County Commission - Regular Meeting

Number four, employee anniversary recognitions. Commissioner Post.

First up, we have Randy Miller. The certificate of appreciation is presented to Randy Miller on the seventh day of July 2026. by the Brookings County Commission in recognition of five years of dedicated exceptional service in the Brookings Highway Department. Thank you, sir. Our next one is Randy, or Reed Squires, sorry. The certificate of appreciation is presented to read squires on this 7th day of July 2026 by the Brookings County Commission in recognition of 10 years of dedicated exceptional service in the Brookings County Department of Equalization. Next we have Kirk. The certificate of appreciation is presented to Kirk Wiles on the seventh day of July 2026 by the Brookings County Commission in recognition of five years of dedicated exceptional service in the Brookings County Commission Department. Next is Tonya.

Did I say that right?

I have a sister named Tonya. This certificate of appreciation is presented to Tonya Thornton on this 7th day of July, 2026, by the Brookings County Commission in recognition of 15 years of dedicated exceptional service in the Brookings County Sheriff's Office. And Austin. This certificate of appreciation is presented to Austin Ochsner on the seventh day of July 2026 by the Brookings County Commission in recognition of five years of dedicated exceptional service in the Brookings County State's Attorney's Office.

All right, number five on the agenda is invitation for a citizen to schedule time on the Commission agenda for an item not listed. There is a five minute time limit per person. Anyone wanting to speak during this agenda item must sign in prior to the start of the meeting. No Commission action will be taken during this agenda item. Any requested action may be scheduled for a future meeting date.

This morning we have several signed in.

First one is Sharon Larson.

Good morning.

Good morning.

I am Sharon Larson. I am a resident of Brookings County and I'm here today to ask for your very important and thoughtful consideration in regard to funding of the Brookings Public Library. I am a mom and a very biased grandma to the most amazing little boy. One of my many joys is watching his mental wheels turn as he learns, explores outside, plays with his toys, and comes up with some pretty compelling arguments for the treats he wants and the delay of his nap time. Many years ago, I saw a quote at a print shop that said, a mind once stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original shape. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. This line is from a book I read in high school. Once you have sex, it's pretty hard to go back to holding hands. It was a conversation, not a tutorial or a how-to instruction book on what to do to whomever with whatever body parts. Nothing degrading or demoralizing like excerpts I read from Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, which is in the young adult section of the library. The young adult section is for grades six through 12. I was 11 when I was in the sixth grade. I could read these excerpts to you out loud. I've got screenshots on my phone. But that would make most of us uncomfortable. At least I hope it would, and I really don't want to give any more air to that pornographic filth that I wouldn't want my adult kids to read. So I'll ask why. The last two weeks I've been asking myself why. Why are books like these in the young adult section? Why doesn't the young adult section start at 10th grade? Why don't they want guardrails in place to protect the innocence of our kids? Why won't they implement a rating system that is already available like is done with movies? Why do they think this type of content is appropriate for someone as young as 11? Why is the protocol for filing a grievance on specific books not user friendly? I've got my suspicions. like indoctrination and grooming, but I'll save that rabbit hole for another day. We try to protect our children and grandchildren from drugs, alcohol, traffic, strangers, traffickers, pedophiles. The list goes on. Why aren't we protecting their young minds? You can't unring a bell. You can't unsee something you wish you'd never seen. And a mind stretched by a new idea can't go back to its original shape. Please, as commissioners, Consider pausing funding for the Brookings Public Library until you get some accountability from their director or their board. You are welcomed and encouraged to start with the questions I posed. I'd like some answers. One of the most sacred things on this planet is the innocence of our children. And once that's gone, it stays gone.

Thank you.

Next up is Susan Struy.

I'm Susan Strewie from Brookings. I'm not one to come up and speak very often, but I come to send my own message regarding the library. I feel that those funds should be paused. for the harm that it's doing to the kids. And kids are followers, kids are imitators. They read something in books like that and they're gonna wanna go try things out. They do that just like in any book, how to or something that looks intriguing, something they never heard of. And nothing but evil can come out of that. I mean, would we want our sixth grader to even approach us and say, what does this say? What does this mean? And well, what is that going to do to our hearts? And we're going to be livid, and we're going to take it to the school, and we're going to be angry. But the library is unwilling to even compromise. And Temporarily, it would not hurt for them to put a sign on that whole section saying that these books are for ages 18 and above. That they not even let the younger kids check them out because they are already pre-marked young adult. Young adult does not start at six years old. You're taking away your childhood from those, the childhood from those children. And I also feel that everything that's going on, because we're not just in Brookings, but everywhere, we're fighting a spiritual battle, good against evil. That's the brunt of it right there. And if we don't come together for the good of our country, for the good of our city. We're going to wind up going the wrong direction and it's not going to be a good benefit for any of us. The violence of the wicked will destroy them because they refuse to do justice. And what all the people have in common, basically all of us, good and evil, we were all created by the same entity, Jesus Christ, God. That's who we carry with us, and that should be someone that we follow. Now, a dirty word or a dirty position or a book or something or indoctrination, you name it. You know, evil is just the worst of the worst. And I think, actually, this book is what everybody should follow. Everything in here, it talks about good and evil, but it's mostly full of love. This is life right here, what we should be following. It should be in the library, several copies, and should be in every classroom and prayer put back in as well.

Thank you. Thank you. Next, Jeff Struy.

Good morning, commissioners. As my shirt says, God's children are not for sale. And that's the reason why you have a group of senior citizens up here speaking to rectify a situation at the library. Our South Dakota Constitution, Article 8, under the Education and School Lands, under subheading number one, titled Uniform System of Free Public Schools. I quote, the stability of a Republican form of government, depending on the morality and intelligence of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature to establish and maintain a general and uniform system of public schools. The Brookings Public Library has worked with the Brookings School District in the past, as it should. So when there is instruction such as providing a graphic novel book club, should our library fall under the same umbrella as abiding by the US Constitution and the South Dakota's Constitution? The Brookings School Board for the district takes an oath. The city council members take the same oath, as do you as commissioners. Quote, again, depending on the morality and intelligence determines the stability of a Republican form of government. Now let's define pornography. Often called porn, it refers to visual media, text, I repeat, text or audio explicitly designed to cause sexual arousal. This includes photographs, videos, and written descriptions of naked people or sexual acts. There were statements made by the library director to the Brookings Register which was posted on Facebook online. One of which was, and I quote, there is no porn in our library. What? The handout you received a couple weeks ago was an excerpt from a local book which contained sexual acts or pornography. The speakers addressing the issue of pornography in books that contain explicit language via photos or written descriptions of sexual acts are reasonable requests. We are asking the Brookings Library to keep pornography out of children's hands and develop a means to label books containing pornography and relocate to a designated adult area. Notice I did not say ban. I'm a veteran and I do not believe in banning books. We are asking our commissioners to withhold funding until the system is in place. I'm going to finish with a scripture quote, Isaiah 520. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who replace darkness with light and light with darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Interesting, the footnote underneath says, their moral code is reversed as sin has accepted something good. not content to abandon what is good, they must label it as evil. Those who abandon the absolute standards of God's word will find a reversal of every true virtue. Good is mocked and evil is embraced. Light is ridiculed and darkness is worn like a cloak. The sweetness of God is called bitter. The bitterness of sin is called sweet. Thank you.

