Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

younger kids that probably don't have fire. I'll call the meeting to order. We'll do the flag for Tyson have a few words to the flag and the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Few reminders before we get going. Please state your name and title when you first get to begin speaking. Public comment will be allowed to the extent that it's on topic. Persons participating via Zoom are currently muted. If you have a comment, then please let Mark know via the chat function. Mark will then inform Chairman Trinko if we take up the comment in a manner that doesn't disrupt the agenda. And if an executive session is needed, then we'll mute and turn off the video. But when we're done, we'll turn everything back on. Heather, are you there? I am. Can you hear me? Yes, we can.

Okay. I just have one really short update. Well, maybe two, but um the first is about neighborhood revitalization. So, Tyson, just so you're aware, I've not received any communication back from any of the small cities after inviting them to the meeting Wednesday at the library. Um, I'm going to send out after this meeting another reminder email. I know that at least um Preston and Sawyer, their people come into the office at least two days a week and at least one of those days has passed. Uh, oh,

I'm going to take even though we asked for in the email to state you know, their desire to be involved or not involved. I'm going to take lack of response as an answer after multiple attempts at contacting. No response means nonparticipation. Is is there a date certain that we would want to we need to know by even if they do not attend the meeting? I mean, this is what I was trying to talk about in our joint city county meeting, like getting the smalls to do anything is we can't sit on it forever. I don't know what else. It's probably something we'll need to talk about Wednesday. Yeah,

if you do get a response, Heather, I emailed a I sent out an email tomorrow or this morning that I think Yeah, if you get a response, just forward that on to whoever responds. That way, they have all the information and the documents in one place as well. I was also going to send out a Zoom link so that if somebody can't come in person Wednesday, they can join by Zoom, you guys can hook up from the city. Does that sound like an okay plan? Uh, I don't know anything about the city Zoom. I mean, if if they do that, yeah, I don't

I've I've done it before for other meetings, so I'm assuming they can just set it up for the Zoom link. That way, if somebody's on the tractor or whatever, they could click the Zoom link, too, if they're even remotely interested. Yep. Yeah, I think he can do that. Okay. And I I went ahead and sent emails to some even smaller like the who did we send? All the airport authority and township. I haven't got a response from any of them either. Which airport authority participated last time? Couple of your entities participated last time. I'm surprised we haven't got any Well, I'm not surprised. I'm going to call you after this meeting about one of those entities. Okay. Um

catch up. Yeah, we'll catch up on that. That is really the only I had um I did attend also uh Department of Commerce is having they're calling them learning sessions about data centers. Certainly that's becoming a hot topic. Um there certainly there's not any one that I'm aware of that is interested in coming into the county, but Department of Commerce is having those those sessions for the pros and cons. Um they're quite causing quite a stir across the state. So with that, I'm happy to stand for any additional questions. All right. Yeah. There are those going to be recorded.

They've not been so far, but if they I do see a recording, I'm happy to forward it to you as well. I think that everyone has to get educated because there's a lot of misinformation, both positive and negative. If you see something, please do. Thank you. Yeah. Call me when you're done. Thank you. Thank you, Heather. Thank you. Thanks. Andrea. Yes. Hello again.

So, I'm Andrea P, the vice president of client services for Arrowhead West. I know Mike has already sent you our request for um this year. So, asked me to come by and give you an update of how things are going. So, um I think things are very similar to how they were last year when we were here. So, we still um have the housing on Eastland over a high and then um we're up to four clients in our non- agency uh residential program. So, they rent or own their own place. Um so, we're serving around 30 people in uh day in residential at any given time um throughout the year. And then, um we're averaging around 30 to 32 staff members right now through our adult services program. And um then we also have our of course our IT program. So, something very exciting this year for its is we were able to expand um another licensed professional staff this year. So, um being able to do that, we get to serve more kids. Um and so they're up to four licensed professionals that work out of our office here in Pratt. Um things at Bluestone still going well. We um are still have the six shredding contracts that we've had over the years and and so that still keeps the some of the clients very busy that want to work in addition to the clients who work in community settings and have a job um in town.

Thank you. So you're at the for an increase of 10% this year from 90,600 to 92,400. Yes, I believe so. We are experiencing a lot of increases in just overall expenses. Understand that we are too. Yes. Yes. We don't know where we're at on the budget yet, but yeah, we are working on it.

Yeah. Well, we appreciate all that you guys have done for us and continue to do and um from the first day we opened that helmet at Bluestem, I'm sorry, at Eastland and of course through the Blueest Stem Building. So, you guys have helped a lot get us to where we are and we're we're grateful. So, do the best we can. Yeah, nothing. We're always thankful. Yes,

it all helps. I mean, I think about where we started. Um, we were had clients who lived here in Pratt that we were driving back and forth to Medicine Lodge until we opened that property over in Eastland. And I remember for years we were traveling back and forth to the day program at Fowler. So one day the clients here who had just moved into Eastland, they'd maybe lived there a year, sat in the driveway and like we don't want to commute anymore. And us were able to do a lease with the teen center until we were able to start building the prop building. So, our day program out in blue at Bluestem has helped tremendously um give more opportunities for the people who live here.

So, yeah, I was going to ask Heather and I forgot if they were going to had enough votes to call a special session yet. That could affect our budget. I talked to Kyle Hoffman one day last week and he was going to let me know if he thought they Yeah, that's what they didn't have the votes to come back. It's coming. They're gonna Yeah. Something maybe not, but maybe next year. Yeah. Everybody kind of what we we hear.

Yeah. Would you guys have any questions for me about what we're doing or I don't have any questions? No, you guys usually do a really good job. Yes. Thank you. Manage your money really well. You Thank you. Thank you so much. We appreciate all you do. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah.

Huh? You want me to put shirts? No. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We got Yes, I do. Yeah, I know which one. Thank you. Now, I'm not saying I just didn't screw this whole book up here. So, I should That's all right. We'll we'll keep you in line. There's an appropriations tab. That way you guys can Is that where I already screwed it up like you said? Yep. So that was for the department and then there should be a tab for appropriations.

I guess I couldn't read, huh? That's all right. This is all new. We're all learning. Appropriations. Um, it should be the green. Yep. It should be the like the line or second one. Yep. Sorry. Yep. So, we'll just stick it right on the back of this. There you go. But those are all your other appropriations from everyone else. Thank you very much. Yeah, you are welcome.

We have all those. I'll do the other side. Sorry, Tom. I didn't want that to get by. Well, that's fine. Tired of saying that. Yeah, I think we're good. Thank you. Yes.

