Board of Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Thank you. The heck is Keith doing at this time? Keith need to check and see where we're at with the agenda. Len. Uh, Mr. Chair, there was one addition under land and resource the final plat of Pinehaven first edition. We're starting with resolution 2643 today. Thank you. Commissioners, anybody else got anything on the agenda? Make a motion to approve the agenda, sir. I second. Thanks, Charlie. Thanks, Jeff. Any discussion? It's all good. Len, please. Rap? Yes. Weey? Yes. Meyer? Yes. Schmidt? Yes. Helina? Yes.

Motion carries. Thank you. Um, need approval on the minutes. Any discussion on it? Any changes? I'll make that motion. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks, Charlie. Any further discussion? Len, please. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next up is Troy Wilbur. Sheriff, is Troy here? Our representative? I don't see him. I don't either. Well, then we'll hold off on that one, right? Or can we do it without him? I probably can. Let's

We got the I'll pull it up. resolution is in the packet.

So, basically what he's saying is Douglas County has been awarded a grant for $5,468. He's looking for our approval to accept it. Right. Yes. Most of the time they're timesensitive. So, yeah, I'll make a motion to approve it. I'll second it. actually be resolution, right? 2643. That would be 264. So you got Shane and Jerry. All right. Any discussion on it? Lay, please. Meer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap. Yes. We Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Mary Skiillings, recorder.

Good morning. Good morning. Um, I am requesting approval to attend the 2026 Property Records Industry Association, Korea's annual conference in Buffalo, New York. It's held August 25th through the 27th. Um, I currently serve as a government co-chair for the Central Minnesota chapter of this association. And the estimated fees were included in my board item. This was part of my budget and it will be paid out of the recorder tech fund. Mary, I just want to tell you thanks for sending out the additional information to me explaining what was going on and I appreciate you taking the time to save the county some dollars because the way you're doing it, you're saving us some money.

So, I'm also going to make a motion to approve that. Thank you. I second. Thanks, Jeff. Any further discussion? Len, please. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. We Meyer, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Joyce Iverson, Hospice of Douglas County.

Good morning.

Good morning. Um, I am bringing to you and I believe you have copies of the conditional use permit for use of the courthouse lawn for our annual butterfly release, August 11th with a backup date of August 12th. Um, the past year we have served 131 families in the fls. The butterfly release is long-standing tradition with hospice. Um, we used to go to the city park since moving to the courthouse lawn. It had has afforded us better access uh for our attendees and better attendance. Um, it is for anyone in the community, not just people that hospice of Douglas County has served.

Thank you. So move, Mr. Chair. Thanks, Charlie. I'll second. Thanks, Tim. Any further discussion? It's a great program. That's well attended, too. Len, please. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Weey, yes. Meer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. There you go. Thanks, Joyce.

At this time, I'd like to call up Tabitha, Community Human Services Director. Good morning, commissioners. All right. Well, as you can see, I am in good company this morning. I am joined by uh this fantastic group of mental health advocates uh in support of May as mental health awareness month. Uh you may or may not be familiar with this um recognition but this uh designation is really intended to create awareness around uh mental health, reduce stigma and show support for those living with a mental health condition. Uh and so I am here uh with some really great advocates from our community uh to share a proclamation with you uh this morning. We ultimately are requesting that the board uh proclaim uh May as mental health month in Douglas County. And uh at this time I'll turn it over to this wonderful group uh to introduce themselves and then also to share that proclamation with you.

Thank you. My name is Susette Sutton and proclamation declaring May 2026 as May mental health month. Whereas serious mental illness affects one in every four people annually. And whereas serious mental illness has been scientifically proven to be a highly treatable illness of the brain. And whereas scientific research is producing tremendous breakthroughs in understanding of mental illness, resulting in more effective treatments that allow people to reclaim full and productive lives. Whereas misunderstandings exist about mental illness and our social culture often wrongly imposes stigma on it. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners does hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as mental health month in Douglas County to increase public awareness of mental illness. Done in open session this fifth day of May, 2026. Thank you.

That's very good. Thank you. Go ahead.