Thank you. Next, Carla Dieter.

Good morning. You've got several handouts from me, including my complete testimony, because I'm not going to be able to get through it all in five minutes. My name is Carla Dieter and I am from Brookings, South Dakota. I'd like to make a few comments on the concerns that have been raised as well as some misinformation reported in the Brookings Register regarding some of the Brookings Public Library Director's, Ms. Gustafson's comments. She stated that the books in question are rated for the age 12 to 18 age range, and the excerpts provided are a minor part of the entire books and do not accurately reflect the overall tone of the materials in question. So I'll ask again, as others have asked, can I read those sections? allowed here at this meeting? Well, I bet not. So how much of this type of material is acceptable? South Dakota codified law 22, 24, 27 has a definition of terms under section five that deals with what is harmful to minors. And I'll direct you to some of the excerpts in the shaded portions I provided in my copy of testimony. Section 5 also talks about material that is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what's suitable material for minors. Ms. Gustafson said that they have an understanding of our community and what checks out and what people are interested in. Really? Well, I ask, how does the library determine what the community standards are? If it's just what checks out, that's a pretty loose standard of measurement. Reviews of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and I've provided copies again today, and that's just one of the books. was generally well received by critics, including star reviews from Booklist. Booklist is one of the six review sources used by the library to select books. Booklist included the book on the 2012 top 10 first novels for youth list. However, the American Library Association Office of Intellectual Freedom stated this same book was in the seven most banned challenge book in the US in 2021, 10th most banned challenge book in 2022. Also, the censorship section of the library's policy, page 30, says that basically it states that the library affirms the rights to access constitutionally protected materials and it's the responsibility of parents to monitor their children. The library will take no responsibility. Materials from circulating collections will not be placed in a collection. Closed collection to limit access and cautionary labels will not be added to materials. Well, I ask again, how are parents supposed to monitor books if they have no warnings similar to movies? I provided also a definition of pornography, and that's already been brought up in some of the sections and in regards to our Constitution. Ms. Gustafson also stated there's no reliable national standard rating system in the publishing industry. That statement is false. She also stated the publishing industry determines what's an adult, young adult, or children's book. And we purchase them with the understanding that that's what we're looking for. Well, I've also provided extra copies of some of the materials that Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and again, that's one book, and it's obvious that the resources used by the library are not looking at any type of possible sensitive content, and this book is obviously one example. So the rating system, one national rating system is the National Book Rating Index, the NBRI. That system standardizes content-related ratings by compiling reviews from multiple organizations onto a zero to five scale. That scale is also in your packet. And I've provided a copy of the rating received by me and Earl and the dying girl, and that received a designation of three, youth restricted, for all the implicit sexual content in that book. That National Library Transparency Package, I've also provided that for you, gives a whole explanation of how they take 28,000 plus reviews and independent ratings and historical challenge data so they can understand really what's in their library. It's a simple process provided explaining the procedure to run the books through the NBRI and get a rating of each book in the library's catalog. provided copies of those materials at a minimum at a minimum parents should be able to fill out a form provided by the NBRI it's called the guardians green light I've provided a copy of that which allows parents to restrict access to books with content flagged for sensitive content parents can choose the level I'm almost done Parents can choose the level from 0 to 5, which your children can check out. And each book's designation could be labeled by the system. And that rating is also provided for you. So I believe our tax dollars are spent. How their tax dollars are spent is always a public concern. And many times, the only language institutions listen to is withholding money to fund their budget. carla your time is up okay i continue to recommend the commission pause funding until library provides protective majors against minors accessing explicit material and i thank you and i thank you for letting me finish thank you next person is nancy stewart

good morning commissioners thank you for all the work that you do for our community my name is nancy stewart well the sad conclusion that i have come to about books in our library that really are not appropriate for any ages you have seen by your own reactions is that our librarians who are paid over a million dollars of our taxpayer money for their salaries know what's in these books and they want our children to read them The defense of the librarian is that she abides by the print policies of the publishers who print these books with obscene material in them. These publishers who tell authors of children's books that they need to spice them up a little bit and slap awards on them. The request for consideration form that we are supposed to fill out for each book requires a librarian's degree and that the entire book be read. Questions like, exactly what pages do you object to? Did you read the entire book? What do you feel might be the result of reading this material? For what age group would you recommend this item? None. And what item of equal equality would you recommend that would convey as valuable a picture and perspective of our society? Our desire is not to ban books. What we would like to see is librarians who make good choices in selecting books that are truly age appropriate and that do not aim to produce sexual arousal in our children. Thank you.

Thank you. Number six on the agenda is consent agenda items, including the minutes, travel and education requests, personal action notices, cellular authorizations, and human services report. Do I have a motion to approve?

So moved.

Second. Motion to second. Any comments? Hearing none, call the roll, please.

VanderWaal?

Aye.

Post? Aye. Miller? Aye. Jensen? Aye. Hostler? Aye. Motion carries.

Number seven, routine business. Approval of claims. Do we have a motion to approve?

So moved. Second.

Motion and a second. Any comments? Hearing none, call the roll, please.

Post? Aye. Miller? Aye. Jensen? Aye. VanderWaal?

Aye.

Hostler?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Letter B. We'll move on to department head reports.

I'll wait.

Morning. Morning.