No, I don't have too much for you. I'll just let you guys That's Roden Bridge and Lake. That's a They're in there. They're in here, aren't they? That's what I'm looking for. He's giving you this. I gave you the lake. Gotcha. Uh, okay. So, there's only really one question. Everything there just pretty much stayed the same. Um, other than the issue of whatever happened in those years. So, um I think

item that came out of uh the Well, we're thinking it came out of no cash reserve like on 2025 he had a 15,390 cash reserve and a 38750 capital outlay. And I'm thinking that those two didn't translate over into the 2026 budget. Yeah. So we're looking at what 15 17 something 30 something

short from where we were last. I think it was like 28 or something. I looked at it 30 I think. Right around 30 give or take. So in 25 it was 124597 and then it went down to 74149 which is 50 50,448 difference. How' they screw that up?

I think it's that your 110 number that you put in front of us today is what you need to operate. Yeah. Yeah. We've been So 110 for a long time. Yeah. In the prior years, I think you would say I spent right around 93. Yeah. Your actual for last year 97 98. Yeah. So this year at 70 is going to be a general year. I don't think it is. Lake is outside of general, isn't it? Lake is its own fund. Yeah. pretty sure.

Well, even if we transfer money over, he doesn't have the budget authority to spend over that. That's a big problem. Yeah. Lake has his own own fund. Whether we have you talked to Scott about this? I haven't. Have you? Well, I'd start there. That'd be the best start. That's what I do. Well, we just found this last week. Yeah.

And then, of course, I was just getting back from conferences, so my whole life moved. We never touch, you know. I mean, I don't even look at it because it's always the same. Yeah. I just I think there was a cash reserve line item a 30 something and it never got basically put back. So it was that capital outlay and the cash reserve take that away from that get you down to that 70. So because the capital outlay was supposed to be moved up into factual I think it was I mean I really think it was just clerical in my opinion but then here we are caught it. Yeah, I told you she

took me five months in to catch it. My apologies but I was looking at that going this don't look right. It won't be the first time and the numbers are right that are on his the budget proposal. The 74 number is right. It was inputed right. Yeah. Yep. I'm looking at his budget from last year and his proposed budget is 74149 off. Pulled off. Yeah, that's the first thing I did um was pulled out the budget, our final budget, and made sure that it was correct. But I I figured it was because I balanced

because it looks like current year estimate for 2025 was 70 and then they have 74 and then the year before it was 98. Yeah, this is totally a Scott deal. We need to get with Scott figured out and we'll figure out how to address the I mean the commission can spend out of their line to the extent they need to spend out of their line. That's fine. I just wanted to bring it up being it or like you know some of the improvements that you've been paying out of your lake item in the pal could be capital improvement if it's a larger.

Speaking of have we heard anything about uh roofs? He was in town Wednesday. He has your cell phone number. He's supposed to be getting in contact with you. Has he? I mean, he looked at them. Oh, I have not heard back. Okay. No, I would assume that they're probably swamped. Um, well, he said that there's So, there's three roofs out there that are shingled. The rest are 10. So, we didn't worry about cosmetically, but um there's a shelter house and then two small

I don't even know what you'd call them. Stand under to fill out your paperwork. Just little awning things. So, there's only three two very small roofs and then a a larger one. And he said they he did call and say that they were tore up pretty bad. So, I'm sure they'll be a shingle on the metal ones. You said cosmetic. Did it pop with paint? No. Okay. No, he said. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So that's where we're at on the hail job. Anyway, he has looked at them and just said that the shingles are bad, but the tin stuff's just cosmetic or just looks. So I guess we'll hear back from

Yeah, he'll get in touch with us. One of us, I bet I hear from him, I'll let you know and vice versa. Okay. But I haven't heard anything yet. Okay.

But I'll forward anything on that I receive. There's a road. Yeah. So you'll see first off one of the bigger numbers is bridge. I I put that in there last year too, but it didn't get really on the bridge even though I had my budget authority was almost the same. The line item for the bridge wasn't there. But nevertheless, the Coat's Bridge or what I'm going to call the Coats Bridge will probably be paid out either in December or January depending on the time. I'm going to assume January.

And that's a reimbursement. Yeah. It's a 8020 or so we'll have to pay it. Yeah. But I'll get reimbured. Uh 80% let's say that's one reason. Yes. Got you. That that would be another thing to make sure Scott knows like that that needs to be there. Yes. And so I was the total number is correct though. Yeah. Well, it's just a smidge higher. Yeah. I mean talk over last year. Yeah. Well, we need to talk to Scott. But yeah. Okay. Keep going. Sorry. Exactly the same. Yeah. I mean it's this year

no it's 5118 and it's 5479 but so my other question was if you take the cash cash and put it and put it on there it's still not 700 but you take the cash out of that if I take the cash and apply it or take it away from this. You're still pretty close to last year. Is that Yeah. Or did I think of that backwards?

You've got it in there, but we're getting how much of is that our share at 700,000? It's going to be almost the cost of it. So, I will pay all of it and then I just get reimbursed the 80%. Okay. But I don't remember what it bit up. Well, it was probably closer to 750 to be honest with you. Total. Yeah. So, they're estimating. Yeah.

But if you put it with 27 and you get reimbured, we don't know what our share is, but you still got to pay for the whole thing. I still got to pay for it. I guess what I'm saying is I still have the spending authority to pay for the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that's why it's in 17. Yeah. Because if not, we'd have to And you don't think you'll pay that out till when? January. Next year? 27.

Yeah. Yeah. That's why it's in here. So, you got the spending authority to do it even though we're going to get most of it back. So, gift on top of that. And I hated having a couple projects run together, but I think widening of the buyer black top that's going to be on there, too. Now, our share of that is right around 130,000. So, I just happen to have a couple projects that are going to hit in the same year. Yeah. And that's a 1.1

reserve. Yeah. That's a $1.1 million project on Do we have to pay all that up front or We do not say that one's a uh 8020 maybe a 9010 but with that being said it's a different program where the state is actually going to fund it. All we have to do up front is our 10%. Which, like I said, was like 130 give or take. That's not bad. So, yeah. Out of 1.1. Yeah. And I like it that the state's going to pay rather than us paying up

coming through here. Yeah. It's just part of that program. It's just how that one works. I wish they all work that way, but And obviously you see the asphalt and things stayed the same. I'm going to be honest. We're probably just going to do less because nothing's the oil went up. Fuel went up. Yeah. That's why I don't know if you I don't want you to seem to raise it any but you think fuel's gonna be that cheap.

