Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

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Can I get a motion to approve today's agenda? I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second. Okay. Call for a vote. Tippet I. Team and I. BS. I. All right. We got an agenda. How about the minutes? I wasn't present for last week's meeting. Apologize, but I'm all fixed up for the time being. Long as you're good. Uh, from what I watched and what I read, everything appeared to be correct. Okay. I didn't see anything needed to be corrected, so I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. Okay. Second. Second. Okay. Call for a vote. Tippet. I

hold I the claims.

That was the EMS claims. Yes. Do you got it? If not, I'll let whoever wants to make it. I didn't look at them. I'll let you read them. If you want to make the motion, I would make the motion to approve the EMS plans. Do we have to read the announce the amounts? He will read it. I give him the holder.

Uh, Urbana Pulk Township $1,9725. Another Urbana Pulk Township 21477. Walford first responders $11.88 8863 Bell Plane area ambulance for 1,0928 and for 41,325

Garrison first responders for $1,12758. Another Walford first responders for 6,300 and Garrison first responders for $3,718 for a total of $56,6151. Okay. Do you want to second it? I have a second. Okay. Call for a vote. Tippet. I same and I

show this. Yes, please. A lot of timed items here. Uh Matt, morning.

Morning. So, like I said, a public hearing for approval of a non non-aggricultural use for Theodore and Lorie Bird, and that's within the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 28, Township A2 North, range 12 West, and we're looking at 9:15 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19th. Do you need a motion? Yes, I do.

I'd make the motion to set land use hearing uh for Tuesday the 19th of May at 9:15. Second. Okay. For Theodore Lori Burr, right for the Burrs. Okay. Perfect. Got a second there. Let's call for a vote. I b. Thanks, Matt. Thank you. Good day. Take care, man. Thanks. Yep. Haley, do you know is Josh going to be here with the contract? Okay, we're going to wait with him. Uh, we got 5 minutes before

we can do the suspended tax letter. It's in your packet. It's under Melinda though, but it doesn't have the timeline for the suspended tax list for your We do that every year to the Department of Health and Human Reser. Okay. That one I haven't seen yet. It's on the letter head.

Yep. Okay, gentlemen. I would make the motion to under Iowa code 427.9 to suspend the taxes for the Department of Human Services for continued eligibility for would we list them by case number?

Yes. Or parcel number. Just just read those partial numbers in parenthesis.

Okay. Uh the first one is 1 170 dash 1320 0 and 1 170 1 32 4 0. The next one is 1 12- 027 0 0. The next one is 870-398 0. The next one is 24-225 0. And the next one is 24 dash 30852. And the last one is 030-4425.

I'll second. Okay. Call for a vote. Just an eye. See an eye. Wolf's eye. Tracy, you sign up, right? Oh, that's good. I usually cuz that might come in. Yeah. They'll ask me, but then DHS has to go through the process and then they usually send it to you. Okay.

I already got it taken care of cuz you sent that to me after ready. Yep.

All right. We found two more building on lease land properties. um that the owners have been deceased for many many years and Larry's inactivated the parcel. So, we don't really have any way to collect the money since the parties are deceased and we can't we haven't been able to locate family members to take responsibility for for them. So, I think these are about our last two. The cabins are tore down. There's nothing there. So, it's just those two parcels. And I think between um Kelly and I, that's about the last two we've got cuz Kell has been helping me look through some of them up in the assessor's office.

So, this is just about the buildings, not the land, right? Cuz the land is part of their tax because they're building on lease land. So, the owner of the actual land still pays the taxes. These are just on the the Just want to make sure the public understands. Yeah, just the dwellings cuz they're no longer there. Okay, got it. So, can I get a motion to approve the resolution 26-34? I will make a motion to approve resolution 26-34. Um, do we need I don't need further than that. Nope. And I will second the motion. Okay. Call for a vote. Stop it. I

Thank you. A copy on my bottom. Okay. And once those taxes or something happens, we can't they have to bring them back up to the date. They're just currently suspended. So it's not abatement. Oh my god. Well, we got about 3 minutes. So, anybody got reports real quick?