Start off with we held a bid opening on June 16th for two structures north of Bushnell on 478 that we'll be talking about here later on in the meeting and I'll go into a little more detail then with them. On the 24th of June, we held the Samara Avenue pre-construction meeting, and it will be closing down today. The signs were set up yesterday. There still needs to be made a few adjustments by the contractor. Just to point out to everybody, September 4th, 2026 is a substantial completion date for this project so it will be closed down until then for sure detour routes have also been posted on our social media outlets and web page along with the project contacts in regards to that project So if there is questions concerns or anything from the public in regards to that the contact information is out there And I know the city of Volga has done the same thing so Is there any questions on the detour routes I do have those sheets I'm sure Stacy does too if anybody would like to see them I've got them here As far as our county crews have been going, we began installing and replacing culverts on County Road 2 up near Lake Ponson. 6-29 was the week of the 4th, or last week, so we ceased that due to the 4th of July holiday and the campers and the recreationalists wanting to get to the lake. But now we've recommenced this week to temporary day closures so it is closed during the day but opened at night for the through traffic there. mowers continue mowing countywide we're also graveling on Brookings County Road 8 and 36 and then lastly here on the 2nd of July crews were called out to repair some guardrail on the bridges that we just recently bid We'll be talking about here later on in the meeting, but the guardrail was knocked off so on the south and north side, but we did repair that temporarily until it will be removed next year, but That was one of the things we worked on and that's all I got Anybody have anything Brian

Okay, let me come back to you later Jen with finance.

I don't have a lot, just a few things. So some of the stuff going on in our office, obviously the runoff election is still happening. So far we've had 344 people vote absentee. Deadline to register to vote for that election is next Monday the 13th by 5 p.m. And then absentee voting ends in our building on Monday the 27th and the election will be held on the 28th out at all the vote centers like normal. Mobile home distress warrant sale is all done. There were two homes that were listed for sale one sold and one is uncollectible The uncollectible list will be on the agenda later in the meeting And then the surplus sale is underway. Jenna's been working on Getting that all organized and hoping to have an online sale at the beginning of August. So and then in the packet is the Information on the post election audit So the post-election audit was held on June 17th here in this room. As you know, at the I don't know. Yes, at the Canvas. I couldn't come up with the word. We drew for which races and which location to do the post-election on and on. And so they hand counted the ballots cast at the Volga Community Center for two races, the United States Senator and school board. And the hand count turned out exactly the same as the machine count. So everything was perfect and fine. And so that all went smooth. Just thanks to all the people who were on the board There's 12 people on the board and one superintendent, and then thank you to Kim Larson in our office She kind of handles that whole post-election audit process and gets that going so That's all I got Anybody have anything Jen Thank you, thank you Bob with County Development

Good morning. Good morning. The first thing, the Medary Township dike discussion is still ongoing. I requested information from, I do not have an update on that one yet. I do have an update on the 765 transmission line subcommittee. During the meeting, the first meeting that we had, one of the members that were volunteered for the board was, he voluntarily removed himself due to conflict of interest, and Alton Township sent the replacement in of Aaron Bowne, who's an Alton township supervisor so he's been added to the committee we are still waiting for elkton and oak lake townships and we'll reach out to them again to see if they want to participate and i did reach out to sioux valley energy's ted smith thanks to commissioner doug post and he has volunteered to join the subcommittee. So I've included him on the new roster. Mr. Smith, he brings vast knowledge, obviously, of electrical. He's an electrical engineer out of Sioux Valley Energy, and he's pretty high up into their side. Did discuss with mr. Smith why I had him on the phone about during our meeting we had a discussion about well if If a township individual had a conflict of interest, wouldn't an organization like Xcel Energy, who's part of the project, have a conflict of interest? I was talking to Ted Smith, or Mr. Smith, and he said, well, you're going to need people like, you need a subject matter expert. you know, Sioux Valley Energy's rural electric, all these other electrical engineers that we've got that's worked on small projects. You need someone known as a subject matter expert in the field, and Xcel Energy's got the expertise. So I'm going to go into the subcommittee Thursday night, July 9th, and I'm going to make a recommendation that, yes, we looked at the Xcel Energy submission for the board, We feel he needs to be on the board because of his expertise with the 765 lines. So just letting the commission know what's going on on that. And that meeting, of course, is July 9th, 7 p.m. in this, I believe it's in this room here so we can record it. And our PPCC meeting is this Thursday, July 9th at noon. The 765 meeting starts at 7 p.m. in this room. The PPCC pod meetings happens at the hospital at noon on July 9th, and then August the 5th I've been approached by the Children's Museum to give it a Presentation on one of their summer programs on what an emergency manager does during the day, so That's all I got right now any questions Joe with the Outdoor Adventure Center

Morning, commissioners.

Morning.

So been having a good summer so far. We'll start out with attendance. Archery range, we're at almost 900. Gun range, we're at almost 1,700. And then events, we're at 8,200. New metric that we've been tracking, we're over 1,000 participants in our community education and outreach. So that's super encouraging to see. That's 41 programs. And then if you bring our total attendance, including outreach, up, that's over 11,000. So we're already over 70% of what our total reach was last year. So that's looking pretty good as far as attendance goes. Those community ed classes continue to have a lot of success. I want to say we still have like 20 scheduled throughout the summer. So we're really excited about that. Event we helped facilitate trout extravaganza this year that had 470 youth attend between the two days that weekend that was a really really awesome event If you haven't been in the past I encourage you in the next year to go out and take a look I know Commissioner Hostler stopped by it's a pretty pretty cool event We hosted and I instructed a spring hunt safe course we certified 42 students We hosted the Brookings County Safety Picnic and then in the month of June we partnered with the Teed Center and then we did a like an archery class for the youth at the teen center. So they came every Tuesday for the month of June. We learned archery. So that was a ton of fun. We're gonna be working with them for some programs in the future. Hopefully we're gonna actually do a hunt safe collaboration with the teen center going forward. Our welcome to summer event in May had 242 attendees, so that was a pretty good turnout for that. And then we've had 42 community ed programs so far this year. All our toilets are finally properly functioning. It's been a little bit of a struggle if you've been following us at the OAC, but they are all currently working now. But knock on wood, that's really the only maintenance issues we had come up here recently. Oh, I have it in here. We have 25 more community classes this summer, so I encourage the community to check our website and get signed up for some more of those. Hopefully we're going to extend them into the fall. That's a little bit more tentative because we could start to get a little bit more busy as we go into the fall, but we're hopefully going to continue those year round. We have two hunt safe field days. One is on August 31st and then one is on October 5th. So if you complete the online portion of your hunter safety course, you can come in and get your field day done on those two evenings and you'll get your hunt safe certification. And then we also are hosting a traditional in class hunt safe class on the 10th, 11th and 14th of September. So that's your standard three day course that you see most of the time. Cartridge Collectors is an organization where they trade and sell antique cartridges, boxes, firearm memorabilia between each other and the public. That's on August 6th through the 8th. And then the Korean War Display with Mr. Hill is going to be on July 24th and 25th. We're pretty excited about that. Other than that, that's what I got for you guys. Any questions?