Well, I just You know what? Yeah. Say nobody knows. I mean, we've been at $4 diesel before and he did all right. Okay. That's fine. I did. Okay. Gotcha. It's not I mean, we're at five now. Yeah. It's not ideal. I don't know that we'll stay at five. Yeah. Again, this is wow. We all know this is just a a best guess scenario. Your fuel have be used through the year. How much do you have? I didn't have I don't have that on that sheet. So, as or did I not fill that part in 54? Here it is. 454 54,000.

So far. So, you've used more than half. Well, no. That was last year's Rick. No, that's 2025. Excuse me. 167,000 basically, you know, so far this year. Yeah. So, if you compare I mean, if I was good, I had some room last year. So, you know, it'll probably take up that room this year if that's the way to see what. Yeah, I'm sure it'll close that gap at $5. I'm sure it will, too. Because I know last year they said it was right at 332 or something was is what some news reports say a year like going back a year ago.

Yeah. That gap will close up and fill up very fast. Um but no that again that the oil and stuff obviously went up. Uh rock went up 3% to the mix. just I don't have to tell you guys this, but I didn't put anything major increases in in any of that. And I guess what I'm saying is we're just going to do do less less. Yeah. Down to three miles instead of five. Well, yeah. I mean, yeah. I just want to make that clear. I you know Yep. So

understand because I'm I'm sure you know sheriff's department their gas probably is moves a lot too but you know with us fuel and road oil is our bread and butter. Yeah there are and that's one two things that it's affecting terribly right now. Yeah. I went up last time your fuel bills are like 60 $70,000 a month. That was been I see that. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty good this time either, which makes me feel good when I'm pumping irrigators.

Well, I I probably told you a semi load, a tanker load does not get us at the shop does not get us a full month. It's short. I can believe that. And that's not counting the barrels out Y out in the country. No, I can believe that. So, a dollar increase is it hurts. Hurts all of us, but you know, I didn't want to get crazy on numbers cuz you know, if it ain't there, it ain't there. So, just know that. Appreciate that. Yep. Just know that we won't make it won't

when the complaints start coming in what we could do and what we have. It doesn't go as far. And Scott touched on that specifically too at our budget meeting just that road departments across the state of Kansas are just having to do less or going every other year instead of every year. Yep. So he did mention something to the city about that. They need to be getting with you on that so we're not overbody. No, no, that's supposed to be happening. But part of me

part of me would just like getting away from it altogether, but I don't know how everybody feels about that. Well, nobody helping them out, but they got to help us out. Let us know how much they think they want. Yeah. They don't want a thousand ton and Yeah. And it and and it changes. Let me be, you know, there's been times they wanted five and maybe they got four, they'd been want eight and they got six or this year they talked a thousand but got 250. Now that's been the biggest gap. Yeah. Again, the others were pretty minute if that's hard on us on our Yeah. Yep.

They act like they were going to correct it and I believe they will, but they don't. We'll get on make sure that gets passed to you. Yeah. No, we may ask in May, April. Um, yeah, this year it was exceptionally early. It's made. So, uh, he's done on that note. So, you've used still have about 300,000 left in your asphalt number. Is there going to be anything else that goes into that the rest of the year? Yep. I'm not even sure that's going to cover me. That's why I asked. And when will that happen?

In the fall, we'll go to sealing. So, we just squirt down oil and cover it with sand. And then that's we try to run about three tanker loads a day at $20,000 a load. Now, pretty fast. I don't think anybody Yeah. Yeah. Tarpentine. Can we water it down? Can we tell blue lady a little water in it? Yeah. I might have exaggerated a little. It might be closer to 18,000 rather than 20. But that difference. Yeah, I get you, boy. Yeah. So, three loads a day

is what we can go through when we're doing that ceiling. So yeah, it doesn't sadly it just doesn't take long to get rid of it. Yeah. So no, that'll be in the fall to answer your if I didn't answer your I got it. That's a fall process. That might have to be regretfully backed up some, too. It was backed up last year, wasn't it? Yeah, that was just a time constraint. They were not making oil and closing up. But yeah, no. Heft left his plant out here last fall when they did the ethanol.

So he just got us first. That's why it's already made and done. He didn't have to move in. He was already sitting there. Put a lock on it again. So anyway, um we did start mowing if any last week I noticed we didn't have very good luck out of the gate. ruined some tires and found things in the ditches, but that one looked like it was ruined, was it? Yes. Had a big gash in the sidewalk. Yep. Yeah. Yep. So, it wasn't a good start, but we are started. I've seen about why in our area was known.

Yep. Any questions for me? Did they say when you're going to get your Dowers? Was that later in December, too? It was a tractor. They're hoping August. Okay. So, I don't usually when they say that we we welded a lot of sheet metal underneath of them to patch holes. I I can't believe how bad they were. I really needed to buy four mowers, but again, I'm trying to trying to make them last. Yeah. So yeah, we just bought some flat metal and cut it out and welded up underneath and patched holes. Understand?

But your mechanic feeling better. Yeah. Yeah. I won't say but you know he had surgery. Okay. Okay. Nope. a sick guy. Yes. Anything? I don't have anything. I don't No. Well, if you have any more questions about it, just call me. But find us some more money. Yeah.

Quit losing it. Start finding it. Find somebody buy 750 yards of the tons of asphalt. Yeah. And then we can sell it to them. Sell it. Yeah. Yeah. Well, sadly, that's still not a big I understand in my in my realm, in my budget, it's still Yep. Yeah. Definitely a whole bucket. Yeah. On that see if they can trace it. Oh, yes. On the on the lake. Yeah. Somewhere else and they forgot to transfer it over.

I just wanted to have this conversation so you guys knew. And I I had had it with her and like I said, last week was busy. I was gone. Just it all just kind of come up pretty quick. But and again, my apologies for not seeing it for five months. But in my head, you know, I got this whole thing. Everything stayed the same. So I just shuffled. I never even looked at the light. You know, it's not that big. Y didn't even look at it. Yep. You saw the changes to the other ones. That's and when I started studying it, it didn't add up. And then I thought, well, she can add it up for me. And then she was having trouble adding it up.

Yeah. We started digging. I'm like, no, that's not right. Thank you, gentlemen. BJ.

All right. Good morning, gentlemen. I guess it is. I have no clue what time it is. Neither do we.

