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Good morning everyone. We'll start with
the pledge.

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» I pledge alce to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic

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for it stands nation
indivisible with liberty and justice for

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all.
>> We have Matthew Young here today to do

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the invitation.

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Father, we just thank you for another
day, another opportunity to seek your

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wisdom, for that which is the business
of this county, for the betterment of

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all the people. We thank you, Lord, for
providing it and providing your grace in

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Jesus name. Amen.
>> Amen.

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We'll have the minutes.
We'll have the minutes for approval last

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week prepared for next week. Moving on
into the claims. I'll make a motion we

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approve the claims in the amount of
$636,52610.

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» I'll second that motion.
>> It's been moved and seconded. All in

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favor say I. I. I.

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There are not any ad debates today.
The agenda. Anybody have any changes to

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the agenda this morning?
>> Yes. I would like to add Renee

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Schlickard,
the Constitution, the weekly

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proclamation to our agenda. First thing,

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» any other additions? And I'd like a 30
minute attorney client privilege.

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And then I'd also like a 10-minute
attorney client privilege.

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» Do you need that before anything?
>> Doesn't Can it go in? No.

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» This afternoon?
>> Yeah, that's good. The

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» the first one for 30 minutes could go as
soon as we can. That would be great.

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» Is that with Scott?
>> Yes, ma'am.

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Okay. Any other changes?
>> One more. I need to add a 15minute

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executive session uh with public works
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» Correct.
>> Who's all in it?

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» Commissioners, myself, JD Hanley.

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» Anything else? You got anything? Make a
motion we approve the agenda with the

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follow those following changes.
>> All second it.

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» Moved and seconded.
Any further discussion? All in favor say

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I.
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» I.

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» Renee Slinkard. We're going to go ahead
and have you come on up. We approved the

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Constitution uh last week proclamation
resolution 2026-20.

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Um, but I don't think we approved that
resolution number. So, I'll make a

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motion we accept resolution number
2026-20.

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Whereas the Lynn County
uh Kansas Commissioners approve

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Constitution Week Proclamation September
17th, 2026. That's my motion.

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» I'll second that motion. It's
>> been moved and seconded. Any discussion?

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All in favor say I. I. I.

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Have everybody sign it before we take a
picture.

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Okay.
Hold it up.

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» You want to hold it up?
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» Together.

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» Thank you.
>> Thanks very much.

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» Have a good week.
>> One of those.

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» Yeah.

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» Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
>> We good there.

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AMR is not here today. I'll be reading
the report

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data for August 1st through the 23rd.
Blue Mound has four calls and three

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transports. Centerville has five calls
and two transports. Lac Scene with 44 or

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43 [clears throat] calls, 32 transports.
Mount City with 19 calls and eight

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transports. Parker with two calls and
one transport. Pleasanton with 27 calls

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and 17 transports. Prescott with three
calls and three transports. The average

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response time is 15 minutes and 4
seconds.

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I'll make a motion we go into executive
session with the appraiser for 20

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minutes pursuant to Kansas statute
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B1 non-elected personnel with the three
commissioners, the attorney, Lisa, and

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Chassity.
That's my motion.

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» I'll [snorts] second that motion.
>> It's been moved and seconded. All in

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favor say I.
>> I. I. returning at 9:27.

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I'll make a motion we extend for another
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» I'll second that motion.
>> It's been moved and seconded. All in

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favor say I. I.
>> I. Returning at 9:38.

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There was no action.

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Uh I'll read the prisoners or the
sheriff's report really quick. Prisoners

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in 72 zero farmed out. 44 farmed in, 71
911 calls, 6,137

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jail contacts, 724 calls for service, 22
civil service papers served, 14 VIN

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inspections, 33 new cases open, 16 cases
closed, seven vehicle crashes, 125 baift

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contacts, three livestock out, and 140
SRO calls for service.

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Fire Chief,

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» you can just go to the report and then
we'll get to the budget later if that's

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okay.
>> Later today.

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» Yes.
>> Is that okay?

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» Sure.
>> Okay.

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» Uh, good morning, Sean Tugle, Lane
County Fire Department, Fire Chief. Uh,

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one vehicle fire, one carbon monoxide
check, one power line down, two smoke

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investigations, two crash detections,
three wildland fires, four EMS assist,

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921 calls to date.
>> Awesome. Can you stick around for budget

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or Sure.
>> be busy? Okay,

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» we'll get to you in a little bit.
Thanks.

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» Thanks,
>> Linda. Did you have anything other than

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budget? All right, go ahead and come up.

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» Good morning.
>> Good morning.

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» Um, I'll be making monthly reports
because I don't have Oh, totals. Um, so

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this is actually like two months report
because I didn't come last month. Um, in

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July I attended a webinar and this is
just kind of a rundown of what I've done

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since I've become director or was in the
interim. Uh I attended a webinar from

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KDM on preparedness. Uh in their
preparedness series um that was

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insurance pitfalls during disaster. Uh I
met with the sheriff under sheriff rule

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fire and it to put together SOGS for the
command trailer. Uh this included

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directives on who was to set up tear
down and cleaning. And this is in

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response to the tornado event in April.
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at the health department. Natalie Geredi
u our regional coordinator from KDM and

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Carol Arnold from the Red Cross were our
guest speakers. Uh we talked about the

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need to exercise our capabilities
and uh lunch was provided by emergency

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management 22 attending and the annual
meeting will be January 27th in

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Pleasanton.
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the 30th and acted as an evaluator for
an exercise that they had um, entitled

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Jefferson County Earthquake. And then in
August, I taught CPR first aid AED

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classes to the transportation department
at USD 344. And I have two more uh, CPR

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trainings set for September. So far, um,
I attended the Southeast Regional KMA

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meeting in Bourbon County. you we are a
part of the northeast region but we have

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a lot more in common with the southeast
region. So I went down there to just to

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make introductions and see how they
handle things and I mean knowledge is

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good and so we can if I can glean from
other counties that's a good thing. Um

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in the afternoon I attended an exercise
design class for their upcoming

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exercise.
I'm still working with Carrie Terry

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Keegan from KDM. Um he is the state
training program manager. Um I want to

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bring the American Red Cross shelter
fundamentals training to Lynn County and

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this would be open to other counties.
They put it out on Kansas train um as

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well as anybody in Lynn County that
would like to become a uh Red Cross

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volunteer.
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head meeting and it was nice to get to
discuss things with the other department

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heads. Um I'm part of the Everbridge
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Uh we had a teams meeting to discuss the
new fund uh functionalities of

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Everbridge. I attended the KDM webinar
avoiding scams after disasters.

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I hosted a meeting that included city
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city officials.
Jason from GIS provided me with maps

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showing property around each city that
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counties. Um, and with the city's input,
we were able to discuss temporary debris

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sites for each city. There were other
topics discussed and all agreed that it

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was a good meeting and that they wanted
to meet more often. So, we're going to

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meet quarterly with all the public works
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Um after gaining the information from
that meeting I was able to complete the

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debris management part of our emergency
operations plan for the and I sent it

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off to the state for approval. Uh they
will go through it list any changes that

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they want and it after they approve it
then it will go to you guys for

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approval.
um they are going away from Kansas

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Planner which is where we have it right
now and so uh we have to start all over

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from square one and put all information
into a new program because the state has

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changed. So uh in addition to the
meetings and training I continue to do

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the normal work that I've done um as the
EM planner for the next for the last 10

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years. Um next Monday through Thursday
I'll be attending the KMA conference in

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Manhattan.
Do you have any questions?

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» I don't.
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» Okay. Next next time will be smaller.
It'll be one.

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» Okay. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Linda. Have a good week.

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» Katie, I'm going to skip you and go to
Ashley really quick so she can get out

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of here. Um, sorry,
Ashley Allen with economic development.

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Sorry.
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» He's disappointed. I know. I can tell.
Darn it. Okay. Ashley Allen, economic

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development. Um, first I want to start
with we're trying to wrap up our summer

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work program. Um, I've received um
information the payrolls and the W9s for

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seven of the eight recipients. So, I
would like to get approval to get those

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sent out sent to accounts payable so we
can get them paid. So, I'm still missing

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one. Um, yeah.
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to go and approve the seven? Well, I
didn't know if I could approve the seven

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and then
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» I was going to tell him by the end of
the week if I What is your suggestion?

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I' I've sent two emails, but
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» I guess
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he's going to have to get her the
correct the paperwork. So,

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» you have everything you need on the
seven. So, the seven

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» the seven are complete.
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approving the seven if you Yeah.
>> Some of those were early getting them

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in. So, I just
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» de summer youth development.
>> Um I'll approve these seven that have

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responded to Ashley Allen regarding the
reimbursement for the summer youth

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program. That's my motion.
>> I'll second it.

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» It's been moved and seconded. Any
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All in favor say I.
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» I.
>> Perfect. Um, and then next I just wanted

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to share about the keys event that I was
able to attend two weeks ago in

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Manhattan. Um, I was able to meet with
several hundred economic developers, e

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community members, and teachers across
Kansas. Got to hear from some great

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speakers and attend several classes. Um,
where we talked about marketing beyond

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the fler, filling empty buildings in
your community, and using AI and

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economic development. Um, so we're now
we're just kind of trying to decide. As

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you know, we were one of the first um e
community members Lynn County was in

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2009 under Dennis Arnold, I believe. Um
and we will be losing that membership in

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September if we don't take some kind of
action. While I'm not really sure what

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that looks like, um Chassity and I have
talked about it a lot. Um

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and we're not really sure how it can
continue. Um, we hate to lose it because

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Janet said it'll be hard to to get back
and it is a good tool if you guys do

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ever hire an economic developer. Um,
so if you have any suggestions, I don't

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know. Um, I would be willing to help
with whatever I could. Um, basically the

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e community, um, they meet quarterly,
minimum quarterly, monthly if you can.

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Um they just provide direction, set
goals and collaborate on creating

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creating a thriving entrepreneurial
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a network Kansas normally comes to the
meetings, a financial review board to

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review loan applications.
Right now we have several loans out

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through um e community.
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» Well, you know, that's a good question,
Jim. I knew I know five just joined and

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I had a map and I forgot it. So quite a
few but we just had five new ones and I

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think it's quite a lengthy process to
join. I just know um the COO came up to

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me the other day and was asking me some
questions and he was friends with Dennis

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Arnold and he said do you know you were
one of the first ones and so um so I

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can't tell you for sure and I could get
back with you on an answer for that. Um,

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but it gives us things like ecom
community programming dollars. In the

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past few years, we've used those funds
to provide pri prizes for youth

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entrepreneurship challenge. We've sent
business we can send businesses to

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destination boot camp. I don't know if
we've done that. I haven't been involved

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in any of that. Chastity says yes. Um,
so we would just lose access to the

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funds. Um,

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the opportunity to sell entrepreneurship
tax credits. Um, these are just a few

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things that Janet had shared with us and
you guys may have seen that email back

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in May, 1 of May.
>> It's also a gap for those individuals

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that are trying to start businesses that
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Um, e community helps provide that gap
loan process for some of our and we do

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have as Ashley mentioned several
businesses that have used that

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» and there's so much you know I was
talking with Chastity and I don't even

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know what all they can do. Um, it was a
it was a great conference and tons I

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mean tons of people work there. It's a
fairly new within like the last I don't

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know 20 years I think they said they
started and I think there's a lot out

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there. I just don't really I haven't
taken the time to really dig in deep.

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Um,
but I just think if you guys do ever

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fill that role, it would be a great tool
and a shame to lose it. So

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» Jim, it looks like there's 82 community
partnerships that work with Network

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Kansas.

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» We talked about, you know, maybe like
there was a way to fill it within the

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county. It cannot be, we cannot pay
them. Can't pay them. But if you could

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use like several of the county workers,
we have to have five minimum five. And I

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think the max is like 10 to 15, but we
don't really want too high of a number

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because then you have to have so many
present to vote on anything. Um,

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» what does that look like for you?
>> Well,

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» would you be interested in part-time?
>> I would. Yes, and that's what I was

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thinking too. Like um, you know, I spoke
with lots of economic developers in

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Manhattan and I mean without like having
some direction, I wouldn't really just

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want to jump in. Um but yeah, if we
could do like some kind of like a

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part-time or like a work from home, um I
would be happy to shadow um I've spoke

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with other economic developers and
shadow them or if we just wanted to

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figure out a way to keep the um
e community membership alive.

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I would be interested.

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» September 30th. What was the due date? I
think it was September 30th.

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I don't think it was that late. I think
it was like December.