Joe, the Cartridge Collectors, what hours are they there?

They're there all day. They start about noon on the 6th and they'll be there all day Saturday and then half day from 8 to noon on that Sunday. So pretty much two full days, two half days and a full day.

What is your guys' website? Just do you read it out? I know you have your Facebook page, but what's your website?

Yeah, so if you go to bcoac.org and then you navigate to the classes tab, you'll see a big button that says free community classes, and then I'll list all of our available free community classes below that.

Anybody else have anything for Joe? All right. Appreciate it.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Joe. Sonya with 4-H and her partners.

Good morning morning Well, I've provided a report. I'm not going to go through it page by page, but lots of things happening. Finished out a school year with the adopt-a-cow programs and chicks in the classroom. Not a very successful chicken hatch this season. We started with a dozen eggs. I think I may have kind of indicated what that process or that curriculum looks like, which is five classroom visits, over the course of 21 days, which is the incubation period for chicks. And within that time frame, we're placing eggs in an incubator, and we are candling to check on viable eggs midway, seven days in, I think. And Throughout those next 15 days then talking about just different things that are relative to the poultry species and the poultry project that is within forage Around day 21 we should start to see hatching so we started with a dozen eggs during our candling we eliminated six and identified Three that were question marks. I love the names they give to eggs quitters Yolkers and winners Kind of makes Yolkers never amount to anything quitters get started and quit and the winners are hatchers So we marked three that were potentially Are these quitters we couldn't quite tell some were really obvious you could see that little eyeball with the candling light and At least one of the potential question-marked eggs did hatch. We had a total of three hatch. Kids were super excited about that. And then those three birds went to a 4-H family, so we'll potentially see them during achievement days. But that was fun, and looking forward to implementing that into a couple more classrooms. One of the teachers I work with at the Sioux Valley School did it on her own. Used the same equipment, or used her own equipment, but implemented that class within her classroom. So I'm not sure what her hatch ended up being, but it's kind of fun. The kids get super excited, and they loved being able to... I called them my little chicken tenders. They didn't think that that was as funny as I did, but they had fun being the caretakers. The summer has started off quickly with a kid care babysitting clinic, our 4-H horse show. We have youth that have just recently returned from... National for shooting sports where they were very successful as teams and some high individual accolades as well I've got some of those photos posted in the Report I submitted as long a well as well as a QR code so you can see complete results day by day But our kids did well and and as teams did well, too. So that's real exciting for them and We have 4-H youth leaving this week for Daisy Nationals down in Rogers, Arkansas. Some of them participating in BB gun and a couple in the air rifle tournament. So they've been continuing their participation practices since the traditional shooting sport program or schedules ended the end of April. uh... forage doesn't have a national began team they they don't send it to you they don't conduct that contest at uh... national shoot that was just last week so uh... this is an opportunity for those that excelled and have precision to compete within that began category uh... we've had some forage camping goes in lieu of forage Camp being postponed or canceled that Lake Ponce at an opportunity was still available for youth to participate in camp out West River in the Black Hills. This week is busy. We have a fair entry. We made barbecue sauce yesterday for our 4-H pork booth. That's this weekend. Have a fair entry help night. this evening to assist families as they get ready to enter exhibits into achievement days and to the state fair and helping navigate that system not exceptionally difficult but when you look at it for the first time or when you're looking at it only once a year sometimes just requires a little memory jog and so available this evening to help in the office with that and tomorrow night we are having our shooting sport award nights to commemorate and recognize those youth from their accomplishments during this winter season that started in january and then wrapping up the week in the hot hot weather setting up the pork booth for the Arts Festival and the Forage Leaders Association will be operating that food stand on Saturday and Sunday next week kicks off our youth in action events we have our public presentation contest and special foods next week Achievement days will be held at the Dakota Bank Center August 3rd through the 6th. The barbecue will be on Thursday, August 6th. We have done a little rearranging to our schedule this year, and so if you are a traditional visitor of the round robin competition we're holding the competition this year in the afternoon before the barbecue and presenting our words and recognizing those winners following the barbecue allowing for a little bit more time at each station and uh... trying to maybe ease just the congestion of the evening so Those things will still be happening just look like they're just placed a little bit differently on the calendar this year There is a requirement. I'm not sure if I'd mentioned that in previous interactions, but Participation at the county level this year, especially first Achievement days and all livestock exhibits display exhibits are not are not excluded is a requirement in order to enter livestock and or display exhibits at the State Fair this year, so I We don't typically have a lot of participants that opt out of achievement days or opt out of participating in the county level prior to moving on to the state level, but that is a requirement this year. So I'll allow an opportunity if you have any questions for me, but I'd first like to introduce my two summer interns. I'll let them give a little information about themselves, but to this side is Riada Bolci and to this side is Katie Varaska. I'm really grateful to be able to offer these opportunities to youth. These two both happen to be at SDSU, but allowing them to put into place some of their skills that they're working to develop throughout their collegiate career. time and putting it into play a little practice session without maybe some of the scrutiny that is otherwise given when you're doing so under the guidance of advisors and instructors and such. So happy to be able to provide some of those life skill development opportunities that are preparing them firsthand for their future workforce. I will stop talking and turn the microphone over to each of them. Hi, everybody.

My name is I'm from Lake Gandy, South Dakota, and I'll be going into my third year at SDSU upcoming in the fall, majoring in agriculture education. One thing that I've been really enjoying so far this summer is getting to learn how to facilitate and organize some of the programming events. The experiences so far and in the future are very valuable to some of the classes I have coming up in the next year and my career in the future, so thank you.

Hi, everybody. My name's Katie Verasca. I'm from Omak, Washington, and I'm majoring in agriculture education. I'm going into my last year here at SDSU, and one of the things that I've really enjoyed throughout the summer so far is being able to work with all ages. Thank you.

Are there any questions for me this morning?

What time is the event tomorrow night again for the awards?

Oh, that's a good question.

