Board of Supervisors - Regular Meeting

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You're welcome. All right. Good morning everybody. Yes. So, I guess I'm fine with that. [snorts] [clears throat]

Right. We'll have a new copy of it soon. [clears throat] Okay. So, changes got sent through. Yeah, I'll approve the agenda as provided. [clears throat] All those in favor? I minutes of the November 18th board meeting to approve minutes. I'll second. All those in favor. Public hearing chapter 43 construction property maintenance code second reading. Motion to open public hearing. I'll make motion open. Second. All in favor? I any written or verbal comments? Any verbal comments?

Motion to close public hearing. I'll make a motion to close and I'll second. All those in favor? I motion to approve the third reading. I'll make a motion to wait. And is that to the ordinance too or is it just Yeah. Okay. Motion to approve and wait the third reading. Okay. I'll second. All those in favor? I I Holiday dates for 2026 [clears throat] Christmas. So

to approve second in favor. Management department head safety responsibilities here it's not here is it [clears throat] on the amendments I'm not sure I'm not sure either I'm not sure either was at the last meeting the only thing I think is to see how much interest there would be to have um Stacy come and present Oh yes that's correct in February. Yes,

I think that that's right. Yeah. And we're we were going to include some of the surrounding cities and counties if they want. That's what we were scheduling it for. [snorts] IWCA to come down and do the same present that they did in Washington. I think our plan was to schedule it when we usually scheduled the safety meeting at that time because the staff they were at the the February meeting. I think that's what Stacey had had mentioned.

So February I guess any department heads here have any concerns or issues with that? I think not go ahead and plan for it. Need to do any action on that then or is this feedback? I think at this point it's just feedback. So I think we'll plan on that. Okay.

Y amendment to the employee handbook [clears throat] fair labor standards board and we had to make a change in our handbook. Comp time wasn't actually comp time and they said we had time and a half. So we got to get rid of this section because we already have flex time in our in our handbook. So delete the part about these employees can earn comp time at a rate of one hour for each hour worked in excess of 40 hours. This time will have no cash value upon separation for employment is what they advised to delay.

[clears throat] Did we get feedback from the our attorney on that to you or is that just fairly understandable? Fairly understand you think because we just updated our flex time which is why that would make that obsolete. You think we need to have consider that or [clears throat] not? No, I don't think so. I'll make a motion to approve the amendment. And I'll [snorts] second pause I energy ordinance discussion.

I'll start on this. Um we'd still like to make some progress on this. One option that um has come up that I want to [clears throat] present today is the idea of pulling the solar and the battery storage out of the energy ordinance and dealing with it. One of the reasons for that is because we have some developers that are interested in the solar and that solar development could result in some job creation and some other development in the county. So there's some interest in that happening. I'd rather see the whole ordinance get passed as it's presented, but but that is an option to pull the solar and the battery out of it. Um based on our discussion in the past, this is between you and I Darren, I don't think we're in agreement on some of the big issues of the solar. So then with this goes back to Carrie, if Carrie has an interest in pursuing that and I think in Carrie's situation, you Carrie might want to go back to the county attorney and see where the conflict of interest plays out on this topic and then we can go from there. So that's that's one of the options. And the other reason it's on here is do we want to do some more public hearings? Do we want to do some more investigation? What what should we do on the whole concept of the energy work? So that's kind of where I'm at on that topic. [clears throat] Uh meeting with Mark Row and Hans Wills over this. There's another solar option that we would have to do something different than what's currently road. So, we [clears throat] definitely have to do

some changes with what they're proposing for solar. It's a whole different concept. Correct, Mark? Correct. Sorry, I [clears throat] think you had that discussion, right? But I'm not Yeah, I discussed this with Mark Ro, but I'm not sure I understand everything that that you just said. Yeah, I I asked H to write something up.

Okay. Get it to us to go with that. Um I would also suggest that I spent two and a half hours on the phone with Hopkins and Huber that was very lightening on a lot of the stuff in our proposal and I get a hold of you and have you speak to him too because that it was a very worthwhile conversation. I would certainly welcome that and thanks for doing that. I appreciate that.

