Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Let's go ahead and it is January 2nd, 2026. We have to be used to saying that. May I have a roll call vote, please? Fitch? Here. Stancil? Here. Hubs? Here. All right, let's go ahead and review the agenda. a request to amend the agenda. Normally we don't do this on our organizational meetings. I spoke to Michelle about this. We both agreed it was a good idea. This had to do with the cameras that were on the claims. I had asked a question regarding the signature. It includes licenses, which is contract. And as we know, contracts have to come before the board. So I talked to her and I said, I really don't really want to wait. till our next meeting. And so let's just correct this by having resolution. We sign off on it so it's all.

Now, I'm assuming you guys have no problems with the cameras. No, I would move to amend this agenda to add the resolution.

And I'll read it for the public. And also, this is using lost money. So lost money is going to have to come to us anyway, because this is not in an individual department budget. Whereas it is the intention of the auditor and custodian of the courthouse to utilize lost money to pay for camera replacement additions to the Madison County Courthouse, be it therefore resolved by the Madison County Board of Supervisors to approve the attached proposal from Johnson Controls dated December 11, 2025 for the purchase of one replacement and three additional security cameras as well as software integration to be paid for from lost monies. Now I'm assuming going forward, the renewals of these licenses will come from Lost as well. I don't think, once we do this, we could also put it in the budget, when we do the fiscal 27 budget, so it's part of Lost, so then she doesn't have to come back So we'll just roll it over. So if you guys are okay to do that, I put the motion on motion. I'll second. Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Consent agenda, we just approved the amended agenda, and now it's time for public comment. Is there any members of the public here that want to comment? All right, is there anyone on the phone that wishes to comment? If so, please hit star six to unmute your phone, and then go ahead and say your name and the town you're from. You have three minutes. Okay, hearing none, we'll go ahead and move on to resolutions for board consideration. I'm gonna go put this one first so we don't forget it. So let's go ahead and do SPV resolution 010226E. That is, that we just amended the agenda for, for using lost monies to replace one camera and add three additional cameras in the courthouse. Do I have a motion to approve? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed, motion carries. All right, thanks ladies for accommodating that. Okay, the next one is approving organizational appointments for County Board of Supervisors for 2026. This is something under Iowa code we are required to do on the first business day of the new year. That's why we're meeting on a Friday. On the second, we are required to do that under Iowa code. So this is where, I don't know if you remember at the beginning of the year, last year, we did this. So the first one is chair for board of supervisors. Do I have any nominations for chair, board, and supervisors? I can't remember how we did this before. We did nominations or we just had a... Well, do we have any discussion?

We can have a discussion. We should make the motion. So I'm going to make the motion that Supervisor Stansel will be serving this role for another year if you're open to it. I would like... One of the challenges in my observations of government is the lack of continuity in leadership and the turnover. I know that I would like the opportunity to learn more before I serve in that role and also find another job that will accommodate this role so I can support my family. So I would like to make the motion that stands. Will you do it again?

I'll second that. So can you make a motion for each line? I'll second the motion.

Any discussion? Okay. I'll redo it. Thank you. God bless you. All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Vice chair. Now, normally there's two lines. So it's technically... I mean, I don't know if that means you're vice chair, both of you are vice chair. I don't know how that, I really don't.

To me, let's define it so that it's a given, if you are unable to attend, then he's going to chair the meeting. And Diane, if you're open to it, I'd like to nominate you. That's fine. Okay. I'm chair on a lot of boards, I'll be vice chair.

Okay. Oh, since you're being nominated, I'll second that. So any discussion? No, I will accept it. Okay, thanks. Thank you. All right, any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. So the second one would be if Diane's not here, who would serve as vice chair, it was just you and me, so that would default to you automatically, I would think. So it says that if you're here, you would be motioned.

I would be chair, but we wouldn't need a vice chair. We don't need two vice chairs, right? So in the future. They didn't used to have two lines when I was seven years.

Can you, for future, can you remove that second line, just for clarity, so we don't have this discussion again next year, because we won't remember what we did. Okay, general supervision of courthouse, annex, and Monument Park buildings and grounds. Diane, you currently do that now, right? Supervision of the courthouse? I thought it was two.