I think ice cream starts at 6.30 and I think the awards start at 7. And we have a 4-H'er that is facilitating like a target shoot as well through something that Beacon Hill owns a simulator. I think they're using that tomorrow night as well. So let's see. I definitely have this in my calendar so we can be a little bit more accurate. No, I don't. Well, I think 6.30 starts ice cream and awards start at 7. And that's held in the range of the archery, on the south side of the archery range.

Tonya, could you follow up on that simulator if that's actually going to happen or not?

I can check. Tyson Springman was going to organize that.

I actually own that simulator. Okay, and he hasn't communicated. Okay. So I... Happy to offer it, but I didn't know I'll check with him because then talk of it, but I heard that so I'd like to know so I can get that ready.

Yeah, I'll check I'll check in with him today and make sure that he's Followed up on his part. Yeah, okay.

All right if you don't get a hold of Tyson Let me know cuz I walk across the street and knock on his door Anything else for me this morning all right.

Thank you.

Thank you. I All right, moving on to item number nine, regular business. Letter A, first reading ordinance 26-04, an ordinance establishing requirements, fees, and regulations for issuance of alcoholic beverage licenses within Brookings County. This is a first reading only. Note the date and time for the second reading is Tuesday, July 22nd, July 21st at 9 a.m. Letter B, action to approve resolution 26-24, resolution approving uncollectible mobile homes to be placed on the uncollectible list. Do I have a motion to approve? Move to approve. Second. Motion is second. Comments?

The only comment I would have, Jenna Baker, finance specialist in the finance office, in front of you was my staff report along with the statutes that lay out the process. But in January of each year, the finance office provides the sheriff's office with distress warrants on all unpaid mobile home taxes. So these were the 2024 taxes that were payable in 2025. So that list of all unpaid mobile home taxes goes to the sheriff's office. The sheriff's office then has six months from that day to collect those taxes. And then after the six months, Timeframe the mobile homes that are still left unpaid can be sold through South Dakota codified law 10 22 18 and 10 22 2 as Jen Beller had mentioned in her staff report there were two mobile homes that went through that process and of those One mobile home sold and then one mobile home will remain on the uncollectible list. The taxes for the mobile homes that are put on this uncollectible list are still due and payable to the county. And they are collected if an opportunity arises. payment from the mobile home sale so the one that we did sell first we pay the real estate taxes and then we pay any sheriff's fees the mobile home title transfer fee and if there's any money left over it's applied to any county liens held by the previous owner So in front of you, Stace, if you could scroll down, is just the list of there's nothing to collect. So as you can see as you scroll through that list, the mobile home was either destroyed, it was torn down, taken to the dump, or it's gone, so there is nothing to sell. So $2,285.11 is what remains on an uncollectible list. And this list and all previous years are held in the finance office for people to review.

Do we have any more comments, questions? Hearing none, call the roll, please.

Miller?

Aye.

Jensen?

Aye.

VanderWaal?

Aye.

Post? Aye. Hostler?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Letter C. Action to approve agreement number 26-44 in an application for occupation of right-of-way of county highways made by Valley Fibercom in Windsor Township. Do I have a motion to approve?

So moved. Second.

Motion to second. Comments?

Just a fiber going under County Road 6.

Any other comments, questions? Hearing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. Motion carries. Letter D, action to approve the low bid to Holloway Bridge and Culvert in the amount of $453,937.43 for structure 06-240-12309 GT. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Motion to second. Comments?

So we bid these two structures that you guys are going to be considering here together. The combined estimated project opinion of probable cost from the engineer was 2.7 million and as you can see the combined total of the Bridge and box that were bid are two million one hundred and sixty two thousand four hundred eighty nine dollars and ninety three cents and the prices are listed out there in the the agenda for each of those but Holloway has not done one of these structures either one of them but we need to keep in consideration last year when they did a bridge for us they had not done one of those either and that bridge ended up being a very successful project so it is in our opinion along with the engineer and the state Keep in mind we also got concurrence from the DOT already That they are in concurrence with this bid So it is in our opinion that Holloway could successfully complete both of these projects. I

Is that something that if they complete a project, they get like a certification?

Yeah, once they, you know, just like Timmons last year did a box culvert for us, they had not done one. It ended up being a successful project, so now they're on the pre-qualified list, you know, and similar to Holloway had not done a bridge like that last year, and that's kind of mentioned in the Engineers recommendation here, you know once they do get a completion of the project.

They'll get that certification Because Holloway has done bridges and box callers before but this is just a different design correct correct and

And that's kind of covered in the third paragraph in the engineer's recommendation. This type of work, you know, Holloway is pre-qualified for type 8 and 9 work similar to what we, you know, did last year. This type of work is type 7. And so once they get, you know, completion of that, they'd be qualified for that.

Do we have any other comments from Brian on this one? Hearing none, call the roll, please.

Jensen.

Aye.

VanderWaal.

Aye.

Post. Aye. Miller. Aye. Hostler. Aye. Motion carries.

Letter E, action to approve low bid to Holloway Bridge and Culvert in the amount of $1,708,522.50 for structure 06-240-141, parenthesis 09GU. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved.

Second motion a second comments the last thing I wanted to add both of these Structures are at an 80-20 split so the state will be paying 80-20 Brookings County will be 20 paying 20% Any other comments questions concerns Hearing none call the roll please Vander Waal all right post Miller all right Jensen all right Hossler that motion carries all

Letter F, discussion possible action to set a price for two guns, a Glock 26 9mm Gen 4 handgun, serial number BEUN602, and a Glock Model 26 9mm Gen 4 handgun, serial number BEUN603. Discussion?

They've been going with the low bids.

So I did see the two bids holsters and stuff on the two that came in at $250 and then nothing at the one that came in at $230? $230, yeah. Okay.

Of course, that's what they would sell retail. They said if anybody came in, they'd give them less for it, but that's what they would sell if they were to sell it out.

If they were to have it in their rack?

So the first piece of this is to set the price, and that's what the commission needs to do first, is set a price for these two guns. And then you can see the next item on the agenda is to sell them back to Sheriff Stanwyck and former Assistant Sheriff Sebring.

So the first business is to set the price. So do I have a recommendation or a motion to set a price for these two handguns and associated equipment?

I make a motion to set the cess price at 250 for equipment and guns.

Okay. Second. Motion for 250, then seconded. Any other comments, questions? That's per gun. Hearing none, call the roll, please.