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» Pretty quick. Let's go ahead and on
August 31st, let's put that on the

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agenda to discuss. You don't have to be
here, but we'll just discuss the

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position.
>> Okay. Um that's going to be we put the e

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ecoda budget
out there and then also discuss what

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we're going to do make a decision once
we make a decision then

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» we can figure out that way.
>> That sounds good. Thanks for going to

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that though.
>> Yeah, it was exciting.

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» Yeah, it was a lot of fun. I really
enjoyed it. So, thank you for allowing

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me to go. So, guess that's it.
>> We will be in touch. Thank you so much.

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Have a good week.

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I'll make a motion we go into executive
session for 30 minutes pursuant to

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Kansas statute 754319
attorney client privilege

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with the three commissioners Jacqueline
Pleta our attorney and Scott Nurvass

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other counsel that's my motion
>> I'll second that motion

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» it's been moved and seconded all in
favor say I

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» I returning at 10:2 One, two.

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There was no action.

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JD

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Maybe
we do it later. Morning

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commissioners.
>> Good morning.

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» Eddie Hanley Public Works.
>> Very busy week last week. I met with

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Sheay Hensac, the regional coordinator
with the Lake Region Solid Waste

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Authority. Had a nice meeting with her.
Learned a lot of things about their

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capabilities and and our membership with
them. I would like to recommend to you

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to appoint Zack Reagan as our third and
final board member to that organization.

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» I'm good with it.
>> Is anybody Jason? You good?

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» Yep. I'll make a motion that we appoint
Zachary Reagan to the Lake Region Solid

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Waste Authority board member.
I'll second that motion.

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» It's been moved and seconded. Any
further discussion?

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All in favor say I.
>> I.

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» I.
>> Thank you.

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Also, as uh Linda Simons stated earlier,
had a meeting uh regarding debris

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management in the event of a disaster.
We met with all the different uh public

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works authorities with all the different
cities. It's a good meeting. Exchange

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contact information with everybody.
We're going to continue to do that on a

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quarterly basis.
want to circle back with you today on

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the CEL training contract. See if we
could get approval to use that

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again. Jacqueline's reviewed it. She
said she was all right with it.

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» You looked at it.
>> Jason, have you had time to look through

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it?
>> Yep.

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[snorts]

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» Did you have any issues with it?

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We probably have to be involved in that
knowing when they're terminated or not.

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Working closely with Chassity on that.
>> Yes.

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» No issues. Right, Jacqueline?
I'll make a motion we approve the Lind

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County, Kansas in house CDL training and
employment commitment agreement

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effective immediately.
>> I'll second that motion.

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» It's been moved and seconded. All in
favor say I.

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» I.
>> Thank you. also have to present to you

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an assistance application from Jay-Hawk
Lens FFA. Uh they're going to prepare.

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They're preparing to do their land
judging and they asked if we could come

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out and I guess the holes are already
there. They just need to be cleaned out

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and straightened up a little bit. Less
than an hour's worth of work. I don't

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have a problem with that. If if uh
commission's okay with it, we could get

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approval on that agreement.
>> We've done that before.

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» I don't have an issue. Do you have
anything I need to sign?

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» Yeah.

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We need a motion.
>> Yeah, I can make it. Let me I'm just

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going to read through it real quick.
>> I'll make a motion. We approve the Lynn

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County Public Works Assistance
Application for Jay-Hawk FFA preparing

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for their land judging at the high
school. That's my motion.

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» I'll second it.
>> It's been moved and seconded. Any

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discussion?
All in favor say I. I.

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» I. also
met with Tony Molini. He's our engineer

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on the landfill expansion. Making some
good progress there. We're still in the

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uh right now we're in the notification
stage. We've got to notify uh 10

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separate authorities.
Uh as of Friday before I went home, we

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we uh Friday we got the uh seventh
approval. So we've got seven out of 10

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approved on that. Um, Friday was the uh
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.

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Um, the broadheaded skink has been
removed from the endangered species

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list. So, we cleared that hurdle. We're
waiting on the Kansas Biological Survey,

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the Kansas State Historical Society, and
the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Tony

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did not suspect any hiccups there. Um
once we get those those uh three final

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approvals, then we can uh talk about
doing some core sample drilling out

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there to see where the bedrock is and
the water table is so we know how deep

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the cell will be. So we're making
progress there.

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Chassity and I met with uh world
premiere um Friday in regards to the her

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not necessarily the heritage grant. I
guess that's their primary focus. He put

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together a proposal. I didn't have time
to put it in your packet for this week.

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I'll circle back with you on it next
week. I just wanted to give you a heads

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up on that. Um, basically they're
wanting to do the work for us in regards

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to historical courthouse. Um, some
painting, some uh repair to the steeple,

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window sills, a lot of wood repair and
stuff. It's all outlined in their

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proposal. Um, supposedly [snorts] no
cost to the county. So, that'll be in

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your next week's packet for you to
review.

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Um,
I think the main thing Dave wanted to to

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discuss was is if they get approval to
go out for this grant,

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would the work still have to go out for
bids?

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Might chew on that one. Don't need an
answer today.

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Uh, speaking of the courthouse, I wanted
to bring to you there's two trees over

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there we need to take down. Um unless
one of you have a huge issue with that.

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There's
>> which ones?

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» Uh you know the driveway going in to the
maintenance door here on the east side.

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They're right there along that driveway.
One of them is split. It's it's it's

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done. The other one they took some off
of it. It's hollow in the middle. I mean

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they're both
their life's limited. I'd like to get

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proactive and just go ahead and take
them down unless somebody has a huge

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issue with that.
>> They're not going to get any better.

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That's my point.
>> You can't.

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» No.
>> No. We tried the whole Miracle Grow

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thing and it didn't take ratchet strap.
[laughter]

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» A ratchet strap. Is that what you said?
>> I don't need a motion. I just If anybody

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had an issue with that, I just
>> I don't have an issue.

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» Yeah. I mean, they're not going to get
any better. I hate to take trees down,

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too. But we did take one a couple weeks
down. I didn't talk to you about that.

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It was back by the parking lot and it
was better in the door now. So, it's

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gone. I'd like I want to get these two
taken down and then we'll try to get

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them stumps ground down, make it look
decent around there. Uh,

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so the appraiser reached out to me a
couple weeks ago and they're wanting to

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they're going to buy themselves a new
pickup. They offered me their existing

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pickup. It's a 2015 Ford F-150. I'd like
permission to go ahead and purchase that

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from them. It's a good truck. Um, I
think uh it's only got like 63 64,000

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miles on it. I think we can get some
good use out of that in-house. I don't

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mind buying used, especially with this
one since we know the history of it, you

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know, it's been treated well and
maintained and whatnot. Um,

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» are we going to take one out of service
or what that we have or is this just an

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extra vehicle?
>> So, we're going to hand hand one down. I

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think I'll take the uh I think public
works administrator will take the

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appraiser vehicle and then we'll take
the one that I'm driving and hand it

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down to road shop 3. They've got about
two trucks that are on life support that

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they're utilizing.
>> So, we'll get rid of a truck there. Then

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» eventually we'll circle back and take
one of them

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» one of them older units out of service
and probably purple wave. But I mean

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we're working on a we're working on I'm
working on a liquidation list to bring

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to you at some point before the end of
the year.

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» Okay. So, yeah, there'll definitely be a
truck get liquidated. I don't know that

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it'll
>> Do you want to see that first?

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» I would like to see it at the time we do
this is what I'd like to see. I just

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don't want to keep adding trucks to the
fleet.

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» Give us an inventory.
>> Which one we're going to pull?

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» All Yeah, all vehicles. You want all
vehicles, right?

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» Road shop. What What do we have there?
What are they driving?

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» Oh, okay.
>> Um

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» Yeah, sure. No problem.
Uh, also I wanted to come back with you

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and request that transfer that $450,000
for the landfill closing. I want to move

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that from the landfill's budget to the
contingency fund. I think that's where

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that money belongs rather than the uh a
line item in the the landfill's budget.

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450,000 even. Is that what's in there?
You know,

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» this was a a figure that was actually
budgeted for last year, but the transfer

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never took place.
>> So, it's budgeted under a landfill

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closing,
>> but Yes.

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» I only show ending cash balance of 425.
Is that right?

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» I believe
David would I'm gonna ask David to come

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up if you would please. We we had a
conversation about this on Friday

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and I think if I'm correct there was a
25

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» pull that chair up for him. He can

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» it's 450 according to the expense report
for the end of July.

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So
>> I'm only referring to this and I have no

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idea if this um from Dave Terbert. So I
show estimated

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» 425 budgeting
>> another 25,000 a year was what we're

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supposed to be putting out. Right.
>> So according to last year or well this

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year's budget, excuse me, the one that
was done last year, it showed that money

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being transferred to a landfill closing
fund. That transfer never happened last

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year.
Um there was no in fact the landfill

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closing fund has never been set up.
>> Well, didn't we a few years ago take the

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400 and start out with a 400 bill and
add 25,000 a year?

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» Yeah, we started putting it in as a line
item in the contingency.

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So in the budget you've got for next
year.

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I am showing in there that we are going
to go ahead and make that transfer. I

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believe it was 400,000 this year to get
it. Sorry, let me get over to the right

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page budget here.

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Yeah, I have a I show us transferring
400,000 this year and adding another

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25,000 to it in next year's budget. So,
that would take care of getting it moved

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to that landfill closing. However, we
need to set that fund up in their

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records over there. And I'd already
talked to Chassity and Joanie about that

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that I could come in and help them get
that fund set up if they needed some

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assistance with that. So I think that
will take care of getting it moved over

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there.
>> I guess I'm not understanding get the

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fund set up. I mean there's already a
contingency line item.

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» You know, the contingency is there,
>> but the when the budget was done last

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year, the person that did the budget
showed transferring that from

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contingency to a landfill closing fund,
which would be its own fund. That fund

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was never set up in their accounting
records over there and that transfer

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never happened.
>> So when we started this two or three

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years ago, we didn't set that 400,000
that started up then.

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» No, we we were just showing it as a line
item in contingency. And this would move

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it into its own fund, which does make
sense to get it out there and away from

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contingency.

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» JD, I'm not against asking. I just don't
know if today's the day.

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» That's fine. We can circle back to it. I
don't care where it ends up going is it

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doesn't be in the landfill's operating
budget. You know, it needs to be tucked

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away.
>> It will be.

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» Yeah, that's that's my goal is to tuck
it away.

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» Do you Do you want to talk about the
landfill fee proposal?

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» The change?
>> That's fine.

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» I mean, it's pretty simple really. It's
just cleaning up stuff that there's a

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lot of extra categories down there
that's not utilized anymore.

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And again, I guess probably the biggest
change would be [snorts] segregating the

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incount out of county stuff.

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» How do we determine that?
Well, like last week, like I said, I

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think that they need to present proof of
uh residency, whether that be their

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01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:41,600
driver's license or the tag on their
vehicle or a deed.

420
01:35:40,080 --> 01:35:45,600
If there's somebody that's just recently
moved here and they haven't switched

421
01:35:43,840 --> 01:35:48,800
over their driver's license or their
license plate, then they could provide a

422
01:35:47,199 --> 01:35:54,800
copy of the deed. I actually had to do
that myself back many moons ago.

423
01:35:52,960 --> 01:35:59,440
» So, if you own a home here, but you have
a license somewhere else, you're saying

424
01:35:56,960 --> 01:36:01,600
they have to produce a license
from here

425
01:36:00,000 --> 01:36:03,679
» have to provide proof of property
ownership.

426
01:36:02,560 --> 01:36:08,960
» Okay.
>> In my opinion, the landfills for the

427
01:36:05,679 --> 01:36:14,239
residents of of Lynn County and and so
on and so forth. So,

428
01:36:11,840 --> 01:36:19,760
I think that they need to be property
owners here to utilize our our services.

429
01:36:16,320 --> 01:36:21,760
» Is that stated anywhere?
>> That's why we're having this

430
01:36:20,719 --> 01:36:25,440
conversation. [laughter]
>> Well, I just don't know if we want to

431
01:36:22,880 --> 01:36:32,159
make a motion. I'm okay with the rates
changing. Um, but if if we're talking

432
01:36:29,760 --> 01:36:34,880
license or whatever you come up with,
>> we can make a public

433
01:36:33,199 --> 01:36:39,840
» probably need to have some sort of a
>> we can make a public announcement.

434
01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:43,679
» Well, I'm thinking when you drive in
>> Oh, see a sign posted.

435
01:36:41,840 --> 01:36:49,040
» We can add it to the sign. It's easy
enough.

