Yes. You know, they'll call and say, "Nana, can I Thank you. The uh clerk will take the role. >> Commissioner Heinrich >> here. >> Commissioner Braad >> here. >> Commissioner Reiner >> here. >> Commissioner Gomesh >> here. >> Commissioner Schulty >> here. >> Commissioner Jepson >> here. >> Commissioner Meisner >> here. >> And everyone is here this morning. Uh move down to item four. Consider accepting the regular claims paid over $500 and the purchase card claims paid for the period ending July 25th, 2025. Do I have a motion? >> Some moved. >> Been moved by Commissioner Brastead. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Schulty. Any discussion or questions? >> Seeing none, this a roll call vote. >> Commissioner Braad. >> I. >> Commissioner Reiner. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Gomesh. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Schulty. >> Hi. Commissioner Jepson. >> Hi, >> Commissioner Meisner. >> I, >> Commissioner Heinrich. >> Hi. >> And that passes unanimously. Down to the minutes. Uh, we're approving the minutes of July 2nd, excuse me, July 22nd, 2025 county board meeting. Do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Move by Commissioner Schulty. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Jeepson. Um, any discussion, questions? All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Opposed. >> Hearing none. It passes unanimously. Chair's remarks. I don't have anything official. I do want to congratulate all of the people that worked on the Ina County Fair a few weeks ago. It went off with a bang. Um, but it was great. It was a great job again by them. Um, and thank you so much for everybody that attended and also of course the 3M open. Uh, we had a great uh turnout for that and a great tournament of uh some exciting golf. So, um, it was some exciting times in the county. We'll move down to the committee of whole uh recommendations first. We'll start with the management committee and Commissioner Meisner. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. The committee of the whole for management. We did meet on Tuesday, July 22nd here in this building at 8:15 a.m. There were no public comments uh there at the meeting, but as always, I do accept them via email. Anyone may email me at mandy.mmeisner anoka countymn.gov. Uh so today before us we have a very short consent agenda. We have one item for a travel request. This would be a person under public safety telecommunications uh to be traveling uh for a conference. Um I believe what was discussed in the management committee that this may be one of the last ones that will become the before the full board. Again this is not to sherk any kind of transparency but for the travel uh requests those are already vetted through multiple layers of uh government and um management. So to come here it is just simply redundant. And then also uh during that meeting I did close the meeting at 8:17 a.m. and this was to discuss uh something that was a privilege for legal counsel and then we opened the meeting back up later. Um so for that I will offer the consent agenda of 1A for a travel request under telecommunications. Okay, we have a motion by Commissioner Meiser and second by Commissioner Schulty. Any discussion? >> All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Roll call vote. Thank you. >> Commissioner Reiner. >> I. >> Commissioner Kamash. >> I. >> Commissioner Schulty. >> I. >> Commissioner Jeepson. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Meisner. >> I. >> Commissioner Heinrich. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Brassstead. >> Hi. >> And that passes unanimously. Any other um issu things on the agenda? >> Uh no. There was one item that went directly to the full board as of that date which uh went to the full board and then was ratified. So with that, that concludes my management report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Commissioner. We'll move down to um transportation and parks and we'll start with the consent agenda from the transportation highway side. Um Commissioner Jeepson. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh the transportation and parks committees met on August 5th at the transportation division facility. All commissioners were present and there was no public comment. But we started with a transportation committee meeting with a very informative presentation and updates from MDOT uh regarding the road construction project at Highway 65 that runs from Minneapolis north through Columbia Heights. Uh very exciting project for the area and for that community um and for transit here within Inoka County. Uh lots more work to be done and community listening sessions to be had. So uh stay tuned for much more information on that project. There are eight items uh on the consent agenda for transportation plus a couple plus aformational item that I'd like to mention at the appropriate time. Uh the first item is resolution 2025 TR26 which authorizes the preparation of highway right-of-way plat for the reconstruction of Lake Drive northeast and kettle river boulevard northeast in the city of Columbus. The second item is resolution 2025 TR27 uh which authorizes the acquisition of that platted rightway for that same intersection in the city of Columbus. Resolution 2025 TR28 uh which authorizes the preparation of highway right ofway plat for a new interchange at the intersection of trunk highway 65 and Bunker Lake Boulevard in the cities of Blaine and Ham Lake. Uh