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Yes, this is all we're going to have tonight. Lori, let me know that she's not able to make it. And Dr. Mike, let me know that he's not able to make it either. So, yes.

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Yes, so the job form. Yes, it's a glitched on me. Oh, yeah, and it like never submitted so. Oh, yeah, it was a good reminder to

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Well, I think it's time to call this meeting to order.

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We have a roll call. Sure, Bethany. All right, Karen Krueger, President and a lightweight here. Yeah, Dr. Gary.

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I am so sorry

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Dr. Gary Nip, Autumn Jones, and Kristina Edinger, and then both Laurie Shire and Dr.

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Mike Mayer are excused.

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Next on the list is Public Input, which I don't think we have an overloading crowd for

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Public Input, so we'll move on to the approval of the minutes.

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minutes. The meeting minutes, we need approval of the January 28th, 2026 meeting minutes.

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If you have, would like to look them over, they're under your meeting tab.

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Christina, make a motion that we accept the minutes. Do I have a second?

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Second.

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and it makes a second. All those in favor?

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It's been voted on and approved that we accept the January 28th meeting minutes.

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The next we have the executive session meeting minutes.

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Bethany said that the executive session meeting minutes are in the clear folder that you may

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have and the sheet that's sticking out opposite is last month's executive

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Did you say you talked to the state's attorney about did he

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give you a recommendation one way or another or so at this time based on the

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last recommendation it is still to keep confidential. That said I have talked

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with the state's attorney and I will be bringing a packet of all of the executive

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sessions minutes from the health department to his office and he will review

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them individually and provide a new updated recommendation.

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Okay. So basically I would say we want to right now until we hear from him we'd

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I'll make a motion to approve and keep confidential.

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Autumn makes a motion.

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Do I have a second?

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So it's been voted on and approved that we keep the executive session minutes confidential

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until we hear something from the state's attorney.

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All righty.

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So moving on to the reports.

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We wait. So I made a motion to approve the confidence of just the January 20. Oh, okay. I misunderstood. So that was a new one. We got to approve it. Okay, so we do have to do a different. Okay, but I will make a motion to keep confidential the rest of the executive session.

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And do I have a second for that?

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Christina will second that, and all those in favor?

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So now, everything's been approved to keep confidential, so moving on to environmental

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So, Eric isn't able to make it tonight, but I did have a chance to speak with him ahead

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of time.

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So, as you can see in your binder, you have your regular updates on water, sewage and

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food as far as environmental health is concerned, busy as ever.

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We have had some continuing issues with shipping samples, specifically water samples.

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The state has a contract with FedEx and they are not getting the water samples to the state lab in the time for them to be tested.

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They have to make it there within 30 hours in order for them to be properly tested and unfortunately it's not making within the time frame that it's supposed to.

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So when they get to the lab they have to be thrown away which means then Eric has to go back out and get the samples again and we start that whole process again.

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So we're currently exploring other shipping methods with the state lab because we want to make sure these samples get ready to go in the time frame that's needed.

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We're also looking at shipping when it comes to rabies specimens, specifically bats historically when it comes to the department and shipping out.

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So I just say that's for example because that seems to be the one thing.

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It can be put in the container and package properly and shipped.

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It had the cost has always fallen on whichever employee is taking it to the FedEx of the UPS

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to be shipped. The employee pays for it out of their pocket and then it is turned

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into the department for reimbursement. That said, I'm currently working with

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Erin on Quadient who is falls under walls. They see our shipping and mailing and

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postage. Basically we would get a larger machine to be able to size weight.

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who paid for what out of what personal account to be turned in for reimbursement.

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So that way that particular employee can get a check.

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and get the shipping label printed right there to be shipped off.

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So it's a lot clean cut that way.

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There's no mistakes.

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So, that's never been an issue, but it's just a lot cleaner that way.

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So, Eric has also submitted for, as you know, we already have our tire recycling date in October.

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These will be public events and they'll be happening within the calendar year.

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Once we get approval from the Illinois EPA, so when he does the tire event, you have to have an appointment to bring a lip-be-the-sane format for those other two.

