Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

like to call the meeting to order entisible with liberty and justice for all. Few reminders before we get going. Please state your name and title when you first begin speaking. Public comment will be allowed to the extent that it's on topic. Persons participating via Zoom are currently muted. If you have a comment, then please let Mark know via the chat function. Mark will then inform Chairman Trinko can take up the comment in a manner that doesn't disrupt the agenda. And if an executive session is needed, then we'll mute and turn off the video. And when we're done, we'll turn everything back on.

Heather, you there? I am. Can you hear me? Sure. Can

really got two things today. The first is uh House Bill 2470 which is the neighborhood revitalization bill went to the governor on March 27th. You count the days being generous. Today is the 10th day. 15 minutes ago she signed the first trunch of bills for the day. We were not in there. Other bills that went to her the same day as our bill were signed. So, um, don't necessarily panic, but that either means there will be another trunch of bills yet signed yet today. The bill will become law without a signature, which I cannot imagine, or it would be vetoed, which I also cannot imagine. But today is the 10th day. And so, it will become law today if it is if no other action is taken on it. Um, I am finally at a place where I can share with you um the K DOT study that I wanted to make sure you all are were aware of related to the Southwest Kansas um highway expansion. It studied the I'm sharing my screen now. Hope all y'all can see it. Um it studied this area of the state. There was a proviso included in the state budget that would have prioritized some more projects in this area. that did not make it through the conference committee process. So that is not in there. So basically this is the area that was studied. As I move hopefully down this PDF. Um the next image here, if you see those blue dots on Highway 54, those were um expansion passing lane projects that have been completed. That's what all those green check marks mean. And you can see up in a little farther north in the region, there's a the red is a four-lane uh expansion project. And then the lighter uh pink next to the darker red, which I realize Commissioner Jones doesn't know anything that I'm

saying right now with the colors, but he can imagine. Um it is the four-lane development pipeline projects. The next um graphic which I think is important to sort of understand

is related to the public input that they got. According to stakeholders, the most important um consideration when making investments in the roads in this area of the state is to reduce serious injuries. And then the second one is to reduce daily um following you know basically reduce construction congestion not construction the population for this part of the state is really projected to be flat. Um it it has been decreasing but that is is projected to sort of flatline because interestingly on the next slide um you can see by county roughly Pratt County has been pretty stable. It's a 1.6% decrease but you can see other counties have significantly um larger both increases and decreases. But when you look at the employment forecast on this slide, the top line is the population, the bottom line is the employment. So we're projecting there to be more jobs in southwest Kansas while the population remains the same. So that's one of two things can be happening there. Either you have workforce which is living outside of the region and working in the region or you're going to have a lot of unfilled jobs that we need to be attracting population to the region to fill. You're probably thinking why does K dot care about this? Well, because population and jobs mean congestion on the roads. This is the forecasted employment change. Pratt is in a very good spot in this. This is projected to increase um by almost 2,000 jobs over um from 2024 to60. That would be a significant significant amount. Um, Reno County is

only 420 um, jobs. Given the uh, Everg project that's going on there and some of the energy development, I I suspect that they could hit that like next year. But Pratt County for some reason had a huge projection in job growth. And just so you're aware, WSU um, expert economists and projectionists do this work. So the economic productivity forecast for a community the size of Pratt, we are doing a lot of the economic uh engine of the region essentially. So 3 point uh $372 million, 62.9% is what um the GDP forecast change is. So we're going to grow by over half is what the projection is in this. Um, you can see that vehicle crashes are generally down um over time. They were up slightly from 23 to 24. I'm pretty sure we're trending down this year as well. Um, trucks make people crash sometimes. Um, that was what that did. So you can see this red higher density of traffic right around the city of Pratt. You can see is one of the most densely traveled areas in the entire region where all of those roads are um joining together. The level of service um is this next is this next slide. So you can see um level two it really has to do with how what is the quality of the road. Um level three means maybe the shoulders are not as good and level four means very substandard skipping ahead. So the existing two-lane with passing lane and four-door and

four-lane corridor studies is really what they were looking at. So you can see on here the pink dots are the two lane with the passing lane and then the green sections are where there's already four lanes. So you can see coming out of Witchah there at the Kingman County line four lane down to two lane and then that other fourlane section. So they're really looking at where could they connect these green lines. This chart just shows where it connects to other states. So you can see coming into liberal four lane, then it's going to two-lane. You can see all the fourlane roads around the Witchah area and then stopping just west of Pratt County. The daily traffic is um what this chart shows. So one of the greatest sections in this entire region of the state is in Pratt County. the entire county is red and I don't believe there's another county besides possibly Yeah, there's not another county that has the entire section of their highway is greater than 6,000 um truck traffic and in car traffic a day. So when you when you look at the amount of traffic flowing through Pratt County, it is very significant and would um clearly warrant some additional investment by the state. That was all traffic. This is two-way daily truck traffic. So, um, trucks are going both ways still very, very congested in Pratt County and specifically between Pratt and Mullenville. The traffic speeds are also an issue. You can see despite what some might want to think, you know, the speed coming out

of town's pretty good, but then it gets slowed down as you go um west out of Prattton and certainly into Ky County. This is again future two-way truck traffic. Um that did we lose you? She on mute. She's on mute. I think we lost you, Heather. Hello.

