Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everybody. It's Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. My name is Don Swiker. I'm going to call the Jackson County Board of Supervisors meeting to order. First up is a roll call. I got Mike Steiners to my left. Good morning. And to my right, Bjorn from IT, Lisa from the Auditor's Office, Brittany in the virtual press box. And first up is the public hearing for the FY26 budget amendment. Ms. Hoy, welcome in.

Morning.

Morning. How are we doing?

We're doing good.

All right. Anybody receive any comments, thoughts, questions, concerns?

I'm not, but I guess, Don, I would like to, it was a little confusing, and we talked a little bit in the past. I would just like to have that explained a little bit, how that went.

Okay.

Yeah.

We were talking about $100,000?

Just the budget, just in general. And the two funds, if you would.

Okay. Let me start off with revenues, because that's where all of the money that's coming in starts. We have the Sheriff's Office that has been getting inmates from Scott County. They get reimbursed from Scott County. That money is now being split between two funds. The 33004, which is the JL Capital Improvement Fund, And the debt service fund, which is we've been accumulating that money to reduce the debt future, make another debt payment in the future with that money that we're getting.

Which we're limited to do after X amount of years.

Right, we have to wait.

Seven years. 32.

Yeah, 32 or 33. So that money is being set aside. So then it is now being... that money that we're getting from Scott County is being split 60-40 per a resolution that we did a few weeks ago. So that money is now being split by the Sheriff's Office when it gets to the Treasurer's Office. So, and in order to use that money from the Jail Capital Improvement Fund, we have to, we make a request from the supervisors to reimburse the sheriff's office for some of those inmate expenses that the county has incurred because of those additional outside the county prisoners. So in order to account for that money from Scott County, that $100,000, there's an additional $100,000 from that jail capital improvement fund to the general fund to account for reimbursing the general fund for some of those expenses that we're using that $100,000 to reduce the sheriff's expenses for the budget.

Just for the budget. So basically, we don't budget everything that they were saying they're going to use for food, for instance. Yep. or whatever, because we know we're getting this money to help repay because we don't want to tax the citizens of Jackson County for housing Scott County.

So it seems like we've been talking about this a lot. And the reason being, as I get this right in my brain,

everything's checking out it just seems like it keeps coming up we keep voting on it but most of that won't happen next year it'll just be a one-time transfer revenue expense out revenue in kind of thing and we're good yeah okay yeah so we're going to hear a total from andrew hair after a bit of what the sense of facility opened what the revenue was and we're going to hear for a year running whatever it was also um but again there's there was three Since we did it, there was three expenditures out of the jail capital improvement fund, which was $100,000 to reimburse inmate meals, expenses, and then for a fridge from

for the jail at last august i think it was um that that we bought in the kitchen for the kitchen yep because the one they had they're preparing all the meals yeah they are and the computers for the squad cars so that was sixty thousand or something which was the new

So them expenses did occur to the taxpayers.

No, no, it was using the money that we got from it.

So it's hard to follow, you know, and just to, you know, if you wanted to break down the two funds, that's up to you. I mean, if you want.

So even with those expenses coming out, we checked, even with those expenses coming out and the amount Andrew that you're saying is coming in for the month of May, uh, the, uh, The jail capital improvement fund has roughly $124,000 left, $125,000 in it after those expenses. And the debt reduction fund has just a hair over $400,000 left in it. As we go forward and we look to our debt service, because we are continually making payments on it, when we can make that first payment, we need to see what, or forecast what the balance will be versus what we save. Because once I don't want to save way too much because, you know, once we, if we, if, if they keep going like they're going and we can save up, we, you know, if we get to the point where, okay, we know in 2032, we're going to have enough in the account to pay off, you know, maybe we hit that in 2029. Maybe we can change the distributions at that point and move more towards capital improvement and things like that. So I just, you know, there's no point in saving $3 million when there's only two left because then you've got to justify what you do with the rest of it and all that stuff. So this is going very well. So anything else back for the public here?

We on the revenue side, we also accounted for the insurance refunds. for the Hurstville insurance funds or insurance checks that we got. And then on the expense side, I'm accounting for the fridge that was bought back in August out of those, the capital improvement, the capital jail fund. Then I included also general assistance, rent and funerals for Renee. and then account for the $60,000 deposit for the Hurstville Center's roof and the shelter damage repairs.

So in going off the expenses here in the Hurstville Interpretive Center roof and shelter repair, we budgeted, I think in next year's budget, to a hundred and some thousand dollars. Does this going to trigger a budget amendment because we won't spend near as much next year. Is this half of that or is this in addition to?

Well, in theory, if they don't spend more than what was budgeted next year, then we shouldn't need a budget amendment, right? We shouldn't need a budget amendment at this point.

But is this part of that? Are we going to get...