Well, so I was invited here to talk about comprehensive planning. Um, so from my investigation kind of looking, you guys never really had a comprehensive plan before. Um, it's really what comprehensive planning is. It's a 20-year period of talking about how we're going to run things. That's really what it comes down to. It comes down to basic things. We'll look at planning and zoning. um when so the last time your guys's planning and zoning rags were amended or really changed was 2012. You had some energy amendments along the way, but there it's a traditional style. So you have your three base and then you'll do some conditional uses in between there, which is perfectly great actually for a rural county because you don't really need that much. What you really do need is talking about that is from my observation is more of online way of overlays. We do different types of overlays depending on what we're looking at. So we can have some energy development overlays, agricultural pres preservation, economic corridors. So we do corridors usually along highways. So we got 54 obviously

you do basically a corridor half a mile on each side. try to you don't limit whatever is there now, but any new development you're going to try to limit to go along that corridor, either agricultural, industrial, however you want to go. Other things that we look at are housing. Um, housing is a big thing, but most of the time that's really dealing only with the incorporated cities. You guys have seven incorporated cities. Pratt being the largest and Pratt's gonna be from what I'm seeing is about 65% of the county's population give or take. Um we look at population trends. We'll do demographics. So your estimated census numbers for 2025 is a down about a tenth of a percent from 2020. Um so we don't call it stagnation, but we're just calling it straight level out. uh looking at about for housing have about 3,500 households throughout the county give or take. Uh most of your population is going to be centered around two groups. So the 65 to 72 year old range and the 36 to 44 range. Those are going to be probably close to 40% of your total population and especially your voter population. So the other things we'll look at is transportation and things like that. Really what my goal here is to talk to you about what your needs are and to tailor what we can do based upon your needs. So we have lots of different things we can do and we can chop it down as much as we need to from time to time. So uh currently doing comprehensive planning in Crawford County which wants the full kitten kaboodleoodle. We do surveys, we bring in public stakeholders. We'll come in and talk about it. We'll do public hearings,

complete revamp of the planning and zoning regulations, everything from the beginning to end. You're looking at a 18 to 24month period of where we're going through and we have these types of public hearings. So, when you do new P&Z, you obviously have your planning commission. We'll go through, we do work sessions with them to outline what we need, what we see in the future. will do overlays. Um, I don't necessarily think looking at your planning and zoning regulations that you really need an overhaul. That's the positive thing here. The real question is how much stakeholder information you want into it. So, lots of times these start with surveys. Uh, and we can do lots of different types of surveys. We can do targeted surveys, excuse me, where we can send it out to almost what we call a straw poll. We'll send it out to 10% of the population and try to get sort of a feedback based upon that. There are some counties that want me to send out a paper survey by mail to every single taxpayer in the county.

Yeah, that that adds up really quick. Yeah, that's a big expense. Um, so a lot of our biggest expenses in these come from drafting time and it comes down to how much information we want to draw in. Yeah. And that's the real question. Yeah. I just want to make sure I'm understanding that. So the city has their own planning and zoning. Yes. And they do a three mile wide outside city limits. Correct. So, we would just be pulling people outside of that.

So, anybody who's not in the seven incorporated, so if they're in Preston, Sawyer, uh, buyers, any of those, if they're incorporated, we leave it out unless we have a strategic agreement with them to do everything. We don't have that agreement. So, we leave them out of it. It's really our actual rural residents, which is about 3,200 people. Yeah. um that's really where our voting block is. Um and of that you're looking at closer to about 1,800 that are actually old enough to take a survey. Um

so taking out kids and things like that. The real planning in this would actually come down and talking to stakeholders.

So we have the area chamber of commerce. um that's usually who we start to to look at what our economic plans are going to be. Um we have the state holders. So knowing that this is a wonderful election year and our our commerce secretary is not running for anything or won't be involved for anything as lieutenant governor. Secretary Tolen is kind of I don't want to say he's checked out. He's still very much engaged but he understands his limitations. um working with him on some of the other uh counties, we we really try to pinpoint what we can do and what we can't do. My goal in doing comprehensive planning is not just to give you with a nice fancy book has some pictures in it and a bunch of gobbledygook information in it. I I like to actually sit down with the stakeholders and figure out actual projects that we can get accomplished in the next 20 years that will either boost the economics, preserve something, or all the above

and then figure out our path to get it there. So, a great example is uh in Crawford County, we're working on trying to boost economic corridors, but part of that is working with Senator Moran's office, uh, Congressman Schmidt's office to get a federal outlay so we can actually afford because brand new road, expanding road, $2 million a mile. That's your base cost. If we're doing any type of drainage or anything like that, we're going to add on 500,000 plus per mile. So, we don't have grants that are going to cover that in the state of Kansas. And if we do, it's not going to be a grant. It's going to be revolving door loans. It's going to be everything else that goes along with it, but it's not going to help us pay. So, we have to figure out how we're going to coordinate with the federal government and whether or not we're going to go to Congressman Mann's office and say, "Look, this is what we need. We need you to support this." Then going to Doc Marshall, going to Moran's office and asking them to join in so we can preserve something. So, that's my goals with comprehensive planning, but it still has to base on what you guys need. Uh so that's my first question to you for me to give you any real information is to look at what you need as a county. Um so there are the hot button topics in the counties. Um I've heard one of them thrown around today. Data centers are are are big thing. Uh Lieutenant Governor Tolen just gave a pretty interesting little uh talk about them. Um, we talked about the pros and cons of them and there's counties

that are not too far away that are trying to jockey to decide how they're going to deal with it. Uh, Pratt could potentially be a a place for it because of your pre-existing wind and solar uh projects. Most of the time we're seeing data centers that are associated close to those projects because they'll do strategic agreements for that energy. Problems that we see is counties counties want to control some things that we don't necessarily have a dog in the fight for. So things like water, Kansas water office is always going to preempt us out of the way and we're not going to really have a dog in that fight. But we can make setbacks. We can do things through the planning and zoning part where we can control our part of it and make sure that there's setbacks, proper overlays for where we want it. If we're going to put it at a certain place, it's going to be where it's not going to affect water tables or anything like that. Um, so those are some hot button topics. You guys already have wind and solar, so it's not necessarily a hot button topic, but how we want to regulate it or how we want to plan for it in the future is another thing. uh the next era project that's out here. Um there's no at least from my research there's no major planned uh project that I see coming in outside of another solar type uh looking and exploration but how we want to plan for that in the future. Those are things that we do in the comprehensive plan and how we look at what we want to do. And then the last thing we do is we talk about tax incentives uh for economic development. Do we want to have an industrial growth area? Is there a industry that we think is prime here in Pratt that's going to be uh something that we can use and that we

can not only bring in population but bring in tax dollars, bring in economic and job growth to the county. So those are the things that we talk about and that's where the information gathering part of this comes in. We have public hearings. So any comprehensive plan deals with public hearings. So we've got to go through we'll have planning and zoning hearings. Um, yeah, we just did a battery storage for that one and I've been told there's another solar farm coming in, but

it's I I' I've heard the exploration part of it. Um, so anytime that you're exploring a project, you have to give some notice to the Kansas Corporation Commission. So they put out some information of areas of exploration concern or exploration possibilities and plat is listed for that for solar. Um so that's really what we're looking at is the things that we know we can control now, what we think we can plan for the future and how we see ourselves in 20 years. So the last thing that comes in this is visibility. How do we want the community to look? So right now we're primarily agriculture.

