Thank you. The clerk will take the role. Gomesh here. Mr. Schulty here. Commissioner Jeepson here. Commissioner Meisner here. And we all are here and accounted for. uh in on under others I'm going to quickly add this um what we have before us um additional item that'll be under seven and we'll put it in 7 C under public safety. So that's added to the agenda. Um move down to item number four. Consider accepting the regular claims paid over $500 and purchase card claims paid for the period ending May 30th, 2025. Do I have a motion? So moved. It's been moved by Commissioner Brast. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Schulty. Any discussions or questions? This is a roll call vote. Commissioner Brassstead. Hi. Commissioner Reiner. Hi. Commissioner Gamash. Hi. Commissioner Schulty. Hi. Commissioner Jeepson. Hi. Commissioner Meisner. Excuse me. I. Commissioner Heinrich. I. That passes unanimously. Item number five is the approval of minutes from the May 27th, 2025 county board meeting. Do I have a motion? Moved. It's been moved by Commissioner Jeepson. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Heinrich. Any changes or discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. It passes unanimously. Chair's remarks is next. And since uh Eric has not given me anything, I don't think I have any chair remarks. Um I do want to thank the uh quickly thank this um Minnesota legislature for finishing their session last night. Um, my uh my bet was that they'd go over uh on the over under at 3:00 a.m., but they didn't. So, I missed that one. I was I thought 5:00 a.m. they'd be done, but uh glad they got their work done. Um I think uh we'll have some comments uh later on from Commissioner Jeepson regarding the transportation and she worked very hard on that. So, I'll give her that opportunity, but we're very thankful for the session to be over. Um now we'll just hold hold on and see what happens uh from Washington DC if we are going to be seeing any cuts but so far so good in most cases. Um we'll move down to the committee as uh of the whole recommendations and we have uh letter A management. Commissioner Meisner. Thank you Mr. Chair. The committee of the whole for management we met on May 27th in this building. There were no public comments in person. I did not receive any via email, but anyone may make those public comments via email at mandy.mmeisner anoka countymn.gov. So on our consent agenda today, we have travel requests. There is A through D. Uh again, this is covering a variety of people in various departments. This is all for uh training or various conferences. You can see the details there. I I won't go over each one. Um but I will go go ahead and move that slate again for A through D. I have a motion on the consent. Do I have a second? Second. It's been moved by Commissioner Meiser, second by Commissioner Jeepson. Any questions? Seeing none, u this a roll call vote. Commissioner Ryder. I. Commissioner Schulty. Hi. Commissioner Jeepson. Hi. Commissioner Meisner. I. Commissioner Heinrich. Hi. Commissioner Breaststead I. And that passes unanimously. Anyformational items, Commissioner Meisner? Uh, yes. There are someformational items that of course I always like to share with the public. So for informationformational item number two, this is for approving two employment agreements uh contracts. One was with Corey Cohan and this is to appoint him as the assistant director in community rel excuse me, community corrections. The second was also an employment agreement with Kelly Wellman. This is to appoint her for the executive assistance into the sheriff's office. Both of those actually already were ratified. They went directly to the board. Um the nextformational item was uh a presentation on the employee and engagement inclusion initiatives presentation. I do want to just give my compliments to that presentation. It was very thorough. It covered uh both the past and bringing us up to the present around this work. Uh one of the things I do want to highlight that I am particularly excited about was uh ERGS or employee resource groups. So those have now launched. We have two of them as of this moment. One is a veteran ERG and one is a BIPOC ERG. Uh but those are open to anyone in the county. So any employee may initiate their own resource group and there is a structure and a policy process around that. Um but this has been uh ERG's a long time in the making back in the day with the original committee. This really was a passion idea and passion project of Eileen Waterman. And so I uh I was so glad to see that finally be realized. Um, so that was kind of the the highlight that I wanted to share in that report. Uh, the other uhformational item number four. This is an overview or was an overview of the county's property insurance renewal. So with that, that concludes my report. Thank you, Commissioner Meiser. We'll move down to the transportation and parks committees and we'll start with Commissioner Jeepson. Thank you, Mr. Chair. as um as you mentioned in your in your opening remarks, I just wanted to take a couple minutes just to say a sheer thanks of gratitude and appreciation for all those who worked tirelessly over the last week, week and a half um with that um state transportation bill. Um, I specifically want to thank my colleagues up here who who did their own work, their own phone calls, their own emails, texts to our legislators, uh, the legislators themselves. Um, many of who, um, both House representatives and senators on both sides of the aisle, uh, worked tirelessly along with us to understand our message and and what we were trying to do, um, and really listened to us. I'd also like to say say a huge thanks of gratitude to the other six county commissioners and their staff for joining our forces um to get a a really really bad piece of legislation out of the original language. um that would be very damaging to county governments and uh excuse me, county spending and projects that we already have um allocated for projects throughout