No, it wasn't that much. Oh. I was really close. For the actual buildings?

Are you pulling down this?

No, I'm going down the resolution. So I might be conflating them here. So the auditor is over.

Okay, there's two things. What it is is so we are a single point of contact on the supervisor board for these buildings.

Okay, this is what she said.

So Michelle is still the custodian of the courthouse on the day in, day out. But say she had a question and she wanted a supervisor. opinion or liaison to the board who would that be so like I'm currently the one I'm currently the liaison for the public health building which we call human services building and grounds which might be a good point currently it's Diane okay for the courthouse yes so Diane did you want to keep that or Jess did you want to do that since you're doing a lot of working with well

I'm in the office a lot. You're in the office a lot because I'm retired, so I'm there a lot.

Now, my only thing that I'd like to say about that is that I know that I definitely want to get involved with, you know, Michelle was talking about capital planning and the longer-term plans. I absolutely don't want to help with that, but I'm perfectly fine keeping you as the main point of contact. I suppose it's because I'm in there the most, so that's probably why I'm here. That's fine.

It's up to you. You can change it.

No, I'm fine. OK. All right. So is that a nomination? So I would nominate Diane for the general supervision of courthouse annex and monument park buildings and grounds.

I will second that. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. And the next one is the general supervision of human services buildings and grounds. This has, I've been a liaison for Board of Health and the public health building for a few years now. I'd like to stay the liaison, at least until we, just for continuity, just to get, I mean, you have great ideas about the VA and stuff like that, and I'd still like you to come into, but the actual building itself. Just to have that one point of contact. Yeah, so if you're okay with that, Diane? Yeah.

But I don't think you, I would motion everyone. I would do fill all this in and then make a motion.

And then make a motion for all of it?

This is fine. We're already halfway done. Yeah. Well, but you've got all this to do.

When we get to that next one. Well, the next one.

Yeah, I'm fine with that. Okay. So I'm going to.

You made a motion also. I make a motion that Heather maintains as general supervision of human services for these grounds. Okay. Any discussion? So it's public health. Yeah.

Can we change that to public health?

Yeah, that's what's going to resonate more.

Take off the words human services. Public health building and grounds.

By rights, we should put public health slash VA for now. That'd be all right. That'd be fine.

Yeah, but slash VA. That's probably why they did human services to kind of encompass everything. Okay. Because technically, well, DHS is still there too. Oh, and they're not considered? It's always called the North Annex. How about that? We've called it the North Annex, too.

Who? Do North Annex... The first time I heard North Annex... So the civilians will know.

Okay. Because I've seen it on paperwork as North Annex.

You have? Okay. The first time I heard it referred to is that was a couple weeks ago. That's when I was a little...

It depends who you're talking about. So now what happens is when the building's sold, I'd be happy to take over responsibility of annexing it. So you don't have to worry about that. But we can talk about that later. I wondered why those weren't split and why those were all loaded. It was because, generally speaking, what happens at the courthouse or whatever is they're symbiotic. So it makes sense to have the courthouse put together.

yes so okay so once we serve that yeah we can talk about it let's split it off maybe and divide the work okay local emergency planning committee i see that this was called updated latch into elderly services building that's the legal sign which one was updated Oh, yeah, so but there is there's there is an LAPC committee. Yes.

Okay. So they might need to add a line. Well, that's a board. That should be on the one that should be on. And it is on this. So it should not say that.

It should say elderly services and then that should be. If you guys, you ladies are still okay with that. Elderly services. Yeah, that's right. Or the meal site. Elderly service slash meal site? That's what people think of it as. Okay. Elderly services building slash meal site.

And citizens will know. And if we end up deciding to put the VA there, we'll change that to the VA as well. And Jess is on that one currently. She's on it currently? Are you okay with her staying on it? Okay. So do I have a motion to approve Jess as the contact for elderly service building? Sure. I'll second that. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Okay, ambulance building and grounds. Who's that currently? That was me as well. That's right, because you are serving on the emergency services committee as a safety committee, so that makes sense.