436
01:36:46,480 --> 01:36:55,040
» I just see issues with someone coming.
It's not posted. And then the guys are

437
01:36:51,119 --> 01:36:58,400
asking for a license and a deed with a
>> big trailer of

438
01:36:57,119 --> 01:37:01,400
» free.
>> Understood.

439
01:37:02,400 --> 01:37:08,800
» Do you guys want to make a motion on the
new rates? Do you want to look over it?

440
01:37:06,320 --> 01:37:14,239
» I'm good with them.
>> I'll make a motion we approve the new

441
01:37:10,560 --> 01:37:19,040
landfill fee schedule.
>> I'll second that.

442
01:37:17,280 --> 01:37:23,119
» It's been moved and seconded. Any
further discussion?

443
01:37:21,440 --> 01:37:25,040
All in favor say I.
>> I.

444
01:37:23,600 --> 01:37:28,280
» I.
>> Thank you.

445
01:37:36,159 --> 01:37:42,320
» Road updates.
They finished the capping projects

446
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:46,320
asphalt west of Centerville. Moved down
to Blue Mountain. Got those all finished

447
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:49,679
up. Now, they're just doing some random
pothole patching around the county and

448
01:37:48,159 --> 01:37:55,520
different areas that's that we've got
requests for and that I've designated.

449
01:37:54,239 --> 01:38:00,320
Also going to be doing some pothole
patching up in the uh there's a few

450
01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:05,400
potholes in the park and try to get
those patched before Labor Day holiday

451
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:05,400
comes.

452
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:15,119
Our road grader, the John Deere unit
218, it's in the shop in THA.

453
01:38:12,480 --> 01:38:18,560
So, we've got 14,000 into it right now.
That's for tear down. Needs a

454
01:38:16,880 --> 01:38:23,679
transmission replaced. We're looking at
at about $35,000.

455
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:28,719
Met with met with Murphy last week.
They're putting together some numbers.

456
01:38:25,679 --> 01:38:32,639
Um I'm not convinced that repairing that
machine is the right answer at the

457
01:38:30,239 --> 01:38:37,360
moment till I see some more data.
Anyway, [snorts] it's down. Um we don't

458
01:38:35,199 --> 01:38:40,560
have an operator for it anyway, so we're
not we're not missing out on too much

459
01:38:39,040 --> 01:38:43,679
there.
which I'll circle back with you next

460
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:48,080
week on that. Hopefully have some more
solid numbers and a and a path forward

461
01:38:46,080 --> 01:38:51,600
on it. I mean, it's pretty simple. We
either spend the money to fix it. We

462
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:55,760
bring it home and part it out. We have
two exactly like it

463
01:38:54,239 --> 01:39:00,159
or
there may be some trade in value that we

464
01:38:57,520 --> 01:39:05,960
can look at. So, what else is wrong with
it? It's got 10,000 hours on it.

465
01:39:07,199 --> 01:39:12,960
We've got some that's all that has more
than that I guess right

466
01:39:10,480 --> 01:39:17,679
» it's pushing it's one of the one of the
upper ones

467
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:21,199
» apparently there was a buyback program
with those deers I guess I don't know it

468
01:39:19,760 --> 01:39:25,719
wasn't utilized or whatever I don't know
if that's true it's just hearsay but

469
01:39:27,920 --> 01:39:30,920
10500

470
01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:38,480
I think we've put over a hundred we've
put over I can it's hard for me to

471
01:39:35,440 --> 01:39:42,400
decipher between the data in PubW works.
Everything's not in PubWorks. It needs

472
01:39:40,400 --> 01:39:46,719
to be in PubWorks for me to be able to
tell you how much exactly how much money

473
01:39:44,000 --> 01:39:50,400
we've spent on that machine. But between
the research I've done, I can

474
01:39:48,400 --> 01:39:55,920
confidently tell you it's over $100,000
that we put into that machine.

475
01:39:54,159 --> 01:40:00,159
I just want to see what Murfield do for
us.

476
01:39:58,639 --> 01:40:03,639
Next week, we should be able to make a
decision on that.

477
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:11,280
I think the only thing out the only
other thing I have is I need an

478
01:40:09,119 --> 01:40:14,960
executive session
non-elected personnel either now or

479
01:40:13,440 --> 01:40:18,000
later. It doesn't really matter.
>> We'll do it later. That's okay.

480
01:40:16,719 --> 01:40:21,119
» Yep.
>> Thank you.

481
01:40:19,040 --> 01:40:24,119
» Welcome. Y'all got anything for me?
>> Yeah.

482
01:40:26,800 --> 01:40:35,280
» Question JD on Pub Works though before
you leave. Are you thinking that we

483
01:40:30,880 --> 01:40:40,960
would want to use that or GWorks moving
forward for the commission to be able to

484
01:40:38,239 --> 01:40:46,400
look on their phones
when there's a road complaint? My my

485
01:40:43,040 --> 01:40:50,400
road has been mowed or graded. We can
see where we've been. Is that something

486
01:40:48,719 --> 01:40:54,159
that you're in favor of?
>> So,

487
01:40:52,400 --> 01:40:59,199
the transition to G Works has been
extremely challenging

488
01:40:56,320 --> 01:41:03,440
and that's with a capital E. It's It's
been rough. Uh the goal was to launch go

489
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:06,000
live on September 1st.
>> Yeah,

490
01:41:03,920 --> 01:41:12,159
» that's not going to happen.
>> Uh we're shooting for October 1st now.

491
01:41:10,239 --> 01:41:16,000
Um
>> I just wanted to make sure is that the

492
01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:18,800
vision?
>> Sure. I don't Yeah,

493
01:41:17,360 --> 01:41:22,239
» because we have been talking about G
Works for two years. Yeah.

494
01:41:20,320 --> 01:41:25,520
» And we've been paying for it. So, I just
want to make sure, you know, when we

495
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:29,600
first started this process of
transitioning, if that's still

496
01:41:28,080 --> 01:41:32,480
» I
really enjoyed the meeting I had with

497
01:41:30,880 --> 01:41:36,880
Murphy on Friday.
>> Um, I I've got it wrote down. I don't

498
01:41:35,360 --> 01:41:41,280
remember the specific name, but they
have a software where you can literally

499
01:41:39,040 --> 01:41:46,400
see what your what road you're blade
bladed today, when he was blading, when

500
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:50,560
he was just driving. And [snorts]
I think that's important, you know, not

501
01:41:48,800 --> 01:41:54,960
necessarily for a big brother
standpoint. It's not about micromanaging

502
01:41:53,119 --> 01:41:58,639
the operator. It's about making sure
that everything's getting done that we

503
01:41:56,800 --> 01:42:04,719
want to get done.
>> Um, so

504
01:42:01,119 --> 01:42:08,320
» would Murphy be able to would we be able
to use Murphy and then that pushes into

505
01:42:06,480 --> 01:42:11,119
G Works or you saying something totally
different?

506
01:42:08,719 --> 01:42:17,040
» It's two separate things that we can
benefit from both, you know. Um the

507
01:42:14,960 --> 01:42:22,080
GWorks aspect of it is going to give you
insight on service requests like you

508
01:42:19,119 --> 01:42:25,840
asked. Um
the

509
01:42:24,159 --> 01:42:30,080
we're just talking blades here on on
Murphy's software. That's going to give

510
01:42:28,000 --> 01:42:36,639
you insight on your on your blades, what
they're doing exactly. So

511
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:41,280
» yeah, I mean it's been quite a few
months. I haven't seen

512
01:42:39,040 --> 01:42:44,560
tickets on where we at, you know, with
>> we're making some good progress. I dove

513
01:42:42,800 --> 01:42:49,119
into I dove into the pub works tickets.
We've got a lot of old ones cleaned up.

514
01:42:46,639 --> 01:42:53,040
Um there's some that's just not you
know, for example, there's a there's a

515
01:42:50,719 --> 01:42:57,280
pub works service request for repairing
the steeple on the courthouse. Okay,

516
01:42:55,520 --> 01:42:59,760
that's a big deal. That's that's not
something we're going to go knock out

517
01:42:58,400 --> 01:43:03,280
this afternoon. That's something that's
going to have to be planned for and it's

518
01:43:01,760 --> 01:43:06,159
going to cost a lot of money and it's
probably going to incorporate get

519
01:43:04,639 --> 01:43:11,360
incorporated in with other repairs
amongst the courthouse. So there's

520
01:43:08,719 --> 01:43:14,639
things like that that's
this skews the numbers in Pub Works. You

521
01:43:13,280 --> 01:43:17,920
know, you'll have a several service
requests building up on you, but it's

522
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:21,760
things like that that's just going to
have to wait for the moment.

523
01:43:19,440 --> 01:43:23,520
» Can we get an emailed report of
everything?

524
01:43:22,639 --> 01:43:26,639
» Say that again.
>> Can you email us a report of everything

525
01:43:25,679 --> 01:43:27,760
not completed?
>> Of course,

526
01:43:27,040 --> 01:43:29,760
» at this point.
>> Yeah, that's simple.

527
01:43:28,560 --> 01:43:32,880
» Because I really don't know if the
steeple should be in there. That could

528
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:35,440
be part of the heritage grant.
>> Correct. That's my point. That's my

529
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:38,960
point. Um
>> maybe we could kind of address some of

530
01:43:36,800 --> 01:43:42,239
that. something that Pub Works has the
ability to defer that particular service

531
01:43:41,119 --> 01:43:44,239
request, but then
>> yeah,

532
01:43:42,719 --> 01:43:48,800
» maybe that's where service requests go
to die, you know. I'm not sure. I I I

533
01:43:47,199 --> 01:43:52,480
like it being open because it's still on
our radar, but it does skew the numbers,

534
01:43:51,199 --> 01:43:58,000
the overall numbers when you're looking
at open service requests. Um, back to G

535
01:43:56,400 --> 01:44:02,800
Works, you know, when I first got
involved with it, very unimpressed. Very

536
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:06,560
unimpressed. Mhm.
>> I told them, "You've sold us a Cadillac

537
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:12,080
that's sitting in the driveway that we
can't drive." And um apparently that hit

538
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:17,600
a nerve because they got the developer
involved of the software and we've had

539
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:23,280
weekly meetings with that developer and
they have taken our issues very

540
01:44:20,960 --> 01:44:28,719
seriously and they're resolving their
issues. Um the last two to three weeks

541
01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:31,760
have shown progress. Um, I was of a
mindset that I didn't know if we were

542
01:44:30,560 --> 01:44:35,840
going to be able to accomplish this
transition with that particular

543
01:44:33,119 --> 01:44:39,760
platform, but Chris Martin has gotten
involved and like I said, their

544
01:44:38,080 --> 01:44:46,000
developers gotten involved in the last
three weeks have been productive. They

545
01:44:42,719 --> 01:44:49,840
we I've seen some progress. So, um, but
I I think the GWorks will give you what

546
01:44:47,760 --> 01:44:53,679
you want is insight on service requests
and things like that. But as far as

547
01:44:51,280 --> 01:44:56,960
daily predict productivity,
that's going to be more along the lines

548
01:44:55,199 --> 01:45:00,719
of some type of software with what with
your machines, you know, like the

549
01:44:58,159 --> 01:45:05,760
graders. And so Caterpillar has
software, too, but I don't know that

550
01:45:02,080 --> 01:45:08,400
it's as in depth as as Murphy's, but uh
>> so

551
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:11,840
Okay.
>> Okay. If you could just give us a report

552
01:45:10,719 --> 01:45:14,080
» of the open service.
>> Open service. Yeah.

553
01:45:13,520 --> 01:45:15,760
» Tickets.
>> Yep. No problem at all.

554
01:45:15,360 --> 01:45:17,840
» Thank you.
>> You bet. Thanks, JD. You bet.

555
01:45:17,199 --> 01:45:21,080
» Have a good week.
>> You too.

556
01:45:33,280 --> 01:45:39,880
Did you have the
budgets on here of who I'm seeing?

557
01:45:41,199 --> 01:45:46,320
» One of the very first budgets turned in.
>> It's not on the agenda though.

558
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:53,679
Your
>> clerk is Jake.

559
01:45:50,000 --> 01:45:59,523
So sorry I skipped over that.
Oh, what am I looking at?

560
01:45:57,503 --> 01:45:59,523
[clears throat]

561
01:46:11,119 --> 01:46:15,400
» No, it's got to be here.

562
01:46:20,880 --> 01:46:26,560
» You guys ready for us, I guess? You can
go ahead and get into the soil

563
01:46:24,880 --> 01:46:31,600
conservation budget.
>> Yes. So, I'm I'm Jacob Berglin. I'm the

564
01:46:30,080 --> 01:46:35,679
chairman, I guess, or the president. I
guess chairman's what it says in here.