I even asked him if he wanted to mediate if we both went up there. So, he said that would be a possibility, but you'd have to think about it. So, I'd be very interested in that. Anything else? I guess if I may, what's being proposed on the solar Without jumping into it, I don't have all the details, but it's a whole different concept than a all glass thousand acre solar field.

It's a 30 acre. [clears throat] It's not commercial. What's it called? What you guys call it? It's basically so we can get an ordinance in place to be able to do that anyway. Yeah. Okay.

So, the basic concept I know uh Supervisor Batterson and I had had this conversation [clears throat] a couple of weeks ago and the conversation really wrapped around uh what solar fields could look like in Walo County. And I know that Supervisor Batterson had said, you know, he's he's not in favor of development of multi-und,000 acre uh sites. And uh [snorts] the the concept that really across the state of Iowa that uh is gaining a little bit of steam is those sites that are sub a couple of hundred acres uh and all the way down to 30 acre sites. uh they would be called community solar projects where there's co-op buy in things of that nature. So those are really the kind of sites that we're looking at the feasibility of [clears throat] uh because those are I I mean really there's not much land available that could do 2,000 acre sites anyway here. So I mean there's really for Wabo County there's not much point in talking about sites that big because those sites don't exist really anyway. So let's get down to something realistic and start talking about you know what what the parameters around that could look like. So that that's the basic construct. Yeah, was saying it' be a 30 acre maximum. Basically, there are four not battery storage, but for

so the the community solar projects that that are currently being proposed within the state would offer a couple of advantages to a rural community like the city of Atama or Wapalo County. um in the fact that uh we're struggling right now to have those uh uh substations installed from the utility providers because uh the their infrastructure is out so far. It would require a huge investment from them that they're really not willing to take at the moment. These companies would come in and actually install those and put those substations in place as part of their operations. So, it's kind of a win-win uh for the county and the fact that we don't have to wait for future economic development because those partners are already providing that as part of the installation of the project to begin with

and those projects would put in those substations would actually lower our bills, help us lower our bills instead

for future planning. Yes, it would. And um uh you know there there are obviously other other uh benefits to that as well such as uh we had mentioned this during the the win portion of the conversation uh green energy offset credits to help incentivize business to come here uh you know potential uh additional revenues to the city and the county. So, I there there a plethora of benefits and there really aren't too many negatives uh to this unless you just hate glass. So, I know one of the things that uh Supervisor Batterson brought up was the potential for uh some sort of ground contamination from broken glass. And uh from the research that I have done, there's [clears throat] no more significant potential for contamination to to ground uh to soil and ground water than having a diesel generator sitting on the site. So [snorts]

I don't sound pretty good what he was describing to me. So just got to get it writing from you so we can display it.

Yeah. and and clearly, you know, anything that could could come in the future, there's going to be a development agreement attached to that as well. So, so this ordinance has a stand still an all-inclusive ordinance where the the county is looking to bring in these renewable renewable technologies to support, you know, the growth of the county and the state. Hello, good morning everyone. My name is Dennis with Apex Clean Energy. Just curious as to where we stand with the ordinance as it relates to an all-inclusive um you know concept with with reference to the technologies that we're looking to bring into the county.

We only have the one or that we're already that's all included. Battery, solar, and wind is all in one. Okay, that's correct. So, are we moving forward with that? Um, and is there is there any reason to continue discussions? [snorts] Any reason to continue? Yeah, Dr. Yeah, we have to complete orders. We want to continue discussion. So, okay. My understanding is that this these discussions have just been happening for a long long time and the longer that we wait, the more benefit we continue to lose.

Yeah. That's why he just heard me suggest that we use this attorney up there that he wonderful inside. He does multiple turbines I'd never talked to him before. His name was actually given to me by another attorney to talk to you and he presented presented a clear picture way clearer than what I've ever seen on a lot of this stuff. So he was very insightful on every every aspect of it. So

is that the same attorney that will have sent to us several months ago? I don't know. I just emailed up and asked him for which attorney does the green energy and then he called me back a couple weeks later. I can't remember his name. [clears throat] Too many of them. I always was that one.

