County Council - Regular Meeting

Let's call the August meeting council stand for it stands one nation with liberty and justice for all. Okay, I've got the minutes emailed to them if they had a chance to read them. It should have been two. One from our normal meeting in July and executive session on July the 31st. Have we both together a motion to approve both sets of minutes?

I move. Bill makes a motion. He has a second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Any oppose? Hey, we're gonna start out. You want to go ahead and I know you have a meeting or something intense.

Thanks for letting me jump in here and with everyone. obviously here for bid 2026 budget request. I represent new directions of Decator County Domestic Violence Shelter and Ashley Wilson is our board president. So there's going to show representation. Um I am requesting $15,000 um in the 2026 budget. I've provided you with a listing of what we would be using those for. primarily most of you have sat in front of me when I requested our grants have been right-sized to cover a majority of our expenses at the shelter. However, our mortgage is never covered in that. So, historically, it's been used in that regard. Uh when I stood before you last year, we had not secured a new location and we were granted and blessed with some ARPA funds to be able to do that. So, we've been able to acquire a new facility that provides better safety and security for our clients as well as the staff. So, the additional funds this year will be again used to contribute towards those expenses that we will have. Um, we do anticipate having a large capital campaign. So we would not be relying completely on this but they would certainly help in our efforts to provide safety and security to the clients of domestic violence here.

I have any questions concerns? We'll take a look at it. Red Alive.

Thank you for letting me come today and for your support. Um, it's a special day because 23 years ago today, we served our first meal. So, as I was looking at the calendar today, it's like what a milestone.

And I look at it as such a a great thing for this town just to drive through this beautiful town and not see people eating out of a dumpster. We've got, you know, this beautiful facility that um has rescued 3 million pounds of food over 23 years that would have went into the landfill. and we've prepared it into meals and um we are here today asking for this is the only grant that we can ask for some help with our operating expenses. So um we're asking for the 15,000 which is 75% of our utility budget and our utilities for last year was u almost $19,000. Um, we have over 9,000 in electric, over 6,000 in water, and 3,600 in gas. So, we would um love to have your support for that. Um, we are never going to be self-sufficient. Um, but we do do a big part of our fundraising inhouse by ourselves. Uh, 32% of our fundraising we do, and that that brings in $100,000. uh the turkey noodle dinner and the farmer's steaming the flop that's going on right now. Um we just continue to keep growing those and we'll never, you know, not not do those. So, we do our part. Um last year we served 1,168 different individuals and they may have needed us just one time during the year or they may have needed us multiple times. that um we have a reputation that we are there um we we do not close. The only time we close is if the schools close because of the roads and the snow

and the ice. That's when we close. We are always there and we are always offering hope through our free meal. And then we also have the clothing ministry and um we are helping people you know with that avenue too. Um, it's just a ministry I think on both ends of the volunteers that come in and the clients that we serve also. So, it's a great thing and I hope that you can be a part of it and help us out. Any questions?

Thank you, ma'am. I look here. Children's Advocacy Center, I think. Okay.

Numbers for you. Not the numbers of cases. I thought it be more interesting to look at what types of cases. These are the numbers when they're cases are all confidential. It's not something that's kind of about the city of law enforcement and CCS are bringing to us and um you are uh you are our third largest participant in our in the region and it's because you're a big county but it's also because you do case review. Um, you're one of three counties that does case reading, which is law enforcement, Department of Child Services, Escap staff, and whoever's involved in some cases. They get together and look at the cases that they're purely bad, particularly good and look at what they did wrong and right, and just kind of dive in. And it's really good way so the cases don't fall through the cracks and we just don't have the manpower to do them everywhere. We do them at Decar County. So I think that's a big reason why it saw here that um they're working really well together as a team and if people um realize that these cases are handled well which they are here um they'll report more. So, if the numbers seem kind of high, it's good reflection on for all the investigators are doing. And I wanted to thank you. We have our um five years in our standalone office here and it is the most used office of all of them. And I'm kind of sad to say that it's the best plan because I didn't have anything to do with it. But it is really well planned and it works well. And um like everybody else, we

appreciate your support through the years. Do you have any questions for us? Any questions concerns? I'll just take care. It's most used office. Yeah. Yeah. That's what that's what me. It's Yeah. Well, there's some from outside county that use it because people like it. These numbers are just coming.

