Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

All of the providers board order like the leaders.

I just to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic, which it stands under God is visible.

Hey, MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.

I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA.

CONSENT AGENDA. SECOND MOTION. MADE AND SECONDED TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.

AND MINUTES FROM THE JUNE 16, 2026 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING AND THE COUNTS PAYABILITY.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?

No liquor license renewal for today. None. We do have some tobacco permits renewed, right?

Yep, we do. Tobacco permits are due every year. They expire June 30 and then the new ones are effective July 1st. So we have on the agenda today, Lincoln Farm and Home 3, 6th Junction, Dollar General, and Tabor, Dollar General in Malvern and Lake Ohana markets, and East Stop in Anderson. And they turn in everything they need to turn in. They're permitting everything.

I will make a motion to approve the listed echo rent renewals.

I'll second.

The motion made and seconded to approve

tobacco permit renewals, Lincoln, Dollar General Stores, Lake Ohana, and E-Stop, right?

All those in favor? Thanks. Public comment?

Yes, Bonnie. Let's go, Bonnie.

Well, I want to thank Jacob. He already helped me with the issues on my driveway, so

I'll be in touch with him later. The landfill, do you know how long it's going to be open for doing free?

June 30th. Okay. June 30th. Two weeks from the date that it was put in place. It was put in place on 16th, so don't forget.

Okay.

Thank you. That's it.

Easy. Anyone else? It's not too long. Mr. Jacob.

You're going to have to purchase a greater.

This isn't a very big one.

You're going to have to purchase a greater total price over $127,131.08. This is the 46th bottle. We still have

The final price will be lowered because we don't have a trade in. So this is just to give us on the books, kind of have one reserved for us. Had a bunch in stock. They had a company coming to buy them all out. So I've read, why don't you guys just get it approved so that happens again, at least hold one for you. And when you're ready, this is out of that's been for a year. So we're not ready to make the purchase quite yet. We do expect, our trade entities that are around 60,000. We have 365,000 budgeted for fiscal year 27. We're right in that range. I was telling you guys last time there's a, down at the bottom on this quote, 11,000 for reversing fans. Talked to our shop foreman. We're gonna install that ourselves. Parts we're still gonna have, maybe 5,000, 6,000 in parts.

it on the total price just a cat or something yeah yeah okay we got all cats looking to still stick with them yeah my two breeders the price the one oh no no uh this is for fyi 26 27. do we want to make this an emotion so that the money is there or not

You can do a motion to approve ordering the cap from Ziegler.

I can bring back what the final actual number is after we get it done.

Because it could be after the first of the year or something, or you don't know when.

Well, yeah, all this money is after the... Right, but I mean, even when the equipment's ready.

I think this one should be ready. Well, probably later. was the price on that again four two seven one three one okay that's right i would make the question to accrue the purchase of the creator not putting any dollar amount with it right now

This is less than the order of that amount.

You put that in my motion. Let's trade in it. Yeah. The motion made and seconded the purchase of a new radar for the County Roads Department.

And the motion will state the price of $427,131.08 Less trade-in value, correct? Is that all right with you guys? Yeah. Any other discussion? How many years do you get out of it? I know I've asked you before, but how do you go by hours? How many years is it?

How many hours? Years? It's just an age.

It depends. Just the life sort of discussion.

Well, we're going to try to manage. It has a little bit, but it's not the one with the most hours. The one that has the most hours we did a whole kind of rebuild on.

I'd say six days a week. All those in favor? Aye. I'm carried.

Next is to approve the list of old equipment for auction.

We've got a list here that we'd like to put up for auction.

We're going to get $427,131 out of it. That sure would be nice. So we've got a number of things here. Trucks, the gray dolls that we're going to send down the road. We replaced those with our wheeled excavators. the operators just they like to blend more get parts easier and they're actually overall just cheaper so we're going to stick with those get rid of our gradles older just don't use it very much that's an older snow pile sign trailer things like that one of the bigger items on here is bob's cat skid steer if you remember we just purchased that one um from the gentleman down here off of t-20 verse

And so this is the one that's replacing, so we'll get that over. I'm going to bring in that one, 15 and 20,000. We'll see.

At the bottom two lines, we've got basically two quotes of auction sites. Southviews is 8.5% straight commission. Like Greenbeer is, it's 4% commission of 3% buyer's premium. I think, you know, we're kind of just preparing prices, trying to save money. So we'll probably try out. We've done helpings in the past, and that could be a lot. We'll probably try out microanderers this time.

Just gets a little bit lower percentage of fish in there. See how that goes. Mike, motion to approve this old equipment for auction using microanderers. Second. And a motion made and seconded.

He used Mike Brandeis as the auction commission.

And to sell the items listed above. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Sign 215th Street Bridge Plan. All right.

The final plans are submitted to the DOT for September 15th of this year. It's on 215th Street. It's north of Norris. We're down there right before the seal code turns to gravel. Turns into painted road. We're down over here in the south of Michigan. Yep. And we've been doing some green slab bridge.

We're all ready to go. So. But the 2 are probably over to. Yeah, no, we're probably for that September. Are you looking at November construction and on the contract? They would know earlier than November.

There should be the north.

we have that bridge barriers up whether it's a single lane or the center lane of course okay this is the one just north of cheryl's okay pretty well done harvest could be pretty well done in that area i'll make a motion to

the signing of 215th Street Bridge Plan.

Second. Motion made and seconded to approve and sign the 215th Street Bridge Plan.

Any other discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair.