I do not. I had a had a zoom meeting last Thursday that I for the e center that I was not able to participate in. That was the only thing I expect. Okay.

Not too many people showed up. Really? Yeah. Cuz I always thought that was well attended. It wasn't yesterday really. Nope. Compared to But they had a nice panel. Yeah. You went around like different businesses, different sizes. They like Click Stop, the hospital, Frontier, Flower Shop, Flower Shop. Yep. So, like just talking about the workforce and the age gap and the the challenges that we all face with hiring employee personnel stuff. Interesting. you had that survey I reminded you that folder they gave us a vehicle

just kind of neat they surveyed around and like asked all the businesses or places what kind of things that would be helpful for people coming into the workforce to have some more skills that they don't already have or so then they showed like the different analysis that they got there. Yeah. Cool. Okay, Eric, we're a little early, but do you guys need a copy of this public notice or do you have a

We have All right. So, this is just our yearly public notice we give to the land owners um about which weeds they are to control in accordance with the Iowa code. Um, yeah, just and we set that June 1st date on there to have them controlled by. Um, I have the the weeds listed there that are, you know, just copy and pasted right out of the Iowa code. So, this is uh just something we do every year as being the weed commissioner. You've got the one at the bottom, the Palmer amaran. Yep. Is that Do we have that? I haven't seen it anywhere.

Okay. It's similar to water hemp and in that family. So, it just it gets singled out and I thought it must be something special. Yep. That's just straight from the Iowa code. That's not anything I did, but yeah, that's the one they really want to get on cuz it has every plant has a lot of seeds in it. So, okay.

Yep. Then I it's a different part, but I have our roadside spraying notice too that we're going to be putting out that will be starting May 4th and we probably won't be full go by May 4th, but we'll just be looking to start and see if we can. I read that one, too. I would make a motion to approve resolution 2635, uh, the notice for the destruction of noxious weeds. I will second. Okay. Call for a vote. I see an eye. I

And then I'll let you touch on a little bit about the roadside spraying now, what your plans are.

So, um, in the past we've had two spray trucks and, you know, we're going out to mainly tackle your herbaceous weeds like your thistles is usually what we're seeing the most of. I'm starting to see a few of the other ones, but now since we have that new spray truck operational that has the on the back has the ability to have two different chemical mixes in it where you can switch on the fly. And now we have one mix that is more targeted for the woody plants. Um it's a little bit more expensive, so you don't want to use that on the other ones, but it's nice to hit in some of the the bigger spots. um and kind of with secondary roads, you know, we've been helping them more so than the other way, but been removing a lot of woody plants in the right ways. Um like I'm talking big trees. Big trees you're cutting down, you're stacking, you're piling. Um you know, we do that in the winter, but then with the spring program, we'll be hitting some more of the saplings or the smaller ones where you hit them and they're just fine to die there. They're not too big. So hoping to really start winning that battle as I think we have been. But this will help even so in the summer, not just in the winter getting the bigger stuff.

You'd probably be better off keeping that truck. Oh, like the river payload Urbana area. Yep. My area. You ain't got the trees for sure. Yeah. Well, the other the other two trucks that are handling like your thistles, those will go everywhere. We'll just go down the road. But yes, the the other truck it'll probably head to the hot spots and not, you know, start on road and go down. Okay, sounds good. Thanks, Eric. And all the brush that they've got piled in the in the ditch, what's going to do with what they can do with that? Uh, we burn it when we can get to it.

Um, you know, sometimes if we're having an open winter, it's really not good to burn it. Um, those corn fields will light on fire pretty easily. Um, usually we're waiting for snow. Um, but now I think we we're going to go out and burn a day. Not piles, but I mean it's a good time to burn now with everything else being green, too. So, it's it's usually a good job to fill in um some of the time there's plenty to burn. So, yeah.

