Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

It's all the same, sir. Initial order. Or should I wait till we approve it? So, can I get a motion to approve the claims? And whoever makes a motion, we got to read it. [laughter] I'll make a motion to approve the uh the claims. I think I did it. You got it? Yeah, I'll do it.

Okay, here you go. Take a look at them. They are as listed. Urbana uh Poke Township, the first responders for $56.7. Keystone first responders, $1,5578. New Hall uh first responders $1,66466. New Hall first responders uh $995.70. Uh new hall first responders $90.18. Walford first responders $3,47369. Atkins uh from Motorola Solutions Atkins is at $12,684.20 Bellplane Ambulance Supplies $1,134.82 again. Bellplane Ambulance Supplies, this was 200 Bellplane Ambulance Supplies, $1,966.72. Norway first responders $1,19125. Norway first responders for4 $428.77 first responders at $1,324. Urbana first responders $65.37. And finally, Urbana first responders for $26323 for a total emergency medical services trust fund $27,73.78. Southern Copper Tet I bullseye.

There were no regular clones. Correct. Nope. Last week before

technically no timed items for till 9:15. So first responders EMS advisory council we have somebody new. Um yep. So, the Blairtown first responders got their certificate from the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services and we just need to formally appoint them to the EMS advisory council and David Lander will be their point of contact. I know that was discussed at our last CMS meeting that you guys were. I would move to appoint David Islander as Fluttertown's representative to EMS council.

Second. Okay. Call for a vote. Chet I seaman IS.

So then they are going to have to be included in that aotment too, right? What's that? We're going to have to give them an allocation. Yes, that'll be up to uh Anna. Yep. We'll figure that out.

Okay. I guess the next one's more or less the sheriff all the people. So, basically got uh pretty much all the 2080s All the city contracts um they're all signed uh SRO contract is signed. No increase and no increases on any of the towns the rate that all stay the same. SRO contract stay the same. Um liaison is signed for Shelby's position. Um, we're just waiting on

Yeah, we're just waiting on a bit to sign their leaison if if they plan to and then the dispatch contract.

So, I typed up the resolutions to include all that way if they approve it. You know, if we get that then I can submit that to the state. How do you want to do it? So if we do them in order, uh the school resource officer 28 agreement is resolution 2612. I would move that we approve resolution 2612. I have a second. Okay. Braith I b I then 2613 is the 28E agreement uh for the law enforcement mental health liaison and I would move to approve 26 13. I will second that as well.

Okay. Call for a vote. Second IS. And then we have 2614 is the agreement for law enforcement services. Uh 28D agreement. Should I list the cities out or just Yeah, maybe. I mean, let me [clears throat] just make a note that I mean that signed copy.

Okay. And this this contract is for the city of Atkins, Blairtown, Garrison, Keystone, Lern, B Auburn, New Hall, Norway, Shellsburg, Urbana, Van Horn, and Venton. No, is not. So not contract was long for long. I didn't think so. That was 2614. Oh, I fixed it after the fact. I printed it. So that's my fault. Mine doesn't have that on. Yeah,

I maybe I'll second that. Y call for the vote for the law enforcement contract with the town. Tippet I team and I BS I

and 2615 is the agreement for law enforcement dispatch services and that is the cities of Bellplane Venton and Urbana. I would make that motion. I will second. Okay. Call for a vote. I sean I bull's eye

and obviously just make the note that that sign obviously won't have a 2080 to file until we get there and these all go into effect July 1st 26 copies everybody has the resolution Yep. Everybody has a resolution. Have you guys been signing them? I just signed those four cuz Ron's wasn't one of them wasn't correct. I think I caught that after the fact. The other one

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There's three of the four. Josh, I'll still list you on the secretary of state and you'll get copies of them on file. Yep.

And then hopefully you've got another correct one there for number 14. Tracy. Okay. After you do that, you said that right. I didn't want to breathe. and more. There we go. Thank you. All right, that should be Thanks everybody.

See you guys. Have a good day.