So what tripped it is that it's going to be part of this rough... They wanted the money. The company wanted the money to order the shingles. We tried to push them off till after the 1st of July because we do have that money budgeted. But since the insurance proceeds came in and because they wanted to check this year, we didn't have. So that's one reason why we're doing the budget amendment now. And so some of these expenses obviously are paid in this fiscal year. Some will be paid next fiscal year, which I think 105,000, if I remember.

But what I'm saying is budget in 60, we should only expect about 50,000 next year. That's what I do.

We could reduce their expenditures next year.

Okay. I just want to make sure we keep that in our mind because again.

Yes. After fiscal year, July 1st. Yeah.

I was going to know that even then, you know, even then.

Any other comments for the public hearing? Hearing none.

Motion to close the public hearing.

I would second that.

A motion by Mike, seconded by Ninh to close the public hearing for FY26. Any other discussions? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Next up is visitors and citizens.

With that being said, I need a motion to approve resolution number 1187-06-09-2026 for amendment to the county budget for fiscal year 2526 and authorize the chair and auditor signatures on the record of hearing and certified to the state of Iowa. I'd make that motion. I would second.

Got a motion by Ninn, second by Mike to approve resolution 1187-06-09-2026. SIGNATURE ON THE RECORD OF HEARING CERTIFIED TO THE STATE OF IOWA. ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU, SHELDON.

THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. NOW VISITORS AND CITIZENS. ANYBODY ONLINE? MICHAEL, WELCOME BACK. IN PERSON WANT TO ADDRESS THE BOARD? HEARING NONE, WE'LL MOVE ON TO JENNIFER JONES, RECORDER FOR DEPARTMENTAL UPDATE. GOOD MORNING.

another month done excellent another report that balanced okay that's what it's all about how's things going over there it's going great awesome i've heard no complaints so awesome that's perfect yeah we're hoping for so anything on there that's a red flag i didn't see anything a little bit lower than maybe

Some months, I don't know, I guess beginning of the year.

Yeah, I thought so too. But all it takes is a couple of farm sales or something to check back.

You got transfer tax in there. Right. Okay.

Lots of comments for motion for approving the reporter's reported fees collected.

I'll make a motion to approve the reporter's fees collected.

I'll second. Got a motion by Ninh, second by Mike to approve the May 21st All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you. Next up on the agenda is our general administrator, Andrew Long. Good morning, Andrew.

Good morning. Copies of anything or no?

No, I didn't print copies. I have here. Look at you getting tech savvy.

Confused you about that?

Well, our numbers are kind of lower right now. We're sitting at 29 as of Friday when I sent this out. I think we've gone up slightly. Part of that is we're not soliciting a ton at the moment from Scott County because our showers are being re-epoxied and they're out of commission for several days on end. So with that, we have to move inmates around to make that work. So we've got to have a little bit of wiggle room. I believe it's still under warranty because there was problems originally with it, and I don't think it ever got fixed correctly. Jeff has been coordinating it all, but I believe that since it stemmed from a complaint that we had back, what was it, last year probably, it should, I would think, fall under warranty. So the original installer is doing the work. Correct. Yep. Yep. So that's... getting worked on right now. So we've had a little bit of logistical issues just with the movement of inmates. And we have a few, uh, a little more delinquent younger ones that we want to make sure don't do any damage thinking they're funny. So trying to move stuff around a little bit where we're able to seclude those areas off, just avoid any issues if we can help it. Um, Otherwise, we're sitting at 20 from Scott County at the moment, nine from Jackson. Our female numbers are actually up within Jackson County. Three of our nine are female. Our high count in May was 43. On average, we're at 33.1. Revenue for May out of Scott County was $41,525. Bringing our running total for the facility to $617,080. Know how have that at least. We have had an uptick here recently in mental health committals where we're up at the hospital here with those people. That's been happening it seems like as our luck would be on the weekends. So some of it we've been able to absorb with who we have on duty other stuff we've had to call in. still seeking PRN female employees. Kind of, again, help reduce that over time. We have a gal that is currently on light duty due to being pregnant, and I think she's due here come August. We do have, I think I mentioned this last time, I think that we have a gal starting PRN now. She's in training. She'll do a good job for us, I think, so that'll help kind of reduce some of that, but we'd still like to hire at least one more PRN female if we got a see that applicant that's right for us. Otherwise, kind of an unrelated note, our co-responder for the county just provided me this morning with a flyer from a COCA to PD. They're doing an arresting hunger food drive from June 15th through the 20th. The drop-off location is Fairway. So just, they asked that I check about hanging this up on a bulletin board here. I don't know if there's an appropriate spot for that, but just figured we'd... I think canned goods, pasta and rice, peanut butter and jelly, cereal, tuna and protein items, and personal care items. Do you go to the food pantry or the food?

Normally, I think when we do that, food guys, they have either prepackaged baskets that you can purchase, or they take monetary collections, too, because then they buy from wholesale, which they double.

