[0:00] 23 through December 31st
2024al
[0:05] Al George Baer Deb block John Brockman
Christopher Brodin Arthur cron Martha
[0:11] Garcia Daryl Gilmore Ronald Jakey Bob
Grimes uh Mary Holland Ray Mitchum
[0:17] Leslie Nichols Russ Paul David Scott
Cindy Smiley Larry Souther Robert Thomas
[0:23] Trent upod Jean weamer John Warden and
approv Marshall County Medical Examiner
[0:29] term dates Dr David bethl from January
1:23 to December
[0:34] 3124 and that is the conclusion of
today's consent
[0:39] agenda can I ask is is the date correct
here January 1st of 2023 yes it's a yeah
[0:46] because we didn't it's a cleanup thing
getting it to have a continual date so
[0:51] we don't have any break in our
appointments very good all right then
[0:56] I'll make a motion to uh approve the
consent AG
[1:00] I'll second that we have the motion the
second do we have any discussion on any
[1:04] of those
items the election things I know are a
[1:07] little confusing the 10 hires where we
say full-time equivalent a lot of that
[1:12] is part-time people some people work you
know part days so they work Monday
[1:18] Wednesday Friday because a lot of those
are retirees they don't want to work um
[1:23] full-time um so they they work what they
want to and work around their other
[1:28] engagements so that's why we say
full-time equivalency um and we've got
[1:33] um 10 folks in there um we do have some
other um back out of office folks as
[1:38] well so um that kind of explains that
special Precinct board helps with the
[1:43] absentee counting and other um jobs and
so that's what the special Precinct um
[1:49] board is a lot of that depends on how
many absentee ballots we have so that is
[1:54] a number of course that we don't know
yet so that's yet to be determined
[2:00] sheriff sheriff doeses this new hire uh
Taylor bull does that fill your all of
[2:05] your slots for jailor Jo Sheriff Marsh
County um it does not we still are about
[2:10] three down um we are looking for female
jailers U by code we have to have a
[2:15] appropr appropriate ration for female
prisoners so we have to kind of um kind
[2:21] of look at those uh demographics when we
hire jailers Taylor actually has been a
[2:26] l transfer from the Department of
Corrections comes with experience has
[2:30] some military um background also so we
are still uh working to recruit uh our
[2:35] jail staff to get them up staff so do
you pay the female jail jailers less
[2:40] than the male jailers pay pay equal
standard equal standard good
[2:49] good the 60s are done with aren't they
60s are over with I need to move on I
[2:54] will miss you so much no you won't
[3:02] discussion roll call please HS yes Kyle
yes Sol
[3:08] yes number seven approved purchase of a
2025 Polaris Ranger crew xp1000
[3:14] Northstar Edition for
[3:18] $3,449 and Kim Tech medike transport MTD
103 Medical Transport skid for $465
[3:30] um the drill Phillips again Sheriff
Marshall County um we've had kind of a
[3:33] sequence of events uh we're planning
ahead for our next year's budget uh 26
[3:38] um our replacement um UTV was on the
equipment request for
[3:44] 2026 um we did have a uh a loss in a
patrol vehicle so we're able to move
[3:49] some funds around to some vehicles to
get some longevity out of them um this
[3:53] is going to be budget neutral it's not
an increase in the budget um so we're
[3:56] trying to get ahead of things um with
the med transport again this was in the
[3:59] planning stages um we've had three
instances this last year where we had to
[4:05] use deputies use their own personal utvs
um to get some individuals one on a bike
[4:10] path and a couple of them in our rural
areas along our River so um it's just
[4:15] one of those things we're trying to plan
ahead hope we don't need stuff but um
[4:19] when it comes down to to getting uh
individuals in those partic or uh
[4:24] instances where they're uh in particular
areas we need to get them out of there
[4:29] and so we don't have anything now like
this we do have a 2012 cabota which is
[4:35] more like like a glorified golf cart and
it was originally purchased when the
[4:41] buildings and grounds budget was
underneath the sheriff's office or as a
[4:44] utility for uh buildings and grounds
payments so and that's uh it's getting
[4:49] towards its end of life um especially