Yeah. Yeah. And so you can see the trends. It's like all the other counties. mostly sexual abuse and usually physical abuse, but you know, we see witnesses to crime and maybe homicide or death and lots of other things. I can leave this for anybody to talk. Can you briefly explain the relationship between PCS, Advocates for Children, CAC, and all that?

That's a good question. Yeah, DCS, you know, is investigators for the state child safety is to make sure children are safe and um TASA court appointed special advocates or child advocates. Um there are people that are assigned by the court to children who don't have parent or a guardian who can do can represent them kind of as a parent and so they follow a child through the long hall of whatever is the case they have for us we just work with investigations if somebody has alleged to DCS they're always the first plot um that something might happen they get with law enforcement prosecutor usually and then decide if they need more information. And that's when they come to us because we have the ability and we have specially trained people to interview children, find out in an worthy, childfriendly, nonbiased way in their own words what happened and and we record those. The investigators watch it from another room. So everything happens in real time just once and the children don't have to do it again. just been a problem.

That makes sense. So if you found the child didn't have a voice so to speak, then you would connect them to cost that. Well, we we don't have any power that the court protect. You work closer with DCS and you would advocates for children have it has to go to court before advocates get involved.

Well, not Yeah. Yeah. the the judge usually appoints a man child as I understand it because I've never done that. We just we're we're in the crisis phase. If there's maybe a crime being committed, that's when we get involved. And cases can be a lot, you know, without a child necessarily being harmed. Say both parents are in prison or something. Since you all can't see these numbers, 66% of the catering cases are sexual abuse. Yeah. And and that's normal. I mean, it's that that's what we see in the rest of

anything else. What was the dollar request? 9,000. Yeah. And we use a we have this standalone office now which of course it's expensive but worth it because it's an office and we also have a grant that pays 80% of our payroll. So use the plan request to try to match that. Thank you.

Okay, Lifetime Resource. Good morning. Good morning.

I hate that Sarah even has to present. I wish I didn't need to. Um anyway, um I'm Aaron Thomas. I'm the executive director at Lifetime Resources. This is Michelle Gus. She's our Peteride director. Um, firstly, I want to apologize. We are an area agency on aging and all the things on the front of your letter are true. However, we don't serve you in that capacity here. Um, you actually have another area on aging um, which is ride alliance. Um, so the one service that we do provide here is catcher ride. So, I apologize, you got the wrong cover letter. Um, so, uh, with catcher ride, of course, it's public transportation. It's available to anyone for any purpose. However, uh those that utilize our service tend to be older adults, people with disabilities, low income, uh that sort of thing for the most part. Um but you can use the service to go absolutely anywhere. You can go to, you know, uh doctor's appointments, grocery store, to visit a friend, to the park, out to eat, wherever you'd like to use the service for. Um our last full year of data um we served 131 residents and did about 7,800 trips um for Decar County residents. Um our budget in Decar County is around $360,000. Um and our request is for 10,000 which is just a little under 3% of that. Um and the funds that are provided um are utilized to match our section 5311 grant which requires a 100% match. Um and so we do bring in um a large portion of our match from our contracted services. So we do uh Medicaid, Medicare, managed care, um non-emergent medical transportation. We also have contracts with um DSI. Um and so all of those bring in Matt for the program as well. Um and we do charge a uh a reasonable fair. Um it starts at $3 uh for the first five miles. Um those fairs

though only reduce the expenses that have to be matched. They are not matching themselves. Um what am I missing? Do you have any questions? I'm happy to answer any questions. You mentioned non-emergency medical transportation. Do you have any contracts with veterans service that takes veterans to and from the VA or anything like that? Any opportunities there? Um no, we don't have any contracted services with them. Um, and a lot of times those folks are going outside of the area.

