Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

All the meeting orders start with the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Moving on to their agendas, their motion to approve it.

I want a motion to approve it. I'll second the motion. There is a motion and second to approve the consent agenda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Motion passes.

Public comment.

Just a question. I know the assessor was selected a week ago Monday. When are we going to be bold with this?

Actually, it was. I think it was actually Wednesday when the offer was made. We have to wait until the Iowa Department of Revenue approves the appointment. We're waiting on that approval.

Okay. I guess I can do that. I'm next.

I came down here. I was talking to Lonnie earlier about the ordinance. I think you guys are trying to get it put in in regards to some of the housing that's trying to Um, there's had some occurrences back in 2023. We've had three so far this year. Um, and there's been some other minor occurrences. I live on the same road, probably about four or five houses down to one of these places. And this is what I printed out for you guys. If you want to add that to your file or anything, they get. Let's see, it all has date and times. There's dash cam off my car. There's surveillance off my house. There's logs and stuff at times. If you guys need any of that video, I'd be more than happy to show it. There's a nice picture with two deputies, a guy getting punched in the face with the kids out front of the neighbor's house watching this. It's been constant stuff for years that's been going on. Now, it was a little bit quiet. This year, it's all ran back up again. There was, I think it was in February, we had a time where multiple departments and volunteer guys getting called on the middle of the night. One guy got walked up to Hawk County and they picked him up when it was colder than heck. There's also pictures of a video of Easter Sunday of me coming home from my surveillance camera at my house and the daycare provider or whoever was the healthcare provider bringing these people home as I was going over to get the mail, my mailbox comes through the side into the ditch, halfway in the ditch, halfway on the road. And I lay on my horn and then he speeds off. And there's also a picture of him in the vehicle when they got down to that residence. And I told him, I said, Hey, what do you think you're doing? They said, you're a healthcare provider. You just passed me and almost went in the ditch. Doesn't say a word. And I said, well, I'm going to report you to the state. Doesn't say a word. So all that stuff I have on Dashcam as well. I wish there was, if there's anything you guys need from me or any video you need from me, there is, and I have letters from the Department of Health of stuff like this has been going on. I'm aware of the company that's out, I think they're out in Jersey that has been doing this, that has been investing in these properties. I don't understand why they're out in the middle of the county, first of all. If you're a healthcare provider with something like that, you think you want to be closer to a medical facility, hospital, or some city services instead of having guys walk from Mills County to Pike County with 45-mile-an-hour winds when it's 15 degrees outside. So hopefully something can be done with that.

Can I get your name, please?

