Board of Supervisor - Regular Meeting

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Good morning, all of you that are here.

It's a beautiful Alabama morning out there. Our first item of business is a DD5 annexation public hearing. So I will now open that hearing. And we will let Colin start his every month show.

This is kind of a little bit of a backdrop to this. A petition was filed 2025 for improvement in branch 126 of Drain District number 5. And so Jacobson-Webstergard engineering firm was appointed to investigate and make certifications. So started this process, did a report. and then recommended doing basically a waterway at the south end of the district instead of doing like a large tile improvement project that would have been frankly a million dollars plus. Landowners didn't really have an appetite for a project like that. And this was something that for the landlord of that petition, and gets water ponding up and really pushing out of the pile from everybody else off the hill and holding water in this depressional area he has. We basically cut a waterway through so that that water can get away. A low cost option to try to give some relief about breaking the bank. And so as part of that, initially I thought, well, it's gonna be a small project. We just put it on the existing assessment schedule. We don't worry about reclassification or anything like that. But I think actually maybe Jordan So we were working on the notice to send letters out to everybody. She noticed that maybe there was some people missing that should be on the assessment schedule. And so I looked at it then and okay, I could see that there was problems with the existing schedule. And we'll talk more about that in the reclassification part of this. When we looked at that, there was also some lands that were not in DD5 currently that should be, and they also would be in that branch 126. So they should help pay a little bit towards the waterway that was constructed last fall. So for the annexation, we've got TAB, Mark McIntyre, Board Members do you have copies of this and you've seen this I can handle yep they got the last prize at this one, when we met got it. TAB, Mark McIntyre, everybody else yeah.

TAB, Mark McIntyre, yeah. TAB, Mark McIntyre, So if you look.

on the second to last page there's a map and for annexation how that works is right we this the project was focusing on branch 126 which is only a portion of drainage district number five uh 85 has an open ditch and then there's several branches that come off of that and so Chris Hannett, You know, when we were doing this annexation as long as they're in the the overall drainage district, you can put them into any assessments, they need to be. Chris Hannett, Not on the dd five main open ditch schedule you can't use them at the branch 126 schedule, so you have to annex into dd five so that you can put it into any of the assessment schedules within the dd five. Chris Hannett, I didn't look at. if annexation was needed anywhere else in DD5 other than within the branch 126 area that we're talking about. We're doing reclassification of the same area. So really I just focused on that. This map, what you can see is the red or pink boundary is the branch 126 benefited area. And the black big dotted line is the existing assessment boundary of drainage district number five. So you can kind of see to the east and to the north, there's a lot of parcels that are in DD5, but they're not part of this branch 126. And that's not necessarily the watershed boundary, it's just that the drainage district assessment schedules are parcel by parcel. So if that parcel is in there, these are all just following the parcel lines. The areas in yellow there that are shaded in yellow, you'll notice are areas where that pink line, benefited area branch 126, goes outside of the TAB, Mark McIntyre:" black dotted line, so that just means that that's area benefited that's in a powerful that's not in. TAB, Mark McIntyre:" 85 currently so to bring them in, we have to do an annexation so that's that's what this is we've got. TAB, Mark McIntyre:" put to the very last page. TAB, Mark McIntyre:" or different articles that would be included in that. and a total of 21.9 acres we look at topography maps and try to look at the drainage district infrastructure that's out there and basically try to figure out okay where does the water drain and what's the benefit if there's anybody missing which found these four parcels and some smaller number of acres in those parcels should be in dd5 but are not currently so that's what the annexation that we're proposing is for any questions why is there four d holders and three yellow spots there's four there are four there it's it's hard to see got it thank you yep There's a, there's a district tile that actually does cross to the west side of the road there. And so there's just a sliver on the west side of the road in section 31.

We'll make a couple acres.

I can never find Waldo either, so.

Yeah.

So are they in another drainage district?

Not that I'm aware of. So one thing, a single parcel can be in multiple drainage districts. For one thing, like let's say you've got a 40-acre parcel, and if you've got a hill in the middle and water and half of that goes one way and half goes the other, that parcel technically is listed in both drainage districts, but you just have a lower benefit and lower acres in each one to try to make it fair overall.

Is it DD1 that's pretty close to that southwest portion? Because I'm in two as well. having two districts. I think it's DD1 or DD6.

It's pretty likely DD1 and... DD1 is right around there.

DD1 is just to the west of it.

Yeah. I guess... My goal in doing this is because there's some of these drainage districts that were classified over 100 years ago, and they've never, ever been reclassified. And so obviously we have different tools, better technology and tools at our disposal to make sure those get right today. But if you have to the side, I guess what I try to do is make sure what I'm working on is going to be right from now moving forward and if there's stuff off to the side when that gets reclassified that'll get rectified also if there's some overlaps that shouldn't be any response from landowners i didn't hear anything from landowners nothing it was a pretty small project so yeah

Is there any landowner here or public meeting? Well, you don't vote, so it's okay.

Yeah, there was no, it was a pretty small. Yeah, there was one.

Hugh Thompson has a two acre. Yeah. Well, if there are no public comment, I will close the public. And I imagine you would like us to include these people in the drainage district. The ram item would be the proper. Yes.