the 2025 TR29 resolution authorizes the acquisition of this rightaway for that same intersection in the cities of Blaine and Hem Lake. Resolution 2025 TR30 authorizes Inoka County to enter into contract C 0011776 with Mindot for the replacement of bridge 02535 on the Rum River Boulevard over at Celybrook in the city of Oak Grove. Uh the next resolution is 2025 TR31. This is a resolution amending an NOA county's bridge priority list. And this is a very important procedural um initiative because with a little bit of explanation um county the county and cities uh that have a population larger than 5,000 people have access to the state's local bridge replacement program uh which provides funding for reconstruction, rehabilitation or removal of bridges and other necessary structures. This resolution is necessary since the city of Centerville is less than 5,000 residents. And because of this, Anoka County is supporting them and their bridge project uh by being Centerville's sponsor of this project. Additionally, the project uh must also be included in our priority list to further benefit um for that LB RP application. So, the bridge is on Brian Drive and crosses Clear Water Creek. Um and finally, we have two contracts for approval. The first is C000011743. Um it's with Forest Lake Contracting who is the lowest and most responsible bidder for the intersection improvements at Mississippi Street and 7th Street in the city of Fidley. This contract is for 2,75,350 which is actually a little more than $333,000 less than the um engineers estimate which is always a good thing. Uh funding sources for this project include federal, state, county, state aid, and local city funds. Uh the final item on the transportation consent agenda is contract C0011763 in the amount of 2,335,524.50 with SM Henches and Suns. This is for replacement bridge 02535 which I just mentioned a little bit earlier on Run River Boulevard over the Celely Brook um in the city of Oak Grove. Uh the funds for this project come from county state aid and the state's local bridge replacement program. And with that, Mr. Chair, I conclude the items on the transportation consent agenda. >> Thank you, Commissioner. I was just going to uh before we um get a motion um ask anybody if there's anything they wanted to remove from the consent agenda on here. Seeing none. Okay. Do I have a motion on the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> Moved by Commissioner Brad. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Jeepson. >> Any um Oh, this is a roll call vote. >> Commissioner Gamash. >> I. >> Commissioner Schulty. >> I. >> Commissioner Jeepson. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Meisner. >> I. >> Commissioner Heinrich. I >> Commissioner Brassstead. >> I Commissioner uh Reiner. >> Hi. >> And that passes unanimously. Um we'll move down to the parks uh part of the meeting and Commissioner Reiner. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. >> Got a couple items on my agenda today. And um first one is donations. Um we're accepting and let me get the total here for you. It's uh I should have had that ready, I guess. Um I'll just uh read off. Oh, $5,69423. And I'd like to give credit to those that uh did donate. $30 was dedicated to parks administration from Marylu Mirs, Rapids, Minnesota. $600 uh dedicated to Wargo Nature Center in my district. uh from Daughters of the American Revolution, Rapids, Minnesota. Uh Tammy Isacson, Oak Grove, Minnesota, and Lake George Improvement District, St. Francis, Minnesota. $5,000 is coming from uh and being dedicated to natural resources management from uh Mary Rusen, and that's uh she lives here in Anoka County or Anoka, Minnesota. $64.23 dedicated to park services from unnamed donors. Um then next on the agenda um we have a contract uh contract C00 uh 11760 and this is um operations and maintenance agreement for storm water facilities with Creek wershed district uh for the Bunker Hills Regional Park. And then we have uh third action would be to consider to award a contract of C011770 in the amount of 2 million $94,95 uh to Peterson Companies for Bunker Hills Regional Park Boardwalk Replacement Project in Andover. Um any questions on those I guess before we move forward with our vote? >> Anyone? >> All right. Um, so why don't we get a vote on that and then I would like to um comment on a couple updates uh from parks from 2024. >> I'd move approval, Mr. Chair. >> Been moved by Commissioner Schulty. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Reiner. >> Um, this is a roll call vote. >> Commissioner Schulty. >> I. >> Commissioner Jepson. >> I. >> Commissioner Meisner. >> I. >> Commissioner Hinrich. >> I. >> Commissioner Brastead. >> I. >> Commissioner Reiner. >> I. >> Commissioner Gomesh. >> I. And that passes unanimously. >> Yeah. Just a couple of highlights from uh the department update that we got from uh Director Jeff Perry at our meeting. Um some 2024 stats. Uh we had 4.3 million visitors in our In Noa County parks in 2024. Uh 850,000 at Bunker Hills. Uh 34,000 um visitors at Bunker Beach if you can believe that. And uh I guess last but not least, I do want to mention uh that Shaman Golf Course uh which had was in trouble a few years ago. Uh we made some changes out there is still doing well and it's profitable and uh looking better than ever. So and that that concludes my uh my report, Mr. Chair. >> Thank you, Commissioner Riner. Uh Commissioner Jeepson, do you have anyformational items from the