Yeah, we were trying to kind of lump things that I'd like. to be sure. So do we want to talk about those two before we? No, I'd make a motion to leave it.

Just leave it as it is. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm fine with that. All right. I'll second that motion, Diane. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Matt, would you go ahead and just read what we all voted on here for this?

Chairman of the board is Heather Stancil, Vice Chair is Diane Fitch. We do not have a second Vice Chair. The General Supervision of Courthouse, Annex, and Monument Park Buildings and Grounds is Diane Fitch. The North Annex slash Public Health and VA Building is Heather Stancil. Elderly Service Building slash Meal Site is Jessica Hobbs. And then the General Supervision of Ambulance Building and Grounds is Jessica Hobbs. Okay. And is the Board...

In concurrence with that? Yes. Okay. All right. Well, you have... We'll go ahead and I'll entertain a motion to approve the resolution as read by Mac. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Now we're on that longer one. This is for the boards that we participate in. And we're going to designate each one and then make a motion at the end. Correct, correct. So in looking yours up, Diane.

Let's just start right at the top. So there's assessors board, conference board, that's all of us. Oh, that's all three of us. Aging resources, that's currently me. Yep. And I will keep it. Okay. CICS does not exist anymore, so we can eliminate that.

County Covered Bridge Preservation Board is me. I'm okay staying on that unless someone else wants to do it. I'm okay with that. Decalorization Governments Board, I'm not sure. That's me. That's you. That's us. I'm okay with that, yeah. Okay. PERTA, that's you, Diane, if you could stay. Yeah. Okay. Madison County Development Group, that's me unless someone else wants to take it. That's fine. That's very quiet. I'll keep it then. Local Emergency Planning Committee, Jess, you're currently on that. You want to keep that? Yes, if that's okay. Yeah, thank you. Okay.

And then there's a County Resource Enhancement Protection REAP. I did some research on that this morning. Okay. REAP money cannot really, government entities cannot apply for REAP. There is a REAP board that they don't meet. It is the County Conservation Board and the SWCD. We met once in the past year. Yeah. I think under Iowa code, you're required to have kind of like an official out of the board. I think you can be on it. I don't, they said that would probably. Great money is, when the government needs money, they would probably. Right. So if you want to stay on it, are you on it Jess? Yeah. Yeah. Just for compliance purposes. Yeah. So you just have a designation.

Okay. Emergency Management Commission, this is, I think you're on this one, Jess. That's me. Yeah, I'd like to stay on that. Okay. That's okay. North Middle River Watershed Management, Diane, you're on that, right? I'll stay on it. Okay. Greater Madison County Community Foundation, Diane, you're on that. Do you want to stay on that?

Yeah, they never invite me, so I never know what it is. Well, maybe because they have no voice. I have no voice, but I catch up because I write to the CPOP again.

Oh, that's worse.

Give me the clip notes of your meetings.

So I usually know before the meeting. Well, I think you might want to remind them that I think they're required. I do.

I vote about one a year when they remember.

Okay. When they remember. But I do catch up because I write with them. They don't have like an email list for the meetings? They are.

And we don't, when I do attend, I don't really have a voice, but it's really interesting. I think there's some great stuff. No, I'll stay on that. I'll just remind Brian.

And you're on Seikog. I'm going to stay on Seikog. I'm going to stay on Seikog. And then the landfill, too. I'll stay on that. Okay, looks good. Did you reach out to the landfill in Dallas County about giving the heads up about the turbine blades?

What we're doing is we made a pact that we were going to stand shoulder to shoulder, and we made We have a huge policy board out there. I've designed three different signs. And if they sneak them in, we are all going to collectively not let them down. If they try to dump there, they're going to call us because they don't want us in here. Okay, I think there's an assignment too. I don't know about them. I can't tell anyone. No, but I'm saying I would maybe suggest it. We have an outdoor. Ours is absolutely no turbine blades. We even have a sign, a great big sign that you have to tarp. I drew a sign of a, it's an old rat in a truck with hillbillies and the garbage is flying out. and it has a big X through it and it's huge and they put it on. They're not mad about it.