I would make a motion to annex the more parcels into the drainage district in the reclassification.

I'll second. Steve has moved. Kim has seconded. Is there further discussion? Hearing none, Steve? Aye. Kim? Aye. No. Levi? Aye. Kim? Steve, too. Aye. And Will was fine. Now, are there any actionable items on that then?

We just did that.

That was it? That was it.

Yeah.

Okay.

number four is a dd5 branch 126 reclassification public hearing yes so i would now open that public hearing this is kind of a follow-up to that now we've one part of that is we've annexed those four parcels in so now they're eligible to be included in the assessment schedule uh so two Two things we did. One is we did a reclassification of that branch 126, and it's just the main. There's actually laterals off of that. I guess for a good phone, anybody need copies of this stuff? Just to make sure I got the right.

Yes, sir.

So yeah, one part of this was doing a reclassification of branch 126. The other part is a little different, but so those four particles that we just brought in with annexation, those really need to be added to the main open ditch assessment schedule also. rather than do a full scale reclassification of the entire dd5 main open fitch what we did was just take those four parcels and it's if you flip this report open to page one it says at the bottom there's a table there it says parcels to add to the existing d5 main open ditch schedule So essentially we're leaving, it's technically reclassification, but we're leaving everything else alone and we're just adding these parcels to that assessment schedule. And then we've got recommended benefit units for these four parcels. So essentially what we did is looked at the existing benefit units for parcels around these that are similar, and then came up with recommended values. But it's an attempt to try to make it consistent with the rest of the existing assessment schedules without spending thousands of dollars doing a full-on reclassification of that area. So that's part of this. One thing I want to point out if you keep looking pages to get to the first map. there's a blue line and a red line, and those are both technically branch 126. So. where it goes from a blue to a red right at that point, there is a lateral, I think it's 126-88 maybe. There's a large area to the north and west that drains into that lateral. and so the thought process well two things one is the existing assessment schedule branch 126 doesn't include any of those lands that are part of that lateral that was one of the issues that made me think we've got to do reclassification to get that fixed because there was this big swath I think it was 900 acres or something that what is not currently in the schedule for branch 126 that should be. So we need to get that fixed. With that being said, there are times where I split some of these, this is really a long tile. And there are times when I'll, for fairness, to try to make it fair, I'll split it into a lower and an upper branch Chris Hannett- And I do that at a spot where there's a big lateral that comes in, where there's a lot of land that drains to that point and the thought is. Chris Hannett- If. Chris Hannett- If. Chris Hannett- there's a repair needed and the red. portion of the tile there's that 900 acres that doesn't even use they don't use that tile at all and actually more than that because the tile to the south end of the district they don't use that at all and so we would assess it out it's most fair to assess it to people that use that tile Chris Hannett- That benefit from it, I guess, in other words, and so this was a logical split in this case to break it up break it into two pieces. Chris Hannett- So. Chris Hannett- or setting up these re classifications it just kind of a reminder, it involves myself as an engineer and then to other disinterested landowners in that they have to own land and dickinson county but not have any interest in any of these lands involved. Chris Hannett- And that makes up classification Commission so that's why, on the front page is called the commissioners report. And state law kind of sets out that reclassification has to be based on benefit. And so then the rest of it is trying to go about figuring out who benefits how much and how do you split if you have a $50,000 bill or a $10,000 bill, how should that get split up amongst the landowners that drain into and benefit from the system? So we look at, for a parcel, we're looking at the land area, we're looking at the soils, we're looking at how far is that from the actual tile. The further you are away, the less benefit you have from it. You have to do more tiling or something to get your water to that tile. How much of it do you use? So this one actually is a really good example of that. It's really long north and south. And so if you're at the south end and it's draining south, your water is going in at the bottom end of that system and it's only using a short length of that, where at the top end, they needed that entire, you know, miles long length of tile to drain their water away. And so they're paying more for that, a higher share of that system. So we take all those factors and we you kind of calculate them together and come up with an overall benefit for each parcel. And then you can apply any levy, any dollar amount to that schedule and figure out what each parcel would pay. And so we've got in the report, we've got all these tables that list that out. TAB, Mark McIntyre:" And it wants to get approved, then it gets entered into the computer and you can do levies and stuff I talked with Jordan, a little bit before the meeting. TAB, Mark McIntyre:" i've got the schedule based on 55 just a round number of $50,000 so numbers in there are dollars would be if it was a $50,000 total bill but that's not what the bill is for the project that we did it'll be somewhere more. in the range of $20,000 to $25,000, so about half of the numbers in this report. All right. Any questions at this point?

Makes sense. Does the public have any questions?

I'll be levying for that from one of the drains this year. So one of the things, again, that we always do with a reclassification levy or any project levies is if a single parcel is above $500, then they are able to sign a waiver. I looked and there are very few that are within that threshold. So I assume there would be any waivers on that.

Okay. Yep. There are no other comments. I will now close the public hearing. and ask the board what they would like to do.

I would make a motion to approve the reclassification the court has presented with the inclusion of the annex lands.

