Board of Supervisors Agenda and Minutes - Regular Meeting

I'm out now. I'll do it after. It's okay. Dave Hockett hasn't done his either, so. Thank you.

Yeah. Kim, are you still there?

I am.

Okay, great. It's 9 o'clock. We're going to call to order the Dallas County Board of Supervisors meeting. Supervisor Chapman is on the phone today. Thank you for being here. So we'll start with the approval of the agenda, and I need to make note that we are removing Item 15 today, and that's the only change I have. Second. Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. Please join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

Is there anyone to speak in open forum? Open forum today? Seeing none, we'll move on. Consent agenda?

Second?

Second. Okay, that's okay. Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye, motion carries. Item six, the supervisor's minutes from 4-28-26.

Second.

Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. Payroll change notices.

Good morning. First, we have the requisition to start hiring temp election drivers for the auditor's office. Then the next three are those, or next four, excuse me, are those temporary election drivers. Then we have the requisition to start hiring election temp help. And following that, we have three payroll change forms hiring those. I will say on one employee, we're changing the hire date from May 6th to May 11th. There's a scheduling conflict. Then we have a new IS technician starting in our IT department. Then we have a retirement and secondary roads and the requisition to backfill that position. Then we have the requisition for the new training and operations coordinator in EMS that was approved for FY27. Last, we have a receiving file for conservation, another seasonal maintenance worker.

Are there any questions?

Move to receiving file.

SECOND.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE.

SECOND.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AYE.

AYE. MOTION CARRIES. WE'LL MOVE DOWN TO CAPITAL PROJECTS. LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX BOND FUNDING WORKSHOP.

So I'm going to ask our professionals in the audience to maybe give a recap of what we discussed a few weeks ago on the option that was presented and recommended for approval for funding of the ambulance building.

Good morning, Eric Bollard. My apologies, my allergies are killing me. Yeah, neither here nor there. I don't know that there's much to recap other than we've covered the bases, the staff recommendation, my understanding is a geo-backed local option sales tax funding mechanism. That process is payable in the first instance from the local option sales tax. There is a backup levy in place to allow In the event there was a shortfall in the sales tax revenue receipts, the debt service levy would be there as a backup. The statute requires then that the future sales tax revenues be used to refund any levy drawn upon. There's also been discussion of funding a debt service reserve, whether either bond funded or cash funded. so that that would be the second tier of backup. So you'd have your sales tax revenues first, a reserve fund in the event of a shortfall, and then the levy itself. The benefit of the geobacking on the sales tax revenue is that the market views and interprets the potential for a GEO backing as a better pricing credit worthiness, maybe not priced exactly as if you're issuing pure GEO. I defer to my colleague here, Tim, from Piper Sandler, if there were deviations, but better than just a sales tax revenue bond. Recall that last year we issued sales tax revenue bonds. And so they have the first claim on the revenues. They have covenants relative to how much additional debt you can issue. And the revenue stream, the covenants are to protect the existing bondholders so that you don't over leverage the revenue stream. The recommendation here is to issue these geo-backing as a subordinate, so secondary to last year's debt. But with the geo-backing, it elevates that creditworthiness. The aggregate, and I don't recall the calculations, Tim, my recollection is that the current years, or if we use just this year's collections, supports upwards of an additional $16 million financing in and of itself. And so my understanding is that Turner has provided new cost estimates relative to the scope well within those numbers. And so we stand ready with your direction to proceed with The process would be call a hearing, that hearing subject to a petition. After the hearing, assuming no petition, then you have the authority to proceed with sale. We have numerous sale options, whether that be a negotiated route with a known bank or underwriter or a full-blown public sale. all TBD based on we need to get past the first step of creating authority. And so open for any questions that might arise.

I don't have any questions, but I'd obviously offer it up to.

I agree. So for procedural today, do you just need a consensus or do you need a motion?

Today is really, at some point before you act, the earliest that we could take action is next week to fix the date for that hearing. I just need some direction from you on, yes, let's go that route. This is where we, how we want to proceed, and in which case that will get the ball moving. And so, whether that be today in a discussion or you let Rob know, we stand ready to have that.

