Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Are we recording? Okay. Good morning everybody. It is Tuesday, March 17th, 2026, St. Patrick's Day. Top of the morning to you. Uh, I am Don Schwaker. I'm going to go ahead and call the Jackson County Board of Supervisors meeting to order. To my left, I have Mike Steinus.

To my right, I have NGO. We have Bejorn from IT. We have Lisa way in the press box back there printing stuff from uh the auditor's office. And first up, we have visitors and citizens. Is there anybody in the gallery or online that would like to address the board? Michael, we see you're back. Welcome. Um, anybody want to talk? Hearing none, we'll move on to uh district 7th district Iowa Department of Corrections update and Rob Mets Mezer. Yeah, good morning. Good morning. If I you know,

so appreciate you guys having me this morning. Just wanted to really check in and see if we're how we're doing. You know, no news seems to be good news typically, but I don't want to make assumptions either. And I've already discovered in the last 11 months that Scott County can be a little bit timeconuming now and then. Um, at the same time, all of our counties matter. You know, I I live in a rural area myself. I get it. I want to make sure we're uh proactive and responsive to anything that you guys have going on, whether it's concerned or opportunities or otherwise. You want to introduce for the record?

Yeah, I'm Bob Mair. I'm uh the probation officer in Jackson County. I replaced Renee Bayer who was here for a long time. I'm sure you guys are familiar with her, but um big shoes to fill.

Um I think um I've been here since July when she retired. So, um I think things are going um well. I'm I'm I've worked in all different aspects of our um department uh for the last 28 years and um I think I have a fairly good grasp of our resources and uh limitations and everything. So, um yeah, but I just wanted to accompany Rob and introduce myself. So, if you see me around the hallway, then you'll know who who I am. So we appreciate the face to face and we we appreciate working with you and uh I don't know of any difficulties or anything. So again we also view no news as good news. So

everything must be running as smooth as can be expected. So I assume this is like you took the place of Wayne. Okay. Yep. Talk about don't really get involved with it. Like you said if they don't hear it that's okay with me. I These guys deal with it more than numbers are up a little bit. Business has been unfortunately going upwards, not backwards. But um you know that's nothing nothing too crazy though and been real fortunate between Renee and Bob to have veteran staff out here that really have command of everything that there's nothing they don't know. So

interesting. Is there one area that you see that's increasing more than another? Nothing stands. So, I mean increase, you know, like four or five years ago, we had about 55 total. Now, we got 70. So, I mean, it's noticeable, but we're not talking huge numbers. Yeah. Um, if anything, it's maybe more kind of the middle age uh group in that kind of 30 to 40 and 40 to 50 range that it's a little bit higher than what it used to. Um, do you see more related to abuse or to mental challenges or anything like that in particular? Bob and I were talking about earlier. The substance use is always an issue. You definitely see folks who are kind of rowdy in their younger age that don't grow out of it. And

when that happens, things tend to get a little worse. You get older and you're more likely to run across. So, hey, that's a little, you know, my grandson that I'm ain't never tell you yet. Yeah. Knock on, you know, and then you get the typical thing, the job hopping and unstable housing and stuff. Those things all kind of in a bad way for some folks, but Okay. Well, we appreciate what you do. Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, yeah, good to see you guys and hear from you and nice to meet you, too. Local. Yeah. always here to help however you guys need. So cool. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. See you in a month.

Well, I think because Andrew stepped out. Ruth, you want to jump up on the schedule a little bit? We have Ruth from Veterans Affairs for Departmental Update. Lauren, we don't have a print out of that. Right. There's an email. Yeah, it was included in your pack last night, but I I can print it if you'd like. Sound good. I see. I don't think it's the whole I just I just listen to follow along. Yeah, it's all good.

Sounds good. Sounds good. So, uh we were busy in the month of February. We um checked status on 41 claims that we have open with the VA. Uh 12 decisions were made. There were two partial decisions um that were made. There were 10 new claims. filed eight appeals. Um, one pension, one healthc care form, uh, records request, third party authorization, seven intent to file. So, we were we were busy with our forms in our office. Uh, we had a total for February of 270 interactions. So, we had 143 phone calls, uh, 35 emails, 62 inerson visits, um, faxes, mailings, those kind of things. Um I am keeping track of our um had our secretary keep track of her kind of phone calls too. So she answered 47 phone calls and she helped with 51 uh clients that we had come in the office. So

So yeah, she's she's very busy as well.

