Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Oh, I thought I was good. We will get started with the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Good morning to everyone. We'll start out with um commissioner view and update. Um Keith, do you want to go? Are you ready to Yeah. I did not have any meetings this this week is my week for meetings. So didn't have any third week. So yeah. Um but we did go to the little theater performance. I almost did

and it was kind of a last minute deal Saturday night. said, "Well, let's go." I said, "Fine." It was really good. It's amazing how much talent is in this. And it wasn't just Junction City. It was Chapman. It was Manhattan or Right. Oh, really? This weekend? Yeah, I know. I wouldn't recommend taking what I would not recommend. So, somebody had said that, too. Um and so Chris grand likes to go to those but um yeah somebody had said that it's a little suggestive.

So but all in all though and the finale was phenomenal but um they do a great job. I told one I said great job guys really did a good job. So, yep. If you get a chance to go, that's all I had.

Well, I really didn't um I did have EDC board meeting, but I attended the um employee task force meeting on Wednesday. Um didn't have a lot going on there. Um talked about um uh looking for some lunch and learn topics. Um they had some that sounded interesting. So they're working on that. Um, uh, Crystal, uh, HR director did bring up the benefits and, um, you know, um, talked about, uh, if there was any concerns to be talking to to, um, co-workers or whatever, if they heard anything, anything they want to change, anything they should be looking at, and didn't really have a lot of conversation or complaints or anything about that. So I was surprised because again I thought that that um venue was tight the kind of place to be able to error their grievances if they had something to be able to look for you know something in the future that um there wasn't a whole lot um said about that. So assuming everything is good with u the benefits going forward um EDC um board meeting um just talked pretty much about things in general. They did talk about the bed epic program that will be um coming up um in the future. um talked about destination boot camp and community representation there and um I think Terry's working uh with that with Kelly and I think they're going to attend the the Denver boot boot camp destination boot camp. Um otherwise um and that was um uh Nikki

did talk about electricity and energy issues ongoing challenges with EverG and I thought we kind of had all that under control. We talked about that six or seven months ago. um that um said there was still some issues and of course national concern about energy supply and grid capacity and wind wind energy. Um and then um talked about building up this and how many were issued. We had that information earlier. Um otherwise um we had some um conversation or or one of the people attending had brought up the um data centers and uh this past week it just seems like there was an upsurge of uh data center information. I was I I read and was listening into quite a bit of that that information. you know, as far as I'm concerned, you know, I I I feel like I don't not sure what all they, you know, they're probably a good thing for somebody, but you know, platinum men in um counties without a lot of um feedback from community um is concerning. Um I didn't realize, you know, Sedick, Butler, Harvey County, Re Reno County, and of course, Miami County. I think they're still fighting that. that you know I think Seduick County is getting a a data center. Um I um the um Seline County Commission just voted uh to place a moratorum on the construction of the data center new nuclear uh power and hydrogen based energy facilities in in the unincorporated areas of the county which that makes sense and we might need to have conversation about that because I I

think it would be a good opportunity for people to be able to be uh you know put a more moratorum on it. If there if it comes up then people will have the time to do some more of the research since it's relatively new and it's more seems to be more prevalent coming into this area. Um but they were pretty adamant about not having in in the unincorporated areas because there there wasn't power or water infrastructure and and who's going to bear that cost? So so that made sense. But you know as far as um you know I don't um you know like like I talked um at the initial um on start up with these data centers you have the um the employees that will build the facility but afterwards there's just one or two people that man those so you know it's not a lot of opportunities for jobs or anything else. So I think it is a something to consider in the future. Um otherwise um legislationwise um the um property tax bill that they passed um late um I had conversed with uh Representative Butler on that. Both him and Johnson did did vote um no against that. Um, I thought that it was again putting some additional work on uh the county clerks and the treasurers and um, you know, I guess I I don't understand, again, I do understand the whole nature of trying to put all this stuff together, but it just seems like, you know, people want to u want their taxes to be lowered and, you know, the fight with Cushion and Fullen and then end up with Dun is just aggravating people

again about that. But um but didn't the governor propose her her strategy or plan?