Can anyone speak? [clears throat] Um I guess I am also kind of confused. What where are we stuck with the ordinance? Just disagreements on how much or how many um wind turbines you want? basic disagreements on quantity and size and and distance separation of participants and nonparticipants. So, okay. Because I've heard that we have an ordinance, but that we need to work on an ordinance. So, are you changing one that currently is in place?

We don't have one in place. There's not one. So, you're writing an ordinance for that. Correct. We have a draft of an ordinance. Do you have a time frame for when you want to get this thing um voted on? I again it has been dragging on for a long time and I guess what I would like is just to have the supervisors on the record saying that you recognize that we need to move to clean energy and that we recognize that coal plants are poisoning our water and our air and that you're going to work on this seriously to try to get this passed so that we can move forward with solar and wind.

That's the process we're trying to work forward but we got to have some give and take and we're not getting a whole lot of that. That's why I suggest we use an attorney as a mediator. So, and there's no more specifics about what what the disagreements are. Well, if you and all the other meetings, it's basically what I told all setbacks, quantities, size. Okay. So, do you have a time frame? Are you willing to commit to try to get this done in the next couple months or what what are you looking at? them as soon as possible, but I can't give you a time frame because [clears throat] there's more elements to it than just that. So,

and just so you know, I agree with what Darren just said that we have disagreement on those issues that he mentioned and until we can come to some agreement, we can't proceed with an ordinance. But you all agree that we need to move forward with clean energy sources. Can I get that commitment from all of you? Absolutely. Yes. Thank you.

Hi, Dennis Woy. Um, [clears throat] first, if you have information that was enlightening, it would be nice if you would share that enlightening information with all of us instead of holding that to yourself. Um, because perhaps that would help the entire community. I'm not exactly sure why um why you can't share that with Brian publicly um so that he can make a decision about contacting you know further contact instead of you delegating him to do this. Um, so I is there is there information

uh is there further information that you've been so enlightened on that you can share with us at this point is this information that's not there. So until Brian and I can sit down and talk about it. No. But it sounds like you learned a lot. You said you were enlightened. So can you not share that with us? He walked me through the entire ordinance, things that he would change, look at differently, things that are great, things that are fine, things that aren't okay. It's there's a lot in there.

So, you're not ready. You're not prepared to present that as as a county as an elected county official. You're not prepared to go into discussion with Brian and present the information that you have found in your research in order for these conversations to continue and for there to be a quick and timely solution to this this conflict.

All right. I think we just had that discussion where I've advised, you know, ask if you want to be involved in this and go talk to the attorney so he can get the same information firsthand. I'm not going to give it to him secondhand. He needs to hear from him. I think it's concerning that you have information that you're not sharing with the public in terms of what you have learned and that you're not sharing with the county. I'd like to turn to uh Carrie. Carrie, you've participated in this discussion a couple times here. you've indicated that this lawyer um that uh has already been contacted in this process and I know that you've recused yourself. I would still like to encourage you to reconsider that you have two opinions. You were in Eddieville and uh you presented to us that your attorney said that there was no conflict of interest and you were participating in those discussions. You receive an opinion from WO County attorney and you do an about face. That opinion does not require you to recuse yourself. It suggests that you might, but it does not require. You have not explained why you're recusing yourself.

I do have potential financial gain. And so as an elected official, I don't because I don't understand. You just pass up. So you haven't asked a question. You're just going around. Why can you vote on employee handbooks when your husband works for the county? I will not be voting on their contract. They are But you voted on this amendment. you invo you you voted on specific union contract. I would still encourage you to recuse to unrecuse yourself because you were elected to represent. All you have to do is cancel your contract with Apex Energy and you can walk out the door or you're done.

You had your 2X.

Those are both done. With all due respect, sir, I think you have a great ordinance in front of you. I've been in a lot of counties and I think that this ordinance will be a model ordinance for southeast Iowa, the state of Iowa, and the rest of the United States. So you can get all the opinions that you want. But I believe that this ordinance is a great ordinance and will provide economic opportunity and put a ton of Iowa back on the map. Thank you. [clears throat] I follow a couple things. Um I really appreciate the information [clears throat] on that attorney. Was there any discussion about cost for the attorney to work with us on that?