Post. Aye. Miller. Aye. Jensen.

Aye.

Vanderwall.

Aye.

Hostler. Aye. Motion carries.

Alright, discussion action to sell those two guns to Sheriff Stanwyck and former Assistant Sheriff Scott Sebring. Do I have a motion to approve? Moved.

Second.

Motion to second.

Any comments, questions? What happens, Marty, if you can't pass the background check?

Yeah, could be trouble. I'm hoping Commissioner Hostler will do that for us.

I can run those background checks for you. You bet. Any other comments, questions? And I do have my FFL, so that's why I can do that. Hearing none, call the roll, please.

Miller? Aye. Jensen? Aye. VanderWaal?

Aye.

Post? Aye. Hostler?

Aye.

Motion carries.

Thank you, Commissioners.

Letter H, action to declare items as surplus property to be sold, destroyed, or transferred to another department. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved.

Motion a second comments Jenna Baker in the finance office Attached and in front of you guys is a list of items to either sell Destroy and we've got one item with your approval to be transferred to another department and As we scroll through the first 35 items there from the Finance Elections Department, we had 35 poll pads that we had traded in for new ones, if you recall, earlier in the year. So what really remains is just the case and the printers and really we have no need for those. So those will just be destroyed. The sheriff's office has quite a few computers and a body solid weight machine that need to go to the landfill. But then there's quite a few items from the Sheriff's Office, the Highway Department, the Register of Deeds, and the 4-H Extension. They have quite a few items that we can sell on the online auction, which is the public surplus auction. We'll do that probably early August. I want to try to time it between the two big elections. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE REGISTER OF DEEDS OFFICE DOES HAVE A NEED FOR THE HP COLOR LASER JET PRO, SO WITH YOUR APPROVAL, THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT ITEM, SO THAT WOULD GO FROM THE 4-H DEPARTMENT TO THE REGISTER OF DEEDS. THERE IS JUST A COUPLE LITTLE MINOR THINGS. Sheriff's Office, or no, sorry, the Highway Department. As they were going through their list, they discovered that the items, and they had discovered it after everything was sent to Stacy and in your packets, but they don't have any wooden signposts. So there is nothing to sell, because there is nothing. So we just need to remove that from the list. And then they also, right underneath that was the 07 Sterling semi truck and the 05 Sterling. What he had listed for the asset number is just a number for them that helps identify, but that's actually not the asset number. The asset number for the 07 sterling is asset 79242 and the 05 sterling is asset number 79112. I have changed that and we'll get that all changed in the minutes and everything. Just wanted to let you guys know that.

Quite a few items to get rid of and quite a few items to sell.

The computers and stuff that goes in the landfill, those are destroyed before they were taken to the

Yeah, so right now everything is going to be held downstairs until Eric or somebody from the IT department can go through I'll make sure everything is stripped the way it needs to be stripped and then we'll take everything to the landfill but Right now we just need your approval to get rid of it. They're just trying to clean house and we'll But yeah, we'll basically just how is everything in one area until we can make sure everything is done properly And then we'll take it to the landfill Any other comments questions concerns

Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye. Opposed say nay. Motion carries. Letter I, action to approve closing 467th Avenue, which is County Road 23 in Aurora from Front Street North to Pine Street from 5 a.m. on Saturday, August 1st to 1 a.m. on Sunday, August 2nd for Aurora Galladay's. Do I have a motion to approve? So, second. Motion is second. Comments?

This is an annual request from the gala days committee to close that portion of the road you can see here Created a map showing the orange where the closure is and then the detour route that that they have established For that time during that closure Okay, we have any comments questions concerns Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye

Opposed say nay motion carries.

I'd like to add There is a benefit event being held on I believe the 18th and I got a call from the city finance officer this morning on They'd like to close off some parking just some parking spots in front of the convenience store down to in front of the the bar there I Know we're we're responsible for the highway and They want to close that off or set up some tables and stuff for all the items and They're anticipating a large amount of people I didn't figure there'd be a problem with closing off the parking spots as long as they make sure that there's no People can't get out into the roadway, so I think they would barricade that appropriately or whatever they need to do correct Just wanted to be it noted that They would handle that

LETTER J, 2027 BUDGET UPDATE. DISCUSSION.

So after budget hearings a few weeks ago, Jen and I continued to put numbers and make the changes and whatnot, and we still have in the general fund just over $1 million, $1,050,207 yet to budget for expense. It's a good problem to have, I guess. to balance that general fund. So we still need some direction from the board on how you would like us to do that. Some things that have been discussed were the 214th street project and I know that's not necessarily would be in the general fund but you can kind of assign it as like a transfer out and increase expense in the 201 fund and then increase transfers out from general fund for that project. The Elkton, that street project that has been discussed a couple of times at meetings here. The courthouse cupola was discussed as part of my staff report. I did go back and look at the minutes from 2023 when we redid the roof. that cupola was discussed at that time for some tuck pointing and window replacement. The cost was approximately $38,600 at that time in 2023, but the commission opted not to do that project at that time. That would be something that would come out of the 301 or the capital improvement budget. The Big Sioux River, the dike project, or If it's not the dike projects and mitigation efforts possibly, that still kind of is still out there. And then if anybody wants to revisit any non-mandated funding, that was something else I kind of had on my list. So that's what I have. I guess we're just kind of looking for some discussion on, and Jennifer and I need some direction on how you would like to budget for those additional expenses so we can get the provisional budget balanced, wrapped up and ready to present to you here the first meeting in September.

I do like the idea of possibly looking at the cupola and stuff at the county building, at the courthouse. I know that that's been an issue for quite a few years, even before I came on the county commission. So that's something I would like to look at, as well as maybe 214 or county shop stuff, putting some stuff into there. But what recommendations does the commission have? Other commissions?

I guess I'd like to add that Elkton project, I know it came up short notice and everything after our last meeting, checked into what's going on over there with the road. The state had combined two enters and exits in the town into one, and the average daily traffic on that intersection was 1,150 vehicles a day. Established by the state doing the counts out there Called a couple of establishments over there The grocery store has about three trucks a week the locker process is probably 20 animals a week Twin City fan is two to three trucks a day going over there and Elkton Lumber has three trucks delivering to their lumber yard and then smaller vehicles, pickups and trailers taking supplies out to contractors. Kelly talked about the elevator over there, a large amount of feed. I talked to a person that's on the elevator board, about 40,000 ton of feed a week out to the local dairies. they take in about a hundred thousand bushel of crop at the end of the year there's also now brian informed me that there's an asphalt plant out near naughty pine that's been set up and established there so it'll be asphalt trucks also using that stretch of road so i i'd really like to see that project i i know the estimate seems high i don't think the costs will nearly be what anticipated, but I'd like to see that project.