Probably just a motion to accept the recommendation. Okay.

Second.

Is there any further discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you for your work on that. So we'll move forward with Secondary Roads Admin Edition Capital Projects.

Good morning. Chad Lane, Turner Construction. So project update in support of the pay application that will be submitted shortly for the Secondary Roads Project from April 2026. So up at Secondary Roads, we're really in the The final stretches of this project were at 97% complete on schedule. You can see some of the safety metrics were up to around 31,500 hours worked on this project. Mechanical system startup, test and balance has been completed at the admin addition as well as the garage. Fire alarm system has been completed. Exterior window shades have been installed. All the accessories, corner guards, fire extinguishers, things of the like are done, final cleaning. Owner furniture installations complete, which was a county contract. We just worked with them on that. And then punch list and punch list corrections have been completed or ongoing. We're probably around 40 items open that we're working to finish up. And I think the biggest thing is the staff has moved into this space under a temporary certificate of occupancy that's been issued by Planning and Zoning Department, who's the AHJ up on this site. So they have started working on that space. The county themselves are working with their crews on some exterior paving outside. They're probably around two weeks out from being completed with all that. And in conjunction with the county doing the paving work outside We've been finishing up kind of our last contractual items which are the installation of the flagpole The installation of the gate arms at the two different islands and some access control out there So the flagpole the gate arms are being installed today and we're just kind of buttoning things up and trying to get out the door and Just some pictures. This is inside of admin. Garage has kind of been ahead, so I don't feel like we needed to capture those this month. But upper left-hand corner, training room. Obviously, you can see the completed product there. Upper right-hand corner is the front hallway and reception area. Lower left-hand corner is a conference room within the space for staff. And then the lower right-hand corner is open office. Kind of the only little bit of systems cubicle furniture for staff to use. I don't have anything else on this. Maybe, Al, Andy, everything going good? Happy to be in?

I think everything's going really well. We do have a fair amount of work to do on the exterior. It starts getting a lot of work. Our crews are working on that.

Yeah, so this might be the last project update on this job. Obviously, we will have a pay app in May. It'll probably take us to 100% on the job, and then hopefully we'll kind of reconcile the books and return any savings back to the county for use elsewhere. Any questions on that job?

I don't. Thank you.

Good morning. Christopher Orth with Farnsworth Group. We're in receipt of pay application number 17 for the Dallas County Secondary Roads addition and garage project from Turner Construction for work completed through April 30th, requesting payment in the amount of $270,363.97. Chad walked through the work completed. The big tickets this month are general trades, overhead doors, plumbing, electrical, and the cellular DAS and radio, or no radio, I'm sorry, the cellular DAS system. So the contingency, we still have a remaining balance of about $57,000. Yep. And then on the next page, the allowances, there's a remaining balance of about $26,000. So both of those at this point in the project are healthy. We recommend approval of the Turner pay application number 17, again, in the amount of $270,363.97. Is there any questions?

Second.

Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I. I motion carries. Thank you. Move on to the next courthouse renovation.

So courthouse renovation project across the street for April 2026. Safety has been going well, no incidents to date. Around 13,500 man hours worked on this project. Project update, level three, we've received the design document for the structural modifications up there. So we're working through that with a steel supplier and producer to get that fourth floor reinforced, which will allow us to proceed on with the little bit of remaining demolition and then the build back up there. We have been able to do a little bit of hydronic piping, isolation, and branch main extensions up to third floor. Level two, which is where the bulk of the work's occurring right now, wall framing's complete, in-wall MEP's complete, all inspections have been completed and passed. Level two in-wall blocking's completed. We've started hanging drywall, both one side and two side, working towards tape and finish. Overhead MEP rough-in's ongoing, and then probably visibly noticeable to everyone in the room. We've started the exterior waterproofing work. On the east half of the courthouse, excavation's been completed, vat and night waterproofing, membrane and cover board's been installed, and then we've installed the drain tower around the perimeter. So we'll kind of wrap up the east side and then pop over to the west side to do that side. Schedule-wise, around 61% complete. And then we'll hit financial but just high level. We're at ninety four percent remaining on contingency and around eighty four percent on the allowances So a couple progress pictures from inside this space upper left hand corner will be the future jury deliberation space The doorway on on the left side there is a bathroom that's dedicated to jurors while they're in deliberation upper right hand corners within the new full jury courtroom on level two so you can see kind of the perimeter walls and the bulkhead soffit area where the judge and witness and court attendant will be seated. Lower left-hand corners, back of house space on level two, so judge's chamber's office, a conference room, and then a bathroom for the judge. And then lower right-hand corners outside on the south elevation on the east half, you can see the excavation, the exposure of the existing foundation wall, bentonite waterproofing, protection board, and then now we have since backfilled and installed the drain tile. Questions?