I got muted, she says. Okay. Somehow I got muted, but I'm back. Okay.

Okay. So, basically this next slide is again the two-way traffic very very condensed. The only other place in the entire southwest region pretty much is between Dodge and Garden City that has as much traffic as we're dealing with the cons. This this slide is really about the future of the two-way daily traffic and they whether they think it's going to be increasing or decreasing. So you can see here US 400 to Greensburg from Pratt to Greensburg is one of the areas that they think is going to continue to be the heaviest traveled in the state of Kansas. Well, in this part that they studied in southwest Kansas. So they go on and talk about freight. So we know we have agricultural commodities that are going across our roads, but we also have freight. And so you can see coming out of Witchah straight through Pratt County, greater than 3,000 trucks a day are carrying freight. Again, one of the most heavily traveled roads in our in this area. So this is oversized and overweight vehicles. So clearly they're taking a bigger toll on our roads than some of the other uh vehicles that might not be as big or as overweight. So from Pratt to the um Kya County line overweight and um oversized very significant. So the next steps um Kott's really looking at the next transportation plan. So what are the projects? We already know what the project is for Pratt County. That is the four by pass. What are the baseline conditions? All the charts that I just showed you showed that the baseline

conditions are good for investment in that project. Um expansion analysis, you know, they may look at, you know, could there be more passing lanes or does it have to be a fourlane? I think in our part of this study, clearly there is enough traffic for a fourlane, but they may look in some of the other areas and projects that might have been previously designated as a four-lane. Could it be a passing lane when you're trying to figure out what the economics are of of the next plan? And then clearly they are moving into developing their next transportation plan. There will be a new governor, a new secretary of transportation in November. Um that will have to develop the next um transportation plan. But I say all this and show you this to say of all the areas in southwest Kansas that are primed for investment in the next transportation plan, Pratt County is very very near the top of the list. And so we need to advocate to make sure that we get our fair share so that we can continue to attract businesses to our community. And when you think about the regional impact, looking at all of that traffic coming through on a daily basis, certainly um that is attractive. The convergence of four or five major roads in a community can be attractive when people are looking to grow their business. I'm going to stop there and see if there are any questions.

What do they know that we don't about population increase? you know, they they look at birth rates and they also look at like demographic factors. Um, like a tech, some of that kind of thing. Like when you think about like the cotton genen, when you think about Pratt Energy, there those are sort of newer industries to the community. Um, and so they look at some of those things and also look at like the convergence of how close are we to other metro areas looking at wind, solar, you know, trying to predict the future. So are our projections perfect? No. And and to your point, sometimes when you're sitting in the middle of it, we don't realize that we're actually sitting pretty good compared to some of our neighbors.

Can you email that to all of us? Yep. We can dive into it a little deeper, please. Thank you. Yep. I don't have any questions. I don't either, Heather. Okay. Thank you guys. Thank you, Pam. It's up to you. We're gonna clear it out real quick when when everybody leaves. You want to sit on my lap? That's okay. Of course,

you want to get a picture of it. Hi Pam Ford here today representing the Pratt County Drug Endangered Children's Alliance. I'm let all these other ladies introduce themselves. I'm Joy Schwarz and I'm on that committee.

Tracy Beverly, I'm on the committee. I'm Terry Leette. So, we're the steering committee for our Pratt County Drug Endangered Children's Alliance and um National Drug Endangered Children's Day is April 22nd this year and we just wanted to ask you guys to sign a proclamation declaring April 22nd of this year as Drug Endangered Children's Awareness Day in Pratt. So, I have that if you guys wouldn't mind signing it for us. I had the wrong date so we had to quickly change it. I was sitting there looking at it and I'm like, "Wait a minute, that's not right." Still can't read it. Okay, he's a reader. All right,

if I can get through this font, I know

the people county greetings. Whereas drug endangered children are at risk of abuse and neglect due to their parents or caregivers use, possession, manufacturing, cultivation, or distribution of drugs. And whereas substance misuse interferes with the ability of the caretaker to parent and provide a safe and neutering environment for children. And whereas through multiple disciplinary calibrations and community support, we increase the likelihood of early identification and intervention occurring in the lives of these children. And whereas with intervention, drug endangered children can move from risk to resiliency. And whereas resiliency can break generational cycles of substance use and child maltreatment. Changing the trajectory of a child's lives. And whereas all citizens in Pratt, Kansas, all citizens in Kansas, excuse me, can play a role in reducing risk and building resiliency in children throughout our community. Now therefore, we the county commissioner of PRA Kansas do hereby proclaim April 22nd, 2026 as National Drug Endangered Children Day in the County of Pratt County, Kansas. and I urge all citizens to join in this observation. That is my motion. I'll second it. Been moved and seconded to declare April 22nd, 2026 is drug endangered children's day in Pratt County, Kansas. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. We have declared that. Thanks. Sign it right in here. Okay.

Be great. Just me or everybody? Everybody would be great. Okay. Would you send me a copy of that, please?