All right. Well, good morning. My name is Becky Schmidz. I'm the executive director of Viking Land Community Support Program. Um I also just wanted to take this opportunity to invite you to our annual mental health walk, which is next Friday. Um I do have a flyer here uh to it's from 11:30 to 1 at our offices at Viking 11:06 Broadway. Um, also next week, something that we started last year was paint the town green. Um, the staff and I know that there are a lot of people in the community who aren't getting the supports that they need, and this was kind of our way of hoping that everybody would show them um that the support is available and that it's okay to get the help that you need. And we had some pretty awesome turnout. Um, Alexandria has some extremely supportive businesses. And so, we're going to do that again this year. Um, Monday the 11th through the 15th. uh paint the town green, wear green, um decorate your businesses green, um whatever you so choose. But again, our walk is next Friday. Um it starts at 11:30. We walk to city hall and back and then we have a light lunch uh and some music and we just kind of get together and celebrate the importance of taking care of ourselves and then breaking that stigma in our community.

Yes. So, just just to be clear, was that the 11th uh the 15th of of May or Well, the 11th through the 15th is we're going to paint the town green, but the walk is on the 15th. There it is. Oh, there it is. Thank you. Thank you. What What day are you doing? Paint the town green. It's all week long. We have businesses that decorate. Which week? Next week. Next week. I just want to write it down. Yep.

Mr. Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the proclamation. I'll second that. Thanks, Charlie. Thanks, Jerry. Any other discussion? Anything else? Did you want to speak? I'll just introduce myself briefly. I'm Anna Olsen. I work at Douglas County Social Services. I'm an adult mental health case manager. I'm also the co-chair of the Douglas County Local Advisory Council, which is an advocacy group for mental health. Okay, Len, please wrap. Yes. Weey. Yes. Meer. Yes. Schmidt. Yes. Kina. Yes. Motion carries. Awesome. There you go. Thank you for coming. Thanks for all the support back there. Yeah.

Tabitha, do you have something for me to sign? Uh, I have the proclamation that was in the board packet. Um, but I can have you I wrote on mine. Sorry. Oh, that's okay. I made notes. I have Oh, here. I can use Charlie's. Yeah. I'll give this to you. Thank you so much. I just really want to uh thank the commissioners for the support of this and also uh thank everybody who came to show uh support and who does really great work in our community to support uh advocacy for mental health all year long. Thank you. Y

at this time we'll call up Tim Ericson, public works director. Good morning. Morning.

Uh just one item on the board packet or in the agenda today. Um this is something that we talked about back at the fall planning meeting where we're looking to expand our VZDA county, our county pit, the VZDA property. Um we're just looking at taking that east burm, pushing in about another 350 ft or so to the east out to the section line. Um, it's going to actually add about four acres of of storage space for us. So, we got three quotes for doing that work. Um, Tradesman Construction is the one that came in the as the lowest. Um, looking for approval to hire tradesmen.

I'll make that motion. I'll second. Thanks, Tim. Thanks, Jerry. Any discussion? Len, please. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Motion carries. There you go. Thank you very much. Hey, Tim, I got a question for you. Has uh fair board approached you about using that land for parking? No. Oh, either. I I'll reach out to Brad. Brad or Pete Fernho? Because they were

Okay. I was talking with Pete and he said they could just mow it for the use of it and they want to level it off because it's so rough. So I don't know had you put quotes out for hanging it or we haven't yet. No, we haven't. Okay. Well, you need to talk to the fair board before I will absolutely do that. I assume we're going to see them next week. I sent an email out. I'm hoping to Well, it be I'll reach out to Brad or Pete and we'll we'll get an answer. hoping to have them come to the LGC meeting, Tim and Pat, and talk about the final plat for the fairgrounds and the county and the city. Yeah. So, I did email it out and I see Marty responded this morning, but I didn't get a chance to look at it. Okay. If not, I'll text Brad because I got his phone number.

Yeah. Because they one of the deals was they figured they could mow it down. They'd like to mow it. Oh, that'd be great. Like be right before the fair because they're going to need it for overflow parking. That That would be great. I'll reach out to Brad. Okay. I I'll get some details on that as well. I thought they were both going to talk to you a couple weeks ago. Okay. I just figured I better mention it before you put it out or or rent it to somebody for hanging. Sure. No, I will talk to them. Okay. Tim, one more question. Did you follow up with the County Road 20 or 81 ditch? I have not yet. Okay. Thanks. I haven't gotten anything back yet. Sounds good. Thank you. David Rush, Land and Resource.