You haven't run into any issues working on the foundation, have you?

No. Surprisingly, we were a little... I don't even really want to say hesitant, but we, you never know when you're digging up a foundation from 1902, what it's going to look like. We did preemptively dig a test hole to make sure that, you know, we weren't going to dig up the whole thing and, and kind of stand there with scratching our heads. But for as old of a foundation, it's a very smooth surface. We've had outside of one joint between the lower course of limestone and the foundation that we've had to do a little bit of tuck pointing. The surface was, smooth and accepted the metonite waterproofing membrane as it should, and everything's been going good.

Good. Any questions?

Okay. I do have one question. What's the life expectancy of that project?

Of the exterior waterproofing?

Yes, sir.

I think we said 50 years. Don't quote me, but I feel like that question got answered when we priced that original change request, and it was like in that 40- to 50-year range. Obviously, there's even literature that said it could be kind of forever. Yeah.

Forever, that's pretty.

Sorry, Kim, what did you say?

No, he answered my question. Thank you.

I feel like it was in that 50-year range. Yeah.

I think that's correct. So you're saying 50 years? OK.

Yes.

We can verify.

We should verify.

OK, that's probably a good idea.

Yeah.

I don't think any company will say forever.

Probably not. We're in receipt of pay application number 13 for the Dallas County Courthouse renovations. for work completed by Turner Construction and their subcontractors for the period ending April 30th, 2026 in the amount of $505,214.07. We do have some stored material for Keystone Construction Services architectural wood casework and some jury courtroom materials. The big items this month are the Keystone... the keystone work and their stored material, the gyp board assemblies and painting, which is a lot of the framing and gypsum board that you saw in the pictures that Chad was sharing, plumbing and mechanical work, as well as the electrical work. As Chad mentioned, we're very healthy in the construction contingency. We still have a balance of a little over about 147,800. And the allowances, we have a total balance of about $164,201. Based on this, we've reviewed the pay application, and we would recommend approval of pay application number 13 in the amount of $505,214.07. OK, is there any further questions?

Second.

Is there any further discussion? All in favor say I. I I motion carries. Thank you will move down to evidence storage.

Okay, so this project's out at the Law Enforcement Center on Highway 6, for anyone unfamiliar. On this project for April 2026, we've ticked up to around just shy of 15,000 hours work, no incidents, so safety's been going well. Schedule, at least percent complete-wise, we're at about 61%. Project update, so over the April. We've started and completed the roughing system on the firing range. That's a TPO membrane roof, rubber roof. We've also set several of the rooftop mechanical equipment pieces up on the roof. Overhead MEP within the firing range and evidence storage buildings proceeding. We've hit a big milestone. Masonry's complete on the project, so the contractors demobilized their grout. and mortar towers, which really opened up the site. Armor wall installations complete on the north wall of the firing range. You'll see a picture of that shortly. Um, interior wall framing is complete, um, and wall MEPs in progress. We've also set the mezzanine joist and deck and poured the concrete slab on metal deck for that and set the stairs up to it. Um, we've installed the overhead doors at the evidence storage building. Um, we've poured exterior concrete stoop caps. Those are just the kind of concrete pads outside of any walk door. Um, and then we've been working in the firing range on the ventilation duct work. Um, Contingency, we'll review the log shortly, but we're at 75%, and allowances, we're at about 60%. So, some progress pictures. Upper left-hand corner is the new roof on the firing range building. You can also see the ventilation, exhaust fan, filter bank, make-up air unit that's been set up on the roof of there. Upper right-hand corner is inside the firing range. You can see... kind of how large that ductwork is in there to supply fresh air when the range is in use. There's a radial diffuser on kind of the firing range line that supplies fresh air, and then downrange, there's an exhaust fan that pulls all that air back out. Lower left-hand corner is within the evidence storage building, so the sheriff's office has kind of a dual-purpose training defensive tactics room that they can can do training in there. And then lower right-hand corners, again, inside the evidence storage building, this is standing up on the mezzanine, kind of looking down into the vehicle bays where they can pull, you know, vehicles that need to be reviewed for evidence or also the Sheriff's Department office can use it for cleaning vehicles or anything that they need to. So there's a set of stairs that come up to it. And then up on the mezzanine level in the future, there'll be chain link lockup gates for evidence storage. Sheriff, anything? Good. I like it.