Um she did and actually I told Representative Butler some of the things that she talked about I liked. Yeah. You know and so you know again they they voted that one down. So, um, uh, Nate said, you know, they're going to, you know, wait to see see what happens with it, but, you know, at least, um, I appreciated him asking, but, you know, and that was, I think at 10:00 at night, they just started their debate. So, it was, you know, one of those things they push all that stuff to the to the 11th hour and then try to throw everything into it and that just aggravates me, you know, that that's the that's a strategy. Yeah, it is a strategy. A lot of that's ego, too. not

I know it just is that so I don't know if there'll be any time for any relief again this year but um anyway basically that's that's all I had that's all I' I've been kind of watching all that data center debate seems like all over the state of Kansas but uh I think we just need to be doing our research and when if the time comes that we are in the position to to uh have at least um done some research on it. Also, I just wanted to mention, you know, I was watching the Seline County Commission because they were they of course put place that milk moratorum on the um uh you know, the the data centers and for the three years, but they sure have a good camera system and I don't know if maybe we should um reach out to them to find out, you know, the cost of what theirs was. It sure was nice. you could hear clearly. This the picture is clear that you could you know the camera seems to move around and really seems to be pretty function functional. So

Courtney can ask Jamie because her and J that's kind of Oh Jamie's been here and helped us. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. She checked into that and do that. Yeah. That that was that's that's nice. And otherwise that's all I I have.

Well, last week I was gone, but the week before um I did attend the um tall grass healthc care um camp on campus for their new memory unit that they reinstated. Um something very needed, you know, a security unit for those suffering Alzheimer's dementia. Um it was very nice. They just have, you know, they have they eat there. They have recreation there in their rooms and it's secured. So, um, and they had closed that down during CO and so they up. So, so that's good. And then, um, I attended another of our, uh, region the regional um, economic uh, rural um, RC. I can't remember.

Anyway, um, for rural communities, recreation um, economic rural communities. And uh so we've been working on that and um Terry and and Jordan are doing a great job with that and looking forward to May. They're gonna have um uh the 27th and 28th they're going to have the presentation of all the things that you know they recommend and and different things that we can do. Um and uh so I'm looking forward to that. That would be the end of May. And then um attended the military affairs breakfast and um the Stephen A. go and um I make sure they talked um about uh all the the available um services that they provide and that they're up and running and um getting you know starting to get some patients and um and hopefully that'll be some of the other uh mental health agencies and get people that they need. Thank you. And our HR director is timed it just right. Good morning, Commission. Crystal Maluto's HR director. Not much uh to talk about today. I did hear that Kathy updated you on task force. So, thank you, Kathy. I was unable to attend. I was on FMLA. Um, I think the only thing that we uh had to postpone that I was hoping we wouldn't have to is we had um somebody recommend that we get a uh for lack of a better term a blessing box or an area where people can donate extra food or clothes or whatever so that if we have employees that are in need that they're able to come in and take what they need, give, get, whatever. We don't have the details and stuff worked out. Um but I was going to talk with the uh task force next month. Um, but we've had some people say, "Yeah, we'd like to donate things for employees." Um, but I wanted to know what the commission's uh, and again, nothing's set yet. It's just

if you guys are supportive of it, and if you're not, then I don't waste the task force's time. I think it's a great idea. I just don't want I mean, what if we get so much stuff where we're going to keep it? That's Yeah, if we get too much, we'll just have to start rejecting things. We've got too many clothes. We don't need any more clothes. We don't have, you know, we're just going to be asking for like shelf stable food. If we get some donations of fresh garden stuff, we'll put that out and anybody can come and get it. Um, but yeah, we'll uh have to have somebody That's a blessing box. So, is are you going to limit I mean, are you going to say close?

Yeah. And that's the whole thing. We'll be visiting with the task force to see what it is. Um, just between the staff and I over there discussing how it would work. Um, we don't want We know that for some people it might be a little, you know, embarrassing or whatever. Everybody's in need at some time. Everybody. I was going to say, I mean, because it it could be anonymous. I mean,

yeah. So, we thought about maybe even making it move. So, like every month we'll put it in a different location, have it like the second Wednesday of the month or whatever, and then just have it in our conference room over at the sheriff's office, parttime, health department, public works, whatever. And just have it move to make it convenient for whoever needs it. And then nobody knows who keeps going in or out, but people can go donate things. People can go pick things up. We're not gonna ask anybody to sign in, whatever. You'd have a list of needs. Yeah, we we could have a list of needs and we could also have a keep a list of what's in there. So if somebody says, "Well, I need diapers." And

you know, we've got people with babies, but maybe their babies outgrew the size one diapers before they were done. Got extra size one diapers. So a new parent could come over and grab those size one diapers. I do too. Um that would make it though that somebody's going to have to manage it. I think you want it to be as easy to manage. Yeah. We don't want everybody just donating everything. Yeah. We want it to be specific to to what can help our county employees. So, we'll work out the details through the task force um and see who can uh have the time to to do some of it. I was meaning manage wise as if when you put it in different locations, you know, I would hate that to lie on another of yours. You know what I'm saying?