Good morning. Morning. Morning. All right. Uh several items for you this morning. The first will be uh excavator landscape licenses. We have one company listed there. We recommend approval of that license. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Anything else? Thanks, Jerry. Len, please. Meer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Weey, yes. Motion carries.

Very good. The next several items are from our planning advisory commission meeting last week. The first item is the preliminary plat of Irene Sunnybrook, first edition. This is on the northwest side of Lake Irene. Um, previously brought to us in 2009 and then, uh, left uncompleted. Uh, the property owner, a new owner here, is seeking to plat out a similar area but fewer lots. He's looking at seven lots in that area. U, most of the infrastructure is already in. Uh, was installed with Irene Sunnybrook. So we have uh pave township road ditches, storm water collection and treatment areas. Planning commission recommended approval of the preliminary plat with two conditions. I will make a motion to approve with conditions.

Second. Thanks Tim. Thanks Jerry. Any further discussion? Len, please. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Motion carries.

Thank you. The next item is an application for a conditional use permit. This is to allow outdoor storage, parking, and display on a commercially zoned property in Orange Township. So, this property sits just south of the interstate uh in the souththeast corner of Douglas County. Um the property's been zoned commercial for some time, had a variety of different businesses on it. Um the current owner is uh seeking to expand the parking and display area as their uh business would be uh diesel truck trailer repair and sales as well as a operation base for a trucking company. The permit that they're seeking uh is not necessarily about the business itself since it's commercial. It's a permitted use. It's about the uh parking and storage and display area out there. Um so there's some conditions that planning commission recommended be in there to keep some controls on the uh what's parked there and for how long and so on to you know protect the area and keep it from collecting junk and inoperable vehicles and so forth. So, planning commission recommended approval with the nine conditions. I will make a motion to approve the conditional use permit for Penta LLC can truck repair with nine conditions. I I'll second it,

Mr. Chair. David, go ahead. And you know, and I understand and they're not a lot of orange is wet. Um the outdoor parking when you're talking about fluids. I I think, Mr. chair. I think what we're concerned about there is just making sure that um they don't have vehicles out there that they're draining or leaking fluids onto the ground and not managing it. And if we become aware of that, at least we'll have that to come back on and say, "Ah, you got to take care of that before." was an understanding as as far I can I I've read the conditions and things and I was just you know when you say that

and have outdoor parking up to over a half an acre there and there's going to be they've run semis there will be leaking we know that yeah we understand that this is more a matter set up you know for because this is at the top of a watershed it's also you know orange is pretty wet y so So, so I think you're aware u owning a business and having a parking lot, there's always that going on. I think what what we're looking at here is is, you know,

uh if there's persistent uh significant leaking, fuel tanks that aren't being repaired and leaking or uh vehicles that are in for repair and the damage has that that's sustained causes it to leak, you know, quarts and quarts of fluids onto the ground. We want those maintained and there's a good way. I mean, it's no different than Wagner's over there by brand. Yeah, absolutely. Nice looking operation. It really is. From the interstate, it looks great. Yep. Keep it. And we just want them long as they keep it that condition. There you go. Exactly. Thank you. Any further discussion? Len, please. Kina, yes. Rap.

Yes. We Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Motion carries. The next item is a an application for a conditional use permit. Uh this is in Ocus Township. Um the property owner is seeking to have livestock in a residential shoreland area. Um they'd like to have chickens. They're proposing uh 25 chickens. Planning Commission recommended approval with three conditions. Uh, one of them notably being no roosters.

I'll make a motion to approve that. I'll second it. Any discussion? Board. Oh, good. Len, please. Rap. Yes. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Helina, yes. Motion carries.