They get underbanked for the money that way. Well, Officer Blake over at Kokoda PD is the one that's kind of spearheading that, so just wanted to bring this over and let everybody know about it. Any questions for Andrew?

No, that's a good word.

Thank you very much. Enjoy the downtime a little bit. Well, now that these showers are getting done, hopefully we can kind of.

Kick it back up.

Every once in a while, it's good to kind of take a, you know, kind of lighten the load a little bit and it makes it easier for the employees. Absolutely. But we appreciate everything they're doing. Keep it up. Sounds good. Thank you.

Like Don said, we haven't heard any negatives, so that's a good thing.

No negatives.

It's a positive.

There you go. Well, I appreciate it, guys. You bet. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Nathan Jones.

Welcome. Take care.

Morning, guys. Morning.

Been a while. We appreciate it.

The campground's open. Everything's open.

Yeah. Yeah. So it has been since all campgrounds are open. We had some flooding early in the year, but minor cleanup. Actually, no mud in it this time. Just woody debris. So that's good. So things are up and going. We were We're actually having, I would guess, it's an estimate, but I think we're having higher visitorship than we have the last few years, this early in the season. So I don't know what's up with that. So hopefully that keeps throughout the summer and during spring. doesn't go north anymore in the next few weeks.

Well, the river's down a little bit anyway, so it's... Yeah, we could sustain some rain, I think.

Yeah, the fork is up today. Yeah, my coat is ugly. So for you guys, I know a few weeks ago you approved it, but I just wanted to talk about it. Our roof is kind of getting into the motion. We approved that $60,000 early on just so we could lock in the metal costs because it keeps going up on one end. So that's why that bill came in early. He's hoping to be in on July and sometime July to install that new roof on the center. And there was one mistake on my part, and I wasn't thinking about it, so we'll figure out how to adjust in the end. I did not. bid ice guards on a metal roof when I bid it, when we did the original bid process. So we'll do an addition to this.

Well, they're usually pretty reasonable as far as this protection.

Yeah, I think it makes sense. I don't know why I didn't think about it. We already had problems with ice with the roof we have now sliding off. We had a rail knocked off last year from ice coming off that roof with what we have, and we're probably going to be worse.

You don't think there would be an industry standard

is that why you have to do that you didn't think it would come with it yeah yeah it's it's just well you didn't you know it's kind of like in the gym you didn't tell us you wanted colored concrete i mean we've done this at fairgrounds for a couple times here and that was a lot i'm surprised none of the contractors told me in the bed yeah usually one of them omission you know something like you don't want this none of them even brought it up i'm like after the fact i'm like

Proceeded layout, but you pretty much got to go the whole length on both sides.

That's what they suggested, just to make it make sense.

That sidewalk that goes all the way around, which insisted we want everybody not to drop for that ice to come off. We don't want somebody to get hurt.

Do some car jobs. Yeah. I mean, you can't have gutters on it.

Yeah, it doesn't have gutters on the building. But it has, we've torn railings off our decking and stuff before with snow and ice sliding off. So we better try that. We need them. So that was a mistake on my part, not even thinking about that when I put that bit together. So that process and project's hopefully going to move here pretty quick. Another one, just so you know, we have a bid out on our forestry projects through that grant we had through the state. So hopefully it'll come in around that $200,000 mark where we have the grant money for. It's open through the end of this month. And it's about a 150-page list of projects for them to read through. So I'm hoping it doesn't scare contractors away. So if you know anybody that likes doing forestry work, that's in my way. We sent mailings and emails to all the locals that we know of. There could be some that we don't know of, though. I mean, I think I know most of them, but there might be somebody out there that's... new or young or wanting to get into it.

You didn't get a mailing, I guess, reach out to our conservation department.

Yeah. I mean, I, I think more bids or more people that see it, the better on something like this. And, um, I, I really foresee it as an opportunity for young guys wanting to try it again, start from business or something. It's a good starting point for some, some of these projects across the state, um, for that. So, um, and then the last one, I know Jayden will probably hit on it. Um, Jayden has hired an appraiser for a property looking at the shop and working with the county attorney to see if we can write up an offer on that piece of property. So it sounded like July 6th, he was going to have everything to us for sure.

So we can make that to us early July for us to sit down, look at it, and work with John Keyes on to submit an initial offer for that property.

So I think our goal is to make, and we'll see how the property takes it, but our goal is to make a low offer and subsequent they can have a tax write-off for that difference in appraisal value is what our, as them being a bigger company, we're hoping that'll appease to them. tax purposes yeah i mean if it's a donation or whatever you want to call it but um yeah yeah so that's where we kind of stand on that hopefully we can get that going um so jayden's kind of taking the lead thankfully i was gone for the last few weeks on um in canada um but he's taking lead on getting that brazil done cool um yeah yeah yeah

Yeah. Don't sound excited about it. Yeah.