Okay, general discussion, L63, wrapping up.

Essentially 100% finished this week. All that had left to do with the centerline rumbles and the eddy point rumbles. They cut in the nibble panels yesterday. They put a temporary pavement marking down on the edge just so that they know where to put the rumbles. Then they'll come back and paint all the lines at six inches. The center line, edge line, rumbles, and pavement markings are all part of that. And actually the whitening part of the highway safety sanitation program grant that we got for $500,000. Once they mill them, they'll put a emulsion down to seal that up. shoulder roof are completed over the weekend, so I'll be trying to present that here.

That'll be documentation, project closeout, all that.

With that, for general discussion, our crews did what they needed for the sinkhole that we had out there on 415th Street in Hutchings. We put in headwalls and outlets going underneath. We have A gentleman coming in that there's pressure grabbing, so he's going to cut in holes to the sides, pressure grout all those voids that happens from sinkhole in the water, and then we'll put back that in. We're hoping he gets here this week. That should be completed. Then he's going to move over to the greenwood structure on 340th near Donner. Kind of the same thing. The water's going under the structure, undermining along the sides, so get the water stopped, pressure routed a little bit. And that is something I'm going to have on our list for reconstruction and design in the next couple of years.

That'll be a structure that we get on the campus.

I'm working on that. We have an RV inspection, RV park inspection.

I'm working with that.

Make sure we're going to see if Base stabilization, happy with that. We've timed it right. Weather, we've brought it through time. Stock to a stable, this is if they won't come in. So it's most likely going to be August. I know people are saying, well, you said June or July. Well, we're at the contractor's mercy. They've got a lot of projects going. So if we could, we'd have them here next week. But that's just what they've given us. It's most likely going to be August.

Sure, Rick. Spray even as it is on the can. It's helped out quite a bit.

I think it's helped a lot already. Typically after big rains, we're always setting the grader down there for those potholes that pull up right by the bridges. And even those big gullet washers, we didn't have any potholes. We're already seeing them. Also out there on that big curve by Glover, we installed some chevrons. We had them just going one way, so now we've got them both ways, both directions. And then part of it to the north, kind of that curve. You're heading northbound for Chevron. So you'll be going fast this year. Yep. So we're kind of trying to anticipate that. Also at the meeting, one thing that came up is the man that lives out on Beacon, north of the Nature Center that has that little pond. She was concerned about cars going into there. So we just have some It's not really on a curb, so we don't want to put arrow signs, but we have some rectangle reflectors. We're going to install those just outside of our mow line. Just kind of get people ahead of time. On a normal day, it could be an issue, but, you know, low visibility fog, it'll just kind of help.

So, kind of implement some of those before we get to hard traffic. About all I got. Anything for me? Okay, next on our agenda is East Mills Child Care Solution, board member.

Good morning. Good morning.

Thank you for having us. So I am Megan Schnorr. I represent an 11 member volunteer board called East Mills Child Care Solutions. We have been working in earnest on this project since 2022. We opened the Lakeland Foundation Child Development Center of East Mills this fall. We had a wonderful open house with the Chamber, Mr. Crouch. We have, we are currently serving 40 kids. We are hoping to keep increasing that enrollment. We'd love to see numbers be at 60 or 70, but you know, it takes a bit, right? We hired 15 staff, so we are a major employer in the county, I would say. Not all of those staff are full-time. We probably have, I would say, eight staff that are full-time. rest are part-time voters, even have some nice seats, etc. I think that helps to offer a variety of hours to work, and that fits in with a lot of schedules. The Mills County name is on the donor wall and on a classroom based on your donation. I have been personally affected by it. My child attends the and that has allowed me to work more hours at my job, which is great, which is an economic boost for my family and lots of families where their kids attend. Some exciting things. We have a really, really great director. Her name is Brittany Rimmel. She's local to Melbourne. She doesn't have to drive to Omaha for her job anymore. She's now able to stay local. She's developed and worked with the foster teachers to develop curriculum. It's not just like play games and set your kids in front of a TV. It's active learning, STEM learning. For the summer program, they're going to be going to the pool. A community member has donated today for all of the kids to go to the pool, which is super nice. Mills County Sheriff has been out to do a presentation there. And I believe some members from . Presentations. I had talked to Waste Connections at one point to bring the garbage truck out so we can get those guys out there. So I just wanted to thank you all for the monetary support. I know you've been taking some heat on this issue. Um, but, um, I'm, I'm appreciative of that, that effort and would love to continue to see that support, um, from, from the front you make. Um, I also want to wish you well. Thank you.

No, I, no, we helped, I thought we should help Malvern out. The younger generation coming through here, you get stagnant, you need this for, for future health. I mean, uh, You take a look at all the houses they're building right west of you down there. There's already, I think there's five families moving in by the variation of decks, fences. It's very interesting how they're increasing the value of these pieces of property. But I think once that gets caught on, there are loads of moderate people. I'm sure we have families and things. So then they start building the regular homes. You know, in Melbourne now, it's looking for more land, purchase, build another subdivision, whatever, you know, and that's kind of hard to come by, but I think eventually they will get it done. It's nice to have an up-and-coming community like that, you know, a new school. They need to fill it, so they're having some issues with the, Sidewalk where to put them, how to put them. Yeah, yeah, no, I think I think Melbourne is up and moving and. I think it's going to be a great asset to the whole communities ground here.

