Board of Supervisor - Regular Meeting

republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all well we'd like to welcome you all here on this nice hot july day in dickinson county our first item of business is a completion hearing public hearing for drainage district 19 Main opening desk. I'll now open that hearing. Who's here to speak on?

Spencer.

You're on.

Awesome. Good morning, everyone. Can you hear me okay? Yes. Okay, great. We'll get started here then with the completion hearing. Before we jump in, just want to confirm, Jordan, that we had the notice mailed to the landowners that were traversed by construction and then we've published in the paper, correct?

Yes, sir.

Awesome. Did you end up receiving any damage claims prior to the hearing today?

No.

Okay. Thank you. I'll just start by giving the board just a really brief summary of this project, and then we'll talk about the completion. As you may remember, we had a public hearing last June, on June 17th, 2025, on some repairs to the DD-19 main open ditch. The work was approved at that time, and the board did approve it, and we moved forward with final plans at that time. We did go out for quotes in the fall of 2025. We did only receive one quote, but it was right in line with our engineer's estimate, and that was Corey Juergens, and so the board did award the work to him on December 23rd of 2025. That work then started earlier here in 2026. We did meet with the board in late March. We had a memo we provided to the board regarding a change in scope of the work. That included essentially a modification of some of the repairs. More or less, we're using a little less riprap, but covering a little more area. Also had some beaver dams that needed addressed and a few other miscellaneous items that was discussed and approved by the board that resulted in the change order. It was essentially a wash overall in the project cost because we had more areas to repair, but we used less riprap and rock. And so it ended up kind of as a wash for the project cost, just a slight reduction. Coming out of that, work did continue in late March into early April. The contractor completed substantially the work on April 10th, and then there were punch list items that were completed by April 14th when we were on site and did a walkthrough at that time. And I guess just to clarify, that is all the work except for the woody vegetation spraying, which was part of the contract. If you remember, we had the completion date for the woody vegetation spraying set a little bit later just to allow that to grow a little more in the spring before we sprayed it to have more effective spraying on the woody vegetation. The woody vegetation was sprayed on May 26 of 2026 and then slightly after the spring we did review that the spring and generally they did a pretty good job with it, but we did find some locations that that they had missed some woody vegetation and so we asked the. contractor to have their sub come back out and clean up some of those areas that they missed. And they did do that on June 18th. And we've since reviewed again, and it looks like they got all those touch up areas. So it looks really good now in terms of the effectiveness of the spraying, excuse me. As far as the work itself goes, ISG, we did have representatives on site. Mark Hungate, our construction administrator, was on site pretty regularly while the work was being completed and working with the contractor. In general, we thought the work was really done pretty well and done to our plans and specifications. The ditch seating did establish very well, too, this spring. And just overall, the contractor for this project was really good to work with, and we thought things went pretty smoothly. So I just wanted to note that it went really well from our perspective. On the topic of crop damages, the work was done outside of the growing season. Additionally, there was really little to no work done on row crop areas. It was all done in the ditch or directly adjacent to the ditch, which a lot of it was just grassed buffer areas. So we did not have any crop damages recommended in our completion report. The landowners did receive a notice that they could file a claim for damages if they felt they had any. We weren't expecting to see any, and it sounds like we have not received any, at least not yet anyway. But the landowners, if they felt they did have damages, would have the opportunity to file a claim for those. So no damages to discuss at this point anyway. Then just a few other items. We did file as-built plans with the districts. You should have those in your records now. Additionally, we have requested some documentation from the contractor and he has provided all of that today, including lien waivers for his subcontractors and suppliers. And so really at this point in time, from our perspective, the work was completed to the plans and specifications, the contractor has submitted all the required documentation. And so from our perspective, unless there's anything else outstanding that the board or anyone else at the hearing is aware of, we would recommend approval of the completion of work and then payment of the retainage for the project, which should be reflected in a pay application that you have for you there today for consideration. I think with that, I'll just kind of pause and see if there's any questions or any comments or anything else that we can discuss.

Hopefully there's anyone here in our audience that's affected by this. Lord, do you have any questions?

No, I thought it looked good when I was out. I went out and ran up and down it with Warwheeler about three weeks ago, and I thought it looked good then, so.

That's about all we have.

Okay, so I guess the action for the board today would be to formally approve completion of the project, and then I would recommend approval of the pay application today. I'm not sure exactly how Dickinson County handles it. I know some counties, my understanding of the drainage code is After you approve the final completion, there's like a 30-day waiting period before the payment is actually made. So I know other counties will draw the payment right away and then just physically hold on to it until the 30 days have passed. So I'm not sure exactly, Jordan, how you want to handle that. But either way, I would recommend approving final completion and the final payment today.

And that would be that 87-91-66?

Yes, correct. That would be the final pay application, $8,791.66, and that would represent the 10% retainage that we held.

You could probably motion on those together after you close the public hearing.

First, I'll close the public hearing, and then I'll take a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve the completion of the project and approve the pay application to be paid out to complete it.

Second. Moved by Kim, seconded by Steve, to serve further discussion. Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Bee? Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Kim? Aye.

Thanks, Spence.

Yeah, thank you all. That was all I had for today. So pretty straightforward one.

Thank you very much.

Have a good day.

Thank you. Bill, I had Lisa come in to do the contract for number 11.

Want to jump to 11? If you look in your paperwork, you should have a contract. For Lisa, well, Lisa's company for cleaning and mowing and snow removal and all that good stuff. Did any of you find anything wrong with that? The lady's here herself, so if you have anything to say, Lisa, have at it.

I'm talking about the booking remodel right now that we're doing. No, I just think we just had to update the buildings that I take care of. And otherwise, it's all pretty straightforward. And then we added that future stuff that was new.