Thank you. Uh the next item very similarly uh this is in Ida Township uh within um the Shorland area and just outside of the Shorland area in uh near Lake Ida. The applicant is looking to have again livestock in this case uh horses and chickens. They're proposing um I believe the number of of chickens there is 25 or less and four horses. Um we did receive several comments from uh the lake association. Um in particular, they had concerns about uh livestock and livestock manure in close proximity to the lake. What you're actually seeing on that image up there is not the lake. that is a wetland adjacent to the lake. The area that they would house the animals in is 100 plus feet from that wetland which places it several hundred feet from the lake. Um historically that area has as you can see it's been in agricultural production. Um, prior to the current owner, it was in uh irrigated corn production, which it's no longer irrigated is my understanding. But, um, planning commission looked at it. The staff's recommendation, we had no concerns about the number of animals as long as the um, you know, the minimal amount of manure that's there gets adequately spread onto those fields and I don't think it'll cause any sort of impact. Uh, the township also had no issues. So, planning commission recommended approval.

I'll make a motion to approve. A second. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks, Jeff. Any further discussion? Len, please. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Motion carries.

Thank you. Uh the last item I have for you and then I do have anformational item quickly after this but um final plat of Pine Haven first edition. This is a uh replplatting of three residential lots into two. Um the two neighboring owners uh would like to divide the lot between them so that uh they don't have anybody that builds between them. So they proceeded to replplat this into two lots. Um they met all the requirements that we have uh for final platting and we recommend uh approval for recording.

I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Thanks Jerry. Thanks Tim. Any further discussion? Len, please. Meer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. We Yes. Motion carries.

Thank you. Uh, real quickly, informational uh just uh on Monday, yesterday, received a letter from the Department of Natural Resources. It was addressed to the chair, but I think they uh have our former chair person listed there. Um the DNR last fall informed us that they were working on a revision of the public waters inventory. So now the agency has uh produced some preliminary corrections in that public waters inventory for Douglas County that they would like to bring forward. Uh the county gets an opportunity to comment on this as well as affected property owners. They're looking at 33 public waters corrections, including 26 additions, meaning they would add 26 water bodies or parts of water bodies to their public waters inventory and seven removals. This has to go out for a 60-day public comment period at which during that time the DNR will host a public meeting and then uh they will have that public meeting at such a time that there'll still be 45 days after that meeting to allow for comment. Um that meeting will be at 6 p.m. June 3rd Douglas County Public Works facility. So, uh, they'll accept, uh, comments, uh, starting on May 19th and ending July 18th. So, what I would suggest that, uh, we do as a county, um, it would be uh, advisable, I think, for us to to get together. I'm uh proposing that land and resource the um public works soil and

water conservation district and we take a look at these proposed corrections as well as if there's anything that the county has some concerns or proposals about that we would like to see corrected or altered in this inventory we can propose them to the DNR at that time. Um, so it might be uh helpful, useful. I don't know if the full board wants to uh attend that public meeting or if you want to appoint two commissioners to to be a part of this uh inventory process. Um that might be a useful thing to have those commissioners if you do appoint them attend a meeting of departments and then um attend that public hearing and just so that they're aware of what's going on. Um it's up to you obviously, but

June June 3rd. Well, June 3rd is when the uh public hearing is at 6 p.m. at public works public works. Um, I think we'll be able to have some communication with the DNR prior to that if we have anything that we want to submit as well as if we have any specific concerns about these additions or deletions from that. Mr. Chair, I would just like to say I'd like to see that map with those the corrections and additions or whatever. I'd like to see that before I we all should before the public hearing. Yes.

Yeah. It would be our intention at the meeting of departments to go over that as well. If it if it's something the board wants to see come to a work session, maybe after the the departments meet and look at that, we can schedule a work session. Um, it would have to be Well, my question is the work session would have to be in two weeks at the next meeting. Well, not necessarily. The public comment before June 3rd the public comment period does not end until July 18th. Okay. So, we have plenty of time put together. It' be good to bring them in. Then we're all informed. Yeah. I And we could ask the DNR to come to a work session. And