So I'm glad you got up in the low to moderate piece. Just did a survey that was our. Charter basically is to serve low to moderate income families. We accept state assistance obviously and yeah, 55% of our So let's get the light up in partnership with the Head Start program out at Switch. It gets early education and size limits after that.

Yep.

I have no other questions. I sure appreciate you coming in and giving us your time for, you know, so that we know what we've been and what you're doing with, you know, what we put out there and people here can understand and see. So Thank you very much.

I'm not sure if you've been out yet, but let us know anytime.

If you knew it before, it was 17,000 square foot of board and mice and

at urine and all sorts of grossness. So yeah, I just love how you drive in now and see it. And it's just such a stunning facility. So thank you for helping us do that.

Good move. Okay. Next on the agenda is Gifty Louder. Louder.

So I came last week.

And kind of, you know, we talked about in my time here, about a year and a half, I want to help attract more businesses to Mills County, especially the empty spaces. I can go to anybody in my network and say, hey, consider it. There's nothing to back it up with the statistics. So, and this resource that I'm asking for is something anybody can use. Not, I just want to get a catalyst for it so that we can have something that if a realtor wants it, if If anybody wants it to use it, then we're the nearer. So just a staple piece of information, I think, that we can start to start marketing the region a little better than just, oh, it's a plain town to live in. But statistically, it's a good place to live, to work, and to be. So there are statistics that say when people visit, they're more likely to move here. So they can start considering starting a business here. We have so many entrepreneurs that are doing things within their home that they started to understand like how, if they had a solar front or investing locally, but couldn't believe just the whole economic stability.

I was able to go to the chamber banquet that would have been earlier this year. Yeah, earlier this year. And they had some of the statistics, of course. I think a lot of us were surprised. I'm kind of shocked, but it showed Mills County in a pretty good spot. So I'll make a motion to approve the request for $600 using local office sales tax convenient betterment funds to create the Mills County community prospect sheet.

Second.

Oh, yes, when it's, you make sure to email it to the foremost person.

I'm not sure how long it's going to take. I'm going to contact the state.

Absolutely. It was made to approve the $600 requested by the community projects sheet.

We'll go on to the sales tax. Is there any other discussion?

Yes. Do you want it to come from the current fiscal year or next fiscal year?

Current fiscal year. You can check for it first.

Hey, all those in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.

Next on the agenda is Rachel Reeves, City Invention Foundation. Revision is general resolution.

So we have been in search of now for about a year. I think that it's been pretty fruitful. One thing that we've noticed that we wanted to start the conversation on going into this year is redoing the guidelines regionally. Right now it is really difficult for anybody to actually access it. What you're seeing is the income requirements are extremely low. So even if they did, if they have, they do not qualify. So we're asking people to be evicted unless they can even access it. I think what we have been able to use it for is a lot of which isn't really what general relief is meant to be used for. And so I think what we're asking is just a few different things. Really looking at bringing it up to that 30% area median income, which is really in line with a lot of other organizations. I think it's in dollars. And so that would bring it up to about $7.79 for a single adult and $2,033 for the multi-purpose household. And what we'll also put in there is that they cannot be, they cannot be, they cannot have been traveling in some court for the last 30 days. So if they lose their job, this cannot be a stopgap for that. It has to be, like, you are in dire straits to do this. And then, unless it's, like, a result of what's been sort of documented. we would replace that must have applied for all available state federal benefits to applicants shall pursue benefits for which they are eligible, but recipients of those benefits shall not itself disqualify from that federal leave. We'll see that as one of the bigger barriers. So like that price point of what they bring in and then the ability to do access to those supports that actually allow them to stabilize and then show them to stabilize people is necessary, so this can really get people to that next phase. We don't see such cyclical all the time if we can actually bring attention to that stability. And then we would just add a stabilization clause. What we've really been looking at within the work that we're doing is not necessarily how do we solve the crisis in the moment, let's put that to itself, but how do we really get to that root of the issue and get them to stabilization so we don't see it as a one. And I think with that, we want to make sure that people get Whatever it is that would do any work for you guys with is being through the stabilization class. Make sure that. I'll generally need to do stabilization free of dust.

I only thought this I would still want to make sure that they have applied to other programs in there. I'm not saying that.

reported through those programs and they should be able to access them.

I want to make sure that in some ways that those are the first programs that they go after reporting there.

And so just so I understand, so when you're saying programs, are you talking about like? Talking about federal, state. Yeah, so we do that with them as well. So it's what we're doing to take and, you know, like you can qualify for staff or you can qualify you're not on Medicaid or you have no insurance, like, let's get you on there. Those are things that, that would then help them. I think the bulk of the people in these work groups actually help connect to CERCOP. So that way then they are actually able to stabilize their budget situation as well. So I think, yes, absolutely. We want to make sure that they're getting connected to those first and foremost. And so we would probably do a triage of like, making sure that they're getting support. If we can support them as much as possible, we will do that. And then this would still be that last resort. Just want to make sure that we get those dollars. That'd be a total last year, but probably just under seven grand.

What would you expect our budget to increase or decrease by doing that?

I don't know. I mean, I think that like, so we sat at 7,000, well under 7,000 this year. I think it would be comfortable if we could get it up to you guys between $14,000 and $15,000, $35,000.

That would be good. We are at $35,000 now. We're at $35,000 right now. And we have an accounting contribution. You said we're going to use $7,000.

Right.

