Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

they that what four or five foot culvert going under there i might be more like a six i don't know i think daris and somebody else i'll put it in if i recall it got washed out yesterday it's it's in need of repair bruce it might only let me do the one i'm out so hold on you can go only on one day i think they might have changed it but i'll i'll ask katie i said first before i do it okay prairie prairie creek South of Norway, I noticed that she's pretty waterlogged down there. Oh, yeah. The guy's frog pond he built back in there, the different shape thing, is full. Yeah, the DMR did that.

Yeah, Mud Creek was, you couldn't tell where it started and where it stopped.

Can I get a motion to approve today's agenda?

I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. I'll second.

Call for a vote. Tippett, aye. Seaman, aye. Bowles, aye. How about the minutes?

I looked them over. I did not see anything that needed corrected. It looked good. I looked the minutes over also.

It looked good. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes. I'll second that.

Call for a vote.

Tippett, aye. Seaman, aye. Bowles, aye.

Claims?

It has to do with IT. And I wondered if it was a yearly subscription or if it was what it was. I can't, let me see if I can find it. I can't highlight on this computer.

Go ahead, Ron, if you had some questions or not. How much more rock we got to get, Myron? Wow, we spent a lot of money on rock. A lot. Okay. I looked through everything, and then when they listed out by department, that covered nearly $235,000. That's a lot of rock. And I got a lot of phone calls over kind of all out of one area, but I'll talk to them.

dan first and then he can get with you would it be the one that tracy asked about was to geospatial schneider was split out between the two funds for for sanitary and public health it could have been yeah yeah that one looked like a duplicate but she just split it in half out of those two funds okay

Yeah, Schneider, yeah, that's the one that was in there. Okay. Okay, very good, thank you. Yep.

Can I get a motion to accept to pay the claims?

I'll make a motion to approve the claims. I'll second that motion.

Cover vote. Tippett, aye. Samen, aye.

Wolz, aye.

Vacation carryover for Grace Smith.

16.5 hours? That'll be used within a week? Is that correct?

I don't know if she put a date on there, did she?

That's her anniversary date. I don't have a problem with 16.5 hours carryover. I'll make that motion.

Do you want to put a used date by or not?

What we normally do. So you should give them six months or 90 days.

You've given six months before.

Then I would say six months again. You can amend this then to say six months.

Yeah, because what did she have it on there to say? She does.

She don't, but you can put it in there approved.

Yeah, with the date. Okay.

Okay. So for six months maximum, I'll second that.

Okay, call for a vote.

Teffet, aye.

Saman, aye. Vols, aye. So actually that would be done by the December 1st.

maintainer operator up at the Bruce Center area, Bruce Center Shed. Charles Betterton was hired December 15th, which means next Monday is six months, and per the union contract, the wage and classification would change at that point, so his wage would increase, and it would be $29.30 an hour, and his labor grade would change to a 5B. I have a resolution that he would ask for approval on that.

I make a motion to approve Resolution 2648 for the Big Increase for Charles Betterton.

I'll second that motion.

Call for a vote.

Tippett, aye.

Seaman, aye. Wilson, aye.

Might find some few roadway culverts with the rain this week, but with some condition of some culverts that we've been monitoring over the years that do need to be replaced with some larger structures. I did get a phone call from a contractor here recently. that was looking for some work, gave me a quote to replace a culvert on two, but just out here outside of it, just west of the FS on off 13th. where the city limits end and the county starts going towards John Barry's, that direction, there is a concrete box culvert that's just outside the city limits that is starting to get undermined and we've got a contractor that's going to replace it for virtually cost and so I just have a resolution to temporarily close that road and the rain may have changed things yesterday but he was hoping to get started here midweek and I know the farmers already got things planted on both the north south sides there so perfect timing so

approved resolution 2649, temporary road closure for Calder Construction, 59th Street Drive.

And I will second that motion.

Call for a vote.

Tippett, aye. Simon, aye. Wolsey, aye.

Norway. Just east of Norway on Mud Creek. That was completely backed up.

Backed up and on the road as we learned yesterday just by coincidence because one of the ploys was there and then it started to clean itself out. We're down there working on it today. But yeah, I don't know. Somewhere between Mother Nature and Probably the farmer that's field that it came off of, but at what point do you, how do you know exactly where it came from to start with?

Years ago, when I was on the city council in Norway, the railroad bridge just east of Norway on Mud Creek still had some of the old posts sticking up from previous bridges and stuff like that, and logs would get caught on it, and it plugged it up so much that a lot of the east side of the highway flooded. And we got the railroad to agree to come in and clear that out, and it's not flooded since. That was a long time ago, but.