I think really you probably ought to start with economic development. That brings a lot of the stakeholders together, wouldn't it? Yeah. Or is that something different than what I'm thinking? No, I think that's part of the intake process. I think Heather being involved in this too would be Heather's our economic development person. She works at the state level and she does all the local stuff here too. Um, and she mentioned something was it that K dot did a transportation study for 60 how Pratt was going to improve in by60 or something like that. Yeah, she actually presented state materials. I don't know remember the name of

several weeks ago. So we call it the Kansas growth report. Okay.

Kansas puts out economic growth reports. all in different regions um about how we look at growth. There's certain areas that Kansas focuses on more than others. Um so Kansas has always been a major aerospace player. So aerospace and manufacturing is always going to be one of the top of our exploration energy development is going to be another one because Kansas is one of the top wind producing energy. We're still in the top 15 of fossil fuel production. We're still heavily involved with at least usage of coal, not as much as we used to be, but we're still one of the top energy producers. And so those are the types of areas that we look at.

Uh they do corridor reports. So I always go back to eastern Kansas because I'm from eastern Kansas. A little bit harder for me. Um corridor 69 highway. They promised for about two decades that they were going to widen 69 highway from Overland Park all the way to Pittsburgh uh to four lane. They finally accomplished that. Not quite fully to Pittsburgh, but almost 26 years later. Sounds like it's supposed to go here.

Yeah. And that's that's kind of how the state of Kansas works when it comes to transportation corridors. The next thing they've been promising is that 400 corridor will open up southern Kansas for everybody. We'll wait to see what that happens. Yeah. If it ever happens. If it ever happens. So be in our lifetime.

So those are the things that we're looking at. What I need to know is what you guys are looking at. So there's always a purpose behind comprehensive planning. Sometimes it's just to get one done. So, how does comprehensive planning work so with once we have it? So, it it's supposed to be kind of your guide book of how you're going to do future projects, where you see areas of concern. And we try to look at grant funding, loans, tax expenditures, appropriations, everything kind of based upon that. But what it really works is the rule book for your planning and zoning. Uh how they look at things. So if you look at the golden rules to do conditional use permits, the last one is always in coordination with your comprehensive plan.

Yeah. On ours. And the reason why they do that is that We can deny things based upon whether or not it complies with our comprehensive plan

because what we're trying to do is create an orderly fashion on how we're going to grow because I always bring up the classic um the there's a great case that happened in Wabuny County where he had a strip club that wanted to open up a quarter mile away from a country church and their planning and zoning didn't necessarily cover that and they didn't have a comprehensive plan. And so when they went to go deny it, the Supreme Court overturns it and says, "Well, you don't have a comprehensive plan that you can fall back on because that is your fall back if everything else fails."

This is what I say when I say, "Well, they've complied with RA." We don't have we don't have anything else other than RA. Gotcha. So if that situation were to develop, we're not encouraging that development, but you know, that's the type of situation you could be in.

Yeah. And so that's where we go. That's the other part of the comp. It's your fall back. It's well, if everything else fails, it still has to comply to this. And if it complies with that, well, then we don't have any basis for it. There's the new Senate bills that came out. One of the big ones they tried to push was to limit counties abilities to deny things that were already applicable under their regulations. And the one thing that we could use to fight against having to automatically check off on those things is whether or not we have a comprehensive plan and say that that doesn't fit with our orderly growth of things. And so those are the the overall reasons why we do it. Let's talk to practice brass tax for county commissioners. It all comes down to the checkbook. What does a comprehensive plan cost? Depends on what you want. There's a Cadillac and there's a board pinto. There's some stuff in between. It depends on how much you want and how much you need. You don't need an overhaul of your PNC racks. So, that takes a huge amount of what would actually cost in a planning and zoning. What would really come down to is I would do a few overlays to supplement the comprehensive plan to make sure that we had some regulation that complies with the comprehensive planning. The big part for your comprehensive plan would be the meetings for the stakeholders running through and doing public hearings. Now, there's two different ways. You guys have a county counselor, which is great because there's always the possibility where I can do it or a county counselor can do it.

He's gonna do it. And I'll tell you why. Most of the times, even with county counselors, they want me to do it because they got so much going on. Well, besides that is that you really want to have sort of a blockade between your P&Z and your county commission. Understand? And and that's that's where you hire these fancy guys to come out here and shoot up. Same reason why we have separate council.

Yeah. And so that's the real reason is that I come in, I run the meetings, for lack of a better word. I stand up there for about an hour and a half and the people who hate me are just going to let me have it. And I have pretty big shoulders, the pretty thick skin. Nothing really bothers me these days. And I answer my questions as best I can of the ones I can't answer. Sure. And then we move on to it. So after we get through our public hearings, it's the drafting part's the other part. What happens is I have stock language that I try to use to cut down on costs. Um, we're canons. We're not a huge, but this isn't

this isn't Ohio. This isn't Virginia that we don't have endless amount of money. And so what my thoughts are is always I'm going to try to limit my cost as much as possible. Things that I can have my assistant do, she's going to do because she's a lot cheaper than I am. and those types of things. Really, what you're looking for, what I foresee is what your needs are, is going to cost you between 25 and 35,000. What we do with that is we can do it different ways on how we make that payment structure, whether or not it's in the budget, whether we can handle the budget or if we need to do a separate budgeting where we can pace it over two years, however the budget needs to go because that's part of the realistic settings of things of here. Gotcha.

Those things that are time handled is generally one of those things that I get to play around with. Um, and my job here is to serve canons. I don't really care as much as about giving you a giant bill as much as I am about Kansas. I have a farm just down the road in Panee County. Um, frankly, I like to see comprehensive planning that's coming out west because it gives me more of a thing to argue about when I go and argue for other things.

And so, uh, that's really where my thoughts are here. That's kind of the brass tax of it. Do you have any questions for me? It's a lot of information to digest. I I have a just like big picture questions. I think your approach and the what you're talking about needs I for what it's worth I agree. I would like to know more about the overlays that you're talking about just so I have a general understanding of where we're heading and maybe that might get you to when you're talking about getting people involved and I might get be able to help you get to those people that need to be involved.