Okay. Well, thanks, Eric. Thank you. Thanks. I believe I read a piece somewhere on social media. Beline and Frontier Natural Products have got everything situated and moved around and there's some grant money involved in there too maybe.

Okay. I have not been down there to see the new building at all. It's big. The HR gal for Frontier was at our meeting yesterday and she talked quite a bit. That's quite a facility they put up down there. Mhm.

They partner with Kirkwood. Good. There's quite a few that do it sounds like now. Yeah. They get college credit now while they're in high school if they still take the courses. Right. Right. They don't have to pay. And then I was trying to remember what did they call that down at Tai Pistons and Pistons and Pathways. Pathways. It's Yeah. Did they hire somebody from Yes. He hired one of the individuals that took Good for them. That class. Yeah. Well, they kind of trained him. went on through the Kirkwood program and then they hired him after that. Oh, excellent. Excellent.

Yep. They let us know that yesterday. So, for even the little amount we give them for that allocation for some of that stuff. Yep. Do a lot with that. Yep. Even her band a quick quick uh quick stop. Yeah. Yeah. They were putting a plug in if anybody is wanting a summer job when they have 4 to9 p.m. the manufacturing and and they work with them with other things besides working like this teaches them about resumes all kinds of stuff. Yeah.

Their resume stuff changes from year to year. What they want, what they don't want, they either make a two-page or a one page, you know, we were talking about that one that website. Uhhuh. Sometimes we'll get them like the most recent one we had and they are awful. Like they don't they don't proofread. They'll be they don't capitalize their names, their business. It's like they just had the computer generate it and there's nothing personal about it. Yeah. Oh no. So then that hurts them or they're either doing it because they have to file so many applications for unemployment reasons. Who knows? But some of them were awful.

Not a lot. Not a lot. North of town south of town south. You live north pretty well covered the area. You left the town of had a young girl get in a moped accident last week. Mhm. Down in front of the old school right on C Avenue. But not severely injured. Is that right?

Yes. Luckily. I'm not quite sure how, but uh I was told she had so good for her. got a requirement though on those now. It should be. Remember when I was 14, I thought it was cool on my little bed until they made us put flags up and then it wasn't so cool.

Did you have a It was a blue Suzuki. You can always tell the one model by they'd come down the street and go to stop and you could hear the brakes all over town. Mine was a handme-down for my brother. I wasn't picky. My father-in-law had one and he asked one of his buddies what he thought of it. He said it looks like a buffalo riding a I could sell that thing for like a dollar. Oh, you can run it forever. Yeah, just babysit. And then I dub the kid on the bike to go to the pool.

Oh, yeah. Those my wheels have to be 16 to drive the ranger. Yes. Must have drivers 16. Right.

Probably Josh is on his way first. Okay. Yeah. Shelby just sent me a text. Remind you guys about the survey. Looking at the email right there. Okay. Yep. I looked at it earlier today. Okay. I started. I will finish up after the meeting. That individual one you all three have to do. That's the one where I'm talking about. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't even open it cuz I thought you guys could do it.

Yep. I started. It's a little different to look at the uh minutes and not see budget work on there. For a long time. Yeah, that's nice. Well, at the end of the month, I'm going to start giving you some more detail versus budget to look at everybody's over on the downhill slide. Um, we're caught up with central Iowa. We are good for now. for now. I did just see the mail yesterday. I looked at those, but I talked to Luke in the hallway. So, okay.

Saying Ray sent out an email of another update. Extremely expensive business. We have to be careful on those medical invoices for HIPPA. I can't scan those in, but they can still all that for us to be able to know what's what. Otherwise, how do we know what's say I wonder if could that be more detail? Hurry up and wait. What's What's going on there? Old age. You fell out of a tree.