so, you would do the June 16th, but that's just a second. I just handed this this morning. Uh, and and they're going to be on our next work session. No, they asked to be on May 19th at our board meeting. It doesn't mean we have to let them in. Well, I think you should. Well, you can let them in. They're going to they're going to explain this to you, but they want to come to the regular meeting. It wasn't a work session, Jerry. The way I was reading this, it says work session right on there. If you'd like, I could contact Mr. Saunders Pierce to find out what it is that they would like to accomplish with the board. Where does it say work session on here? David wrote on there right here. It's wrote on there. He wrote that on there. You wrote that on. No, David

or Lee did. It says they want to come to our upcoming meeting May 19th, but it's for a work session. Is that what you're saying? Go ahead, Lee. I recommend that they bring that top to our work session. Okay. Now we know where it came from. So, sorry for this communication. I do believe we should have conversation like at the work. We're good. We can put them on there. Right. Five of us can. I mean, there's there's seven. They're taken off the list. 19. Yeah,

we have I have enough issues with the DNR at times. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done and vice versa. I'm sure they don't agree with me either. So, which is just fine. I guess my recommendation would be to invite them to the May 19th work session. Well, all this work they want to come they want to come needs to be at it is because of the convasive and all that other stuff but the reasons they're putting lakes in and out of this classification. That's what bothers me a little bit.

Yeah. My guess would be then at that work session it would be an opportunity for them to explain to you what they're proposing. Um, I would suppose that the board would like their staff to evaluate some of that a little more time, form a an an opinion on each of these uh additions and deletions and then any other uh changes that the county would like to see to that map.

Mr. Chair, believe me, I'm sure it'll have a bearing on financial support in the future. Well, it will. I mean, with the waters, we know that we already know what the invasive species thing is, you know, and it's going to be, you know, that's why I think it's very important. We got plenty of water in our county. Uh-huh.

I I think what what you'll probably hear from the agency is that anything that on is on that public waters inventory map receives protection from the DNR, which um to us translates to permitting, regulation, those sorts of things. If it's not on that public waters inventory map, then it is not receiving any of that

regulation oversight. So, um there's, you know, good and bad associated with that. We want to protect our resources, but also there are some resources out there that, you know, there's a lot of uh permitting and oversight that goes into that, you know, maybe doesn't uh doesn't need that much oversight. So, and then moving forward, if you're looking for two commissioners, I would like to recommend Jerry and Charlie. Okay, I accept. So, if we have any internal meetings on You need an internal meeting. You got two guys. We'll have you come. Very good. Unless you have anything else for me. Nope. Thank you. You're welcome.

At this time, we'll invite up Jill, finance director.

Good morning. Morning. Have two items this morning. The first um is just a mo looking for a motion to approve bills totaling 639,165.91.

Motion to approve. Second. Thanks, Jerry. Thanks, Tim. Any discussion? Any concerns? My name, please. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap. Yes. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Motion carries.

Um, the next item I have, if you remember from a work session we had, we talked about the Kalin Prep opioid grant that was approved. So, when we got our first bill from them, the activities didn't really match the budget that was initially submitted with the grant. Um so we had asked them to do a revised budget um noting the activities for sure that they had done um and basically with a a little note saying it's not an all-encompassing list because student interest changes from year to year depending on which students are going there each year. Um so in your packet we have a the budget amounts are the same but under the activities in the school um section uh some of the clubs or activities might be slightly different with that note. And then the other thing that we noticed um was in the initial contract there were two different end dates. In one section of the initial contract, it had an end date of 8312026 and in the lower section it had an end date of 12312026. So the contract amendment um is just to firm up those dates so we know when the contract actually expires. Um do you have any questions?

So the new date is going to be 12:31 of this year. Yeah. Okay. So, Mr. Chair, how much longer do you foresee this opioid money being available or distributed by yours? I mean, I think the initial allocation was like 18 years. 16 or 18 years. 18 years, Gary. And this is just the second year. Wow. So, for quite a while. And it probably will be continued.

It's one of, you know, it's almost like aa Okay. And it's the proper usage is all we're dealing with here. And we had issues at that. Well, we did a work session with them. And that's what Jill was talking about. And I I I think it's mostly because Jill has to be able to stand an audit and to explain what we used the money for. And we didn't get a very good budget from Kalin or a follow through. I should say it wasn't the budget. They had a budget like this, but they didn't follow through and say how they exactly spent it, right? That's the part we got to have.