Everybody knock that off. Yeah, it is. garbage. Yeah. Heat. Heat. I would like to set a land use hearing for Jeff Guyger for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section 28 township 86 north range 10 west on March 24th at night I will make a motion to set the uh land use hearing for uh Jeff Guer uh for the 24th of March at 9:15. And

I'll second that motion. Okay. Cover vote. Tet I am I

thank you. I got it. I got it. Thank you. I couldn't find that.

Okay. So, Cameron Ericson is seeking approval to change the use of approximately 3.85 85 acres of land to allow for a single family dwelling and possible outbuildings. The property is located approximate approximately 3 miles southeast of Shellsburg in the 6700 block of Benton Lane Road within the north northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 36 Township [snorts] 884 north range 9 west within Kanton Township. The proposal concerns a 13.51 acre parcel which the applicant is interested in purchasing from the general west state. The entire area of this request has a CSR above 70 and has a weighted average CSR of 85 which is considered high quality farmland. There are act row crops to the north and west and there are row crops and single family dwellings located on farmsteads to the east and south. Access to the property will be via a new driveway which was reviewed and approved by Dan McKenna from secondary roads department. The property is accessed from Benendin road, a gravel county road with an average annual daily traffic count of 90 vehicles. The dwelling will require a new septic system and a private water well which will be permitted by the department. Two notification letters were sent to adjacent property owners and legal notices were published in Benton County's officials newspapers as required by ordinance. The Benton County Land use office received comments from Doug Yates. Mr. Yates owns and farms at 119 April parcel which is located approximately 1,900 ft away from this request. In addition, Mr. Yates farms, the property to the north, which is owned by Triple J Farms Ltd, and the property to the west and south, which is owned by Janet Owens. Mr. Yates was provided notice of this request by Carol Young, owner of the Triple J Farms, Ltd. Mr. Yates stated that Miss Young was concerned about the proposed change and

requested that he follow up on the matter. Mr. Yates was concerned that high quality farm gun will be taken out of production and that approval of this request will set a precedent. Mr. Yates was also concerned that the location of the dwelling would disrupt current farming operations. This request is located on a parcel containing approximately 9.3 acres of aggro crop. The applicant is proposing to remove approximately 2.2 acres from rope crop production for the building site and placing approximately 1.9 acres of grassland in rope crop production. While the proposal minimizes the loss of qual highquality farmland, there is no way to guar guarantee that this land will remain in ad production. Further, the proposal would increase the complexity of the shape of the field which would make row crop production farming more difficult. For these reasons and based upon public comments, this request is likely to interfere with farm operations in the area. The surrounding area consists of a uses and scattered farmsteads with single family dwellings except for a development along 66 street a hard surface road. There are no other single family dwellings in this area that are not associated with a farm or brick system or ordinance. Approval of this request will set a precedent which may result in the removal of highquality farmland for production throughout the county. This request may materially alter the stability of the overall land use pattern in the area. According to the Benton County land use preser land preservation and use plan, it is policy to provide limited and low density single family dwellings within the general rural use area upon a fair and equitable evaluation. For the reasons reported, this request has been found to be inconsistent with the policy and other applicable policies on the plan. Do you have any questions on this report?

So I I see it's listed in here under the John R. Owens estate. That is correct. So are are you Mr. Ericson? Yes. Do you have you purchased this piece or you're looking at purchasing this?

We're closing in 10 days. Okay. So the 12.85 acres is the area in blue.

Yes, that's correct. should be listed as parcel number 3702-6510. So, how many acres actually is coming out of production where the house?

So, can I come to the front? Yeah, I do have um some paperwork for you here kind of to give you an idea of what my proposal is here exactly. grab my phone here.