our county uh to allow us to make the decision in how we spend that money. Uh finally, I would like to thank um the the county staff and the state staff who also really worked tirelessly with us um because at the end of the day, it's them who will be doing this work. Um, and at the end of the day, I was fighting for them and fighting for county taxpayer dollars. So, just wanted to make that mention. Um, it it was it was stressful. It was a lot. Um, and so I think those who worked with us, listened to us, um, should get that appreciation. It wasn't everyone. I want to make that very clear as well. Um, but we do appreciate Republic Republicans and Democrats who did choose to work with us. So, thank you. So getting into the transportation committee report. Um the parks and transportation committee of the whole met on June 3rd at the transportation division facility. Uh there was no one in attendance who offered public comment. Uh we have a number of items on the consent agenda. So I will get started with the highway department. Uh the first item on our consent agenda is resolution 2025 TR19. uh which is a resolution approving the receipt of grant funds through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency for storm water treatment design for the reconstruction of the 40th a of 40th Avenue between Main Street and trunk highway 47 in the city of Columbia Heights. The grant amount is 25,000. The next recommendation to approve is entering into contract C0011537. This is a memo of understanding with the city of Ramsey for a temporary placement of flock safety camera equipment within ana county right of way to assist Ramsey police officers. This this request is similar to all the requests that we've consistently done over the past year or so uh specifically with the cities of Blaine, Spring Lake Park, Columbia Heights, and an NOKA. Uh there is no cost to the county on this um memo of understanding as the city of Ramsey is responsible for all expenses upkeep and maintenance. Now going to the surveyor's office for the last two items. The first being the recommendation for the release of permanent drainage and utility easement held by Anoka County and the city of Ramsey. Uh, in 2014, Anoka County received a request, um, excuse me, received a drainage and utility easement from the city of Ramsey Housing and Redevelopment Authority, which was used to construct a storm water treatment pond associated with the Highway 10 and Armstrong Boulevard interchange project. Since that time, the city of Ramsey has designed and constructed a new regional storm water pond at an alternate location to manage runoff for the area previously served by the original pond and is now complete and operational. Uh Ramsey has recently removed the original highway pond infrastructure within the county's easement area. However, the drainage and utility easement remains. The city is requesting the release of this easement to allow for platting and development of the parcel into three commercial lots. Uh there is no cost to the county. So um that that is for an explanation for the third item. And the final item on our consent agenda is recommending approval for of a a quick claim deed granting a 40 foot wide opening in the existing controlled access to an existing outlot in waterfront village in Ramsey. Ramsay submitted a preliminary plat for redevelopment. They intend to replplat and redevelopment this property as Bunker Lake Crossings, a commercial development. The proposal includes three commercial lots and one outlet outlot. Two of the lots will share a 40 foot wide right in right out access onto Armstrong Boulevard, while lot three will access the site off Sunwood Drive Northwest. City and county staff have worked together to confirm the proposed development and access configurations and agree that they both meet our individual requirements. There is no cost to the county associated with that, which is great. Um, and with that, Mr. Chair, I will offer a motion to accept the transportation committee consent agenda. We have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. It's been moved by Commissioner Jeepson, seconded by Commissioner Heinrich. Um, any discussion anyone has on any of these four? Hearing none. This a roll call vote. Commissioner Gamash. I. Commissioner Schulty. Hi. Commissioner Jeepson. Hi. Commissioner Meisner. I. Commissioner Heinrich. I. Commissioner Brastead. I. Commissioner Reiner. Hi. And that passes unanimously. Um, I'm going to move to the uh, Commissioner Reiner and the parks and then we'll doformational um, after we finish all the voting. So, Commissioner Reiner. All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yep. Uh, we do have a few items for you to consider today. Uh, first item is resolution 2025 TR16, and this is a resolution relating to snowmobile trail grant in a uh, programs. Um, uh, the state uh, provides these dollars. We uh received $500,000 in 2021 and $200,000 in 2023 for design and engineering for a couple miles in the Rice Creek North Regional Trail. Uh what we're doing with this action is requesting $7 million for uh the last remaining segment um over by Golden Lake Elementary and Baldwin Park and Circle Pines. Uh, next item is um resolution 2025 TR17, a resolution of support for a capital budget request to Minnesota management and budget to fund trail improvements for the Rice Creek Regional Trail System. So, this is a segment over in Circle Pines. It's very marshy. Uh, it's going to be an expensive trail no matter when it's done, but we've been trying to get it done for about 30 years. We like to call it the missing link. And uh it's because uh if we could just get that trail segment uh done um you'd be able to go from northern Minnesota down to the Gulf of well Gulf of America I guess now. And um so we did receive uh $500,000 for design engineering and some archeological digs. Uh but we just need that uh that last amount of money to get it done and now it's up to $7 million. So that's what that item is about. Resolution