And so they're tarping their loads.

And then we have another sign about when it's windy. We do not have to take, we can close down when it's over 50 mile dust. So this sign is a great big cloud one. And that worked really well.

You weren't here for this, but we had long discussions about the fear of them dumping turbine blades in our landfill because it's a million dollars for a new cell. 2.2 million. Yikes.

And they do cut them up and try to sneak them in there. And they did it once.

And nobody knew what they put in it. And it almost killed one of their employees because when they go out to spread the garbage, they didn't know part of the blades were there. It came up, went through the windshield, almost decapitated the guy. And I had lost my crap on that. So we did an ordinance, basically... We had a county ordinance, so I asked Matt to send a card letter. I don't think they knew it. She wouldn't have let them in. I think it was right in front of me. But part of the ordinance was, you know, you have to have, the landfill has to have a big sign. And they were in the middle of construction at the time. So it just kind of got up. So after that. We had a big, big sign.

And we have a very, tipping region is an issue too. Tipping region means you cannot dump out of your tipping region. If you live in the city of your rural Clark County, you cannot come here and dump. Maxford is not in our tipping region. They can't bring their garbage here. It's a DNR violation.

And the ones that brought it here that didn't tell us, They actually are on the Dallas County side, but they had a Berlin address. So they came down because the Dallas County one doesn't accept them. They came down to ours and dumped the blades and they dumped outside their tipping region.

I would assume they do try in Dallas because people dump with us because we're very fast and very efficient and we have better loads. So they don't get flat tires. Because we got a semi-load of shingles and we said where are you from beadington i said there isn't a building in bevington big enough to have a semi-mobile that shingles right so it is an issue but it's a hard issue because if they show you i live here well then it came up most more recently because they were grinding them there's a big there's a growing pile on the dallas county side

right near our line right near our like literally right over the county line of blades and they plan to grind them up and recycle there's no building big enough to grind and you can't grind in the open air because that would violate dnr and there's also the solids stuff in the groundwater so a lot of my rural neighbors, they are very upset. Like, I can't do anything if I'm a Dallas County site. So that's when I asked Diane to reach out, because I'm like, if they're doing it here, they're gonna try to dump in the Dallas County landfill too.

So that's when I told her to reach out to her colleagues. And we are on board. We're all gonna stick together. We'll just, we just won't accept them. We call it, we call it the group list. And we'll just put them on one, and they won't be able to dump with any of us. No, we'll, we just won't let them dump. And we can't refuse them. Yeah.

And there are places in, I think there's one or two places in Iowa where they do accept turbine lanes, but they're targeting rural or counties because they figure we don't pour. I wouldn't call Dallas poor, though. But they target more rural counties because they think we won't provide oversight. So we're on. Well, thank you for for doing that.

We'll see what happens to the big old pile outside of Earl.

Anyway, County Courthouse Security Committee. I think that's you, Jess, because you're on the Safety Committee.

And the Safety Committee. I'd like to retain that because we're just really getting started on the Safety Committee. The Security Committee is not staying.

We can move on. So MPO, I'm on that. Anyone else want it? Nope. That's myself. for designating a contact. Okay, so I guess I'm still on that. Iowa Heartland, that does not exist.

I called this morning. There is representation from Madison, but he said it's almost a kind of a non-functioning. I was never a fan of RC&D because they supported things with other people's money.

Well, the one from last year was crossed off, as was the Madison County Multipurpose Center.

But the Multipurpose Center is part of Mature.

Well, Mature has its own. So that's why we crossed out Heartland, because I was originally on it when I first started, and I never got a call, never met. I reached out, like, why are we wasting space on this? Let's remove it.

Remove that, and the multi-purpose needs to be removed, because that's the tour out. I go out there, or they call me, because that's your food bank. and so they were so low on food and i said well i'll just not get why don't they get it from the iol food they do but they were i think they're the biggest i mean you have to be it's income based and um somebody in the crowd gave me money and i called and i just bought whatever they told me to buy do you want to be able to do it well you

They brought it in originally, and they now have the option to be remote. You don't have to go to, I mean, I go to the annual meeting, but sometimes I have to meet with my tenor.