I'll second. Go ahead, Steve. OK, Mr. Dollard seconds. Further discussion? As there is none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Levi? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill? Aye. And item number six is to accept the appraiser's report for JVB 61, branch 399, West Olsen Diff, private shift. Is that a hearing? All right.

same same yeah so this is filing the fraser's report for joint drainage district 61 branch 399 west um about a month and a half ago or so the it was approved to move forward with Option number six, main open ditch improvement within the Strange District. And so we've moved forward with the right-of-way acquisition that'd be required in order to construct that open ditch. If you look on the last page of this, there's a map. A couple of small things I guess to point out since there may be developments since the, leaving, one thing was we were going to move that ditch north to cross the pipeline where the existing aisle does. We actually didn't know the exact, you know, down to the foot location of that. And so since that hearing, we had a contractor go out there and then we had the pipeline company located. So now we had it exact. And that was one good thing about that is we actually didn't have to move the ditch as far north as I thought we might. So that's a positive because there's this sliver of land on the south side. We move it away from the road and we're kind of creating this area of really wasted land. that has a highly diminished value. So this map shows in the pink the area, the actual area that we're posing for right-of-way. The blue line is the alignment of the open ditch. So the total total there i think it's like eight a little over eight acres maybe it's a little over seven acres but it's different on the wet on the west side of 320th avenue or the east side because on the west side we're doing 90 acres or 90 feet from the from the right of the secondary road lightweight line And then on the east side, getting away from the right-of-way, and we're actually doing 110 on the west side of the road, all the spoil are going to be dumped on the north side of the ditch. On the east side there, we're going to be able to put it on both sides. So how we looked at this, And this is similar to the reclassification we talked about. We've got myself and then two people in Dickinson County that are, we're not commissioners anymore, we're appraisers. So the idea is, how old nation needs to be made to offset the damage to the property values that will be done from constructing this open ditch. that's that's what we're getting at well obviously if you're digging a channel there's some land that will be lost to that channel that you know they will no longer be able to farm or use for any anything really so full market value on that on the on the channel the land loss to the channel and then you dug out you know you dug a 13 foot deep ditch and you have all this material that you're piling up on the side and we are going to do top so top soil stripping to try to put some top some black dirt back on top of these spoils but they're still going to be clay and some rocks and things the fertility and the value of that land and the spoil pile is going to be degraded as well So that needs to be compensated for. And then, like I was just talking about, the sliver of land on the Van Ness property that's going to be south of the ditch, between the ditch and the road, there's not much that can be done with that property. You can't really even fit a plant around there. In talking with the other two appraisers about it, basically for that land south of the ditch, we're recommending full market value application on those acres. So if we go to the second page, we've got a table at the bottom of the page. So there's three different parcels involved. You can see the estimated land area lost to the channel, the total area of right of way to be acquired. And I will mention that, so the spoil pile actually will be wider than what we're acquiring through right of way. Really, the right of way is the area of the channel plus maybe 15 to 20 feet on either side as a corridor for the drainage district to be able to access it for maintenance. And once the right of way is acquired, it will be taken off the property tax rolls and they also won't pay drainage assessments. So we're trying to balance some of that, but I'm getting them probably a little bit overboard for just filing the report. We can talk more obviously when we get to the point of having the actual hearing. but we've got a recommended compensation of 110 total, $110,485. And just for comparative purposes in the final cost estimate that was approved for the project, I had estimated 120,000 for right away acquisition. So we got moved a little bit to the south. So we came in a little bit less than that. But in any case, today, all it is is filing this report and then setting the public hearing date.

What's the public hearing date?

I have that for July 14th at 9.30. 9.30? 14th?

july fourteenth and i would have a goal to uh on that same day it's obviously not scheduled yet but i would like to have plans and specifications ready for put those out for bid on the same day that's my goal that once we have to have the right-of-way acquired before we start construction so i i want that to just be taken care of before we even put it out for bids

But once we can maybe do that at the same time, I would make a motion that we accept the appraisal report. And proceed with the annexation for the purchase of the right-of-way for this property.

Acquisition.

Acquisition, okay. And set the time and date of the public hearing for July 14th at 9.30 a.m. Okay.

Clark is moved. Hearing none, Mr. Clark. Aye. Kim. Aye. Mr. Dillard. Aye. Levi. Aye. And Bill O'Shaughnessy. Thank you. Thank you very much. Item number seven is the approval of pay application number two for Drainage District 19, MOV.

Spencer's online as well for that, for ISG.

Yeah, can you hear me okay, Jordan?

Yep.

Okay, awesome. Good morning, everyone. As you mentioned there on your agenda, you've got pay application number two for drainage district 19 main open ditch repairs. And then following that we have the completion report. So Just to start with the pay application, we had previously approved pay application one a little earlier this spring after the majority of the work was done. But at that time, the contractor had not yet done the woody vegetation spraying because we wanted to wait a little longer in the spring for that to green up before we sprayed that. And so that woody vegetation spraying was then completed in late May. And so that is what's included on this pay application for your consideration here today.

And that was in the amount of $4,050?

That is the amount to pay. Jordan, that would be less the retainage. So yeah, the woody vegetation spring was $4,500 and then the pay application amount should be $4,050 once we take that 10% retainage off.

Motion to approve.

Okay, families move. Second. Then moved by Kim, seconded by Mr. Clark to make a payment.

So in 30 days, we'll pay that other about 4,300 or sorry, 47 something 47, 4,166.