Yes, I will. Would you mind getting a picture with us for social media? Is that okay with you guys? You guys want to stand behind him?

Continuing to She got it. You can do that. Nobody get nervous. County attorney standing behind

you. I was thinking the same thing. Okay. One, two, three. Okay, I took three. Thank you. You're welcome. After me. Thanks so much. You're welcome. Thank you. Thanks for your time, guys. We owe you a new phone. Did you hear that? Get that in writing. Darthy, you're next. See his picture taken, lady. Okay. Um, that might have broke the camera.

It's not my camera. Okay. I'm just here to um redo two of the family planning contracts. This was the one I was telling you guys about that Dr. Vote signed on to do it at the beginning of the year knowing that she wasn't going to finish it. And so I do already have a copy of the standing orders. Basically, we had someone interested in filling in. Right now we only do one day a week and we don't always have it filled up. So she's willing to do two days a month. So we were doing four days a month. Now we're going to go down to two days a month. But we're kind of like in a hard spot where we can't really be picky. We will take what we can get. So things better.

Yes. And so I feel like it will work. But um Michael Kirby is a um family planning nurse practitioner board certified. So here's just the standing orders. I don't need you guys to sign this one, but she signed it. Dr. Zick signed it. This is your copy. Thank you very much. You're welcome. And then I need this is her contract one whereas we are she would be starting May 1st. And so I did give her the opportunity to come in and shadow Dr. Vo anytime throughout April if it's if if she's available. She's really busy and she's a lot of different places. So, um I really don't feel like she's going to need a lot of shadowing. So, I feel like she should be able to just

learn our charting on the go and my nurses can help her along the way. So, um on the front page, I do have her hourly rate and her contract of when sorry when same as it was. Well, I accidentally quoted her um less. So, it's less than what it was, but it's more than what she's at. So, she was happy with it. I'll make a motion we sign the County Health Department fan family planning provider Michael Kirby Kirby to begin May 1st 2026 through January 1st 2027 at $58 per hour.

I'll second that motion moved second. So I well I it's the same one seconded approved Michaela's Kirby as a planning planning family direct provider starting May 1st of 2026 through January 1 of 2027 for $58 an hour. All in favor say I. I same signs motion. And if you want to make a copy and keep the copy right now you can. And then I'll take the original if that's okay. Um or you can just scan it in or I'll just scan it and send it. Yep. Yep. And then if I could just get her information after I got it all spit out.

Yep. I don't have any of her um insurance stuff or all that stuff yet. So I will get that started but I have a month to get her credentialed and cure and all those things which is our EHR. And then that um we were closed two days last week went to the governor's conference. Governor did not show. So, but it was really good just networking and it was the governor's public health conference. So, we were out two days last week. State funding.

Still getting state funding. So, they haven't cut it off yet. Thank you. All right. I'll get the scanned in the back. But that is all they have for today. Anything else? Yep. Thank you. Do you have anything? He's here for a bid opening. Oh, okay. But we got to wait till 3:00 to do that, right? Is Doug coming in on that? Yes, he will be in on it.

At least I think so. He just talking he's talking to every You want to wait on him? We can we can squeeze on that Brian early. Yes. All right. That's what we call

that's good. Well, I'm gonna ask for a 10-minute executive session personnel staffing. Make a motion we go into executive session for 10 minutes for non-elected personnel to discuss staffing. Second move and second and go into executive session for 10 minutes for nonelected personnel to discuss staffing. All in favor say I. I post. Same sign. Motion carried.

Great. Make a motion we come out of executive session with no action taken. I'll second it. Been moved and seconded. We come out of executive session with no action taken. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same time. We're back in open session. So, we do start our EMR class tonight. We got five uh enrolled in that. That's their WSU Tech. Uh they got the Patterson grant, so it's free. None of the students have to pay. The county doesn't pay. Um I think it's five or six weeks long. So hopefully when we get done with that, we'll have um some EMRs. Um which their scope of practice is limited, but they can they can still got it. Yep. Got to be every Monday and Wednesday night for about five to six weeks.

Okay. Yep. Not another load on you then. Nope. Okay. No. Yeah. I used to teach a lot of classes, but they've changed so much of that education. I wouldn't even want to attempt that. But, um, I think it's going to be good. Um, we can staff them, you know, even full-time. Again, they're limited on what they can do. They would never tech a call in the back of the truck alone. It would always have to be somebody else, but it's going to benefit us.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It'll help um with just some of the driving. and you know, maybe if we had a transfer late at night, we can take one of them, one of us, and still leave some people back. Um, so that's coming in. That'll be that'll be good to get that started tonight. Um, I think I initially got on the agenda for a purchase that was over $1,000, but I talked myself out of that. Okay. That's what I got to thinking about it. Yeah. I was like, so I'll just tell the salesman. You guys have a big meeting out there this last week. Sure. There was a lot of EMS vehicles in then EMS or emergency management. I don't know. It might have been emergency management. I just saw a bunch of pizza. We didn't have one.