That's why it's going to be like a blessing box. We'll have a it might be a large box. We'll have a box and if it doesn't fit in the box, you know, you say move it to different locations. Somebody's going to have to do that. Is it going to be Yeah. And I'm sure I can work with people from the different offices to say, "Okay, I'm gonna have it for here. Um, can I give it to you and then you'll put out in some area that's accessible?" because we can't just have it in an area where everybody has to check in or check out. But for example, if we have it here in the conference room, we'll just prop the door open and then leave it and then people can find out if somebody has a spare spare office or room stays there and and people know that's where it's at.

We can always do that. Right now, we don't have anybody using it. So, we've got the closet right next to HR. That's the um uh lactation room. So, we can always keep it in there unless somebody needed the lactation room. So, that's actually a good idea. just leave it open. Anybody can go in anytime. Yeah. I mean, if it gets big enough, but like I said, I with clothes and stuff, I'd probably Yeah, I think we would limit it. We don't want just I mean, right now, we do a good job. If anybody has extra stuff, we put it in the break room and then take at it. But when it's specific for kids, whether it's food or whatever, I think it'd be nice to have it. If somebody monitors it and there's a need for

and if it's right outside of HR, it's easy for me to keep an eye on it, too. So, but I'll discuss it at the employee task force next week. I wanted to remind everyone that um this Friday, Scott Cobra with Capers 457 will be here for one-on-one meetings. Um I sent out an email, but if anybody needs another direct one if you want to meet with him to discuss your retirement or benefits or you're interested in retirement, um there we go. And then on Friday, I will be going to Emporia for a bit. um the past president, current president for KAC will meet together to discuss the performance evaluation for the executive director. So, we'll be doing our thing on Friday. Um and I think that's all I have for this week. And then next week, next Wednesday is administrative professionals day. So, we will be doing our donuts and fruit and bagels as usual. And everyone is welcome to come in and thank our administrative professional staff for all the work that they do because we couldn't do what we did or do without them.

Who took Jay Hall's place? That's where I'm going to ask. Oh, who's whose place? J Hall. Um, they haven't hired anybody yet. I think Clancy is spilling in. People have questions. Yeah, Clancy. And then the Justin Wagner from Sedick County. Um, and then uh Sean can't think of Sean's last name from uh not Seline. No, not Sean. Anyway, I see the fa name or face um from uh Shaunie County is also helping out. Not their attorney, but their uh county commissioner, Erin.

Erin, thank you. Erin Mace. Um and they're all working together. Um we did um uh interview a couple people, but it we want to make sure we get the right person. Okay. So, we're still continuing to advertise. Um, I I forgot to do this at the beginning of the thing. I do would like to amend the agenda to have an executive session at the end of the day um for non-elected personnel with HR if I can make that motion. And and will you be available? Yes. Okay. Is there a second?

Second. It's been moved and seconded to amend the agenda um for a for personnel issues, non-elected personnel issues with the HR director as well as our county counselor for no more than 15 minutes. All those in favor? Not. Motion carried. I'm sorry about that, Tra.

I know I didn't do that right, but I was worried about the computer. Sorry. And then I have one um out of office notification. I'll just start here. And I just want to thank you guys again for your support while I'm going through FNLA and getting things settled with mom and pop and everything. Pop's doing much better. We're actually hoping he may come home. So, uh we're all happily surprised at that and still believe in blessings. So, that that's all I have right now. And I am working with Tammy, making sure that she stays updated and informed about when I'll be gone or whatever. Making it as convenient as possible for the department.

Thank you. That's all I have unless you guys have some questions. See you in a little bit. What time will the executive session be? Teresa, um I don't know if we can do it. I mean, running there's a a gap uh at 11:45, but I don't know if we're going to be running on time or not. Yeah. So, running on time 11:45 otherwise public comment perfect

I'd ask you to plug in just a little that's what that break time in there some so we can still have an opportunity that we have to go if we need to we don't need to doing Beautiful Monday morning. Does anybody attend this?

Keith has in the past. What's that? Okay. Well, that's kind of You just get it a week before, but the that invitation, do you attend that? Well, I have. Okay. I don't know whether I'll make it this year. I got an invitation at home. Oh. Or I've left it on here.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't know where that place is. Bob Creek is so close to

Oh, really? I think he's on the board. Is he on board? Yeah, he is. Are you ready? Yep.