Yeah. It just didn't The clubs that were on the first bill we received weren't on the initial budget we received. So, this the budget amounts are all the same. It's just not carved out in such detail. Um, it'll make our approval process easier on the finance side. And speaking of that, the next round is going out here pretty soon. Horizon's going to have it on their website. So that'll be just starting here soon. Y through Horizon, but they got to get approved by us. Yeah. So yeah, are you good? Yeah, I'm good with No, I mean the revised budget.

All right. And they've listened to what you've told them. I don't Well, I'll make the motion we approve. I'll second it. Thanks, Charlie. Thanks, Tim. Any further discussion? No. Monet, please. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Weey, yes. Meer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Motion carries. Thanks, Jill, for working that out with them. Lee, county coordinator, friend. How are you and friend? Morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. Good morning.

So, I've got, as you've seen in your packet there, a separation agreement for release of claims. And um with me is Christy Hastings of Peton Law, and she comes to us um with the advisement of MCIT Council. And so, she's here in case you had any follow-up questions or anything. But my uh reason for being here is to ask for the approval um motion by the commissioners to approve the separation agreement and release of claims. Christy, do you have anything to add or say?

Uh no, happy to answer any questions. You'll see that the agreement breaks down the payment between the portion that the county would be responsible for and the portion that the insurance company will pay. um you asked that this agree agreement that I negotiate in a um prohibition against this former employee reapplying for employment and that is included in this agreement. Otherwise, the discussion that we had at close session stays there and it's really just now before you for approval. This is our formal process.

Yes. Well, with with that being said, I will make a motion to accept the separation agreement and release of claims. I'll second it. Thanks, Tim. Any further discussion? Len, please. Rap. Yes. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you for handling it. And thank you. Appreciate it. We'll move on. Thank you.

At this time, I would like to uh make an announcement from the board on the results of the performance evaluations held on April 21st, 26. In compliance with Minnesota statute section 13D 05 subdivision 3A, I'm sharing with the public the conclusions of our department head evaluations held on April 21st, 2026 that they were all satisfactory for the group that was reviewed and they did a good job. So thank you. All right, this time we're going to go into pdeiums. Tim Kina going to do three minutes. No, we will. What? We got to do the clean or do the pines first. All right.

Yep. Go ahead. You're up first.

Okay. On the 6th, I attended the MRC meeting here, you know, by Zoom. On the 6th, we had an opioid meeting after the MRC meeting. 7th was a regular commissioner meeting. On the 9th, we had artificial intelligence training. I did not put a predium for that because I it was if we wanted to do it, we could. It wasn't something that we had to do. And on the 16th, West Central Juvenile Detention Center, that was in Morehead. 17th, planning and zoning. We had the viewings on the 20th, Lakeland Mental Health. I'm on the audit committee. We went through the audit. That was by Zoom. They pay my predium. On the 21st, commissioner meeting, joint city county meeting, we had the work session afterwards. And also in that evening on the 21st I had the fair board meeting. 27th I had our regular Lakeland mental health meeting. Then on the 28th planning and zoning meeting.

Thanks Tim Charlie.

That was that same MRC meeting on the 6th commissioner meeting on the 7th. We had our local government coordination committee meeting on the 8th. We also that evening we um met Jeff and I did with with some of the folks from Ktown on uh the barn out at uh the park with Brad Bon and stuff and the future of that barn and talking we got we finally got pictures if you're wondering what we're doing of the original barn of the Omens when when he did find the stone because the barn that's there has got no historic value that was built in the 30s and it needs to it's got we got ADA problems. We're talking about bringing that one down which has brought all the attention and then we were telling them we could probably replace with a barn that was similar to what the Omens had in uh when he found the stone in 1890 whatever it was. So that's what that's all about. You'll hear more as we go on that. the ninth rainbow rider out in Lowry.