Um, and we're restricted to our six county service area. So that's kind of like their niche. Um, and we do refer, you know, we refer them back and forth and things like that. Um, but we don't have any like contracts with them necessarily. And a lot of times the veteran services have volunteers that drive for them to take and county's case, we don't. Okay. There's an opportunity there to provide some transportation, I think. Okay. Okay. [Music] Any other questions? Any questions or any concerns? Okay.

Good morning, council. Um I'm here representing the uh 911 as I serve as chairman. Um not asking for any money but asking for a um approval policy. Um currently the um 911 center utilizes Motorola services for our um dispatch all things dispatching um and all things 911 related that uh is is used by fire, police, EMS um and all emergency response agencies. Currently when Motorola sends a bill, they send it to um the sheriff's department or Decator County Technology. Um that bill is then having to be split between city and county with each individual agency. then cutting its own check. We have found this extremely uh difficult to manage. Um Ashley Wilson, our secretary, uh who pays and makes sure all bills have been maintained, um consistently has to go back and rectify. We uh just recently rectified a four-year-old issue that uh has never been taken care of, mainly because they say that uh full payment has not been made. At our last 911 board meeting, um the executive board made up of city and county officials both did vote to um have the county go ahead and pay the entire bill and then the county issue a bill to the city to reimburse for the city's aspect and then the city would cut a check to the county for that payment. Um this way one complete check can be sent to Motorola so the bill can be paid in full and then money can then be taken back from the city and put back into those accounts. Uh the reason for coming to you today is obviously the budget amount in the county budget does not only covers the county portion as well as city budget covers the city portion. Um it would run in the red for a short time until the city check uh

basically cleared. Um, Sheriff Buyers presented this as an FYI to the commissioners yesterday. Uh, and I am here today to uh request that uh a vote be taken on that policy. I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Are there 30-day terms or what are the terms from rule?

There are they they do have 30-day terms, but it's not followed. Um, unfortunately they're they don't really communicate well until uh they don't they like realize they have their money. Like I said, we're dealing with an issue that was from 2023 that where they they double bill us. Um, so what I was thinking about was once the 911 board gets the invoice from Motorola or whatever invoice that gets turned into Christy Katza invoice the city. Can the city reimburse the county within that terms time where we're really not running into red as you just mentioned? City pays the county then the county pays the invoice.

Yes. Within within 30 days. Yes. As far as like the month goes. No. Because obviously the city we mean all claims are paid on that second Tuesday. So that would be that that second Wednesday is when the check could be cut. Um yes. I don't I don't foresee it, Rick, like the the account running in the red for the full year and then having to do some type of appropriation or to say like, hey, we need to rectify this. They build twice a year um anyway. So, it's not going to happen every month. Uh

when they when they bill us, it's obviously very large amounts, but it's only twice a year for services because that that has also been split. So, not one county agency pays for everything and not one city agency pays for everything. It's filled in the city, but the police department has a has a percentage and then the fire department has a percentage. Um, and the same is the same as for the county. So, it's there's a lot of moving. It's almost a game of chess, unfortunately. And I hopefully this doing it this way is is the better way of doing it. Nobody's not everybody's going to get what they're owed. It's just a potentially a cleaner way to do it. So, we're not arguing with Motorola. Um because most of the time when we find out is when we try to either upgrade or we have an issue. Um then they're like, "Well, your bill is not paid." And that's usually when the emails start coming and and Ashley is is always investigating that. Um and figuring out why and actually doing their job and to say, "Hey, here's the check numbers. Here's where it's at. Why why isn't this reflecting that?" Um and we've never so far got an apology. Just your accounts. I

created a problem. Christie if they are unable to split the bill and send it to two agencies. I mean that seems pretty simple. That's the problem. That's the problem. Won't do that. Correct. Correct. They're big enough. They don't need to.

When you're the only game in town Yeah. When it when when literally it's monopoly, they they get to kind of pick their pick and choose their terms. Um and as simple as it sounds of all of us pooling our money together and sending one check like we do pretty much currently, that still doesn't work. this is truly a fault of theirs and not ours. We just have to be the ones that are reactive to it because there's no way and trying to be proactive in changing our policy to match them. Well, the contracted services under their budget that $132,000 is that that is that the motor?

