Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Call the Brown County Board of Commissioners meeting to order. Start the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Um, any additions to the agenda or changes?

Uh, we had tabled the uh art last time. Uh, you might put it on there. Just I would like to table it again. We received some more information. No need to do that. Once once it's tabled, it's tabled. We have things. It's going to stay t until we take action. I think we can ask Stephanie. Stephanie. Yes, that's correct. You'd have to call it back off. In this particular item, we have to call back up. How long do we have to do that? Um it you can call it back. Um it's not tabled for a certain time period. So, you can just call it back uh you know when you'd like to bring it back to the the table to discuss it.

Okay. Yeah. 29th is what we're looking at. Yeah. Okay. Approval of minutes and claims. Uh there's two sets of minutes. Uh the work in session on November 12th and then the meeting last meeting December 3rd and claims. So I would like to before we go and make any motions on that, I'd like to just let you know that there were Mr. Sanders because he would use the claims. There was one claim that was not included on your summary that you approved. Uhhuh.

It came from the courthouse. I believe it was court services that was added when I went through and looked at them. Um, one of the other claims had a service to where we paid we were in there paying sales tax. I had that removed. And then the second or the third claim had a situation to where we were short paying 50ome dollars for um services that were due. So it adjusted. What was the courthouse one? How much was it? It's about $3,340 or $550. I can't remember. What was it for? Huh? What was it for? I don't remember off the top of my head. I looked through every one of them, so I can't remember them. Next time I'll know. The one for 33 was just for the courthouse.

Yeah. And it was for services due to due to due to the uh court. Yeah. And what was the second? One of them was uh we were paying an invoice and it had sales tax included to the tune of like $7. No. And then the third claim was an understatement. It was,05. It should have been $1,963 because there was a line on there that needed to be included. That's all been fixed by the way and what we're going to what's been submitted.

All right. Back to the minutes and claims. The motion. I will make a motion that we approve the minutes for November 12th, the minutes from our last meeting and the claims as presented. The the other minutes that you're approving, what were they on the working session for Pumpkin Ridge? Okay. All right. I'll second. Roll. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes.

Okay. All right. New business. Um 2026 budget update. I kind of brief what our status was at the last meeting. It's a work in process. So, um we're working on um next one. U center management board had the meeting update run.

Uh well, they gave me um I believe there was two proposals. I u they actually did offer a 50-50 split. Well, it was on the table at a 50-50 split. we were looking at um 200,000 earnings. So that would have been 100,000 for the county and 100,000 for Brown County Community Foundation. The other option was with the 200,000 earning a split of 7525 they had raised the pilot for in le of property tax from 55,000 to 65,000 and keeping it at the current of 2575 the Brown County Community Foundation received 150 would receive 150 possibly but there could be that could change by the end of the year the county would get 50 and the 65. So that come to 115. So just basic math at that point, you know, I was looking it probably be better to go with that option. I did make a proposal motion for a 50/50 split, reduce the 65 to 55, which would have give us 155,000, which would have been 40,000 more, and it wasn't very well received. So when it come time on the vote, I went ahead and went along with the 7525 and the 65 pilot. So the one problem with all that was originally I went in and I wanted 100% cuz majority of the board wanted 100% of the excess revenue. So quite a few months went by and it was

projected that there was going to be $400,000 excess revenue. Well, that's what started me to go again to try and get the county a little more money. And it looked to me like whether exactly it was or not, I believe it was Mr. Patrick told me the projected amount was 400,000 is what he was understanding. So that's why I went for the 50/50 thinking that the county would get 200,000 and the Brown County Music Center would get 250,000. Plus I thought we'd still get the 55. But evidently what it looked like, whether it is or not, it looked like they had pulled 200,000 of excess revenue and moved it toward the um remediation or for the wetlands, which that project was estimated to be 550,000. It was also said that uh it would create an income of 50,000 a year to the music center. Well, that's going to take 11 years at that to recoup your money. And the next flood that comes along, there's probably going to be some pretty high maintenance on getting it back to where it was at. So, it is what it is. As long as uh they're in control of the books and making the majority of the decisions, that's we're going to basically get what they give us.