And we need ourselves to be $30,000. Yeah. So I just want to make sure that we continue to do that. And let's say that our board is looking at us now, making sure that we're going to support

it's a it's a policy change and so i would have to if the board wants to we just have to put the sample one together and bring it back i'd be willing to have this come back i just want to make sure that we don't open it up too much yeah that it's still just for those who need it because i think you know we don't want to run into a scenario where we've reached let's say april in a fiscal year and we've ran out of funds because it's too open.

Honestly, like, it's not, it's a multiple check, right? So if they don't even meet the income requirements, like if they're making a minimum wage and they're working full-time, there's no way that they're going to qualify for general leave.

$1,779 for a single adult for three days is not good.

No, it's not. But when you look at disability benefits, you're looking at about that. So what I'm thinking about is looking at those people that are on those fixed incomes specifically elderly population that we have a high number of and a lot of those people who cannot help because they're fixed income what they get in such security is just maybe even ten dollars of what it is right now. So want to make sure that we can help those that are most vulnerable to the people that i care about and make sure it's important what's the purpose of including um they cannot be a student into the general program and he's just something that's always been um but when we started to use sort of a look across the state of like what our other general beliefs it was one thing that seemed to be a commonality i'm not sticking out i just want to make sure that you're using it for what it's intended for

Well, it hasn't changed much over the past 20-some years, you know, as far as the way it's been looking, so it's probably due time to increase some, you know.

In the universe of AMI, I mean, I think that's... That's what I'm saying.

You know, there's a few things the county has done and more people, elderly people staying at home and where they want to be. And, you know, we've done some things with public health and other organizations to keep them there because it's too expensive to go to restaurants. I mean, it's just, then they lose a lot of, you know, I was doing this myself and that, you know, things. So

no it's a tough situation to be in absolutely i know um you could talk about this as a action item to change where do we have our different departments now uh right now you have

As a net worth of 1,500 families, below 1,500 families, that's a lot better.

Yeah. And so even if they have, like, any sort of SEDs or even if they have measures or savings, so it's just changing the way we look at what they're bringing in each month. We know what they have in savings because I would prefer to have savings and then work with them. I mean, I think every person can serve each other much more quickly.

So it's not like this will exist in each of the people that actually access it, actually.

Could we raise the, it's $1,500 for assets now, could we also just include unlimited assets as well?

Whether we could raise, because $1,500, so if I have a $2,000 car as an asset, car is not considered it's not i don't i think that you can have one working vehicle but it's if you have more or if you go to home yep yeah if you're a family and you have two cars yeah one's worth two thousand the other one's worth fifteen hundred you're on i i'd like to see that asset limit raised as opposed to looking at income coming in for one i'd like to have oh both I don't want somebody to have assets of $5,000, $10,000.

Like we've had people that have had savings, and those are the conversations that we have to say, tap into what you have. If you're behind them, you're right, you need to get your back. So those are the hard conversations. You have to start paying privatizations to actualize. It means that something else that's not necessary falls off.

That's how it has to be.

Those are tough decisions for you and them both to sit down and make. No one likes to have privately things brought about.

They say, well, if you have this, sorry, you're going to have to do something with it. No, it's tough.

No one likes this. But if you come to me, it kind of gives me to ask a question, right?

No, if you want, we can put this on for the future and you work on what we brought up here. Bring it back so we got the figures to look at or, you know, suggestions from you.

Is there anything else that you guys want to see? And we can clarify about the benefits just a little bit more and make sure there's still remains. This is still a spotting lesson.

That's why it's so tight is because it is. I saw open open the floodgates.

I think when we bring that back, I'll also bring back a resolution regarding the burials, because that resolution has been looked at since 2006. I know. I think it needs to be updated to match the code a little bit more. So I'll probably bring a resolution at the same time with the changes in the burial assistance. It's not super clear, so I want to make sure we get that.

I talked to Georgianne about this, and she says, I just hate to be the one to bring it up, because she says, know right now we're getting by but she says it's it's tough on families you know knowing this is this is the alternative and but what else can we do yeah i mean you know it's that's a tough one there you know telling people this is all we have all we can do sorry i mean i think it's i don't want to dismiss that like it is good that we've been able to

That helped because those are people that. After that, and so I want to make sure that. At that still, but I want to make sure that also that we're helping.

Hey, thank you. Appreciate it.

Pastoral.

You're up next. All right, on down.

It means we're bringing the biggest ticket item.

We haven't surpassed it yet, so.

Thank you, Rachel.

So, by the way, I apologize. I went back Tuesday afternoon, did the email to Amber, and then I went back Tuesday, the next day, went back to work yesterday, and I went back in, and the email was not sent. It was just sent to my draft. So yeah, I guess the main question is, what do you guys think about the increasing the liability? If you want to do it, go from your, right now you've got $2 million in GL, bump it up, and then you've got $5 million in excess, so you've got a total of $7 million. I recommend at least 10 sides of your community, but if it's something you guys already budgeted and you wanted to maybe do what you I'll put a million at a time for the next three years.

You got also. Oh, and can you remind me of what the increase was going from seven to 10?

Yeah.

Yeah, basically it's about just under 4,000.

And you've got it on this year's premium looks like at $10 million?

No.

That is as is. And then the amounts down there is what you would add to that. So like I said, you've got $363,958. So I just figured I just gave you what it is per million dollar increment on the excess liability.

would we be able to increase premiums by, let's say, $8 million? So it would be an additional $1,350, even though it's already budgeted for. It would be budgeted for.

It's different, too, because some departments pay for their parts. So it's not all in one lump sum, one area. But I'll see what I question for in our section.