John, what do you... No, I added some things had to do with the security areas in the building. And then we updated it to accurately reflect which annexed buildings that were just taken care of as well. That weren't, they weren't updated for quite a while. I don't think. Right. And Mark's cleaning service was still in there. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, I re revamped it, went over it with Lisa. She signed it and now it's up for your consideration.

Any questions, board? If not, I'll take a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Move by moves, Mr. Dullard seconds. Further discussion? Well, we're glad you signed it. We're really happy with what you're doing.

Thank you so much.

Love being here.

Thank you.

All right. Are there no more comments? Levi? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Kim Billis? Aye.

Thank you, guys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We could probably do number 10.

I've got to find where our community is. Okay. Uh, number 10 is the approval of pay estimates for drainage district one.

And that was $37,889.46.

That was, uh, that has increased by 2,500 because of some problems they found when they got over into that drainage district area. And I would make the motion that we approve that change.

I'll second. Mr. Clark moves. 10 seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Bellard? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill was aye.

Is that the right amount that I gave you, Bill? That was the right amount, right?

Well, the total is $37,962.80.

20 500 net increase you don't agree with that i think that was a different project i think that uh well but it was 30 there's a change order for dv6 yeah one by lake park is that what you're talking about steve this is

Yeah. No. Grabbed the wrong piece of paper.

I don't know if you know that. Okay. Should we go on to number 12, Dorothy?

Yeah.

Okay. We have a resolution here concerning the official posting location for the 4-hour. Dorothy, would you please read that?

Um, it was the result of the current legislation, uh, certain government bodies needed to annually designate official posting spots that are accessible 24 7. So. Resolution 2026 dash 15 resolutions that designating the official posting location for public meetings and agendas pursuant to Iowa code chapter 21 and house file 24 90. Whereas the Diggins County Board of Supervisors, the board is a governmental body subject to the requirements of the Iowa Open Meetings Law, Iowa Code Chapter 21. And whereas the General Assembly of the State of Iowa enacted House File 2490 affected upon enactment that amended Iowa Code Section 21.4. And whereas under the provisions of House File 2490, governmental bodies are required to designate annually a prominent place, which is easily accessible to the public where meeting notices and tentative agendas are always posted and visible to the public. And whereas house file 2490 also requires notice and tentative agenda to be posted on the governmental body's primary internet site. Now, therefore via result by the border supervisors of Dickinson County section one in official posting location, the board hereby designates the following prominent and publicly accessible location as the official physical site for the posting of all public meeting notices and tentative agenda. Bulletin board located in the vestibule at the west entrance of the Dickinson County courthouse, located at 1400. Sorry. located at 1802 Hill Avenue, Square Lake, Iowa, which is visible and accessible to the public 24 hours a day. Section two, internet posting, in addition to the physical posting location designated in section one, all public notices and tentative agendas shall be posted and regularly maintained on the county's website at DickinsonCountyIowa.gov. Section three, compliance with prior notice requirements. Nothing in this resolution shall supersede the requirement to advise news media who have filed a request for notice with the county or the requirements to fulfill the 24 hour advanced notice of meetings as mandated by Iowa code section 21.4. section four effective date this resolution shall be in full force in effect from and after its passage and approval as provided by law very good thank you jordan with the corrections of 1802 hill avenue and

DickinsonCountyIowa.gov instead of org.

I'll second that. Thank you. Are you okay with that? Yes. And Kim second. Further discussion? Gary Nye? Levi?

Aye.

Kim? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. Mr. Clark?

Aye.

John Gillis? Aye. Would you like to speak to the contract change with Superior?

Absolutely. I received a call from Superior. They were hoping to receive an additional 150 a month for recycling. They're getting hammered over there. They're taking in a lot of responsibility that Orleans had. They closed a lot of that's going over there and just can't keep up with their loads. So I talked to Lori. We are their budget we cannot go up 150 a month but because of the orleans changes we still could go up a hundred dollars a month for them for this year and then i told them over there that they could come back for the next budget and ask for an additional increase it wouldn't be a bad idea for all of you to take a look at that anyway and take a look at the sites and maybe have a conversation with how they're doing with spears getting beat up a little bit And so my recommendation is to give them an additional $100 a month for their recycling site. We don't want to lose it. If we lose that site, we're down to not many. It has helped to have the new site at the landfill. But we've got to get some of these businesses who are slamming these sites to start going to landfill or start getting their own receptacles of some sort. But that's what's killing us. So that's what this is about. i'll make a motion that we give an additional 100 a month which would take us to 450 a month for the recycling site at superior i'll second that move like kim seconded by mr dollars is there any discussion so and i suppose they're doing some a lot of construction over at superior on the

elevator over there with a new fertilizer plant and so on. Are they dumping in there, do you suppose?

That's not the issue that I'm hearing. The issue I'm hearing are a couple of businesses that are in that area. And unfortunately, they're also getting beat up a little bit from folks in the county next to us who decided they'd like to take advantage of us. They come over here. And so those are challenges that we're going to have to look at in the future. We either recycle or we don't. And we put the pressure on those sites to do it. How can we help them and support them? So that part, Steve, as far as I'm aware, is not something that's making it.

You know, I knew there's been a lot going on.

I know a lot of folks that used to go to the Orleans site called and said, where can we go? And that was one of the suggested sites. And it's now starting to make a difference to them. Okay. All right. Orleans has info. Oh. They used to have a recycling site. They stopped that. That now goes over there because you guys went to curbside. Okay. That's why that all occurred. The curbside. Replace that. No, the curbside you have in Orleans. Right. The old site where we used to put product for recycling in Orleans shut down when you guys took on curbside pickup. Then An additional site in Superior is now getting the brunt of that over there. You might still have curbside, but folks from all over were dumping their stuff for recycling in Orleans.

I see. So you're saying the overflow from Orleans is affecting what's going on in Superior. Correct. Okay. Any further discussion? If not, Kim? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. Mr. Clark?