Thank you, Ron. Okay, commissioner appointments. Um the list of our commissioner appointments we just sent to the paper. Um pretty much if you're interested in one of the open positions, um we want you need your letter by uh January 21st and then be at the meeting and you know and you talk about your interest and qualifications in the position. Um we're going to make a decision on appointments on the February 4th meeting at 2:00. So again, get it by in by January 21st. show up at the meeting and we make the decision the following meeting February 4th. All right. Now, service contracts, Kevin.

So, the first one that we have this morning is or this afternoon evening, sorry, is Smithville. Smithville is a agreement that would for our um for our internet provider. So, Eric, can you just kind of give us a broad overview of their services and what they provide?

Yeah, sure. Uh for those who don't know me, my name is Eric Evans. I'm the new IT director here at Monroe or Brown County. I came from Monroe County. Uh where I worked with Smithville for most of my career. Started working with them in the early 2000s when they first started doing DSL networking in Bloomington. And even back then, they established themselves very quickly in the Bloomington area uh as being a standout provider of of high reliability infrastructure. Uh it's fair to say I was delighted to find out when I came here that they were our bandwidth partner here at Brown County. Uh you know, the continuity of our bandwidth is incredibly important. citizens of Brown County, the staff of Brown County rely on that to be a constantly working utility for us and Smithville in my opinion is the perfect partner for that. Uh they understand our environment. They make ongoing investments in their fiber backbone infrastructure. Uh, and I know as the IT director that at any given time, 2:00 in the morning on Christmas Eve, I can pick up the phone and get a hold of someone there at Smithville to help us out. So, uh, I'm kind of as excited as I can be about a contract of this nature. And so, I'm glad we're getting it signed.

Thank you. I don't think I've ever seen you excited. This is it. This is the

So, just some basic highlights. The service that they end up providing us across all of our all of our buildings. The code is $2,47.95 a month. This particular contract is a master agreement. So, it is for a prolonged period of time. It is for a 10-year period. So, just some highlights as well as what changed in here. It was a very very termination clause was one of the biggest things that was an eye openener for me when when I looked at this contract initially because of the the way that it had been structured and they're actually working with them. They've been they have worked with us very closely and adapted and made it a win-win contract in my opinion. So I am

Can can you explain the part if we did do the cancellation? Wouldn't it cost us like 3/4 of the contract?

Correct. So, in essence, basically that 2,000 that monthly fee rolls up to be about $300,000 over a 10-year period. And in essence, what happens if we were to sign this contract original contract, we hadn't changed it. If we had signed the contract and canceled it two days later, we owe all dollars for the first year, 70% of the dollars for the second year, and 50% of the dollars in that contract for the remaining eight years. So it was not an extremely beneficial contract to the county. So right now that that ter that termination agreement is we only pay them for services rendered

and you got that put in there and they agreed to it. Yes sir. M folks, as may have mentioned, what's new to us this year is is we're required to basically uh all the commissioners, we sign all the contracts and so we're transitioning to a standard template and uh man, I I've lost count of the number of contracts we've been we've been Kevin's been digging into. So, we have a template. They're always reviewed by attorney and then we go back and negotiate for things that don't make sense and attorneys bring it out if they don't make sense. So about this pile. Yeah, that's pretty much it. Like this. Yeah. Speaking of attorney, is attorney up there in the sky? Yes, I am. I'm just checking.

Okay. So, based on that, my recommendation is that we move forward and approve and sign this contract tonight for Smithville for the as presented. I'll second. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Okay. The next contract is CSI's recorder software support agreement.

That is correct. Um again, so this total contract here been a little bit of experience for both of the companies. Um we went back and spent a little time on this. The actual total service contract amount for this is $5,96 that comes out of the recorder budget. This software is used to record any of the um record any of the information that gets presented in the recorder's office. So, it's in good shape. Again, they worked in concert with us. This is their actual contract, not our template. And it has been reviewed and blessed by our attorneys along with the information that I changed in there. And Mary Mary no Mary Smith. I always get those two. So she'll be happy to see that. So I recommend that we proceed and approve this contract as presented.

A motion. Motion. Second. Roll call. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. And the next one is the town of Nashville easement for sewer line. This has been one more challenging one, Kevin, a little bit. So, as it always town, people that live in town are the constituents just like anybody else. So, there is an enhancement that the town of Nashville is doing with regards to their sewer systems. If I'm not mistaken, Sandy, it is being pressurized at this point. Correct. Correct.