565
01:46:33,679 --> 01:46:40,719
» Kyle Karsten's. He's the vice chairman.
Susan Walker, our new district manager.

566
01:46:37,760 --> 01:46:46,000
So, she put together a packet for you
guys here. Uh on the front is like a

567
01:46:44,639 --> 01:46:50,719
logo, I guess, they use here in the
state that kind of goes through on a lot

568
01:46:48,639 --> 01:46:56,000
of the pedals there. It talks about
different things that we do. uh kind of

569
01:46:53,360 --> 01:47:01,920
a little uh pretty picture instead of
looking at it in bullet form. Uh but

570
01:46:59,199 --> 01:47:07,119
after that, there's some history and
some information on where we're at in

571
01:47:03,760 --> 01:47:12,000
the county and um our mission, our role,
our key services. Um

572
01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:15,360
I know you guys are all probably very
familiar with what we do, so we don't I

573
01:47:14,159 --> 01:47:19,840
don't think we need to go through all of
that. Um, at the bottom, guys, get home

574
01:47:18,400 --> 01:47:23,119
in your free time and you're really
wanting to dig more into soil

575
01:47:21,520 --> 01:47:28,480
conservation services, there's a link
there you guys can watch, uh, if you're

576
01:47:26,639 --> 01:47:33,119
just really feeling bored or TV doesn't
have on what you're looking for. So, uh,

577
01:47:31,199 --> 01:47:39,840
I guess the main thing we wanted to go
through was, uh, requesting the 43,000

578
01:47:38,320 --> 01:47:43,679
that you guys have been gracious enough
to give us the last many years. Uh, it's

579
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:50,080
the same. We're not asking for an
increase, just asking for the same. Um,

580
01:47:47,280 --> 01:47:53,840
and then, uh, I guess the main thing I
just wanted to see was, uh, I know we've

581
01:47:52,480 --> 01:47:58,239
been coming in here a lot of years. This
is my first year doing this, but, uh,

582
01:47:56,480 --> 01:48:03,880
you guys have any questions on how your
funding helps us get done what we need

583
01:48:00,639 --> 01:48:03,880
to get done?

584
01:48:18,639 --> 01:48:24,320
We do get a state match. So which you
guys give us a state match as a

585
01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:27,760
percentage of that. So
>> okay

586
01:48:25,760 --> 01:48:32,639
» help us with the funding we get to put
back into the community county I guess.

587
01:48:29,760 --> 01:48:37,400
» Is our max match 50,000? Is that what
that is?

588
01:48:33,199 --> 01:48:37,400
» Is that right? Yeah. Yeah.

589
01:48:47,360 --> 01:48:52,239
I don't see any issues or questions that
I personally have on this budget. Looks

590
01:48:51,600 --> 01:48:56,360
good to me.
>> Thank you.

591
01:48:52,719 --> 01:48:56,360
» I don't have any questions.

592
01:48:58,159 --> 01:49:00,639
» Thanks.
>> Anything else out of me? Thank you guys.

593
01:49:00,080 --> 01:49:05,480
» I don't think so.
>> You have a good day.

594
01:49:01,600 --> 01:49:05,480
» Have a good day, too. Thanks, dude.

595
01:49:18,880 --> 01:49:27,760
Sorry, I'm in this.
>> No, I'm good now.

596
01:49:24,320 --> 01:49:31,699
» You can go ahead if you want.
I don't have anything specifically other

597
01:49:29,440 --> 01:49:37,199
than David Lamb's here to help walk us
[clears throat] through the potential

598
01:49:34,000 --> 01:49:42,800
proposed budget for 2027. Um just a
couple things prior to him helping dive

599
01:49:39,600 --> 01:49:46,800
into this. Um we're going to propose
what we can come up with today next

600
01:49:45,440 --> 01:49:51,440
week. If there's going to be any
changes, those changes are going to need

601
01:49:48,480 --> 01:49:57,199
to be made um over this week that we're
in right now because as of next Monday

602
01:49:54,400 --> 01:50:01,760
afternoon at the latest, I will have to
have a publication

603
01:49:59,119 --> 01:50:07,199
um of that those changes that will go to
the newspaper in order to meet our state

604
01:50:04,480 --> 01:50:13,760
statute of the deadline for the public
hearing which I believe is September

605
01:50:09,679 --> 01:50:18,679
14th. September 14th. So,
we've got a couple things to hand out to

606
01:50:15,679 --> 01:50:18,679
you.

607
01:50:24,880 --> 01:50:29,280
SharePoint
as well

608
01:50:28,719 --> 01:50:32,520
for you.
>> Thank you.

609
01:51:00,960 --> 01:51:10,239
I will say I want to say thanks for
allowing me to use David and hired David

610
01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:15,440
as a resource. Um, I have not personally
entered a ton of the numbers, but have

611
01:51:12,320 --> 01:51:21,040
watched over his shoulder and ask lots
of questions and continue to learn how

612
01:51:18,239 --> 01:51:26,239
this whole process works. Um, it is a
far lengthier process than I think most

613
01:51:22,960 --> 01:51:31,360
people are aware of and a lot of behind
the scenes things that take place to get

614
01:51:28,880 --> 01:51:36,239
to where we're at today. So, I'm gonna
pass it on to David and let him do his

615
01:51:33,679 --> 01:51:40,719
magic that he's so familiar with.
>> So, I have a little statement here I

616
01:51:38,719 --> 01:51:45,040
want to go through and then of course be
happy to get into questions you have.

617
01:51:43,360 --> 01:51:50,000
But I want to start by saying that the
budgets that are you're presented with

618
01:51:47,679 --> 01:51:54,320
were compiled by using the department
budget proposals as they were given to

619
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:59,280
the county clerk who then gave me the
proposals to put in the state budget

620
01:51:55,840 --> 01:52:03,360
forms. The completed budgets as you have
them do not represent my opinion

621
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:07,520
concerning the amounts necessary to fund
each department

622
01:52:05,199 --> 01:52:10,639
and any changes to the department budget
should come as a result of discussions

623
01:52:09,440 --> 01:52:15,360
between the commission and the
department heads.

624
01:52:12,719 --> 01:52:21,199
Now that being said, the budgets you
have are not revenue neutral.

625
01:52:18,639 --> 01:52:27,360
To achieve revenue neutral status, you
would have to cut almost $2.2 million

626
01:52:24,400 --> 01:52:30,960
out of these proposed budgets.
I don't think there's that much money

627
01:52:29,199 --> 01:52:35,119
that could be cut from them and still
have enough funding to operate the

628
01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:41,520
county. But again, that's your decision
on how you want to go with that.

629
01:52:38,320 --> 01:52:46,719
But a little explanation on where we're
at and where that money is coming from.

630
01:52:44,560 --> 01:52:53,119
This year, the county received a large
increase in the state assessed value.

631
01:52:49,679 --> 01:53:01,360
On the value comparison sheet
that you have, uh, Just one with just a

632
01:52:58,239 --> 01:53:07,000
little bit on a page there.
The state assessed utilities increased

633
01:53:04,000 --> 01:53:07,000
$129,540,23

634
01:53:08,400 --> 01:53:18,880
this year.
Um that's an increase of 58.06%

635
01:53:15,920 --> 01:53:26,880
over last year. Real estate values in
the county increased 11,93299

636
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:33,440
which is an increase of 7.45. 45%.
Total county value increased 140 million

637
01:53:31,440 --> 01:53:38,040
23,760
which is an overall increase of 36.07%.

638
01:53:38,239 --> 01:53:50,480
Included in that real estate value 3,643
came from new improvements.

639
01:53:46,960 --> 01:53:54,560
So those are additional properties or
additional buildings improvements on

640
01:53:52,880 --> 01:53:59,679
properties.
So if you deduct that from the total

641
01:53:56,880 --> 01:54:04,320
real estate increase, the average
taxpayers property only increased about

642
01:54:02,560 --> 01:54:09,920
5.17%
this year in value.

643
01:54:06,719 --> 01:54:16,719
The second page of that comparison where
there's more numbers there.

644
01:54:13,679 --> 01:54:22,000
Um, I used my own property at the top of
that page just to give you an example of

645
01:54:18,880 --> 01:54:30,159
how this budget would affect everything.
So, if you take a look at that, um, the

646
01:54:25,920 --> 01:54:34,560
value on my property went up
well, would it be about 11,000 on the

647
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:40,719
appraised
this since last year?

648
01:54:37,280 --> 01:54:48,639
Um, and I compared last year's values
and what the county and fire levies

649
01:54:44,480 --> 01:54:55,440
totaled out to, which means last year my
tax liability to the county just for the

650
01:54:50,960 --> 01:55:00,719
county and fire budgets was $91253.
That's roughly a quarter of my total tax

651
01:54:58,000 --> 01:55:05,040
bill. Living here in town, I've got city
tax on top of all the other things. So

652
01:55:03,599 --> 01:55:10,719
the county is actually a small
percentage of mine with the proposed

653
01:55:07,760 --> 01:55:16,400
budget you have. Even though it does not
go down to revenue neutral and even with

654
01:55:13,679 --> 01:55:22,239
that increase of around 5% on my
property value, my liability to the

655
01:55:19,760 --> 01:55:25,560
county for the next year's taxes would
be $81210.

656
01:55:25,599 --> 01:55:30,960
So even though you're not going down to
neutral, I would still save $100 on my

657
01:55:29,920 --> 01:55:33,840
county tax
>> just because of the proportional change.

658
01:55:33,199 --> 01:55:38,239
» Yes.
>> Based off the state assess, which is the

659
01:55:35,599 --> 01:55:43,119
power lines, the power plant.
>> And if you went clear down to revenue

660
01:55:40,800 --> 01:55:49,199
neutral, then my liability to the county
would drop clear down to 703. So it

661
01:55:45,920 --> 01:55:55,280
would knock about another $19
off. So this is about halfway between

662
01:55:52,400 --> 01:55:59,760
the prior levy and neutral.
And the bottom of that kind of shows a

663
01:55:57,360 --> 01:56:05,599
little bit of how that works in the
different categories.

664
01:56:01,679 --> 01:56:11,119
So if you look at the 2025
values and taxes,

665
01:56:08,159 --> 01:56:15,920
uh the state assessed utilities paid 8.1
million. The real estate section was

666
01:56:14,000 --> 01:56:20,960
5.8.
With the proposed amount in these

667
01:56:18,239 --> 01:56:24,960
budgets, the real estate portion would
be 5.3.

668
01:56:23,119 --> 01:56:30,480
So that's your main that's your property
owners around the counter county excuse

669
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:36,159
me their liability to the county would
drop about half a million dollars this

670
01:56:32,560 --> 01:56:41,760
year. However the state assessed would
go up well over $2 million.

671
01:56:39,360 --> 01:56:46,880
Now you also lost value and personal
property and oil and gas. So both of

672
01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:52,800
those go down.
So, I think that's that should

673
01:56:50,400 --> 01:56:58,320
maybe ease your minds a little bit about
looking at going over neutral if you

674
01:56:54,719 --> 01:57:04,400
need to do that because that extra money
is going to come from the utilities.

675
01:57:01,599 --> 01:57:08,880
Um, the other sheet I gave you a
comparison or that Jassy gave you is a

676
01:57:06,800 --> 01:57:12,239
comparison of budgets and tax funds or
did you give Okay.

677
01:57:10,639 --> 01:57:19,000
» All right. That's one I worked up at
home this weekend.

678
01:57:14,400 --> 01:57:19,000
So, go through that just a little bit.

679
01:57:22,560 --> 01:57:30,199
» I I think I had like five of them there.
I think there was one for Jacqueline,

680
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:30,199
too, if she wants it.

681
01:57:37,760 --> 01:57:43,880
» So, what I did on this one is I looked
at three years

682
01:57:44,880 --> 01:57:48,199
You get back.

683
01:59:01,760 --> 01:59:08,880
All right. So, this comparison of
budgets and tax funds, I took these

684
01:59:05,440 --> 01:59:13,280
numbers directly from the 25 budget, 26
budget, and the proposed 27 as you have

685
01:59:11,280 --> 01:59:18,880
it right now.
I only listed the funds that produce

686
01:59:16,960 --> 01:59:26,000
property taxes on here. I didn't get
into all the non- tax funds and

687
01:59:22,239 --> 01:59:31,599
non-budgeted funds. So, if you look at
starting with the 25 budget,

688
01:59:29,040 --> 01:59:37,599
the grand total of those tax funds was
$25.5 million.

689
01:59:35,280 --> 01:59:43,360
The tax amount that came in from that
was $14.1 million.