You fell out of the tree. Well, I fell off the ladder. Cut a tree. Ah, lucky. Oh, I feel lucky. All right. Huh? Oh, high up profit. It's too high, but yeah. Head first. Josh, we can go ahead and start yours right away. I should have grabbed you right away. I didn't print it cuz it was so large, but they all got a copy. I think we discussed a lot of the details last week. Yeah.

So, federal inmate contract moves from 50 to 8652, I believe, goes into effect May 1. Very good. And we're we're doing all transports within Benton County. Like if there's a doctor's appointment or dent, whatever, we're taking care of those. But out of county, they're still doing those. Okay. And according to what I read that you'll get reimbursed mileage and time, right?

If if it breaks a certain threshold of like if we take somebody to the hospital, what is it? What do we give them? 8 hours. We cover everything within Benton County. So really, which we're already doing that we're already taking them over to Virginia Gay or that's pretty much it. Um nurse that you got hired, will she also cover them? Federal inmates? Yeah, she takes care of. Yep. But if we have something longterm where we got to take an inmate to let's say Virginia Gay and it's longer than 8 hours, then we'll have the marshals come in and relieve us. I said we'd cover it up to eight hours, which was previously done before. Yeah.

Okay. But you're well within your rights to collect it while I read the contract. You mean above and beyond DM? Mhm. It's the way I understood it. I'm no lawyer, but I look at it. I guess I look at it. Yeah. Yeah. You have to keep the law and all that. Yeah. You ought to see the forms that they sent with that wofa. I'm glad you got to fill them out. Yeah. The entire thing I think was like 46 pages. I saw that part we read was 16. Yeah. The contract itself. Yeah. Yep.

And initial every one of them. But all right. Um I'll take a motion to approve the contract for the federal prisoners. We're acknowledging that since it's already Okay. I make the motion to acknowledge and approve the contract with the uh housing the federal president. Okay. Second. Call for a vote. I hold I There you go, guys. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Can I have all those committees file now?

Yep. This should be it for all the contracts. I will scan them to you as well for download and then I'll give them to the cities or whatever who else is involved. Okay, that works. Thanks everyone. See you. Take care. Get better. Yeah, stay out of the trees. It's cuz he's too old to be climbing trees. The worst of it. God, did you have a chainsaw with him? Oh, that's dangerous. Yeah, they got to have all kinds of bad stuff.

Judy from Heartland is coming. See what they saw on an agenda coming up. which I tell you she sent that invoice. So I'll be sending that next. Mhm.

May 19th. I haven't taught the leaders yet.

She's coming. May 19th.

Yep. Not till 10:30. So, we do have a public hearing at 9:15 that day. Otherwise, I could So, we might have releases or something. So, she was going to Cedar County before she comes here. Oh, I did get word. Do you remember that um CSN network they wanted to charge like 2500 bucks?

Mhm. the they're going to pay for that this year yet this coming year and not burden anybody but we were talking about it. We didn't even really use it. It's still free of charge sent out something Monday. ICN. It's like the relief veteran like social ICN or CSN. Oh yeah, it's the one that Bethany uses, right? That would be the CSN. CSN. It's whatever that one is that we don't get on it, but the other employees do. A few can.

Otherwise, they were going to charge us 2500 bucks. But I think it's ran over the end. CSN might go over the ICN something how they overlap, but we don't have to pay that and they won't let us we wanted to run cameras from this building to our building over the ICN and they said absolutely not cuz it's wired. Yeah.

They said no, it's not for that. DHS uses it heavily for all their reporting and all their communication. It goes into Kirkwood building. Can't I don't know if they'd have a drop for that in city hall or not. I don't know. So I don't know. I was thinking of those. Um Luke might use it. The guy we talked to. Have they set up a time when they're going to come over here? cuz I'm wondering if they would have to do something too. No, because they were cell phones. Yes. Never mind. Yes, that's the only one I can think of.

Yeah. Okay, my good morning.

Thank you.