No, we get what we get four hours, five hours for free. Okay. And so if we can enter into an agreement, I'm certainly interested in pursuing that to that discussion. Yeah. And then um should we should we wait for that information or should we schedule something in terms of the work session or the public meeting? I would suggest that you make contact with him and see what works for you. Okay. That way wouldn't bother me if we both drive to De Mo.

Yeah. Okay. And then before we leave the topic, I wanted to ask Carrie, do you Carrie, do you have any interest in the solar topic as a separate ordinance? What do you mean by interest? Like financial interest or pursuing it as a separate ordinance? Pursuing it as a separate ordinance? I guess I would like more information that Mark has presented to you guys because I haven't heard anything about that. Yeah, I and I agree that needs to happen and yet We can do that and then come back to that question. [clears throat] Seems like it start from Hans. I'll get it on the agenda.

Yeah, I'd like to see what Hans has said too and I can Darren, I got a couple questions for you regarding the solar part of it. I'm not as familiar, I guess, with solar as I am with the wind part because a lot of the time has been devoted to discussing that. Have you gotten any indication from, you know, anybody in the that's an expert, I guess, in solar about what the cost benefit is for the county compared to what it would be if wind turbines were constructed here? Is it still the the gradual increase of revenue over seven years the way it is for wind?

Actually, the solar doesn't give anything to the county, just the individual that has them and the electric company. So, we don't get any product. Okay. Except for our initial fees. Okay. So, you don't get any revenue at all from solar panel really. Even if you tiff the area where the the solar panels would be probably different. Yeah. The solar is not is more seem like it's more new in the area. Yeah.

Not as much going on with it. So would then they would that company then still have to go around to land owners to see if they'd be willing to sign a lease for a solar panel or do they just construct they basically do a similar thing. They sign a lease on the ground for it's not as many years but I think it's 20 years.

Okay. So, just Travis, uh, Chief Deputy Assessor, WO County, just to kind of talk about the the revenue portion of it as far as property taxes would go. My understanding with these um more commercial projects, um, they are state assessed, so they're not they're not locally assessed, they're state assessed. So the state puts a value on those and then um I believe there is some reimbursement from the state to the county for that but like other state assessed properties we really don't know what that reimbursement is. Um and I don't know if that's something that Kelly can enlighten you on as far as that goes. Um, but the as far as the ground that it's built on, it doesn't change anything. Um, that that that I'm aware of, the assessment is the assessment on that. Um, and it is still taxed to the land owner from my understanding or assessed to the land owner. Um, but the actual project itself, I believe, would be centrally assessed by the state. So, [clears throat] and Travis, could you do more research on that or could you guide us on where we can find out a little better answer on that top?

Sure, I can I can look into it and try and um get a little more familiar with it to let you know for sure what I find because so far what you said was what I thought was the case, but I I don't have a good idea on what the dollar amount is that comes back to the county. Sure. And I and I'm not I'm not 100% sure either [clears throat] on like with the with the wind um you know it's that sevenyear roll on if it's a centrally assessed deal. I'm not sure if those are the same or apply or if there's any abatements or anything with it tax. Yeah. So um I will I'll look into that and and let you know.

Thank you. Yep. So, do you know of any counties that have solar projects that would be like this or went and visited L County and Colorado, right? I believe so. They have a 2,000 acre facility, but that's not what you want here. You want smaller, right? Acre. Yeah. You see there was glass glass ching gravel. Mhm. [clears throat] And they they're the ones that said they don't get anything from it. Yeah. except for their initial fees and normal taxes. So the electric company keeps it all on the grid and they pay the land owner for it. But that's them. So