So, we use GIS mapping for all these drawings Matt does and based on the acreage amount that he suggested to change is about 2.2 that's going to be taken out of production and he's planning on replacing it with 1.9. Um,

so overall it would be just.3. Um I'm my intention is actually to swap an equal amount um in in both cases. So the area in red, I mean you can see on the east side it's just a narrow strip of of non-tillable currently. It's about 150 ft wide. I think um just by trying to measure it um you know on the on the beacon the GIS and I did try to allow for the right of way which is I believe is 20 or 30 ft from the road. So, [snorts] it's only about 150 ft wide to build by about 880 ft uh long north to south. So, my intent would be to take the triangle marked in or the excuse me, the rectangle marked in red and turn that into tillable and put a driveway there out to the road so that the field has access. [snorts] and then turn the green rectangle into non-tillable and therefore making more of a square nicer uh build site because right now to and and I understand that the northeast section is the worst part of the ground. It's rated at like 77. Um but both of the ground in the red um rectangle and the green rectangle are both rated at 95 soil quality. So it's it's it'll be an equal amount of ground swapped for an equal amount of ground. Both uh pieces of ground have the uh same soil rating. Um and then I would put an additional driveway to access just my land. I would keep everything else farmland. um either rent it out maybe to this Gates guy that's farming in the area um or

potentially sell it maybe even to him. I don't know. But uh contrary to his comments, I don't believe that there will be any disruption to farming whatsoever. Um I mean, if anything, it's I feel like it's better because it'll have a better access from the road. I mean, currently there is no access to this field or to this property. you know, I'll be putting that in and I would assume I can put up some sort of a fence around my, you know, the uh west and south boundaries. Um, but anyways, I don't know if you guys want to hear a little bit about me or not. Um, the picture that you give us, it's got this dark blue line. Is that what you want to buy? So

is it the same thing that Andre had given? This whole thing is the 12.85 acres or whatever is 13.5. So and that is out of this whole big piece here is an 80. So I don't know how that got subdivided into 13 but that's out of an 80. Yeah. So the one that I gave you this is the same as this. Okay. Okay. And this is based on the calculation of 3.85 acres. Okay? And this is based on the remaining grass land. So he calculated how much that is and that's where we came up with those numbers.

And I'm I'm more than willing and perfectly fine with signing something or agreeing to convert my land before I do any building. um get the tillable all up and going and and uh I don't know. I know this is something that you guys haven't really done from what I've been told, but now are you planning on the big picture? I'm going to use yours what you give us. You planning on putting a fence around there or are you going to keep this all open farm ground? Right now there is no fence. Right.

Right. And I mean, I I could go without a fence if it's a problem, but I would like to like at least mark, you know, where where my where my property ends, you know, so I don't have anybody kind of wandering over. I mean, whoever owns it now and farms it now, I mean, it's mine. So, you know, I I typically that there would be some sort of a fence, but minimum I would like to put like a a post of some sort in in every corner. Uh minimum. Um and then the red part where the trees and the grass are. Are you going to like take the trees out and then add that

trees will come out. I think there might be a little fence line in there that'll all come out. Um it'll turn it'll look the exact same as what the farmland looks. Um, and then where that green area is, um, that's kind of where I would like to have my home site cuz it'll be kind of hidden behind, uh, those trees that there already are there. Um, I'm going to plant some additional trees to help with uh, uh, the d the dust mitigation, you know, cuz that is a gravel road and every I guess only 90 cars drive by a day. But um, that's 90 times my house is going to get dusted out, especially if it was right there 50 ft away from the road. So, I'd like it to be have have [clears throat] a nice setback. Um, you know, so we're not so close to the road. Plus, um I was going to mention um I do have four young kids and uh you know, having them out in the country where they don't have to really worry about getting hit by cars. I mean, right now I live in Center Point right on the main drag and you know, it's a nice house and I like it, but you know, we've just kind of outgrown it and having a, you know, it's our dream to have land and be out in the country and just be free and have a dog and space and no noise and, [clears throat] you know, all that. We're not we're not we have no intention of disrupting anybody's farming or ability to farm or anything like that. We just want to have a peaceful place in the country to call home. And I mean, I I'm not a farmer. I don't have the machinery. Um I I won't be farming it. Um the only thing I could do would be to either sell it or rent it or potentially I don't know um you know what I'm allowed to grow on there, but I was thinking maybe pumpkins and Christmas trees.