Commissioners?

I'd like to look at that cupola also. I think it's important to go up and look at that. We need to do some preventive maintenance on that and see what that looks like. The river project, Bob, what do we have for a Anything happens start date are we years out with that yet? What's the I mean if we decide to go that way? It's extremely hard to say okay, yeah, it doesn't seem like we would Spend that money anytime soon, so I don't know what that one's even worth talking about I

Yeah, because once we make the decision, I would expect there to be some possibly legal issues before we could even put a shovel in the ground.

So that's... And that is if we decide to...

It's if, by all means. I understand. I think that topic is probably off the board for now on this budget money. Elkton 1 is certainly one worth looking at, but

214 is a priority for me Commission would like to see that I'll echo the same thoughts, but the courthouse cupola duck pointing project the Dairy Creek project I think it's important that we have funds available So you know the what-if situation if we can pull the trigger on that that we have funds available for that I appreciate the work that Commissioner Jensen did on the Elkton project that that project came up quickly but uh yeah with the state eliminating one access into town I think I think we have to take a good hard look at continuing our uh at maintaining our county roads in that corner of our county those are just my thoughts for now

Yeah, just to follow up, that Elkton project may not have been on our radar properly, but I think it's definitely something that we have to look at because it would be a cost savings in the long run and not have to do it later the way I understand it. And then maintaining our facilities with the courthouse is obviously a priority before we have more damage or problems there. There is, of course, always the option of not raising, taking all the cost of living adjustment, but we'll have to see how some of these projects come along.

As a ballpark, you said the cupola and stuff was 36 before, but it's at 20% probably.

It was 38.6 before, so you're probably looking at 45 to 50 now. At least. The 214th project

As we look forward I don't know Brian you anticipate much expense in the next year on that.

I mean, that's a few years out I Mean I've Got some patching budgeted for it this year. We have been out there doing some repair work, but I've been absorbing that in my budget You know as just kind of routine maintenance I Now knowing what we got I don't know how much money we want to put out there But I'm just saying if we would choose to do one of those structures.

We're not gonna get that done.

I mean I mean with It would be I would say a minimum of two years And we do have funds set aside already for that if I'm not mistaken I

So do we need to not really take action on anything.

No action. Just give us some direction on what you would like to see us, how you would like to see us do that money. I think what we would do if it's Cupola, we would do a transfer to the 301 or the Capital Improvement Fund. And then if it's the Elkton project, we would increase, we'd probably create a line because this is going to happen in 2027 I believe. We would create a line in the highway budget and then do transfers to the 201 or the highway fund to get this thing balanced out.

What was the last estimate on the cupola?

38.6 was about three years ago.

We don't want to short ourselves but if we put 50 or 60 in there and then that would leave us, is that? About a million. About a, and what was the, what was that, Samara, or the?

214. Elkton.

Well, Elkton.

1.2 is the last estimate, but as Jeff mentioned, you know, now that we're doing the final design, once he gets those figures put together, which I know we don't have today yet, You know he'll have a little more, you know when he brings those estimates and they are high level as Larry mentioned But we also need to take into consideration much as Jeff mentioned earlier that type of work water and sewer work and then the extension of that The prices are very favorable. There's a lot of contractors out there that are looking for that type of work so when those bids do come in similar to like our bridge work and

It is less than the engineers estimate Kind of seems like those two are the two projects that the commission is kind of most most concerned about or talking about right now, so I think I think if we Look at that if you guys can do some work in the background and yep Yes, we can certainly do that very good all right commission directors report I

I'm sure you're all excited for me to tell you that we need to schedule a special meeting here, preferably yet this week, because we now have in front of us a grant agreement from the Rural and Tribal Assistance Pilot Program. The Brookings County applied for, oh gosh, last fall, and we've been waiting to hear back. We have been awarded $1.6 million for for the 214th Street project. This is engineering. This is all for engineering. It's not for construction of that project, but it's to get that project moving forward. Yes, we've done a lot of work on it already. This will definitely help. So $1.6 million. This is a federal grant, rural and tribal assistance program grant. That is great news for this project as we continue to look at work out there on 214th Street. That being said, the start date for this is, I believe, July 27th, and so our next meeting is until the 21st, and we need to meet prior to that to get this grant agreement approved and signed and sent back so that that can all take place, so that we're ready to roll when that start date here at the end of the month comes around. So I am looking at... I guess I'm asking what availability looks like here the rest of this week. At this point, the earliest we could do is tomorrow afternoon, because I need to do 24 hours notice for the agenda. If we got done and we did something late tomorrow, So tomorrow afternoon. Thursday, I'm a little bit busy in the afternoon between 1 and 4, but otherwise the rest of the day Thursday I'm pretty open. And then Friday too, I'm pretty open except for at the very end of the day. So is there something that... works for everyone. It won't be too terribly long. It's here approve the grant and that will be it.

Thursday, Friday are open for me.

1 o'clock Thursday?

What's that?

1 o'clock Thursday work?

1 o'clock Thursday. I'm busy starting at 1.30 so I don't I would prefer not to do it that at that time, but Thursday morning any time up until 1 o'clock, but from 1 o'clock till 4 o'clock.

I'm busy You anticipate this lasting half an hour hour 20 minutes 20 minutes 15 20 minutes 10 o'clock 30 I Cannot do I'm I have a schedule

and Brandon at 10 o'clock on Thursday morning. I should be able to get... I can do 8.30.

Do 8.30 Thursday morning?

Sounds good.