Okay. Yeah. There wasn't anything regional that I know of. Okay. So, but other than that, we do have Medic 4 going in for um uh exhaust manifold. Started leaking rusted out, come loose. So, that's he got some parts ordered for that. But other than that, they're all running good. Eventually, I will have to put our name in to Osage for a remount. Um because there's still about year and a half, three or four. Oh, yeah. Is that planned for in the special equipment?

Yeah. Yep. I made sure I've kept enough in there for that. Um and it's one where he said if you, you know, if I get in in three years, but you don't need it quite yet, he'll just keep pushing me back. So, I'm not set in stone when I need it. But um having medic one future yeah having medic one is the main transfer truck has helped but it's I mean it mileage you're going up on it. It's got 41,000 on already. But um it's nice. I mean it's it's nice for what it is. Um but it's save the miles on the other ones for sure. So it's just going to keep longevity on those going. Um those can't be remounted but they'll be engine transmission still way cheaper than Yeah.

than a new truck. I mean, we paid 160 for the remount last time and I'm sure it's Yeah. So, it'll be nice to to have that. But other than that, I can't think anything else unless you guys have anything for me or any questions for me. I don't I screwed up on the calendar and weeks ago scheduled something for tomorrow, so I won't be at that budget meeting, but I imagine it's going to be similar to last year with Scott. Mind. Yeah. Um, and he'll give me like a packet of and I can get you that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's gonna be more like what it was last year. So, still remember since you're not gonna be there. What's that?

You owe us all a meal though since you're not Vienna sausages. What about Yes, you could do that. I could do that. But yeah. Well, I don't have a clue what he's gonna say. I mean hopefully by the end of this week we'll know some we'll know something. Usually those meetings he's kind of talking about what the mill levy is and how you guys get to our budget and how it's structured. It's it's it was really good both years I've been in it that especially new to making budgets. I was like where do these numbers come from? So it it has always been helpful. So Scott helpful very much. The legislators have passed a couple of bills. I can imagine it's all your guys' fault, right?

Oh yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah, I can read Facebook. Even though they tell us autograce property and what the formula is. Oh, yet we're the ones that Yeah. Yep. If it gets bad enough, I'll just go live in my bus. Take us with you. All right. Well, I'll let you be then. Thank you. Yeah, if you can get us. Absolutely. I will. Hang in there. I'm working on it.

Okay. We got 20 minutes to wait. Want to do minutes. Get those out of the road. I'll make a motion we move the minutes for March 30th, 2026. If I got them. Oh, you guys have your copies. I don't I got it. Okay. Sign this one. Yep.

I'll second move and second we do the minutes from March 30th. All in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. Do you have a quick ordeal to uh probably take about two minutes? security grant. We're gonna do this in executive session. She's going to request a motion to have enough time or Yep. I think 10 minutes would be great. Okay,

we're ready for that. Okay. Um, I'd request a motion to go into executive session for 10 minutes, uh, pursuant to KSA75-4319 B 12C to discuss utilization of an election security grant for PR that that Pratt County received. I'll make that motion. Second move and second we go into executive session as session expected. I don't care to repeat it all. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign for 10 minutes.

Make a motion to come out of executive session. No action taken. I'll second it. Been moved in and second and we come out of executive session and no action taken. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. We be back in open session. I'm going to make a motion to approve of the election security grant. Uh it's 90%. So is the total 13,3037. Yep. And then we'll be reimbursed the 11

and then we'll be reimbursed back the 11,973.05 for some electric election security work. I'll second that motion. Been moved and seconded. We apply for the or accept the approval of the security grant program that we've for 13,3037 and we'll get 11,973303 back. All in favor say I.

Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. Thank you guys. Good work. Thank you. I could just make it easy.

Anything else? quick or we still got to wait few minutes. We do. You time to get the permits. You want to wait on those? There's several the emergency vehicle permits. Yeah, I'll just read them all. You got anything else, Doug? Besides Well, I could a little just a little PSA announcement. We're going to turn the water on at the lake Wednesday the 8th. A little free weekend. It's going to be just the RV sites for now because I'm going to wait on the fish cleaning. I don't know. It's got to freeze because all my apple trees have bloom. So, it's it's going to freeze and then not have

Well, whatever you do, it's or whatever I do on a date. It's wrong. So, but yeah, I think RV sites will be hopefully be safe anyway. What date is that? Eth. Okay. Thank you. Should be this Wednesday. Okay. Thank you. And then uh my little announcement other announcement for the lake if I don't know if we can post something or sure put it on the site but we would really appreciate it if the I'm glad that they're throwing trash in the dumpster but we're getting so much from other places that we have no room for our own lake use only.

Well, we would like I would like it known. Yes. I mean, it's not a free. No. Okay. But again, we don't want it I don't want to discourage them from throwing it on the ground or throwing it, but there's boxes and stuff in there that didn't come are not addressed to anywhere. Gota. Actually, they're addressed in town here. So, they're traveling out there to get rid of them. And there's a clean up and we can turn it into the sheriff. Well, if you have addresses, it just be nice if they would uh leave room for our for our own staff. Yeah. Also have a new hire, too. If you guys part-time,

make a motion we hire Nick Barker part-time at the lake for $16 an hour. Second. Been moved and seconded. We hire Nick Barker for the lake part-time for $16 an hour. All in favor say I. I post same sign. Motion carried about the end of day and get us stuff. I think so. Yes. Okay. Yep. I think I can see him. I had to think about that.