Yeah. No, I mean be easy enough, but I don't think I would need all that land. So, um would it be I mean, would I be able to subdivide this and sell off the portion that's not mine or that's not my my home site? Just sell off the egg land to, you know, maybe one of these neighbors and that it's in their possession and then then they control its destiny, you know. Sounds like maybe they might be interested. Do can I? Yeah. So, we we talked about this and you can subdivide it, but then you'll have to go through the subdivision ordinance and that's fine. Whatever we're going to do,

you would be requesting a variance from the supervisors to kind of wave that preliminary plan, but there there is nothing that is like stamped that this cannot be subdivided, right? It would just have to go through committee. That's fine. I mean I don't I don't really know you you would have to get variance to the hard surface road as well for it because you are putting changing the land use as part of this.

I guess I don't understand cuz right the ordinance is set up right now if you have uh a subdivision going up in the gravel road it's up to you to make the road a asphalt concrete road. Oh, okay. Understand? Which that cost major big bucks, but 800 ft of asphalt, two lanes wide. Yeah, it's more than that. Probably probably 30 30 to 50 grand. So, is that something the county has to do or can I contract someone to do that?

Guess we never got into that that far. They kind of shut everybody down. You know what I mean? For or doing this. Mhm. What do you mean? We've you know about where the county does it or or they can hire them. I've never got into that. Oh, okay. That part of it. I mean, I've driven by farm places before and where it's like gravel and then it's like asphalt and then turns back to gravel. That's usually the I call it the oil slits. The oil to reduce the dust. Mhm. You know that they do. Yeah, I've seen that. I've seen that too, but I've seen actual asphalt before. Okay. Okay.

And usually you got you have like two farm places close together on this side and two farm places close together on that side. And I they probably pulled their money and got it all done. That's what they do. Probably what they did. Yeah. And usually every spring, like in April here, they'll tear them up again and start over. They them every year. No, they oil and chip them. Bad stuff. Yeah. Yeah, they oil and chip them. Some of the roads really last if they don't have a lot of traffic. Really good through the year. Other ones break down. What does that cost to get the guy to come out and spray the stuff? Uh the county does it. I believe it's 1,500 bucks for the year. For 400T. Yeah. Two applic [clears throat] two times a year.

Yep. For 400T. 400T. 1,500 bucks. Double that. probably. So that's one of the things. And where can you do it? Just only in front of front of your house. So you can't do anything before like beyond like like I couldn't go any farther north than here. I couldn't go any farther south than there. You can go 600t. You're going to pay for it, right? So

I just don't want the dust. Just to clarify, when it comes to the subdivision varants or ordinance, you have you're supposed to have a hard surface road up to the nearest hard surface road. And sometimes when it's just a simple split like that, you request a variance to that because the nearest hard surface road to your Yeah, it's you have to go north to the payload road. Mhm. Well, I mean, I'll keep it too, you know, that's fine. But the best

it's my intention is just to build a house, not disturb any of the farm ground, keep it farm ground. Um, if I can, I mean, it's really not financially lucrative to buy land and rent it out. You know what I mean? The cost of the land versus what you can rent it for, it's not a good business to be in. You know, unless you inherit thousands of acres of land, then sure. But I mean, I I don't want to I'm not going to farm it. So, either I rent it or I sell it. And in order for me to sell it, I would need to parcel off what I want to keep. So, that would be, you know, if if that can happen, great. If not, fine. I'll have the land. It's not going to bother me. But [snorts] my biggest thing is I just want to be able to build a house that makes sense, you know, not not have it real close to the road and get dusted out and have the noise and you got farm equipment, heavy noisy farm equipment coming through there. And you know, gentlemen, I've been doing all the talking.

Personally, I'd like to be able to see it other than a picture. I don't know if that's a possibility or not because I I I've probably been by this before, but I I mean I'm I'm happy to table it and you guys can have a chance [clears throat] to go out and take a look. Picture you provided and I think Andrea said the name is that the just to the south is that the Janice Owens property? Okay. So, Janice Owens is around south and west and then Triple J farms with Carol Young is north,

I think. So, the Owens own that 80 that this 12 is out of and I think they own the 40 to the south of there. Somebody Owens does. They always own a lot in that area. They're trying to divide the plant John Brownley owns that to the south. Yep. That's owned right now by Jennifer. This one. This This one is Owens. Yeah, the one. And then this triple triple J's to the north, the very edge of it.