there's a solar site in Crestston [clears throat] has 120 megawatt facility. Nothing else. We'll go on to Mark Row and Goit on the appointment of Go Pit for W County social media page that discussion is also updated in the website. Yeah. So, um, looking and and this kind of ties back to the, uh, renewable energy ordinance discussion really as well. Um, one of the consistent, uh, complaints that that we've heard from citizenry is the ability to receive updates from, uh, official and official [snorts] capacity in Walo County. And really most municipal uh aside from newspapers of record u most municipalities have moved to social media in some form or fashion to put out some of those updates and that's some place where uh Walo County is sorely um missing the mark at this point. So um you know the the item for consideration is you know how do we move forward and as a county establish that site that way uh it's possible for your department heads for you uh to be able to publish information in a little bit more timely manner that uh is a little bit more accessible to people in a manner in which they're used to receiving information which in this case would be social media uh presence. uh these sites

are not that difficult to put together and as part of the broader context of the conversation. Uh we we talk about the website as well. Uh the website uh can be linked to that social media page. I understand that there are some uh particular difficulties right now with the uh the way that the website's designed, but um you can you can have those two things linked together. So the social media page that would be developed could actually feed directly to the website. So you're only updating really one thing, which would be the social media site, and it's feeding directly to the website. So regardless of where they're going, they're getting up-to-date information on whatever it is that they're looking for.

And you mentioned you could have a page basically up and going in a day or two. As far as a social media page, we could have it up and going and and uh uh have administrators here on site probably within an hour. I mean, it it's it's not that difficult to do. Um now, uh training on the other hand is going to take a little bit of time for whoever is going to be doing the administration of it here at the courthouse. But um as far as the the page itself, getting it up and running is is really of no event. Um it's it's really just a um you know who's going to maintain it and uh you know deciding internally you know what information are are you wanting to put out there and then obviously you know um I know that there are some particular rules uh about allowing open commentary on the site because it is a governmental it would become a a governmental uh page. So, uh, you know, there's there are freedom of speech rules that will apply to that. But, um, but but, uh, you know, looking at, uh, one of the things that the city of Fatama did o over the course of the last 10 years as an example, uh, they were struggling for open information and they started really harnessing the strengths of the social media page. And while they still they still have their weaknesses, of course, um it has helped tremendously of them getting information out for road closures, for uh for public utility work, for uh just general information for the public. They're getting their agendas online so people know that they're there. Uh having having access to link uh their their live meetings to uh to an area where people know where it's located. So it it's really helped

with transparency for them and I think that we could see the same benefit from the county level as well. And you were talking we could have links to agency, Elden, Eddieville, Blazburg, all this agency. Yeah, absolutely. And like a calendar on there where we could have [clears throat] parade is going to be an agency festival in Blenders, [clears throat]

right? I I I would I I would shameless plug here. I would still strongly encourage everybody to use the meet a tunnel calendar. That's kind of the centralized uh events calendar for Walo County. So I would still encourage everybody to use that right on there to go to that. That's possible. That's that's easily done. Is this something you're prepared to do internally [clears throat] or do you kind

Yeah, we can we can have it done. Like I said, it could be done relatively quickly. It's it's just a matter of you folks assigning who's going to be the administrator of it because naturally, you know, go PIP is not the the uh center of where the information is coming from. So, it doesn't make sense for us to be the administrator, but we can definitely get it up and up and running and and uh at least push it out that way people know it exists. Are you talking about any costs to us for this? No, it it would just do it. And you mentioned about you mentioned also about the website,

right? The website is a little bit different um because I believe it's uh I can't remember the name of the company that's doing it right now. Um but uh they would have to make the the uh coding change to allow for the feed to be on the homepage for that. uh should be a simple simple change for them though just to make that one change but I I do think that it does lend to a broader conversation uh not necessarily for this point in time but it has been a long time since uh and I don't even know the year since Walo County has went through any uh marketing and rebranding efforts and I think that it's a good time to start considering that moving forward. I I know, you know, there was a time here recently where we were trying to find a logo for Walo County and we really struggled to do that because they just really don't exist. So there's there's no official branding for the county and uh you know, as we're trying to uh start a process of marketing the county, it would be really nice to have that available. Do you have anybody in mind at the county that would be ideal for the connection for this?