690
01:59:41,199 --> 01:59:49,520
In 26,
the actual budget amount went down by

691
01:59:46,480 --> 01:59:53,760
almost $600,000,
but the tax amount stayed almost the

692
01:59:52,159 --> 01:59:58,400
same because that was another neutral
budget. And you will get a few

693
01:59:55,280 --> 02:00:03,360
variations on that because when you set
levies later in the fall, values tend to

694
02:00:01,040 --> 02:00:07,840
change a little bit. So even though
you're neutral, it might not necessarily

695
02:00:05,599 --> 02:00:12,280
come out right to the right dollar, but
you did stay neutral in last year's.

696
02:00:12,400 --> 02:00:21,199
And then the proposed budget for 27 as
it is right now is 25.4 million. So it's

697
02:00:19,360 --> 02:00:27,760
actually about a h 100,000 almost
100,000 less than the 2025 budget. It is

698
02:00:25,280 --> 02:00:33,040
an increase of half a million over the
26 budget.

699
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:38,800
And with the levy dropping to the rate
that it's shown in there,

700
02:00:35,599 --> 02:00:44,480
with that increased value in the state
assessed utilities, you would bring in

701
02:00:41,840 --> 02:00:50,000
16.2 million in tax dollars. So you've
got an increase of about 2.1 million in

702
02:00:47,599 --> 02:00:54,159
tax dollars.
Um

703
02:00:51,520 --> 02:00:57,760
the good thing about that is for the
property, the average property owner in

704
02:00:56,000 --> 02:01:04,080
the county is the state assessed is
where that's going to come from.

705
02:01:00,480 --> 02:01:08,639
So going through all that and I be glad
to get into some questions. I'm sure you

706
02:01:06,239 --> 02:01:14,000
have here in just a minute, but I just
wanted to reiterate a little bit of what

707
02:01:10,880 --> 02:01:20,159
Chassity said. Uh the budgets have to be
published by September 2nd to meet the

708
02:01:17,280 --> 02:01:24,719
deadline that was the September 4th
hearing. And that date and time went out

709
02:01:22,560 --> 02:01:29,679
in the revenue neutral notices. So it's
set that you have to at least have the

710
02:01:26,320 --> 02:01:33,520
revenue neutral hearing that day.
That gives you a week to make any

711
02:01:31,760 --> 02:01:37,119
changes you want to make before it's
published.

712
02:01:35,040 --> 02:01:42,239
I am not going to be available next
Monday morning. I'll be out of town, but

713
02:01:39,280 --> 02:01:46,480
I'll be traveling home that day. So, I
will get back by probably early to

714
02:01:44,400 --> 02:01:49,679
midafternoon. So, if you've got changes
that need to go in this before it's

715
02:01:47,920 --> 02:01:54,320
published, I'll be back in time to work
with Chassity Monday afternoon if she

716
02:01:52,159 --> 02:01:58,719
can just keep track of those changes and
we can get the publication ready to go

717
02:01:56,000 --> 02:02:04,639
to the paper by Monday evening or first
thing Tuesday morning.

718
02:02:01,040 --> 02:02:10,400
Um, I will also be gone the week your
following meeting after that, but I will

719
02:02:06,800 --> 02:02:18,159
be back for the September 14th hearing
date. So, I'd be available on that date.

720
02:02:13,920 --> 02:02:24,159
And once this is published, you cannot
increase any of those funds, any of

721
02:02:21,040 --> 02:02:28,159
those budgets for funds. You can still
make cuts after it's published. The

722
02:02:26,080 --> 02:02:32,880
publication just sets your maximum that
you could levy for the next year.

723
02:02:30,639 --> 02:02:37,679
So, it could be published the way it is
now or if you come up with some changes

724
02:02:35,599 --> 02:02:41,840
you want to make over the rest of this
meeting and next week, it could be

725
02:02:40,080 --> 02:02:47,040
changed before it's published. But even
if you published it as it is now and you

726
02:02:44,400 --> 02:02:50,960
find ways to cut quite a bit out of
these budgets by the time it's approved,

727
02:02:49,360 --> 02:02:56,800
that could still be done because we're
just setting a maximum.

728
02:02:53,360 --> 02:03:01,199
So, with that, I'd be glad to take any
questions I could right now if you've

729
02:02:58,800 --> 02:03:05,199
got questions on it.
>> I do have one question or maybe a

730
02:03:02,880 --> 02:03:09,199
clarification, David. Um, I'm looking at
my own personal real estate tax

731
02:03:06,800 --> 02:03:12,800
statement and this was something I
brought up to David on Friday, but I'm

732
02:03:10,960 --> 02:03:20,800
now looking at a little bit deeper. I'm
just clarifying that it shows here 2024

733
02:03:15,199 --> 02:03:26,400
tax levy was 3823. In 2025, it was 35.
In 2026, it stayed at 35, but but moving

734
02:03:23,920 --> 02:03:30,080
to 2027, it will go down to like 29
something. Is that correct?

735
02:03:27,760 --> 02:03:36,360
» Um, let me get over to the right page
here in my budget form. I think that's

736
02:03:32,719 --> 02:03:36,360
what we looked at.

737
02:03:38,639 --> 02:03:46,000
And you're talking just the county.
>> Just the county.

738
02:03:43,199 --> 02:03:49,360
» Yes. 35.105
>> last year for this year

739
02:03:47,520 --> 02:03:56,159
» for this year's budget. And it would go
down as it is now to 29.696

740
02:03:52,960 --> 02:04:00,800
for next year.
>> And that's with the increase.

741
02:03:58,400 --> 02:04:06,800
» Yes. And that's to get to neutral you
would have to go for down to 25.797.

742
02:04:04,880 --> 02:04:11,420
So it's about halfway between the
current year and the neutral rate.

743
02:04:09,400 --> 02:04:11,420
[clears throat]

744
02:04:14,480 --> 02:04:24,599
» What is there? Why is there such an
increase in the wages on this uh

745
02:04:20,880 --> 02:04:24,599
worth this on the

746
02:04:25,920 --> 02:04:31,199
on everybody? It looks like to me
there's a huge increase in everybody's

747
02:04:29,360 --> 02:04:38,560
wage.
We talked about that last week as far as

748
02:04:34,159 --> 02:04:44,239
eating it without the cola, right?
You wanted to see it without the cola.

749
02:04:41,520 --> 02:04:46,159
» Okay. This this budget does have a 3%
cola built into it.

750
02:04:45,440 --> 02:04:50,239
» Okay.
>> So, you could knock probably 3% off all

751
02:04:48,719 --> 02:04:52,400
those wage categories if you
>> What's that dollar figure? Can you tell

752
02:04:51,920 --> 02:04:58,320
us?
>> Uh the

753
02:04:54,560 --> 02:05:06,800
3% on this year's salaries amounts to
about 222,000 in wages and about 33,000

754
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:13,199
in employee benefits. So you're looking
at 255,000

755
02:05:10,000 --> 02:05:16,320
of the total budget amount is because of
the cola.

756
02:05:14,560 --> 02:05:19,119
» And how much did our insurance go up
this year? I mean as far as our our

757
02:05:18,400 --> 02:05:27,679
portion
>> it it went to 2 I think 2.8

758
02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:33,760
is what it went up to. So have those
four papers

759
02:05:30,080 --> 02:05:40,040
makeshift little chart here.
I printed it out for you guys to be able

760
02:05:36,239 --> 02:05:40,040
to see this as well.

761
02:05:41,040 --> 02:05:46,280
It's not the easiest to see on the
computer. So,

762
02:05:48,480 --> 02:05:56,840
this gives you the breakdown of all the
benefits and things.

763
02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:57,719
It's just the cold.

764
02:07:17,387 --> 02:07:19,407
» [clears throat]

765
02:08:45,119 --> 02:08:49,480
» Some of these cemeteries not in here

766
02:08:50,880 --> 02:08:58,400
should be in there. That's
>> there's uh two cemeteries in a sewer

767
02:08:54,560 --> 02:09:02,560
district that are on a special district
form. Uh,

768
02:09:01,280 --> 02:09:06,000
I've got it in here.
>> That might be a se Yeah,

769
02:09:04,079 --> 02:09:12,360
» it'd be a separate budget form. And then
the rural fire and special fire is its

770
02:09:08,800 --> 02:09:12,360
own budget form.

771
02:09:19,440 --> 02:09:25,199
» And this needs to be approved. You said
next Monday.

772
02:09:22,480 --> 02:09:30,320
» It needs to be ready for publication
next Monday. uh you've got until the

773
02:09:27,920 --> 02:09:33,320
14th of September to actually approve a
budget

774
02:09:36,880 --> 02:09:41,760
» and we are really late getting to this
point.

775
02:09:41,440 --> 02:09:43,760
» Yeah.
>> However,

776
02:09:42,239 --> 02:09:47,840
» we've been talking about it.
>> Uh there were several department budgets

777
02:09:45,920 --> 02:09:50,800
that I never received until
>> Friday.

778
02:09:48,880 --> 02:09:57,760
» Yeah. Wednesday, some of them and Friday
on the last one, I think. So,

779
02:09:53,679 --> 02:09:57,760
I got it to you as quickly as I could.

780
02:09:58,480 --> 02:10:04,719
And I already have an appointment start
in February.

781
02:10:01,920 --> 02:10:08,520
Some of them are uh road and bridge or
public works department.

782
02:10:09,360 --> 02:10:15,960
» I think Sean's we got Wednesday or maybe
the week before that.

783
02:10:47,119 --> 02:10:53,760
We'll be around this week until probably
at some point Friday when we're taking

784
02:10:51,280 --> 02:11:00,800
off. So if you've got things later in
the week that come up, just let me know.

785
02:10:58,400 --> 02:11:04,159
» Do you guys have any questions for David
while he's here?

786
02:11:30,880 --> 02:11:37,440
have a huge increase in the elections
because of what? this even

787
02:11:35,360 --> 02:11:42,560
» the when [clears throat] we attended the
clerks and elections conference in Great

788
02:11:39,440 --> 02:11:47,040
Bend back in May, they told us to start
planning. They they asked us to increase

789
02:11:44,320 --> 02:11:50,360
it by four times and I think I just
doubled it

790
02:11:50,800 --> 02:11:56,960
» because of
>> the equipment for the federal government

791
02:11:54,239 --> 02:12:05,040
is going to require everybody to have
the DS the updated DS300's

792
02:12:01,119 --> 02:12:11,360
and they are a they are tabulation
equipment for the ballots

793
02:12:08,960 --> 02:12:17,880
but we've not been given a time frame
but when they tell We're required to

794
02:12:13,440 --> 02:12:17,880
have it. We don't have a choice.

795
02:12:30,800 --> 02:12:38,800
I personally like how we went through it
line item by line item, but I don't know

796
02:12:37,119 --> 02:12:43,000
where you guys are at. I don't know if
we have time to do that right now, but

797
02:12:43,280 --> 02:12:50,560
it was just
we caught a lot of things. Um,

798
02:12:48,719 --> 02:12:54,880
but I guess what you're saying is we
might have time to do that if we can

799
02:12:52,400 --> 02:12:57,440
approve it Monday.
>> But

800
02:12:55,599 --> 02:13:01,440
» as long as it's ready to publish next
week, so you can still continue to work

801
02:12:59,760 --> 02:13:06,159
with it after that, you just wouldn't be
able to increase it.

802
02:13:04,000 --> 02:13:11,040
» So, um, yeah. I mean,
>> so what's the motion for Monday?

803
02:13:09,119 --> 02:13:14,400
The only thing we would need next week
would be to approve the publication of

804
02:13:13,440 --> 02:13:20,400
the budgets,
>> which means this goes this goes to the

805
02:13:18,239 --> 02:13:22,079
» Yeah, there's
three.

806
02:13:20,800 --> 02:13:26,040
» Why there's such a difference on
salaries? I mean, this

807
02:13:26,560 --> 02:13:32,800
» there'll be there'll be three pages out
of those three one page out of each one

808
02:13:31,040 --> 02:13:35,599
of those budget packets you had that'll
need to go in the paper.

809
02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:40,639
» Missing something.
>> Yeah, I'm not sure. Everything's just

810
02:13:38,000 --> 02:13:47,360
huge on the budgets
more than 7 to 3% there's what I

811
02:13:44,719 --> 02:13:53,760
» I've got a question then so on the
current year is that

812
02:13:50,239 --> 02:13:57,119
is it possible that it's not
>> for the whole year is that current pay

813
02:13:55,760 --> 02:14:02,000
on on these budgets on the
>> the middle the 2026 column

814
02:14:00,239 --> 02:14:05,280
» that's supposed to be an estimate of
what they think they're actually going

815
02:14:03,520 --> 02:14:08,880
to spend this year not this year's
budget

816
02:14:06,079 --> 02:14:11,440
» so like on Were we without an employee
for a while?