Any questions?

Next, we have pay application number 14 for the Dallas County Evidence Storage and Firing Range Project from Turner Construction for work completed through the period ending April 30, 2026 in the amount of $953,747.31. There is some stored material for gear and lights stored off-site, and they've provided the proper documentation for that. Work this month, primarily the firing range equipment for Action Target, the Seedorf masonry for getting the brick and that work nearly completed. We've got some rough carpentry material and some roofing. The roof is, the membrane roof is almost complete. Perfect. Yep, so that one's a fairly big number this month. Some glazing, some mechanical and plumbing work, and some electrical work as well as that stored material, and some wood blocking installation. Again, that's at the parapets. In terms of the contingency this month, we're still at a balance of 183, 135. There was some... EXPENDITURES FOR EXPEDITING SOME METAL CASE WORK, SOME ROOF SCREEN MATERIAL CHANGE. SO, AND THEN INTO THE ALLOWANCES, THE BIG ITEMS THIS MONTH WERE A CREDIT MOVING THE WINTER HEATING ALLOWANCE FROM THE WINTER HEATING ALLOWANCE LINE ITEM DOWN INTO THE DESIGN REFINEMENT ALLOWANCE. THAT'S A MOVE OF ABOUT $70,000. THE MASONRY WORK WAS ABLE TO BE COMPLETED BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED. They were able to work through the months that weren't nearly as cold as they had kind of initially anticipated. And then again, that roof screen wall material change. We changed from matching the pre-engineered building panel, which was a vertical panel, to a horizontal panel to match the roof screening on the law enforcement center, as I recall. With all of that, the balance on the allowances is still $279,713. We've reviewed and recommend approval of Turner's pay application number 14 in the amount of $953,747.31. Are there any questions for Christopher today?

Second the motion.

Is there any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. We'll move down to the EMS station.

We're in receipt of pay application number one from Turner Construction for the ADEL EMS station pre-construction services for work completed through April 30th, 2026 in the amount of $49,130. We've reviewed the pay application and we recommend approval.

So any questions? IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. We have about two minutes before we're going to open up our public hearing. Does Turner or Farnsworth have anything else to say on the projects right now?

OK, super. Thank you.

So our public hearing is item 13. And it is the first public reading of the proposed changes to Chapter 45 zoning ordinance regarding Board of Adjustment powers and duties. If you wanted to get started, David, and then I can open the public hearing after you do your presentation.

All right, this will be brief. This is one of the additional code updates, just updating from state legislative changes, court changes over the last several years. This one's dealing specifically with language for variance requests for the Board of Adjustment to review. Historically, they had to prove a hardship, which is a much higher bar to jump. as a homeowner or applicant. The state code has now changed that, essentially the word hardship, with practical difficulties. That lowers the bar that the applicants have to show. I'm not going to go through each major item, but the one I do want to point out is it's really a matter of a hardship. You have really no use of your property without relief from the zoning code. They've changed the practical difficulties, which means You have to have some unique features. You can still use your property for some items, but we need to lower the bar so maybe your setbacks can be reduced due to a large 100-year-old oak tree you don't want to take down to make way for your addition, so you need to go into the setbacks. It still holds that you cannot create the situation. You can't go build a big pond and realize, oh, I can't. I need to put my house here now, but I built this pond and I have to have the setbacks. You don't get to create the problem that you're seeking relief from. That doesn't change. Really everything else is still more or less the same. It's just that unnecessary hardship going to practical difficulties. It really just lowers the bar and it should give the Board of Adjustment a little easier time. approving those requests, the good requests that do meet all the other conditions laid out. So the Planning and Zoning Commission did review this in December and has recommended approval.