with the size it's quite basically golf
[4:54] cart so uh with the new uh Innovations
and the utvs obviously this will be a be
[4:59] able to be driven uh to our uh uh areas
where we need them um the quote for the
[5:05] UTV we do get a government and law
enforcement discount free upfitting on
[5:10] the accessories but it does not include
the turn signals which we will have to
[5:14] have so the the quote will have to
increase a little bit
[5:17] so again this will be a budget neutral
we're just trying to plan ahead and take
[5:21] advantage of some some
pricing excellent thank you sheriff is
[5:26] there a motion to approve the purchase
today I'll make the motion that we
[5:30] approve the purchase of the 2025 Polaris
Ranger crew XP 1000 Northstar Edition
[5:36] for
[5:40] $3,449 and a kimtech medlight transport
MTD 103 Medical Transport skid for
[5:49] $465 I'll second we have the motion to
Second any further discussion on this
[5:53] item
today roll call please yes yes yes
[6:01] number eight application and permit to
work within Marsh County secondary roads
[6:04] right
way thank you for being here
[6:10] Paul Paul gfell Marshall County engineer
this uh this permit is something that
[6:18] we did didn't really have in place
before this isn't a new this is a new
[6:22] permit it's not that we didn't have any
work on RightWay permits our driveway
[6:27] application was essentially a work on
RightWay permit and like a tile Crossing
[6:31] is another work on RightWay permit and
at this time I'm not going to require
[6:35] this permit to be applied for to do a
driveway or a tow Crossing this is more
[6:40] for if a resident wants to U alter the
ditch in front of on their Frontage or
[6:45] they want to you know they want to
excavate or they want to make some
[6:48] changes to the to the lay of the land in
front of their on their property and the
[6:55] the biggest thing it does for us is this
permit requires them to get like
[6:59] liability insurance for their operation
out there and they have to provide proof
[7:03] and insurance to us and name us as
additional insured when they're doing
[7:06] that um just to kind of control a little
bit of the risk involved with with them
[7:10] being out in the roadway it also
requires them to use proper Advanced
[7:14] signage to uh to let a little bit of
warning that there's work you know
[7:19] there's a lot of places on rock roads
where there just isn't sight distance
[7:22] for for a work Zone especially if it's
just a a small short-term work
[7:26] Zone and the uh
the language of the permit and the
[7:31] requirements of the permit are all
backed up by Iowa Code and I did include
[7:37] the code section on the back just
to open the Iowa Code or find a copy of
[7:43] the code online and it's uh it mostly
deals with obstructions you know we have
[7:47] a situation where someone makes a ditch
that is essentially an obstruction if
[7:52] it's a certain depth if it's if it's
certain you know slope on the on the for
[7:56] slope of the road it it can cause US
problems and something we have to go
[8:00] back and fix and this requires the
person doing it
[8:05] to tell us what they're going to do
before they do it and when they are done
[8:11] if they are not meeting the
specifications that we agreed to then
[8:14] they are given 20 days to make repair
and make it correct if they don't we do
[8:20] it and charge them so it kind of just
lays out the process and uh but the
[8:25] biggest thing is just liability control
and gives us some some insurance back on
[8:30] on the
work so is it your department that's the
[8:35] enforcement for that yeah I mean it's
we're I don't think in the code section
[8:41] there's really anything punitive it's
just if you do damage you fix it or you
[8:47] pay to get it fixed and and that you
know that can be a a long process so you
[8:53] know don't know that we would you know
ultimately you go to the place where you
[8:57] try to put it on somebody's taxes but we
know that's a long expensive process
[9:01] that isn't really realistic for small
claims in my opinion
[9:11] so excellent any further questions for
[9:16] Paul did we get a motion on this yet I
do not we didn't all right I would make
[9:22] a motion then to approve an
application uh and permit to work within
[9:26] Marshall County secondary roads right of
ways