And I know when we talked earlier in the year, tried to give you an idea of what we were budgeting. And that's what I put, what we paid last year. Because we were estimating 5% to 7%. And I think we felt like that's not exactly what it was.

This is a annually, Craig? This is a annually, Craig? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, just a per million in. As you go along the page to see. It actually gets less along. Where you get it, wherever you get into that amount, but. In the event.

You didn't see the happens. Just one. Well, if we could do it, I'd be in favor of pumping it up to 8,000 this year.

We can budget them in, too, if we need to.

Let's try to find it real quick.

The premium went up $17,000.

We had $8 million or $9 million, $10 million. We went to $10 million, that's $21 million.

If we add up to $8 million, $9 million, it's $13.50 a year, right? Yep. All right. All right.

All right.

Of course, these numbers like this, 1350, obviously will be included into our price next year. And that would probably be under 5% to 7% increase. I mean, a 5% increase.

Yeah. On the excess liability, that part of it, I would see an increase of that under 5% to 7%. At 5% to 7%, we were going up a total premium. Yep. because we're trying to figure out amounts for you guys to budget for. We usually will have from the year before, and then we have, after we have equipment that's been added on through the year, we have an inflation guard where your buildings increase every year. So they stay within the parameters for replacement costs. So yeah, it's always part of a crapshoot

know but um they're i cast them pretty good about getting together what to buy on so sorry like you said we could always budget them in too so what are you doing a budget before we set the money sure

YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED LAST TIME, I WAS AT A WORKSHOP FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND THEY GOT INTO TALKS ABOUT THIS, AND THEY STARTED GIVING US EXAMPLES OF SOME PLANES WHERE THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY WITH $15 MILLION, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PRETTY MUCH LOOKING AROUND $10 MILLION. IT'S NOT AVERAGE, AND, YOU KNOW, School district might be a little bit bigger, you know, premium wise in the county, and it might, you know, it definitely has more exposure.

But, yeah, it's still, you know, you can bring out there and somebody gets killed, you just don't have a dollar on that.

So, the one thing about it is, I know this, but

I guess I wouldn't have punitive damages, punitive damages.

So that helps a little bit on things like this.

So like I said, the ICAP is focused on seeing several different departments. So I'm not able to look to see exactly how much was budgeted for the entirety because it's like Department 99, Department 70, 21, 22. So we have a lot of different departments that we spread that cost across. And they come from different funds. They have 08. So I can do some checking to see kind of where we're at. I'm sure we probably have enough to cover the increase in the premium. And if not, we can budget a minute before we pay for the additional premium.

And like I said, this is a job that I wanted to renewal. So you guys can link in with some more and then just let me know if I can.

yeah there's no way we can get it but yeah no but we can do the annual premium and then add and then do the budget amendment then just do that additional thing yeah we need to do it by endorsement i make the motion to move forward with a eight a dollar instead of a seven annual premium increase of 13.15

Okay, we have a motion made and seconded to add vote to $8 million and $13.50 to our premium. I think it was 371311.

No, it would be, before I had added $369.58, so you add that $13 to that amount. Oh, we got $369 here, so.

Yeah, we have $369 here. I must have hit the wrong key when I was entering that.

So yeah, it's 363.

For 363? Yes. So that is it. Yep. Well, yeah, then the total is six.

365.

I have this right now.

We're voting to increase the average to $8 million with a $13.50 increase, which brings the total price to $365,458. Correct?

Any other discussion?

All those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. Thank you, guys. Mr. Schultz. Good morning. I'm not sure if I said it. All right.

First thing for me. You see.

You'll get strata. She's gone through a process background for.

It's not position. Speaking with her, she will start until after the 1st of July. The July contract says the minimum to hire.

At this time, I would request that. But higher. Angelica down to El Estrada for detention officer and start date of July 6th, 2026 at starting wage of $47,000. I'm going to say there's three up to now. We still have three open. No, that's fine. No, that's fine. Okay.

The tension officer was turning with $47,000. Made the second to improve and like a product.

The tips and officers starting wage of $47,000. The other discussion.

All those in favor? Okay.

In the same lines, during the time process, do you have a second? I would like to hire her as a detention officer. Also, 47,000 dollars can be made July 6th.

I think the motion is to hire Janie Gaylord as detention officer with starting age of

I put you down already, but I thought. Yeah, I'm ready there. Motion made second into. Well, the sheriff died.

The salary of 47,000 on July 6th, 2026. Okay. And the next one is a formal request to reappoint the last chief deputy again. Let me have a cup of coffee.

His percentage isn't changing between... Chief Deputy's percentage is tied to my salary per aisle off. At 85 or between 80 and 85?

It's at 85, right?

Correct. And that goes back to a resolution years ago.

Chief Deputy would say 85 to 74. So this... Is that all right?

Most made second to reappoint Josh England as chief deputy. Salary rate of 80.

85% of care salary.

Well, 158. Three other discussion.

All those in favor. Oh, Gary. No, there's questions. I've got the ad.

I mean, yes, it could add. will not be in the office while we're traveling in the morning. Attorney General Redford and FBI Director Casper Teller in town. I'm going to go ahead and make sure that I've got the questions that I've submitted that we selected. Let's see how it goes. If nothing else, it would be good to hear the other questions from other This is for chiefs of police, sheriffs, and officers across the state. There are probably a lot of other questions. So be interested to see what they have to say. Friends from the FBI. I'll be traveling down there only at 9 a.m. The actual event is from 10 to 11.