She was gone all last week. She's not in her groove yet or mud or something. too much fun after the party. Yeah, it's the two-hour long discussions, but it's good. Do you want to you want to just send get me a copy or No, you keep that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Off for a minute. You did. Told you she's not.

I'm off just a little bit. I'll get there. Yeah, that's really all I got though. I mean, try to get this other part time and I and I think I'll probably end up I mean, we're going to keep looking for another cuz uh the two that was out there worked really well. I mean, they kind of had a relationship as far as being working together and he pretty much said that he's ready. I mean, both of them, the other one's retired already from wildlife and parks, and he said, "Well, I'm ready to retire real quit here, too." So, I'll be still kind of posting up there.

Yeah. Yeah. He said if I find a He doesn't want to leave me hanging, but if I find somebody else, he'll be happy to step down. Okay. Is how that was worded. Need to leave it up then. So, So the ones we got who wants these chair, you can go ahead and open them. We're just going to start till three. Thank you.

Thank you for being prepared. I mean, we're going to run over picking up bomb or battery. My hearing aid battery. Oh, okay. Huh. Is it any good?

I lost it last week. Is it good or bad? Bad. Okay. Okay. But now you know where it went. Well, I didn't want to get down on all my

a trash deal. That's a problem. We dealt with out there store. People bring the trash out and their names and addresses are on it. It's like it's brave. Yeah. Guess it's like you said better than it not getting into a trash can. But yeah, but it overflows. We do the same thing. It overflows our trash and then it blows out and then it gets in the field and we have to go pick up trash. It's it's a thing. It's a problem.

You want to just tell the public what we went what you went out on?

Uh went out looking for two tractors and two mowers. We are also trading in two tractors and two mowers. You guys are done too. That's going to need to look at you.

I think so. You guys help you guys out. mind first to sorry this See this right up there.

When you guys are done looking, maybe the best way to approach it is to announce the amounts and then since everybody's here, if you have any explanation, you're welcome to provide any comments you might ask. If you have any specific questions, then now would be the time. Okay.

Many of these are set up differently. It's hard to find what you're looking for.

Well, excuse me. We're getting close to Apple. Yeah. Well, I believe some of them just threw in a brochure with it. So, but as far as trades and and total you guys follow all them

here some co stuff. Yeah. Do we have totals almost? You want to Yeah. Yeah. What I was distractors and then mowers, however you want to do it. I would uh I um How did everybody did everybody separate them? Tractors and mowers. Yeah. Yes.

Well, let's just keep it separate then for

uh on the tractors, the John Deere for two tractors was $285,300. Uh, the case was $214,000 and the Massie Fergusons were 232,788. So, they're all within range, but I did not check horsepower and all that. 155 BTO 15 175 maximum. with EP EP boost. That price on them tractors was that that you had written down there. Was that trade in or that include or was that just out? Right?

Included the trade in you subtracting the trade in from the price. Yes. Yep. Thank you. I did. Yep. I see it. Answered my own question. If it can

it is including the is taking into account the trade in. Yes, correct. Yeah, it includes all the trades. Did you want me to read the trade ends? That's all right. horsepower on a maximum 150. 150 15.

Bring one deer in and one bassing in. Yep. We had an old deer we kept. Gotcha. Even from the last round that I just the differences here. Yep. Yep. Oldest in age and years. So, got time for it to go.

Do you have any questions or concerns with any of it? Um, I did read off right. The numbers are right. Yeah, I want to make sure there's some questions on horsepower and engine size. I guess based on specs. So maybe what's the John? So it's a sixcylinder with 129 PTO horse and 145 rated and 160 max. PTO horse would be the want to go off to try and equalize. Yeah.

Not the case. Oh, okay. Sorry. Send it away from me.

You know pop your head. PTO 135. Okay. These were deers. Sorry, Tom. Do you have I don't have that spec sheet in front of me. Did you I guess your case or can equip your What do I say? Was there anything in there that you couldn't or that you know of that you couldn't meet?

No. Everything Everything in there what we built is going to be met. They changed those to six cylinder recently. Yeah, they went to six. I show them as a four.

I'm not trying the water. No, no. I want clear. That's where I have an app that compares them so it makes it really easy to to see. I put down six cylinder in there. Yeah, the other deal it's going to make a big but reversing fan is a really expensive option as well. Total

track ground here is 331 300 case is 240 240,000 the masses are 264,264 so they're all pretty What' you have there again?

The John Deere was 331,300. That's including the motor. Pace was 240,000. Massie Ferguson was 264,264 if my math is correct. Mowers and tractors. No one's asked me anything about the Massie, but the I had everything on your

spec sheet. The spec sheets. The only thing we do not offer is Dan, but the ones that you have now have not had problem. Yeah, your deal had all the horsepower. That's why I didn't ask. I just felt left out. I'm sorry.