[9:30] I'll second that have that motion the
second do we have any other further
[9:36] discussion
[9:40] roll right
away it's oh the right away is the the
[9:45] easement that the county has for for
keeping and maintaining a roadway and a
[9:51] road
ditch and it's usually 66 ft width total
[9:57] but it does vary and it's sometimes
difficult to locate because we are
[10:01] seeing fences disappear
countywide what is what is a 60 ft start
[10:08] at the the 66
is usually it's centered on the section
[10:13] line so the issue is the road isn't
always centered on the section line but
[10:18] the uh the basis of it is the the
section line and the center of the road
[10:23] so it's generally 33 ft left and right
at Center but the road sometimes
[10:28] migrates a little bit between that on
that
[10:35] CER all right any other questions
[10:41] comments roll call please o yes H yes
Sol
[10:48] yes all right on to number nine approval
of general safety manual and Fleet
[10:53] Safety manual for Marshall County
effective today September 11th 2024
[11:02] did this looking at the attachments
right here did the safety manual get
[11:07] included the general safety manual I
don't I don't know
[11:11] um I think the Fleet Safety side
yeah it's just the Fleet Safety and the
[11:17] vehicle inspection form okay and we do
not have everything that we needed
[11:24] and we should probably wait till next
meeting to do it all at one time okay
[11:30] yeah um so the safety manual has went
through the Safety Committee the Fleet
[11:36] Safety has went through Paul and Bruce
and the form has went through Bruce and
[11:44] the
committee the rest of the folks I'm
[11:46] gonna let Paul kind of speak it's went
through the shop the some the Fleet
[11:51] Safety thing you know it's it's
from our our meetings with our Safety
[11:56] Committee we should have some type of a
a pre-trip
[12:00] and so what you're seeing there for the
pre-trip is we're really trying to to
[12:04] pair it down to just the the the basics
and the things that that you know that
[12:09] we really need to know every time we get
in a vehicle and have enough that that
[12:14] it means something but not have so much
that it doesn't get done that it just
[12:18] gets you know glossed because you know
that if you have a you know an hourlong
[12:23] inspection before you take off that that
things are going to get you know missed
[12:26] they're not going to do it um so we and
we also tried to the general safety
[12:31] manual tried to pair it down to what we
were actually doing and so we we tried
[12:36] to make that update there were some
things that really sounded like we were
[12:40] a union shop um because we had pulled
that in from
[12:44] imwc and Steve sits on that committee
with us and there were things in there
[12:49] that we just weren't doing so we really
tried to par it down to what we were
[12:53] really doing um and updated that and so
it's a lot shorter so I'm hoping that
[13:00] more people read it so that piece of it
so we'll get that um out and get
[13:06] everything attached um next time um and
so we can get that approved for
[13:12] everybody as well I think Genie's got
some printed so we can hand those out to
[13:16] everybody so you can have it so you can
um read it for next time um the
[13:21] inspection report as far as walking
around the vehicles that's we spent a
[13:25] lot of time on that to make it so it's
something that will be used usable and
[13:30] doable um so we're hopeful that the the
folks out at the shop will utilize this
[13:38] um we are I'm just getting this stuff
from EMC for our October 1st Insurance
[13:44] renewal and we're kind of up on auto
accidents again this year and that's one
[13:51] piece that will help us is um adding
these inspections and you know the the
[13:57] Rocks going on maybe hitting someone
wind windshield behind some of those
[14:02] things will hopefully assist us um we do
have the GPS now on the truck so I can't
[14:10] say you know oh I got hit by a rock down
by roads and Paul can say uh we didn't
[14:15] have any trucks down by roads today you
know we've got a little bit of um
[14:21] information that's going to assist us as
far as Marshall County um can go so um
[14:27] that's going to help us I think as far
as Insurance wise and you'll see on the