Let's hope we have something fun to play about. Good to hear. Other than that, thank you. Thank you.

Can I get copies of the shoulders?

I'm actually going to call the show because it was awkward.

She said the link is not working. She said she can't get on.

Hello.

Hi, you're in the meeting. We're just talking about the link not working. Yeah. Okay. They might have to look at it. Okay. Okay.

You're on the speaker.

There's no doubt it's my fault.

Always differ to that.

Good morning, Deshawn.

Good morning, Richard.

We have on the agenda next is reappointment of Don Landon as deputy attorney, county attorney.

That would be my request. I make a motion to reappoint Don Landon as deputy county attorney. Second. Second.

Motion made and seconded to approve Don Landon as deputy county attorney for the next coming year.

Is there any other discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carries.

All right.

Thank you. Thank you, Sean.

Yeah, so now I'm going to report to the magistrate.

Okay.

And then Melissa's not here. Yeah, if you could, and then we can just, if you don't mind, we'll just skip to Melissa's. She's not here with us. So the reason we're doing this every year annually, we have to reappoint the deputies. And Melissa had already appointed her deputies at the last meeting for, but she also has a deputy for the driver's license, and that would be Shelly Martin, which you guys did approve that appointment, but it didn't have the right verbiage in the letter, which is the percent of salary, which is 85%. So we'll need another one for, yeah, for Shelly Martin to approve her as the driver's license deputy at 85% of the treasurer's salary.

Anyone here?

No, it's on the agenda. Yeah.

Here it is. the request of the appointment of ng raspberry yes is that 80 percent

It is in the next question.

I make the motion to approve the reappointment as Deputy Reporter from the 85%. Second.

The motion made and seconded to reappoint Andy Bradford as Deputy Reporter. Going up from 80 to 85%.

Any questions, concerns, board? None. All those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you, board.

Is that 85% too? Yes. Motion to reappoint Shelly Martin as driver's license deputy at 85%. We'll second that motion.

The motion is made and seconded to reappoint Shelly Martin as driver's license deputy at 85%.

Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor?

Aye.

So I'm asking for. I'm going to join us as three as HR payroll deputy at 85% of my salary.

The receipt of the grant. Maybe the most approved of.

Which made and seconded to reappoint As HR payroll deputy at 85%.

Any discussion? Not all those in favor.

We have Katie Dodge.

I'm asking for Rape Woman Katie Dodge as the election deputy at 82%. I saw where she currently is.

You said 82? 83. 83.

I'll make a motion to approve Katie Dodge's reappointment as elections deputy at 83%. Second.

Motion made and seconded to reappoint Katie Dodge as election deputy at 83% of the auditor's salary. Is there any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay. Consideration authorized auditor to cancel outstanding warrants.

So we need to cancel any warrants that are outstanding over a year. We have a list of them. So we're requesting authorization to go ahead and cancel outstanding warrants. Okay.

I think it's $200. And for other ones, it is $15,529.47.

Make the motion to approve. to authorize the auditory to cancel outstanding warrants.

Is there a motion made and seconded to approve the authorization of the auditor to cancel outstanding warrants? Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor?

Opposed? Motion carries. General discussion.

I don't really have a lot of general discussion. We will be turning our attention towards tax season and preparing, putting the levies in. I'm working on that in June, July, and August. And we are still in the middle of our Tyler meetings to get switched over. We plan to switch over, I believe, in October. A lot of things going on in our office, and then also we'll be starting to prepare for the general election. And each year we budget for a part-time health for elections, and this year we will be utilizing that. So I will be coming back in August, probably to get a approval to advertise for a part-time election assistant during that time period. There's just a lot of busy work that we need to be very aggressive in the office to help us out during that time.

Okay.

Next, we have consideration of formal action, resolution 2621, is made in the place at which notice and meeting of the Middletown Board of Supervisors shall be posted.

I did send a memo out about this. The state did make some changes to the open meetings law and made some slight variations to we posted our minute or our agendas and currently we actually we do more than probably we were supposed to but now we have to have it set each year where our official posting place will be so i created i didn't create a resolution i stole the resolution from another county who did it before we did um and then basically says that began on july 1st um we will have agendas posted in advance One area will be at the main public entrance to the left of the doors on the north side. And then also the employee entrance on the back side would also be on the left of the doors, that entrance. And then also I created a on the agenda that is posted out there as a ticket of posting. So that way, if they ever come back and say, hey, did you do this? Did you post it in the right place? When did you do it? So that they can go back. Because they're making it a little bit more specific on where they want them, then I wanted to make sure that we were following those rules and they decided to come back and take a look at them. And we also have to put them on our website, which we've already been doing. So this would start July 1st. I kind of rolled it out a little bit for this agenda. I'll do the same for next. And then at your organizational meeting, at the first year, you will then set them in place at that meeting. This just states that this is where they will be.

Questions?

related to this but not exactly for us but are all county boards going to be required posted online yep and in that memo i just put that in there um and then all right it does affect all boards um and then we just if they just put it that's going to go on the mills county website it's fine um and i i boarded it to all the department heads and then um i afforded to audra as well I don't know if you're on the department list or not, but I did. Okay, so I forwarded them and then just asking anybody who has a board to make sure they get to work on their boards. And then I did send it out to all the cities just in case they weren't aware.

Nothing with any sort of reporting, any changes in reporting or uploading of meetings on that.

No, there's that. The code is silent on and they were kind of silent on the website. Like we didn't have to do that and we don't have to, you know, we don't have to do the video.