Um we have a total of 431 veterans um and or their eligible dependents receiving $876,344 um in benefits. that was in Jan or January. Uh there are 97 open claims. Our office filed 61 of them. So our percentage of claims uh was 63% for February for the open claims. Um the at our last meeting the commissioners did make a motion to hold elections for chairperson and secretary position um every other year beginning in July of 2026. So, we'll have elections in July 2026 for those positions and then every other year moving forward.

Good. Yeah. And then there are some upcoming schools. So, the Iowa Department of Veterans Affairs is holding their spring school in April. So, I'm going to attend the school in April. Um the Iowa Association of County Veterans Service Officers is holding their spring school in May. So, Lucy's going to go to the one in May. Then we can get both, you know, both educations. um they're always just a little bit different and so I'm excited that we have the opportunity to bring back the training from both of them. And then I will go to the national conference in June in Reno, right? So yeah, that's

sacrifices me. I'm like that's a long way to go, but you know, it'll be all right. um an update to the Senate file 2466 that deals with the county veteran service office um offices that did pass the Senate on March 10th. So I believe that it will go to the House from there. So we got a little bit of an email on it just I think it's going this week I think is the next kind of round of of how it goes. So that's the only update I have on that. Um and then upcoming events we have a lot of upcoming events. So March 30th, we will be at the Sibula VFW doing a claims clinic and a question and answer. Uh there will also be a representative from the reserve component transition assistance advisors. Uh he will be there as well to help anyone who is, you know, in that transition from the reserves. On April 20th, um actually it's from 11 to 2, not 11:30, uh we'll be at the Belleview Community um senior center. will do a question and answer session and be doing a light lunch. And then April 22nd, we will be at the um Blue Move and Thrive Senior Wellness Expo at the YMCA. And then May 28th is our Veterans Appreciation Night at the Drive-In. So we will be very very busy in the upcoming

Yeah. Yep. Yeah. That's all I have. I don't know if you have any questions as far as the elections go. I know that's a little bit new, but there's nothing on the code section that says what should be parameters or Okay. I was just making sure that if we're going to do it, then we're doing it according to code.

Yeah. So, the other counties that I talked to, there is nothing in code. Um, but they they said it's very, you know, um, I don't want to say informal because obviously, you know, you're you're going to have an election for those positions, but they said, you know, basically the commissioners just kind of nominate someone and then they agree however, you know, however they want to move forward with that. So, we picked July because that would be um, you know, if we ever had a new commissioner, that would be sort of when they would be coming in. So, we wanted to make sure that, you know, if we did, they would have the opportunity. Okay. Any other questions for Ruth?

So, because Ruth is sitting here and part of my agenda today was to approve the minutes from the February 11th meeting. Um, I'd like to have a motion to accept and place on file the Veterans Affairs Commission meeting minutes from the February 11th, 2026 meeting. I'd make that motion. I have a second. We got a motion by N, second by Mike to approve and place on file the minutes from the February 11, 2026 meeting for the Veterans Affairs Commission. Any other discussion? So, it does include the part with the elections is in there in the meeting minutes that will be from the February 11th meeting. No, that will be March. All right.

Yes. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I I post. Motion carries. And the other thing I'd like to inform the board is that we did uh put an ad in the paper at public notice concerning the boards and commissions, veterans affairs is one of those that will have an opening um this year. So that you'll see that also being advertised. So should someone want to serve on that border commission, several of them and that also goes on our website by um it it will Um, yes. Yeah.

Or your I mean I wanted to get out there, you know, to the young vets that are out there social media type stuff. Maybe whatever we need to do, you know, something like that so they aware that they're in the position that, you know, maybe the younger involvement. Sure. Sure. see if we can get the word out a little bit more and see if there's any Well, I mean, you go to the local communities for their veterans meeting, so I guess that's the time to tell them, you know, they can pass it to their community or whatever. Yeah. Yep. We can we can definitely do that. That won't be a problem. Awesome. Good. Any other questions for Ruth? Thank you very much. The day work for a couple days anyway.

Next up, we got Andrew Long with the Jackson County Jail Administrator for IND's Update. Morning. Good morning.

Welcome on for a day or two. Yes. Yeah, it's a little uh chilly out there this morning.