So this Matura Action Board is the one in town?

No, Matura is the one that meets Preston.

Oh, I was on that one time.

You can do it remote now. You don't want to stay on that?

I don't. It doesn't matter. I don't care. But, I mean, you seem to be more... Well, sure, because the one here called me and asked me to get a board member. So I called two people, but I don't know if they got one. I said, it's really not my board, it's Heather's. I've tried to get people to be the board member.

I've not had any luck. They have to have representation. Basically, it's a non-profit that works with like... WIC and Head Start. They do all, they're basically, it's a community action board. They take the federal funds and they distribute it and you have to have representation from elected officials on there for the counties that they represent. So Madison County is one of the ones they represent. So each year we have to designate a supervisor to be on it. They meet in Creston. They also have a Zoom meeting.

Are they still at night? They're still at night. If you can do it on Zoom, I can go back and be on it, because I already drive to, because I have to be in a Z car. I don't want to drive to Preston twice.

No, that's why I wanted to be on it, because I'm like, it takes you, what, 45, 50 minutes to get there? 50 minutes, and if I go from St. Charles, it takes me an hour. It takes her an hour, so it was a little shorter for me to do it, since I live in Earlham.

Help me understand, because then I'm hearing some overlapping... programs, if you will, with the decategorization board that tries to bridge together all the resources and the local resources. There's a little, sounds like there might be some commonalities there?

No, Mature helps, now Matt, you know too, I mean, Mature, especially in southern Iowa, two of the teachers were women who were babies very young and then they help them they help them and they go to college it's a wonderful program they help you learn to shop they help you they do wonderful there's all kinds of they also do the weatherization for this the weatherization grants they um they have um there's all the head start is the main one

that works underneath them. But a lot of those, I mean, I can get you a list of programs they do if you want. But it's all federal programs that's maintained. The TUR also manages our Chapter 60 General Assistance Fund. So we contracted them to manage that. It used to be done years ago by CICS, and then they transitioned. When CICS kind of reorganized they stopped doing that produce pay them and then kind of roll back the supervisors and they're like no we really should be managed by somebody else who can go through the applications confer people qualify for assistance because under iowa code we are required to provide some form of general assistance from our funds if you have someone that comes into the courthouse that needs immediate

you can send them out there. I even took a gentleman that didn't have a car. So I took him out there and then they helped him. Yeah, they applied.

You just took him to the site.

I just said, come on, get my car and I will take you out because he didn't own a car. So I took him out and then they helped him.

So Matura, that building is the local contact for that, but Matura out of Creston is the one. we contract with that. And then our people go to that building, they fill out the application to confirm whether or not they qualify for assistance, and then they manage the funds and then they report back to us with an invoice of some sort, saying, here's the hours that we used, here's the funds that we paid out, and then we reimburse them. It's on our budget worksheets. You'll see that there's an actual department for it.

And so we have multiple resources for citizens. We get a call. Well, they have a little bit different functions. They have a little different functions. So between those different programs, if there's somebody not getting covered with those programs, then there might be a resource for this decataclization. Some of them are income-based.

So Ventura was a good fit when we did that because they already had all these other state and federal programs they assist with. It was good for us to say, okay, well, can you move include the county programs too because then they can see where because what they do is they exhaust the federal state programs first before they touch the local and then they only use the local as a last resort but it makes sense to have a single point for all of them so that's why they're basically pretty responding they are yeah they're good i don't think we've seen if you want is it still dana

I'll do it if you want.

So I just like going to their quarterly or annuals.

The annual I definitely go because it's like a Thanksgiving day. It's a lovely food, isn't it? Oh, it's always very tasty. I never get invited to fancy stuff.

I only say that because I don't want to add additional workload to you down here.

I pay more attention to the financials and making sure that

meeting people's needs, but if you're okay, take that back over. Okay. Now, I have a workforce.