Mhm. Just when you need more paper, right? We love paper, sir. Doesn't take too awful long to go over couple highlighted things on the DOT secondary road budget. For the most part, it's mirroring what county budget. uh 470 roads as I have said in the past and I'll just quickly say again today that the DOT from a budgeting t standpoint generally you submit your net numbers. So if you bought a new piece of equipment and whether you sell or trade the old piece of equipment the difference that you pay is what I report on the DOT budget is my best example to use. Um, so if there's something that's offsetting the purchase price or cost of something, you're just showing the net cost in the DOT budget. But uh um and trying to look at conserving or reducing some of the property tax aspect on the just passed the cover page, the first page of the secondary roads budget. Um receipts for property tax levies. I've reduced the request that was reflected in the transfers uh that Haley probably reported to you with Rural Basic and General Basic um 3.265 million.

Current year it's $3.574. And you can see that fiscal year 25 and fiscal year 24 were more than what is being requested for fiscal year 27. Um then the local option sales tax amount, the road use t that's road use tax that's estimated by the DOT that they uh send out to all of the counties. The $34,000 number is for the money that the secretary roads receives for the four cities that have less than 500 population in the county. Um and three of those four have a 28e agreement that some of that money goes back to those cities. Um time 21 estimated amount and I'm staying all on the right column for fiscal year 27 if you're following down through here. Um the federal aid bridge replacement uh estimated at about a million dollars with uh bridge projects in fiscal year 27. um there in 19 or 2018 through 2025. 2018 I think was when the 2017 2018 uh when federal aid projects were being called swap. There was less involvement on the federal government standpoint and primarily just on the DOT and there wasn't a huge amount of oversight. But it's all federal aid money with a little bit more federal oversight. Those are in essence the same two lines for reimbursement for construction costs, but we had to separate the two um over the years.

Uh tax refund is basically sales tax money that I get back every time I order a tanker of unlimited fuel. We pay the state sales tax and then we get reimbursed uh from the state for that sales tax license. in and permits from a receipt standpoint has to do with oversized overweight permitting. um old equipment. I know we'll have a migrator to sell next fiscal year and it might actually come in higher than that 30,000. Special assessments is going to be primarily that 32nd Avenue South of 30 project once that starts uh coming back as a special assessment uh receipt from the uh property owners down there. And then just some used material uh that uh occasional people purchase as uh junk out of our secondary road shop. Um total receipts for fiscal year 27 taking into the ending fund balances being 17.6 million on the receipt side. And then the last page showing the expenditures, you will see that fiscal year 26, fiscal year 27 numbers are identical. The only difference being construction down just an inch from the top. Um few projects that didn't get wet before or won't get wet before June 30th of this year and will be in fiscal year 27. So, I reestimated our current construction amount at being about $1.125 million and anticipate next year's construction cost being about $3.75 million. Um, second line from the bottom shows an estimated $3.278 million

fund balance in secondary roads at the end of fiscal year 27. The DOT has already reviewed this and gave them gave me their blessing uh last week. Um I need a motion to approve this budget by this board if those numbers are all acceptable to you for you from you. So like your construction that's just basically a shuffle. If it doesn't get let before it'll get let after. Correct.

I think somewhere between 3.5 and 3 and 4 million is what I probably showed last year for fiscal year 26 for estimated construction. And I know like 32nd Avenue, um, most of that activity is going to happen after July 1st. Um, I I told I met with, uh, the McCacti family last night and I told them it was going to be the middle of June at the earliest I'm going to get started on anything out there. But I was going over where I wanted to borrow some dirt um, and discuss questions they had on that project. Um, so you know, um, all of that project that was talked about last year and put into the construction program is all going to be fiscal year 27 activities instead of fiscal year 26. I think I added split maybe between the two, but it's all going to be in fiscal year 27. I know a few bridges that we're designing right now um are behind schedule from where I was estimating a year ago. Um and will be after July 1st before they're designing them bridges yourself or is that fired out? Um, right now all of those that were almost all of those are designing in house other than a few that were still part of work that I had asked consultants to do in the past and uh those that were taking a little longer to get put together. Still, I think there's three at least I know that a consultant's working on right now actually have them designed. Um, two of them are uh awaiting all of the necessary property acquisition.