Okay, so I'll be opening the public hearing. So this is the time and place for the public hearing as advertised on this matter. Have you had any written comments, David, to your office about this?

I have not.

And Melinda, have we? No, we have not received, okay. If there's anyone wishing to speak on this matter, you can go to the podium and you'll have clearly state your name and address for the record and then you'll have 10 minutes to speak on this topic. Is there anyone here to speak in public hearing about this or does board members have any questions? So this, David, my understanding of this is just bringing our stuff up to the code that was changed last July.

Yeah, so it's really plugging in state language into our code and deleting their old stuff, so. Okay. Nothing too creative other than what the state has told us to do, so. Okay.

Any comments from the public? Questions from the public? Board members, any questions?

I DO NOT HAVE ANY.

I'LL ASK THE PUBLIC ONE MORE TIME.

SECOND.

DID HE SAY SECOND? I'M SORRY. PARDON ME, I COULDN'T HEAR YOU. I DID. THANK YOU. IS THERE DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. IS THERE ACTION? I'M GOOD WITH EITHER.

Kim, go ahead. I would be okay waiving the second and the third. There's been no comments from the public. This is a requirement from the state. So I'm okay waiving the second and third readings.

I would be more than to approve the first reading as proposed in Chapter 45 and waive the second and third readings.

Second. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay, we'll go back up into our agenda, back to item nine, health plan renewal.

Melinda, can you give me access to share my screen, please?

So this was presented to us a couple weeks ago and since then we've heard feedback from employees and I know Beth has some options.

Yes, so a couple weeks ago Holmes Murphy was here and presented the changes to our health plan, how our health plan is performing and just circling back we're going to need, I need some decisions today to move forward with that renewal. Since Holmes Murphy presented, and today, we've had quite a bit of feedback from employees regarding the proposed increases to our medical plan. So I'm gonna run through, we've taken those feedback, we've heard employees, and I've asked for an adjustment to that potential increase. So I'll run through what our plan looks like today, the first renewal for medical, what that looked like, then the proposed change to 750, and then I'll run through the alternative that I'd like to present today for consideration. So this is how our current plan is set up with our deductibles are out-of-pocket maximums and office co-pays. This plan design really hasn't been changed in almost 15 years. This is the initial renewal with a 13% increase, or excuse me, a 6.9% increase. We're looking at almost a $412,000 increase to our plan. We proposed the initial proposal with a $750 deductible and a $2,500 out-of-pocket maximum in increasing the office copays from $15 to $20 copay. Change alone resulted in a decrease in the renewal and a savings of about $40,000 to our claims. Given the feedback that we had, I went back to Holmes Murphy and back to Wellmark to look at a different plan design. So looking at a $500 single deductible and a $2,000 out-of-pocket maximum, still increasing the office copayment to $20 per payment. That change was really only a $2,000 difference to the renewal price. So we're still seeing relatively the same amount of savings we would have between the two different plans. So today, one of the things that I'm asking you to consider is to approve this alternative renewal with Wellmark with the lower deductible for our employees. Additionally today, There are several things that I'll also need approval on. That would be increasing the flex spending account amounts to match the federal increases, changing our flex spending carrier to health equity, the change in the premium for the EAP carrier, And then the change to the voluntary life and accidental death and dismemberment. That change would allow employees to automatically, when they enroll in the voluntary life, they automatically enroll in the accidental death and dismemberment. Sorry, I should put those up. Here's an overview of what I need consideration for today. In addition, this year, I'm going to ask that you consider to authorize me to sign the renewal paperwork. There's quite a bit of documents that come through. And to streamline the process. I would ask you to approve that I sign those renewal documents.