And that's one thing is I mean I guess apples to apples. I mean, there's $10,000 in rear reversing fan options. $10,000 for five tractor. Yeah. It's a deal. It's not cheap. It's not cheap. Just have the Netflix in it for the seats and all. We did get quite the massaging seat. We did. Yes. Well, don't tell anybody I tried to spec out that. Get a hard enough time. The way it is. They do have the JV link technology on them which is really cool. So I mean you can manage them everything from a phone and see exactly where they're at. That is that is included.

That's included. It's free. No no no subscription. You'll have it forever. Got it. Nice. Mhm. I will say as far as the last one we sold, there were four cylinders, 150 horsepower, and haven't had any problems with the motors, but this is a a newer model with a sixcylinder sixcylinder. Yeah. 6.6. In fact, you went in with electric hydraulics. Uh added change. And the reason being we've had some cables seize up on us before

just get not completely seized but they just get tight and they don't work as good easy.

Yep. And I think you know part of that's probably just the sitting around in the summer. They don't go feed or anything like a farmer would use them once in a while in the winter they sit. So, um, but I've, so we've had, for whatever it's worth, we've had land prides and we've had nothing but trouble with them. We've even had land pride out and engineers with us, told them what needed looked at, what needed changed, what needed fixed. It never went well. So, we actually we went back to deer this last time just because of the way they mowed and and uh how they how they work. So, I would not I would not recommend anything other than deer just because we've tried it. Yes.

Okay. Yes. To tear up. Is that what you're saying? They're hard to tear up. Yeah. Yeah. And then as far as tractors go, we've had good luck with Massy's. Parts availability and quickness has been our number one leading issue, but I guess that's up to you guys to decide.

I may add on there we have there as a June availability that has since changed in the last 24 hours. looking at fall. We're looking at like October we're fall delivery as well. Yeah, I'm sure that Yeah, straight hors has nothing to do with it. It's just a lot of stuff happen everybody. Yeah, we thought we were going to be able to change stuff to my current tractors coming in and they're not supposed to change. Are you looking at avoiding all together or separately? Mowers and tractors.

Did you run the mower number separately?

Yes. Okay. What was I doing? and tell you on the tractors the difference between the John Deere and the Masses 52,512 But that's for two tractors. So divide by two, you're looking at about a 26 256

difference difference in the tractors on that. John Deere mowers are a little higher. 46,000 versus case 26,000 versus masses which are 31476 but you said you don't want the land pride. I really don't. They're they're off. They know better than I ever.

The only thing I'll add on that, speaking to our land pride rep, I brought that concern to our rep when he was out the other day and his comment to it was since since that particular model of Lamb Pride that they have made updates and they are they do operate a lot better and you know I for the few that we've sold so far this year, we've had zero complaints out of them. So, I mean, do they do they still do they still put on whatever gearbox they feel free to put on? They've gone to a 10. Yes. Yes, I know.

But what I'm what I'm what I'm getting at is we we bought that time we bought four mowers. Four mowers at the same time did not come with the all the same gearboxes. Well, I concur with him. It will now. Yeah, they didn't even come with the same boxes. This is a whole different mower than that. And we uh we we would have to we would turn down our own bolts to mount the blades on the mounting bolt. The shoulder was too thick and it would stiffen up the blade too much. Wouldn't turn.

Wouldn't turn. preference here besides the motor on the tractors. Well, I would like to try a deer, but you know what's the difference between deer tractors and case tractors?

The deer, the case, you said the mass is in the deer. is 71,000 $300 for two turns.

Right. That's a lot of tax dollars difference. 20,000 basically 20,000 between face and masses even. Yeah. Yeah. There's 52,000 difference there and 71,300 on the cage. I know what I prefer myself, but I can't got to be objective. Do the both mower and track together and do the lower separate. Like he wants some be done there.

Yeah, we could motion them tempered. Yes, if you wanted to.

I'll make a motion we go with John Deere Millers. Second move and seconded we go with the John Buer mowers. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried on John Deere mowers.

Yeah. I mean I know what I'd like to try but I Yeah. I'll make a motion to go with the case. It was 214,000. That's the cheapest price. Do we all have extended warranties in there? my extended warranty that it's optional. Mine has an extended warranty. It's just not in the price. It's but it's in the comments of what it would cost.

Okay. So, it's not included in the price. It's not included in the war. Mine is included. Is there? Okay. My extended warning is uh separate. It's not in the price. That's the way I was told to price it. Yeah.

Okay. Okay. So, the case was 4,000. So, there's 8,000. So, it' be I'll resend my motion for a minute. Okay. Standing in here. Yeah, it's on the front page. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I see it. Yeah, his is included in the price. Correct.

So, the cases are now 222,000 and you have four different levels of warnings. So, Oh, okay. I mean, it's ultimate travel time plus a lot of parks. You got uh enhanced, which is a lot of parts. Mhm. And no travel time. You got basic, which is just covers your basic parts. And then the ultimate uh light without travel time. I wouldn't even think about it because not much cheaper than But is one I would probably take you. Okay. What's that cost? Do you know?

Yeah, I got a price here. But you should have a you have a sheet in there. Oh, here it is. protection be enhanced. There's three levels of when I hit that. Yeah. And if you figure uh you take 500 deductible, it'd be 5,916. Yeah. The bottom one's 5,916. The top level enhanced is 8,284.