Then you got the Janice Owens where we're talking about right now. And then next to that 80 right next to that, well, it's 101 acres according to the platform is John Brown Lake. So Jenny Owens surrounds the parcel, the 12.85 parcel that's owned by John Owens. Yes. Um, and then south of that, I'm not sure what I swear it was in Owens when I looked it up. I don't know if it's the same entity, but unless it's sometimes they'll put the contract buyers or renters, too. Yeah. See, I got a 23. Yeah.

So, it's three years old. Well, it's up to you guys. You can table it. I know the area real well and I know Doug Gates. Well, I mean the other thing too is you got you got this farm site here which is disheveled needs to be torn down. You got this ugly mess across the road and it's like what I'm going to build is going to be beautiful and nice and new, you know, instead of having this these eyes which Is this the area?

Yes. So that shows and that still shows shows lean like you said. Okay. The south. You know what? I'm I'm happy to pay for a surveyor to come out and and you know mark exactly uh where things need to be so that we can ensure that the same exact amount of tillable is still toable in the end. And you know, whatever hoops I got to jump through to make this happen, I'm willing to do it. Um, I just I want this ground and I want to build a home for my family. And it's it's slim pickings out there. To find anything over 2 acres, man, it's hard to do. Bruce, you want to table this so you can get a chance?

I'd like I'd like to see it. I'd like to go and look at and I I'm wondering why uh what the reason for that tree line is. I mean there they just it was just there and they just never bothered to clear it to take it to the road or towards the south end of this that's not included in that. If you look at his picture there there is a building site. I see that. Yeah. Okay. And right there. Yeah. That's all together. That, you know, originally that was all one piece. And what he's getting is I call it not bear ground, but he's getting the tree. He's not getting the junk buildings, right?

You know, if you want to see it by, you know, drive by. Yes. I I want to take a look at it cuz I I want to just looking at the pictures is not Is it Is there a fence in that tree line? Yes, I think there may be. Yes. Not much of one, but Okay. You know what I mean? There was one at one point. And the condition it's in, I cannot attest for because I haven't even set foot on this ground, I've only seen it from the road.

It does look like they do have some some marcations uh for where the corners of the property are, at least um on the northeast and southeast corner by the road. Um but other other than that it's I mean I haven't even set foot on it and I'm buying it. So the little creek doesn't come into play at all anymore. So the only thing I want to mention too is with the ordinance we don't have any way of putting conditions on. So what you accept there's not really a way of guaranteeing anything.

I agree. Um, and then also with any other farmsteads in the future, are you going to allow them to extend out further into farm ground and swapping? Um, and also like in this case to find someone to farm that area between the road and the property the south that gets harder with modern equipment if it's you're using larger equipment as well. So that does also become a little bit harder to like I said, it doesn't need to be fenced off. you know, I I would fence my my build site, my my non-killable. I would fence that for sure

um to some degree. But, you know, like I said, you know, the north side, I could put a put a post in the fence line and maybe on that southeast corner, put a post there and Okay, so you got to leave a little 8ft circle that you can't, you know, the partial size 12.85 85 acres and you're want using and you want to use 3.85. Why are you purchasing 12.85? Is that all all you can find, man? There's nothing to I mean, but they already split that off like that. Oh, that's already been split off. Yep. Okay. Thank you. I wasn't I was going to say why buy 12.85 if you're going to use it, but that's already been

You can only buy You can only buy what's for sale. I would move and table this for a week. I would like to I'd like to go take a peek at it. Give everybody a chance to look at it. See? I would second that. Okay. Call for a vote on cabling. Tip it. I see an eye. I. Now, the next thing while we're at it, then we need to set a date again, right? Yep. So, the 10th, we already have a landing hearing at 9:15. So, do you want to do 9:30 or I mean 9:30? I don't know if you'll have enough time before that. 9:30. 9:30.

Okay. So, do we have to have a motion to set that date again? Yep. Yep. Okay. Can I get a motion? I would make a motion to set the date for the land use hearing uh on this property to the 15th at 9:30 10th 10th 10th excuse me

so next Tuesday 9:30 I just I want to thank you guys for your time and and for considering this you're good all right we'll see you guys Hey. Yeah.

