Remarks by Jeff Burrows
81 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“We put this position out, we advertise two weeks, hire a director. What do we think is a realistic timeframe for Westhouse being open for business?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“And who gets licensed? So like when we had prior entities running it, is it the entity that gets licensed or the house itself? How does that?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“overarching responsibility i suppose to make sure that the medical director is in place and that you know those sort of things the structures there i mean we have that stroke but this is a whole different model from subcontract to an entity to we now this is a department basically of the county where we're going to have a director and employees and staff to what level we can subcontract i guess is yet to be as far as these The director, obviously, the medical director, probably not a county employee. Correct. The mental health providers, maybe, maybe not.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“So the job description that's in front of us is a little bit incomplete, it looks like.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 13:49
“So supervisory's a new section you added?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“Did you tie maintenance in to see what their ability with their current staffing level would be to take this on? Because I think like West House, when they did, they had a dedicated maintenance person right there. No. No, they didn't. It's always been our responsibility. Because I heard about the maintenance person from... Western are aware and I didn't know what they were doing over there. I just when I talked to Nick he said I have to talk to Their maintenance, so I don't know what they were doing.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“There's probably gas over there too in Northwestern.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“So one of the big things we talked about when we were first setting this up was this ability to build back to Medicaid? Medicaid, correct. I don't see that in here, unless that's implied somewhat. Like, if that's a key, and I don't see it. There it is. Is there a page two to this?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“There's page four. Yes, there is. Two, three, four. Did you find the other pages? It's right in front of me. Oh, and the next page is below? I thought we gave you all the pages, Joe.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“Is there a software licensing for medical records of these folks? Is there a... Like I know hospitals keep medical records and there's all sorts of HIPAA stuff. Is this similar where patients of West House were tracking information in a database and were responsible for medical or records?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“Are we keeping track? Because I remember when we first talked, we had that cost sheet that was running, and Bill said we're going to make a whole bunch of money for the county through taking this over. How has that changed since we started? Just as you've learned stuff, like adding things like that, like, oh, we need a patient medical records tracking software, or has that changed much since you started down there?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the creation of the West House administrator. and to post the job description as soon as we've got it finalized.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“Mr. Chair, I move to approve pay request number five to Knife River for $415,902.96 and net gross receipts tax pay at $4,201.05.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 27:17
“That's a big question. This is two miles, and this is a third payment contract. If you contract it through federal funds, a million. If you do it. On our end, I mean, what could we average? A couple hundred thousand?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 27:55
“And you guys did a nice rock wall with basket along part of it. That looked good. That's beautiful. He was on his own for that. Hell.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“on making sure they have room access. Yeah, we have no idea.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 30:43
“But not exempt from evasion criteria, right, Rob? That's right.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 35:06
“Dequatro, it's the owner and they're the consultant?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
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“So it's just, yeah, I'm just saying, it's just a homeowner who submitted this stuff themselves.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 35:21
“Where's Sage Hill at? I was looking for it. I was just interested to see that. Oh, parcel 44, let's see.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 35:31
“I don't think you can search good astral black. What's the address? Do you know?”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 36:10
“Can you pull up the Yeah, so if you look at the access on that, the access is along the bottom.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 36:37
“Potentially, if they don't get an easement through the other properties.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 37:10
“Yeah, that's the problem is you just have no idea what the plan is for accident.”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026
- Play at 37:31
“So you don't know how far that distance is between – so right now, right where it says rebar, there's basically a road that goes north to serve a house, Sage Hill Drive. Then you don't know how far that distance is, so whether they meet – separation and sight distance and all that stuff so then they may have to share sage hill but then they're like our septic systems in the way of being able to drive around and get to or we've landscaped at all we don't want to tear it up so so they could Yeah, I mean, they would get the exempt well allowance for it, but you'd have to split the exempt well…”
Commission · Oct 5, 2026