817
02:14:09,760 --> 02:14:16,400
» Yes.
>> Okay. Then let's go to solid wester.

818
02:14:14,639 --> 02:14:19,400
We've been without employees there as
well.

819
02:14:20,320 --> 02:14:24,960
» To get the actual budgeted amount for
this year, you'd have to look back at

820
02:14:23,840 --> 02:14:30,560
last year's budget,
>> right?

821
02:14:27,520 --> 02:14:34,400
And like I think I mentioned to start, I
I'm not have not tried to verify the

822
02:14:33,199 --> 02:14:40,920
numbers that were turned in by
departments because I have no way to do

823
02:14:36,239 --> 02:14:40,920
that. These are just what was turned in.

824
02:14:41,760 --> 02:14:49,840
» And I believe most departments gave a
reasoning or a explanation of why they

825
02:14:48,320 --> 02:14:54,719
were doing what they were doing. That is
all in SharePoint.

826
02:14:51,599 --> 02:14:59,920
» Do you have this for 2020? Just like
here on Noxious Weed, they're at 69654

827
02:14:57,840 --> 02:15:03,360
and the budget for the s goes to
101600,000.

828
02:15:01,679 --> 02:15:10,280
And then I don't think we've been short
on anybody on noxious weed.

829
02:15:06,960 --> 02:15:10,280
» I don't either.

830
02:15:11,920 --> 02:15:18,880
» Let's see that that shows this actual
[clears throat]

831
02:15:16,000 --> 02:15:21,199
for 2025. So that's closer, but I don't
know.

832
02:15:22,639 --> 02:15:29,119
that they spent 100 last year and only
69 this year and then back up to 101.

833
02:15:27,679 --> 02:15:33,280
» That's why I'm asking if
>> it could be just

834
02:15:30,000 --> 02:15:36,800
» I have no idea why. I mean that's why
that's

835
02:15:33,920 --> 02:15:41,360
» I just it's a red flag to me looking at
that there and see it like you say maybe

836
02:15:39,119 --> 02:15:44,079
it's just the portion that we've had so
far.

837
02:15:42,239 --> 02:15:49,040
» I don't know but there's a lot of them
like that. Uh, and you guys may find

838
02:15:47,199 --> 02:15:53,520
numerous things in there that could be
where you could save some. I I'm not

839
02:15:51,360 --> 02:15:58,079
saying that you won't, but again, that's
that's not my part of it. I will take

840
02:15:55,360 --> 02:16:02,199
whatever you have and put it in the form
and make the adjustments for you.

841
02:16:04,639 --> 02:16:10,480
And I'll be honest, most of the well,
all of the budgets that were turned into

842
02:16:08,639 --> 02:16:14,960
me, I did not sit and go over with a
fine tooth comb. I turn around and put

843
02:16:12,960 --> 02:16:19,440
them in SharePoint. Uploaded them for in
SharePoint for you. And other than I

844
02:16:17,520 --> 02:16:25,599
believe public works, emergency
management, fire,

845
02:16:22,400 --> 02:16:30,239
economic development, counselor,
commissioners, everybody else I believe

846
02:16:28,239 --> 02:16:34,880
has presented.
>> There's that contingency here. Let's

847
02:16:32,319 --> 02:16:39,960
see.
Contractual goes from 92 to 350.

848
02:16:41,439 --> 02:16:44,760
with that one's

849
02:16:45,519 --> 02:16:49,679
» that's contingency. You know, we're
hoping we don't use those

850
02:16:48,080 --> 02:16:54,639
» funds.
>> We used to have what 2.7 or

851
02:16:52,160 --> 02:16:58,000
» correct, [clears throat] right?
>> In there and we've cut it back to where

852
02:16:56,319 --> 02:16:59,920
we don't have near the contingency that
we had before,

853
02:16:58,960 --> 02:17:04,319
» right?
>> I mean, potentially, God forbid, if the

854
02:17:02,000 --> 02:17:09,960
boiler quit tomorrow on us and we had to
do something that that's where that

855
02:17:05,599 --> 02:17:09,960
those funds would come from. So,

856
02:17:18,029 --> 02:17:20,049
» [laughter]

857
02:18:00,719 --> 02:18:06,160
» You're saying if we look at this for a
week, then we don't have enough time to

858
02:18:03,679 --> 02:18:10,160
decide for Monday is what you're saying,
David.

859
02:18:07,599 --> 02:18:14,319
to drop it.
>> You could make changes next Monday if

860
02:18:12,319 --> 02:18:18,399
you want to before it's published, but
>> you can make changes afterwards,

861
02:18:16,800 --> 02:18:20,960
» but you just can't increase it.
>> Can't go up.

862
02:18:19,200 --> 02:18:25,040
» You can't go up. You can
>> I don't think it's going to be an issue

863
02:18:22,479 --> 02:18:27,920
for us, right?
>> Going up. No.

864
02:18:26,880 --> 02:18:30,399
» Is that what you're saying?
>> Yes.

865
02:18:28,160 --> 02:18:35,120
» Yeah.
>> Just you were mentioning contingency.

866
02:18:32,399 --> 02:18:41,439
I'm looking back at the 26 budget. The
actual budgeted amount in 26 was 1.3

867
02:18:38,080 --> 02:18:47,439
million. So that and then this one was
what 1.2 something. I think the actual

868
02:18:45,280 --> 02:18:52,559
budget for contingency would be going
down a little bit.

869
02:18:50,319 --> 02:18:59,200
It's just that 26 column then there is
what we're showing for yeah 1.283

870
02:18:55,200 --> 02:19:05,439
for 27. That 508 in the 26 column was
what we're projecting as an actual

871
02:19:01,200 --> 02:19:11,280
expenditure out of there this year.
>> How much of the the prisoner uh

872
02:19:09,200 --> 02:19:16,319
income are we using for the budget this
year? I haven't seen that. I guess

873
02:19:14,240 --> 02:19:22,240
» Okay, that's on the income in the
general fund.

874
02:19:19,200 --> 02:19:30,000
Uh prisoner housing
find it. Uh 1.2 2 million.

875
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:35,439
That is a little higher than the actual
in 25. Uh it was 1.18.

876
02:19:33,439 --> 02:19:39,840
» How much did we actually use in the
budget? Don't we didn't we appropriate

877
02:19:37,439 --> 02:19:44,399
so much for
it? Went back to the general, right?

878
02:19:42,080 --> 02:19:50,560
» It all goes into the general fund. So it
funds the general expenses.

879
02:19:48,559 --> 02:19:55,200
» I thought we appropriated so much of it
to be in the budget though. I mean, not

880
02:19:53,040 --> 02:20:00,479
at one time did I
I I I don't really know where you're

881
02:19:57,359 --> 02:20:05,359
going on that one, Jim. Um,
>> are you wanting it to come in and go in

882
02:20:03,200 --> 02:20:09,200
a separate category for revenue and then
we put it back into the sheriff's budget

883
02:20:07,200 --> 02:20:14,800
the next year? And can we do that?
>> All the general anyway. So, I mean, the

884
02:20:11,840 --> 02:20:21,200
sheriff's in in the general fund anyway.
>> Yeah. We can make a different account

885
02:20:17,040 --> 02:20:28,080
like another line item where we get the
income, we hold it and then at the end

886
02:20:24,960 --> 02:20:33,200
of the year it's transferred to the
revenue that we receive and then the

887
02:20:31,200 --> 02:20:37,760
sheriff can budget because we have
complaints from the citizens that we're

888
02:20:36,000 --> 02:20:42,960
receiving the money. It's going into the
general. It's not

889
02:20:41,120 --> 02:20:48,120
we're not really showing it every time
we ask where we what we're doing with

890
02:20:44,880 --> 02:20:48,120
the money.

891
02:20:48,479 --> 02:20:53,600
» We're able to say that
>> it's going into the general fund. That's

892
02:20:52,080 --> 02:20:56,479
what we say every time.
>> Right.

893
02:20:53,920 --> 02:21:03,280
» Well, the sheriff's argument with his
budget being over $4 million, which the

894
02:21:00,640 --> 02:21:10,880
» citizens had some issues with the other
night. So to kind of justify what he is

895
02:21:07,280 --> 02:21:14,319
bringing in, can't we hold the money in
an account, move it somewhere, and then

896
02:21:12,640 --> 02:21:20,040
he can put it back into his budget for
the next year?

897
02:21:16,240 --> 02:21:20,040
He would have the funds.

898
02:21:22,560 --> 02:21:28,080
» Are you looking at me or I don't really
see what the point would be.

899
02:21:26,560 --> 02:21:32,880
» I guess it's really kind of what is
being done. The money comes in and it

900
02:21:30,240 --> 02:21:36,080
goes into the general fund and then it
goes out in his

901
02:21:35,600 --> 02:21:39,680
» budget
>> in his budget which is in the general

902
02:21:38,319 --> 02:21:43,439
fund.
>> If you look at like the salary line on

903
02:21:41,680 --> 02:21:49,200
the sheriff for the proposed for next
year is 3.1 million. You could easily

904
02:21:46,720 --> 02:21:52,479
consider 1.2 of that is the income from
prisoners that's paying.

905
02:21:50,880 --> 02:21:59,840
» It's fine. It's just hard for the
citizens, I think, to understand um

906
02:21:56,880 --> 02:22:02,720
» what we're what we're getting in,
>> where it's going,

907
02:22:00,640 --> 02:22:06,479
» where it's going.
That's what I tried to explain last

908
02:22:04,479 --> 02:22:11,920
Wednesday night or whenever that was is
that in my office, I don't deal with

909
02:22:09,680 --> 02:22:18,080
what the income is. So I don't have
control over when an income comes in

910
02:22:14,800 --> 02:22:23,760
from a
insurance claim that it goes back into a

911
02:22:20,800 --> 02:22:28,399
specific department's budget. It just
goes back into the general fund. So what

912
02:22:25,680 --> 02:22:32,560
what people were seeing last Wednesday
was just the expenses side of things.

913
02:22:31,040 --> 02:22:35,840
They weren't seeing the income side of
things. I don't do the income. I don't

914
02:22:34,560 --> 02:22:39,560
do the money coming in. That's the
treasurer side of things.

915
02:22:40,640 --> 02:22:45,520
Can we change that? I don't know. It's a
question I do have.

916
02:22:43,680 --> 02:22:49,920
» Can I just translate for a second? I
think what Allison is saying and the

917
02:22:47,920 --> 02:22:56,479
current state of affairs is that we've
chosen to use one account, the general

918
02:22:52,640 --> 02:23:01,359
fund. We have chosen not to use separate
accounts for each department,

919
02:22:59,200 --> 02:23:05,920
» whether elected or not.
>> And so all of the money is going into

920
02:23:03,680 --> 02:23:09,760
the general fund. We use a spreadsheet
to differentiate

921
02:23:08,240 --> 02:23:14,080
those incoming
>> spending money out of

922
02:23:10,880 --> 02:23:20,240
» um dollars as well as the outgoing um
dollars. Um, and so it relies on the

923
02:23:17,680 --> 02:23:25,120
spreadsheets in order to be able to show
those accounts receivable and accounts

924
02:23:22,479 --> 02:23:30,160
payable as opposed to having an
individual accounts for each department

925
02:23:28,240 --> 02:23:34,640
where there would be a printout from a
bank or whatever that has those um

926
02:23:33,040 --> 02:23:40,880
differentiations.
And so I think that if we could explain

927
02:23:38,080 --> 02:23:47,200
why we are using one fund as opposed to
separate that might help um clarify the

928
02:23:45,760 --> 02:23:51,840
confusion.
>> Well, there they are different funds.

929
02:23:50,000 --> 02:23:54,840
They're just under an umbrella of the
general.