We don't have to post it all, but we do to be, you know, extra.

I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 46-21, designated in the place of which is the most important supervisor shall be posted. Second.

Motion made.

Seconded. Approved.

designating the place at which notices of meetings in most counties for the supervisors shall be posted.

Any discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, I think.

Then I have resolution 2622, which is the annual budget appropriations. This just takes all the budgets and appropriates them to the correct department. Ask her for approval of that.

I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2622 for the annual appropriations for FY2627.

No comment yet. I'll step down and second.

Resolution 2622, approving annual budget appropriation for fiscal year 2627.

Is there any discussion on this? Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye.

Next is Consideration Resolution 2623, approving budget transfer for the year 2627.

This includes all the . If we approve this budget, or if we approve this resolution now, then I can make the transition as needed throughout the year, as long as they don't exceed the amounts that we're budgeted for. We do have, from General Basic to Secondary, We transferred budget transfer $203,744 from Rural Services, 2,855,000. And that is for Iowa. We have to give him so much Rural Services. So we meet that with that. And then we have to give 40% of loss to secondary roads, which would be $400,000. And then I have the tips in there with their lineups. I don't know if that's going to change this year to do that. I want to go ahead and budget for them. So we could do that. We need to. And then lodging tax we had budgeted to transfer 10,000 over to them.

That's what I'm asking for. Over to contribution, right?

Yep, yep, yep.

Okay. I'll make a motion to approve resolution 26-23 approving motion to transfer to fiscal year 2016.

Second.

Motion made and seconded.

to approve Resolution 26.23, approving budget transfers for fiscal year 26-27.

Any other discussions? If not, all those in favor? Aye. All those in favor? Aye.

All right. Lastly, I have the resolution that establishes the wages and salaries for unelected non-union NLCN employees for fiscal year 26-27. you know, resolution that we do, and then we have to publish it as well. We have to publish it on salaries.

But I think we actually publish, we'll publish this, but then we'll also, I think, we'll publish it just when you're 26, you know, sorry, so that they can see what was being published. Establishing the wages or just posting it? The motion to approve Resolution 2624, establishing wages and salaries for non-elected, non-union Mills County employees for April 26, 2017. I'll step down in a second.

Motion made and seconded to approve resolution 26-24, establishing wages and salaries for the non-elected, non-union Mills County employees for fiscal year 26-27. Any discussions or concerns?

Hearing none, all those in favor? Aye. Aye. Motion carried.

Next on the agenda is purchasing and installation of home-based Iowa signs. Jack, I think you is going to look into this from the last notes I have in my five weeks, minutes. what these signs are going to cause. And I do believe we have to have, like, the county engineer and the road department to fill them up, and also the state road department. There has to be anything there, correct?

Yeah, if it's on our right-of-way, then we can. If it's on theirs, GOP can.

I could be wrong, but I thought that you were supposed to go to VA to see where they had suggestions. Elizabeth and I couldn't make a connection, so if we won't, Wait a week on that.

I would like their input.

I just put back on next week's agenda. Okay, next is consideration.

Reference Emerson Mayor Larry Johnson recommendation to reappoint Bianca Honeyman as a non-resident

library board member for a six-year term for emerson city code 21-02 go ahead i was just going to say that i um they do have in their code that they have one large member um and that has it's appointed by the mayor with the approval of this kind of supervisors said normally we don't do this but that is another code and i believe we have done it in the past yes i'll make a motion to approve

Emerson Mayor Larry Johnson's recommendation to appoint Bianca Honeyman as the non-resident library board member for a six-year term for Emerson City Code 21.02.

Seconded. The motion made and seconded to reappoint Bianca Honeyman as the non-resident library board member for a six-year term for Emerson City Code.

Any discussion? All those in favor? All right. Opposed?

Motion carries. Okay, Survivors Committee meeting updates. I attended Isaac's golf outing. Had 128 players. Most we could have was 144, so we was pretty close to filling out the course limit.

Beautiful area to play in.

A lot of fun. I run a putting hole.

I can't believe people would pay 10 bucks to put a ball. But I guess if you're a golfer, it means nothing to give them one free shot and charge them 10 for the next. Oh, well, we made money on it. That was the main thing. But one thing that I did get out of our Isaac meeting the following day was that Isaac is going to sign up for all counties to use Amazon. Buy, order, they'll delivery. It's a lot cheaper than most places that we can find. So Isaac thought it was interesting to see that the counties could all get in on this. Save us some money probably. Another meeting I attended was Mission of Productions. We're battling with the state on pricing and taking care of clients. It's getting to the point where we don't care whether you do it or not. They're in your care. You have to take care of them. They don't want to pay what it costs to do it. I mean, we're looking at two to two and a half people per client in this one house. They will allow one, one and a half. We was receiving about 1,800 and something a month. Payments were now down to $785. For a person to have people 24-7, it's only going to get worse. We have learned or they have learned that. I hate to say this, they're going to redevelop. Places that take care of people like this production and stuff. The state feels that. It's time for them to step in and. See what they can control other than everybody just. I mean, you just feel the temperature in the boardroom after they go to nothing because. They have no idea what it takes to take care of some of these people. And a lot of them come out of institutions. You know, they don't want them there anymore. They want us to take care of them. Well, they're paying three people to one there. Why aren't we allowed to get paid three people to one at our facility? I mean, it costs us just as much.

So that was the issue that we discussed yesterday. I did not have any meetings.

Lucky who? Last week I had a finance committee meeting. I had to be a legislative executive.