So if I were to do overlays I generally do it in three types. So you here have a regional or a municipal is it a regional airport? Yes. Yeah. So there should be an airport overlay that goes along with that. What I talk about are three different types of overlays. One would be an agricultural preservation. So we're saying that this particular area is preserved for agricultural purposes only and will exclude uh any type of any type of development especially I mean it's kind of like the airport way we have it now we have a restriction in airspace y

type u so that that prohibits any type of development that's not agricultural the second one is a corridor overlay. So what we do is we take it for a major thoroughare. So 54 highway 81 I think it's 281 281 61. All right. So 281 54 261 or is it just 616? So 281 goes in a medicine lot. Right. Right. All right. So what you do is you take about a half a mile on each side of it and we create a corridor saying that okay what is there now is perfectly fine.

So if it's egg it can always be it will always be a but if you want to put something new there it needs to comply with this. And so most of the time when we do corridors, we say from mile marker X to mile marker Z is going to be anything new is going to be either commercial or limited industrial use. That way we say, okay, if we're going to do economic development, these are some of the areas that you're going to want because of frontage, access, logistics, all those things. And we want to make sure that that's preserved. And you don't need a special use permit in those areas?

No, you wouldn't need a special use permit specifically unless your regulations already require it. What we're saying is that we're going to exclude other businesses and other things. I'm not going to put a residential subdivision right in the middle of an industrial. And that's really what I'm doing is I'm trying to push off home building away from those away from those areas because we need home building here to bring in more workers. So that's something we need to look at. So we can definitely need areas for

well and that's it is we argue and we talk about this all the time. I grew up in a farm family and I understand farms. I get the agricultural part of it. What brings in people is jobs. Jobs require land. Land is one of those things that's hard to come by. And that we have to have some type of incentive because our logistics are well, we have some four lane into Witchah. really cuts off. Ask Pratt to go further out west until you hit further out towards Ulisses and those other places. We don't really have a lot of logistical standings. There's lots of road traffic there. But is it big enough to have a major industrial logistics place? And the answer is h if they widen out some areas, if they don't widen out some areas. So what we want to do is have areas that we see as potential growth. We work with our economic stakeholders and we work to try to make those grow.

Um coming back because I'm just working on Crawford County so it's on my mind a lot is that we're trying to use the state university to help our growth. they have certain areas that they're very good at and so we want to supply those graduates with a place to go instead of leaving Pittsburgh for every joint aircraft and then having the program at BCC. I know a lot of people talk to me about it.

Yeah. When we talk about, okay, so Pratt's here. If we can get R&D or some type of something like DJ Engineering, build a subsidiary out here to build small craft fuel tanks, something that's basic, but it's something that we can kind of incentivize suppliers and all that stuff

to come out here. And so that's where we go with our economic stakeholders. We try to boost up those areas. The last type is we do uh generally some type of energy development, economic development that deals with energy. So if we're going to put in new wind farms, we want it to be here. We put in new solar farms, we want it to be here. If we're going to do data centers here, um there's other things that are coming into the fold like carbon reuse. Um, we have one. Well, we're trying to put one in at the ethanol plant.

Yeah. So, I mean, those are those an ethanol plant. If you want to add a new ethanol plant in, those are the types of things that we we say these are energy use overlays and this is where we want to do it. There's reasons why we do it. We have the resources out there for emergency management. We have the logistical means for it out there. It makes sense to be in this particular area. Uh, talk about where my farm is, two miles down the road, there's a wind farm and it works perfect because there's nothing but burr out there and there must be some dang tough cows out there to be go graing around. So, it makes perfect sense that that land gets used as something because it's all rocky and crud. Perfect place to put a wind farm.

All for it. And that's the point is that if we have areas that are going to be like that that we're not going to have significant uses, let's use them for good purposes. Let's make sure and we can we can point people there. We can say this is where we're looking at. And even if the KCC comes in and says we want to have easements for utility lines and things like that, say it won't affect us if it comes into this area because it will tie into a substation here, ties into a thoroughare there, we're good. And so those are the overlays that we would necessarily do is

helpful. Thank you. uh is to really try to point out where we want those major hot button topics and we plan it out now based upon topography, geography and infrastructure. Okay. Yeah, I think first stop ought to be economic development and Heather usually my very

I'm working on a pitch book right now too so they have some ideas. Usually my very first meeting after I get signed by a county commission is to go meet with their economic development and their head of their regional chamber of commerce. We sit down and have about a two and a half hour meeting about what actual economic things. Uh from my research your top employers in the county are all service-based or regional or pre regional medical. They're your school districts and it's the community college. So they're community college.

But those are your largest employers in the community are all going to be service based. We're not manufacturing based. Uh we have some independent oil service companies out. We have some independent energy companies out. Um not I think there was one agricultural based services that does some egg work, but not a lot of manufacturing, not a lot of anything else. And so that's really where we're going to go is see, okay, if we're going to be service-based, do we have the population where more service base is going to be good or do we need to try to focus on something outside of that? And that's kind of where those first meetings come off. Second meeting, BJ and I here sit down, we talk about the planning and zoning, uh what cases we've had over the last several years, where we've need to do special use permits because that will give us an idea is if there is any need for planning and zoning. I don't think it's there. And then the last thing is uh most counties have a housing study um or something along those lines. did one in 25 or

so I don't have to do one. So that means I just take that information I bring it over. I take the demographics from the census. We're still perfectly within the census period for me to add. Um as we get to fiveyear periods the census automatically updates and gives you estimates and we can use those types of things to cut down costs where I'm not out doing additional surveys, additional information work. Sounds like this is going to fit right into what bigger picture. Yeah, the bigger picture thing. And I'm just curious if the city and their zoning if they will want to do

Yeah. Yeah. I I don't know if they have a comprehensive plan, but it ought to tie into this too, wouldn't it? I think they do, but I don't know when the last time it was Yeah. updated or whatever. So, generally you do them every 20 years. Yeah. So that's the number that we're looking at. I think Well, I think it's a good idea. Just I don't know what you guys think, but I do. What do you think, Tom? I think we need to have one. Yeah, I think we need to do it. Population. I know a lot of people don't think they think we need one, too. So, what I can do is I'll send over a proposal for bid engagement letter

and I'll send an engagement letter over to your county counselor and we'll go from there. From there, I'll kind of give you a schedule of how things are going to look like. Uh I try to build as much cushion into that schedule. U now I will say this, my job is always about mitigating expectations. So I I tell people this at the very doing a comprehensive plan is like doing a major civil case is that if you want time is of the essence and you want it done quickly, you're you're barking up the wrong tree. This is usually about a 12 to 16 month 18month process. So I want to give you the expectation of the time limits that come along with this from the very beginning because

you get what you pay for. Well that's it. I mean, well, you gather a lot of information and that takes time. It does. And I always like to set my expectations of the bar where it needs to be at. Uh so that way you guys don't need to call me in here and have uh three new people, you know, today. But that's the goal is to have good communication all the way around. Okay. Trying to find BJ's budget to see that. That'll be the last one. Okay. Alphabetical. Thank you. Yep. You might be flipping for a while. Isn't it the last one?