Yes. Well, that is for some of the motor. There's other there's others others in there as well. What is a bill every six months? So, the we just got into a subscription service. Um I think it's going to be 85 for the first year. And then we also have a maintenance bill that comes once a year. And that's usually between 10 and 13,000. So, it's it's usually averages out to around 64,000 a year. 64 a year. Once weeks. 32,000.

Once weeks. Yeah. Once we pay that in, hopefully the subscription fee will or the subscription service will actually help us. Again, they're the only game in town and they've kind of moved away from just contracts and now you subscribe and so we're just kind of stuck going with the flow. Uh they're they're not the only game in town, but they're one of few games in town. the money that you all plus the city have invested in in 911 and the dispatch there there's they kind of got us because there's no we shouldn't switch. The money that we've invested is is far greater than the money that it would take to change uh providers. [Music]

Well, I don't think we got much choice, do we? We got to pay it. Doesn't really matter as long as we get money back, you know. Yeah, [Music] no problem. I think they have it down pat. I mean, I think it'll work just fine. We have to do some kind of a memorandum of understanding on that. It should be between commissioners and users money is it? Well, should there be something? You're right. Should there be something that says that um they got to pay us? Yeah. Should be anou.

Yeah. So, we'll we'll work that out with our board and they're uh our our board is actually re uh realigning and there there'll be a uh basically just a fiduciary board that is I believe Ashley will be your representative. Um Commissioner Winning uh Mayor Marsh and uh Councilman King. Dr. King will be uh actually for that and and that's that's not to say that those will be your kind of your go-to point people. Um but that's not to say that yeah we can't we can't enter we can enter it to a to anou just to say hey this is

how it's there that way it is on file it is on paper everybody knows that that that is the way and then yeah um the city does claims once a month just the same as as you guys do. It's just getting on that schedule to make sure that that it is, you know, and and hopefully the the amounts are almost fixed to the point where we know when it's coming and what it's meant to make a motion. I'll make a motion video on payment on the motor county first city back. Got a motion from Kenny. I'll second it. Rick seconds it. Any other discussion, questions?

It only relates to motor rule. It's the only expensive cor. Yes. That is literally just this account. All those in favor anyway by next month. Thanks, sir. How about here?

So, talk to something came up. Um, but he just has his CCMG 2026-1 proposal for Danny and Christie to sign. He's in the midst of applying for that grant. So, just housekeeping on our end. We just should have got it here. It's for 250,000. It's been approved by commissioners. We just have to approve it. If you want to look at it, here it is. same grants we've been approving for last just last year's $250,000 in TCMG grant. I'll entertain a motion to approve.

Next motion bill seconds. Any other questions? Discussion if we get awarded that that'll actually give us a half a million dollars for because it's matching. I don't know. I don't Yeah, I think so. 8020 is 8020. Yeah. 7525. I think they change it to 80. Yeah. All those in favor?

Any oppose? be in charge of that. Okay. Sheriff, good morning. Item number one, I let you call report out for the first half of this year for your review. No action needed for your review as mandated by law. Any questions about that? Again, if you're having trouble want to say night, just pull it out and switch to sleep. Item number two, we've had an unexpect unexpected expense come up to us last couple days. One of our outside surveillance cameras went out. It's a 360 degree camera. It uh works from our cell area, our fencing area should we have to evacuate the building and part of our parking lot. So, we really need to get that replaced. And this was something we were not expecting. I had not budgeted for. So, I went to the company that installed the original one, which I laid a copy out in front of you from Accurate Controls. They want $10,424.60 to replace that camera. Um, I've since been in contact with Josh Trust as well, see if we can get it done cheaper. He believes we can. He was out part of the week last week, so he's still working on that. So the commissioner yesterday approved spending up to this $10,000 replace this camera. The issue is again I don't have funding in my budget for this. So I suggested to them yesterday either Q can't or uh the jail tax fund because it is part of the building. So

they approved that again with hopes that you would approve the jail tax fund to uh pay this camera replacement. That's why I'm coming before you today is to ask for that. amount up to that amount to replace that camera with yellow tax,000 10,42460. Yes. I guess special taxes for myself part of the building. Part of the building.