Well, I would I would probably think that your auditor would be your your best source or Karen, one of the two. Whoever is the official disseminator of information and so far we tell Karen to do everything [laughter] be a little protective of her time. So yeah, I I would just whoever whoever's disseminating the most information I think should probably be the person who's handling that. Can we have a discussion with the auditor and then back to you? Is that Yeah, absolutely.

I wasn't expecting a decision today and I just I just thought that it it would be something worth your consideration. I would make a motion to go ahead do the county social media page anybody here getting up and going. I'm [clears throat] going to second that. All those in favor? I thank somebody that runs it now is called Neapolitan Lab. There we go. Neapolitan labs. Neapolitan labs. McN. Yeah. And are they hard to work with here? No.

He stops by our county conservation office twice a year. He goes over content. Isn't he he's from a tunnel? I believe he's located in De Mo now. Is that correct? That's correct. He's always at Carrie. He did present to us last December. I was at that meeting. Yes. And so we have a connection there. Yeah. I think we support anything with that. We should continue that discussion with him. Perfect. Thank you.

Next on the agenda is selection of architect for the bank remodel. We start the process of selecting hiring construction managers of this. We interviewed three architects over a couple per weeks there. Um, one particularly stood out to me, my opinion. I would make a motion to use [snorts] light and he's the insight.

Yeah, he's from the city of Washington. He currently does Iowa City Hospitals architects. And there's a motion. Can I discuss it first? Okay.

I would um [clears throat] certainly prefer the local architect that we interview just because I would like to support local people and local businesses. And I would also propose that we not use a construction manager because the concept here is is this. If [clears throat] you have a bad architect, you need a construction manager. if you select a good architect, which all three of the ones that we interviewed in my mind could do the job and they all are quality. And so therefore, I don't know that we need a construction manager. Construction management positions are more of interest when there's a larger project or a more complex project than what we're pursuing. So I I view the construction manager as another layer that we don't really need to spend money on. So [clears throat] my proposal would be to do Benfoot who is the local architect and therefore I will not um second your motion Darren and I will not vote yes for that.

Well that's right. I'm going to second Darren's motion in sight from Washington and do the construction manager. It takes the county out of the risk regarding the cost. put any o over any additions go on their bill on ours which is the key to that. So we have a first and a second for insight. All those in favor? I I those opposed.

I for the construction manager. He actually does that.

He'll write it up. Show it to us and then advertise right away service agreement. [clears throat] I see your water right server. So um because this is for [clears throat] 172nd Avenue project. um the new alignment for that roadway um require right away for the strip of the ground and it also kind of truncates an existing parcel and multiple pieces. So it becomes somewhat of a complicated acquisition process. Um and uh dealing with one property owner uh it just will be a much cleaner, more transparent process if we have a consultant do the rightway acquisition process for us. Um you know our staff is limited and really don't have enough staff to complete all the design work that we need to do. So um taking this particular uh process away from uh internal operations and giving it to someone that deals with it on a daily basis is going to be a much more efficient approach. So

behind a little bit yes been [clears throat] playing catchup since before we started. So um anyway I think you've all got got the agreement. I was actually pleased with the fee structure that they added. Now there there are Because of the complications with multiple parcels being created by the separation of property into multiple pieces, there may have to be some [snorts] uh updates to the fee structure for the multiple [clears throat] parcels. they're looking at as an overall since we're doing it with one property owner, but like I say, it's kind of complicated, but I think this is a good basic agreement to start from.

And they basically go to all the property owners, get these. They will negotiate. We will create the documents that would outline the parcels required and then you know the acquisition plaque, if you will. that's something that I can um certify on and then they'll utilize those for the negotiating process and the uh appraisals. Second in favor I

approval of expense for $10,000 from trust fund to clean up trash dish at conservation area there ground debris Now I'm

Thank you. Uh yeah, when the county inherited the property actually was donated to him in 2007, uh there were several different ideas to utilize property which never came to futation. Um when I since I've been here, we talked about a pond out there to increase its recreational value, a walking trail, and some other things. Anyway, unfortunately, there's a trash ditch out there from the previous owner. It's fairly large. Uh the board is thinking that we need the conservation board who's approved it to dip into our trust fund, which is at 62,000, spend 10,000 of it. Hopefully that cleans it up and we don't find there's more buried. Uh we're trying to be proactive instead of having someone from the state down the road tell us that we have to get cleaned up within 60 days. And uh so we're hoping this will take care of it. And then the after this is done then we'd like to develop a pond and uh apply for a fish habitat grant to which will pay 90% of cost to uh decrease the recreational value of the area. But state code says that anything we spent on the trust fund has to be approved by supervisors and that's why it's on the agenda.