All right. Good morning, commissioners. Tammy Robinson, finance director. I have the rest of our financial or monthly financial reports for your review. This first one that's on the screen is the treasur's duplicate statement and voucher sheet. This comes directly from the treasur's office and them tracking their cash balances. So you can see at the end of March we were at 36,335904 which includes our checking our petty cashache and the CDs that we have. And then along with that we have the uh statement from CIC on the cash inside our financial reports and that shows the same amount the 36 335 904. And then finally this fund status report which is our actual GL ledger inside CIC gives you that same number the 36 335904. So with that, the cash was balanced for the month of March. Any questions?

I forgot we had that um CD for the sports complex. So yes, we have that out there. It's earning a little bit more interest.

So, okay, the next one we'll look at is the quarterly uh report for payroll. So, with payroll, we're at 26.92% into the year, and that's because we've had seven seven pay periods out of the 27 that we'll have in 2026. So, the ones in blue are highlighted so that you can see that we're just over that 26.92%. Um, we're actually in really good shape. If you look at the general services, we've had uh actually quite a few separation of services where we had to pay out some funds as well. We had to pay just under 25,000 for our audit, our payroll audit um for work comp. And so that also gets posted to that line item. GIS is just a little over. And the thing on these on the um benefits, keep in mind that work comp is paid at the beginning of the year. And so the sanitarians work comp is a little bit higher. And when there's only two people inside that department, it does affect where we're at on percentage that we've spent. So as we move throughout the year, you'll see that um get more in line with where we're at. But with two employees any small deviation does have an effect. Um then with the waste disposal again same thing work comp we have one and a half employees inside that fund and so anything with that does affect and and work comp being paid right up front has that effect where it's just over a little bit. Are there any questions on any of those? fire would be the same thing with the benefits. Their work comp is relatively high and so paying that all at the

beginning of the year kind of skews where we're at. Any questions? Okay. And then the last report for the financials is our uh expenditure and revenue. And so with this one, we're 25% into the year. The ones in blue are just exceeding that point. And the Gary County general fund, we're at 26.57%. Keep in mind, we had the transfers, the appropriations, we pay insurance. Um, also our bond payment, one of the bond payments has already been made, and so that pushes that number up a little bit more than, but as we go through the year, that will even out. library and economic development. Those are based on when the timing of the distributions take place in the library and the economic development is when we pay those appropriations which is January and July. So as we go it'll even out then in July we'll hit a high again on economic development and then it'll even back out by the end of the year. library. It's going to be cyclical on the distributions and so you're going to see ups and downs as we get to the end of the year to get to that 100% mark. Uh no concerns from me on any of those three. Are there any questions from you guys? Okay. And then this is the rest of the funds. And you can see none of those have blue on them. So, we're good on all of the additional funds. This one is your general fund by department. And so, the district court is out there just a little bit higher, but they had some expenses that they paid on their server equipment. And so, that should even out as we go forward as well. Um, and then we've already talked

about the general service with the appropriations, transfers, uh, insurance costs, and loan payments. The next page just gives you each of those departments by months. If there's any that you see that you have a concern on or you would like to know what makes up those costs, just reach out and I'll sit down with you and get you that information. Are there any questions on any of those?

The next one is your revenue. There you go. Um, again, 25% into the year and at this point in time with the general fund, we received 50% of our distributions, which would make sense because the largest amount is in January and then in June when we collect our taxes in December and May. So, it's just about where it should be with that. Um, as you go through there, if you have any questions or are needing to know what specifically goes in those funds, what makes that up, again, I'd be happy to sit down with you, just stop by and walk through that. Are there any questions on the revenue side? Okay, that's all I have for reports. Then the only other thing that I have, uh, I did let you know that we needed to talk about what days you want to have your meetings for the presentations. They're scheduled for June. And so on the calendar, we have them somewhere between the 8th and the 19th. It will take about four half days to do all the presentations. You could do all of them in two if you want to go the entire day. Um, I don't necessarily have a preference in there as far as when I'm available. I'll be available based on when you've set the time. So,

19th, Junth, and it will be open, right?

So, we could go through the 20th if we needed to. Which one? Oh, sorry. Sorry. Go ahead. I sent an email to you about that. Yep. And I had

Keith Keith had reached out and said that uh he would prefer other days besides the BOCC meeting days. Um and he was okay with evenings if we needed to fit some evening times in there. And Kathy had said that she has a conflict the week of the 15th. Um, and she had proposed June 4th and the 8th and then the 10th and the 11th potentially. And I had told you that maybe the appropriations I know it it doesn't always fit everybody's schedule, but if we did do an evening or late afternoon into the evening to try and reach out to the appropriations ones. The rest of the time I think the department heads are here. So that was my fault.