Are you referring to the retainage Jordan or yeah. So the retainage, I believe we'd have to wait until we have the completion hearing and then we can pay the retainage after that.

Yep. Yep. Okay. Sounds good.

Any further discussion? If not, Kim? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Leva? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. We also need to set a public hearing on this.

go ahead i was just going to say really quickly here yeah just have for you today the completion report pretty straightforward for dd19 main open ditch repairs just a reminder that this was the repair work that we did this does not include some of the fema repairs i know that is being done under a different contract but we did award this work to uh corey jurgens uh late last year and then we had met with you all earlier this spring to talk through some modifications to the scope based on field conditions there in march and then we We had a change order that was approved that essentially ended up in a wash for some increased ditch repairs, but less riprap overall. And then the majority, as I mentioned before, the majority of all that work was done in late March and early April, with really the only exception being the woody vegetation spraying, which we waited for. And now that that woody vegetation spraying has been done, The work has all been completed. We did check in on the site. We were there during construction to inspect the work, which all I think generally went pretty well. And then we did check in on the site since. And the seating that the contractor did on the ditch banks is established really well. So I've been really pleased to see that seating get established. And so at this point today here with the completion report, we would be recommending that the board would accept the completion report as filed and then set a date for a completion hearing.

And I have that set for July 14th at 9 a.m.

I'll make a motion to accept the DD19 main open ditch completion report and set a public hearing for July 14th at 9 a.m.

Okay. Kim has moved. I'll second. Mr. Dollard seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill LaCroix.

Thank you, Spencer.

Yep. Thank you all. I appreciate it. That was all I had for today.

Have a good day.

Item number nine on our agenda is a discussion and action of drainage district number 45. Mr. Garvey?

You all may recall that I don't know, a couple, three, four weeks ago, you directed me to investigate possible blockage and I complained about blockage of drainage in DD 45 going through the harbor. And I did that. And I did that and sent a letter out to the officials for the homeowners association I received. Communication back from their attorney, inviting us to, uh, engage an engineer to engage with their engineers and do an inspection of that project and make sure that we think that it's sufficient. And so what I wanted to do today was to have your approval, to engage one of our drainage engineers to do that. Um, did we, I think we had an estimate about what that might cost to do Jeff or no.

I think I think we mentioned the $2,500 and $3,000. Does the drainage district pay that?

I'm sure they do. I think we're at a standstill, and I think where John is leading is that we have done everything we can with the Harbor Association, and they're ignoring us. And so I think we're at a point where they don't believe there's any blockage. We show that there's blockage. And if we involve a drainage engineer to actually show that, then we have evidence to move forward if we need to.

Right. If we need to force the issue in court, then I've got something as evidence, otherwise not.

Well, they have a drainage engineer of their own, apparently, called CEC. And he's seen these pictures that we've seen. I don't know that. Ah. I think he could take one look.

Well, if he's engaged to do the work, I would think that he's seen that.

We'll figure it out. Yeah, I guess so. Give the board of food. That's true.

Does it have to be a drainage engineer? Could Jeff go out there and show me as an engineer?

I prefer to have a drainage engineer. After John and I talk, it's probably best to have an independent, you know, somebody like Colin or Spencer or somebody like that go out there and do an independent study of it.

I'll make a motion to hire a drainage engineer, to take a look at district 45 at the Harbor and, uh, assist our County attorney and whatever he needs done.

You want to make a recommendation on the engineer?

Are you thinking Colin? Sure. I would recommend Colin. He does a lot of work for this. Jacobson Westergaard.

I would second that motion.

It's been moved by Kim, seconded by Mr. Lorax to, uh, hire a drainage engineer, preferably a column. Jacobson-Westergaard. Okay. Jacobson-Westergaard, the company. We'll hire the company then to check out blockage of drainage on DD45.

You'll be in contact with them?

Yeah, John and I will. I'll do it.

Okay. Thank you.

Any further discussion? Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levite? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. And Bill is aye. Item number 10 on your agenda is approval of HIPAA agreements with ISAC. I believe you've all got a copy. And we're going to hear about it.

Not very exciting. 1750, we do a 2080 with ISAC and they send me all the updates for the year of all the rules that have changed and I update our policy and that's it. And I can send you the 60 minute training to watch again if you'd like. Perfect.

Is there any reason we have to do this every year?

Well, every year the rules change and I'm not going to have time to find them unless, I mean, they send me everything that changes. And then if I have questions or the county has questions, we can email them and they act as our attorney for that. This is a pretty good deal. There's a lot of other counties that are hiring other firms that are a lot more expensive. Right.

I was on a, uh, board wants the mental health board in early days and tom firman summed it up just keep your blank and mouth shut oh that didn't take an hour motion to approve yeah moves i'll say it be by seconds to sign the service agreement to participate in ISAC HIPAA program. Is there further discussion? Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. And Bill and Todd?

Thank you. Do you want to take me? You're welcome. Thanks, Alyssa.

Thanks, Alyssa. Thank you. Item number 11, approval of amendment 2080 agreement with Northwest Iowa YES Center. Mr. Clark.