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Most likely at this point, when it comes to these two events, so electronics recycling and household hazardous waste are monitored by two different departments within the EPA.

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So it will depend on what each department needs.

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But typically with electronic recycling and household hazardous waste just to control the flow will most likely have them sent up for an appointment.

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Okay, so will it be published with qualifies it's to be enabled to bring. Yes, okay. Yeah, so because we want to make sure that it can actually be properly recycled for an electronic.

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And we want to make sure that it's a qualified household hazardous waste, so we don't get the wrong thing.

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So for clinic, as you see in Stephanie's clinic report, which is behind Eric's environmental health reports, there has been an increase in dental

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contract with Tazzwell right now will be that'll actually be ending come Monday at the end of March.

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her CPA training. She is now seeing clients and she's seeing them five days a week as their schedule

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allows. They're starting to get filled up which is great. We're still looking to hire a public health

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nurse. So we have that posted on the website, on Indeed, on LinkedIn. So we have had some

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inquiries where we'll follow up and ask them to then complete the application. And sometimes

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that just kind of falls dead in the water. So I will give Stephanie and clinic staff huge kudos.

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they had their MEQA, which is an analysis of quality insurance for their

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WIC program. And last year they had 15 findings. This year it actually went down

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to nine findings. If you once we jump into the Admin report on there, there's

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actually a quote directly from the reviewer herself. She was actually pretty

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surprised. I think she was expecting to find more findings because of staffing issues, so I'm very

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proud of staffing. So, good. But yeah, that's all right. Administrator report? Anybody else have,

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is anybody have any questions about either one of those reports? Yeah, do we have to. Okay. Administrators

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for the administrators report. You can see the department itself has been very busy.

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We did receive an additional $14,000 from tobacco for staff at community education.

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We did use this opportunity with some of the funding that we have.

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and both Eric and Stephanie and Division Directors were offered license renewal, so we went ahead

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and compensated them for their license renewal for their RN and their LAHP because without them

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in their positions, we would not be able to operate. So we are currently monitoring this situation.

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If you guys are listening to the news and you hear fig funding or PHIG funding, the Public Health

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infrastructure grant. We, when we discuss sip of funding, that is the funding that falls under

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that branch. So as it says right now, there's currently a temporary restraining winner in effect.

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So it's not being affected at this time, but we are very heavily monitoring that situation.

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So we are very fortunate that everything seems to be going very well. Everything is status

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we are receiving payments and yeah we're doing very well. So we have a spring

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women's health event coming up tomorrow. We'll have 16 vendors for our event

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and we'll be showing it's called Below the Belt is a video documentary on

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endometriosis to provide education during endometriosis awareness month. Amy has

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done a very good job working with the vendors on that, so we're very excited about that for tomorrow.

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She's also been at the Yerika Rono Head Start, all Mondays and March, providing that.

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You know, but all for that curriculum, so the kids have really enjoyed it. I think she's really

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enjoyed it too, so which is great. We did sign up to more jurisdictions for our sharps containers,

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are big sharps boxes, which are metamore on good field, so those have been

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ordered to be delivered and placed. So we've actually already had to empty ours

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once, which is a great thing. That means that the sharps aren't going in the trash.

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I'm not going in the sharps container like they need to. We're in the process of

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we've had a meeting today with the sheriff's office, the county clerk and the

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at clerk looking at ADA compliance for our website looking forward to the April 2027 deadline

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because we're on our jurisdiction of 50,000. So we had a meeting with them today about that.

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We have been we've kind of looking looking ahead so that we were not caught behind the

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April on grant spend down. So we started doing that at the beginning of the month

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and because I don't like to be, I don't like waiting to the last second.

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And then one of the most exciting things, I mean, everything we do is very exciting as far as I'm concerned.

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I'm a little biased.

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But you guys are familiar with the Sun Meals to Go program.

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and then Stacey Cousins with the SNAP Educator Program

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from University of Illinois Extension and talk during September

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last year about the Submails to Go program in Spring Bay

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and how in 2024 they were able to serve 40 warm meals for kids

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that could come in and eat and then in 2025 they were able

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to serve over $20,000.