Right. Yeah. And I thought we did want to have a couple of them anyway to allow um you know community members to come in as well. So, a couple of the evenings would be fine with me because that work for I'm fine with and I could do an evening on the eight. I just like to get my work done at home in the afternoon and then I can come back. Well, if you want to do the evenings, I would recommend if you're going to have all the appropriations, you're probably going to have to do two evenings because I don't think you're going to want to sit through all of those in one evening. you'd be here pretty late. Yeah.

Right. So, um so we could do two evenings and two afternoons with apartments and evenings for appropriations if it fits people, right? I mean, there might be a few that that wouldn't work for, but I would assume that the majority of the appropriations would work in the evenings for them. But I mean I can I mean if we send it out and we say this is the time that you have to present then they would hopefully work evening time like 5:30 5:30 so that or 5:00 so that way people if those you know they can't make you know that

those have problem later in the evening I'm not talking like start 6:30 or something maybe 5 to 7 or something like that because that works for everybody else. Some of them don't take long. I mean, it's only like 10 minutes long. Yeah. And some of them take long. Some of Yeah. Some take 20 and some take 30. So, so you want two nights for appropriations and you're looking at in the evening on June 8th to come back in. That's fine with me. Does that work? You guys want to start at five?

Yeah, sounds good. Okay, so June 8th, 5:00 PM and then your other evening.

Well, let's back up. Are we talking doing on the fourth, fourth, 8th, 10th? Well, Kathy had thrown out the fourth on our calendar. We had the 8th to the 19th, but we can adjust that. The calendar is not set in stone. So, if that's what you want to do, then we'll adjust it. So, is that your graduation? Fourth is your graduation. Oh, yeah. I can't be here on the fourth. That's the CPM graduation. Okay. And I guess they make a big deal out of it. So, thanks for the reminder. I was on my skip calendar. So,

and you can't do it the week of the 15th. Yeah, this the whole week is we're going to be in Branson. Um, are there two two afternoons that you want to do the presentations with all the department heads? Well, I don't have a problem with the 10th and the 11th. 10th and the 11th work for you guys? And then we'll probably Are you good to start at like 1 1:30? 1:30.

So, we just need one more night scheduled. Okay. So, could you do Can we roll into the week of the 22nd? Is that too late? Um, I mean it's not necessarily, but it just you guys just have to remember more stuff longer.

And I think so looking at the calendar, I actually have us starting to work the numbers starting June 22nd. So because we'll have the valuations and everything in and so in order to put all that information together the presentations are all presented and you have the information in front. What if we did uh Wednesday the 3 for an evening and the 8th for an evening and then the 10th and 11th. That that's just throwing that June 3rd. Yeah.

Yeah, that would work for me on the evening. You do. I'm afraid. And what time was it on the 10th and 11th at 1? 1:30. 1:30 is when we'll start. And then on June 3rd and 8th, we'll start at 5:00 p.m. Okay. And we'll try to fit all the appropriations in on the 3rd and the 8th and the department heads on the 10th and the 11th. Okay. the week of the 15th. That's the third week of the month. It's always I've got meetings,

right? And so we'll have the valuation information that week and then we'll have stuff ready that you guys can start looking at the numbers on the 22nd is what what the plan is. Sound good? Yeah. All right, that's all I have. Thank you.

Yeah, thank you. I will give you a heads up on the 27th I am planning on coming in with a recommendation on that capstone project. um based on the of this month uh my final paper is due on May 1st and so based on the recommendation and the outcome then I'll be able to finish up finalize that paper and um get it turned in. Now when did you say the gra your graduation was? It's June 4th at KU.

Wow, that is an at KU. Yep. Because it's a certification program. So, Yep. We even have a speaker from our class and I am very proud to report that it is not me. I uh I volunteered or I nominated someone instead. So that's always a good way to to to pray away from yourself. Yeah. You would have been good though.

Well, and the guy that is speaking for us, um, he just has really good energy and he's gotten to know like everybody in the class. And so I'm I'm kind of excited to listen to his speech and what he comes up with. I think he'll do a really good job. So,

how many is in that class? Uh I think it's around 25 and then there's also one in um Kansas City at the same time and they have about the same amount and so when we graduate all 50 of us will be together. So, and then they have a uh annual conference at KU as well, and they I had went to it this year because part of your class requirement is to go to it. And then they have people who have um done their projects. There's like I think they had like six of them speak on their projects. Uh, so

what a good way to to do that to get different ideas and and you know and to have leaders be able to come together to think up those projects to do that and then you can insert them into your you know your county. That's that's a good way to the whole program is just a yes good way to that's well and I think one of the biggest advantages in my mind which is what I told Jackie and Travis is that you aren't just working with people who have the same job as you.