Originally when the YES Center was formed, Emmet County was in it and they paid their upfront fee and everything to be Every county paid to be in there. They decided a few years ago that they could get better service out of central Iowa detention. And they found out through a lot of trial and error that it was way more expensive to belong to central Iowa than to the center down in Cherokee. They have asked to be reinstated and have a member on the board and the board talked about it and decided that it was okay because they had never asked for their money back from Cherokee. They had actually belonged both places. They just did not have representation on the board. So they have dropped, uh, central Iowa now, and, uh, would like to return to to the Northwest Iowa one. And it was unanimously supported by the rest of the board down at Cherokee at the meeting last month. So, you know, one of those deals, we all change insurance companies and stuff like that once in a while, so. What would you recommend? I would recommend that we sign the new 2080 With the center, every, every County has to go through this and sign it and, uh, to let them a County back in. So my recommendation would be to sign that. I would make a motion, cover that.

I'll second. Mr. Clark's moves in the second that we allow him a County back into the yes. Well, now back in, they've already been on.

They just get a, they get a vote now.

Yeah. to allow him a county vote on the Yes Center. Is there any discussion on that? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill? It's aye. Item number 12, approval of May 26, board meeting minutes. Did anyone find anything amiss? I'll make a motion to accept. Mr. Dullard moves. I'll say it. Levi seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Dullard?

Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye.

And Bill is aye. Item number 13 is approval of claims. Anyone see anything amiss on that? Thanks Colin. Motion to approve. I'll second. Mr. Dillard seconds. Further discussion?

Hearing none, Kim? Aye.

Mr. Dillard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill Ozark? Aye. Approval of drainage claims. We have one from Jacobson West guard in the amount of $1,891 and 20 cents. Or, and that's how to be 61 branch three 98 improvement. Motion to approve. Mr. Clark moves by second further discussion. Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Doehler? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill is aye. Next up, county engineer, Jeff.

Good morning, Ward. Good morning, Matt. I have a few items for you under agenda this morning. The first item is to approve repairs on DD 43 tile and direct county forces to complete the repair, which I've estimated to be less than $1,500.

Motion to approve. Kim Lewis? I'll second. Mr. Dullard seconds. Further discussion? Yes, there is none. Kim? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill?

Thank you, Board. The second item here is to approve a 2027 water graded quote that we received. We received two quotes this year. I think there's two of them.

Thank you, sir.

One was from Ziegler. The second was from Murphy. Murphy being a real fid.

Thank you.

So we will approve the 2027 water grader quote to purchase one new water grader from Murphy Tractor Equipment Company of Fort Dodge, Iowa, in the amount of $429,900 with a trade-in value of $55,000 for a net price of $374,900. This water grader will be part of the 2027 fiscal year budget.

motion to approve leave by moves no second mr clark second further discussion yeah the workers approved uh all the bells and whistles this has i met with the all the formatting guys all the information that they wanted for this will be uh replaced one down built pretty much oh i noticed this has the

which they seem why yeah what we did this time is i talked to the operator that were replacing his machine and asked him what type of controls he wanted preferred let's see how long these last curious it's based on hours i would say you got seven to eight years

And if we'd have a couple of pretty tough winters, it could be similar to that.

Exactly. A lot of variables play in the integration of the equipment. Is there any further discussion?

I wish I would have had this number when the politicians were talking about limiting our funding. If there is nothing else, Levi? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Beller? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill Isai?

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Item number three we have is for quotes we received for a 2027 plow truck. Once again, we received two bids.

Thank you.

Showing the bid tab, we received two bids, one from Transource Truck out of Sioux Falls and NUSC Truck Equipment out of Minnesota. The low bid was transforced for a total bid line price of $315,343. The trade-in that we looked at was trading in two of our older vehicles, which were 2007 Sterlings.

Is that the last two Sterlings to go out then?

Yes, those are the last two.

Close bid, $101.

Very close bid. I was really happy with them. Also, this truck would be the number, this would be your 2027 budget.

Motion to approve.

Mr. Clark moves. I'll second. Kim seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Dollard? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill?

Aye. Item number four for my attendance this morning, I'd like to table for the next meeting, three point groups. Well, do you want to item number four, item number five on the second page. If you're requesting a closed session, so that I would code section 21.5 one C. Well, the reason for this is there's a pending litigation.

and uh so we have to announce that right up front before we close the session then we have to have a vote of each member recorded it has to be three out of five or all of you okay does anyone on the board wish to go into closed session i'll make motion on the closed session three by mark for the moves i'll second mr dullard seconds

Voice vote, but we do everything by voice vote. First, any discussion on that? Hearing none, Levi? Aye. Mr. Dollar?

Aye.

Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill is aye. We will now be going into closed session, so listeners, if you would please leave and close the door.

I'm sorry, can you read that again, Jeff, please?