Before they do number 10, that's been an email from Melissa. Yeah. Well, I'm just familiar familiar with the area. I used to drive like so good and I know and I know all the familiar with the J.

So essentially all out there. So essentially like this shows on the wonder why it shows the part of this uh the agreement the property to the south gives them authority authorization I didn't know and then I think that gives them that power to just so she essentially clearly I think agreeing with that the way I'm or like cuz they don't need a sign just needs to be the board. I can forward you this too.

Um just asking do I need to publish I don't think you do since the original was tabled the date. I mean I think that's what we did. We've done it in the past table. done it two weeks but what was that agreement the next piece on there that's our maintenance agreement with Jim yeah she's talking about I got an email sent her out to read it

comr just basically wanted to clarify with the middle seed's role regarding the discussions on the pond spoke with the board chair with the middle seedar and determined that the WMA is not an official party to the landowner agreement for the funding pond that's why I just I dare look it over because he said with this amendment you're basically authorizing because you guys were on that original so you're kind of passing it. So if you think we're still okay I'll do it. They sent it to you. You got it too? I did. Yeah. It come from Alyssa just now.

Okay. Since the project was approved by the engineer, this situation should be handled between the landowner and the contractor moving forward. So with that amendment, you guys are basically authorizing to a land owner, right? Yep. So I think you're okay. Derek thought we were okay. See, I was trying to get a little money out for for them. Yeah. For him. trying to do

because the original maintenance agreement referred to Benton County and him. So what you're doing with this is passing it all provide written authorization to the land owner to plumbing to do this.

What else is on the agenda? I didn't look at it all. Um, oh, well, we got I want to read the email first and then uh uh what we table and then you're going to give a report on your update. I'll hear what my trip to DC was all about. Yes. Um, so it was very very jam-packed in those days we were there. Um, my White House tour got cancelled because of the snow Friday. My flight was delayed to get to DC. No.

So, I didn't get my White House tour, the chance to see Trump. And then, of course, we couldn't get rescheduled because the State of the Union was going on and it was a lot of protocols they do ahead of time for that. It was kind of amazing to see and be there at that time. Um, but it was really educational, informative. I'm grateful that ISAC, the Iowa State Association of County Auditors, provided me the scholarship. As you know, we paid for it up front and they're reimbursing us $1,250 for my expenses. Um, so I just wanted the taxpayers to know that was a scholarship for me to attend. But so we meet so the first few days you had like a we did an Iowa caucus kind of per se. So there was 19 of us Iowa people there. There was a county attorney, um, another treasurer, two other auditors, there were supervisors, and then there was ISAC representatives. So, we had our own Iowa meeting and we kind of brainstormed. That's where I took the numbers like from our juvenile detention. We took some hardcore numbers cuz we felt like that would be better standing with them instead of just talking. We had actual numbers to approve why we were backing what we were, you know, talking about. So Medicaid funding was one of them. So like those that go in the jail, if they're in the jail or in the juvenile detention for 30 days or more, then that funding becomes the county's problem. So we just voice our concerns with how that really trickles down to the local level. Like I brought up the juvenile, another supervisor brought up an inmate that had to have open heart surgery and it cost them 70 grand,

you know, which look at ours for the medical and one juvenile is over 140,000,

right? So I think it was an eye openener for them to listen to us at the level. I mean and there was differentized counties with us and then we also talked about um the FEMA funding and how that was so hard you know to fill those applications out. So they talked about maybe getting like a grant writer that would help the counties when we have those issues and disasters because I know for example from our standpoint when we had the flood we had probably four different representatives from FEMA. would come sit down with you, you'd fill out the paperwork, you'd go back and forth and then they'd come back again with a different rep and it was like you were duplicating your efforts and work and you know, so you just said how important it is to have that one local person to come and be that spokesperson for FEMA to the to the counties and stick with them.