But that's with no deductible. Okay. So you if you buy the egg or the any protection like you want a deductible on it. You're just looking at the hydraulic stuff. So the price on it is $238,74 with the warranty.

Those figures are per tractor. Per tractor. Yeah. Oh well. I just not do that.

This case is per tractor also. Correct. Okay. This that's for both. Gotcha. That's 244,620. So that's I guess for six years. This just says 64,000. It must be hours 60 months or 4,000 hours. Yeah. And then pace was just for one as well. Is that

the case? Was that per per truck? So, do we need Yeah, it was 4,000 per tractor. You did it. I did. I did it right. Okay. August. August. Yeah. Right. We did turn on the air freshener. So, it can't be that this. Probably worth reading the totals.

Yeah. So on the tractors, the John Deere with warranty is $285, $300. The case with warranty is $222,000 and the masses are $244,6. So your case is 20,000 the other two 63 63,000 From the highest to the lowest

I still got to go that way. Yeah, I mean that's my pre-sale value. I understand, but I gota look for depends on how get used on resale. You look at like what we look at that 6430 being, you know, 23 years old, what is still worth versus a tractor that's only six years old. Yeah. No, I understand it. So, I make a motion we go with case drafters for 22,000.

I'll second. You want to do some more figuring? No. Okay. I'm just checking my math. Move. Second purchase of case tractors for 222,000. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. I don't want somebody to come back and say, "Hey, you screwed that up." Because I will.

August 28th. August. We do appreciate you guys. Thank you, God. Yes. Thank you. Yes. Will you uh will you set our obviously the mowers sound like they'll be here first? Yeah. Well, I don't know. Will you set the tractor? Will you set the tractors up to the mowers as far like what they need how you need them? Hitch and Yeah, we can set that up. Just let me know how it needs to be done and we'll get that done for you. But then as far as do you guys uh do I need to send you a different updated quote to for to sign to lock that in or how do I need to approach that? It works as an award based off of that.

So I assume when we receive when we receive the actual equipment we'll pay at that point. It's got to have an extended warranty on it. Yes. Gotcha. The extended warranty will start after your factory warranty. Yeah. Yes. See, I didn't recognize you. Yeah, you now. Thank you guys. I'll just let you have them so you know what to pick.

No, but it wasn't. Yeah. Yeah. We need to get to our next session. She's gonna take those. Instead of givingstead of making copies, I'm going to take what I need and then give them back. I'll just put them back in the envelope. That's perfect. That way I know what goes where. Thank you. Thanks. You know what? I'll see you. I would have figured in green myself, but no. We've got a executive session coming up with our attorney. How long?

Let's start at 45. That way we don't overshoot it. Okay. Tom's not in here. Yeah. How are you, Jack? Doing great. Monday. Okay. You guys knew that already. Monday everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, are you guys here for something? Um, my husband wanted to make a comment regarding uh valuations and property taxes. Okay.

Just went to have it printed off next door. That's fine. We're going to go into executive session here with our attorney, so you'll have to leave anyway, but it'll be about 45 minutes. At 3:30 for comment. That was just the last appointment and I didn't have I had executive session. Yeah, she wasn't here last week. So yeah, it was the executive session said was at 3:30 and we just always make public comment the last the last thing available. So depending if we're running ahead or behind. Yeah. Next week when we come back because I don't know if you want more than three minutes you can schedule with SA to get more than three minutes. Absolutely. If you guys want to call me um here that probably be

the ones at the end we just get three minutes because we don't have a way to plan for it. But if you're in if you're on schedule, you Well, that I wasn't wasn't saying that, but I fig let you know. You see, he offered it. Yeah. So, yep. I'm out. Have a good day. Thank you. I make a motion we go into executive session for attorney client privilege. We discuss the hospital lease and I ask Jackie in on that, too. Any motion? been moved and second and we go into executive session for attorney client privilege for 45 for 45 minutes to discuss hospital lease with Jack Galley also please

David and David I post same sign will be in executive session for 45

I'll make a motion we come out of session. No action taken. Second it. Been moved and second. We come out of executive session with no action taken. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. We're back in open session.

We need another emergency vehicle. Yep. And there's a a good amount here. And I think on these apps is the chair. And then I think on the he needs to sign all the cards. Yeah, the cards and the apps. Okay. So, is there one pulled? Because I saw one on there that is there one what? Well, there's was one on the emails from with George Stevens. I didn't pull it. Okay. I didn't know. I went ahead and I pulled I'm gonna keep it with it to show that he received it, but I didn't feel like we should probably approve. Understand? That was my own question.

Yep. Yep. I went ahead and he might show up and help somebody. Yeah, true. Maybe we do it and hope for the best. I do have it over here. Show up in spirit and save somebody's life going in. So, want to read all the notions? At least give them a wet board. I'm going to make a motion to approve application for author authorization of emergency vehicle permit.