I just want a motion to give the county engineer direction regarding driveway material in parking areas for the M56 road premise and for future residential road projects. I'll make that motion. What direction do you want me to go with the material? I agree. Match what they have. Match what they have.

hey mr dollar does move do i hear a second i'll second levi seconded further discussions so i'm going to take a word concrete out i'm going to match what they have material copy that simply when you get when it gets in printed form can you send me a copy of that thanks if there's no further discussion mr dullard hi levi hi mr clark hi yeah hi and we're all sorry thank you who's my district today thank you for it thank you thank you appreciate it okay

We are now in the general discussion for the community report. Recycling commission meeting, all aspects of the regional collection center are very busy. They're getting a lot of waste that's coming in there. Clay Pavelko, who is our newly appointed director down there is doing a really great job. As you know, the person that was there before is now our weed commissioner. So he's done a nice job. When work continues on a new cell at the landfill with completion, hopefully at the end of September, Lee Sorenson was commenting on a five-year comprehensive plan for the landfill. Landfill and John Reynolds with waste management said that they will take the lead on that. And of course that includes the new cell and things that are going on out there. I have a Silver Lake, uh, Silver Lake park improvement association meeting this morning, things there are. busy going well. They're moving forward with fish barriers and continuing the shoreline restoration. Their annual meeting for anyone that would like to attend is August 8th at 9.30 in the community building there in Lake Park. They are ramping up a membership drive to try and get more folks involved in what's going on with the lake. And they're working on ideas of Coming up with some way of a north basin project, which would be north of Silver Lake. It's like we talk about in a lot of things. If you're going to work with water quality, you need to have areas where that water can be held and filtered and then come into the lake. Because they'd really like to have something down with Trapper's Bay. But before that can be done, there needs to be a filter system above that. But you have to get landowners who are willing to sell their property. And they're kind of stuck in that spot right now. But they're looking for ways to continue to make that work because it's very well worth it over there. The length is busy. Hold up. Yes.

On this lamb, is it usually flooded? Is it suitable for raising grain?

They have no crop on it. It's basically pasture, CRP pasture, which is sitting there. Would it be populated? Not long-term with the thing that they want to do with it. There is funding. There's funding in different organizations that could purchase it, but the family's not prepared to want it. They're working continually. You know how families are with properties, and you kind of have to continue to work with them. And we're reaching out to more folks with the Conservation Board to help with that. So it's a thing in progress. They're working on it. And it will continue to do that. because for them to make a better lake out of Silver Lake, they need these basins. A reminder, the safety committee is hosting a de-escalation training here in the community room this Thursday, June 11th. There's two sessions. There's one at 10 and one at 1.30. We are hoping that everyone from each department can attend one of those sessions. And we're over halfway through our wellness program, so We continue to encourage every employee to complete the online assessment. If you haven't done, it takes five minutes. And please schedule your physician physical. What's really important here that I think people need to understand, number one, as employees, we get to have the benefit of lower health insurance premiums. And the only reason that happens is annually, in the last now eight years, we've been saving this county in excess of $80,000 a year because of this wellness program and the participation. That's a big deal. And so we ask everybody to, again, please participate and take part. That's what I have, sir.

Okay, excellent.

Mr. Billard. Yes, sir. I'm up to date on my, I was able to finally get into it with the help of IT and checked all, I've hit my moments. Good job. On the 28th, I Zoomed the Recycle Commission with Mr. Hermeson. And on the 29th, they had a lengthy meeting with the county land use policy. And I won't, since there hasn't been any discussion on what the recommendation is to the board, they did choose someone, but I'll wait since it's not on the agenda until it's brought to the agenda for the board. on the 29th and, uh, last week I had no meetup official meetings. I just answered a whole lot of phone calls. One of which was about the driveways and that's all I am. Okay.

Mr. Clark on the 29th, I did the county land use plan steering committee. And, uh, like Mr. Dillard said, we have made a decision on who to hire. I don't know if that takes board approval, just the zoning commission that does that, the zoning board.

I think it'd be the zoning board, John. You talking about adding a new member? No. Hiring some staff.

Hiring a firm to update the county land use plan.

I don't know, but I'll look into it.

Okay, well, the decision's been made. and uh we made the decision uh the 29th of may so megan sent the letters out on you know but the one that was accepted and stuff and so the quicker we get this uh done quicker they'll start is it all part of her budget yeah yeah it's all part of her budget so so it'll work yeah so on Both will have to have an official announcement in our next meeting.

Right.

So.

Maybe get that on the next day.

Yeah. Yesterday, I went out and I did inspection on DD19 on the open ditch part. And it looked real good. I can see the county must have done some work out there too. Or did we? Because where some of that washout was, it looked like they put new... uh CMP pipe at the end of the tiles out into the to the drainage ditch it was part of the project and everything looked real good I was I thought maybe there'd be a little bit more rip rap on that but when we get the final FEMA report and stuff maybe that will cover that uh it was a a nice four mile walk up and down the the dredge bank to check that out but you know everything looked good and looked like he said what i was mainly concerned with was where they receded that and that seating is is starting to come along if we can avoid if we could go a couple of years without a a downpour that on those slopes you know that seating will really take a hold and and uh stop further erosion so And the trees that they sprayed on it are all dying. And then last night I did the County Conservation Foundation meeting. Sherwood Park south half will hopefully be open by July 1. I have a couple more swales they're going to have to do on the north half. because to qualify for all their grants and stuff, they have to have it finished and opened by July 1. So whether permitted, it will be officially open then. There's people on it all the time that the contractors are having to work around people that are walking and biking and stuff. They just don't seem to be able to keep them out. I don't know. and on their uh new nature playscape they're doing really well on the fundraising that looks like it's going to be a go-ahead they'd still you know it's it's interesting when when they're doing fundraising and i suppose every group that raises funds is like this there's always a couple or three back that are back in the shadows they want to be the last one to to pledge an amount and donate it to carry it over, you know, and it seems like, you know, they're, they're waiting on those last couple of, uh, big donors to, uh, to, to make the donation, but I, I'm sure they'll get it. Other than that, it was a warm day.