I think after talking to quite a few employees that I think we still have to do something to this plan. And this was a good compromise for the first step. without going all the way up to what your first proposal was.

I agree.

I agree with that as well. Thank you for all the research and our career to be able to write that information.

And for the other items, those were laid out when we had our first presentation, and I didn't really have any questions. It makes sense for the FSA to go with the Fed. Those make logical sense to me. So, Kim, do you have any questions?

All right. I do not have any questions. I'm supportive of the alternative renewal plan and the lower deductible.

Yeah. Historically, you've approved the changes as presented. And I guess I would look at a county attorney, but I would say you'd call out the $500 deductible, the alternative proposal that was reviewed today for the medical plan, and then approve the other suggested changes and authorize the HR director to sign. Matt, would you agree?

Okay.

So moved.

I can send you the detailed changes. That's historically what I've done.

I'LL SECOND THE MOTION.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES.

THANK YOU. OKAY. WE'LL GO DOWN TO THE SHERIFF'S VEHICLE PURCHASE REQUEST ITEM 10.

GOOD MORNING. I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT IT'S TACO TUESDAY. And it's May 5th, Cinco de Mayo at the same time.

There's probably a lot of specials if you're looking to save money on dinner tonight.

This is just a normal routine for us. Car purchase is our last one of the fiscal year. This is replacing two totaled vehicles in the last year that we had in different accidents. There will be an amendment for some of the money to pay for this car from the insurance proceeds, which is never enough to cover the cost. We're trading in a 2021 Dodge Charger for a brand new Ford Explorer Interceptor. We are still looking for a car to give to Secondary Roads and also EMS. We didn't think the Charger would be real practical for you guys. So you didn't want this thing anyway. I'll find you a decent one.

Any questions for the Sheriff?

Chair, if you have the money in your budget to cover this.

We will, as soon as the amendment goes through.

Yeah, Kim, they requested an amendment of, I think, $70,000 for the two vehicles that were In accidents, let's say, right? Yes.

Because you're waiting for your insurance to come.

We have the insurance. The revenue is there. We just need it amended back into this line item to spend on this item.

Yeah, because we're fund accounting, right?

Right. It's got to go through revenue.

Right. I heard the sheriff say there would be a little bit of a shortfall evidently because insurance money is not covering the total cost.

They're short now, but once the amendment goes through, the insurance money that they've already received will be enough.

I think the point I was trying to make, Supervisor, is whenever we're reimbursed for insurance on a car, it's not the true cost to replace the car. They never factor in the equipment that has to be moved from one car to another car. And you're never going to get the same exact car, so sometimes that equipment doesn't fit and you have to get new equipment. IT'S SOMETHING WE'VE DEALT WITH FOREVER.

SURE. OKAY. THANK YOU.

I'LL MOVE APPROVAL OF THE SHERIFF'S VEHICLE PURCHASE REQUEST AS PRESENTED HERE TODAY.

SECOND. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.

AYE.

AYE. MOTION CARRIES. Item 11, secondary roads, awarding the bid for the highway six turns.

All right, last Tuesday, We hosted a letting for the Law Enforcement Center Turn Lane Project. We received three bids, one from En-ROADS, one from Des Moines Asphalt, and one from Grimes Asphalt. En-ROADS was the apparent low bidder there at $469,255.40. All three bids were less than the engineer's estimate. So we would recommend awarding the contract to En-ROADS.

And your timing for this is late summer, right?

I think the late start date for the project is August 3rd. I don't know exactly what En-ROADS schedule is like, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were able to start earlier than that. Whatever the start date is, we would coordinate that with Turner's activities there and make sure we weren't restricting access to anything they needed. The project is set in a couple different phases to handle both of the turning lanes without cutting off access completely.

Well, August should get us through all the construction on 169, hopefully, the roundabout, because aren't we the detour? I'm sorry, Hickman Road, the detour on that?