Aye.

Levi? Aye. And Bill was aye. We may as well go to the approval of the board meeting minutes. I don't see anything amiss on those. Motion to approve. Mr. Clark moves. Levi seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill is aye.

We can do number 14 if you'd like.

Don't you think Lee wants to be here?

No, on the email he stated on there that he would not be here unless you guys requested his presence.

Anyone request his presence?

Too late.

No, he can just drop what he's doing and hustle over. Okay, then let's approve the engagement agreement for the Nature Place space.

As his email on July 9th, I just said, do you want to be here? If not, or if you would talk to the board so that he could have an explanation as to what this was. And he stated that he was requesting a motion for the approval of the engagement letter with Allers and Cooney for public improvement contract proceedings. Conservation board approved it on their regular meeting on July 8th. And the agreement is to prepare the necessary proceedings for board action on public improvement projects, the nature playscape at the nature center.

Steve, you're on that conservation board. Explain this to us.

Well, they decided since they didn't want the same person or the same entity to draw up the legal papers and they didn't want to overload John's because they know how busy he is right now. So they asked if they could engage Ahlers and Cooney to draw up these legal papers and watch over this project as it progresses. Their board agreed with that. They just, they didn't want, they didn't want the firm that's doing the playscape to just do it all. So it just kind of a way of a watchdog type of deal. to make sure everything's done right. Just seems like a lot for a playground. Well, you haven't heard the end of that yet. I can't wait. Okay. I would make a motion to approve this.

Okay, Mr. Clark moves. I'll second. Kim seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark?

Aye.

Kim? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Levi? Aye. Okay, we're getting closer. Item number 16 would be the approval of claims as listed on the July 14th claims register. through the claims. I'll second. Mr. Clark is seconded. Further discussion? There is none. Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Deller? Aye. Pam? Aye. Pam Phillips? Aye.

We can get through drainage claims

I suppose we could.

We can help you whip through it.

We have several stamped warrants. The first one's for DD1, and as I understand it, we don't have to approve these in the farm drainage because we already did that. Therefore, for a stamped warrant, drainage district number one at Jacobs and Wesley cars for $841.70. That was for engineering. and Mentoring in Spain. Motion to approve. Mr. Clark moves. I'll second. Kim seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Levi? Aye. And Bill? I'll second. Stan Fornes? Mr. Grange? Aye. Branch 126 to Jacobson-Westegard for $480.50. Again, engineering.

Motion to approve.

Would Clark move? I'll second. Kim seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. We buy and build with size. Next is Stan Warren ratings district number six, Jacobson, West of guard for $3,453 and 35 cents. Motion to approve moves. Second. Mr. Clark seconds. Further discussion. Hearing none. Hi. Mr. Clark, aye. Levi, aye. Mr. Dullard, aye. And Bill, it's aye. Next is Stan Horn, Greenwich District number 19. This is for the Dickinson County News for $48.77. Motion to do ISG with it if you want. Second. Hold it while you can bring it up. Okay, Kim moves, Mr. Dullard seconds. Jordan has some discussion.

I was just going to say, you could add the one for ISG for five 73 to the same motion.

Well, that's coming towards the end. Cause that's when I got it. Okay. We now have Stan corn for any history joined 61 clay. Jordan. Okay. Kim. Hi. Mr. Dullard. Aye. Mr. Clark. Aye. Levi. Aye. And Bill is aye. Now we have stamped warrants for Joint Greenwich District 61, Clay, Dickinson, and Emmett, Quebec Engineering for $961.25 for administration and engineering.

Motion to approve.

Mr. Clark moves. One second. Levi seconds. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. Dr. Dollar? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bill? Aye. Stamped Warren, Joint Drainage District 61, Branch 61, to the Dickinson County Treasurer for $239.02.

Motion to approve.

Mr. Clark moves. Second. Mr. Dullard seconds. Further discussion. As there is none, Mr. Clark, Mr. Dullard, Levi, Kim, and Bill. Next is stamp warrant, drainage district joint 61, branch 399W. All the land is in Dickinson County. Dickinson County news for $50. and eight stamps and jacob's in the west regard three thousand one hundred and thirty five dollars fifty five cents motion to approve mr clark moves i'll say it in my seconds further discussion harry young and clark aye we buy hi mr dillard hi kim hi and bill lastly uh stamp horn bringing district 19 ifg for 570 dollars and 63 cents motion to approve yeah moves second levi seconds further discussion hearing on him hi levi hi mr clark hi mr dollars hi that brings us to one minute for next i'll move here go

Thanks, Colin.

So this one we didn't because you . Is it 9.30?

Michael Leccese, WA State Assoc. of Counties and counties. Michael Leccese, WA State Assoc. of Counties and counties.

so in fact in april kind of get us up to up to date here on this project and quite a project here in alaska so in april it was a the project was approved to proceed so i've been working on helping plan specifications before we put it out for bid or do any sort of construction

project and look at the map on the last page shows what we're talking about.

About 3,000 feet of new open ditch. You can see there where it's the east end. Originally, we had talked about having this open ditch just follow the north side of 230th Street. And we moved it angle to the north and come back to the south to cross the natural gas pipeline where the existing tile crosses it be within our existing easement so this is this looks a little funny because we go up then we backtrack down it'll look funny to people driving by i think well who who thought of that but there's a there's a good reason for it uh so anyways what this hearing permanent right of way acquisition for this open ditch project. Obviously, if there was farmland there before and going to put an open ditch, it's essentially land is being lost to the channel. There's spoils that'll be placed. is having an engineer and then two other landowners in dickinson county that have anything to do with this project to act as appraisers basically come up with recommended compensation for firing right away a couple couple kind of notes and it's in this it's in this report on back side of the front page. On the east side of 320th Avenue, we're doing 110 feet of right of way acquisition centered on the ditch. So 55 feet on either side of the center line of the open ditch. And then once we get to the because we're kind of hugging the road right away and on the east side we're gonna be putting spoils on both sides of the ditch on the west side we're only really putting spoils on the north side of the ditch and so we don't have enough we don't need to go as wide on both sides of the ditch we just but we're going wider a mouthful i guess but on the west side of the road We're going wider on one side of the center line and not so wide towards the roadside.