Um, we talked about what else did we talk about? We talked about that new farm bill, how it's important for young farmers to get established, you know, maybe some funding for them, how it's important in the rural communities because a lot of them don't have a lot of collateral to go in and start the farm process like from a family farm. So, we talked about the farm bill. Um, we just met on all kinds of stuff, Medicaid reimbursement, FEMA, federal funding also. um you know like with the DOT funding a lot of that goes to the state and then the state decide where

you know decides who it goes back down to to the county levels. So we talked about how it should just be distributed to the local levels where we need it the most rather than the state deciding like those bridge swaps with the engineer and but then again if we do that they do the procurement process do we want to take all that on and do all those bids for all that too. So there's pros and cons to all busy.

Yeah but it was really neat. We got to go to the Library of Congress for a reception one night and you I mean all the things out there are just free to attend like the the museums and history and but like we had such great speakers at our sessions cuz the sessions went Saturday, Sunday, Monday and then Tuesday we were on the hill. So then we had meetings with all those different representatives. So we were like going from the Congress side to the Senate. We were back and forth and the tunnels underground. It was pretty neat to see. It was neat. Yeah, cuz we had to have passes to get in there.

And like the one day we had the speaker, it was Robert Kennedy at the hotel. So they had we had to go through like airport security to get into the general session because of the speakers we had. So and the hotel I was at was where Ronald Reagan was shot. Oh, that he would survive. Remember, it showed him coming out of that awning.

Just it was No, I would um No is a really good thing. I mean, I've I come back with a lot of information. There's a no edge things I didn't know existed. So, you know, there's like more grants and funding that we could possibly maybe look into. I learned quite a bit on the federal side of things. and just the networking with the other locals. We watched um you know the flooding in North Carolina from that hurricane. Mhm.

And we are so fortunate to have our new 911 radio towers because they had, you know, the older systems. They couldn't communicate between another county and they didn't know what roads were washed out between them all. It was like two weeks of hell for that that state of North Carolina. It was awful. They showed videos how everything was just washed away like all the road. I can't remember how many billions of dollars that they lost but you know we hear about it but we don't see the impacts like they do. It was neat. They should go I don't know the FEMA stuff when do happened. We went through three different guys. Yeah. You know the headache that was.

Yeah. Cuz you got to start from scratch. Yep. Or one might say this is a requirement, but then the next person tells you it wasn't. So it's [clears throat] like who do you believe and who do you know? And all it does is delay the payout or they'll throw it out. Uhhuh. And that's what we're saying how important cuz some people are still waiting up to 20 years for their payout. Yeah. And we can't go on like that. Just like when we loan the money to Atkins, but we did get paid up on theirs finally. So I don't think we're waiting on any FEMA funding right now. No, it was good. I'm grateful that we got to go.

All right. Yeah, I read the email and basically it's just more or less the middle seater says we didn't sign anything so it's your problem.

Oh, that's nice. So get back to this written authorized for maintenance agreement for the contract number MC050. You guys did read it. She sent you a copy and everything. So, can I get a motion to approve the written authorization for the maintenance agreement? I would move that we uh authorize the maintenance agreement number MC-050 um for James Plumbing.

Okay, I'll second that motion. All right, call for a vote. I see my eye. Bingo.

So, are you guys supposed to give this copy to Jim? Yeah, there it is. I know. He wanted to keep one for himself. I do think I have his email if you want me to scan it to him or is he going to stop it? Well, I thought we could I could deliver this one of the copies. Yeah, cuz they're waiting for this to start, aren't they? Yes. I can deliver them for you. There you go. And then one Oh, I didn't put the date down there. You want to put the date wrong?

Yep. Uh 3. Yep. March. Time flies by. Um under new business. The audit has been done. So you did sign that. So I did discuss with him our central Iowa juvenile outstandings. He suggested I just go ahead and just amend again, get those paid.

Okay. Um, what I'm concerned with now is like I talked to Luke yesterday. Some of those are medical, you know, he doesn't always know. So, who should be signing off on those claims? Like we had them I talked to Ray, too. Somebody has to sign off on those to give them to me to pay. So, what are your thoughts on that? because quite a bit of them are medical because once they're once you the juveniles are in the care of the central juvenile they're word against we talked about that at our meeting last night. Yeah, cuz you brought me in all the outstanding stuff too.

Uh once they're in there, Title 19 will not at that point it comes back to the agency which is us. cuz we're right now 167,000 and they they date back till when she first started. So it's like March of 2014 and we still got some people in there right now, right?