That's me. That's still me. So that's me. I also am seeing that the opioid task force got out of my hand last year and I didn't print it on here. Oh, we need to add that. Yeah. I'll just stay because we're doing okay. The problems we're having is nobody knows how to report it. That's supposed to be the attorney. He has a phone. He's supposed to report it, and I thought he had reported it, but I don't. But he has been in contact with the state, and I called, but we're okay. Is there a reporting deadline that we missed? No, he said he was okay. He told me he was.

I'm going to call him. Because when I checked, there was a due date, and they said they had received a date from Madison County. And he told me they were still okay.

Because they are aware, because I did get a call that we're doing well. They thought that we're not as close, but...

now regarding the opioid task force at the end of the school year is when the program ends and we obviously do not have

going in for next year so I don't know if the oversight will no longer be necessary unless they're you know I think we want them to report quarterly if they're still in there we have applied for a bunch of state money well yeah I thought there was more timing down potentially yes that seems

So when you say we, do you mean the county did?

No. Turning point. Turning point. Okay. Through the schools and ask me for a letter of recommendation, which we send it out a lot. Okay. Or ask you for more.

No, I think that's a great idea. I'm kind of focusing on the focus of the task force is once that program ends and the county fund is deleted, then we probably either need to... go back to oversight, because we are still gonna get money every year, it's just not gonna be that much.

It's gonna trickle in. It's gonna trickle in. That's why they want to see if they can get more coming from the state. Right, there's a bunch up there. Exactly. Because we aren't getting much.

And when I ask, nobody seems to know how much we're getting. I don't think the state, I don't think they have it organized and that money just keeps... And they just roll out a new badge and then... Yeah, it says we never know what we're getting. Yeah, because originally it was the legislature has to designate funds. Well, that died on the line. That never happened. Then it was, okay, I think they delegated to HHS to do the funds. And then that isn't happening. So I don't know exactly what the state's doing or what the rules are or anything like that. They don't know. They don't know.

Yeah. So we'll have to stay on top of that. And we will. We'll know.

When we know what they are. Well, okay. So there's two different pots of money. There's a state pot and there's our pot. Our pot's still coming. So we'll know as soon as we get... Revenue coming in will know exactly what it's a trickle, but we only get anywhere I think the next couple years it's not quite 30,000 a year and then at the fifth year or sixth year trickles down to like 15,000 which won't pay for their CEUs no, so So at that point, I think the Opioid Task Force will switch from an advisory board to a, back to a recommendation board. Or share for smaller amounts. Yeah, that's probably true. So at that point, it could probably, you know, it would be an advisory board. And we can discuss that change when that happens after the school year. But right now it is an advisory board. I mean, I'm sorry, it's an oversight board. So it needs to kind of continue to police the industry.

And I hope the schools would kick it off with a statement. Yeah, that's what I'm hoping they say in one school. that because the children, the middle ones, come home, that a problem has to be stated in making sense. And those are positive things.

The problem is that this is a finite amount of money. So even if they could continue this for a couple years, who's going to afford it after that?

I have no problem with that. You know, hopefully. But I guess we'll be finding some other funding resources maybe.

Or if no other counties apply it, they'll come up with it to us because we've already applied it. I don't know. That's the way we see it. Yeah, that's true. Other counties can designate their funds to us. Yeah, that's true. Oh, that's a good point. And some of them, one of them designated all of it to Narcan machines. That's early, isn't it?

And then, well, no, what happened was they were always, they take, was that the one where they took and they were taking them out? Yeah. Could any county divert their funds here in Iowa? Yes. They don't have to be adjacent?

Nope. They can divert. And they can ask for your funding, and we did have people ask for our funding, but we wanted to keep it here.

So I'm wondering if it's worthwhile reaching out to all the counties that haven't spent their funds yet, and they may ask until the end of the school year. But maybe at least plant that seed, say, at the end of the school year, we'll have a report, we can provide you all our data, and see if they would be willing to funnel their money into our county. I'll try that.

Now, one of them bought a drunk dog, which I don't know how that stops anything. Well, it stops the drugs from getting done.

Well, hopefully getting to the drug dealer, getting it to the children they're selling it to. They could catch them. Oh, no.