And then this year's budget on the snow removal, are you below estimated for the winter that we had or right at what you estimated or and you don't show it here, right? I mean, but just I'm curious. Um, it would be under that. I I'm sure that 565 that I 65 585 my eyes are playing games with me here at the moment. Um, but I know um that 205 for road clearing is probably underestimated um because because of the wild winter. All of the maintainer men were out cutting brush heavily this winter and so there's going to be more or less a labor trade there between stone removal and tree removal. It'll it's there. I mean I if you got less fuel costs and stuff

what I was looking for is if you saved there that dirt road south of Anhorn two miles. Remember we talked about it a year ago. Mhm.

The rest of that mile and that individual's willing to pay some money towards getting it rocked. In my mind, I don't know predict how things are going to go this summer. Way it's raining. You know, it ain't there ain't much construction, ain't much farming going on right now. But if it would straighten around, you guys get that dirt move down there on 32nd, you know, before you start oiling and chipping and packing and all that, maybe when you're bringing the equipment back up here. I thought a guy could stop off on that dirt road and do some work. You know what I mean? But I'm just throwing it out there. Just keep that on your back of your mind that I don't have the crystal ball to say what kind of summer we're going to have. I know on the 72nd dirt road you have um the best way to consider rocking that is addressing some of that field area there. and the property owners in the field are um not the party offering to improve the road.

Correct. Correct. I understand that. But I just thought, well, you know, if it turns around like Mhm. We got a little time to work on it and you know I'd be more willing to talk to the two property owners and see what they say cuz I mean that's it's a nice bridge you guys put on there that road it would handle traffic you know what I mean it ain't like it's not a problem with traffic aspect you know that it um is set lower than most bridges are with the intent it could allow a heavy rain to flow across the top of it. Yeah.

Yep. That was looked at when when it was built. Mhm. Knowing that it was a level B road and that just some of the thoughts that I got in my head. Mhm. for that for the to change that from from dirt to gravel, it has to be wided and widened and and well the roads the road is lower than the fields. Oh, so it has to be raised. And I agree with my work. It's it's wide open. It it's a snow trap. Oh, okay.

Um to I mean you could rock it as is. Uh, I would not recommend that, but you'd still want to treat it as a level B rug cuz a atypical, and I'll I'll use that word cuz I'm not convinced if things are changing for the permanent yet or dying. Um, that there would be a significant amount of snow that would collect there that would require a lot of time after the first or second snowstorm to keep it open. Okay. I know any big snowstorm outside of four sixt drifts um you can go through it the first time much easier than you can the second and after about the after the second or third it becomes very big

task and if they're wanting that improved so they can go east from their residence to the pavement that's where all the snow collects that's where it's Rocky wouldn't solve the problem. Yeah, I got it. Major work. Mhm. Okay. Okay. Well, can I get a motion to approve his budget? I'll make a motion to approve the secondary road budget for fiscal year 267. I'll second that motion. Okay. Call for a vote. Tippet. I

see. NS that do you want that? Keep that Tracy. I'll just Okay. Tracy only signature. It's a Tracy only signal. Happy day. Sorry. Excuse me.