Okay. So, that's the biggest update. So, there is an existing there is an existing site at the highway garage, but when it was done the first time around, there was no actual easement recorded if I understand correctly. So this is the process of allowing you to update and add the additional uh means to provide sewer sewer service like you did on the new system and there has been some back and forth although we did get to it. I believe again in my opinion this easement is a reasonable compromise. It is asking for a 25- foot easement behind the highway garage over near the edge of the creek to the original to the original um site with a 50/50 square and there's some access in here temporarily for the purposes of construction. So in that and saying that I think it's in the county's best interest to help the town of Nashville provide this service.

Yeah, this a little Go ahead. Little input.

Like I said, this was the hardest one for me out of all of it. It was I didn't think it was no big deal when Yonzel asked for, you know, the sewer plant thing. We had he come into the admin meeting and, you know, first thing I tell him is we don't make no decisions in here. uh you know it didn't sound bad and that was pretty much it and they was going to do the trench down through there and dig down like 15 feet and put it in. The only comment that I had that day was, you know, there's a lot of heavy trucks that come in and out of there and they're going to have to put steel plate down anywhere where the trucks come in and out cuz it's soft. Those trucks that sink down and possibly damage the line and get the truck stuck or whatever. It all seemed like a no-brainer, but then the fiber optic got added and I understand when you're digging that that's when you want to do it. Um, but what got added was including the fiber optic, broadband, telecom, electrical service supporting utilities facilities. Um, and I get that you want to put that in the ground when you got it dug and then it's explained to me that all of them utilities are just for the sewer plant that you're putting in. There's nothing going to be pulled off of that in the future.

Can I make a correction? Make the correction. The correction is this is for future expansion in the event that there's technology that needs to be added to the sewer line. It is not being done today. This is just to allow them to come back at a later date if they need to add fiber telecom or any of the information. But they're putting the conduit in now for that. No, they're not. They are not. Why not? I don't know. That would be a smart decision, but I'm not the engineer on the project. So, okay. Cuz now would be you were going to do it.

You The reason that you wouldn't put it in now is because you don't know which of those options that you would want to basically put in there. So let's say for example you put in the conduit for a telecom and then you find out that the sol better solution that may be needed for their systems is upgraded the fiber optic you need a fiber optic so I would say it's much wiser to wait until you actually see what enhancements need to be made to the sewer system and you might have not have to go that deep 15 ft is pretty deep correct

okay yeah well you know it was all last minute type thing today so I don't want to hold the town up. We're the ones that's probably going to get the use of the sewer too from the highway garage, the solid waste, the 4H fairgrounds. Is there any other comment from anybody else? No, they're just you appreciate I think heard Kevin on the phone all week. It's uh there's a lot of back and forth between the attorneys, between the engineers and back and forth the attorneys and the engineers and there are quite a few loops and have navigated you know all the all the

uh was it the attorney that's up there now? So sorry the attorney that's up here now on Yes, Stephanie is the one and she actually pulled in an associate in Barnes and Thornberg that had better knowledge and more information related to easements. Okay. So that's why there were so many last minute changes because now we have one attorney the towns and one attorney in ours with that expertise and you know when you speak lawyer ease it makes things complicated Stephanie. So yes sir after all this going back and forth are you comfortable with this?

Yes. The changes that we uh sent over I believe about 5:15 today. I think that'll that'll work well. Okay. I guess that's why we pay you the big bucks, huh? Doing what we can here. So, have a motion. Yeah. I'll make a motion that we approve the easement as presented. And I just want to clarify there, Sandy. If this does actually get accepted and approved, we will have to make an arrangement next week to sign this in front of a notary because the two notary pages. So, we'll need Okay. Agreed. Motion made. Motion made. Second. Roll. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote?

Yes. All right. The last one on the contracts, yearly bid agreements on the highway materials. I think we accepted that last accepted those last meeting. Yeah. I don't think that's the last one. Is it? On the contracts.

Well, we've got bid packages to do. Okay. Yeah, we we opened those at the last meeting. Um we we went through them. Uh I'll make some recommendations and everyone has the service agreement that is attached to it. So, we got that updated. Okay. Um for our tire services, I recommend that we uh we sign with best one tire. Um for hauling services, which is our our stone and sand products that get hauled to us. uh Waggler excavating. Our asphalt materials that we purchase uh come from Flynn Brothers. So I recommend Flynn Brothers. Our gas and diesel delivery um we are switching this year. We're we actually accepted Keystone Cooperative. So I'd recommend Keystone Cooperative. Um our stone products same US a um and our culberts and bridge packages that we can buy will be E3 bridge and the the rep from E3 bridge is also a sales a salesman with M&H or yeah M&H Bridge u so we can buy their stuff as well with that contract. So those are my recommendations.