Did I think you said you had a contractor in mind? Could you tell us? Uh it's the one we used to work on the pond behind our office. You remember Darren at the meeting that [snorts] did the pond there behind the building? Yeah. Crane crane dozing.

Crane dozing just because we had existence with him. He seems like he would be real good about what to do and it's below the 20,000 threshold for the bid for the county because we're hoping we can stay at 10 and not anymore. We can solve our problem that way instead of taking because we get into this. All right, you take bids and is a guy going to remove 20 more tons of dirt or he says, "I don't need all that dirt. I don't have to move all that. I'm just move 10 tons." So, it becomes a big gray area to what somebody can say they need to get to the trash. This guy we're hoping will understand our dilemma of expenses and be good with us because he worked on another project with us before he won the bid. Do you recall if he's from Wablo County? He's not.

He's not. I know who he is. That's fine. In this case, I'll let it go. Just trying to move forward. That's what we had to do. Push a rock up hill all the time. Motion to approve. Is he the only? The only guy we've talked to about doing it because we've had a couple out there on the site and they're like, "Well, I don't know how much I can charge you because what get into?" And this individual's like, "I'll start with 10 and that's about a week's work and then I'll let you know where we're at. You can decide if you want to continue or or pull it or start again later. So, you've only gotten one quote. Nobody Well, the other ones we've talked to, they don't want to give me a quote. Well, we are not going to bid on that because we don't know what we're really getting.

Yeah. They're just like, "We don't know what we're going to get into and we hate to bid on that." And bid 10,000 and we find out that they're really $20,000 worth of work. They They seem to be unsure. They're afraid of what could be there. Have no idea how much trash is buried. Yeah. I'll make the motion to proceed with the plan as presented. I'll second. Is it fair? I I approval of the Eddieville bar bid.

So, we started on this process with the damage that was done back in April and working with insurance company and it took a little while to get actual cash value, the replacement cash value agreement from the county, I mean from the insurance agents which we have now. They've actually just yesterday sent me four checks for four things that were damaged for actual cash value. Once the barn is done, I sent them a picture built. I sent a picture of that and the amount of the bill and then they give me replacement cost value, which would be a couple more checks. Uh I at least got to six contractors to meet me up there. Four of them said they thought that their workload in the future didn't allow them to take on another project. Two of them did. You had those two bids. Uh and that's the two that were willing to meet me in the last four months to look at the project. We're trying to keep it simple. We just want a cold storage building. We don't need insulation. We'll gravel it ourselves once it's up. We're trying to keep it as as cheap as possible to fall within the guidelines of insurance so it doesn't cost the county anything.

It'll be completely funded by insurance. Yeah. So, you know, the checks I'll deposit to the general fund with the treasurer and then budgeted be amended later on, but you guys should get the money for the cost of the project. And the board approved the low. Is that correct? Y triple star. Yes, sir. I'll make a motion to authorize the trip. Second in favor. Thank you for your time. [laughter]

Personnel request for payable approval hire service. I'll move to approve. I'll second question approval of new hire correctional officer chair. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. All those in favor. Any other business? We have auditor's cash drawer third quarter for fiscal year 2425. I'll make a motion to approve. I'll second. Those in favor? I. Auditor's cash drawer fourth quarter report 2425.

I'll make a motion to approve. [clears throat] Second. Those in favor. [snorts] Auditor's cash drawer fiscal year 2425. And I'll move to approve. Second. Those in favor. And the last auditor's cash drawer second quarter report 2526. I'll move to approve. Second. Those

in favor. Any other [clears throat] copy of time sheet for you, but Andy took it to the digitiz took it to make ital Oh, there he is. I was actually [laughter] motion in favor.

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