I just need one. I don't I put one in my file unless you need one. Everything's done electronically and all I'm going to tell them is it was on the agenda and I'll give them the agenda item information and the date cuz that's acceptable for the DOT. Um because the DOS's I I think I told you earlier this month has changed the flip-flop the time the reviews and approval from the DOT being second after the county to being first and then the county second. I gave you a I called it a draft construction program uh earlier this month. The agenda said was some very minor changes from what we talked about. Um, I had some small local box cover projects that just were identified as RCB projects. It might be one box, two box, three boxes. I was told I needed to specifically locate them and uh that they were all to be treated individually and then preferably keeping it below the day labor limit. So, I just changed those numbers on that aspect. One bridge that we're working on just norththeast of Lazern, north of the railroad tracks on 17th Avenue, has a traffic count less than the minimum required for federal aid right now asked me to change that. I have some old traffic count information that shows it was above 25 vehicles today 20 years ago and that the argument that could be made is that the bridge embargo has reduced the traffic count and that can stay as planned. The biggest change was ling county had the bridge on the prairie

creek on the Lynbenton road in fiscal year 28 which is where we talked about it two or three years ago. I had in fiscal year 31 yesterday afternoon after the agenda was posted. The two of us corresponded and they're like, "We'll just change it to fiscal year 31." So, the maps that I gave you really are no different. Um, uh, the only minor specific project information that I had to change is what I just described. And so based on that, rather than going through each year on a map again, I'm just going to tell you that. And if that's all acceptable with you, I would just ask for you formally accept the 5-year construction program for the DOT. Um, and in a form of a motion, and I'll just ask for the chair signature on the cover sheet for the 5-year construction program being in fiscal year 27 through 31. the bridge on the Craig brick deal. That's we'll get half reimbured from Lynn County, right?

Correct. Okay. And then you're going to be the project manager on that one. Correct. That's what I thought. Okay. We'll make the motion. Okay. Second.

All right. Call for a vote. I same. And I They're going to totally replace that then on brick. Tear that one out. That would Yes. Not just an overlay on the deck, right? No. Um, no. I don't totally replace it.

Um, I know I need to W County actually does the uh inspection, routine inspection on that just a week ago. We had a couple uh local property owners down in that area concerned that they thought that bridge had moved. it slipped off of its foundation, which I'm like, "No, that's not possible." But let's look into it. And the way that one was designed is on the believe it's on the lower side is an expansion joint. Mhm.

And there's like a 2 to 4 in gap. I think they seen that, maybe didn't notice that in the past, and thought that that bridge had moved. and maybe they look at it in the middle of the summer and that moves a little bit. It does need some cleaning there, but there's some deterioration that's happening at that abovement that uh I'm not sure the age of that bridge or like it's reaching a point where it makes more financial sense to replace it and and start a whole new life cycle aspect on that.

But it has not moved. But it has we and I'm sure the the Wayne County knows that and knows that you know but because somebody called our office uh actually drove by looked at it a couple times on my way to work. Um but they went down and looked at it too. So, we've had a probably link county and two people in my office, one being myself that uh have personally looked at it. Uh the Iowa DOT reached out to me here a couple weeks ago from a safety regulated standpoint and they're doing some traffic signs and traffic related stuff. Um I think probably uh rumble stripe cutting with paint lines and other things, but what could be piggybacked off of real easily is rumble stripe panels for stop situations. And they were asking specifically at four lane Highway 30 east of 218 whether Ben County wanted to look at doing that. And so I identified 26th Avenue which is north of Watkins, 27th Avenue being south of New Hall, 30th being north of Norway, 32nd and 33rd south of Atkins with doing rubble strips with the small housing area that is there on 32nd. Um, the option could be to try the mobile strips and the DOT would include those locations on their

contract that they are letting here shortly. Um, and then whatever the true cost is for installing them, the DOT would invoice the county for the cost of those robo strips. But traffic control appears to be part of the DO's contract that they would eat that cost. For that, they were just looking at the cost of putting them in. They are estimating, I think, $1,100 for cutting into concrete and $930 for cutting them into asphalt per panel. And that would be times two because there's two panels at each approach situation. Um, so if we're interested in doing that, I'm asking for a motion today to join forces on the DO's contract.

1,100 for the concrete. Yes. And 900 for the asphalt* two times two.