I'll second that. for Chad Van Slike, Justin Crouch, Patrick Peterson, Dalton Brader, McKenzie Callaway, Kate Hopkins, Lee Vanlike, Todd Hoffman, Andrew Vanslike, Greg Holland, Jason Wesley, Richard Brson, Jeremy Stit and Gabriel Null. And if I screwed up any of your names, I apologize.

I'll second or you already second it. Make a We approve the applications for the emergency vehicle permits of all the names. Rick, Red, all in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. Motion carried. Is this new name that you put in our books or this from last week? That is I just put a copy in there in case you guys didn't eat that. That way you could review. I didn't know if you guys kept yours or not, so I Well, he was two weeks, so I put it in there. That way you guys had it for discussion. I try I try to keep you guys prepared.

Thank you. Sometimes it's pretty big job. Yeah, I'm gonna stuff this back in the budget box here in my book. Leave alone. Leave that in. Yeah, we can put it back in with the Those were just your options. If once you guys decide who you want to go with, um, those will need to be signed. Ky gave you kind of the options on there as far as what plan um, for savings that you guys want to fund. Hopefully, we'll know at the end of this week.

He he had uh I forget his name. freedom organ your negotiation skills or I wish we should wait for more. Uhuh. But at least they did. Be happy to see that. That is at least they did some. Yeah. Yeah. Sign all. Worst they can say is no. Good God. Yep. Good. I don't have to fill these out.

Statute's a statute. It's got everything that's required. That is a tiny tiny tiny thing. Maybe we should get little magnifying things that go with them. I've got one at the house. Flip open. It's got a light so I can read some stuff. I have two. The driver's license department has a really handy one so they can see like watermarks and like there's like secret designs and driver's license to see if there um but it's like a nice little machine and you can slide stuff underneath there and look at it. We've done that before to try to figure figure some stuff out.

What the lawyers come up with legal the stuff they hide. Yeah. in a small print. Not Tyson, but other lawyers. Small print matters.

Guys got anything else to do while I'm signing these? Pay the vouchers. Make a motion to pay the vouchers. I'll second it. Been moved and second and we pay the vouchers. All in favor say I. I.6. Go, sir. Thank you. Motion carried.

Again, another six. And I was right. That's a date. Okay. August. Hey, Rachel. did have a birthday yesterday. So, well, happy birthday. I'm losing my mind. Okay. One's the big one.

Okay. Those are the bottom ones. Those are bottom ones. This is the top. Did you celebrate any? My wife came home for a week. Okay. It sounds like she may have to go back up. I was going to say, is that why you're in hot water?

No, it don't take anything for me to get it off. birthday tomorrow.

They're scribbled on there. That's all right. It counts. because I have had the bank call me to verify the signature before here from here or from your personal personal office. Well, that's good that they're checking. Hey, I asked them who it was to and they told me. Yeah, it was Mike. As long as you knew.

Yeah. Once we get that one working together.

No one trying to fool me. Oh, I have this um like the sticky pad that you put your finger into, you know, so you can go through so you can

paper. I can bring some of those down if you guys want me to. Okay. Didn't hurt. Nope. Probably get the thing stuck in my nose or something. Well, it's like a I don't know. It's like a cream or something like you put your run your fingers through and then they're they're sticky. Find a weird one. law office.

Oh, that's why it was in the middle. You get me? Yeah. Even if it wasn't, we get it worked out. Very good.

Oh, okay. I do fine. I did about two years in here, too. I never worked. Right. right?

Do we need to talk about girls questions he asked me today? That way. And then I was aware of what was asked as well.

Oh, I think Morgan, I think I'm missing your signature. I think there's one I didn't sign.

Those are the last ones you had a question brought to me about the like this on the applications or the bid applications bid applications about spraying the parking lots and sidewalks because they need to be licensed. Do we need a license?

I don't know if we do, but I I assume so based off the brief conversation I had. Regardless, I mean, uh it it's I can't tell in what the law is, right? So that's what I thought you probably would need one. Well, I think if we were doing it for commercial, that's right. I think that's probably right. I think if he was doing it for an individual, it probably be different. You can go by around.

Are we talking about need stuff? John did come in um after our last meeting when we kind of asked about if John would be able or have the capacity to do that and he said he could. um he does it for the road and stuff except for what he uses is a bit stronger um than what is you know normally use and so it would need to be done like on a weekend or after like evening when no one was going to be around and that would you know then he would have overtime for that but he said that he needed him to okay he could if it was needed Yeah.

So then if you're going to receive bids, you're are you saying that you're going to take the weed part out? No, because we've already put it out, haven't we? Well, I'm saying when you get those back in, we're probably going to have to reach out and say, "Can you provide us an updated bid with the weed rem removed or Let's wait and see what the bids are. Yeah, that's fine. Surely all of them submit bids have chemical license. I don't think he does. I don't think Chuck does.

Okay. Just way I understood from him this morning, based off the way it's working right now, I think Yanni sprays and he does. Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah, they do the fertilizer and we signed that contract early fertilizer prices but I guess they're smarter than this farmer too. Oh, it's plenty high now. Trust me. So, all right. I told him that I'd bring that up. You got anything else today, Tyson? I don't. Session?

I don't. Rick, can I make a motion? We're second moving secondly to the jur.