I'll make a motion we allowing up 10,000. Bill makes a motion. Any seconds? Any other questions? There going to be any warranty on it? I mean, is it going to go out a few years like this? Yeah, there should be a year warranty. Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Lucky to get a year out. Yeah. Again, we're we're five years old. So, this one was five years old. I got a motion by Bill. Thank you. Any other discussion? All those in favor? I.

All those any opposed?

Thank you. The last item, um, we come across a product that we'd like to purchase for our jam. Like I laid out the reassurance for what this is is a it's a radar medical detector. We have two pad cells. We have two medical cells. like to purchase four, one for each pad cell, one for each medical cell. It's like a smoke detector size. What this does, it radar again maintains the uh biometrics if you will for the person inside. So if there's a heart rate jump or low or respiratory, alarm goes off in control alerts our staff. Both the pad cells and medical cells get checked every 15 minutes. As we all know, if you're having a medical event in that 15 minutes could be a long time. We previously had one death in our medical cell. We' have had this alarm may have helped save that person. Again, I'm looking at um mitigating our liability should we have a death one of those cells because those are four most high-risisk cells. if they're in a medical sale or if they're in pad sale, we either have the medical problems or mental health problems, one or the other. So, I think my opinion is this is a cheap investment if we can save a life and save our liability as well. Quite frankly, um this is hardwired to be mounted above the cell door. Again, it just maintains the medical information from that person inside the jail cell. Um again, $29,000 is the quote. That's for the installation. There's a $900 per year maintenance agreement on each one. So, 3600, which I'd be willing to pay out of commentary going forward. Um, but I would like to purchase this again to mitigate our liability should something

happen. And we've had one death in one of our medical sales in our facility about the last two two and a half years previously. That was like 160,000. Yeah. Right. like other counties are using this and they're finding value in it and I believe it does have value for us as well for sorry for yeah so again this is part of the building I'm asking again the jail tax fund be a possible revenue to fund this is this something that has been out a long time or something new or a year year and a half we have yeah

there's nothing goes on the Nothing's a person. It's all correct. Adams County, uh, our sister jail that we modeled after is using this technology. Uh, and they, you know, so it's in a facility that's exactly like ours. The cells are exactly the same. Just work the line. Good luck with this. You think it's an or Well, it's not unusual for us to have all four cells occupied. Uh we had one inmate who had to go to the hospital three days before last surgery and he is still in our medical cell recovery from surgery. So that's a prime example of the need for it.

There's no interaction with defibrills or anything like that in relationship to radar and all that. Yeah. I know you just had a jail inspection not too long ago. Do they recommend that you have that or they say about you know that never came up in discussion. Any other questions? That will help with some liability. I hope that well it should help with liability because again Bill said what's the subscription cover is that on or

again it's the maintenance agreement every year. So yeah if there's a problem they should come in and fix it. Yes. What's the lifespan of these things? They give you No, they didn't, but I anticipate it being is hardwired. It's not battery operated, nothing like that. It sets off some kind of alarm or something or

Yeah, there's usually always somebody on the booking desk. So, one alarm going desk, there's always somebody in my control room. So, it'll also go to the control room. So there'll be almost immediate response should the alarm go off. I just just I don't know once we get the budget all done everything like that. It's not going to put you in a bind if we would put this on hold for just a month or two if we would need to look at everything else.

Well, it's good for 30 days. That's all

and it is part of the building. So we take around like a little more magic thing you put on the wall tells you the heartbeat and all that. Uh again it's that because of the technology it can monitor their biometrics their respirations and heart rate because should one of them fluctuate up or down he senses that and sends the alarm. Are you having medical a couple a week? Two, three a week. It's not unusual for us to transport inmates to hospital. My thought is I'd like to see you try two of them and see if everything works before we spend 30,000 on four of us. There's an economy of scale to do four rather than two.

Well, that's what I might be a better

actually. I think it's I would agree.

It takes some liability out of it. You know, it's an unfortunate thing where, you know, we sat here talking about $23,000. Yeah, it's $29,000 money. Every time we turn around or liability factor and that kind of stuff, it could cost a whole lot more money. If something would happen, we proactive to take care of it. Kind of puts us in a a hard spot every time we turn around. I think $29,000 $29,000. But I think that's pretty cheap insurance policy to 3,600 every year on top of that.