So, I didn't visit with you guys here in February, so I kind of have both on here. Um, so our current count is low. We are at 23. Um, have reached out to Scott County. They said that they are fairly low as well. Um, our numbers for Jackson County are also low. So that's just obviously the trend at the moment. Uh, we're sitting at 23 um, of which four are ours and 19 are Scott County with 20 males and three females. uh high count in both January and February was 37. On average in January we had 29.58 inmates and in February 32.14. Uh in terms of revenue, January brought in $39,270 and February $36,575. Um so bringing our total for the facility here at 48 488,955. So we should be uh crossing that half million threshold here next month. Uh nobody was housed out in January or February. So no money spent on housing. Uh in January 36 people were booked in in February 47. Uh 56,110 checks done in January, 49,95 in February. uh 7,426 specific inmate notes in January and 6,236 in February and then uh 251 meals prepared in January and 2259 in February. So figuring January being 31 days and February being 28 were pretty pretty consistent through the last two months. Um like I said numbers have dropped here recently that in Scott County and our

own. Um we still I believe hold the most out of county Scott County people that they have. So they are going to us first. I think their numbers are also just stable at the moment. So um as we see more arrests that kind of thing usually come up as it gets warmer out. So and I'm sure well that's a good thing to me. I'm sure I'm sure with the staff, you know, with running kind of full tilt, max capacity most of the summer and fall, this a lower census does give a little bit of reprieve, right, where it's just not quite the workload and everything. So, that is a nice break for the staff as well, right?

So, yeah. Um, we had a few inspections this last month, too. Uh the fire marshall came in. Uh Jeff and I, uh escorted him around. He found several deficiencies that I'm not quite sure how were deficiencies. So, for example, our fire alarms were getting inspected once a year. If you guys recall, that was that contract we had to bring in for the fire marshall's office have approved. So, at that time, it was aokay. Uh this fire marshall came in and said it's actually supposed to be done twice a year. So had to have it done changed to twice a year. There was also other things like there was a smoke detector too close to the vent. It's like well that's how it is in the plans and your office inspected this place twice but had to move the smoke detector. So um a few little surprises there. Um annually what we're looking at for a cost increase and what's required now is about $1,100 a year. So costwise we're looking about another $1,100 a year for fire inspections. Um we al that if I can I appreciate their their input and you know they are the authority is what they're saying okay we had it inspected and the plans and everything was kosher and once a year they approved the contract

and now we have another guy saying no it's twice a year. Do we have actual written verbiage of what the rule actually is rather than it's just an interpretation of one person to another? And this isn't casting doubt or shade on any any one of them. But now that's two answers from the same department. Exactly. And so can we see the actual written code that states what it is? Because again, um, not that 1,100 bucks is a lot of money, but I don't want arbitrarily want to spend it because it's just one guy's prerogative over another.

And we did wait until we got his report before we moved on anything. He provided us with within his inspection the code, which it's not so much Iowa code, it's the International Fire Code. And in my reading of it, essentially the Iowa code says it's going to go along with the international fire code. Um, now for example, uh, another thing being the sprinkler system. It was going to be tested annually. He said it's supposed to be tested quarterly. Again, he did provide that documentation. I talked to the sprinkler people. He came back with annual. I said, "No, he said quarterly." And the sprinkler guy said, "Oh, well, I've never met a fire marshal that actually enforces it." Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be. So, we found the guy.

Found the guy. Yeah, this depression either. So, so uh so technically, yeah, it's uh what this guy is telling us is what the actual specification is. It sounds like maybe some of it's not always enforced, but we found the one that is going to enforce it. So, get the new guy. Yeah. Yeah. So, like I said, not a ton of money, but kind of a Oh, well, okay, now it's dying. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. You know, um and then we had our kitchen health inspection and that all went very well. So, told us we're very clean, so we're happy to hear that.

So, yeah. So, we have that inspection as well. Um the 26th is our jail inspection at 10:30 in the morning. If you guys are available, um you're welcome to attend that. 26. Yep. Coming up next week here. Thursday, I think. Yeah. 10:30. 10:30. Yep. And that would be with Albert. So, a lot of inspections right now, but I said, uh, all going fairly well other than questionable changes in the fire code, but is what it is. Good. Any questions for Andrew?