We always have stuff going on, and it's hard for me to keep track. Summer programs and stuff are open. Some of them aren't fully registered for, so there's some kids, but it's kind of a rarity. We almost always fill up the first day for all of our programs, but we have enough with our AmeriCorps staff this year. We've doubled some of our programs, so I think we have extra.

slots than we wouldn't have had in the past. Well, I would just add on, I've been getting a lot of comments about and compliments about Bridgeport. Okay. The canoe access and we need to continue trying to make the rest of our boat ramps look like that. And if we need to work with, you two need to work together as we get bridge projects coming down the pipe and stuff, we can kind of tie them together and get that because that looks amazing down at Bridgeport. Yeah. I do have one issue that I don't know if that flooding.

So when the contract did it, I watched him. He placed rock into the ramp out so far by the thing it's gone. And we had a boat trailer the other day back off the end of the ramp and break their axle off. So I'll have to figure out, we can figure out another way to place rock on the end of that. Who the hell's using a boat trailer to put a boat in there? Well, I probably shouldn't put the name out there.

No, don't. I'm just like, okay, north of the dam? Yeah. I've never seen a motorized boat on that.

It was designed more, in my opinion. That's why we didn't do rough grooving. It was designed more for kayakers to do. I guess that's something my concern is when he said that is, is it unredeemed end of our ramp already? That's what plays me.

Oh, how big was this rip rap when we went in there?

He used, uh, I, I call it the six inch stuff. So it wasn't the great big. So I'm wondering if we just need to play some big, you know, I want bridge projects.

We usually specify class. it in hit an ankle or something that's why we want to keep it smaller because you use that on towards the water side of things and as you work your way up towards the ramp work towards a smaller size maybe the bigger to try to help hold the smaller yeah how about a sign this is no boat trailers well that too i just we need to literally i mean that is usually walk across the river kind of death i mean

We, and I, I mean, I mean, it's probably a catfish under there bedded or something. They caught a 50-some pounder underneath the fifth stream. Probably shouldn't say that.

Oh, yeah, they're in there. Yeah. I'm more worried about the new ramp getting undermined as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that'll be something else. But it is on my list, actually. I'm working on, and I don't know. It's another one of those that's out of my realm, but we do have a grant for engineering for Canton. in Joynerville right now to get the engineering done so we can bid it out to do the projects. With some kind of docking in Joynerville? Well, I think Joynerville, my goal is we'll use stepping, you know, big blocks at different water levels so they can pull their boats or kayaks and use it at different water levels along that bank. So that step that bank back and that also gives the user steps down to the water. Excellent. That way, if we don't get a dock in there, they still can back their boat in, pull it up. We could probably put some kind of clevises or something in and they can tie off and go.

Some rock climbers might be able to help us.

Even like offshore on their beach, they've got bigger earth anchors to set out just every 10 feet or so that you can tie your boat. Just something like that.

That's what I'm hoping. Then we have adjustable water level and different depths and then was a pain there and then when they did that FEMA project they kind of ruined how we latched it in with rock so if we can get it redone while we're doing this so boaters can use it easier it makes sense so that's what both of the engineers can come up with I know they can I know we talked about it before too with the iron bridge you know that's coming up for us so yeah Jane has brought me in and talked about that a few times about how that's going to shift to the if my directions are right maybe they'll be originally looking at moving the

the new bridge on a new alignment. We were initially looking upstream, and with that, it entailed approximately, at this point, about $2.5 million of extra costs due to rock blasting, because it's a 100-foot cut, rock cut through there. So now we're looking at moving the bridge downstream, which would be further to the, I'm going to call it the Nordese, probably, that way, which will probably help as far as the access for the boat launch there, better accommodate any improvements there.

I wish there was a way we could just, like, make a model of the bridge or put a plaque up that would say, hey, this is historic. You know, why does that have to stay there until Raj? Because that literally makes no sense. Safety has to block the rivers.

Do you have a use on a trail for that bridge where it could be lifted? That's our big bridge.

Probably won't cost $2.5 million to move it, though. Yeah.

while they take a couple of helicopters to, which Linn County has done that.

Yeah, so they have a, they've moved a few.

So that is a form of mitigation or reusing it in a different fashion. Different setting? I don't know what that, I don't know what that would cost.

Yeah, we're taking it more ahead.

There has to be a better bridge than what it's there right now.

Yeah.

Yeah, Jayden's been good at least keeping me on what's going on on those projects and that process. So that's our goal. Our friends group has just started a fundraiser to start getting ready for these new water trail accesses we want to build. So that's there. They want to support these projects. So they're kicking up a fundraiser right now as we go forward. I think Bridgeport's awesome. I wish they would quit spinning the circles in the gravel and roughing it up up above, but there's no stopping kids doing that sometimes.