There's actually a pre-construction meeting going on right now. I don't know for sure that was one of the questions. Jeff Ackerman is attending for us. One of the questions was, you know, when is their closure going to take place? I know, I believe it's like 60 days, I think, is the allowed closure time, and that detour will be on us. Depending on some projects, that are going on on the interstate, it's either gonna be R16, the Van Meter Road, up to Highway 6 and back into Adel, or it's gonna be P58 to Old 6 into Adel. So that's the other question Jeff's gonna be asking the contractor at that pre-construction meeting.

Okay, okay, great. Any other questions on this resolution?

I'LL OFFER AN APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2026-0056.

SECOND. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE.

AYE.

AYE. MOTION CARRIES. WE'LL MOVE DOWN TO ROADS UPDATE.

ALL RIGHT. To get started here, we'll go through some of the construction projects that we have going on. The first one, towards the top of the screen there, right here, is the B Avenue bridge. That bridge is currently closed. We removed that last year. But the contractor is mobilizing their equipment and taking over the closure today. So they'll begin work very soon on that. The next project, and that's Herberger Construction doing B Avenue. Herberger Construction is also doing the H Avenue bridge just to the southeast there. That work will likely begin sometime around June 1st. We're working on some utility relocations right now, so as soon as those are completed, Herberger will close that bridge and begin that project. The next project, if you'd scroll down to the bottom of the map, please. The next project is F90, picking up where we left off last summer and then heading east to the Van Meter corporate limits. Manats is doing that project. And last we've heard from them, they plan to start construction sometime around the 1st of June. So I would expect that work for a few months during the summer. Then we've got the 288th street paving just outside of Adel here. Grimes Asphalt was the low bidder on that project. We have not had a pre-construction meeting with them yet, so I don't know exactly what their schedule's like. But the late start date for that project is June 20th, so they would need to start by then, or we would start charging working days at that point anyway. And then there's the Law Enforcement Center Turn Lane project that you just awarded. Again, don't know what the start date would be on that, but the late start date is August 3rd. We also have five box culverts kind of spread throughout the county. There's two on Sportsman's Club, two on, I think, 200th Street, and then one on, I think it's 335th, just outside of West Des Moines. Those box culverts are all currently being built by the manufacturer now. Don't know an exact date when those would be installed, but I would anticipate it taking around six weeks for them to finish building those boxes. So mid-summer is about the time frame we'd be looking at installing those. That's it for contracted construction so far, but we do also have a bridge on 347th right here between DeSoto and Van Meter. The deck is currently in pretty poor condition on that bridge. So we're looking at closing that bridge sometime probably around the 1st of June. We would remove the deck. We have new decking to go on top of that. And then we have some repairs to do to the abutments and wing walls and everything. I would anticipate that bridge being closed for a decent portion of the summer while we do the rehab on that bridge. Anything you want to add, Al?

Yeah, I would just add I've got a meeting set up on Friday with the city of Van Meter for the projects down on F90. We don't know time frame yet, but that would entail The two bridges, the one by Boonville and the overflow bridge down here on F90 would also include some pavement rehab between Tabor and Boonville, as well as Tabor's right here. And this structure, what is it? 365th. 365th is slated to be graded and paved, as well as a portion of Tabor. to accommodate the development down in that area. I believe the development agreement's been approved and things are moving forward. Just not a great time of the year to try to rush all this stuff through and get contractors on board. But I'll have a better update here after our Friday meeting on that. Kind of normal maintenance stuff. We talked a little bit about the work our crews are doing at our central maintenance facility. Chad had said we've got about two weeks worth of work. In an ideal world, probably about two weeks. It's going to be a little bit more than that probably by the time we're totally done. We have some roof drains we're putting underground on the north side of the building, as well as finishing the paving of the parking lot. Currently, we've got the east entrance to the facility pretty well paved out. We've got a small section that we still have to pave on it. And the east entrance will be all done. We paved both islands for the security gates that we've got. And we're working on the west side of the building right now, as well as the downspouts on the north side of the building. Our crews are doing all the work in that area. And we're trying to work in our normal activities, trying to get ready for dust control season and dealing with a lot of tile issues this spring at the same time. The only other project that I just wanted to bring up, we have a small stretch of the Stein Road Laredo Trail that our crews had removed the pavement. It's kind of at the north end of the existing paving, and we've added that paving project back into our program for a letting yet this fiscal year. I don't have a date on a letting yet, but that'll be coming up in the next, hopefully, six weeks or so. Any questions?