And if something would happen, we could say, look, we're going to these measures to try to correct. I'll entertain a motion to approve. I make a motion to approve. Second the seconds. Any other questions, concerns? Taking it down tax purpose. Y those in favor.

Thank you very much, Mr. Lob. Morning.

All right. So, um I'm just here for um some approval on um staff. We are hiring in a new our last maintenance spot. Um that being said, our maintenance one spot is open. Um I've got guys right now maintenance two. So, I'm wanting to bump them up to maintenance one and two hire and our new hire three. Um, so I'm just asking and money's already in the budget for this year. It's already set. Um, we've got it. So, I'm just um yeah, asking for approval to move Eric Ziggler to maintenance one and uh Jack maintenance two and then we'll hire him maint. Yeah. That's good.

You're supposed to have one. Yeah, you have three. Three, right? Yeah. So, I right now have my current maintenance supervisor, Jodian, and uh maintenance two and three. Three total amount.

Is there a difference in one, two, and three or so? Jody or so Jody does have above all maintenance one um does have a little bit higher pay two and three and the salary are paid the same right now so Eric would get bumped up a little bit paid but it is the budget for this year in your opinion Eric is qualified yes hold that one position yeah I believe both of them do a great I call that reflected in your proposed budget for next year also.

No. So it's I built in with us being totally staffed for next year next year's board. [Music] Well, there any questions there. So, I entertain a motion to approve three. Make a motion to approve. Motion makes motion to approve. I'll second that. Jenny second. Any other questions? Motion's to move into Okay. Yeah. R1.

And that's what you had, right? Yes. Next. Yeah. It's just a replacement. Correct. Adam. Yes. Correct. Any questions? All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Thanks, sir. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Okay. We got salary ord one corner one amendment road crew no see you got any CVL's correct move

yes Okay, this county highway county highway county highway employee passed his training and now hold CDL class B license which he qualified for lowest pay at 2130 an hour get that one motion to approve

I'll make that motion. How much advancement 21 2130 went from 2085 to 2130

and I notic Rick second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Any oppose? Okay. Quarter two. If I'm fair. Okay. This is salary ordinance for park. Uh this where you moved up. Moved them up. Okay. One got moved up to minus one. Maintenance two from maintenance three to maintenance to jail. Uh move somebody from deputy to corporal. Correct.

Yeah. and port security went from corporal transport officer and the sheriff and senator Paul instructor

instructor instructor you want to look at it down through here see That'll turn into a monthly thing. Correct. Um, so I do just want to explain that we because of the way that we do the salary ordinance, it's we have names on there, names and positions. So anytime someone's pay changes, even going to like the jail, night shift, anything like that, this has to be approved before their pay can change. So in the past we were doing it kind of I would bring salary ordinances

beginning right and then midy year and then the end but we found out that it has to be done before before the change can be made. And so this will become a monthly as long as all the administration and county offices know that can explain that to the employee that issue then not for us. No I would think it wouldn't be it's just going to take a little bit of communicate that

to everybody ahead of time get to us a little earlier. Okay. I'll entertain a motion to approve amendments to salary quarter three. [Music] Quarter two. Quarter quarter three. Did you do the two the park and the jail? They're on this on here. Park and jail. They're all on here. Okay. They're all on here. I'll make that motion. Adam makes a motion to approve amendments to salary quarter three. Second

seconds. Any other discussion? Questions? All those in favor? Any oppose?

Transfers. Got two health department $191.88 trucks and room to utilities from highway 15,000. There's no one here to ask why, but no. How did the hardware get $15,000? I don't know. I was wondering the same thing.

A little more than So Todd's aware he's he's not been watching his cash balance. He didn't realize he I guess he's just been watching his location budget. Um so he's he's got some clean up to do for there. But utility wise, issues with RNC this spring. They have something something was programmed wrong.