Yes. Uh, I was also a part of that, uh, meeting for the landings plan on the 29th and the last. Justin Delacruz, M.D. : week I really only had a couple of meetings with some constituents this week's more individual meetings, I have taken a few phone calls already. Justin Delacruz, M.D. : Last night I went to the city council. Justin Delacruz, M.D. : they're having some issues some complaints with. Justin Delacruz, M.D. : The new stop signs on. over there at 213 street and 834 where the school is yeah there's been some some mostly out of towners that have yet to experience the the changes and so um Both the city and then the county reducing the speeds was a good idea. Um, uh, as early as we have and putting up the stop signs, there was some requests that maybe we put some light and stop signs up, but I don't know. I think Ken's gonna reach out to you.

Yeah. And the speed limits are being changed. Yep.

Yep.

And so, uh, obviously that stuff just takes time and, and do they have the stop ahead? Signs come from both directions.

I have to double check. I think Gary talked about putting one up double check.

Okay. Because I was on that road yesterday, and I believe there's one coming in to Milford.

That could be. But I don't know about going out. north south i know there is not one but i i everybody stopped which because i thought man they're coming well north north south had stop signs yeah it did but i'm saying there's no sign that says stop here sure sure and and so i think it's a good idea to have lighted anything you can on that east west road because they're coming in there pretty hot so yeah yeah um and then the other thing was uh

Chief Shadow Brevik had mentioned that there's now a a committee with some other of the local chiefs. There's been multiple complaints in all the cities about kids and electric scooters and and things like that. And so they're putting together some sort of an ordinance that will be presented to the board at some time, too. They want to make it a county-wide thing as opposed to just each city having different rules. hopefully simplify that process and things like that so I would be looking for that becoming sooner than later to us but then later today I'm going to hit the sanitation board meeting and plan to be at the de-escalation meeting the early one on Thursday and then I got an email here from Amanda Winslow, who is the Bureau Chief for the State ECI, and I'll read that update real quick if you don't mind. June 2nd of 2026, Senate File 2488, the Early Childhood and Family Services Bill was signed into law by Governor Reynolds. We want to thank you for your support and feedback during this legislative session as we work towards the passage of this bill. The collaborative efforts and robust conversations with countless stakeholders throughout this process produce a compromise produce a compromise bill that will ultimately do what we set out to do daily better survive with families the law goes into effect july 1st 2026 and we'll be building a statewide system that offers primary prevention service early intervention support and ongoing resources for families and communities these services are designated for families with children under the age of 19 with a special focus on ages 0 to 5. And then, uh, more information on the website, but things are moving forward and we've got our next meeting here on Thursday. And so we should be hopefully rocking and rolling in by July 1st. Yep. And that is, oh, and then I have a trails meeting on Friday. And then, uh, I plan to attend the annual meeting for the county taxpayer.

I had no official meetings, however, Kim. Lisa Sorensen and I met with John concerning Lisa's contract to be, I guess, custodian of the county buildings. And the contract was due, but reading through it, well, they still had Clark Reekers in there. So we had to clear that out. It said there were four buildings that she was to clean, but it didn't list which buildings they were. And we think that was part of the contract written before 2015 when they had the county lawyer and I think the engineer in some other buildings. So she's going to write down exactly which places need cleaning and maintenance. However, we have in her contract, which they had in mind as a teacher, and I always hated it, it basically says other duties as assigned. So if something arises, for example, I think, did she cut some weeds behind the Milford shop? Or there was some place that, you know, and I think she had to do some work around the towers

in uh peril but other than that it was a great week anything from our visitors yes mr kelly good morning i want to thank everybody for coming i want to thank our folks that have served on this board i know you've got six more months uh thank you and your families for all you've done I hope that you take some time before you leave and you reflect on your service here and send some letters to these new people that are coming in. I think that you've got a lot of experience that they would probably welcome in your sharing. So as they go forward, they can do a better job because they can depend on some of the wisdom that you folks have acquired. I think we have a beautiful area up here. I have said this before and I'll say it again. I want to thank you all for establishing transparency here in Dickinson County. I don't think there's much in Iowa. There probably ought to be more than there is, but certainly this county stands apart. And I'm proud to live here. I'm proud that I grew up here. And I urge you all to take a swim. went up to Montana and up to Idaho on some union business, and it was very good on the train. I heard you can try that, go up the glacier, go up Idaho, some of these places, and take a swim. The water's warmed up. I went in yesterday. It's a lot warmer than it was two weeks ago. But again, have a great summer, and thank you for all you've done for this county.

Thank you, Mr. Kelly. Anybody else? Well, if not, you're free to sit around while we canvass the votes. Which one's our next order of business?

I don't care where you sign, as long as it's .

I get the next one up from Levi.

I don't know.

I'm sure it doesn't need.