[14:31] Fleet Safety side too that we tried to
take out anything that was just a cut
[14:36] and paste from Iowa Code because we
don't need to sit around and reprint
[14:38] Iowa
Code and then if Iowa code changes we
[14:42] just go along with those changes there's
no no read no reason to regurgitate that
[14:48] so um Paul do you have a plan then where
you update or when you bring on new
[14:53] hires how how do you Orient them on what
the what the process is it's just it's
[15:00] just that it's just we learn by doing in
our in our department we you know that's
[15:05] the kind of the the only method that we
can
[15:10] have one of the big pieces was trying to
get away from for them not keeping the
[15:16] paper you know a way to do it so they
didn't have to do that so that's kind of
[15:21] where they're trying to figure out how
to not do that um down there so that
[15:26] that's the part they're working on
all right well we'll kick that to the
[15:32] September 25th meeting for completion I
do
[15:37] good all right on to number 10 public
forum time set aside for the public to
[15:41] make comments on topics of County
Business other than those listed on this
[15:44] agenda no action will be taken on any of
these topics brought up in public form
[15:48] just ask you to come up here to the
[15:53] microphone good morning everyone this is
Kim Elder can you hear
[15:56] me yes yes I just wanted to remind
everybody that this is preparedness
[16:02] month so September is preparedness month
we'll be working throughout the month to
[16:07] put on different events and uh remind
everyone to be prepared make their
[16:13] preparedness kit and their plans and
we'll have a um kind of a wrap up for uh
[16:20] the end of the month won't be till
November but we'll do a PR preparedness
[16:24] class called our CT um class basic
training and that is a preparedness
[16:29] class on the second and third if
anybody's interested they can contact
[16:35] me excellent thank you
Kim John fantastic well good morning
[16:42] supervisor John Hall Marshall Town uh
Area Chamber of Commerce uh I for those
[16:48] that are uh Avid readers of the Times
Republican which I assume everybody is
[16:52] uh you would have seen in the uh the
paper this morning uh the announcement
[16:56] of April McKibben joining our team as
our new uh Marshall County Economic uh
[17:01] development director we're ecstatic to
have her on
[17:04] board uh she is going to be reaching out
to connect with uh with all of you
[17:08] individually to uh you know continue to
to orient herself and familiarize
[17:12] herself with things that are happening
throughout the county and and throughout
[17:15] our our rural communities and we'll be
getting out and and connecting with our
[17:19] rural communities here in the the coming
weeks uh as we we hit the ground running
[17:23] with this position so uh we're we're
excited for that uh we'll have our first
[17:27] quarterly report coming uh at the end of
this month with kind of the updates on
[17:31] on where that progress is at but I'll
really look for that to take off here in
[17:36] uh in the following quarters and and uh
look forward to uh being in front of you
[17:40] more with uh with more opportunities as
we continue to navigate uh uh this work
[17:45] uh for our rural areas so April if you
have anything you're welcome
[17:50] to say
[17:53] hi good morning April McAn Marshall
County economic development director and
[17:58] I just want to thank everybody for the
opportunity to provide uh these
[18:02] resources to our smaller communities so
that we can build a connection within
[18:05] the community and identify growth um and
build on those relationships so um in
[18:09] the next 30 days we are definitely going
to do our research make connections and
[18:13] identify those strengths and barriers to
um build those relationships without the
[18:18] whole Community thank you so much
awesome thank you congratulations thank
[18:27] you any other public comment
[18:33] today my name is Richard notton I live
on whis Garden Road 1826 whis Garden I
[18:40] originally U called with a complaint to
Steve and said what's going on here
[18:44] because a whole bunch of trees on our
Corner coming up to our our house are
[18:49] dead and there's one decent sized walnut
tree that's dying and uh I just is it