So you know I have KBI agents in there and I have people from the Department of Commerce and um Kansas Department of Health and Environment. And so when you put us all together, there's corrections from the state there as well. So when you put us together and you talk about perspectives and you know it's interesting that we come from a different perspective on how we tackle something and I think you know a better perspective because a meeting of the minds you know

um we had to come up with a project and where we would put it and all the factors that would affect it and it was enlightening to to listen to some of the thoughts that people brought up. Even like one of them, a human resource director was in there from the state fire marshall's office and she brought up it would affect cemeteries. If you brought 6,000 more people into your community, you also have to think about even cemeteries that you would have to be able to bury people in. Then do you have that do you have that growth potential which I would have never came up with that but I mean it's true. I mean even something like that is something that you should think about when you're trying to figure out projects and where to put them and and whether there's growth potential. Um you know especially like if you were in the state of Louisiana and New Orleans and they're on top of the ground and there's definitely not space for more cemeteries. So, it's just interesting. Yeah. Things like that that

funny you say that because we have I know of one possibly two cemeteries, rural cemeteries that are full. Yeah. So, now we're good.

Yeah. Well, and even if you bring in um these projects and knowing that, you know, does this project require a lot of water? uh how's it going to affect your utilities and do you have the growth potential for those two things either extra water tower or can you divert your water from somewhere else you know so there's just it's just really interesting because like um and then like the KDH I had a lady in my group and she said you know you think about is there contamination that you run off that you have to deal with and is there going to be testing that's required ired and so it's just amazing

that the different jobs that you hold and the factors that would come to your mind on what you would need to think about. So I really enjoyed just that perspective and getting to know people and where they're coming from. Yeah. And you know it takes the entire state of all these people to uh service the public. So I appreciate the opportunity. The more you build, the more concrete you got, the more runoff you got. Now you got issues with drainage and flooding and Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So Jackie will be the next one. She'll come back and give you all sorts of feedback about that as well.

Thank you again. Thank you for the opportunity because I really appreciate Yeah. I know a lot of work for you. So, you know, kudos to you to manage it. Yes. Thank you. Hello.

Good morning. Hi, Jackie Risinger, register of beads. I've got my quarterly report. I'm going to jump right into the breakdown that I always provide you all um for uh January through March of 2026. The file fees we collected were $68,120. Copy money, which also includes our public access customers that they pay. Um we have different agreements. So they pay when they can or what we've agreed to. We collected $9,728.50 in the registered beats technology fund. We collected $10,264. The clerk technology fund was $2566. The treasures technology fund was $2,566. And then uh money sent to the heritage trust fund to the state was $5,132. So the total collected from January to March of this year was $98,376.50. And then I always provide the amount to the general fund which is our file fees and our copy money collected and that was $77,848.50. So I do compare from last quarter and then I also look back at this time last year. So from the fourth quarter of 2025, our total collected was down $4,493. And then our total to the general fund in the fourth quarter from the fourth quarter was down $1,669. And then the total collected compared to the first quarter of 2025, we were actually up $15,866.50 from last year. So, our document count, we had 308 deeds, 223 mortgages, 224 releases, which is mortgage releases, those getting paid off and then sent into us. Um, assignments, again, mortgage assignments, there were 40 and then miscellaneous is anything that they don't fit into any of my categories.

There's 161 documents, zero plats, and then nine surveys. So, our total documents for the first quarter were 965. And then the total number of SVQs, the sales validation questionnaires that go with the valid sale of a property is 166. We were up 13 documents from the fourth quarter of 2025 and we were up 177 documents from the first quarter of 2025. And then um looking at last quarter for SBQs, we were down 25, but we were up eight from the first quarter of 2025. So, it's uh we were definitely I looked I always compare it to last year and I have my spreadsheets that I do that I also provide. So, those are always interesting to kind of see where we are and even from last year. Um it's kind of weird that we were down from last quarter just because of the fact that end of the year is usually a little bit of a slower time, but if people are refinancing those are mortgages that that's where we get a lot of money from because they're higher recording fees and the money that goes into the different tech funds and all that kind of stuff. So nice. Any questions about that part of it? How do you break out? I know your tech time, but then how do you determine how much the curve in the treasury is?

So, um, that was all determined for I think by the state. So, like if my tech fund gets $4, the Heritage Trust Fund gets half that amount, so they get two. And then the clerk and the treasurer get half of what the Heritage Trust Fund gets. So, they get a quarter of what my office gets.

