Cass County Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay, we're going to go ahead and call the June 24th, 2026, 12 o'clock commission meeting to order. Roll call, please. Kathy.

Bob Houston. Present. Mike Moreland. Here. Jeff Fletcher.

Present. Please rise and pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Emotion to accept the agenda. So moved. Second. All in favor, three votes for zero against the approval of the Commission meeting minutes from June 17 2026. So moved. Second. All in favor, three votes for zero against the motion to approve the work session minutes from June 17 2026. The road and bridge purchase of the excavator. So move. Second. All in favor, three votes for Zero against. Resolution 26-60, Cass County Road and Routes Department. Approving a CDL training agreement for the Cass County Road and Routes Department. Need a motion. So moved. Second. Travis, staff report, please.

Yes. In the years past, we've done CDL training in-house, but we haven't had the influx of employees, and we've got so much stuff going on right now, we don't have time to do it in-house, so we're basically doing a down-to-date training school down there. Okay. That helps us get it done quicker and more efficiently.

Any more guys in the trucks on the road? Any further questions? No. All in favor? Three votes for, zero against. Resolution 2660 passes. Resolution 26-61, Cascadia Road and Bridge Department approving the purchase of a John Deere excavator. I need a motion. So moved. Second. Travis, staff report, please.

Yeah, this excavator has a rotator out on the end of it with a V-bottom ditching bucket, so it's going to help speed up the process and get some more ditches in the county. So that's the entire intent behind this machine is to help us get caught up a little bit quicker. Are we ever going to be caught up on digits in the game?

A thousand miles of roads, 2,000 miles of digits, and you have to start over again. Any further questions for parents? All in favor of Resolution 2661? Three votes for, zero against. Resolution 2661 passes. Resolution 2662, Cass County Sheriff's Office, approving a cooperative agreement with South Metro Fire Protection District for shared dispatch alerting system gateway use. I need a motion. So moved. Second. Is there anyone here from the Sheriff's Office that would like to speak on it or the fire department? I don't have much ahead. It's just an agreement so that we can use their equipment to help dispatch?

It's going to provide an automated 911 dispatch for all the fire agencies they dispatch for based off the system we built and installed a year and a half ago for our residents. We learned it was expandable and we're offering it up. at pretty much no cost to all those agencies. It'll help with the 911 dispatcher. They can keep call taking while seeing units on the radio instead of stopping to talk on the radio. Say, please go here for this emergency. Is it computer aided?

Sounds like this could be a lot more efficient.

We saw our call processing times go from 47 seconds to 13 seconds on a medical call.

That's a good deal for everyone in the county. Thank you very much. Yes. Any further discussion? No. All in favor of Resolution 2662? Three votes for, zero against. Resolution passes. Thank you all. At this time, we're going to open the public comment portion of the meeting. If you're seeing public comment, please step forward. Seeing none, we're going to close the public comment session. Public comment portion. Commissioner Communications. We do wish Jimmy Gillespie the best in his new adventure. Be the last week we'll see him here. You're always welcome to come back. We appreciate to get to know you in the last several years here. Any further discussion? Any motion to adjourn? So moved. Second.

Did you have a closed session?

No. Okay. No closed session. All in favor? Three votes for, zero against. We are