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We had a couple of calls and meals with us on meals to go program where they came and they picked up seven breakfast and seven lunches and they came and they picked it up once a week. Well, I am excited to report that the department we were actually approached about being another site because of Eureka and the populace within Woodford County as a rural jurisdiction and as area eligible. Our site would be a perfect location for that.

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So in meeting with Stacey and meeting with the 501C, three that actually, there's no money that changes hands.

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We've already discussed with the sheriff because there'll be a storage container for all the food.

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They'll actually come and get everything certified and we'll just have to, you know, be there to assist and have work with different volunteer organizations.

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So what will happen is individuals will sign up for some meals to go either to pick up at Spring Bay or in Eureka for Woodford County.

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And then how many kids they have, they'll get one box per child of seven breakfast and seven lunches.

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And they'll come here, we'll do it on Fridays after business hours.

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That way they were not impacting the better assistance center or any clients here are down there.

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And they'll come in. They won't even have to get out of the car. We'll load it up and they'll be able to drive off.

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So, and we'll be able to help make sure that those kids that aren't in school, that would typically get from the school are still fed over the summertime.

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So, we're waiting on a couple last minute, eyes dotted and teased cross, and then we'll be able to release registration for that soon. So I'm excited about that.

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Where are those meals prepared yet?

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So actually, the 501C3 organization they send out for vendors and last year's vendor

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was PepsiCo.

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It's all non-perishable food, shelf stable.

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So whether it's like, yeah, so I guess the one is a nicer MRE, if that makes sense.

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So take like fair-life milk, it's shelf-stable milk, so like shelf-stable milk, shelf-stable

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juice, packaged foods, and things like that, so for individuals that may not have refrigeration

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or may not have microwaves, so something that is shelf-stable, so that way they don't

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have to worry about things like that.

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Do you read the school district do something like that on something?

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Um, they do.

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So they do, like, snacks,

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but they don't do anything with typically like this.

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Um, and actually, so Katie Buckley,

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their executive director approached Farm Bureau at first,

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because they would, they needed a location in your weekend.

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I felt the farm park would be great, and I said, we don't really have a drive there.

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They need it to be drive through a full, oh, so like this parking lot, they can just drive through, pick them and leave.

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But it's a really great box, and I saw it over in Spring Bay, and it's a really good initiative, so to be able to have it here and a partner with the Health Department, I think is a great idea.

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Yeah, well, will our employees be involved with that in any way than her?

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Yeah, I actually already had staff that are like I don't care if it's after hours of volunteer.

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But they would be doing that as a volunteer. So yeah, so if they um, so

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I have staff that want to help. There are always more than welcome to help. I didn't want

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I don't want staff to be additionally taxed on top of what else they're already doing. Yeah, um, so

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but I already have them knocking at my door wanting to know in the

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initiatives getting started because they want to help because they see the

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need and using their connections within the community to provide additional

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volunteers. But we don't do the volunteer list to make sure staff, somebody else does

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that. Yeah, so extension. Yeah, the extension office does it? Yeah. Okay. So I've talked with Stacey

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about the fact that we have like a medical reserve port and that I know that they'll want to be involved

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and she said absolutely and then other organizations within the community. I've already had two that

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are like, well, what about rotary and what about their hope, the hope network and they've listed

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organizations and I'm like when I have the site I promise I will send it out. There's no other

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than us being a distribution point. There's no there's no mandatory anything. There's no fun.

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That's correct. I will be there to make sure the door is open so people can go to the bathroom

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and that they know that there's a storm shelter in the back if there is a tornado coming.

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So. Okay. Sounds good. So wonderful. Yeah. It is. Serious how it all worked. Yeah.

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All right. Anything else for the administrator's report?

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I don't believe so. So do I need them both? I'll make the most of those for the admin report.

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Okay. Do I have a second? Second. That's your nap. Second. All those in favor?

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All right. All right. Moving on to third party billing report.