Appreciate what you're doing. And as far as, you know, like you say, the inspection of the kitchen and such as that's that's all done internally as far as cleaning and da. Correct. Yep. It's the correctional officers on duty and then uh Dan Cellser is uh one of our cos that loves to clean and really keep things clean and looking good for us. So, that's always very much appreciated. Well, you can pass on our appreciation for that, too. That that's means quite a bit, actually.

Yeah. No, he's takes a lot of pride in keeping the place looking good. So, that's uh very helpful. Um, also, just while I'm talking to you guys, I was going to tell you too, and as Bob is here, Bob has been phenomenal for us. Uh, great communication. He comes um takes care of any issues we have. He's doing wonderful job. So, we very much appreciate Bob in the jail. So, good to hear. Yeah. Thank you very much. Appreciate.

Thanks, Andrew. I just draw out there that Debuke County has a new uh jail administrator up there. Um we had a great relationship with Mike Minister before that kind of a childhood friend of mine. So we had a really Andrew had a good rapport with him anyway. Um but uh so Andrew and I may need to make a trip and go introduce ourselves to the new jail administrator up there and just try to maybe cultivate u little bit of a working we already have a working relationship and cultivate a little bit of personal if you have inmates that right

you need to house out we're here for you because they helped us out a lot when we were in the old jail. So just to plant the seed and plant a reminder to him I every time I run into a debut county baiff over in the jail I kind of which isn't often but you know I'm like hey just so you know you know so yeah no it's good PR and uh and did you know did he call the internal too also on the internal

yes it's actually a gal that's um I can't remember her name right now she's married to one of the deputies up there I think I met her years ago at jail school really nice gal might be Potter I'm not sure if it's that German. It's some debuke name. So, yeah. Yeah. So, but nice nice gal and I think that's her anyway. So, I'll know once I meet her again face to face. So, yeah. Good old Jaden. Appreciate it. Yeah, Jaden, you're up. Thank you much. Next up, we got Jaden from Secondary Roads County Engineers Office. How we doing?

Good. Uh first thing on the agenda is uh Tiff funding agreement. So this is if you recall uh this past summer we submitted to the DOT for the annual TIP award and our smid was to realign portion of 395th Avenue as part of the hero project. Uh that I think I updated you when we were notified that we were awarded that. But this is just the funding agreement for that uh grant for up to $445,000. Uh and not to be confused with the other portion of the churnley. This is just as it relates to our county portion of the DOT. This is nothing to do with Highway 52 or any of that. So, uh strictly just between DOT and county, but uh our office recommends board approval including board chair and auditor signatures on the funding agreement. So, move.

I would second that. Got a motion by Mike, second by N to approve the Iowa DOT TIP funding agreement um for the 395th Avenue road rehab project for FY27 project including board approval, board and auditor signature of the funding agreement. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I opposed. Motion carries. Dane, do we have any kind of inclination of when that project or how when it progresses as far as a timeline? You know, there is a couple there's a predominant business up that way that going to be affected.

Yeah. So, it's right now we're on track for a January of 27. Okay. With construction to follow that summer. Um, as part of this realignment, we have to get archaeological studies done to make sure there's no artifacts, which we have to do with all of our bridge projects. Sure. So, it's nothing new, but we have to get that done. And depending on what results they may or may not find and with the rightway negotiations could delay things, but ultimately I would fully anticipate a summer of 27 construction period. Now, depending on who the contractor is and their schedule, I don't know what exact like month or periods of the summer, but I do anticipate summer of 27.

Okay. But I mean, there always will be an access through 395th. I mean, because that is a bus route. I know for sure. And yeah,

and it's essentially acts as it for all purposes is like a dead end road because to the north end is just level B which isn't very accessible on certain times of the year. So I treat it as a dead end road as it relates to this project. So trying to figure out when we realign how we make those tie-in points happen because yes, we don't want to shut off access. I'm looking at options like is it is it night work where they get say the new alignment get as much done as they can without affecting the existing roadway and then where they transition that to tie in. Do they do that part at night? Uh if not do we do some like temporary detour pavement temporarily but working on the logistics of that there there's a way to do it. Just trying to figure out the best option. But yes, the road will not be uh not like they'll be forced out to go at that level. There will be access to the south, but could just be sitting at a stoplight for a period of time waiting until maybe it's down to one lane or what have you, but will be open nonetheless.