Is that because they already have the county right of way for the existing ditch and the road?

Yes, and we're not placing spoils. it's not just the land that's lost to the channel we're digging up clay and things like that and putting it on top and we are going to be stripping top soil and putting that over top but it's still there's still going to be degraded fertility and things like that just not going to be as good so both sides of the ditch versus one side of the ditch that's that's a big part of this

You are taking the black soil and separating it and then putting it over top the clay? Yes, sir. Are you gonna level off the berm then so you can farm up to the edge of the ditch? Yes.

So it'll be leveled off to... Yeah, and on your property, Greg, unless I put in the, and we'll talk about the plans and specs here after, but as part of the construction, Now, I've put in there that if a contractor can find somewhere to go with some of that dirt, like on yours, they can go ahead and do that because it's going to be hard for them to do that full construction and keep all the dirt on the north, get it all to the north side of the ditch. And then by my calculations, that spoil pile will be six feet deep, even levels.

Couldn't they take it a mile south and dump it where that big pile is that they cleaned out the lagoons for the city of Terrell? That's a county spoil pile, isn't it? Yeah, the thing is, is the cost to haul it. So, you know, is it...

Is that something the drainage district wants to pay for as part of the project to haul that dirt away? There may be contract. I'm hoping that there's some contractors locally that would be interested in some of that dirt. And they can either, if they get the bid or if they work with whoever gets the bid to do That way they could have an excavator on the south side of the ditch and just load them on the road and have them haul hopefully some of that dirt away. So it's not quite so large. But it'll still be leveled out and be farmable.

It's just it'll be... That's the thing I want. I want it like 61B is where that Rezac leveled that off to the top of the ditch and we can farm right up to the edge. Now is there going to be any... 10 whistles for surface drain through the north side of that.

Yeah, and so the way that I handled that is that I put in the bid there's bid items for surface drains. And on the north side of the ditch, we're gonna kind of field fit them, if that makes sense. So we're gonna do the construction and then where there's places where surface water runs to this, a certain spot, we need to be able to let it into the dish and we'll put a surface drain there. So I guess to real quickly, it's just, I'll tell them where to put those. I haven't, Shown on the plans where to put them, but I included in the bid so that there's quantities of pipe and I'll just tell them where to put it as we're doing. The construction and then, I guess just. So, on Greg's on the West side of 320th Avenue, there's 1 parcel there where. to that van ness is the is the landowner there 3.15 acres and 1.14 acres of right-of-way acquisition and then just a little bit on you know what we were looking at so for the for the channel itself we based They've recommended compensation on $13,100 an acre based on a CSR2, area-weighted CSR2 of the channel of 82 times $160 an acre per CSR2 point. And then 40% of market value for land in the oil pile. So they'll actually be spoil pile that outside of this permanent right of way. And so we're, we're doing some compensation for the damage there. But one thing with this permanent right away is it comes off the property tax rolls to the county. They don't get assessed drainage assessments and really. The only benefit of it, of having it really wide, is if you came back and did repairs or something and you damaged crops, then legally you wouldn't have to compensate for the damage to the crops. I've always thought doing a one-time upfront payment for that is not the best way of going about it. Keep your permanent right-of-way fairly narrow, as narrow as you can reasonably have it. And then if you do have to do a big repair project where you do damage, and a lot of times for a short ditch, you try to do it as fall when there's no crops. And so if you have to do damage, just pay the crop damages at that time rather than buying this big swath wide right-of-way. So that, anyways, that's just some of the thought process there. So in the end, the appraisers, the three of us, came up with a total recommended compensation between those three parcels of $110,485. Any questions or comments?

Jordan, I didn't hear him.

Not from Cotton Graves. Is there, like you said, with not being assessed any drainage, would there be a way of separating out that parcel? Or just I guess it won't because they'll they'll still be a $5 admin fee like when we do drainage so it's really not I mean.

Those parcels will still be in the assessment schedule it's just those acres can't be included in the calculation. Okay, that makes sense yeah.

yep just that 2.64 like for Greg right that whole section right just perfect.

If there is nothing else, I would close the public hearing and ask for a motion.

Since there are no objections to the compensation recommendations for right-of-way purchase for DD61, I would make a motion to accept it.

Dr. Clark has moved. I'll second. further discussion. Hearing none, Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Dillard? Aye. Levi? Aye. Kim? Aye. Kim Dillard? Aye. I don't believe there's any further action you can take here. Not on the appraisal report.

We do have I don't know if you wanted to do that now, the filing the plans and specifications and the bid letting date.

I need to open another public hearing.

Nope, that's just accepting the report and the bid letting date.

You got a date?

Yep, August 7th at 10 a.m.

Okay. I would make a motion that we accept the plans and specs and set the bed letting date of August 7th at 10 a.m. Mark is moved.

I'll second. Emmett seconded. Further discussion? Levi, you look worried over there. This doesn't have anything to do with our scheduled users. no that is just the bid letting where he's coming to my calendar making sure that i was on the same page yeah they just come to our office to to submit the vids no i don't have an issue good but there is no further discussion mr clark aye kim aye mr dullard aye levi aye and bill looks odd

In the stuff that I handed out, there was kind of a project summary sheet. There's a little bit of that on updated cost estimates, what we're doing, some of the numbers. I've got a bid alternate where we're going underneath the natural gas pipeline. I've got corrugated metal pipe and also did a bid alternate how much more that would cost it's obviously a stronger more long-lasting product but you can decide whether or not that's worth the additional cost and then a contract completion date of july 30th next year that should be plenty of time to for them to complete the huge project i think that kind of gives them flexibility

as far as getting started and getting work done. I'm hopeful that we'll get competitive bid. Thanks, everyone. Thank you, Colin. Thanks, Colin.