Transportation Highway Department? >> Yes, Mr. Chair, thank you for the opportunity. Um, we as the committee authorized the county engineer to negotiate a uh JPA with the city of Centerville for that previously mentioned replacement bridge on Brian Drive in the city of Centerville. Um, as I mentioned prior, we had a wonderful um, presentation from Mindot regarding the progress of that uh, trunk highway 65 project from Minneapolis up through Columbia Heights and into the city of Fidley. Um, and then one other item that I wanted to mention. Um, as many of us know, we're entering into the part of the year that we're starting to talk about budgets. And I had requested in front of my colleagues that the transportation and finance department come to us uh with some funding opportunities that could be on the table or not on the table if we decide um how whatever direction we decide so that we can just look at other funding opportunities so that we can um as best respect and spend our taxpayer dollars through our levy through our levy authority which we are going through that process right now. Um, and so lots more conversations, lots more information together. Um, but I just wanted to bring that to everybody's attention. And with that, that concludes my information. >> Thank you, Commissioner Jeepson. We'll move to public safety, which is an additional item here. Uh, Commissioner Breaststead. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. Our committee met this morning, and we have one action item that's timely, so that's the reason it's been moved directly to the county board. So, this is under the Anoka County Sheriff's Office and corrections. Um, we're looking for board approval for contract C0011742, purchase of service agreement with Diamond Drugs, Inc. for a 5-year term effective August 1st, 2025, and renewable for two additional oneyear terms. This is going to change the provider of the pharmaceutical drugs that are used in our jail and corrections. And uh our current provider wasn't able to provide everything that was necessary. So it sounds like it makes a lot of sense to make the change. >> Thank you. Uh Commissioner Brasta, do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> And moved by Commissioner Schulty. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second by Commissioner Heinrich. Um this is a roll call vote. >> Commissioner Jeepson >> I. >> Commissioner Meisner >> I. >> Commissioner Heinrich >> I. >> Commissioner Brastead >> I. >> Commissioner Reiner >> I. >> Commissioner Gamash >> I. >> Commissioner Schulty >> I. >> And that passes unanimously. Anything else from the park or excuse me the public safety uh committee? Commissioner Brastet? >> No. Not at this time. >> Okay. All righty. All right. So, uh it has come to my attention that uh we have an additional matter outside of the usual agenda and I want to address for the record um a little bit about this before we adjourn. The county board sets a tone uh for the county. We hold a shared expectation that all county employees and officials conduct themselves with politeness, respect, and professionalism, both with one another and with the public. The county has clear policies in place regarding workplace conduct, and they are straightforward and reasonable. uh during the government or government governmental operations portion of the committee of the whole meeting on July 8th, 2025, which was a public meeting, there was a behavior displayed by a board member that did not reflect the values we strive to uphold in fostering a respectful and civil workplace. Respectful is the first word in the county's motto and it is central to how we aim and serve and interact. Aim to serve and interact. While passionate discussion uh p passionate public disclos discussion is welcome and important. There's a line between passionate debate and uh public and conduct that is um disrespectful particularly when directed at fellow officials or staff and especially in a public setting. Um unfortunately a specific gesture was made during the meeting um that may uh did not keep in the stand with the standards that we expect from those in public service. To do this today we first will need to take a vote a vote to suspend the rules. Um so that's what we will have before us in a minute. Uh if there is a commissioner um that has an u a motion, the appropriate motion, I will entertain it. That that u motion would be to suspend uh the rules that uh the board meeting is usually under, which is Robert rules of order. Commissioner Meister. >> Thank you, Mr. Chair. I move to suspend the rules. >> Second. >> We have a motion by Commissioner Meisner and a second by Commissioner Schulty. The only motion, the only motion now is to suspend the rules so that we may take up the concerns that I just raised. A motion to suspend the rules alone is not debatable. If this motion passes with majority of the whole board, then any commissioner may make another motion for some action to be taken. If this motion fails, the meeting may be adjourned and the board will have to consider putting it on a future board agenda. Um, we have a motion and a second. This is a roll call vote. >> Commissioner Meisner, >> I. >> Commissioner Hinrich, >> no. >> Commissioner Brassad, >> I. >> Commissioner Reiner, >> no. >> Commissioner Gomesh, >> no. >> Commissioner Schulty, >> I. >> Commissioner Jeepson, >> no. >> The uh vote fails by a four to three vote. Um, with nothing else to come before the county board, we are joured.