All right.

Uh, next up is our fiscal year 27 pavement markings. Uh, so this time year we send out so that way in the summertime they can get it on their schedule. So we solicited and received bids for our annual pavement markings. Uh, provided at the bid tab. We received two bids for it. Um they're the ones that always bid every year. Uh the responsible low bid was Vogle Traffic Services in the amount of $163,839.36. Um that is below our estimate. Um this vocal traffic service is also the one that performed this last year for us. Um so our office just recommends awarding the project uh including authorizing board chair signature on the contract to Vogle Traffic Services.

I'll make that motion. I would second. Got a motion by n second by Mike to approve uh the an the bid for vogal traffic services in the amount of $163,839.36 cents for the uh FY27 uh payment markings contract and approval of chair signature. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I opposed. Motion carries.

That will be we always list in our proposals for stuff like this that any work done prior to July 1 will not be paid till after July one to keep it part of that budget if but we just have to get it out. They get it on. It's that time of year. But just wanted to make it known that it will be part of the 27 budget this current 26. And they did it last year you said too, right? Yeah. Because they were out a little bit earlier than they were and I did. So last year I moved up my deadline up a little sooner to try to get it all done primarily before school starts. Not for that reason, but I just feel like it's I personally like to see them done throughout or earlier in the summer where you kind of the public gets more benefit of the fresher striping versus doing it in the fall and

scraping them off. You know, I agree with that too. So I just like to I don't know just feel like we get more benefit or a little more use I guess if you want to call it that out of the fresh lines fresher when you're given the range. So you mentioned Jaden that the estimate was or the the bid was below your estimated you know and I assume this goes I don't know per mile or per quarter mile or whatever it is. I I realize there's double lines more than single lines sometimes, but is it more competitive as you see? Do you see a trend in the bidding? I know the bid come a couple other things we did lately, the bid come below estimates. Do you see a trend there somehow?

So maybe it's more of it's just due to when I estimate I try to account for what the following year like the next year. Sure. what the possible inflation is, you know, is it three and a half percent, is it 5%. Just kind of depends like back in few years ago or more than that now when the COVID stuff everything inflation was going through the roof. So, we're not luckily to that degree of inflation, but just trying to I try to account for some inflation. So, I shoot for about 5% generally and maybe that's, you know, a little strong, but when I do my budget, I like to account for that. So that way I'd rather it be that where it comes in lower than comes in way over and it's like now we got to kind of scramble.

Oh, I'd like to read out the competitive part of it, you know, against and when they're real close, I mean I whether it's bidding on bridges, roads, maintenance stuff like this. When the prices are real close, that tells me they're all everything's clear. Uh they're bidding apples. It's not like they're not confused, I guess. So it's good to see when they're all that close. Uh but it's probably doing a couple things. Yeah, maybe I'm just overd overcompensating for potential inflation, but but you don't know. I mean, because Well, no, I just I just think that you're diligent in your process there. So, that's Yeah.

So, uh that's that. And last is an entrance permit for Charles Schmidtz. It's a residential entrance on 188th Street, uh Farmers Creek Township, section five. Uh the road we checked it has or this proposed entrance location has no issues with sight distance and does not require culverts. So our department recommends approval. Hello. I'll second that. Got a motion by Mike second by N to approve a residential entrance permit for Charles Smiths at 188 Street Farmerstown Farmers Creek Township section 5. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I.

Opposed. Motion carries. Anything else? Well, the guys are probably all aware or assumed are out plowing snow yet. Uh those two I saw there was two road clos signs due to drift or notices sent out due to drifting and that those are being handled today or

Yep. Uh there roads that we couldn't get to yet through the days yesterday or through the day yesterday and it's going to take a couple end loaders up there to get them opened up because we had a greater actually get stuck trying to plow through yesterday. So they're just roads that have always been snow trap issues with blowing and drifting. So, they are addressing that today and of course plan to get another one to three inches tonight, but hopefully the winds don't won't be as bad as they were. But there still could be some to come. But the guys are out. I know we've had some calls uh where they come through and plow, but within a couple hours it's drifted back shut. like it's they're trying to get what they can and