Number six.

Yes. I'm trying to find them here. Contract change order to Josh for his excavation. Okay, we have a change order number one for drainage history, number six, main open ditch improvements. And the change order is for $3,100, rate and contract price of $38,562. That's to Joshua's Excavation. Motion to approve. Second. Mr. Clark. Second. Further discussion? Very none. Aye. Mr. Clark. Aye. Levi. Aye. Mr. Dollar. Aye. And Bill. We have number seven, which is the exception of joint drainage. If we didn't know, okay. We can go to 18 for Jeff. Yeah, we're down to Jeff. Jeff, if you would please. Before I entered this morning, on the agenda I handed out to you, the first business update Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. Ulster County Transportation Council Chambers. Once the bridge is open, then we'll pull gravel out and pave right in front of the treatment plant.

Your estimate on how long that will take?

Being a concrete, it would probably take up to seven days for closure with strength. But I know, talking with my county guys, we've been getting strength on the bridge in two to three days.

I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll read the resolution. Oh, sorry. We already approved the resolution. I'm just giving an update that needs to be extended. Okay. Sounds good.

Go ahead Levi. I'll make a motion to approve the resolution, the extension of the resolution 2026-12. Levi's moved.

Second. Mr. Clark second. Further discussion? Gary Bowe. Aye. Mr. Clark.

Aye.

Mr. Beller. Aye. Kim. Aye. And Bill. Aye. Thank you, Board. Second item is to have a report discussion on the county's signage for speed limit changes to comply with the Senate file 378, which raised the maximum speed limit on two-lane undivided rural highways from 55 to 60 miles per hour. The bill passes the legislature and officially took effect July 1, 2026. The signs have been ordered and will be placed once they're received. I've been working on driving each of the roads to make sure that the 60 will fit. each road so i hope to have that assessment done like i said the sign should be in towards the end of the month what's the cost on the signs i think i got them for about 43 weeks i believe for what uh gary my sign guy says that we have probably 25 to 28 times the count

I had a meeting in Lake park this morning and they're already on highway nine. So yep. Your niece, highway nine. They're also that way too.

Yeah. Motion to approve. Mr. Dullard seconded for the discussion. Hearing none. Yeah. Aye. Mr. Dullard aye. Mr. Clark aye. Levi aye. And Bill is aye. Thank you board. Third items have discussion regarding dam blockage. the drainage district 41 multi in section 14 westport township the dam blocks drainage through the waterway hard water back up on the upkeep i'm looking for a recommendation or direction to the board to resolve the issue i emailed this you have it here to show you the location i'm going to send the next few pages pictures so that's going to be directed to the downstream side of an intake That's going to look as a second picture on the on the first page of pictures. It was on the lower right hand corner. That shows the water coming from the east and the berm blocking it to get to the second intake. If you do the Transistor 41 plan, then I didn't see any type of design berm to be there. So the person that came in and claimed office said that somebody put dirt there. That'd be the first thing I would do. Yeah. Because, you know, can't have somebody building an unapproved dam to hold water back so that it's

absolutely these pictures speak volumes i went i would go talk to the owner of the land and say this can't happen you know what i don't know if the landowner built it or or who but um sure if you want to i'll drop a letter to talk about this removal yeah yeah absolutely you can't yeah you can't block those natural grades that's what i would recommend same you did motion on that okay correction

And then last time I have today is the approved resolution in 2026-16 for the annexation of a portion of 215th Avenue adjacent to the Cypress Ridge development project to the City of Spirit Lake. The chairperson to sign the formal letter. The approved resolution will be submitted to Iowa City Development Board with a legal description and a map of the portion of 215th Avenue to be annexed to the City of Spirit Lake.

A resolution introduced by the Dickens County Board of Supervisors approving the secondary road annexation and jurisdictional transfer of a portion of county secondary road to the City of Spirit Lake, Iowa, pursuant to Iowa Code Section 368.7 . Whereas the City of Spirit Lake has previously annexed real property immediately adjacent to and sharing a common boundary line with a certain segment of Dickinson County secondary road infrastructure. And whereas Iowa Code Section 368.7 provides that when a city annexes land adjoining a secondary road, the county board of supervisors may intend to transfer jurisdiction of the road or the half of the road extending to the center line to the city by notifying the state's development board. And whereas the Dicketts County engineer has prepared a precise legal description and geographic map defining the target secondary road segment or half thereof, extending to its center line, which currently shares a common boundary with the corporate limits of the city of Spirit Lake. And whereas it is in the best interest of public safety, uniform road maintenance, and localized logistical efficiency, that jurisdiction and legal title of the secondary road portion be integrated directly into the municipal street system of the City of Spirit Lake. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Supervisors of Dickinson County, Iowa, approval of intent, Dickinson County hereby approves the secondary road annexation and legal transfer of its title, rights, and infrastructure jurisdiction for the road segment described herein. to the City of Spirit Lake, Iowa pursuant to the unilateral authorities granted in Iowa Code Section 368.7 . Legal description and maps. The Target Road segment subject to this transfer is strictly designated and described as follows. You can reference the attached exhibit meets and bounds legal description and also the attached exhibit map . State filing directive, the chairperson of the Dicketts County Board of Supervisors and the county auditor are hereby authorized and directed to instantly submit a certified copy of this resolution alongside the descriptive exhibits to the Iowa City Development Board to complete the state review process. The effective date, this jurisdictional and asset transfer shall become completely effective upon the official date of written declaration and execution signed by the State City Development Board. And in my minutes, I do have the legal descriptions listed, but for the map, I have it in there to either come to the engineer's or auditor's office to review the map.

you're comfortable with everything on on this uh exchange with the city yes basically everything in the city suggested by the southern resolution will be half of the road from the city to the county the city to the developers development plan does include uh retention or you know get a lot of questions about concerns about the runoff and so on down into that area the plans i've reviewed the stormwater report i've reviewed does show probably four five maybe six pods on the site okay i'll make a motion to approve second mr clark seconds further discussion

How does that work with each storm you take turns moving snow?