But there's been a lot of... That's like a kid saying a camera is going to make you safer. No, it's just going to document you.

I think there's been a lot of spending on the money that probably has very loose connections to opioids. But... I know a lot of counties haven't spent the money.

How do you find out which counties haven't?

I'll just send an email to the chair of all the county supervisors and see if they've spent it.

And who hasn't spent it?

Yeah, because this budget here, we need to put it in our budget if we're going to do it.

We are. I mean, it's so successful. 371 kids. That was more, actually. If you put a piece in there, it was over 400. It was a quarter. That's amazing. And then to have, I think I told you this, the cutest text. Little kids were, they teach stop, think, and choose. And they try to get them as little as they can preschool. And the little girl, they were trick-or-treating, and the mother could hear her say to the dog, you need to stop, think, and choose. She was saying that to the dog.

It's getting in her brain. It's getting in her brain to stop thinking. So, yeah, let us know when you find out.

I would love to be an option. I can talk about that whole business at the meeting. I'll find out. That sounds great. Thank you. Yeah, we'll ask other counties.

Why not? I'm pretty tight with Harrison County. I'll ask her. Sure thing. So don't worry about that one. I can ask Harrison County what they're doing. I can ask Woodbury and Dickinson. I'm pretty close with them too.

Okay. We'll take those off your list, Diane. Okay. So just to recap, we removed CICS. We have removed Heartland. And removed multi-purpose center advisory board. Is that correct? Yeah. Okay. Okay. And they were adding the opioid task force. Okay. And Diane, you want to stay as the supervisor on that, correct?

I will. This is my last year, so it's all on you. Okay.

We'll have to flip a coin. But I'm sure you're going to leave it well ready to transition.

Well, we'll see what the state, if they figure it out. It's typical of the state, cart before the horse.

Well, I don't think we should rely on the state.

I think we probably have a better chance of getting funding from other counties. We are trying that, too. And Turning Point tries for every grant and things they can. They may not be aware that we can ask other counties to give us their money. I think they are, because they said on the meeting when other counties asked us, because one of the southern tiers wanted our money. okay and we said we want to keep it here at first yeah okay yeah i will i'll tell her that too okay all right so um matt would you read that i will for us assessor stancil aging resources fitch no assessors conference board is all of us well it's on here for a different time

So I'm going to read them as I go down the list. Covered Bridges Stancil, Decategorization Hobbs, Herda, Fitch, MCDG Stancil, Assessor Fitch, Local Emergency Hobbs, Resource Enhancement and Protection Hobbs, Emergency Management Hobbs, North and Middle River Watershed Fitch, Greater Madison County Community Foundation Fitch, PSYCOG Fitch, Landfill Fitch, Assessor Habs, County Courthouse Security Habs, Safety Committee Habs, Metropolitan Planning Organization Stancil, Matura Fitch, Iowa Workforce Development Stancil, and Opioid Task Force Fitch. Can you count on how many of these were used? I know some of them they don't use. Some are minor quarterly. I have Stancil 5.

Yeah, mine don't. No, mine don't. Mine don't leak. See, my landfill is only quarterly. Well, that's not fair for you to have all of them. No, I've had them for ages.

I'll stick to the landfill.

Well, you're also chairing, so you have a lot more time invested in that. Oh, so.

But that's still five, nine, and seven. You need to give me one of yours.

I mean, if it's a key mature. Okay. A key mature? Yep. So we're six, eight, and seven. That's pretty, pretty darn close. Yeah. I'm a lot older and I don't have a job.

And some of yours are 20 years older. So, and some of yours... Some of your hers are quarterly or they don't. And some of them, yeah, same with mine. Some of them aren't very regular. Because or we shed one quarterly. Or what we can do is we can baptize you with the matura since you've never served on it.

I kind of think if Diane's willing to do it, or you're willing to do it, I don't want to get her nine. That's not fair. It is fair because...

It's not a big deal.

It's not the quantity, right? No, it's not. Let's let it be so. Okay, so I'll give you nine.