Everything on new business. I asked Mr. Wyatt to step in to come down this morning.

I've had several people contact me wanting to put a moratorium on data centers. I'm going to have Matt come up or he can sit back there and give us a little lowdown on how we are protected right now and if it's a necessity to have a moratorium put on, but it affects Way too many other things in the county that you know could put a halt to it. And it is a hot topic across the state.

That's why I sent an email to you all because it's very trendy. So currently, as I said, Mills County is the most restrictive that it can be right now in regards to data centers that is not listed by news. So if a person or a company came in and wanted to cite the data center in rural Mills County,

Um, we're likely to start with Mark Norman development, right?

He's going to connect them. They're going to have to come up with a little supervisor proposal.

For us to add data centers into as a list of a new ordinance at that point in time, then we'll go for the planning commission, go up some language recommendation that on no permits could be issued because there is not listed until. That's the same for your battery storage facilities as well, too, right? It's not currently listed in use. So if a group came in and wanted to build one, same procedure. They have to go to Mark Norman first. They bring him up to you all. You guys are going to have to make the directive. Maybe we want to add this in or have the planning commission consider this. We'll go to the planning commission. The battery storage one is a little different because we have one kind of queued up ready to go. And then that's, I mean, right now, I feel like you're in a really, the county's in a really good position for it, right? To see a data center get cited rurally, I think it's a pretty far stretch. You're going to have to have a lot of water treatment after that.

The power in the area, it's another thing. You have to have the transmission lines to get the power to them.

So all of those things take years to build out for us. come to fruition.

So I think the biggest area of worry might, you know, we already have one bordering up here on the north side.

But if anything were to come and site in that area, more likely an annexation would be on the parts or something up in there. As of right now, rural, it's not a list of land use. There's nothing. So therefore, People contact me and say, hey, we should put a moratorium in place.

There's no need for a moratorium in place because it's not a list of land use. It can't happen.

Does that potentially stop you all from saying, hey, we want to put a moratorium in place? You could do it like this symbolically, but it's at that time then you want to have some direction and say, if you're going to put that moratorium in place, it needs to be for a certain period of time. It needs to have direction followed up, right? Like, hey, we want to establish day centers as it was designed in the county.

A comment was made by the Planning Commission not too long ago that kind of made a good point, too.

It's like, you know, if we were to go ahead and add it in there, are we then kind of opening the door and potentially inviting some sort of activity in that? So if it's not something that we're looking at, then I think it would be best to wait until after the meeting to propose a project.

We've got the power of the water to get it in place. Another thing, we don't have the emergency people to take care of something if something happens. That's the biggest problem. The meeting I set in on down here at NX a year or a while back on the battery storage areas and stuff, it's just plain. My theory is you don't set one next to an interstate and watch them blow up. like they do in California. It's ridiculous. They put them within 150 feet or right away, right up next to the fence. They have a video showing two semis going down the road and this battery plant blows up, blows the two semis, cross traffic, clear into the other lanes and stuff, you know, and the guy goes, oh, guess we shouldn't have built that. I mean, I think there should be a lot of restrictions put on, but I'm just kind of glad right now that we don't allow it. It's going to take a lot of planning to get something like that put up. I don't think Mills County is that poor.

I guess my question would be, and I just want to understand this through a hypothetical. So we can't have data centers due to it not being in our limits. why do we have a incredibly restrictive wind turbine ordinance or a height restriction so that those turbines can't come into Mills County as well? I guess my understanding is if we just couldn't have had it in the land use plan and couldn't have had it in our ordinances, wouldn't that have just taken care of the wind turbine? So how is that a different scenario than data centers?

if you're kind of understanding what I'm saying.

We wanted to, when that was said, we wanted to give the landowner the ability to put their own interment up. Their own small interment. Their own small interment. Okay. Okay. Go ahead. Our goal was to help the landowner. Yeah, and I was going to say it's a long term. Yeah.

I went up through, in 59 is some messed up and stuff, in 92 you can't hardly travel. So I went up through Atlanta to get on the interstate. And as you go north out of Atlanta, just before you hit the interstate, there is about a, I would say, 10 to 12 acre field that is completely full of turban wings. And I have no idea. Are they good with omens? whatever, you know, laying there, but, you know, I can't, I've never seen anything stockpiled like that before. It's kind of interesting to see what's going on around the county around us.

The mini one, the mini data centers, the reason for that is that they were, say, two years ago. I think it was something that died out quickly. There were a number of people

trying to look for places to set down one of those containers and then stack fans all over it. Make a lot of noise. They'll do, they'll offer any better. It's part of the practice. It's just no bullshit. And it's good for our McDonald's.

And then shipping containers from wall to wall, inside, purple battery components. There's no room. There's only room to walk on one end of them. And when they explode, you take a 3-8 chunk of steel. It's pretty thick to me. It's heavy, but it's like a chunk of shrapnel flying through the air. But I do thank you, Matt, for coming down and kind of bringing us up to date. I don't think it needs to be done myself. That's To you guys, I mean, as long as we are in a standpoint that it can't be done, any data center can't be done correctly.

Also, it's such an evolving industry. So we can put something in our ordinances and six months from now it can completely change. So even putting out restrictions is going to completely change. So it's better just to not put it at all for now.

Okay. Motion to adjourn at 9.45. Thank you, Matt.

Thank you, Matt.

I appreciate it. Motion to adjourn at 9.45. I'll step down in a second. All right.

All right. Thank you. I'm going to sign. Bye.