You have for 26. We also have the number in the commission line that we haven't used. Got I don't think it'll be a problem. So, yeah. I don't think the money's there whether it comes out of his or ours. Yeah. I'd really be interested to see when he starts getting stakeholders, what they think and how this planned out. That will be the first thing and you guys will get updates from me uh periodically. Um some commissions want them a lot a lot more often. I'll tell you it's a lot cheaper to do them by Zoom.

Well, you Zoom any day you want. I don't mind. Now, I I tell this to everybody. I I love driving and I love driving out to western Kansas. It was a beautiful day today, but save yourself the money. Yeah, I understand. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Zoom's fine. Perfect. Yeah. Just get us that letter. Anytime we can save money, that's Well, that's my goal, too, is uh practicality is is here. Uh you know, this ain't Johnson County. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that money. That's it. We appreciate you coming down with us. Thank you. Yeah, this is not a problem. I'm kind of excited about Y

this now. I was thinking it was something we just needed, but it it wasn't going to help us, but I think it I think it well. Yes, I think it's been doing it for a little bit. Got a pitch down these days, but All righty. Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you. I'll leave some cards with you. Okay. Oh, okay. You've been in the sun. Yeah, we have baseball. Bring his first grand slam. This weekend throw his bat. He didn't throw it. He should have, but he didn't.

You guys play in Witchaw this weekend? Uh, no, not this weekend. We played the Pratt piranhas. They gave us a good look and told my wife we were coming to Pratt and she said, "Thanks, guys." Thank you.

Good to meet you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think um

I need to talk about non-elected personnel. Yeah. Five minutes to discuss what non-elected personnel. What about non-elected personel? Um, I mean some new positions or like just part current position the uh like p my current personnel is that what I mean oh is that um yeah like that's what I would say extended leave. Okay. Yeah. Extended leave.

I'll make a motion going into executive session for non-elected personnel to discuss extended leave for five minutes. Second. Been moved and second we go into attorney client. Nope. Executive session for non-elected personnel for extended leave. All in for five minutes. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. We'll be in executive session.

I'll make a motion we come in back into session. No action taken. I'll second it. Been moved and second and we come back into open session with no action taken. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. We're back in open session. I would like to be able to um put up an open position for a part-time driver. One or two. Can I just start looking? Yeah. And then and then like as we go, we'll figure it out. They don't go over their hours. That's nice to do.

Yeah. Motion that or anything. just related to something I need to talk about. I I'll just motion it anyway. Making I'll make a motion to allow Tara to start looking for part-time driver. I'll second that motion. Been moved and seconded for Terara to start looking for part-time drivers. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Good luck. Thank you. Got two questions. Yeah. on the bills. We've been seeing some on Visa for car wash and Hutch. Yep. So,

just explain. Yeah, sure. So, um there is one van that goes to Hutch three times a week and my driver is very good at cleaning it. And so it's it's like a um the lowest like um thing that or um monthly thing that you could do up at Hutch and it gives her something to do while she's waiting on dialysis to get done as well. So um highway patrol does the same thing. They send all their guys to get their car. Yeah. So I just

Yeah. So, it's just for that one van, and I think it's worth it just because um then we do the um the car wash out here um for the rest of them. And it's just a card that we that we clean. Yeah, she she has the time up there to, you know, mess around and vacuum it and all sorts of things. So, um I think she does it like once a week. So, I really think that what we spend for it, it's it's worth it. Nope. That's fine. It's probably the cleanest car we have because of it. USA Today paper.

So, no, that is um USA Metacorp um is actually our ad in the Hutch paper that we were required to have. That's right. Um Yeah, I think it just got changed to that being the name. It used to be like local IQ something. Yeah, they've been changing it. So, no, that makes sense. Okay. All right. All right. On the other one. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck on finding something. Tara, if you have time, we might want to stop in and talk to Susan and she could um get those ads going for you on the part drivers. Sweet if you have time. If not, we'll double it later.

Okay. She went up there earlier, but she did. any more department updates. Um, before we go on to the mowing stuff, there is a maintenance request in here. Um, and I'm going to just I just wanted to make you guys aware and I was going to stick it in the binder here. Um, but our handicap door was not opening correctly. That's I I just wanted over here.

Yep. And I just went ahead and had called them and had them take care of it because we have to have handicap accessible doors. Well, it's not they're not shutting either. Yeah, they're they're catching. I wish we could lock the one and just make them use one of them because if you use the right hand one, it won't shut. Right. Right. It's catching. And I think Did it Did it work when you came in it? I didn't push it. Okay. Um they came and fixed it last week. And so the handicap is working now. Um, but I just wanted to make you aware that I I did take care of that. That's fine. Yeah, that's sweet. You have to have Yep.

Yep. And then on the appraisers's office one, the ceiling tiles, which I know that's completely on hold, but um down here on the west hand side of the hallway, like in front of that, there's that trim that's along the wall coming off there. It's falling off. It's just laying on the floor. I didn't know if we could maybe get Terry in here to get that fixed that back here. Yeah, but it's not tile. It's just like that rubbish over that brown, right? Rubbish. I can't even. We don't even I know what you're talking glued back. Yep. While he's gluing can be glued into this. Yeah. He likes to play with it.

I don't like to play with it. It just annoys me. So, I try to get it to stick. This one was taped, but I think it's it's falling off now. Now it's just wood over here. So the whole thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We could do all that. But yeah, be great. Okay. And then on your bathroom stuff. Yes. This looks fine to me. Yeah. I thought that that's okay, too. We need a motion that probably you bike. I'll make a motion that we purchase some air freshener meter things and some toilet paper dispensers. doohickeys

for $231.50 from Williams janitorials. I'll second that motion. Moved and second we approve some bathroom stuff for free Williams janitorial supply for $231.50. All in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. So that was a pretty good deal. He'd install them. So I I hope I mean he didn't ask that. I mean it's tile so I hope he surely they know that. Terry did. Yeah. Okay.