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So under third party billing.

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Sorry, my fingers are sticking to the paper here.

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Everything here is pretty status quo.

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As usual, there's really nothing out of the ordinary.

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We haven't had any issues receiving payment from insurance. I know

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Jen has been really good about getting what we need. So there really hasn't many issues as far as that's concerned either.

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What about monthly finance tools and build payment deflation?

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So on your summary reports

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So you'll see you have January summer report and then you have February summer report.

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One thing I do want to point out, so when you look at each summer as a reminder, so you

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have, so January, if you look down at the bottom, it says that we were operating negatively

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with this, you know, expenses versus income, February, positively, it just depends on payments

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and when they come. It took local protection until the third quarter to get us the first

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two-quarter payments. So it just depends on when we get the payments from the state.

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Right. Does anyone have any questions about third

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-party billing report or monthly financial

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need a motion for that one, I'm going to go for the bill's committee.

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Just in a second. All those in favor? Okay.

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Presentation.

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Let's see. There's no presentation today. Okay.

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Yes. Old business. Addendum to the Woodford

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County Board of Health bylaws. So as you can see on there, I'm not looking for any action.

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I only wanted to provide an update and then the front of your binder is an email chain between

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myself and the state's attorney. So I sent him a copy of the addendum and I sent him a copy of

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board of health bylaws. So on the second page in red were his additions and this would

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be directly to the bylaws. Just in reference to the governance manual if that's something

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what we choose to do, how to tie it in instead of having like the introduction page as it

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was designed building it in there.

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And I will have to get some additional clarification

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because I asked if he had any additional insights or thoughts on the indictment's self.

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And he said no unless it's an action that the board sees necessary to make. So I'm not sure

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if it's because we weren't looking to make any action at that particular time.

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Um, so I just wanted to make sure to provide this update. So I'm, I'm sorry. I, if this was

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discussed before it's totally, totally lost it. So what?

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This is a proposed, a minimum, a

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denim for the bylaws. Yeah. So the sections in red. No, so, and I, so at the, at the last

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meeting there was actually a separate it was a it was a like a table at the big

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discussion of like it was a like a governance document like an

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addendum to it breaking out different things like a table of this is

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So the board, so like our authority, so like board versus administrative versus working together and things like that.

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And I wanted to make sure that I at least provided an update these things.

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So the way I've written it, the two in red here were from the introduction page of the manual.

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he goes instead of doing it that way. This is what I would do just because it's

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format. When I asked if he had any thoughts on the actual end of himself, he said,

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no, no, not unless, not if it's an action your board sees necessary to me.

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So I think

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until what's

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our next step in this process and that I'm not sure. I want to

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make sure that everyone feels comfortable and I don't know what I don't know. I

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did find some additional resources on Nalbo's website but I didn't I didn't have

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time to dig into them enough to provide any updates on that. So, Karen, if I may, because

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I'm the one that brought this up and had the contention with it a little bit, when this was

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brought to us in January as a proposal, as an addendum, it was recommended by the National

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help us group association or whatever Illinois yes to do this with your your

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boards. She brought it with us at that time when I read it based on the table my

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personal opinion which is it's in the recorded minutes is that it very much

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protected her as the administrator not us as the board so my concern I said I wanted

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and Eric has our state's decision to review it

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to make sure that the board is protected as well.

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He does write this as a way of like everything

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as the board does it based on the stuff.

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So are we allowed to take this to room?

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Oh yes, yes, because I do think it's a good idea

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to outline it, but I wanna make sure

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that the board is protected.

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and we don't overstep the administrators positions and vice versa, but I do like that he reviewed it.

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So that's where that came from and why she went to Erica Riddle about it was because I said,

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I think her state said, I was in here last time. So that's helped. Thank you for clarifying.

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I can go back to the last to our last meeting and review the document again.

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Well, and what I can do is I can send you guys the verb, sorry, I just maybe jump

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this off. I can send you guys the document from last meeting and then I can also send this

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to you guys as well. It's helpful. So I think to look at it together, it would help me.

