so [1:26:10] And we don't have to sit and wait for answers if we have budgeting issues or budget questions [1:26:16] or whatever. [1:26:16] And he's so clear and concise and he just knows and he tells you which word to look [1:26:21] and whatever. [1:26:22] And he's really, really good. [1:26:23] I would say he did the same thing because there were questions I know that came from Visitors [1:26:28] Committee said, are we doing some of these things appropriately and it's like, I got to [1:26:33] speak done. [1:26:35] And they called and he was very good. [1:26:37] that you read through the statute. [1:26:39] So anyway, I give Jeff Kudos for all the work that he does. [1:26:42] And let's see, in tomorrow night we have planning and zoning [1:26:45] and other than that, I think I'm done. [1:26:48] Okay, [1:26:52] let me know what you got for us. [1:26:53] Just had a nervous meeting down on Lincoln last week. [1:26:57] Everything's good with nervous, so that's all we got. [1:26:59] Okay, Lori. [1:27:03] Did the visitor committee meeting a couple of weeks ago [1:27:05] last time last week? [1:27:06] Obviously, down in Lexington, for the Kiel Fording Nebraska Commission, and that. [1:27:16] Going good there, they do have a grant program, some funds sitting in the grant program. [1:27:22] These funds have to be used for the betterment of an entire, that everybody that's in the Nebraska [1:27:31] and commission government program, everybody that's a member of that, there's about $750,000 sitting in there, so what we're going to look at now is taking that and providing it up in most of communities and putting it towards the backpack program for the kids, that does help the communities out, and it's evenly distributed to them to these communities, so we're going to look at getting that done, that information will come to Sandy [1:28:02] and she'll know how much we're eligible for and then we can talk to the schools about it. [1:28:08] But I think that's a real worthwhile cause for these kids and for that program to keep [1:28:13] that program going and to help it out. [1:28:14] I think a big discussion to have with Candi Adams, yeah, because she's in charge of it. [1:28:18] And I think that she, and she just did a big presentation at the 100 women's, yeah, they got [1:28:24] the money for it. [1:28:24] I got the money. [1:28:26] I'll reach out to her and we know how much we can do. [1:28:29] Cool. And do we do it by application or do you just do it just just happen? Oh great. Yeah. So I don't know what final number they're going to, you know, screamy dead. [1:28:40] But I think it's a worthwhile pause or, you know, not the kids and stuff. And that's in the school in that background. So great. [1:28:48] for the system. Randy, any board report? [1:28:56] One of the things that my board report was conversations [1:29:04] with 5.9s. We've been through that. [1:29:10] Other than that, that's about all I have. For board [1:29:14] reports. I do have a manager change amendment on equal opinion, anyway. I believe this is [1:29:26] for a liquor license. Yeah, liquor license. I usually usually don't give a [1:29:38] recommendation, but I still need it. It's just we just see the stamp that says been received. [1:29:43] Who is it? [1:29:45] I think no recommendation. [1:29:48] Yes. [1:29:50] Yep. [1:29:50] So, I state the new manager. [1:29:54] The new manager name is Stacey Koublins. [1:30:00] It's K-O-B-I-E-L-U-S-Z. [1:30:07] All right. [1:30:13] Thanks for not letting me know, before you about the pronunciation. All right. [1:30:18] Okay. We do have the Keith County District Court monthly fee report. [1:30:34] In correspondence here, [1:30:39] we do have an extension report in here that was presented by Ryan [1:30:48] Cox. [1:30:50] Pass that around. [1:30:51] And they did interview two people for the job that have not appointed. [1:30:58] And [1:31:02] a travel request on February 17th, 2026, Jamie Moore will be traveling to, I don't [1:31:11] have the location, chemical advocate or recertification. [1:31:17] So I'm not sure if you have the lead. [1:31:26] I think so. [1:31:31] He does go to Valorant. [1:31:32] Yes. [1:31:34] You all right? [1:31:34] I'll make a motion to approve the travel request. [1:31:38] Second. [1:31:39] We [1:31:43] go with Karnie. [1:31:44] Oh, make sure it is correct. [1:31:46] Karnie and I'll let you know next week. [1:31:48] Okay. [1:31:48] All right. [1:31:50] Motion by Anderson. [1:31:52] Second by Orman to approve Jamie Moore's travel request. [1:31:55] Roll call. [1:31:55] Irvin? [1:31:57] Yes. [1:31:57] Fortman? [1:31:58] Yes. [1:31:58] Anderson? [1:31:59] Yeah. [1:32:00] Randall? [1:32:00] Yes. [1:32:07] Okay. [1:32:13] Yes, we need to check with those guys before we head over there or not on the door. [1:32:20] Okay, this now 9.32. [1:32:23] We will be exiting the room here to go and do a jail inspection. [1:32:32] Okay, this now 10.07. [1:32:36] We did go over and do a jail inspection. [1:32:39] We want to thank them for keeping up all the hard work and doing a good job at the jail. [1:32:45] everything looked like there was any good order so I want to take them for [1:32:49] taking the time to give us a thorough tour of what they all got going on over [1:32:54] there [1:32:57] so anything else on the agenda we feel like we need to touch base on [1:33:05] everything. [1:33:10] Any other questions need to be brought before the board today? [1:33:15] Did you want to look at that bill and see if I should call NACO and see who's it was? [1:33:24] Is that on the in the bills today? [1:33:28] No, it's on a credit card that I need to get paid. [1:33:31] Is it one of those you send a note out telling me you wanted to receive? [1:33:38] Let's just can you just give them a call with them? [1:33:41] NACO, yeah. [1:33:42] Yeah, but then sit and see if it's something that they have or a church. [1:33:46] Okay. [1:33:46] All right. [1:33:46] All right. [1:33:48] Detect it. [1:33:50] That's right. [1:33:51] Okay. [1:33:52] If there's nothing else needs to be brought before the board, the meeting is adjourned. [1:33:56] Thank you. [1:33:57] Thank you. [1:33:58] I want to do another one, so. [1:34:01] Oh, man. [1:34:01] See you, yes. [1:34:02] Well, just walk. [1:34:03] Yeah. [1:34:04] Okay. [1:34:05] See you, Wayne. [1:34:05] See you. [1:34:08] All right. [1:34:09] I think [1:34:13] it's going [1:34:19] to be nice to know if he really was going to follow through with the [1:34:26] applications, you're just going to snub his nose at the same as it was last time when he didn't fall in school.