I don't have any. Kim, do you have any questions?

I think the only question I have is, I was in 902 court yesterday and I bought some of the furniture that the engineer's office has left there. Al, are you taking any of that furniture or what's the plan for that furniture that's left at 902 Court?

We are not planning on taking any of that furniture. I would say most, if not all of that was left by other departments that we moved in there to use in the interim. And no, we're not planning on taking that with us. We had furniture supplied as a part of the contract at our central maintenance facility. I think part of which are in IT's old furniture. I think we're in there accommodating our temporary stay.

Could any of that furniture be used for courts if need be in the future?

Like in the courthouse, Kim, or in the attorneys when they No, in the courthouse.

Maybe. Okay, well, I just don't want us to dispose of it if there's a use for it.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we will certainly not do that. There is an FF&E for the courthouse project that would have the furnishings in that. And as I'm sure you know, like some of the furnishings in that courthouse have to be pretty specific to courthouse needs. So it might be something that the needs would be different than what we have, but we can certainly, we will definitely save it and not get rid of it and inquire about that.

I think aside from some file cabinets that we have to store our plans, we have all the furniture out of there that we need for our use.

Very good. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. We're gonna just jump down to item 12 to set time and date for public hearings. The first reading of proposed changes to chapter four, general assistant program. Do you have a date on that? I had 5-26. And May 26th at 10 a.m.?

SECOND. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES.

The next item is to update official Dallas County zoning map. We have a public hearing. We need to set that.

May 26, 1015 AM.

Move to set time and date for public hearing to update official Dallas County zoning map.

SECOND.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. WE HAVE ABOUT THREE MINUTES UNTIL OUR NEXT PUBLIC HEARING. I'M JUST GOING TO ASK, IS THERE ANY OTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE BOARD TODAY?

I do not have any.

I do not either to have any other business, so. You think we could do those drainage assessments in two minutes? Okay, let's move down to item 16, which is our drainage assessments. We've had quite a few conversations about this topic. So 16A is for DD36. And that's our outlet fee, I'm pretty sure.

All right, so I move to approve resolution 202600ID. Okay.

SECOND.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. AND THEN THE NEXT RESOLUTION IS FOR DURING THIS DISTRICT 22 IT'S OUTLET FEE. SO 16B.

SECOND.

ANY DISCUSSION? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. So the last item I see is our 10 o'clock public hearing. And this public hearing is for our Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. And the reason we are having it is because it goes over fiscal years. So it is required to have a public hearing. And it's 10 o'clock, I'll open up the public hearing. Cliff, do you wanna give us, just tee this up?

Sure, so this is our Microsoft agreement, three years, Julie stated. Our old one is done, so we have to sign a new one for the next three years. We get the advantage of being on the enterprise agreement and getting price deductions because of the members in the agreement. So we get the highest level discount available with Microsoft, which is great for us because individually we would not be able to get those price savings. So I guess, yeah, this will cover us for the next three years and then we'll do it again.

Does the chair need to sign this agreement?

There is a signature page. They have it all under my stuff, but there's a, you can, we could have the chair sign it, then there's an optional customer second signature where I could sign it since it's all, all the stuff comes to me, and sometimes they follow with electronic one to verify as well. So I think we'll be covered if we both sign it.

Okay. So we are in public hearing, and this was published. Lynn, do you know when it was published? last Thursday. Have we had any, have we received any written comments about it? No. If there's anyone to speak on this matter, they could please go to the podium and state their name and they would have 10 minutes to speak on this. Is there anyone from the public to speak on this public hearing? Any questions from the board? Again, one last time, anyone from the public?

Second.

Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. The public hearing is now closed. Is there any action on the agreement?

Is there an authorization for Cliff to sign as well? Absolutely.

I'll second the motion.

Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. And again, I'll ask for, is there any other business to come before the board today?

I have no other business.

I don't either.

Move to adjourn. Second.

Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Motion carries. We are adjourned. Thank you.

Thank you.