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It may go up. And so then maybe like at our next meeting, we can take action the

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if everyone feels comfortable with the document.

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So what's being proposed as the one that's in here,

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or does that reflect?

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Is this just parts of what's in the bylaws in the back of the glove?

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So he copied what's in black on here?

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He copied directly from the powers and duties in the bylaws.

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Okay.

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Otherwise what's in red?

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He designed based off of the addendum.

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Okay.

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So you're going to send this information to each one of us so we can look at it across

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for the next meeting.

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Yes.

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And then at that time, hopefully.

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We can be prepared to take some kind of action. Yeah, yep. Do we have a governance manual at this point time? We so currently approved are the bylaws are in the back of the vendor. But we don't have any sort of document outside of this. So this is suggesting we would come up with something in addition to the bylaws and follow the government. Yeah, that's right. Okay. I'm slowly.

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Okay, I understand. Okay, I'm on the same page. So, but you're going to send that to all of it. She's going to send all that information to us so that we can look at it as individuals and be prepared at the next meeting to decide how we want to address it.

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Okay.

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Any other discussion about the adendum?

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Thanks for clarifying that on them.

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All right. Moving on to new business.

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All right. New business.

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The first item of new business is updating.

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Let's see if I can.

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is trying to find my agenda here.

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It got shoved in my line of advice is updating

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the Woodbridge County septic ordinance.

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So the first page here,

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the top is the current septic ordinance language.

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The bottom is the proposed septic ordinance language.

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And then I provided the entire septic ordinance

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along with it. So that way it's kind of I wanted to provide the entire ordinance and then a

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reference sheet to make it easier to find. So the premise behind this, so the way for food that

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it's written is there are certain rules and regulations in place but the fees are at the board of

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health. So if there's any updates, changes, or corrections that duty falls to health

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permit and the Board of Health for Final Approval, the septic ordinance, however, is different.

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All the fees, all the regulations, and everything are written directly in the septic ordinance.

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What I'm trying to do is I'm trying to put the language within the septic ordinance as it

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is with food to be consistent across policy structure. So I sat down with Eric and we went

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with this line by line and the way that this is worded is to help is to bring not looking to change

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any fees. I'm just looking to bring the fees out of the county ordinance and bring it back to

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responsibility of the Board of Health. That's all I'm looking to do. So the first part here

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changes the verbiage to where it would be on the responsibility of the Health Department

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and the Board of Health for those fees. We would delete the individual

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sewage system water supply $200. We would delete those fees directly out of there

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and then the reference to the subdivision fees, again, with that language.

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So this is part of the county ordinance before we can, I mean, we can recommend a change, but it's got to go in the county boards.

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yep so we as the board of health then determine and set the fee for a citizen

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that wants to know like what it would be where would those fees be posted just

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on our website so call they would be posted on our website like our food fees

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So yeah, just like our food feeds on our website and then they would become a part of our,

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well, they're on our feed, they're on our feed sheet anyway, but yeah.

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So I'm a little confused here. You just said the board of health sets those feeds,

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but when you were discussing this, you said this was part of the county board for ordinance.

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So they would be the ones who set the fees. So who is it that sets the fees, the Board of Health that sets the fees or it's written in here. It says a fee shall be determined and assessed by the Woodford County Health Department.

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That's, that's what I'm preparing assessed by the Woodford County Board of Health.

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So the last time his ordinance was updated and approved was 2016, 2016, 10 years.

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And so actually Eric and I, I thought you guys might want to know.

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We looked back, so in 1998, the subject permit was 50.

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In 2002, it jumped to 100.

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In 2004, it jumped to 125.

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And then in 2016 was the last update.

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And then it jumped to 2.25.

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So, but every time it gets opened or changed or anytime there is like a state change that has to be incorporated, we then have to reopen the ordinance.

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So, but what we're looking to do here is to bring these back to the health department.

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So, that way if there's any need, anything like that, it would come to the board health.

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That makes sense. I don't I don't see the county board.