it was a pretty wicked wind that was uh kind of blowing initially. I think it was a rather lighter fluffier snow until it got on the ground and then the ground being as warm as it was caused it to start, you know, softening and or getting wetter or whatever. But and come Saturday or this by the end of this week and the weekend, it'll mostly be gone. But just want the public to be aware there. Gravel roads could get pretty muddy. We've had rain and now we're going to get this snow and some rapid thawing. I fully anticipate roads to be muddy. Our whole department does. So just we're aware of it. We'll try to address it as we can, but it's just what mother nature gives us. Probably a whole rock and we're bling it

and they should be or luckily they've been the roles that I've seen they've been uh directed and they've been doing it where they've been plowing just the wind. So be take your time and don't be flying through them because you may be meeting people and it may be tight. Yeah, there may be a frozen snow curb for temporarily, but it'll start to thaw here in a couple days, but it's an effort to save that rock cuz um and we needed the rock back then, but it's an effort to save our rock and not make our efforts wasteful, right? Be patient. So appreciate what they're doing. What frost is still on the ground will come out pretty quick by the end of the week, too, if we're getting up to 70 degrees and all that. So luckily most of it was out until you know this these last couple of nights especially last night they ain't going to go very deep. So

yeah so Fisher will go in that's a good thing you know. Anything else for Jaden channel with bridge progress or they as we speak actually they obviously were not there yesterday but continuing to drive pile and everything's going as planned still on the still driving pile on the north pier. So there's a lot of piling in just one that one pier alone has 29 pile which down to 110 foot deep each one. So just put perspective that one pier has more piling than our typical like three span slab bridges like say the last one we did on 184th Avenue south of town here. That one pier has more on Chennorth has more piling than that entire bridge.

So it's they're making good progress but it's slow or I say slow going. It's just it's going to take time. All right. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. Y Lisa, you want to tidy up the last thing on your agenda? All I need is a motion to approve the March 10th, 2026 minutes as written by Auditor Smith and authorized publication the official newspapers. I'll make that motion. I have a second. Got a motion by N. Second by Mike to approve the March 10th, 2026 meeting minutes as written by Auditor Smith and authorized publication the official newspapers. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. opposed. Motion carries. All that I have for the board today. All right. Anything for the board?

I guess that's it. You want me Could you see somewhere? I don't know if I have ghost of Lann's calendar past or whatever, but my watch has been going nuts about Makoko hometown pride meeting at 9:30 today and it did it last week and I can't find it anywhere on my schedule. I like that's not me. a popup yesterday or today said uh I don't remember what it was. Well, I'm glad that yesterday what happened is when well HCAP was one that came in but the next two meetings are cancelled. So they canceled their April and May meetings.

Well, they put four me last week they put four different emails out on meetings. They didn't put them all one email. They sent each meeting for the year out on separate emails. So I and so the good thing that happened yesterday, I was glad that you were close to your computer because what I did is I tried to add uh the agenda and some other packet material to the the meeting and it canceled it. And I'm like, "No, no, no. I didn't cancel the meeting. I seen it." You said, "So maybe I shouldn't." Yeah, because I'm glad that you responded because I'm like, "Oh, I learned something yesterday." So I don't know if you want those that information attached to the invite because that's what happened. That's why sometimes you'll see the

you just send it in the email. I mean to me if the Z my opinion anyhow if the Zoom is there on my calendar I can go back to the email and pull up the attachments. I that's what I've been trying to do is to include the copy of the link in for the for the Zoom and then if you want me not to attach anything else I think that would be save you a lot of work because again every meeting the attachments are different. So if you just do the Zoom link you could do a perpetual the first Thursday of the month type of thing. You could set that and not worry about the attachments because again I could have that done. I have fun and I take all of your

we can go up to the email and pull the email for that. I'm good then. So al all I have to do is copy and put in the Zoom link. I'm good. Then that will probably make a lot less confusion. Um because I did post out on our board here for public I did post your your 2026 um commission and board assignments and such. So if anybody has any questions um they can always refer to that. The other thing, you know, I did, you'll see what I emailed out to you last night is kind of the way that your your week is going to um you know, what this week looks like and what does next week look like. Um today, obviously, there is a board of health meeting tonight at 6 o'clock. Um tomorrow, there is the courthouse security meeting at 1:30. Um that's why I I made sure, n that was previously in air. Um, tomorrow night at there is an ECI board meeting for Mike at 5:00 and

too they kind of run consecutive so I don't know if it makes a difference but there's one at five and six. There's a together we build meeting on Monday that was moved to Wednesday because of the No, I put that I just moved it on my calendar. So a good thing. Yeah. See, and I don't get that information. So I don't I don't track together with meetings because I don't get that information. So, um I did see uh there was an email came through this morning for the tourism association. Um anybody can attend that tomorrow at 11 o'clock. It looks like Don has tomorrow on Thursday, excuse me. Don has a six o'clock limestone bluffs RCND meeting and Mike at 6:00. Is it 6 or 6:30?