Basically, what we have shared snow removal agreements is we designate one jurisdiction to do the removal and the other one pays the other. So in this case here, the county allows it now. So I'll probably continue to have the county acknowledge the city for half of this. Any other discussion? Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Mr. Levi? Aye. Mr. Dallard? Aye. And Bill? Aye.

Thank you.

out of the snow line. here's the lawyer that will be sent to me just going forward along with the leadership now thank you

Okay.

it is now 10 o'clock megan so public hearing discussion action on a rezoning for tj holdings The application, or excuse me, this application is a request to rezone property they purchased in December of last year from A1 Agricultural to R1 Suburban Residential. The proposed rezoning is consistent with the Dickinson County Comprehensive Land Use Plan and Future Land Use Map, which identifies this property as future residential development. The property zoned A1 agricultural does not meet the district's minimum bulk regulations of 10 acres. As a result, the applicants had two options. They could either go to the Board of Adjustment to seek a yard variance, or they could come to Planning and Zoning and Supervisors for a rezoning. It of course shows the rezoning path. The minimum lot size of the R1 suburban residential district is one acre with a minimum lot width of 150 feet, making it more of an appropriate zoning designation for these parcels. Approval of the request would allow the property to be developed for residential purposes in accordance with the R1 district regulations. And that intent is, the intent of the suburban residential district is to provide for the transitionary area between agricultural and urban land uses to be applied in areas into use to or impose proximity to build up areas. There is housing on three sides of these properties. Any future residential development on the property would require a private water and wastewater systems unless the property were to be annexed into the city of Spirit Lake and connected to public utilities. The Dickinson County Planning and Zoning Commission considered the request on June 15th of this year and recommended approval 7-0.

Any downside to this?

I don't believe so. What really brought this? What brought Jill and Tony Peterson to buy this property was last fall, there was an application for a conditional use for a major utility facility for Alliant Energy. And the neighborhood was very upset about trying to put this use in the middle of the neighborhood. And so I think housing would be most appropriate.

How close are they to the nearest existing facilities like sewer?

Well, because they are in the city of Spirit Lake, they are not allowed. The existing utilities are on 28th Street, but they would not be allowed to connect to them because they are not within the city limits. The city will not allow you to connect to their facilities without being in the city.

Right. How close are they?

I have no idea, sir. just to the north but they're they're not applicable and they're not they would not be allowed to connect to them unless the annex so unfortunately we did have a fellow just to the east of this that installed a new sewer and there was a manhole right out in front or a new private sewer and there was a manhole right out in front of his house but we all have our own rules that we have to play by and so And the property to the east until you get to the city boundary are also on septic as well as the two to the west that adjoin center. So that one and those are in the city. So those will be connected. If you go one more to that property that is also on private suburbs.

I saw the recommendation from the Commission, P&Z Commission. Make a motion to accept.

You got to close the public hearing.

Okay. Public hearings closed. I'll make my motion to accept. Mr. Dullard is moved. I'll second. Kim has seconded. Further discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Dullard? Aye. Kim? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Okay, we've got nine minutes till our next session. So let's go through what we did the past three weeks.

At a recycling commission meeting, green waste and hazmat materials are coming in at a rapid pace. The collection center is extremely busy. It's summer. So a lot of constructions going on and bringing things out. I celebrated the 250th birthday of our country on the 4th of July. It was a great celebration. A ton of people in the area. Nice times. Checked on Lower Garb Bridge. It's progressing well. Jeff tells me they're doing the last pour tomorrow. So hopefully by the 1st of August, we'll have an open bridge there. We're getting close. That's exciting. 843 Bridge is also progressing, I'm hoping, by late August. We should have that one open. Hallelujah. Don't forget that other bridge in the county that we need to at least put a culvert in. Thank you, Jeff. I had a department head meeting I thought went very well. It was represented well by our department heads. We were visited by reps from ICAP and workers' compensation. They came to basically congratulate Dickinson County and the department heads on a job well done, excuse me, for workplace safety. In fact, Dickinson County has one of the lowest accident factors in the state, so we should be very proud of that. we always knock on wood because you know how that can change but i i think because we have it in the forefront we have safety meetings that go well we have a shield committee that backs us um congratulations to the employees in every department in their leadership with keeping our employees and our people safe we also talked about um in fact the savings alone because of that safety factor our county saved ninety thousand dollars in insurance premiums just on property and casually type of thing. So that's big news. Um, we also talked about upcoming, uh, events and things that are going on. Uh, again, we're very fortunate to have the employees that we have at a silver lake improvement board meeting this morning with discussions about the final phase of shoreline restoration, which would be to the west. Um, things are going well over there also discussed fish varies. We've been talking about them for years. It seems like, but the DNR. as things that obviously take place. Um, they also are talking about the next steps for some sort of a North basin project to collect that water, which would be huge on all of our resources around here. Their annual meeting is set for August 8th at nine 30 in the morning at the community center in Lake park. Uh, Mike Hawkins will be doing actually a kind of a video presentation of all the improvements that have happened at, uh, silver lake and also things to come. projects both the city park and some of the shoreline have been slowed down because of archaeological findings and so we have to respect and proceed with care finally wellness team reminder to all employees please go online and complete your self assessment for the isaac wellness challenge and if you've not yet done so please schedule your positions physical so we can reach above 80% participation of our employees and receive a full 5% discount on our health insurance premiums, which every year equals between $80,000 and $90,000 savings to our county. That's all I have. Okay, very good. Mr. Golan.