Does that work for everybody? Okay. Thursday. Special meeting. Okay. Thank you for accommodating that. That'll be good to get that approved. Department head reviews. Believe it or not, I need to get something on your calendar. I'm looking at, I know this is a ways out, but I want to get it on your calendar. So the second meeting in October is on the 20th, and then that afternoon set aside from about one until, we could say one until five, it probably won't go quite that long. Does that work for everybody to do department head reviews? It works the afternoon of October 20th, and then I can kind of start that process with department heads Does that actually get started here shortly? Okay? that works Other than that I have just some of our our dates and As Bob had mentioned, the subcommittee, the 765 Kilovolt subcommittee meeting is this Thursday at 7. I had it in the community room, but Bob said it might be in here so they can record that. But nonetheless, either one of these two rooms. Again, it should be on your calendar, special commission meeting on the 30th of July to canvas the results of that gubernatorial runoff election that is on the 28th of July. As Sonya was here giving her report, I made a note to add the 4-H Achievement Days to your calendar, August 3rd through the 6th, with the barbecue then will be on August 6th, that evening. Those events are all held out at the Dakota Bank Center. August 4th, Tuesday, is National Night Out over in Volga, and they kind of shut down the main street or Kassan Avenue in Volga. It's from 5 to 8 over there on the 4th of August. We don't have the agenda yet So I'm I don't pray yet need to quite ask for but if you do know I'll ask so Sioux Valley Commissioners Association our next ten County meeting is August 12th, it's going to be hosted by Hamlin County does anybody know that if they plan to attend and

We'll be out of town.

You'll be on Larry. You'll be there Dave. Yeah, Doug. Do you plan to attend? Yes Okay And like I said, I don't have an agenda yet, so I'll probably be asking and verifying that for sure as we get a little bit closer. Thursday, August 13th, is the CDI golf outing. For anybody that wants to participate in that, we'll probably try to put a county team together again. The conservation district tour, that date changed. It was August 20th. Now it's August 27th. It's still on a Thursday. We usually meet out at the conservation district, their barn located just north of where they're shed, north of town. Usually we try to meet right at 8 and they get going about 8.15, but I'll confirm all of that. But that date did change, so make sure that got changed on your calendars. A little bit further out, Labor Day is the 7th this year, a little bit later in September, so offices will be closed that Monday. Registration for the fall convention is coming up. And if you know that you want to go, there's a new registration platform that I have to use now to get everyone registered for that. So that's coming up September 1st. 14th is the golf outing that afternoon and then the conference itself is the 15th and 16th down at the Ramcota Hotel down in Sioux Falls. Do any of you know if you plan to A attend the convention and B attend the golf?

I plan the convention, yeah.

just the convention, are you going to, do you want to, what?

Possibly in the Monday.

Okay. Dave? Yes. Yes. Doug? I'd be unlikely for that one. Kelly?

Yes, on the convention. No on golf.

Okay. Yeah, I have to get that. I think that that's all I have, unless you have questions for me.

Any questions for Stacy?

Thank you. State's Attorney's Office report. Austin Ochsner, appearing for the Brookings County State's Attorney's Office today. I would note that approximately a year ago in August of 2025, we had an annual training seminar that we hosted for local law enforcement agencies. It was fairly well attended and well received. We've organized a second one to occur. That'll be later this week on Thursday and Friday. We'll have multiple sessions on Thursday, multiple sessions on Friday, all of which will be identical to help work with all of the agencies, as well as their various schedules. You always have law enforcement, some work nights, some work days, and there's always a shift split as well. So we've scheduled to hopefully accommodate as much of that as possible. We've confirmed with all four of our local law enforcement agency partners that they intend to be there and have as many of their LEOs there as possible. So Sheriff's Office will be in attendance, the Brookings Police Department, University Police will be attending, and then the South Dakota Highway Patrol assigned to the Brookings Squad Office will also be there. And we intend to cover topics on courtroom testimony and courtroom topics, report writing tips, And then some refreshers on evidentiary and procedural law and various rules related to that. And then we'll also do some deep dive topics on certain areas of enforcement. So there's always some refreshers around DUI laws, calculating number of prior DUIs and what goes into that. And ultimately, all of the agencies do really well. But this is just to create some uniformity across the county so that every agency we work with sort of understands how we operate, how we receive and review cases, and then how we move forward together with those. And so its purpose is to create uniformity. It's constructive. It's collaborative. Some of the information will be old and just a refresher, and some of it will be brand new information. So we look forward to presenting that, and again, that'll be later this week. We anticipate probably 50, 60 local officers will participate through the various sessions. All right. Very good. Thank you. Thank you.

Number 12, Commissioner's Reports and Discussion.

Commissioner VanderWaal.

Okay, thank you. On Saturday, June 20th, I attended the Brookings County Republic meeting out at the Outdoor Adventure Center. On Monday, June 22nd, I attended the meeting here in this room with the discussion of the county sales tax and property tax bill. Good discussions. I'm glad we held that meeting. I think we've got a path going forward here. And then on Tuesday, the 23rd, I attended the county budget hearings here next door. That's my report. Thank you.

Commissioner Post.

Yeah, just the two public meetings that we had is all I have to report.

All right.

Commissioner Miller.

Same thing with me, the 22nd HB 96 and budgets on the 23rd. All right.

Commissioner Jensen.

On the 22nd at noon, I attended quarterly strategic planning with the city, SDSU hospital. We had a light attendance that day just some updates from the city and SDSU and Mr.. Reid gave a pretty good report to Later that evening we did the sales tax discussion which I agree with Commissioner Vander wall It was a good discussion, and I'm glad those people came out and voiced their opinions on a 23rd we went through budget hearings and On the 24th, I went to the Samaria Avenue pre-construction meeting, which Brian brought up earlier. It starts today, and they're moving forward. Hopefully, if they've got good weather, they can complete that project. Then on the 4th, I attended the Brookings 4th of July parade. That's all I have.

So for me, on the 18th, we had a Brookings Regional Growth Alliance board meeting discussing a lot of stuff. There was a news release in the stuff. the other day that they are moving from their 6th street location over to the old office peeps building. So it is currently being built out and that's going to be a great area for our downtown. They're putting in, it's going to have some welcome center and that type of thing. the with the combination of the of the four entities Which are not city city departments it is that so on standalone thing, but with the with the merger of those spaces an issue so Luckily would they were just renting and we're going to be moving into that area and it's going to be a great great use area and On the 20th, I also attended the Brookings County Republican meeting out at the Outdoor Adventure Center on the 22nd. The special meeting for the county sales tax here, as it was stated throughout the rest of the commissioners, had a lot of very good input. information from that meeting and on the 23rd was at the budget meetings on the 25th we had the research park at SDSU board meeting out at the research park with some discussion and and that going on out there on the 25th we also had another Brookings Regional Growth Alliance committee meeting and then a small board meeting for that and that is my report Moving on to number 13. We do not have an executive session on the schedule today. So number 14 is adjournment. So I would look for a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Motion is second. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Opposed say nay. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.