I think quite a while ago. I think we cleaned that box culvert under the highway at the same time to help aid in that aspect, but we had some logs that got hung up on that box culvert yesterday too, so, or, Stuff that's close enough to the road. I mean, those telescopes that we have can reach 25 feet, you know, but yeah.

We'll get more rain on some of those spots. It's going to be trouble. West of Norway, that used to be my family's farm around that curve on the north side of the road.

And Prairie Creek was still full yesterday late afternoon.

Yeah, it started to recede a fair amount. It's down within its channel, but those low-lying areas along it are still ponded.

Oh, yeah. Tracy, you're on high ground.

Everything's in your area. Discuss and take action on it. Tests have 378 regarding new speed limit on paved roadway. What's that about?

The Iowa legislature passed a modification to speed limit section and effective July 1st. The default speed limit section wasn't the word I was looking for, and I lost it now. But speed limit and statutory speed limit on paved roads is going to be 60 miles an hour come July 1. So the question that Bend County is gonna be posed is, we do not sign 100% of all of the paved roads right now with a 55 speed limit. I know I've been making some mental inventory. For instance, this morning, driving through Norway, I know if you exit Norway to the west, to the east, or to the south, there's a 55 mile an hour speed limit. But if you come off Highway 30, or you come from Watkins, or you come off 151, the opposite end of those paved roads do not have a speed limit sign. Not every city has a speed limit when it exits a town, but there are very few speed limit signs like off of 218, off of Highway 30, or whatever. There's no requirement to post the statutory speed limit But with that change, either the 55s would need to be changed to 60s. Removed or if the county wanted to keep 55 mile an hour speed limits, then we would need to draft a Resolution ordinance stating that and then we'd have to sign that and doing a real quick count this morning I was coming up with about 85 plus needed posts and signs to put up in the county if we were going to with 55 miles an hour not to say that's not the right answer I'm just telling you there's an expense and some time that would be involved with doing 55 and so because the governor signed that last Monday it will go into effect July 1st and we need to decide what we want to do you don't necessarily have to decide today but I did want to at least start the discussion

Are they going to pay for all 60 mile hour signs?

No, that's our expense.

Yep.

Just looking at prison industries this morning, the sign itself would be, I think, 45 bucks, give or take. And, you know... We've been putting up these Telespar posts with Telespar anchor in them, and I think the posts are, depending on the height, but in the neighborhood of, I think, 20 bucks, 20 to 25 bucks each, plus the four-foot anchor post is 35, I think. So you're looking at 100 bucks, probably, per installation. Granted, there's, I don't know, I'm going to guess maybe 20% out there that we have a post already, but you're talking over 8,000 bucks.

If we did both ends, it would double.

If you do go with 60, there would be some probably horizontal curves and some vertical curves that might need to be checked to see if a suggested advisory speed that goes with them. Right now, if you can go around a horizontal curve five miles an hour or less comfortably than the posted speed limit, there's no need to put a additional recommended slower speed around the curve. But let's say you've got a 48, 49, 50 mile an hour recommended speed around a curve, you don't need to post that additionally on a 55, but you would want to if we went to 60. So there's some added potential cost. And a little bit of extra work that's going to need to be reviewed if we do 60. But that is what the state is moving to come July 1st. And we do have a need to address it on our end also. I don't have a recommendation as to which route, which one makes more sense. I could say the 60 was going to be cheaper going with the statutory limit because then they'd only have to change the signs that are out there. And if we wanted to add some over time, we could do that. But if you wanted to do 55, we would then have to post everything that's out there that's not posted. Can you get a sticker? You can get a sticker that's allowed according to the changes made in the law as a temporary measure, but you are to replace the sign completely. Yeah, the language that The non-permanent overlays or stickers may be used for the applicable agency until the applicable speed limit sign is replaced based on your replacement schedule. So, I mean, it's a temporary fix, you know. It could be a 10-year fix, but it's not a permanent fix. If you're replacing your signs every five years, every 10 years, whatever type of year, you could wait until you got to that point, but it's a temporary fix. Thanks.

We just replace them when they need to be replaced, right? Yes. So the cheapest way would just be to replace the ones that are currently there with 69R? Correct. Mm-hmm.

That's the way I lean. Should we get input from Sheriff? on the signage. Put you guys together and force it on the county rock tops.

You don't have it by July 1st. It doesn't have a lot of time.

No.

It's either do it or resolution to keep it the way it is.

How many people would like to keep it the way it is? It's 60 miles an hour everywhere else. Take care of that.