[18:55] are the dead trees going to be cleaned
up because it looks pretty darn
[19:02] ugly can you address that
Paul yes
[19:11] yeah I uh yeah I'm familiar with the
where the trees are at and we did do
[19:15] some some spraying we try to get trees
um that are in in the right away we want
[19:19] to get those taken out because they are
obstructions and we will get them
[19:24] cleaned up it's just something the tree
removal we take care of that usually in
[19:28] the fall and winter when we have uh you
know down times with other you know
[19:32] operations so it's something that we
piece in and and fit where we where we
[19:36] can but it will be done do we contract
out no we we do it with our own people
[19:42] yeah were there any effects of trees
that were not in the right away yes
[19:47] there's one one there's a walnut about
this big around that's dying or at least
[19:51] one branches I'm assuming it'll kill the
rest of the tree and it's 7500 ft off of
[19:56] the off the roadway
so I was pretty disappointed that it
[20:00] happened it looked like it was
willy-nilly let just spray
[20:04] everything yeah when we weren't
targeting anything outside of the right
[20:08] outside the RightWay for sure um so if
that if that was because of us it was an
[20:15] error I also have a uh concern about
I've talked to the board of super before
[20:21] about this just down the road from our
house there's a curve and there's a
[20:26] ditch in front of our neighbors uh it's
it's it holds water for a long time if
[20:30] there's a culbert
there drain it's clogged up and I would
[20:36] be it's just a mosquito Haven is that
south of your place yes we've we've
[20:41] looked at that several times but that is
going to involve some work that needs to
[20:45] be done outside of the public RightWay
to get that to get that to drain because
[20:49] it the the Waterway is you know it's
fairly well timbered and it's you know
[20:55] it's SED in quite badly but if if the if
the C it was cleaned out it's just
[21:00] standing water even on the outlet side
too so it's it's the the Waterway is
[21:04] what's is what's not allowing the water
to get away so what has to be done to
[21:09] fix that well the the land owner would
either have to to open it up or we would
[21:13] have to get a temporary eement to to go
work on their property and and get that
[21:17] to drain
okay that would be appreciated who owns
[21:22] who owns that um Donovan Gein did but he
I don't know who owns it currently I met
[21:27] him one time but didn't get his
[21:32] name thank you
MH James can you can you click on the
[21:37] triangle there and tell us who owns
[21:41] that oh
Allan and if I I have a video of took a
[21:48] video of it this morning if you want to
see
[21:50] it on my phone
okay yeah show us that up right for the
[21:57] meeting
[22:01] any other public y go ahead um Nan
Benson and I just wanted to follow up on
[22:07] elections right now we are still unable
to um prepare ballots um because of the
[22:13] um court case um they're hoping the
Supreme Court I believe is going to um
[22:20] make a decision by this evening and
we're very hopeful they will so that um
[22:26] because the military ballots are
supposed to be emailed out by next
[22:29] Saturday so we're now down to 10 days to
get
[22:34] those created and done so we've lost
about 10 days so far so um but we're
[22:43] hopeful we can get that all completed of
course they don't give us any extra days
[22:48] but is what it is um but just wanted to
kind of uh alert the public that when
[22:54] that's happening that's what it does to
our office is Cuts our time in half is
[22:59] where we're at so everyone cross their
fingers if they make a decision by
[23:02] tonight okay as they said they will all
[23:08] right anything
[23:12] else right hearing none we'll move to
adjournment next regular session is
[23:17] Wednesday September 25th here at the
courthouse first floor meeting room one
[23:22] East Main Street all act business to be
acted upon at that session should be
[23:25] submitted to the county auditor and
recorder's office or Board of Supervisor
[23:28] office off by Wednesday September 18th
at noon there being No Further bus to
[23:32] come before the board meeting is
adjourned at
[23:34] 9:28
a.m. thank you very much everybody have
[23:38] a great
[23:57] day e