Absolutely. Troy. My last name is Granger, G-R-A-N-G-E-R. That's my first complaint. Greg. Yeah. Stack of evidence. Yeah. No, absolutely. If you need, like I said, surveillance or anything, one of the things that reminded me of something else I want to talk to you guys about, you'll notice in 2023, one of the pictures on there, there's three dirt trucks to the left. When this guy was out walking in the travel portion of the road, throwing rocks at cars. And we're not talking rocks. We're talking big rocks. And I asked a health care provider in the van, I said, are you going to call them? Did you call the sheriff? He goes, well, we're not supposed to call them unless it gets really bad. I said, well, I think this is pretty bad. Someone's going to get whacked on this road. And he didn't do it. I did it. And the last occurrence they had here a few months ago, Same thing. They're instructed, from my understanding, what he said, they're instructed not to call because they don't want anybody to know. But these things are happening, and they're happening in our neighborhoods in front of our kids and everything, and it's frustrating. But in regards to the pictures with the dirt trucks on there, and I brought this up before. This is something for you guys to think about, and In some counties, in some areas, they have what they call an excessive use permit. So somebody is going to do a large project, and there's thousands of vehicles traveling on the road, that they can charge an excessive use permit for those trucks to be using those services. So if someone says, I want to haul, put 100 trucks on the road a day for six months and haul this dirt, and you go, well, geez, our county roads can only handle so much. And our taxpayers, we don't want them to absorb all that cost from your project. Maybe there's something you guys can do with that. I don't know, but I think something needs to be looked at because on 233 where I live, we have this house facility. We have the fountains. And then we have the GT porta potties, which now has garbage containers. And I don't know if you guys do traffic surveys and stuff. And the graders do the best job that they can on a scheduled route. But the ripples in the road and the traffic, I mean, when you're power washing your house and you're cleaning your front porch off with a blower a couple times a week, because I understand out in the country, you want to get dust on your road, fine. But when there is hundreds of cars or even, and it's not your standard stuff, these guys, in my opinion, they should be either do something with real estate. You have beer trucks, IV catering, Dr. Pepper, you know, you see the Dr. Pepper distributors or the Pepsi trucks go and buy. They're doing that stuff during the week going down to the fountains. So there's just constant, constant traffic. Now, if I'm three or four miles down the road, I probably wouldn't see but tractors and a few cars every now and then. But between these facilities that are doing commercial or industrial stuff and they're utilizing county roads and having excessive traffic on there for all these services, instead of being put in an industrial area, it'd be almost like having a shared driveway on the house. And I had a hundred cars going in one day and you guys didn't. And I said, well, Hey, you need to help me pay for half of this, even though I'm doing all the traffic on it. Well, if they're, if they're doing that much use on our roads and we keep putting more gravel and more service and all that stuff, and there's a lower cost is going up. Well, but, At least, you know, the businesses, they're utilizing it, but everybody else is picking up the bill. I don't know if anything can be done with that, but if you're going to have a business that's going to require a lot of traffic on a county road, can something be done? Can an ordinance or can something be done where it says, if you're going to have a business that's going to have this much traffic on it, you're going to have to pay more in tax, a business tax, whatever it may be, I don't care. something that doesn't make the county absorb all these costs while these dirt companies are using our road making thousands of dollars and while these other people are running their businesses off of our road the fountain you guys i would encourage you to put a traffic thing out there or i'll send you more video if you want but it is constant i mean these cars you can see five o'clock on friday here comes the cars for the fountains But during the week, like I said, it's all these other services like restaurants in town. You have your Cisco. You have your Pepsi. You have Bud Light, doll distributing. You have Hy-Vee Catering. You have all this traffic going on where these businesses are on a county road. It doesn't make sense, and hopefully you can do something. Thank you. Appreciate you coming, Troy.

Thank you.

Any other public comments? Moving on to Jacob. Consideration formal action resolution 26-19 to amend resolution 26-08 speed limit at 221st Street and Barris Road.

Okay, so this has been some discussion brought forward. And I took some time to talk with Greg Schultz. We kind of both agree. Assistant in my office, Kevin. We've driven it a number of times. I sat there and watched cars come by and It is hard for cars to get down to 35. I think a lot of them, if you slow down, they're not getting close to that 35. Even myself driving it, you have to really kind of, I guess, almost force yourself. Because if you're just letting off the gas and then coasting down, you're probably in that 45 range. So I think to match more of the driver behavior and to make it more realistic, it is still slowing the vehicles down. But we change the signs that are already out there, 35 to 45. And also especially, I think 35 makes a lot of sense when there is a lot of heavy truck traffic there and they're turning. We're in a period right now where I don't think they are hauling. And so that makes it even more difficult for people to go now. 45 at least gets people slow down and then they're looking. If there is a truck, then obviously they're going to slow down so that they need to. This resolution amending the previous one Changing those signs out from 35. Not moving the signs, just using the shackles.

Thank you.

Thank you, did your homework on this?

I would make the most of who resolution 2619 amending their resolution 2608 speed limit on 2021st Street in Barris. 35 to 45.

I will second the motion. There is a motion and a second to approve resolution 26-19 to amend resolution 26-08. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Motion passes. Final discussion.

