Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. We'll come to order. It's 1 p.m. Today is Wednesday, September 30, 2026. This is a special business work session of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors. Roll call, please.

All right. With all five supervisors present participating, we have quorum. Next, the chair would seek unanimous consent to approve the agenda as presented. Seeing no objection, it's so ordered. Item C is business from the public. Is there anyone with public comment this afternoon?

Thank you, Scott. Send every elected official.

Sure. Got it. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any additional public comment? Any additional public comments? Seeing none, we'll move on to Item D, Work Session Business. Item D1 this afternoon is an update on the Johnson County Historic Poor Farm 10-Year Plan. Good afternoon, folks.

I mean one way to look at that. It's it's almost one for one Like the investment here has spurred on the community investment almost exactly. Like if we spent 6.6 or 6.7, the community has input 6.4, 6.5. I mean, that's just another way of looking at it. 50% or a hundred percent. Do you know what I'm saying? Like as we invest, they're able to leverage that to invest and match it almost entirely.

While we're undertaking this exercise, we'll stand at ease.

Supervisors, while we're waiting for a bee to return, I'd like to ask all of you a favor when we're done for the afternoon. I lost a key piece out of my watch in here, so if you could just look at the floor and see if you notice something shiny on your way out.

Yeah, I just meant, like, as we have people on site, there's also people growing on site. should you be over here? Or like, we're trying to take farm equipment across like just the kerfuffle that happens, I think, which is totally like, yeah, it's like, where, where are the public thoroughfares and where are the like please don't step in this field.

Well, I want it to be a collaborative process to figure out where we're going from here. I appreciate everything that my colleagues put up there, but I want to continue our progress, but I don't know what that's going to look like until we do have some additional certainty on some things.

Which cul-de-sac? Are you talking about where it reaches? That you mow currently. It's already at Hunter's Run. That's the one that you currently mow?

That's what I thought you were saying. I was just confused there with the cul-de-sac. I forget that that's a cul-de-sac.

Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree. I think that, you know, it's always the chicken and the egg. I feel like we've had so many of these roundabout conversations and, you know, it's we have half a million dollars set aside to do a stormwater project. And that got. sidelined by the city because they were not comfortable. I mean, we're talking about sloth power. You know what I mean? We keep running into these roadblocks. It's not to say that we shouldn't keep going. L was another consideration where it was like a 500-foot buffer for the highway would put it almost in K. Well, I think it's 200.

Yeah. I mean, we've had opportunities for investment. I think, you know, I'm curious. You said that there's housing opportunities. I'm assuming you're talking about funding. Like, are you, is that what you mean?

Yeah, I mean, we've toured models. I mean, the affordable housing conversation isn't new, and I think there's been a lot of different, and I'm not saying no. I guess in terms of this, Are you suggesting that this looks different?

Sure, sure. So then we were trying to figure out what does that design look like? What would be acceptable? What are the types of housing that we want? So that whole process, and we hired a firm to do that, ended up moving us more towards L because the infrastructure improvements and the access was too, it was, I want to say almost insurmountable on that side. So I guess when I, and I know it's two 32 and unfortunately I have to go, but what I'm hearing is just like a placeholder from, you know, just for future, and when we're looking at maps, it's like, hey, and that's legit, actually, becaus

And that's, I think, why they've waited on doing a lot. Well, to Lisa's point, though, about the fees and stuff, I know we haven't even gotten there. I do look forward to having those conversations. But and I apologize that I have to go ahead I thought this was going to be done at 2.30. But I am on board for making sure that affordable housing is still included moving forward in the 10-year master plan and that we've looked at that.

I, too, have a hard stop. So... Have any imminent action items you need from us this afternoon?

All right. Thank you, everyone. The next meeting of the Board of Supervisors is tomorrow morning, October 1 at 9 a.m. Until such time, we shall stand adjourned.