Hold on just a sec. Okay. On S1 and the tires, it appears here that they they give you a price on the tires. Mhm. Okay. And it goes all the way down through here. And you you give them a list of all the tires you use. Uh we give them a good list. Yeah. That they go off of.

Okay. Well, something come up the other day and it just it just was kind of odd. I thought said something about, you know, we're doing a contract with people to buy tires. All right. Bid whatever. And it said something about you might want to reach out and see if you could buy tires somewhere cheaper after you did we agree to this price. Well, was said though. So, I'll clarify that.

Okay. So in our discussions and all of these things, his practice is to basically bring them under the bid numbers, but he also does price checking to make sure that they're still the lowest prices. So there there is some things that are like tire certain tires that are state bid. So that they're priced one price, but there's other things that are more specialty that is not a state bid and you you kind of have the option to branch off and and get a better deal. So yeah, we've we've had to do that in the past. So part of this activity is not simply just continuing down that. It's also a discussion with regards to volume, but because I don't think there's any volume buying in this. It's a niche. Yeah.

So there's many factors to that, but this is just a means by if it's a one-off and it's reasonable, then you go down that path. That's typically what I've seen for yearly bid contracts. Okay. I just seem kind of odd that we're taking that and then looking outside the realm. I get it.

All right. So, I'm going to There's six of these cuz you listed them off and read them off. So, everyone should know every one of these and again it was new to all of the yearly bids because this is the first time where we've actually presented a contract for them or an agreement to sign and we worked with all of them. They are in essence signing our version of a service agreement that has been reviewed by our attorney. All the attachments that have been included only include information related to technical specifications and they only include pricing and those kinds of things. There's no mention or any other terms or conditions that are stated here listed in their agreement.

So just to clarify voluntarily review what we can. So I would uh if we can take a motion on that. Yep. I'll make a motion that we accept best one as a yearly a yearly bid for our tire service as presented. Okay. Is there a second? I'll second that. Roll. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes.

Next motion. I'm making a motion. This is for Waggler Brothers who does our hauling of egg products. Um, I'll make a motion that we accept and approve this contract as presented. I'll second. Roll. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Flynn Brothers. So the next motion is to accept the service agreement presented by Flynn Brothers for yearly the yearly bids for cold mix asphalt as presented. I'll second. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes.

Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Now you guys got a separate contract for clean copy for all these clean copy for this. You got these are all these are the ones that we've been working with and they're all already signed by all the the vendors. So the next contract is for Keystone Corporation. They're looking at providing our gasoline and diesel fuel and recommend that we accept this contract as presented. I'll second. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote?

Yes. Next contract is for our stone and aggregate with US aggregate. Motion that we accept this contract as presented. Hang on. Just a second. Okay, I'll second. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. Tim, how do you vote? Yes.

And the final one that with regards to the yearly bids is an agreement with EN E3 Bridge LLC as a partnership with ENH as well providing our grading and other bridge products. Make one motion that we accept this contract and approve it as presented. Second. Tim, how do you vote? Yes. Kevin, how do you vote? Yes. Ron, how do you vote? Yes. That's Kevin. Eric, nice job on goods. Thank you. All righty. Next one. Human resource. Teresa, I got Lissa. I got a lot on your list for you there. Take what you want.

Um I'm just going to give some updates. La um access has been now granted to the elected official and another member of their department. So Eric and Julie are working on that list to get the departments up and going on that. uh be huge for the departments allows our financial system for budgets and finance. So we're given across the board access, read only access department heads and then managing the traffic. So right. Oh, by the way, I got time down my password. So you do the password changes. I I do. I'm also very excited about the W. Good. Can't you tell? Me too.

Good. um incumbrances. We need to turn those into the auditor's office by the 26th. Still correct? Yep. So, we're working on that still with our budget changes. That's presented a little challenge. Um the blanket bond was accepted by the council. So, that is in motion um for next year. uh fuel deposits have started happening and we are putting them in the general fund which will at the end of the year relieve our account line. So highway is not getting our fuel money anymore. Okay. Sorry. Sorry.