930
02:23:55,520 --> 02:24:04,399
» I you don't mind if I jump back in there
for just a second? I I understand what

931
02:24:00,640 --> 02:24:08,720
you're saying. I think it could create
other problems if you started separating

932
02:24:07,040 --> 02:24:13,359
separating
say all the electeds into their own fund

933
02:24:12,080 --> 02:24:18,000
because then you're going to have a
limit on spending for the fund as

934
02:24:16,000 --> 02:24:23,120
opposed to the general fund limit which
is all together. So the sheriff as an

935
02:24:21,200 --> 02:24:28,800
example
uh when the budget was produced if he

936
02:24:25,040 --> 02:24:35,200
had his own fund in the state form that
4.6 6 million in next year would be all

937
02:24:32,240 --> 02:24:40,960
the money that could be spent. He has
something huge that comes up and lots of

938
02:24:37,600 --> 02:24:45,520
overtime and needs to go over that.
He would not be able to spend more than

939
02:24:42,720 --> 02:24:51,040
that without a budget violation unless
the budget was amended. And you start

940
02:24:48,800 --> 02:24:57,680
tracking that for multiple different
funds and it can be a real accounting

941
02:24:53,840 --> 02:25:00,399
nightmare to keep up with.
you do have

942
02:24:58,399 --> 02:25:04,560
» I understand that. I I do think I
understand it. I think, you know,

943
02:25:02,319 --> 02:25:13,280
hitting back on the spreadsheet, that's
a problem for me because that's up to

944
02:25:10,479 --> 02:25:18,720
one
person keeping track of a spreadsheet.

945
02:25:17,200 --> 02:25:24,479
» What What spreadsheet are you talking
about? Because this that it's all in our

946
02:25:21,840 --> 02:25:29,359
167 page document that comes from our
system. All the expenses come out of

947
02:25:26,479 --> 02:25:34,760
that. That's not out of a spreadsheet.
>> I mean, it's not our funds aren't kept

948
02:25:31,200 --> 02:25:34,760
by a spreadsheet.

949
02:25:36,800 --> 02:25:44,160
» It's in the AS400, right? The coding.
And so,

950
02:25:41,040 --> 02:25:49,760
um, it comes out in the form of a
spreadsheet, but

951
02:25:46,479 --> 02:25:54,800
someone is coding it for the AS400 and
is putting it in there by fund. And so

952
02:25:52,399 --> 02:25:58,960
the question is are the incoming monies
from the jail etc. are those likewise

953
02:25:57,280 --> 02:26:03,760
coded by fund correct
>> or not? And so that's the clarification

954
02:26:01,520 --> 02:26:08,800
that I think was missing.
>> I gotcha. Yes.

955
02:26:06,000 --> 02:26:14,800
» On the on the road and bridge on the all
district. We've got the posts back in

956
02:26:12,399 --> 02:26:17,680
the the all district again this year.
That's a conversation you'll have to

957
02:26:16,319 --> 02:26:22,000
have with
>> that last year, too, and we found that

958
02:26:19,359 --> 02:26:25,840
at the time and and we took that out.
>> Yeah, that would be a question because

959
02:26:23,680 --> 02:26:32,080
another I did happen to just take a
glance at his as I was updating it. He's

960
02:26:28,240 --> 02:26:36,720
also wanting to start a asphalt
budget. Um,

961
02:26:34,880 --> 02:26:41,240
and so that that again, those are
questions you're going to have to ask

962
02:26:38,240 --> 02:26:41,240
him.

963
02:26:52,399 --> 02:26:56,600
Is he presenting next week?

964
02:27:01,680 --> 02:27:10,640
» We'll do it next week and then hear from
those two.

965
02:27:07,439 --> 02:27:14,640
Well, obviously I don't need to be a
part of your conversation with

966
02:27:12,080 --> 02:27:18,319
department heads. Uh if you don't have
anything else for me, I'll go ahead and

967
02:27:16,080 --> 02:27:22,479
get out of your hair for today and I
will let you know when I get back to

968
02:27:19,920 --> 02:27:25,600
town Monday in case there's some changes
we need to make before publication.

969
02:27:24,479 --> 02:27:28,880
» Thank you. Appreciate it.
>> Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, David.

970
02:27:26,800 --> 02:27:32,720
Have a good week.
>> I'm going to go ahead and open it up for

971
02:27:30,160 --> 02:27:39,280
public comment, assuming there's no one
here for public comment today.

972
02:27:36,319 --> 02:27:42,960
Go ahead and close public comment.
Um,

973
02:27:41,040 --> 02:27:46,960
which one of you would like to present
first on budget?

974
02:27:45,359 --> 02:27:55,080
You guys can both come up here if you
want. Bring a chair up to the table.

975
02:27:51,280 --> 02:27:55,080
Just do one at a time.

976
02:27:56,800 --> 02:28:01,399
» Yeah, please. Thank you.

977
02:28:02,880 --> 02:28:06,080
» You're fine.

978
02:28:11,680 --> 02:28:16,640
I did not bring copies of anything. I'm
so sorry.

979
02:28:14,399 --> 02:28:19,640
» No, you're fine. We have It should be in
SharePoint.

980
02:28:27,200 --> 02:28:37,240
» Just go ahead and go through line item
for line item. Um, what is it under?

981
02:28:33,520 --> 02:28:37,240
district, isn't it?

982
02:28:51,600 --> 02:29:00,720
» Okay. I don't think it's in share part
unless you want to look.

983
02:28:57,840 --> 02:29:03,760
» Yeah. Just
over here.

984
02:29:05,439 --> 02:29:10,120
special district.
>> Yes.

985
02:29:15,200 --> 02:29:21,280
» Is that under the is that under budget
>> special districts and looking under the

986
02:29:20,080 --> 02:29:25,200
special districts in the budget?
>> Under I don't know.

987
02:29:23,840 --> 02:29:31,439
» It's weird.
>> You should have

988
02:29:27,600 --> 02:29:34,000
» I had it under budgets.
Okay. No, no, no. You're

989
02:29:33,200 --> 02:29:37,120
» under budgets.
>> You go ahead and go ahead and go, Sean.

990
02:29:36,160 --> 02:29:42,240
» Yes.
>> Just quick. Yeah. Just start at the

991
02:29:38,960 --> 02:29:48,880
front or the top of the page. I'll have
to look in here. I don't have it pulled

992
02:29:43,840 --> 02:29:57,439
up or I would tell you. Sorry.
Uh so, first off is the payroll. Payroll

993
02:29:54,160 --> 02:30:00,439
um would be uh for Brian and I be
135,371.

994
02:30:00,560 --> 02:30:06,800
Uh, you want me to go over the increase
or do you want me to just read it all

995
02:30:05,359 --> 02:30:11,640
and then you guys have questions and
then I can answer or how do you want to

996
02:30:08,479 --> 02:30:11,640
do that?

997
02:30:11,680 --> 02:30:15,120
» Just go over the
>> You can just go over line item just

998
02:30:14,479 --> 02:30:17,120
quickly.
>> Okay.

999
02:30:15,520 --> 02:30:22,080
» I'm still trying to pull it up. I'm
sorry.

1000
02:30:17,359 --> 02:30:26,960
» I'm sorry. No. Um, so then uh volunteer
um

1001
02:30:23,920 --> 02:30:34,880
pay is 120,000.
Uh contractual uh 140,000

1002
02:30:31,760 --> 02:30:41,520
utilities 35,000 which I have a question
about that. Um we can get into that in a

1003
02:30:37,760 --> 02:30:45,680
little bit. Uh total commodities
$144,000

1004
02:30:43,680 --> 02:30:50,960
gas tax
>> $800

1005
02:30:47,280 --> 02:30:57,359
truck repair 17,000 and standard
commodity is 102,000

1006
02:30:53,760 --> 02:31:02,840
with a capital outlay of 50,000 and a
transfer of 50,000 with a total of

1007
02:30:59,840 --> 02:31:02,840
675,171.

1008
02:31:03,040 --> 02:31:11,680
Now, the utilities are now split between
departments, but we share the same

1009
02:31:09,920 --> 02:31:15,520
building. So, I don't know. I haven't
had a chance to look at anything. I

1010
02:31:14,080 --> 02:31:21,040
haven't had a chance to see what we're
going to do as far as

1011
02:31:18,319 --> 02:31:27,040
she pays such and such and such and I
pay such and such and such. So, I

1012
02:31:24,479 --> 02:31:33,120
I I have no idea about that.
>> So, you carried the utilities then?

1013
02:31:30,800 --> 02:31:36,880
I they come out of both budgets because
they they were

1014
02:31:35,120 --> 02:31:39,600
» just for the just for our office.
>> Yeah. Just for the office.

1015
02:31:38,240 --> 02:31:44,319
» How did you do it before? Did he just
pay one month a month?

1016
02:31:41,200 --> 02:31:48,640
» He some of them he paid this one paid
this one and some of them he paid um you

1017
02:31:47,040 --> 02:31:52,479
know three months out of this budget,
three months, you know, the other nine

1018
02:31:50,080 --> 02:31:57,280
months out of this month. What? And we
honestly haven't had a a minute to sit

1019
02:31:55,040 --> 02:32:01,280
down and talk this too much, but my
thought was

1020
02:31:59,120 --> 02:32:03,520
um I don't want to pay the water bill
when they're washing trucks and filling

1021
02:32:02,960 --> 02:32:07,040
trucks,
>> right?

1022
02:32:04,399 --> 02:32:12,080
» But you know, if I paid all of the
office stuff,

1023
02:32:09,120 --> 02:32:16,399
uh internet, telephone,
um trash service,

1024
02:32:14,479 --> 02:32:21,680
» but we use the internet, too. So,
>> well, but but that would be a little bit

1025
02:32:18,080 --> 02:32:24,800
of an even I mean not even but and then
>> break down

1026
02:32:22,560 --> 02:32:27,840
» right if I bought like all the office
supplies. I was just trying to make it

1027
02:32:26,720 --> 02:32:31,600
fair
>> to both basically put a percentage on it

1028
02:32:30,160 --> 02:32:33,120
somehow and then I mean
>> yes

1029
02:32:32,160 --> 02:32:37,359
» something like that or
>> I was just trying to make it easy but

1030
02:32:34,880 --> 02:32:40,319
» or try to go ahead. I'm sorry. No, I was
just going to say my recommendation

1031
02:32:38,479 --> 02:32:44,160
would be if whatever you want to split,
you can just write it on that invoice,

1032
02:32:42,319 --> 02:32:47,280
you know, your code, whatever, your
code, whatever, whether it's a

1033
02:32:45,840 --> 02:32:51,760
percentage or if you're cutting it in
half, as long as you make that clear on

1034
02:32:49,120 --> 02:32:56,880
the invoice that comes in, Joyce can
make that.

1035
02:32:52,960 --> 02:33:01,280
» But I I guess my biggest question or not
really a problem, but my biggest

1036
02:32:58,319 --> 02:33:06,240
question is percentage. Like, is it 60%
fire? Is it 60 or 40%, you know? So

1037
02:33:04,479 --> 02:33:08,240
that's just
just going to have to

1038
02:33:06,960 --> 02:33:11,520
» basically going to have the same bills
are close to what you had last year. You

1039
02:33:09,680 --> 02:33:13,439
just got to decide on percentage wise
what you're going to budget

1040
02:33:12,479 --> 02:33:17,600
» who's going to be where.
>> Yep. 100%.

1041
02:33:16,000 --> 02:33:20,640
» I guess you can look back at what you
did last year percentage wise and go off

1042
02:33:19,520 --> 02:33:24,240
there
>> probably. And like I said, we just

1043
02:33:22,240 --> 02:33:28,560
haven't had a chance to
>> there's a lot of things. I mean with him

1044
02:33:26,160 --> 02:33:32,399
running both departments,
there's just I don't want to get into

1045
02:33:30,080 --> 02:33:35,280
you. I'm sorry. No, you're talking.
>> You're fine.

1046
02:33:35,520 --> 02:33:40,880
I don't see any issues off the top of my
head, but do you want to go into yours

1047
02:33:38,880 --> 02:33:45,880
just really quick and then we'll kind of
>> I broke mine down a little bit more. Um,

1048
02:33:46,080 --> 02:33:54,399
utilities and I kind of put a question
mark on that too because we just need to

1049
02:33:50,880 --> 02:34:00,240
figure out a split that's fair to both.
Um,

1050
02:33:56,160 --> 02:34:06,000
and then uh computers software stuff. I
mean, that's got $2,500 on that

1051
02:34:03,680 --> 02:34:10,880
miscellaneous services. And and to be
honest, some of this stuff I'd never

1052
02:34:08,160 --> 02:34:16,160
seen the budget before he left, so I had
no idea like what comes out until I go

1053
02:34:13,359 --> 02:34:22,319
through a full budget cycle to see like
what licenses I'm buy and what things

1054
02:34:18,479 --> 02:34:25,520
like that. It's a little tricky to put a
dollar number on something that I'm not

1055
02:34:23,920 --> 02:34:30,640
sure what I'm going to have
>> because I'd never seen it before and I

1056
02:34:27,600 --> 02:34:35,760
don't know how. And I know that a lot of
the stuff crossed the line like EM paid

1057
02:34:32,960 --> 02:34:39,359
for this and it was fire used it to you
know what I mean or fire bought it and

1058
02:34:37,840 --> 02:34:46,640
it was actually something he used with
EM but because he also responded as one

1059
02:34:43,840 --> 02:34:53,760
person for both departments and you know
there was just a lot of things that

1060
02:34:48,399 --> 02:34:59,359
we're going to work through splitting um
continuing ed $2,000 that's something

1061
02:34:56,240 --> 02:35:05,439
I'll be doing uh training food lodging
3,000. Um grant training funds was zero.