How many of them do you have? And aging resource is one. Very conditioned. It's just so simple. You're done in a half an hour. Those are easy boards, and they're all online. And they're all online. Well, give me one of those then.

I think you should focus on chairing. I do too. And don't fret about this because this chair is nice. We're okay with the configuration and it makes sense to me now because there's the similar boards and the similar, you know.

If you want, I'll even pick up my chair if it's a burden. It's not a burden. Okay, then you keep the chair. There you go.

That's pretty, that's pretty darn close. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. This is warm.

We got that back on the table. I got it.

We kind of went around a bit. You only get one more cross-off. No more cross-off.

Well, we had a lot more discussion this year about this. All right, so I'll entertain a motion to approve this resolution for our board's commissions as read by MAC and adjusted after the fact. So moved. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? motion carries. Okay, this next one is We do this every year, is that we will act as a unit in the supervision of the business of Madison County, and the approval of the majority of said board shall be necessary in all items requiring board action, including but not limited to following personnel policy, department rules, organizational plan, labor and employment contracts, wage rate plans for departments and personal policy supplements, the grading, grading, servicing, and permanent improvement of any road in Madison County, secondary road system, Locating and building of all new culverts and bridges in Madison County and establishing Madison County policy and procedure in general. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor please vote aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Okay, the next one is basically choosing Weirstedt & Benisonian as the official newspaper for publication notices of official-owned business as required by law. This does not preclude us from adding. two publications that we've done in the past. We've added the shopper in the past. We've added the echo in the past. So this is just, we have to designate at least one. It has to be the one with the most circulation. Actually not most circulation. It has to be, it has to be wide circulation or it is circulation in the county. So I don't think it says the most.

I think it has to be the widest distributed.

okay because that would really be the shopper but it's not a circulated paper yeah we can't use a shopper because it's not you can't pay to get it it's not based on the paid subscription for the free right so that's why it's the winter semester yeah we don't we don't have really so but do i have a second second any discussion

All in favor, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. All right. Next one is we have other business. I don't think we have any old business to discuss.

I really think this should be going forward. Yes, because this is an organization. We should bring up stuff that should be on the table.

yeah and then if we have to add like a one-off like we did today well that was an amendment you can do that yeah we can amend that and do that i just i don't like doing amendments with resolutions that aren't published but we've talked about this yeah so but yes so going forward I'm wondering, though, should we just put other business just as a placeholder in case we want to do something like this?

We shouldn't. Well, no. I would do that as you did it as an amendment under your consent. I would leave it as an amendment.

Well, the reason why I have that is that way if we have time. If you put other business, you're going to open up the floor to other business. No. I mean, people can comment on whatever they want. But my point is that if, like, say, for instance, had... Michelle and I talked about this and had enough time to put it on the agenda, I would have preferred to have it on the agenda so the public could have read it. But I agree with you that we shouldn't just open it up carte blanche. It would just be as a... I suppose it's just...

So we just need to remove other business, but if we have something specific, we can add it. We just did it. Excuse me? yes this is michelle yeah hey um one of the things to kind of keep in mind about what heather just said about um the proposal from justice control that wouldn't necessarily be something that we would want uh out in a board package that makes sense yeah the actual talking about right the actual contract i would agree i would agree yes but but the resolution resolution we could And I'm not really glad that you read it. Yes. So I want to make sure that there was a differentiation between whether some of that stuff should be in a public location.

Right, because of the security aspect.

Yes. Yeah, all right. Yes, good clarification. All right, thank you. All right, perfect. Thanks. Okay.

All right, well. We can just remove it, and if this happens again next year, and we catch it in time, or we need to add something, we'll just add something. This is kind of, I don't think this has ever happened before. This is just a one-off. And the only reason I want it on, because I want her to jump on the cameras right away.

Well, there was one resolution on last year, but it made it on the agenda. Okay. But there was one extra. It was just one extra. Okay.

And it was something probably time-pertinent. That's all right. Okay.

All right.

Yeah, go ahead and remove that section.

Go ahead.

Yeah, I can do that.

All right, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor of adjournment, please vote aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Thank you, ladies.