So like I usually state when we're doing a canvas, so in order for a write-in to be put onto our canvas materials, you need to not only have 5% of the vote, but it has to be at least 10 votes. And so I There were no write-ins that were valid to put on our canvas materials. So those votes will all be scattering. So for United States Senator Democrat vote for one, Josh Turek received 471 votes and Zach Walls received 189 with a total of 660 votes. United States Senator Republican Jim Carlin received 770 votes. Ashley Hinson received 1,450 votes with four write-ins with a total votes of 2,220. For U.S. Representative District 4 Democrat, Dave Dawson received 240. Stephanie Steiner received 227. And Ashley Wolf tournament received 150 and two write-ins total votes, 617 us representative district for Republican Chris McGowan received 1,955 votes, 13 write-ins total votes, 1,955. For governor Democrat, Rob sand received 653 votes to write-ins with the total of 653 votes. For Governor Republican, Eddie Andrews received 45, Randy Feenster received 1,099, Zach Lane received 852, Brad Sherman 185, Adam Steen 144, write-ins 4, total 2,325. Secretary of State Democrat, Ryan Peterman, 599, one write-in, total votes 600. Secretary of State Republican Paul D. Pate received 1,982 with two write-ins with a total of 1,984. Auditor of State Democrat Tyler Wedich received 594, three write-ins, a total of 597. Chris Knauer, sorry, for auditor of state Republican, Chris Knauer received 923, Abigail Mosk, 1,090, three write-ins to a total of 2,016. Treasurer of state Democrat, John Norwood received 600, two write-ins with the total of 602 votes. Treasurer of state Republican, Robbie Smith, 1,891, four write-ins with a total of 1,895. Secretary of Ag, Democrat, Chris Jones, 589, two write-ins with a total of 591 votes. Secretary of Ag, Republican, Mike Nagg, 2001 votes, seven write-ins, a total of 2008 votes. Attorney General, Democrat, Nate Willems, 581, one write-in, total 582. Attorney General Republican Brenna Bird, 1,937, 13 write-ins, a total of 1,950. State Senator District 5 Democrat, there was no candidate, there were 29 write-ins. For State Senator District 5 Republican, Stacey Besh received 609, Dave Rowley received 1,699, two write-ins, a total of 2,310. State Representative District 10 Democrat, there was no candidate that filed papers. There were 21 write-ins. State Representative District 10 Republican, John Wills, 1,981, 27 write-ins. County Board of Supervisors District 1 Democrat, there were no candidates for county positions. On the Democratic side, there were 12 write-ins. County Board of Supervisors District 1, Dan Taylor received 295, Beth A. Will received 260, a total of 555 votes. Again, no Board of Supervisors District 2 Democrat, but there were seven write-ins. County Board of Supervisors District 2 Republican, Curtis Rouse received 425 votes. County board of supervisors, district board, Democrat, eight write-ins county board of supervisors, district board, Republicans, Stephen Clark, one 73. That is cook three 99, zero write-ins a total of 572. County treasurer, Democrat, 19 write-ins county treasurer, Republican Chris rally, 2088 and 19 write-ins county recorder, Democrat, 15 write-ins county recorder, Republican, 2022 with 10 write-ins. county attorney, Democrat, 28 write-ins, county attorney, Republican, Melanie Summers Baller, 754, Bethany Brands Lampe, 1,410, and three write-ins.

Bill, post it on the website, right? She just read? But all these numbers?

They're on the results on our website. It'll take you to the election night reporting website on the Secretary's team. Yep. Thank you.

and develop one of the soft and safe intercourse ideas. Thank you.

Make sure your name was Joe Lee. Yes, exactly. It doesn't bother me at all.

yeah there's a lot of opportunities you've done some of those to figure out what really influenced you. It's a lake. It's more of a lake. It's amazing.

yeah. Last night. Like.

That's just for the Summary.

Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. wrap down and last one can't leave you know I know. Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. We are adjourned we have closed it up. Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers.

he's got a lot of science and both groups yeah.

Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers.

Yes. Whoops. It's the video.

Yeah, and that's a whole pile of them. Yep.

That's everything that you've done today, and then you have to add on egg extension, soil and water, sanitary sewer, hospital.

Yep.

And you signed a winter certificate.

And all of the federal stuff. Yeah, and then you have three more.

Yeah.

All right, I'll get my hand in shape.

I'm getting a stamp. I think I could get one if I get a doctor's order, right?

A stamp. I have one.

Probably something to do with my heart.

Our next meeting, I will have a son-in-law. Oh good for you yeah that's cool exciting I leave next Tuesday and then she gets married on Thursday now on Friday cool so what is she doesn't invite you on the honeymoon well I got to you and throw enough cash out.

that's very cool yeah i'm excited. If you bench press him a couple times, he's aware.

Do we need... We don't need a motion for the canvas, do we?

We do need to adjourn. Well, we haven't ended the meeting. Right.

I just was making sure we didn't need a motion for the canvas, but I don't think we do.

Shall we just stay here until next Tuesday? Motion to adjourn. Kim moves. Mr. Dullard seconds.

Clark seconded.

Clark seconded. Gary Nunn. Kim. Aye. Mr. Clark. Aye. Levi. Aye. Mr. Dullard. Aye. Kim Billis. Aye. We are officially adjourned at 1041.