Question Charlie, when are they going to be done and open the new building? Um, June 15th is what we're the target is. Just curious. You guys will know. We will. Yeah, we will do a Okay, sounds good. Ribbon cutting or whatever you're saying. We we've talked about that. So,

yeah, it's coming along. If you guys go by I mean, you just go by the sewer district, you'll see our new building going up out there. Um 13th Horizon 14th then we had a meeting about another yeah continues 15th department head 20th open line with Julie and a couple of the students that was it was it was great that flew by and didn't seem like a few minutes. Um 21st commissioners meeting with work session, 22nd hospital exec, 24th hospital board, 27th went to Morris for CPT and we're renovating that building. I got a meeting there tomorrow morning to see how that's coming.

Did you go down to Morris? Yep. Mileage. No, they pay it all. Oh, okay. CP. That's why there's nothing there. Just like the hospital now since they've gone to the 501 they take care of that. Same with the hospital safety meeting at 7:00 on the 28th.

Okay. Thank you, Jerry. All righty. Let's see here. We'll start off with uh 42 Prime West 46 MRC was Zoom 47 regular meeting 49 we had A1 class. You can scratch the uh pdeium on that one. Uh 413 Horizon, 420 AMC, 421 regular meeting, 421 work session, and 421 was a Sock River Wershed Insock Center. And then 422nd, uh also Sock River Wershed. There's a collaborative meeting that we go over and uh talk about projects. And then on 51, we had road updates with Tim Ericson. That covers it. Troy. Okay. Um I guess Thank you. I'm next. Hey Troy, I was just going to let you know we did pass your motion and took care of it. If you need to go or something, it's done.

You're welcome. It's all right. We took care of you. All right.

You got a new day job. I guess I'm up next. So on April 1, I had a PIO meeting. Did updates on the agenda. On the 2nd was Prime West. They pay. Um on the 6th as well, I was here for the MRC meeting that day. On the 7th, it was a county board meeting. On the 8th, the LGCC meeting with Charlie and I with the update with the city and the school district. Um, we had a work session on that AI and it sounds like we're all scratching that, so I'll scratch it out. On the 13th, I went to the city council meeting that had information on the Highway 29 construction updates. Um, also on the 13th, I had Horizon Health monthly updates. They pay. Um, on the 14th, Alamir Health uh CEO updates, they pay. 15th PIO meeting agenda updates. On the 16th, Pope Douglas solid waste monthly meeting they pay. Um on the 21st we had our county board meeting. Also on the 21st we had a work session that day afterwards. 22nd Alamir Health Executive Board meeting. On the 23rd task force on aging um Bonnie did some updates and had some great information on seniors helping with them with attorneys. So it was a very good meeting. On the 24th, Alamir Health monthly updates. 28th, Alamir Health Quality assurance. On the 29th, we had PIO meeting again for agenda. 29th, egg extension quarterly updates. And on the 30th, Pope Douglas Solidway special meeting. Jeff, you're up next.

Yes. Um on the 24th of March, uh meeting with the public works public work update and then uh and then the same day on the 24th, the West Central Community Action monthly meeting held in Ela Lake and they pay for the mileage. And then uh the 25th to the 27th, the AMC uh leadership summit held at Litwa. And then uh 1 of April the PIO meeting. The first four six the MRC meeting via Zoom in the county boardroom. Uh the sixth is the opioid task force meeting held at the county administration conference room. And then uh the sixth is Kensington Council meeting meeting with Tim Ericson about the railroad crossing. Uh the seventh is the board meeting. The eighth is the AIS task force meeting going over the grant application. The eighth is the runstone park meeting about the future of the barn at the park. And uh the ninth is the AI training held at the uh county boardroom. The ninth is the rainbow rider the monthly meeting. And the 10th is the uh pom deter uh joint powered board watershed meeting monthly meeting. And the 15th is the uh PIO meeting and uh the 15th is the reason for mental health monthly meeting held in Ela Lake and they pay for the PDM and then the 16th is the Zoom meeting with Senator Rasmonson the meeting about the closing of the railroad cross and Gson then the 16th is the uh library board meeting monthly meeting.

Thanks Jeff. Any uh discussion or anything on them? All good. Can I get a motion? I'll make a motion to accept the prediums. Thanks, Tim. A second. Thanks, Jeff. Any further discussion? Len, please. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes. Schmidt, yes. Kina, yes. Rap, yes.