All right. After our meeting on the 23rd, I assisted with our church's support of the Udmo Food Handout Upper Des Moines. Our two-day total for our The 22nd and 23rd was 46 households, 84 people, which we'll report to the Hunger Coalition later this afternoon. Right at the end of that, we had a monthly board meeting. I had to zoom in with Upper Des Moines. Most significant things from that meeting was we had another board member resign, and Head Start has exceeded its target areas in the counties that Upper Des Moines serves. On the 24th, we attended the Veterans Board meeting and set a meeting about 10 days later for the election of new officials and updates on the Veterans Memorial. On the 27th, I assisted our church food pantry with distribution, our normal distribution. On the 2nd, I assisted unloading and storing the materials for the supply truck that we get from the hunger coalition on july 3rd isis unloading leftover food products which whenever lake park orders food they don't have a storage place or a facility to put it so we are at this point uh collecting uh the materials that they have left over from their food pantry and on the sixth i attended the next pets meeting And the bulk of the meeting was the election of officials and dealing with grants and proposals for materials for the memorial itself. They had some questions about procedures and an email was sent requesting assistance from the county attorney, which I'd discuss with you later. We'll get a chance to talk about that as well later. On July 8th, I also attended the county leadership meeting team meeting with the department heads and considered that to be a very good meeting. A lot of questions answered and just commendation to our employees for the large amount of money. You often hear the negative stuff, but you don't often hear the very positive stuff on the money that they've saved taxpayers by their participation. On the 9th, I attended the Dickinson County Taxpayers Association meeting. They had a guest speaker, David Kinzinger. He was speaking about data center information and challenges. And I do believe they plan on bringing him back. It was a very informative meeting. He's the gentleman that spoke at our meeting. It was very good. It was very good. And the information he gave out was really educational and stuff that I'm sure a lot of people didn't understand. And then on the 11th, I assisted with our church food factory handout for the second, our first service month of July. And that's all I have. Very good, Mr. Clark.

Well, I can try and start.

Well, we've got two minutes. Would you rather wait? I'd rather wait. Okay, let's wait then.

You can.

celebrated with the family. And what would that consist of? Fireworks. Baseball with the grandkids. I have a duel with Roman Campbells, if anyone could hear.

I have considered a duel with the seven-year-old baseballs. That's fine.

keeps telling me i throw like a girl i gotta get back to practice there you go just go there's something you buy yeah awesome It is now 1015. So Megan, if you could continue on, please.

this rezoning application is a request from ryan ferguson the request is to rezone the property from an r1 suburban residential district to the r2 one and two family residential district the proposed rezoning is consistent with the dickinson county comprehensive plan use plan and future land use map as the residential designation is not changing The intent of the R2 1 and 2 family district is as follows, is to provide for a low to medium density residential development with a limited number of institutional and recreational facilities permitted. The property will be serviced by public water and sanitary sewer facilities. The R2 district requires a minimum lot area of 10,000 square feet and 20 feet, excuse me, 80 feet in width. The Planning and Zoning Commission considered this request on June 15th and recommended approval from 7-0. I also have a statement from the applicant as to why the present zoning classification is no longer valid. The applicant believes the classification is no longer appropriate for the subject property due to the changing character and developmental patterns of the surrounding area. The property is currently vacant and consists primarily of trees, grassland with no active agricultural, commercial, or industrial uses occurring on the site. proposed rezoning would allow for orderly development of single-family residential lodge which is consistent with the existing and anticipated residential growth of the community the request represents a reasonable transition of underutilized land to productive residential use that will complement surrounding properties provide additional housing opportunities and make efficient use of existing public infrastructure and services Additionally, requested zoning classification is intended to better align the property's permitted uses with the Atkins proposed subdivision plan and long-term development goals in the area.

Any questions, Board?

This is hooked up to Sanitary Sewer.

They would be, yes, sir.

So they don't have the choice of doing septic?

They would not.

Good.

I believe Osceola. I have utility letters. Let me just verify that. Black Hughes Energy is the energy. Alliance as well. Oh, I apologize. I relate to regional water.

Does the public have anything to say? I'll close the public hearing and ask for a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. Kim, move. I'll second. Mr. Clark is seconded. Further discussion? Hearing none, Kim? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. Mr. Belder? Aye. Okay. And we'll discuss Mr. Clark.

I had a very light schedule over the forest, which was okay. We had a lot of family here. So the only really official meeting that I was able to attend was the conservation foundation meeting. And that was last night and they are, uh, They've received a destination Iowa grant for $250,000 for the Nature Playscape. Now, this is going to take place or replace the logs and all the playground out there. And they have had a design worked up by being in stock. Incorporated is the design firm. You know how this all goes. Well, they brought the price down from the original 1.9 million for a playground. And, uh, I think it's down to like about 1.6, but they have the money they've had enough donations and pledges and so on to proceed with this. Uh, It's a big project, you know, in a small area. So they're hoping to start on that and have it open by next spring. If they, uh, they're also applying for another 112,000 from the AWC group, which is the Andrea Waite Carlson foundations, and, uh, they're seem pretty confident they'll get that it won't this won't involve any taxpayers money it's all donated money so they're proceeding with it you know it's gonna i can't believe how expensive all this stuff is but it's really being except you know a lot of enthusiasm for it so uh will it be handicapped accessible yes not a hundred percent but most you know it will be handicapped accessible that's part of the the restrictions and requirements that they put on this so speaking of the conservation steve that sherwood forest is now open and had the opportunity to take my grandchildren there and i'm going to tell you what that's quite a park yeah it is holy cow i'll get to that we talked about that it's just amazing so uh Like I said, they voted last night to approve the nature playscape. They've got enough pledges and donations and everything. They won't be taking any tax dollars for that. It'll all be donated money. So they're going to go ahead with it. other than that i didn't really have any meetings but i did do have a couple things coming up water quality commission is next week uh the s board meets on on friday the 17th Monday on the 20th I have an 830 meeting with DNR staff and Jeff Glostad from Emmet County and they're going to DNR going to do some work over on 12 Mile Lake which is uh affects into drainage district 61 and so we're going to meet and and discuss what they're going to do and how it might affect 61. It won't be a long-term effect, but it might be a short-term change on that. Also after that on the 20th is the Sherwood Forest ribbon cutting and grand opening. They had to open it. They couldn't keep people out of it. They've been trying and trying. they're gonna have to really do some restriction on that. They've already had people riding golf carts and side-by-sides all over it, and it is not designed and acceptable to do the golf carts and electric scooters, any of that kind of stuff. None of that's supposed to be permitted, and they haven't figured out how they're gonna enforce that, but it's a problem already, and it's not even officially open. But that grand opening, And ribbon cutting is at, I believe, 10 o'clock.