1062
02:35:03,680 --> 02:35:09,920
Uh building maintenance zero. All these
stayed the same except utilities and I

1063
02:35:07,439 --> 02:35:13,840
dropped them down 2,000, you know, just
because I think that's going to be

1064
02:35:11,120 --> 02:35:18,080
realistic. Um but everything else stayed
the same.

1065
02:35:15,680 --> 02:35:24,080
I did leave the vehicle maintenance and
the vehicle, you know, expenses in there

1066
02:35:22,000 --> 02:35:26,800
because I will have to have a response
vehicle. You know, I'm going to have to

1067
02:35:25,439 --> 02:35:32,560
have something that I can go on [snorts]
scene with. Um, and we were like, "Oh,

1068
02:35:31,040 --> 02:35:38,399
dang. Didn't know if Razer was getting
rid of a truck."

1069
02:35:34,720 --> 02:35:43,359
So, um, but I will because I don't, you
know, Randy responded as, "Well," and so

1070
02:35:40,399 --> 02:35:48,319
did Doug as one person in one vehicle.
Well, now, you know, he will respond to

1071
02:35:46,160 --> 02:35:51,280
a different kind of thing than I will
or, you know, I don't have to be there

1072
02:35:49,760 --> 02:35:55,680
when it's happening. I'll be there a
little bit later probably, but so that's

1073
02:35:54,479 --> 02:36:03,439
just something that's going to have to
happen. Um, The only thing I really did

1074
02:35:58,560 --> 02:36:09,120
increase was KAMP and um I was told to
increase 10 to 15% to cover because

1075
02:36:05,920 --> 02:36:15,359
premiums were anticipated to go up. So I
just as a safety measure uh increased

1076
02:36:11,920 --> 02:36:22,960
that by 15% and that contractual uh
commodities

1077
02:36:18,319 --> 02:36:28,720
um they stayed pretty much the same.
um

1078
02:36:25,280 --> 02:36:33,920
capital outlay. I at one point we'd had
a $10,000 transfer into special

1079
02:36:32,240 --> 02:36:40,080
equipment.
Um, and we hadn't done that in the last

1080
02:36:37,760 --> 02:36:43,920
year or two, but because I'm going to
have to buy a vehicle probably out of

1081
02:36:42,160 --> 02:36:48,640
special equipment funds, which is
154,000, I believe, um, I thought it

1082
02:36:46,800 --> 02:36:55,280
would be a good idea to pull out and
start putting that money back in to keep

1083
02:36:51,439 --> 02:37:00,720
that account built up. Um, also there is
a $5,000 transfer that they had started

1084
02:36:58,560 --> 02:37:07,280
saving for storm siren upgrade and
replacements because like Mount City

1085
02:37:03,600 --> 02:37:13,200
storm siren is a World War II, you know.
So, and then there's Randy had met with

1086
02:37:10,080 --> 02:37:17,840
a uh salesman and I cannot have to find
where he was and get back with him about

1087
02:37:15,760 --> 02:37:21,760
upgrading sirens and putting some sirens
in places sitting the the park and I you

1088
02:37:20,720 --> 02:37:26,000
talked to your guys about that.
>> Yep. So, that's something I'll kind of

1089
02:37:23,520 --> 02:37:30,640
have to start at ground zero again. But
that is something that we really need to

1090
02:37:28,720 --> 02:37:34,479
be proactive about.
>> Um,

1091
02:37:32,319 --> 02:37:40,720
and you know, just to keep our people
safe. So, and he talked about lake lots

1092
02:37:38,319 --> 02:37:46,720
and things. And this is are the lake
developments. You know, you can't hear

1093
02:37:42,479 --> 02:37:49,920
the sirens anywhere. Um, and I I will be
talking and I haven't got into the grant

1094
02:37:48,319 --> 02:37:55,120
thing yet. I mean, just because I
haven't had time, but I'm going to be

1095
02:37:52,160 --> 02:37:58,960
looking at funding for some of that
stuff, so it doesn't all have to come

1096
02:37:57,120 --> 02:38:02,560
out of county funds,
>> but I just haven't had a chance to do

1097
02:38:00,720 --> 02:38:11,200
that yet. There's been just a lot going
on with all the changes. Um,

1098
02:38:07,040 --> 02:38:17,439
and the other thing is on payroll, um,
because our payroll has gone down, I am

1099
02:38:14,399 --> 02:38:22,560
asking for $5 an hour raise, which would
put me medium range with the other

1100
02:38:20,240 --> 02:38:27,920
department heads because after being
here 10 years, I'm still like the lowest

1101
02:38:25,680 --> 02:38:32,800
paid department head. And taking on the
responsibilities of both positions is is

1102
02:38:30,720 --> 02:38:37,760
a lot. And I'm not complaining about
that. I'm very excited about doing that,

1103
02:38:34,640 --> 02:38:44,800
but I I still feel like I I should be
compensated for that a little

1104
02:38:40,560 --> 02:38:49,120
for for the extra work.
And that's I mean I really don't have

1105
02:38:47,200 --> 02:38:56,240
anything else and you got my narrative
right. So overall um 26 budget was

1106
02:38:54,160 --> 02:39:04,359
143774.
The 27 proposed budget is 138614, which

1107
02:38:59,760 --> 02:39:04,359
is a reduction of $5,160.

1108
02:39:06,000 --> 02:39:12,160
» You have any questions?
>> I don't.

1109
02:39:09,600 --> 02:39:15,439
» You have anything for Sean?
>> No. Okay.

1110
02:39:14,000 --> 02:39:20,200
» All right. Thank you guys. No problem.
Have a good week. Thank you. Bye.

1111
02:39:27,439 --> 02:39:34,640
I'll make a motion we go into executive
session for 15 minutes with Pub Works,

1112
02:39:32,640 --> 02:39:39,439
non-elected personnel, with the
commissioners, attorney, chassity, and

1113
02:39:37,040 --> 02:39:42,880
JD.
15 minutes.

1114
02:39:40,720 --> 02:39:49,880
» I'll second that motion.
>> Moved and seconded. All in favor say I.

1115
02:39:45,120 --> 02:39:49,880
I. I. returning at 11:55.

1116
02:54:46,399 --> 02:54:50,040
There was no action.

1117
02:54:54,399 --> 02:55:00,240
» Go ahead,
>> commissioners. I want to recommend an

1118
02:54:57,680 --> 02:55:06,080
employee change form to you. It's for uh
employee William Ernest. He is at road

1119
02:55:03,200 --> 02:55:11,120
shop 3. like to move him from equipment
operator

1120
02:55:07,760 --> 02:55:19,000
to assistant road foreman which will be
10p on the pay matrix 2189 going to 234.

1121
02:55:20,960 --> 02:55:32,560
I'll make a motion we approve the
increase from the rate of 2189 to 2304

1122
02:55:30,640 --> 02:55:38,000
uh classification equipment operator to
assistant road foreman for William

1123
02:55:34,160 --> 02:55:40,720
Ernest Road 3. That's my motion.
>> I'll second that.

1124
02:55:39,359 --> 02:55:44,080
» It's been moved and seconded. Any
discussion?

1125
02:55:42,240 --> 02:55:45,600
All in favor say I.
>> I.

1126
02:55:44,399 --> 02:55:50,960
» I.
>> Next one is employee change form for

1127
02:55:48,160 --> 02:55:56,240
Shelby Grandon. Um, want to hire her to
take Grace Kellum's place in the public

1128
02:55:53,120 --> 02:56:04,040
works office. Want to bring her in as
clerk

1129
02:55:57,840 --> 02:56:04,040
8a on the pay matrix at $17.99 per hour.

1130
02:56:05,840 --> 02:56:13,840
» I'll make a motion that we hire Shelby
Granon

1131
02:56:09,200 --> 02:56:17,120
as clerk 18A at a rate of $17.99.
>> I'll second it.

1132
02:56:14,800 --> 02:56:21,279
» It's been moved and seconded. Any
discussion? All in favor say I. I.

1133
02:56:20,319 --> 02:56:26,080
» I.
>> And the last one, employee change form

1134
02:56:23,600 --> 02:56:32,720
is for employee Amanda Brown. She is
currently clerk

1135
02:56:28,080 --> 02:56:39,479
8B. I want to move her to clerk 29F
at 1998 per hour.

1136
02:56:35,840 --> 02:56:39,479
» I'll make that motion.

1137
02:56:42,640 --> 02:56:49,120
» All second.
>> Been moved and seconded.

1138
02:56:46,560 --> 02:56:54,640
Any discussion? I'll just classify. Uh
we're moving from clerk one to clerk two

1139
02:56:51,120 --> 02:56:57,040
at the rate of 1998 would be the pay.
All in favor say I. I.

1140
02:56:56,240 --> 02:56:58,000
» I.
>> Thank you.

1141
02:56:57,520 --> 02:57:01,680
» Thank you.
>> One other thing I might update you on. I

1142
02:56:59,520 --> 02:57:07,040
forgot to update you earlier on is the
covert project up on 1095. We had a

1143
02:57:04,880 --> 02:57:13,840
serious mishap up there last week.
Contractor collapsed three of the four

1144
02:57:09,600 --> 02:57:20,000
coverts at site one. Um
Friday night I went up there. Um, and

1145
02:57:16,880 --> 02:57:24,160
that particular site was finished. They
had pulled the damaged ones out,

1146
02:57:22,240 --> 02:57:29,040
replaced them with some of the others
that we had on on hand, and uh got it

1147
02:57:27,520 --> 02:57:34,319
all packed in, covered up, and rip
wrapped. So, site number one was done.

1148
02:57:32,000 --> 02:57:38,000
Um, they had just broke ground on the
site number two, and uh they're working

1149
02:57:36,560 --> 02:57:42,160
with Wellbborne Sales to get
replacements for the culverts that were

1150
02:57:40,080 --> 02:57:47,520
damaged on that first deal. So,
>> so we still got a road.

1151
02:57:44,800 --> 02:57:51,680
Yes, sir. Still road closure. Um, and I
need to get with Brian today or tomorrow

1152
02:57:49,279 --> 02:57:54,240
and find out what's the delivery time on
those others because I think they're

1153
02:57:52,800 --> 02:57:59,439
made to order. So, it could be a couple
weeks, but um, at this point I have no

1154
02:57:57,279 --> 02:58:03,359
reason to to believe we're going to be
beyond his schedule, but I'll find out

1155
02:58:01,680 --> 02:58:07,760
and let you know next week. So,
>> is there any type of delay in their

1156
02:58:06,479 --> 02:58:10,960
contract or is there
>> So, I need to go back and double check

1157
02:58:09,439 --> 02:58:14,800
that because, you know, we have Bettis
coming in immediately behind them. So,

1158
02:58:13,200 --> 02:58:17,840
uh, definitely don't want them to be
delayed. So, yep. I'm working on it this

1159
02:58:16,880 --> 02:58:21,200
week.
>> Thank you.

1160
02:58:18,479 --> 02:58:23,920
» Thanks. Have a good week.
>> We still need a 10-minute, right,

1161
02:58:22,560 --> 02:58:28,479
Jacqueline? 10 minutes. I'll make a
motion we go into executive session with

1162
02:58:26,160 --> 02:58:34,439
the three commissioners and the attorney
for 10 minutes pursuant to statute

1163
02:58:31,439 --> 02:58:34,439
754319B2.

1164
02:58:34,800 --> 02:58:41,279
That's my motion.
>> I'll second that motion.

1165
02:58:39,040 --> 02:58:45,960
» Been moved and seconded. Any discussion?
All in favor say I. All right. Hi.

1166
03:11:32,560 --> 03:11:36,200
There was no action.

1167
03:11:36,640 --> 03:11:42,560
Do you have anything else today?
>> I do not.

1168
03:11:39,680 --> 03:11:45,520
» Okay. Do you guys have anything else,
Jacqueline?

1169
03:11:44,800 --> 03:11:47,920
» I don't.
>> With that, I'll make a motion to

1170
03:11:46,720 --> 03:11:51,520
adjurnn.
>> I'll second it.

1171
03:11:49,120 --> 03:11:54,920
» Moved and seconded. All in favor say I.
>> I. All right.