Do we have any monitoring systems out there at all of our cameras or trail cams or anything?

So currently all of our trail cameras are at Prairie Creek to help appease a neighbor. Um, and we've had a few things going on there, but nothing major compared to what their complaints are. So from what we're seeing on the camera, so we could probably move, um, we have several cellular cameras and several non that we have sitting.

I mean, what's the most, if somebody does a donut, you catch them. I mean, what's the charge vandalism. Yeah.

Yeah.

It's the top things getting plates when they're moving that fast. one of our rangers catches them in the coconut canoe they usually set a card they're pretty yeah they sit there all day you know scientists I'm guessing most of the times it's happening at 1am or something kind of thing so um yeah yeah so are people using the disc golf yeah um they've had several tournaments out there already my nephew is a big disc golfer and I told him about it

and he went out on some website that's like rates, you know, like you can, and we have out of a five star, we have a four and a half star rating. It's extremely difficult, blah, blah, blah. And everyone's like, oh my God, we didn't know. And so, yeah.

I mean, to be that, that early.

Yeah. They like it already. Our issues is the new seating this year. I've been, the drought, they grew. Now we've been debating when to mow stuff and, I had a few people playing that. Well, it's tall. Well, it's Jackie in some spots, but it's this taller Wilton and others. So this week's should change. So hopefully that'll come out of it. But yeah, it's, it's getting used more than I, more than I expected. I really.

Trail. I'm so shocked at the number of people that are on that trail and.

Parking in that new parking lot.

Watch for flying discs or something. Watch the trail. So.

along this yeah if they're gonna walk the golf course yeah trail you know hey yeah we got a kiosk yet to put up at the um entrance of the this golf course and we have some signs on order yet we're waiting for there again for the other end and the quick little access things that are

and grandchildren using them here a few weekends ago.

Yeah, I think the park has gotten busier.

So as far as the disc golf, just so everybody knows, there's really no need to play that, correct?

No, we're working on seeing if we can figure out a donation box or something.

A donation.

How do we do it and meet where that money goes to what they want it and It also gets tracked. So that's what worries me. It needs to be a QR code. Yeah. I think it's a way we've done like friends has done QR codes for fundraisers on like the programs and stuff. They'll put a QR code up and people can scan and get into a fund. If we're all right with that funds going to like friends group, that'd be easy. And then we can still track it through the auditor. But they'd have to set that fund up that it has to go back to that park or something. So those are things we still got to figure out. We have one more kiosk to build on the north end and signage to come. And we'll kind of be wrapping that up. That looks nice. So do have a contractor probably going to come do some limestone blocks around the post yet and kind of finalize that. So yeah, other than that, it's been pretty much status quo as Concentration department does every year. You know, little things, media claims. Jeannie's been out spraying road sites. I actually, Tony was spraying some noxious weeds on my way in, in a road ditch. So we're all up doing some of that.

Well, the secondary road boys are grumbling stuff up. Better keep up to them.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think Jeannie got a new sprayer. I'll keep recommending it. Secondary roads needs to talk to make sure she doesn't get overwhelmed. Yeah. The way you can get an intern or something to help her or.

and maybe we can utilize as the summer gets going some of their staff if we need to or the day's right our intern or one of our we did jointly order a sprayer just to get her bigger water capacity so she doesn't have to go back and fill it as much so I think that came in last week is what it might have been so sounds like the crew on secondary roads is going to put the hose rail on for her and get it ready to go. Cool. Yeah.

All right. Good to hear you guys working together.

Thank you very much. We appreciate it. All right. Thanks, guys. Next up, James Sheckle, Jackson County Engineer's Office. Morning.

Good morning. First item is next year's, next winter's, or agreement with DOT. So this is an agreement that occurs every year. Nothing changed with this upcoming agreement. Everything's the same as it was this past year that we had. I've talked to the DOT using materials and everything keeps going up each year.

So just feel like that.

Yeah, it's been mild. So we're going to revisit that next year. I questioned it for this year. It's already too far in the works for them to change it for this year, but it will get revisited for going 27 and then 28. So with that being said, I guess our department, we recommend... operations for the Kokoda Cave State Park. And I guess I should mention it's only 0.72 lane miles. So it's only about 0.36 miles of roadway. It's a very short stretch, but we have to, we go through there anyway to get to our, I've drawn a blank on the road numbers that turns into gravel through there. So we go through there.

I would move to approve. I would second that.

Got a motion by Mike, second by Ninn to approve the 26-26 with the Iowa DOT. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed?

Motion carries. Next is the utility permit for Maquoketa Valley. It's just for a fiber optic underneath 234th Street in the Butler Township just to serve the address of 557

I'd make a motion to approve.