Tomorrow is meeting for Deacon Road seal pill project. They have six o'clock in the annex. I really six o'clock. You had a lot of people. I really do not gauge how many people are going to be there. It seems like most of the comments on Facebook are just declaring that we should do these. So I don't know if they're going to show up and make that case. I'm going to send letters out to all the residents that are within the project area on Deacon. I've not heard from any of them except for one person. A couple questions, I answered them, so I don't know if he wanted to come in to the meeting still or not. We'll still do it, see who shows up. Nothing else than when people say, oh, I didn't know about it, they at least had an opportunity to come in and learn about our process, what they can expect. So that'll be at 6 o'clock. We've got a PowerPoint presentation and then open for discussion. All 63 still on standby. Last I heard they were sending test results or testing materials up to Minnesota for their periphery testing, I suppose. So definitely think we should have answer this week and then we can have direction going forward with. Still on standby. We hosted Hungry Canyons Alliance on Friday. That went really well. The tours and previous sites. And it's a greenwood structure that are those are good candidates for future projects. So that went really well. I am on the executive board for the board is invited to actually. I guess what you say witness the signing of the funds appropriation to under canyons by the governor. kind of interesting. You should be able to eat speedier. The past, well, as long as I know, usually we get about $500,000 per year. But right now, they're $1.3 million available for the games for great control structures. So we definitely keep that in mind as we go forward. Brainerd 10th Street Bridge, which Harry talked about, looks like we're going to apply for hungry Canadian funds on that and The Max is 160,000.

I think that's probably structural.

Other than that, we had a few trees come down with the storm. Please take care of those and they come across any one that are take care of oak as I said.

That's about it. Anything for me? I have nothing. Appreciate you gentlemen. Thank you. Oh, yeah. All right. I need somebody to comment. It's somewhat the same way.

It'll be interesting.

Greg.

I don't have anything, so I'll, for the sake of brevity today, if you have something for me, I'll come up. Otherwise, I'll just stay here. I think we'll just table that then.

Perfect. On to Amber Farnan, consideration for black and nullifying bid award for clerk of corporate innovation.

Yeah, so we're going to have to nullify the bids that we had due to the fact that any repairs or maintenance that we do to those like major repairs to the bathrooms have to make them ADA compliant and our bids do not include that. And we, so Chad will be working with the Attorney's Office to rewrite that and figure out what we're going to do. Or we have to wait. Because it would take some structural changes up there.

So we need an engineer or an architect.

We might need at some point, yeah. So that's a, I can get a motion to do that.

I'll make the motion to nullify the debt award for the clerk of court renovations. Second motion. There's a motion and a second to nullify the debt award for clerk of court renovations. Is there any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Motion passes. Consideration formal action. Second reading of Ordinance 26-01, an ordinance providing for the creation of Chapter 20 of the Mills County Ordinance is entitled, so it's huge. Greg had a meeting yesterday with an individual from the state who lives here in the county that has, in some ways, I would say,

some oversight. She had some questions.

Yeah, she had some questions. And her role is she has oversight over some of these homes in some ways, specifically with Medicaid and Medicare. So she reached out to us to talk about a few things. John, Greg, and I all decided it would probably be best to get in contact with Mike Galloway before we did the third reading. But we can do the second reading today and then just table the questions THIRD READING AND FORMAL ADOPTION UNTIL NEXT WEEK.

I WOULD MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE 2601, AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE CREATION OF CHAPTER 20 OF THE NORTH COUNTY ORDINANCES ENTITLED ADULT-DEPENDENT FACILITIES.

SECOND MOTION. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE SECOND READING OF ORDINANCE 26-01. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?

ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. All right.

Table number 10, next week, Board of Supervisors Committee Meeting Updates. I did not have anything last week.

Oh, I'm sure I did.

I just don't recall. Everything blends together.

I have nothing to report on. Any new business?

I do not have any. There are motions to adjourn. Motion to adjourn at 8.33.

Second the motion. Motion and a second to adjourn at 8.33. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everybody. That's just funny.