Yeah, the wrong multiplier. Correct. So So they ended up having to pay back 15 I mean it was 15 to 17,000 um from past time. We didn't think there was a lot of back and forth. I believe commissioner spoke with RMC because they didn't think that we should have to pay for it since it was their issue putting the multiplier on, but they did. It was quickly explained to us that did in fact roll.

Yeah. to make sure that we reconcile it. So it's not something that we're gonna occurrence on ongoing his bill is much higher now each year by or I mean each month by it was a multiplier of one is what they had and it should have been a multip that's all three. Yeah, I take that.

I guess that explains Iain motion on transfers. Any motion accept transfers? 30 seconds. Any other questions? All those in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Additional. We got one $3,000 office supplies for [Music] countywide for 91

911. [Music] This is coming out over there. Just transfer. Correct.

Yeah. Why wasn't this just put on a trans? Yeah. Let's go. you probably wouldn't have just put on a transfer account. Must be homeless in addition. They're pulling it from their account. They're they're asking for more money to be put in their budget.

You're asking for more money to put in the account in go through this step to where it ends up being an additional instead of a you probably shouldn't transfer should make an addition. I entertain a motion to approve. Make that motion. Any makes a motion. Second.

Bill seconds. Any other questions? All those in favor? Any opposed? Okay. All I have on the agenda. Anybody else have anything for us? Yeah.

Um, I sent you all to email one with a draft of a long range planning committee. And the second was adding some additional responsibilities to the salary and personnel committee. So, if you guys want to review those, we can talk about it more next month. And then I got an email yesterday regarding the selection committee. You guys pick who you want to be on that for the foundation. Currently it is Mary Lou Gal um for the year. So we just it's time to pick who you want to be on it again. Mary Lou want to do that again foundation.

Okay motion. deal. Okay. Actually makes a motion to approve Maryland G. I'll second. All those in favor? I just got reated.

And did you get there was two banners, Christie, that didn't get paid? I sent you. Do you know how I did see that email and we checked there was we paid for 13 there was two extra or on top of that 13 so I wasn't sure if that voice was for the two extra two extra okay there should have been two invoice I sent you okay should have been one for I can't remember how for the first batch I went out then we had to order two more and I remember you asking if they got paid and I did remember seeing the banners invoice come through. I think it was that first.

Okay, we will get Okay. Anybody else have anything for us?

Makes motion to journ it. Well, I just real quick just give you guys the update already one or 76% dispersed as far as projects being completed. We have I think three to four outstanding projects, one of them being main street which should uh wrap up uh soon. Uh that does put us as far as performance we're in the top two in state as far as rank one two we have free projects actively receiving funding we expect more we're just being held up at the state level as far as the big one. So all that information is in uh we got initial approval and just kind of going through the approval stages of state at that point I'll add we talked about August 21st and then I'll just tell you the house we had focus groups all last week gathering more information so that continue to progress

and the chamber is partnering with economic development um to prevent an event This Thursday, August the 21st from 11 to 1. Um, attendance is free. Lunch is provided. We do require registration. is a workforce partners event where we are bringing in the Indiana Department of Education, the Indiana Chamber, Ascend Indiana, and Connect of Indiana to talk about the new high school diploma requirements, what that looks like for our students, what that looks like for our schools and having and needing to partner with our business community and how we can help build those relationships and find placement for our kiddos as they need to now have upwards of 650 hours um depending on the diploma level um to graduate. So, anyone is welcome to attend that. Again, we'd appreciate a registration. Um a lot of questions. There'll be a panel discussion at the end. A lot of helpful information.

Anybody in elementary education need to attend that or is it all? I would say um high school. Yeah. Yeah. And we do have representation from all of our high schools from the building principles. The local government also would be possible option to partake. So shouldn't work around here. I got plenty at home. I think they have to be paid though.

There actually that is not the case. So you it can be paid or unpaid. Um there it's and they've got different buckets. So it could be job shadowing, it could be an internship, it could be apprenticeship. Um and we'll get more like we don't know all those answers, but that's why we're bringing them in is so that we can learn a little bit more about what is required at the business or the organization. Not sure mowing eggs long.

All right, I'll enter motion to any second. Any discussion on that? All those in favor? I any oppose? Okay. You want to set the set