I would second. Got a motion by Ninh, second by Mike to approve Maquoketa Valley Electric Cooperative, the directional watering permit for 234th Street at Butler Township. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Next, we have the City of Miles. The fiscal year 27 RCTP agreement from the city of Miles. So last week was approved for the projects that were recommended from the RPA for all the local communities. And so with that, this is the city of Miles. They took it to their city council and have it approved. So following this board approval. So who to approve?

I would second that.

Got a motion by Mike, seconded by Nguyen, to approve FY27 RCTP agreement with the City of Miles for $8,212. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?

Motion carries. So we had some tanks of oil in the shop that were old that were starting to leak. So we got new bulk tanks with that was a larger size so we could hold more. So we're not running after oil as much. So have a bigger quantity. The bulk tanks came with a reel on them so they could reel it to the machine. And I think it's got a code so they can dispense how much goes to each one. With the larger bulk tank, though, requires us to update our spill plan to include those appropriate sizes. So that is all that changed. So just looking for board approval for that.

We make a motion to approve the no oil spill. Can we get a chair signature on it?

It seems like what we did two years ago.

Yes, it is. Chair signature and also value.

And author. Yes, yes.

I would second. We got a motion by Ninh, second by Mike to approve the oil spill prevention plan updates and include chair signature. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed?

Well, she cares. So Reclaim, I'll just give a brief update on everything going on. Reclaim, we pulled the pin mid to late last week because it was so dry. Well, now we're on the other end of things. We needed to dry out some, and there's talking worrying this week. So basically on hold all of this week and maybe some part in the next week. Just see how the weather plays out. Construction projects, we are really busy even as we speak right now. So we've got Channelworth going on. The river is, all this rain has risen quite a bit, but luckily they have enough work completed on the south pier that they can continue working on the north abutment. So it hasn't slowed them down yet. We're watching the river levels though, because it's about three feet from getting to flooding their staging area. much they can do. So we're keeping an eye on that. I don't know how much rain we're supposed to get tomorrow night and Thursday, but either way, they're working as we speak right now. The Z15 bridge or the Springbrook Highway bridge, that project they poured the deck last Thursday. That went really well. They're actually working on forming up the rail, one of the barrier rails on one of the sides of the bridge to pour that this afternoon. So that's moving right along. Our bridge on 458th Avenue that just closed on yesterday and they are there as we speak right now working on removing that bridge to replace that. Our fog seal on Z20 is starting today from through the City of Spragueville because they don't want to pay for their portion and they get their FM transfer frames. But going past the City of Spragueville up to, well, there's S curves on that highway where we're working north going to E17 where the pavement turns into concrete. That's where our ending point is. So that fog seal is occurring today. And then Friday is the plan where they're going to close Bernard Road to start mobilizing equipment to start working on Subdream next week. So BRIDGE REPLACEMENTS, THE FOG SEALING, THE FOG SEALING WILL TAKE A COUPLE DAYS, AND A PAVING PROJECT. SO WE'RE BUSY.

ALL IMPROVEMENTS AND ALL GOOD NEWS. I GUESS EVERYTHING IS MOVING FORWARD. THAT FOG SEALING, THAT ALSO

that up so if anybody's watching this just be aware that it will be without pavement markings for about three weeks to allow that fog seal to cure but they will have out there the orange temporary no pavement marking signs to warn the users but it will take about 21 days or it's about three weeks for that fog seal to cure out before you can place the pavement aware. But yes, it is included to restripe that. And I do believe this week, probably get pushed to next, but I'm going to follow up. It was planned for this week for our annual pavement markings that occur in the county where they restripe everything. That was planned to occur starting this week. I'm sure the weather has pushed back, but that will also be going on. So we're in the heat of it. You guys are going to be visiting. Better than the alternative.

All right. Cool. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yeah, that's all. All right. Next up, we have Lisa Smith in the auditor's office.

Good morning. This is a motion to approve the June 2nd, 2026 meeting minutes as written by Auditor Smith and authorized publication in the official newspapers. So moved.

I would second.

We've got a motion by NINSEC by Mike to approve the minutes of the June 2nd, 2026 meeting as written by Auditor Smith and authorized publication in official newspapers. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Several years ago, it was between the the engineer's office and the board of supervisors created the 308th Street Assessment Fund that allowed the citizens within this district to pay for those road improvements that were done on 308th Street. Some people at that point decided to pay their assessment up in full. Other people have signed an agreement or a contract with the county to pay an installment. And so as people are paying their property taxes, they are also paying their installment for the street assessment. So the treasurer's office takes that money in and then we need to transfer it back to secondary roads. So today I'd like a motion to approve resolution number 1188-06-09-2026 for an operating transfer from the secondary roads 308 street assessment fund, which is the 20,001 to the secondary road fund, 20,000 for $8,551 effective June 9th, 2026. Don't move. And second that.

Got a motion by Mike, second by Ninh to approve resolution 1188-06-09-2026 for an operating transfer from secondary road 308th street assessment fund to 20,001 to secondary road fund 20,000 for $8,551 effective of June 9, 2026. Any other discussion? There's about, what, six or seven years left on that, I think.