But these were the ones we were fighting with all along. So now we have actual copies. We did have a few discrepancies that overlap services. We got those cleared up. I think we saved 8,000 by doing that. But what I'm looking at is that are you going to need more money going forward? Yes. Jill, that's just it. I probably would have put like 200 in there at this point cuz I think we're down to 16,000 left to spend the full budget. You think that's going to be enough? Well, supposedly the judge is one. Yeah.

So, Then what else? Two others, right? Two others. Yeah. So, how far off are we from getting that? They didn't that wasn't even on the agenda last week. You're not the only county waiting on that. Correct. Correct. We're the first county in line to go into it because of the way the dates fell on the thing. Um, my concern is going forward, are they going to keep jacking it up? They say no, but

cuz if I do, I'm going to I'll put it on next week's agenda to a new amendment. But then I'll go in and on the budget and do the reestimated with that increase, too, cuz that will affect the general supplement. So that we can talk in budget discussion. So I will put it on the agenda to do the budget amendment and then probably to authorize filing of the audit.

Uh report. Let's see. Last week I had hiccap. Uh I was only able to attend for an hour cuz then we had meeting in the courthouse. Uh it does sound like from that meeting that the the DECAT, the early childhood development, that's all going to kind of get reworked like the mental health did. So, I think we're kind of in a on We used to have our own in-house person that did that. Yeah. Doesn't sound like that's going to be part of it anymore. I have somebody coming next week

to talk. There's the following Julie Davidson to give an update to on some of that.

Okay, I could get it. Uh and then Friday, uh juvenile detention meeting lasted 1 hour 11 minutes. They had been 2, three, and four hours. So, they've got a lot of their stuff in line. They're working on policy and procedure to make the facility run smoother, and they're working on things with their uh it's going to be more on the policy and procedure side within the facility. Uh, and I will make a call uh to the head of the central Iowa and see when we're how we're moving on to 2018. Ed,

I had the um on Thursday I had an East Central Iowa workboard development board and the CEO meeting I attended by a Zoom. Um CEOs are county elected officials. So you have to have actually two meetings, two agendas and you have to approve one and then the other and the whole catastrophe. Uh the biggest issue there was that the director stepping down and they are in a budget crisis themselves and are wondering if maybe they should look into possibly combining groups with other organizations. Which one was that one?

The East Central Workforce Development Board. and uh they're looking at that option now to try to save money to see if they could, you know, spread the work out combined. So, and I had to drop off because the meeting went long and I was there an hour and a half and then I had to I had to drop off. So, that it Wednesday I had a easy cog meet and greet for the board candidates for position of supervisor for the heated cog. I'm glad I wasn't on any more of the boards going up because they got four good candidates. They were So then uh Thursday I had Eastern Iowa Trust Fund. Uh they got a one of the things was they reelected everybody to the same positions again. Uh then they also got a brochure. Look at that kind of what they've done in the last year funded. Then I had the easy cog regular meeting after that then and uh oh I was pretty quiet on the grounds that you know they're still they made an offer to somebody did not tell us who until that person accepts the job. So that I'm having a Zoom meeting at 1:00 today to find out.

Okay. Yeah. If they accepted the job or if they're moving on to the next person in line. I don't know. That'll be at 1:00. Also at the easy cog meeting, they did approve a loan or they do that also, you know, businesses and they approved a half million dollar loan to uh the company in North Liberty that's going to make fire pits and lawn furniture. So may have to be new businesses coming in, right, for the loans.

Yeah. So, I thought that was kind of neat, you know, and it's a loan, too. It's not a gift. Yes. So, that's about it. So, I sat on the advisory board meeting last week, that new committee that ISAC started for our insurance renewals and stuff. That was really interesting. Mhm. They went through and showed us how they categorize different ones, you know, with your average what we spent and all the actuarial. It was a good explanation. Okay. And then moving forward, we're going to meet quarterly and kind of give some recommendations. So, that's good.

I might share some of that info with you. Yes, I would I would appreciate that. That would be good. That was last Thursday. rat. Can you get a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Cover both. I team and I rules.