Um and on the mowing packet on that backhand side um CR services and also Yumi did turn in some quotes for sprinkler. Um, and on there's one that sidewalks and one that doesn't deeper than I was surprised too. I figured higher than that. Oh, here here's mine. So, for whenever you guys are ready, at least you have that information and thinking about it. But you said somebody was did it with watering. Oh. Um, you need the water.

No, no. The on the sprinkler system, someone did it that hit sidewalks and doesn't hit sidewalks. Those quotes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I looked at those. Yeah. Yeah. And I didn't I didn't request those. I I think they messages been listening to them. I had said something that both of them. Well, the reason they do that is are you going to water during the day or are you going to water when nobody's here at night? Well, and it's cheaper to just water at night. Yeah. And then you don't have to worry about the side. I think it was like a $3,000 difference on that water quote that I mean and if we're watering at night, it doesn't really matter if they're hitting sidewalks or Yeah. Yeah. And so I don't Yeah. Let me look all these over. See if we got some new ones because

Yeah. On the mowing. Yeah. Some of them were a little different. Do we need to let the ones know they need liability insurance? I see the one that Robertson Enterprises has it on there. Yeah, I'm sure he does. I'm sure CNR does. Same way with I'm sure Unis does. Every Yeah. So, unis. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I guess we don't really need to look them over then, do we? This one's 190. We receive five total. 240 250 175 220 seven total. So you the cheapest. You guys just want to do this and then when we start working on the sprinklers maybe next week or something. That's fine. That went it does need money. Yeah. Go with uni. They're 175 185. You're the cheapest. Yeah.

Yeah. We're the cheapest. So I'll make a motion to hire Uni Landscapes to mow the Florida House and the Sheriff's Office for 185. I'll second that motion. We move and second we hire Y Lawnscapes to mow the courthouse and the sheriff's office for $185. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. I need to sign this one on the bottom. Yeah. And then I can be send that back to you.

Really? We can't do the sprinkler till these get done in the boiler. Yeah. Is it going to be back up? But I believe they also gave us a quote. Yeah. A long a long while back. It wasn't near what it was way over 43,000 and I thought some thousand. And I still have that. I can pull that out whenever you guys are ready. We can gather up everything we've received. Are you guys going to have air conditioning this week or did they say Friday? Well, Friday, but no, not during the 90 during the 90 degree weather. Oh my. That's all right. We'll you can all huddle down here. Yep. We'll just that right. We'll just have everyone come down here.

Maybe if we just turn this on full blast and open the doors, it'll make its way. And have Mark do the same. Yeah. Everybody just hang out in Mark's office. It's big enough. Yeah. Folding chair or something. Yeah. Have you got anything else? I do not. minutes. I'd request a 10-minute executive session for returning client privilege to discuss the roads by the solar project. I'll make that motion. I'll second it.

It's been moved and second we go into 10 minutes executive session for attorney client privilege to discuss roads on random solar project. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppose. Same sign. We'll be in executive session.

We'll make a motion we come back in open session. No action taken. I'll second it. Been moved and second we come back into open session with no action taken. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. We're back in open session. Anything else? Tyson,

I'll make a motion we approve the minutes from April 27th, 2026. Second moved and second we approve the minutes from April 27th, 2026. All in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Mo minutes have been approved. We have two sets. Both sets have been approved. Oh, two different. Yep. It was April 27th and then May 4th. Yep. Covers four months. Sign.

Yeah. That one needs a motion on this. I'll make a motion we approve the May 4th, 2026 minutes. I'll

second. Been moved and second. We approve the May 4th, 2026 minutes. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Motion carried. I'll make a motion we pay the vouchers. Second move and second pay the vouchers. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion carried. I gave you two minutes. something else on that other bid for the sprinklers that was using a boring machine so they're not taking

on sidewalks. That's the sidewalks. Is that the way I I read it? I I mean that's the way I read it. Am I wrong? I'll be honest. I didn't really dig into them too much because I figured you guys would want some time to review those. Well, I do. I just um I didn't I need that much attention either. You mean on Uni's? Is that who you you were talking about? Or Yeah, I think Uni said they were going to bore that tear up the yard, were they?

Or did I read that wrong? Or maybe they're just going to bore under the sidewalk. Maybe. I don't know. It's been a couple of days since I read it.

Session. Yeah, it does get boring. Oh, that's fun. Save the paper for next time. Yeah, they're expensive. Yeah, they say boring.

I didn't know if they're going to bore the whole thing or

But they wouldn't tear up the yard as bad as trencher. That's true. True. Look through all the tree roots and electric lines and cables and internet. Internet who else knows what's out there. Yeah. Jimmy off. Yeah. Yeah. Pigeons, you know. That's pretty high up there. Mark, did you ever metal detect? Yeah. Okay.

I'm still working, but we don't know how that work. Oh, okay. I say, what did you end up with? Um, a couple rash things and old door and enough money to not buy gas to get home. We had to walk up. Well, I I planned correctly. gas. Not around here. Not around.

We had a guy that wanted to metal tech around the courthouse. We let him, but I never heard anything background. They saw him out here that weekend, didn't you're pass down. Okay, we'll split these two. See where we come out. I Take a word.

I never just handed him to his payroll this morning.

Thanks. I'll pull out and get married. There will go the first or second round first come out finally said why you didn't do that earlier. Seems like that was the reason what I read was they didn't figure it out. They ran blood tested. That's when they out.

What they find? They'll take supplements to help build muscle creatin or something like that. Sometimes they're You don't got side effect you ever give us know what the side effect just saying without the numbers. Yeah, but I guess some people probably different.

Yeah. dissolve it quicker than what his was. And it just build up over time. that the bathroom door in the LC for the dispatch. Uh, no. Well, I think we should do the ones I think we've already took it out.

See what happens. I'm not sure. I got you. I'll just go. I think we took it out of capital. Yes, Catherine's going to close some of them. I don't know that. The last I remember was that the bids weren't Terry was the only one left because Clayton withdrew his. He got busy. I don't know that that we approved it and I think they were fighting over when he could do it. I never touch it. Okay. They wanted him to do it at night. He says, "No, my vid is not for night work, which I agree." So, yeah, I don't know where they're at on my

Okay. I seen him driving down. Oh, for the the door for the bathroom for the dispatchers.

We did earlier. I was just cleaning this out. So, Stop it. I don't Yeah, Uni's bid was 43,900 for the spring.

Anybody got anything else? Make a motion to rejourn. I'll second it. They moved him secondly attorney.