I assume this is a payment from somebody that paid in full.

We did that about three years ago or so.

See, I was just thinking that's, yeah.

Yeah. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

So sometimes we have to go back so we can move forward. Shelly has been in conversation with the city of Bellevue. They have completed their FY25 RCTP process. Um, project, and they are wanting payment. Just like you approved today for the city of miles. This is the fiscal year 25 agreement. They are seeking payment for 23,321 dollars. And looking at all of the paperwork involved in this. Not the city of Bellevue nor the engineer's office can find a signed copy of this agreement. You as a board approve this in June of 2024. So we want to just make sure that we tighten this up for auditing purposes. So today I am asking for a motion to approve an authorized chair signature on the FY25 RCTP agreement, which was approved on June 3, 2024, between Jackson County and the City of Bellevue for $23,321. Okay, so this agreement also includes going to sign today for the city of Bellevue? Yes. Nobody has, according to what we're told, nobody has a copy.

So let's see what the city of... We used to get all them pictures and all of it, and when they rated them... Yeah, because I thought we were just a pass through.

See, this is the same agreement that you approved today for the city of Miles. This just has the city of Miles and Jackson County's signatures.

So that could have been the year when we weren't reimbursed from ECIA part of it either then. We kept the RTP program going. Yeah, that could be why we haven't seen a contract somewhere through there.

We just want to make sure that when we pay this, we can show that we can testify. So that's why we're asking for kind of a retroactive agreement.

Move to approve.

I would second that.

Got a motion by Mike, second by Ninh to approve motion to retroactively approve an authorized chair signature for FY25 RCTP agreement, which was approved on June 3rd, 2024 between Jackson County and the City of Bellevue for $23,321. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

And I do have two fireworks permits that have come in. My first firework, I need a motion to approve a fireworks permit to Matthew Franzen and 36 by 40 Highway 64 Preston on July 3rd, 2026 at dusk with a rain date of July 5th, 2026 at dusk. I'd make that motion to approve.

I would say. Got a motion by Ninn, second by Mike to approve a fireworks permit for Matthew Franzen on Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

In my next motion to approve a fireworks permit to Matt Andreessen at 7501 214th Avenue in Maquoketa on July 4th, 2026 at 9 p.m. with a rain date of July 5th, 2026 at 9 p.m. Let's make that motion.

I would second. I just have a comment though. So just so the public knows that we review these applications and we get the maps and we understand who the neighbors are, livestock facilities, if you will, and whatnot. So it's not like we just look at these and approve them. I mean, we actually get the maps on the application and say, well, everybody around needs to be notified in case they need to move cattle or do something like that. So, I mean, it's... It's a process.

One of these individuals did not send a map, and I called and said, we need a map. We need to know.

And one of these sites is close to a facility, but it's his own. He's well aware.

Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Of course we're curious.

And my last item for today, of course, last Tuesday was... Now, last Tuesday obviously was the June primary. This is by code. What we need to do is to canvass the election. And I kind of like to, as I've said before, I kind of like to go back so we can go forward because, you know, in my time here in Jackson County, elections have certainly changed over the years of how we, the process of doing this. And one of the things that people need to understand, and I'll use Bellevue this morning as my example.

Yeah. This is another precinct.