Yeah. So walk into this concrete. I think all of them are concrete except uh South New Hall's asphalt, but Norway's concrete. 32nd is concrete and 33rd is concrete, even though most of that road is asphalt, but that approach is concrete. So, just over $10,000 is the DOT's estimated cost for installing those five locations. And they're not going to pick up the bill. No, from safety standpoint, it's kind of hard to say no,

but they are, from what I read here, are eating the traffic control cost and and and giving the county the opportunity to take advantage of a mass amount uh ma uh lower unit cost uh for installing them than to look at them individually.

So, you're looking right around 10,600. Yes. $10,690 and some change is what they estimated. This would be in the 27 budget.

Um 29 and 26. It would be in the Iowa DOS's 27 budget. um based on timeline when I have received invoice from the DOT this might be a 28 29 invoice before see it I don't know I know that uh the extended intersections that we have done off of 150 when that was resurfaced north of the interstate um all of the extended intersections things we've done on Highway 30 west of 218.

Um are yet to be invoiced to Benton County for our expense. I know that's 350 $375,000 I think I show in the construction budget right now. Uh just cuz that's where I was going to program that $10,000 of safety funds I could probably treat it as maintenance and and make that fit. But all those concrete extended intersections I did off Highway 30, um I felt that number was better suited in the construction side than on the maintenance side. But no, I and I was talking to the Jefferson County engineer the this winter and he was asking me what the time frame was before the DOT invoiced on these type of projects cuz he has one going on six or eight years now that from what I was done and waiting for an invoice. So, um

what's what's your feeling on this project? Um, I was in favor of that's why I asked him to go ahead and draft it.

Well, I'm I know we asked them to do that to all of the intersections west of Tuington as they were doing fourlane, but uh for whatever reasons in the past, these five intersections do not have that east. And uh you know they that has been noted by some people. Um but uh with four-lane traffic increasing on Highway 30 and continuing to increase um I think it is a wise safety aspect and knowing that sound has some issues. Uh when I was told that the mumble strip was an option with this, I know that uh like I said the the small housing area along Highway 30 and 32nd utilizing that there. So there would not be a rumble right immediate layer there. Whereas the other four locations do not have a resident in close proximity to the stop to the approach. Well, the one north of Norway, one foggy morning, I blew right through that. Ended up in the gravel on the north side of Highway 30.

We had a couple in the fall passed away at that intersection. Yes, that's so I'm all for it. I'm need a motion or Yes. Yes, I do. I would make the motion to enter this agreement with the uh Department of Transportation. Okay, I second that motion. All right, call for a vote. Second I

see and I can get the chairman signature on this one. I would appreciate it there. That's all you got? That's all I got for you today. Painless.

Yes. Unless you had some questions for me. No, I was out there Friday and I know they were lined up for your death control. They were busier yesterday. Really? Yeah. I would guess that yesterday's rain probably brought a few extras in yesterday morning, but I know I told Barb I'm sure Thursday and Friday of this week are be extremely busy. Deadline is Friday. It is. It is. Okay. See, I told everybody the 1st of May. That is Friday.

That's Friday. I got March yet. THAT'S WHY you just signed the 28th April. You May 1st is very close.

Yes, Friday is the deadline. Okay. The department said we're up to 115 or 117 at the moment. Oh, really? Yep. So, you got less then yet? Well, there's still three and a half days yet to go. So, you got less. Last year was 136, I think she said. So, okay. She gave me forms every Friday when I was out there, but then again, I haven't been nobody has called me or anything. And I dropped one off Friday for you guys filled out and I checked. So about it. That's all I got.

All right, sir. Thank you. Have a good day, buddy. You, too. Thanks. Don't forget to stay like your desk last week and they were staring at me then. They were the office and share. Oh, there you go. I can't have you. I don't know. I don't play with that. We'll do that. Tell them it came from you. Came from the blue. Yeah, you got some undernourished fellas looking out there.

I'm not under nourished. I'm just kidding. How would you like a motion to adjourn, please? I'll second. Okay. I perfect.