So, it's easy when you're thinking a few dollars. You could kind of break it down a lot easier. But then when you look at random amounts of page documents and we've got a chart that I refer to, which is nice because when we take credit card payments on filing fees, we have to break it down into every fund for $38 for a two-page deed. We have to break it down five different ways and make sure that that money adds up to the $38. So yeah, um I did want to give you an update on our e-recording. Um we are working with Harris reporting solutions which is my software company. Um I have so far reached out to four vendors for e-recording. So I have gotten two of theus signed and gotten them our bank account information so that they can make the deposits. Figured out more of how that's going to work. I did reach out last week to a fourth vendor um at the re recommendation of the person who's helping build our e-recording at Harris. Stacy Meyers is who I've been working with a lot and she had recommended like get as many as you can because that's just going to be more people e-recording with you. So I did reach out to another company called EPN and I've got to look over that MLU and sign that. So we don't have a super accurate time frame to give you right now. It seems like since we signed it though, they've been working as much as they can. They did they were notified that WebEx, who they usually connect to my computer through to be able to look at um different things in the software and make changes, they had stopped supporting the remote access. So, we kind of had to figure out a different way to go about it. We couldn't do it was one kind of WebEx. Now we can go through a different kind of WebEx and have the app and I can share my screen and she can go through that. So, we've kind of figured out a way. I also talked to Trent. He said they could get them set up with screen connect. So, if I'm not available, they could still connect and they've got so much stuff to set up

behind the scenes templates of my recording label and different things like that to set up. So, um it's been interesting. I've learned a lot so far about it, but I'm excited to get started with that. So, any other questions for me? No. All right. Thank you. Hi, Kim.

We're in perfect timing. Oh, great. All right. How are you? You're free to go. Thank you. I need to come over, have lunch with you. Okay, we're ready. All right. Shoot some dates. Okay, I will do that.

All right. Thanks. Y, too. Thanks. You bet. Bye. Are you good? Good. Nice. Does it help?

Did you hear what I lost? Look who's here, sir. All right. How are you?

I'm good. I'm good. Good morning. Hello. Good morning.

Just let me know when you're all ready to get started. I'm a little early. You are ready. Ready. You are whenever you are ready to go.

All right. Good morning. Nate Beckman, Gary County Sheriff. I will be covering these stats between March 25th and April 7th of 2026. During that time frame, we average 97 uh individuals per day in the jail. We took 15 accidents. We assisted outside agencies 51 times. We had 82 citations that we issued. 243 civil papers were served. one domestic incident. We had five drug investigations, two DUIs, eight prisoner transports, one theft, 209 traffic stops. We had 30 arrests, 647 primary incidents in that time frame with an additional 116 other calls for a total of

763 calls for service during that twoe time frame. That's the quick stats on that part. Um, if you guys have any other questions, um, asked in 25 or you could give a summary of of the calendar year 25. Mhm.

Of total total. I mean, just so the public knows how much you folks do. Yes, we can we can I can definitely present that. We can also put it on our Facebook page. So, I know when we last we put out the last fourth quarter at the beginning of 2026. Um, we chose not to do it on Facebook at that time because I feel like we're kind of replicating that already over and over and over, but um, I can definitely prepare that. It's very simple. Yep. We can put that on. Would you like me to present that here at Yeah, just here. Okay.

Or maybe even give us a copy. I can do a copy. I'll get you guys a copy in advance. Yeah. Now, I will add that we did have our first complaint with that new noise resolution. I just gave her because I got it.

Yeah. Yeah. I've been getting a lot of uh emails and phone calls about that. And so, you know, there's a learning curve and we don't want to go out and just drop the hammer right away. Um we want to make sure the public's uh you know, educated properly on this and give give them a chance to correct behavior. So the direction from me would be if the behavior is not corrected during a certain time frame then then we will start issuing some hard copies or some long form in it and see if the county journalist has actually issuing subpoenas or anything like that. Um but uh well I think that the president would be more than happy to sign the piece.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. The president would. Now, with that being said, you know, the resolution has some some restrictions on and I think um the particular citizen I don't I think I got to talk to her and make sure she understands that there's our hands are tied unless we're inside those time restraints. Yeah.

And um some of the uh complaints that I may get from this resident, I I feel like it's during it's before the time and that's the issue. We don't have any enforcement until those times are in place. Then there's so much we have to do in reference to finding out who who's doing this. We can't just assume we we got to catch the person in the act. So it'll be an uphill battle for a while, but we're going to do our best to make sure we keep everyone happy. But there is something in place. I think that was a big question. Well, yeah. And then I read the guy that came in last week that had come in before about the people shooting.