But I just wanted people to understand about how we arrive at the numbers that we use for this canvas. In the mornings when the election officials arrive, one of the first things they do of getting the machines up and running, one of the things that they need to do is they need to run a zeros report. And the reason for that is it shows that that morning when at seven o'clock when the polls are open, it shows that there are no votes on any machines. And throughout Jackson County, every precinct does the same thing. You know, it shows the zeros report. And then as as voting starts, then the machines scramble, so to speak. So that way, as the ballots are falling into the machine, there's no way of us trying to figure out who the first voter was and how it turned out. So everything then becomes, but the good news at the end of the day is we have a ballot that substantiates all of the votes that were cast. At the end of the night then, as voters have, gotten their ballot and they've made their choices, if they have chosen to do a write-in for whichever candidate on either party write-ins, What they do is they do darken in the oval. They'll write in someone's name for that position. And as the ballot goes into the scanner, it takes a picture of it. So at the end of the night, it's really easy for the election officials to balance out write-in votes. We have a copy, a picture, and that's what this is. This is a write-in report. And then they also at the same time, they also will do an election summary report. And this is all done. Again, I have a paper copy. What we ask our election officials to do is at the end of the night, we have them run two of everything. And the reason why is I have one here and then there's another set. This set right here in this envelope. We send, we hire people to go out to the precincts and pick up this envelope that has this TM or jump drive or thumb drive or whatever you want to call it. And you can see we have it sealed. So the flap of this envelope, it gets flapped over and then the seal gets put on. It is signed by all of the election officials. It's time stamped. And then as it's received here, it also is received and timestamped. So that way we know that this person that was picking up this envelope that's been sealed with all of the election officials certifying it, then it comes back to the courthouse. Bjorn takes this thumb drive, jump drive, whatever we want to call it, TM. And then we upload results. This has been a change from probably about five or six years, I'm guessing. The reason that we do this is because we know at the end of the night, when we release the results by precinct, we know that we have good results. We know because we've taken it directly from the machine to this jump drive and we've uploaded it. Instead of having those election officials call us, you know, and we take that chance of did we hear you correctly or did they see something correctly? This way we know that we've uploaded correct information. So in this election, there were actually 237 write-in votes, which is pretty good. You know, we certainly have had more, but Jackson County, there were potential 13,660 voters that could have gone to the polls last Tuesday. 2,350, they voted on election day. Of that 1,433 Republicans and 917 Democratic voters, Provisional ballots, we could talk about provisional ballots, but we did not have any. Provisional ballots were basically kind of a last ditch effort that that voter couldn't prove who they were or where they lived. And so we still allow those people to cure, so to speak, their provisional ballots, but we did not have any. And when it comes to absentees, a lot of people talk to us about absentees. This is a really amazing number. There were 433 absentees of that. We have election officials that on election day, they started at nine o'clock, that is by law. Three election officials came in and they are the ones that count the absentee ballots. Of that 427, of the 433 were counted. Two we received in the mail late. Iowa law says that that absentee ballot has to be in our office by eight o'clock on Tuesday night. So we did receive two in the mail. They were not counted. UOCABAs, those are the Uniforms and Overseas Citizens. we have a few people because they do no longer, they do not live in the United States, but they are still citizens. We did not receive two of those and two of those were not returned at all. So if you think out of 433 absentees, six weren't counted, that's an amazing number. So everybody's been given the opportunity to get things back to us, but all in all, you know, I, We always grade our elections. I think we had a good start to the morning. We didn't have any machine issues. We still have ballots in case something doesn't look right. I think as we've looked through the numbers, everything looks as they should be. Every ballot, every vote is accounted for. And we do that. We check the numbers. There was even a question yesterday afternoon as far as one of my numbers. And so there's another set of eyes that are always looking at this. But I have... You know, all of these I've done, you know, I calculate all of the, all of the write-ins myself. So we have a lot of paperwork, but all in all, we had an A minus selection. And I think using the new equipment that you were so nice to allow the auditor's office to purchase new scanners. We purchased the new Tenex system. We got rid of our laptops. That system is very, it works very well. It really helps us out. I think our election officials are very happy. I'm going to try and make another payment yet this fiscal year. I want to know how much money I have left. I do want to. pay a little more on that system. But it was, it was a very good decision for us to do that. And I'm glad that we did it on an off election year, kind of worked through a couple of the bugs that gave the election officials time to figure out how to do stuff. And so now we've kind of worked from the city school election, we've given them a little bit more work here with the primary. They're going to be busy in the fall. There's no doubt about it. So that was a very good decision, and they are very happy. So do you have any questions?

I know it seemed like everything went pretty much without a hitch today during the primary voting.

Yeah, yeah.

Pleased with the system so far. Yeah, no.

Yeah.

So do you have any questions?

Any questions for Lisa? No, I hear any complaints and everything went smooth, I guess.

Yeah, so with that, I would ask for a motion to approve and authorize the board and auditor signatures on the official state of Iowa abstract of votes and the official canvas of elections showing who received the highest votes and forward all paperwork to the Iowa Secretary of State and to each political party. So moved. I would second that.

Got a motion by Mike, second by Ninh to approve an authorized board and auditor signatures on the official state of Iowa abstract of votes and official campus of the election showing who received the highest votes and forward all paperwork to the Iowa Secretary of State and to each political party. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

That's all that I have for the board today. All right.

Anybody have anything really good to the board, boards and commissions?

I do not. RTA meeting last Tuesday or Wednesday went smooth. Everything's in order.

The only thing I got is we have a new watershed management coordinator. We got somebody hired. She's going to be introduced today at the executive committee meeting at 3.30. Very well qualified and look forward to see how she does. She has... vast knowledge in working with watersheds and getting projects approved. She's worked with Iowa City, Dyersville several times, knows everybody in the know, knows how to do grants. Used to work with Impact 7G as their watershed, coordinator person and then when they were shifting in a different direction she went out of her own formed her own business and said call me when you need me and they they're doing that and then when she found out she'd wanted to do this job for a long time but she was always caught in another full-time job so this worked out perfectly and uh she's coming on board today so pretty enthusiastic about having her own sounds like a good fit So, nothing else?

Make a motion to adjourn.

I would second. Got a motion by Ninh. Second by Mike to adjourn. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion carries. Have a great day, everyone.