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I mean, they'll have to pass the ordinance itself, but I mean, I think you say exactly what you just said at the next public safety meeting and they're going to pass it.

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No worries, I'm responsible.

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We'll be all in.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And when you set your fees, do you compare it with other counties or what's the process

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for setting the fees?

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So what we typically do is we do compare it with other counties.

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But then we also take a look at pay rate, mileage to the furthest distance away, number of

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times.

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So number of septics, number of repeats, and then we kind of do like an average, so like on board, and we do an average between Paul and Eric.

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So, um, and that's kind of how we set those fees for like an increase.

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But at this point, you're not proposing changes. We are not proposing fee changes. I'm not looking to do a fee.

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Yes, I would move that we adopt the ordinance or as proposed. I'm not sure that's the right wording because the county will ask the county board to change it as.

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So Dr. Neb has moved in on the second that we send the proposed

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Burbage to the county board for approval.

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So everyone, I need a vote in favor that please or I need it.

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Yeah, I need you know what I want. My mind went on a track. All those in favor say I thank you. All right.

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Moving on to the resolution for national public felt.

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Yes. So the next two items, they should all be separated by little tabs. So we have a resolution

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and recognizing National Public Health Week, coming up in April, we have National Public

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Health Week, which is April 6th through 12th, and then we have National Volunteer Week,

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which is April 19th through 25th.

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So I won't read all of this to you guys.

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I'll have you guys take a chance to kind of read through it.

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This is different than the National National Resolution last year.

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we kind of went with APHA's resolution verbatim. I wanted this to be different. I wanted this to really

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kind of bring it home. What truly is pulled from Woodford County? So that's why I took a look at the

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work that has been done and really kind of hammered it home for us. So I

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think a motion to approve

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both resolutions for national public health week and national law and theory.

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week. Do you have a second? Second. Dr. Nip seconds. All those in favor?

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Hi.

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So it's been voted on or approved that we accept both those resolutions,

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recognizing volunteer week and public health week. And approval of donation of

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ultra cold freezer? Yes.

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So during COVID, we had Pfizer vaccine. Pfizer vaccine, we needed a

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special freezer to store said Pfizer vaccine, an ultra cold. And we are not the only department

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that is struggling with this right now. This is a theme across the state. But we're trying to think

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outside of the box solutions for our ultra cold. I have thought through every possible scenario.

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I have tried to see if it can be used for other labs. We're not equipped for that. I have tried

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to see if it can be used for a milk freezer for a milk deep bowl. Can't do that. It'll just try

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the best milk. I have tried for other sort of vaccines. Nope. Can't work for that either.

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It cannot be adapted to be a regular freezer. Can't do that either. I have tried everything

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possible to see if there's any other way that we can do anything with this freezer.

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So as you can see here in front of you, there's an email directly from the grants division

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that says they don't want it to just so we can dispose or donate.

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As an individual, we spent almost seven grand on this.

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So disposal is not no, I know.

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This is still in properly function in condition, we still have the ultra cold gloves that can be used with it.

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What I am looking for permission for, and I am because of the cost of it, is to look to donate it to a local college lab, biology lab, something that they can use it for lab specimens.

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So my first outreach would be to Urika College since it's in Woodford County and we're here.

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And if it can benefit students to learn, why not?

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It's an expense piece of equipment that is sitting

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in our hallway right now, the lifting dust.

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So, but you can see on the invoice here,

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it costs $6,800 and $2,035.

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So, that's why I need you guys' permission to donate it.

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If we donate it to a suitable educational facility

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that could utilize it, starting in Wood for County, and then if not options there,

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either McLean or Peorey County has what kind of yet, if it's I would add in that the truck.

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It has to be moved at their first receiving at six pounds.

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Do I have a second?

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A second.

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Kristino seconded?

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All those in favor?

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Say aye.

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Aye.

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Hi. I think that's a good idea. Thank you, guys. Do we have any executive session? No.

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No. No. Do we have a motion for adjournment?

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Oh, no. On a move. Second.

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And a second. All those in favor? All right.

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Awesome. And just to remind our next meeting is May 27th.