6:30. 6:30. uh the municipal league meeting uh for Mike in Preston and there is a conservation board meeting uh Friday at three o'clock. So that's a little bit different. Is that a special meeting for those? They've moved it from it was supposed to be tomorrow. Okay. So there you know regular meeting but it got moved, right? Because they have people out of town. Okay. And I don't know if you're interested in going to that jail inspection u or not on the 26th. I did put that in the calendar, but I also can see that there's also a governing board meeting. You're not involved in DAP anymore, correct? You're just the DAP. You're DAP now. No, sorry.

You're sorry. I am D alternate. I'm sick of the I was thinking of the childhood. Yeah. I don't even know what DAP is. Yeah, I'm the alternate. Sorry. Sounds like But you don't go to the meetings though. No, I just zoom if they have a Zoom because we also have on the 26th that's at our special board meeting um on the 26th. So, we need to make sure that everybody's aware of that. That's our uh for the the levy. So, there's a special meeting on next Thursday, the 26th. You remember that in our calendar? Um the written one, the high-tech one she emailed out.

Um Oh, that one. Got a public hearing at 9:00 am. Yeah. Yep. Yep. And there's also an RPA meeting also on that Thursday 26th. RPA. RPA. Yep. For it looks like for Nin or Dot. Yeah. I don't have the C. We're still working. What was the When was the jail inspection time? That was the 26th. Yeah, you should get an invite. I I did that right away to get calendar in 10 days. Yeah, there should be an invite there. That'll get it on your calendar. So, um,

will you add the special meeting one to our calendar? That's not showing up on my calendar. Jail inspection on the 26th. Yeah, I don't have a special meeting on my calendar either. We have a public hearing on the 26th. Right. Right. That's what we're talking about. Not on our calendar. Oh, I'd hate to be getting a text message going, "Are you coming?" Well, you go Zoom. Is that your alarm? Yeah. See, I couldn't remember if that was this Thursday or next Thursday that that was going up. Any border commissioner reports?

Uh, just come by. I talked to Frank yesterday about the wiator just because I wasn't around here for a couple weeks and see what the progress was. Um, we're still working on that lease. I got to talk to the county attorney today. Um, and the bylaws a little bit. We talked about that in the past, but we never moved forward with that either. So, um, roof is going on. 60 mph winds didn't help, I hear. Uh,

u, the kind of discrepancy. There was some damage, was not some damage. So, I guess it's all okay. So, um, basically when the roof is on the they have to, of course, um, cover the inside and then, um, they can close it up and hopefully we can get some electricity to the doors and get the doors down and stop operating. The office will not be done, of course, but we have a, you know, portable office there. So, best we can, I guess, you know, again, we're still looking in April, so hopefully that good good time. Well, you know, it slowed him down the last couple days, of course, but this rent of this rest of this week should let him there into it. The inside work, I'm sure, can be done anytime. So,

I don't have a whole lot. Couple of us were out at De Moine. Got some good info from there. Yeah. No, it was good. Between the meetings and the hallway talks, you learned quite a bit. So yeah, good turnout. I scraped popcorn seedlings for three and a half hours that day. So I don't know if we had more fun. That don't sound like anything. It stakes were great when I got done. But you weren't sweating to pick the Oh, no. His hair a little better than it does. Hi. No. If we don't have anything else, I'd make a motion we adjourn. There's no further business. I'd second that.

Got a motion by Mike. Second line to adjurnn. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries. Just a quick note, happy St. Patrick's Day and just a shout out to the the Belleview Marquette boys for their runner-up status at state competition. They they represented the area well and uh it was nice to see him continue to represent Eastern Iowa with the sports that way. So, congratulations. I appreciate all the people that turned out. It was a heck of a turn. Good turn. All right. Have a good day.