Those other ones that we have in place that we did reduce, will you continue those?

Yeah, those are all done by, I mean, those have... Since we did actually... Yeah. Yeah, those that are out there posted with the lesser speed limit will remain that way because those have been addressed. Yeah.

I don't know, I'd say replace the ones that we have to replace with 69-hour and... Hopefully they won't change their mind. Take a motion. I can make that a motion, yes. I'll make a motion to replace the $55,000 with $60,000 if we're required. I'll second that motion.

Call for a vote.

Tippett, aye.

Seaman, aye.

Woz, aye.

Chair, that's all I have for you this morning.

Question for you, and because I don't know anything about it, Gravel roads that are washboarded, is that, the reason for it, is that because of the underlying base of the road? Is it the weather, the weight of the vehicles that go on it, or is it something that the motor grader can, because the calls that we get are because of the washboard. How do they fix that?

Most of the washboarding is caused by combination of weather and traffic when it gets dry out with loose rock on the road and accelerating and braking activities is what causes the washboard because we played with the machine at an angle we can't put those washboards in it no no I know and we try to cut them you know you need moisture to really cut them out i mean you can keep cutting the loose rock and trying to cut the hard surface down peeling it back a little bit but it's hard to do when the conditions are dry and hard with the rain we've gotten the last two days alone you know you can work on taking that out but it's largely has to do with a dryer spell and just a lot of times it ends up at the intersections where you're you know stopping and accelerating it seems to be the iphone calls anyway the number one complaints the washboards and then there's a few places where we have still covered over

So now we've kind of got a permanent washboard in some places. Maybe we should kind of make that a priority, see if we can get the washboards out. I don't know, maybe go back and try to fix the seal coat after that again. That was my phone calls over the weekend.

say with a hundred and sixty dust controls you can not babysit them close enough because they're all spread out oh sure and yeah some operators in some cases might get lucky from a timing standpoint and land at the right spots at the right times But when they're all over your territory, the weather conditions don't stay ideal long enough to get them all addressed. So they get addressed, but with some dust control applications and the request on timing from residents, you just can't get to every spot as quickly as some people think we can.

I would say very

few rare cases because the blades usually at a 45 degree angle with the machine and so if you're blading material at that time you're not going to be able to make 90 degree transverse marks in the pavement or in the roadway.

I want to say we were up there and looked at things I know with some vacations dust control and

other paid leaves type of deal we're working with a few less people around uh the department here at the very moment um and yeah i'd say in the last what three days i think there's been four and a half inches of rain in the walford area i can tell you based on my rain gauge and but trying to stay ahead of things

I would say if a motorcycle tire or a UTV hit that, dropped off the road there, you would have a few less people to worry about.

I'll have to make a trip up and move. Which end, Shelly?

Mount Oregon.

Mount Oregon.

Right there by your property? Mm-hmm. That's where you were talking?

Pardon me?

So that's where you pointed out before, right? I think you forgot something.

Thanks, Myron.

Thanks, Myron. Do you want to acknowledge the post-audit? Bruce, do you want to talk about that?

No, I can speak on it. I sat in on the post-election audit on, what was it?

There was 204 voted ballots, so we have to make sure those were sealed, handed off to the post-audit team. And then they had to do the Senate race, both parties, and the state auditor race, both parties. Everything matched 100%.

It did.

I just need you guys to formally acknowledge that.

I would make the motion to formally acknowledge the successful post-election audit. All right. Thank you. And I'll second that motion.

Call for a vote.

Tippett, aye. Sieman, aye. Rose, aye. Alrighty.

So we're going to go through the canvas. We're going to go by precinct by precinct. They're stapled together. I believe they are front and back. So the first race, Our first precinct that you have on top is Belt Plane 1. First race is Democrat, US Senator. So we're going to go how the program listed it is all the Democrats. So it'll list all those, and then it'll list the Republicans next. So that's what we're going to be going through. So for Belt Plane 1, 27000. 4-15-8-0-0-0, 27-0-0-0, 27-0-0-0, 27-0-0-0, 27-0-0-0, 27-0-0-0, 26-0-1-0, 27-0-0-0, 0-27-0, 0-27-0, 23-0-4-0, 0-27-0. On the Republican side. 17-60-020, 37-29-013-0, 1-14-56-3-3-1-1-0, 68-0-11-0, 27-39-0-13-0, 61-0-18-0, 63-0-16-0, 61-0-18-0, 63-0-16-0, 19, 33, 16, 0, 11, 0. 46, 26, 1, 6, 0. 63, 1, 15, 0. 63, 0, 16, 0. 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