Motion carries. Thank you. At this time, we'll open up the floor for anybody that has anything they want to discuss. Items from the floor, you get three minutes. If you're coming up, please state your name and address and let us know what you're here for.

Uh Colin Hawinson, 1814, Filmore, number 302. I am treasurer for Douglas County Republicans and right around a month ago, we had one of our members that came out with this fantastic vision of giving back to the community. Specifically, his idea was to put on an America the Beautiful 250th anniversary celebration. We proceeded to go through the permitting process through Brophy Park. However, we are finding ourselves in the quagmire of having to commit to the band whether whether we get the permit or not before the next board meeting before this is ready. So, what I'm trying to do here is kind of do a straw poll here uh for lack of a better term among you five to see our chances. Uh Brad has been extremely helpful and invaluable to us. But as he put it, there's two issues here. It is occurring on uh the caveat of a holiday weekend July 3rd and also there's going to be 500 to 750 people kind of right above the 500. So again I'm just trying to get a a temperature reading of the county board here as far as uh whether this would be a y or an a.

Oh and all five of you are invited. Mary Francon's coming. Tory Westerm's coming. Mr. chairman. Oh, and the sheriff is invited, too. Hold on. F foremost. Yeah. Um Brad, I'm on the park Jerry and I are on the park committee. So Brad has informed us about it. Some of the rules. Is there any way you can go on Thursday? No, we we picked the third because that is the federal holiday.

We know we know what the day is and that's what creates the biggest problem. Mr. Ericson is in the back room. He's in he's Brad's boss. And some of the the rules that are, you know, it's a public park. It's on and on. Weekends, so on and so forth. If it was like Brad when I talked to him just the other day, we we visited like last Thursday again about this. That's what I think he was hoping we could see what you can do. There are rules about using the park on the weekend for a private event and it's a holiday like you said that's the n you know that's celebrated as the the 4th of July we know when that is I think we can figure that date out but it's being you know the third is considered the holiday but it's part of the weekend so that's the problem we have

Tim I'm sure I didn't say it exactly right but you remember the policy Yes, you do. Yeah. And I take it that's the board's consensus as well. Well, the thing is is we can't open it up. We can't vote on it. We can't do nothing. It's just an opinion. Okay. At this point. So, we can't make a decision. We can't make a decision. Say anything. Sorry. I hate to say that. That's too like he said, it's too late for him that I really would like to hear what Brad's got to say because I'm It's new to me. Julie Julie's got her hand. I was working with Brad. application because of the emergency prepared

our old chair resigned and so I'm left kind of picking up the role as as the new chair of the committee for the 250th anniversary celebration. I think and you can't make a decision in two weeks. uh rather we are willing to go gung-ho and get this taken care of with all the requirements. However, it does no use to be stuck with the band without a permit and a place for them to play. And they probably need word by this Thursday for a hardcore commitment because they have to hire audio and moving engineers for doing two shows and on the same day. That's why we'd be locked into uh having to pay them no matter what.

Julie has a question. Maybe you could review the permit because I There were also questions about sale of food and other things in front of me, but Right. I I think the permit needs to be reviewed and looked at and Right. And maybe if it doesn't work, maybe there's a different location. I'm not trying to tell you to go somewhere else, but I think we need to have that in front of us before we can do anything and we can't make a decision today anyways. It has to be on the agenda and open to the public to know what we're discussing. Understood. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. And to be honest, we're glad you're throwing a party. Yeah, I think it's great.

I mean, it's it's the right reasons. We got to in the park and Jerry can tell you and Brad, if he was here, would explain it about Oh, I think it's a great idea. I do too. Somebody got it. Nobody's running a 250th party. Everybody's afraid everybody else.

I'm going to ask, is there any more items from the floor? Does anyone else have an item from the floor? Any other items from the floor? Okay. At this time, we're going to uh move into a closed session. The meeting will be closed as permitted by the Minnesota statute section 13D05 subdivision 3 to discuss county security related to information technology. I need a motion to move into close session. I make a motion to move into close session. I'll second. Thanks Jeff. Thanks Tim. Any further discussion? Len, please. Kina, yes. Rap, yes. Weey, yes. Meyer, yes.

Schmidt, yes. Motion carries. Good job, Len.