Um Amazon account. I'm going to work with Julie tomorrow on setting Friday. Oh yeah, Friday because we have a lot going on tomorrow. Yeah. Um, work with Julie on Friday to set those up and once we set ours up, we'll make a process so that we can pass it on to the other department heads and elected officials so we can get that going. They'll have their own setups as well. Yeah. Great. Then it all go back into the same same at the end. It's one big account and everybody is like a subsidiary off of that and then it's volume discounts and helps us out. Okay, great. They've partnered with the um

so it's a huge discount. It'll be a huge discount on savings for office supplies and other things. A lot of other things the highway as well. Yeah. Sheriff as well. Okay. And our Christmas party is tomorrow at 11 to 2 at the historical society. Um it's our employee pitching reminder. all. Yeah. Oh, and the judging for the offices is what time? 9:00. 9. This starts at 9. Okay. Any questions for

good? We're good to go. All right. And I'm curious on the on the LA, is there training going along with that? Does everybody know how to use that or It's not that difficult, but we will have we will probably have LA come out to help um adjust everybody to it. Okay, great. Thank you. Does that give them the uh the access and I had that access where a report writer where you could design your own kind of reports? Was that part of that access? It's view. Yes, it's view access to the reports, right? And their own reports. Okay. Okay. Great. Thanks.

Okay. mayor, highway department. Hey, we missed the declaring an emergency for the county this year. You know, I think that hit us right off, didn't it? Last last January. Um the only thing I have other than what I gave you guys earlier, uh we we did do two applications for CCMG, one for the bridge, one for paving. We got awarded one of them. Okay. So, um we got $468,800 for the Hoover Hoover Bridge, bridge 20. So, uh, we should have that paperwork back any day and then we can go ahead and give them a notice to proceed and they'll, uh, Bucks and can start work on it. It'll be a late winter project. We hope to have it wrapped up soon. So,

that Hoover and Upsalt Creek or Sweet Water Trail. That's Sweet Water Trail. Yeah, that's it. Little area. Okay. I have a question for you. Okay. Yeah, I have a couple. So, bridge 30, which was the one that was down on Orchard Road, and I know we did that emergency contract for RL Bucks, have they had a chance to give you a timeline or schedule? We're next. They're they're finishing up the project and then of course we got hit with the weather, right? But they're we're next for that. And I'm assuming they'll jump from that to bridge 20. Okay. All right. That's the only thing I had. Thank you. uh equipment. Any news on road grader?

Uh I talked to Tanner from Westside Tractor yesterday and it looks like January 12th. So they they've seen stuff hit the yard sooner. He's hoping it'll be sooner, but we're only you know 2 3 weeks away. So uh same thing with the the excavator end of December 1st of January. So I don't know that the esavator is as critical as the road grader is. Yeah, I agree. I agree. I uh I'll be glad when to get it. Yep. Me, too. Um you might have to get new chains for that or you might need to think about that. So, you're ready to hit the gravel roads?

Uh we've got So, we we need to we've been holding off, but we need to go over um and get things off of the other grater. They still have it sitting there. So, we'll we'll be able to use what what was on there, transport it over there. Um and then if we need anything new, we can we can pick that up. cross our fingers and hope the weather holds off. I hope so because the salt's getting thin. Um talked to a bunch of other counties this week and they're struggling. Jennings County actually ran out of salt. Um we got more coming though, right?

We have more salt coming, but it's still I mean if we keep getting hit, we weren't hit this early last year and we we've ordered some. I've got 200 more on order. We got 200 in last weekend. U I think I can order another 600. That's That'll be it. So, yeah.

Great. Thanks, sir. On ongoing business, a couple items. Pumpkin Ridge Road. Um uh the access to Mount T State Forest. The notice of surveys will be mailed out this week. Um I sent this information out to the uh mailing list I have for the property owners. Uh staking planned to occur the week of January 5th based on on on weather. They think about 3 days. Um surveyors will not need to resate reervey session corners. So you won't see people, you know, all over your land. And that's going to be followed by on-site meetings. That leads to refining the plan that is then presented at at our meetings and for consideration. So that's kind of where we're at. Um the owner occupied rehab grant. Um we're meeting with Okra uh tomorrow morning. Um they're supposed to announce on December 18th and I guess that's tomorrow. I'm assuming we we got that this time around. This is the second time we applied.