That's the two that we've got recently. We're try to do our best to educate everyone first. Hopefully the behavior corrects. Add to your to your misery, I had someone contact me and I was like, well, I'm not sure if that's uh something to talk to the sheriff about, but uh they want to know what is uh how do you report somebody that that's dumping um stuff or refrigerator and couch cushions in in the ditch? And I was like, is that that's not necessarily your job to go manage that. But is it what's littering? I mean, it would be fine.

Yeah, you can. Yeah, you can tell them to call our office and we will look into it. As you all know, there's a lot of different things around here resource-wise we can look into. Everyone has a camera. There's license plate readers everywhere. There's there's just public cameras everywhere. We might be able to figure it out. Um, but yeah, that would be our job. Yep. Refer to our office, Kathy. Wow. That falls on public works and they have to go pick it up. Well, is that I was wondering because yeah, if they too is what what do you do then? You contact public works to you know it depends on the item. If we can fit it into whatever we have, we we're not going to bother someone else. A refrigerator.

Refrigerator. We will be calling refrigerators and couch cushions is what what this is. And yeah, that have been dumped. So yeah. Yeah. We just responded down south to um one of the farmers found some drug items. So, you know, just in a ditch on the property. So, we actually the owner sheriff and I went down there and collected it and Wow. Not much we can do. There's no cameras in the area. It's very remote, but we took it off his property. That's all he wanted. So, I go let them know. And otherwise, is that your new uniforms that the green is that? Yeah. So, this will be the final uniform. Nothing's going to change.

We just went with the green top. everyone has them now. We are transitioning from black jackets to green too as well and those have just started coming in. It's it's a process. Got to get the patches and stuff put on. But uh we found a different vendor that's I think I've reported this before at least 50 to 60% cheaper. Some of the jackets that we were wearing that were black was around 180 bucks and the new ones we went to were 35 to 40. the same quality just winter and summer gear at all.

So when I first came in, you know, I see a lot of input from the deputies. Um, you know, I'm not the one out there in 100 degree heat or zero degree temperatures every single day. I go out there, but they're out there every single day. So, I want their input. And so, we did try some trout air with some t-shirts on above 90 degree days or hoodies or this or that. And we're we're going to move away from hoodies and t-shirts. It's not the professional look I like. Um and with these new shirts, they're very thin and very comfortable. And so, um you'll see this most likely.

I heard some girls that when evidently the morning, you know, the greeters and they come and they were impressed. You know, they were talking amongst themselves about the gear they you had on and everything. So, you know, it's not it's not that it didn't go unnoticed and the kids did, you know, it was just kind of funny to hear them. Did you see that? They had that on the other. They love asking questions. Yeah. And we like answering those questions. We We really like to get involved with the youth. So, yeah. I I've wanted to go to the morning thing, too. But that tad early for my high five quite a bit. Y'all want to join us? I've been there once. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a good deal. Kids, anytime I think that your presence is there, I think it's good for kids. You see those kids smile, Keith. You've seen it. Yeah. You love that stuff. Oh, they they get excited about that. Hey, I got a question for you, too. Since we're talking about uniform, where are you on your weapons? Oh, we Yeah, we have they've been we're all trained up. Um, we had we didn't have anyone certified for Glock, so JCP was kind enough to put us through all the training for free. And so, we've had this for a few months now. Oh, okay. I didn't I failed to ask

updated sites and everything. So top top-notch equipment for same price the previous equipment was for. So nothing additional payment wise. Well and we we had grant money to pay for that helps.

Yeah, that helps. Anything else? No. Okay, you guys have a great day. Take care. You know, the city has that new gift grant writer. No idea. It would seem like that that could be a possibility of a share type. I've talked to um the city manager about that too

because you know you it would seem like it couldn't necessarily and I I'm saying this like I know and I don't know but it would seem like that wouldn't necessarily be a full-time job for a just a city entity or a county entity for us, you know, but he had two of them. But I guess you get into are they doing more than them or whatever. that I just when they you hear people talk about brands and stuff and uh it'd be nice to have. So you just mentioned

before is the sheriff's office 2261. Yeah. Gosh, I still remember that number. You want to have your executive session? Um, we got 25 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Call Crystal. I don't know if she's watching.

Checking the door. I can see when right when she comes out of the office. Yeah. Okay, thanks. They're coming. Tiff is coming also. So, I make a motion uh that we go into executive session for 15 minutes um for non-elected personnel with both u members of people.

Second. It has been moved and seconded to go into executive session with the HR director long as well as benefit specialist. of what does she's special special and the county council