What day is that?

On the 20th. Yep, next Monday. On the 20th, it's at 10 o'clock. And then at 1 o'clock on the same day is the... Planning and Zoning Board has their regular meeting. On the 23rd is a regional REAP meeting at the Mazer Monarch Lodge, open to the public, and it includes Univista, Clay, Dickinson, Emmett, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Palo Alto, and Sioux Counties. And for anybody that's interested in water quality around and, you know, REAP helps enhance and protect a lot of resources. It's a resource enhancement and protection group. They've received a lot of funding since it was first established in 1989. and continue to do so. So this is a meeting where the regional board will accept ideas for future projects. So if anybody's interested in that, that's also upcoming. One that's a little further out in the distance that I have attended on my own, not every year, but probably about every five years since 1980, is the Iowa Drainage School. Not with the Iowa Drainage District Association, it's just with Iowa State University Extension. And they put that Iowa Drainage School on August 25th through to 27th down at Sutherland. And I've learned a lot from that over the last 40 years. And it's been a real good educational experience for me. But anybody that wants to go, it's $500 to get signed up. So they give you a lot of material, a lot of presentation. But it is, you know, a lot of county officials, a lot of engineers go to that kind of stuff just to keep up with improvements in drainage and effects of drainage. agricultural drainage on resources. It's a pretty good deal. That's about all I have at this time. The REAP meeting is at the Mazer Monarch Lodge. What day and time is that? That's all. Got to get my notes here. The 23rd. The 23rd is the meeting that's May or Mon.

What time? What time?

1 o'clock.

1 o'clock. Yep.

Thank you. Levi. On the 23rd, I sat in at the IGLSE board meeting. On the 30th, I met with an individual just talking about county issues and moving forward. I went to the TIF meeting at Milford and met with Leanne on July 7th, giving updates on the two different TIF districts there in Milford. urban renewal area and then the harvest hills urban renewal area so they got multiple projects going on with that um i went to last wednesday to the leadership meeting with dixon county department heads and i thought that was a fantastic meeting very appreciative of the information that was shared and challenged with and very grateful to be a part of that. On the 9th, I had the trails meeting, and the trailhead in Milford is completed, and it looks fantastic. And the Wapiton Trailhead should be finished on July 31st. The trail counts for June and both year to date are fantastic. They're well up. Trails are very busy. Obviously, the weather has something to do with that. But and obviously with fourth, I would expect that July would also be very high as busy as we were here. Last night I went to the City Council meeting in Milford, and later today I plan to go to the Iowa Lake Sanitation District meeting again, their board meeting. And Friday this week, there is a trails fundraiser at the Monarch Lodge that I will be attending as well. Be my first social thing that I'm doing. Mr. Antisocial, so we'll be helping on a brave face.

Remember to keep your little finger out when you're drinking.

I'm all about that life.

Okay, for me, I have two official meetings in Northwest planning development. I brought with me, in case you're interested, the region three regional planning affiliation for the Transportation Improvement Program, or TIP. The two things you'll find in there have to do with Dickinson County is you've got some money for a grid. It's a short one. It's like a culvert basically on M-59, I think. But the fun one is there was a pot of money for trails and only one person applied for it. Guess who? Well, that was worth $146,000, so well worth their time. The other meeting, oh, and if you look at the minutes from the Northwest Isle Planning Development Commission, you will notice lots and lots and lots and lots of names of people getting FEMA money. Spencer, as you know, got hit hard, and Northwest Outlander Development's handling that. The other meeting was rides, and quite honestly, it's getting depressing going to those meetings. Starting to talk cutting routes, cutting drivers, He was saying, well, it could be a million in the hole. I pointed out, we've got a million dollars in cash, actually a million too, but it will go down. And so the way I see it without help from the feds or the state, probably have to sell buses and lock it up and say goodbye. We'll see what happens. Also went to the department head meeting. Those are always fun to see what people are thinking. And for July 3rd, not the 4th, the 3rd, we served over a thousand people. They were good. With pancakes and sausage. And I, of course, fulfilled my role as sausage distributor two at a time. although some people only want one, some want four. And I had one kid, never happened before, said, well, what are those sausages made out of? And I said, pork. Oh, none for me. And I wondered, wonder if he's Jewish. He said, oh, who knows? But I've never had that before. And then of course we had, five young boys that kept coming back for fruit but oh we just love fruit so we fed them so that was my july 3rd and what i did anything from the crowd about today's agenda if not i will take motion to adjourn i'll make that motion mr dillard moves second Mr. Clark seconds. Is there any discussion about that? I hope not. Mr. Dullard? Aye. Mr. Clark? Aye. Levi? Aye. Kim? Aye. And Bills? Aye. We're officially adjourned at 10.32.