So, I'm assuming they would show up to tell us no because you didn't tell us no last time in person. Yeah, they sent us an email last time and said, "Hey, you you had a couple couple issues or whatever." So, anyway, um so we're optimistic that we're qualified for that one. Um that's about it. We got a lot of ongoing things with contracts, new contracts. As we went through the personnel manual, there's all kinds of things that popped up and like take-home cards and the taxability of that. So, we're addressing those kind of one at a time. So, kind of keeps us busy. Um, that's kind of it. That's all I've got. Um, Stephanie, anything from legal? Wait, wait, hang on. I haven't heard anything from anybody in this room and this room is packed.

It is. Something something has brought all these people out. Um, you know, I'm I'm interested to hear what you say, but you got to you got to know that it's got to do with personnel. We can't talk about it. That's, you know, I would like to hear what you got to say, but that has been a ongoing rule that we don't talk about personnel in these meetings. like the rule about not making decisions and admin meetings.

You're out of order. We'll get to the point on on bringing people to the podium to state your name and and the question you have. But to Ron's point, I'm reinforce we're not going to discuss highway department personnel issues that are ongoing, any kind of administrative issues and and any kind of issue that that's involved in any kind of legal uh actions. Not not discussing it. So, if you're going to bring that up, I'll appreciate if you wouldn't bring that stuff up. So, we would have to close it out for you and then we'll allow up to three minutes for comments. Just state your name and state your name. What you had to say, sir.

My name is Doug Tommpkins and I was just here on behalf of myself and the other voters of the county today to recognize the years of service of a local man that spent serving the citizens of this county through his dedication and kindness. This man has always been a friend and a helper to all. This group would like to have the time to recognize countless sleepless nights from men spent caring for our roads through work at Brown County Highway Department. Whether it was cutting trees in the middle of the night in the pouring down rain or plowing snow and subzero weather. We see you and we appreciate you. We stand here today to say thank you Mark sites for all you have done for those of us in this county and in this room and outside of this room. May God bless you and continue to bless you for the work you have done all of us. Thank you. [Applause] My name is John Henning. I've been a resident of Brown County for 35 years. And um you said we're not supposed to talk about personnel but I want to talk about something else and that is uh things that reflect on the integrity of the management here which I think is important and when we see that decisions are made that affect somebody that we know that has a great amount of integrity

and a person that worked for me personally and that I could count on Uh yeah, I said, "Bro, the video always no turn around." And uh be a bill like always helped

always helped my family. Okay. And and um what we saw was that initially this person was um had a lot of seniority. I think he worked for the county for over 20 years. And uh all of a sudden now he's flagging uh traffic. And you need to know that people were starting to become suspicious of the decisions that were made to relieve this person of his job. Okay? It's important for you to know that because it reflects on you and uh so I think you need to know that and I think I think we we know what the we're talking about here and we what I'm asking is that you would reconsider a decision that was made. Thank you sir. [Applause] Okay.

Any other comments on any other of the items? Commissioner. Yes, Mary. Mary, actually, we need to bring her up. Sorry. Well, I want to start with, do you have any questions for me? And do you know why I'm Do you know who I am? So, so I'm I'm drawing a blank.

Let me uh let me educate you on on what's what's going because we couldn't get a hold of you before. So, you're here about your contract renewal with regards to the Purdue Extension Office and Brown County Commissioner's Office. So, unfortunately, we have not gotten through and looked at that actual contract and reviewed it. So the target is since we are going to have another meeting on the 29th is to get that review done and get it potentially as long as it's as long as there's no issues with it. The plan is to present it for presentation and approval. Okay. On the 29th at 29th. Will that meet your deadlines? Okay. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. So after and I'll take the hit on it because I missed it.

Well, you weren't the only one. We got the email and some of these things get kind of buried. Yeah. you know, in the traffic. So, appreciate. Yeah. Any other questions for me? Thanks, Mary. Appreciate you being here. Not right now. We meet something once Stephanie gets a chance to look at. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anybody else? Anybody at all? Anything else? Okay. Legal. Yeah. Stephanie, any any issues? No update for me. Thank you. Okay, great. about just Purdue extension contract, please. Yes, we'll work on that.

Get me out of the hole. I done, please. Oh, leave a minute. Okay, throw a pile of dirt. All right. All right. Motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn. All right. Second. Second. Meeting can closed. Thank you. Hey, Kevin. What is all these? Those are all