uh 2025 TR18 relating to the issuance of permits for archery deer hunting in designated areas of Bunker Hills Regional Park, Rapids Dam Regional Park, Rum River Central Regional Park, and Rice Creek Chain of Lakes uh Lake Reserve. Uh so we do this every year. We send in um uh deer hunters uh with uh bows. Um it's a safe way to remove some deer. Uh the populations are just so great in our parks that we just u have to do this. Um as an example, Bunker Hills Regional Park has 39 deer per square mile if you can imagine that. Rapids Dam 21 and Rice Creek Chain of Lake Regional Park 22 deer per square mile. So uh we take out I think last year, let me add it up here. It's about 52 60 about 70 deer. And uh it what it does is just reduces um the amount of deer that are in there. And what it really greatly um improves is um a reduction in deer auto collisions, which is uh you know, as you can imagine, a pretty safety big safety problem. Uh next on the agenda is uh contract number C1 11630. This is in the amount of $3,557,090 uh to Buminous Roadways, Inc. for the bunker redevelopment project in Rapids. Um so these dollars uh come from legacy funds. We've got about $4 million in there right now. And uh this project is to do some work on the southern portions of Parkway A, Parkway B, uh parking lots at Bunker Campground and the auxiliary maintenance building. And uh that includes the four items uh for you to consider today. And I'll move those. We have a motion. And do I have a second on these four? Second. Seconded by Commissioner um Schulty. Um moved by Commissioner um Reinard. Um any questions, comments? Seeing none, that's a roll call vote. Commissioner Schulty. Hi. Commissioner Jeepson. I. Commissioner Meisner I. Commissioner Heinrich. Hi. Commissioner Brastead. I. Commissioner Reiner. Hi. Commissioner Gamash. I. And that passes unanimously. Um, I'll check with commission back with Commissioner Jeepson onformational items from her meeting. Yes, there there are a number offormational items from the transportation committee that we discussed and I just want to touch on a few of them. Um, we all know the the joke Minnesota has two seasons, winter and construction. Um, and so we know as we go about our days, construction season is alive and well. Um, and whenever I talk to residents about upcoming projects, construction, things like that, I always make sure to include just wait, it's going to get worse. it is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. So this morning I'm I have the honor today to kick off the first two of very very many items uh that will come before this board for the trunk highway 65 project that will begin next year. Uh the committee authorized the county engineer to negotiate two different contracts uh that that are the first steps in beginning construction of the new grade separated interchanges along trunk highway 65 from 97th Avenue to 117th Avenue in the city of Blaine. These contracts streamline the distribution of the awarded funds and allow MDOT to directly access the funds for that project. The city of Blaine and Inoka County was awarded $9 million and $25 million. So in order to use utilize those funds, uh we must enter into two separate agreements with Mandot. Uh the two contracts are C000011640 and the second contract is C000011641. Uh next we authorized the county engineer to advertise for bids for the replacement of a bridge on Rum River Boulevard or over the Celely Brook in Oak Grove. Uh the next item we discussed was gaining a further understanding of the nationwide candidate conservation agreement with asurances for the monarch butterfly on energy and transportation lands. Uh in early May, we approved for staff to begin preparing an application uh to participate in this voluntary program which is in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Services and is designed to support the conservation of monarch butterflies while providing regulatory asurances for participating agencies. We also discussed some um updates on recent and current projects um and ex um and the agreements that we were executed since the last transportation committee. So, with that, um, those were all theformational items I wanted to contribute. Thank you, Commissioner Gypson. Uh, Commissioner Reiner, anyformational items from parks? I can talk about I can talk about a couple of things here. Um, would also like to comment on the two seasons of Minnesota. Over here in the parks uh committee area, we we call it the fun things you can do in ana county parks in the summer and the fun things you can do in the no county parks in the winter. Uh, and some of those are uh Bunker Beach. Bunker Beach opened last Saturday, June 7th, and will be open until August 24th. Uh very popular uh place to go in Anoka County, and this includes the very popular cardio club. Uh cardio club um happens on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I'm not going to get the times right, but there's a morning session and an afternoon session. Uh it's in the Lazy River. Um uh growing in popularity. Also, it's uh Saturday, Sunday. I think that's a morning uh session there. Um, campgrounds are open and um, we should remind uh, residents that uh, some of our campgrounds are alongside rivers like the Rum River Campground and you can actually rent a um, a campsite right on the river so you can have access for your canoe or your kayak and uh, so a lot definitely a the campgrounds are super popular. Book now because they sell out. Uh we did have another uh successful fantastic kids fishing clinic uh took place on May 3rd. We had over 300 participants and um Shaman Golf Course continues to uh grow in popularity and become more and more successful. Uh this year we have already have 20 new members and um we have a growing amount of uh golf tournaments and golf clubs. Um and I I was out there a couple times already this year and it's really the only place I golf. Um the grounds look great and keep improving. Uh membership has steadily grown over the last six years and I just want to throw out a special thanks to Mark Johnson who's been uh running the Shaman Golf Course for the last six years. He just does an impeccable job. So that completes my uh information report. Commissioner, thank you Commissioner Riner. We'll move down to item 7C, public safety. Commissioner Breast. Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh the public safety committee met this morning. We had no public comment, but we have this one item, this one resolution that we felt it urgent enough to move it right to the board. And that is we seek approval of resolution 2025 PS1, which is a resolution affirming the rule of law. And I'll read through the resolution so that everyone is aware of exactly what it states. Um it states whereas all the officials in an noa county have sworn oath oaths to support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Minnesota and to faithfully discharge the duties of their offices. And whereas the 10th amendment to the Constitution of the United States ratified in 1791 establishes that the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited to the United States are reserved to the states or to the people clarifying that the federal government's authority is limited. And whereas the separation of powers is a fundamental principle of American government that promotes democratic accountability by ensuring that the three branches of government at the state and federal levels are subject to the oversight of one another and the electorate. And whereas public interest groups and the United States Department of Homeland Security have erroneously characterized Anoka County as a sanctuary jurisdiction for undocumented immigrants. And whereas Anoka County and its officials, including the sheriff and the county attorney, have never passed an ordinance, adopted any resolution, or set any policy or procedure aimed at or resulting in the county being a sanctuary jurisdiction for undocumented immigrants. And whereas Anoka County and its officials, including the sheriff and the county attorney, respect the rule of law, the rights of individuals, and every day they seek to carry out the county's responsibilities for protecting and serving the people in an NOA County within the law. Now therefore, be it resolved that Anoka County is not a sanctuary for undocumented people within the United States. Be it further resolved that the Anoka County Commissioners, the sheriff, and the Anoka County uh county attorney, whose names are assigned to this resolution, reaffirm their oath to discharge faithfully the duties of their offices, and that it is the policy of Anoka County to respect the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Minnesota, the reservation of powers to the states, the separation of powers, the rule of law, and then individual rights, among other bedrock legal principles. Be it finally resolved that this resolution is posted in the official county bulletin board and copies be forwarded immediately to each department of the county and the association of Minnesota counties. And Mr. Chair, I'd like to offer that resolution. Thank you, Commissioner Breaststead, for offering that resolution. Um, I would like to um um have our administrator, Jim Dickinson, um go over a little bit about uh some of what's been happening leading up to this. Basically, why we're here and uh what you have is the resolution that was uh read by uh Commissioner Brassstead. Uh it's recommended by the county administrator, county attorney, and county sheriff. Uh we're all supportive of of this. uh particularly uh May 30th, the Department of Homeland Security published on their website a list where they identified a sanctuary jurisdictions as it relates to immigration enforcement on Noa County. Within a couple of days, that list was taken down. Uh why now? Uh we've in the past we've had a a a statement that we've put out identifying uh basically that we follow the law and we respect the rights of all uh but we follow the law. Uh understanding with this list uh there's been talk that this list will come back. uh it does have potential funding restrictions from the federal government and uh that uh we believe this is a identifier to really set the record or state straight of who an NOA County is. Uh so with that that's how we come forth to offer the resolution uh that Commissioner Brasta just read and I do believe the county attorney has a little bit more to add to this as does the county sheriff. Thank you uh Jim. Um county attorney Johnson. Uh, thank you, Chair Gamash, members of the county board. Some of this will be a little duplicative, but I think it it bears repeating so that the public gets an understanding of of why we're here. Um, as this board knows, uh, and the sheriff knows, certain partisan, nonprofit uh, organizations and public interest groups have recently used this phrase sanctuary jurisdiction to make political points. Um, it's unfortunate, but also as the sheriff and the board knows, there isn't a legally established definition of sanctuary jurisdiction in any federal law or for that matter in any state law. That phrase is not used in the law. Uh, a small number of communities across the nation have self-described or self-declared that they are sanctuaries. Anoka County is not and has never been one of them. Recently, in response to an executive order, the United States Department of Homeland Security published a nationwide list that included Minnesota communities. Other communities that are very similar to Anoka County are on that list. Wright County, Sherburn County, Sterns County. Um, and Anoka County was also put on that list. That is erroneous. And after the Minnesota Sheriff's Association and others um pushed back against the inclusion on that list, the list was taken down. The list is likely to come back. Uh but it was a temporary list that was put out there. Anoka County has always taken pride in its respect for the rule of law. Uh that has always been my advice to the sheriff and all the county departments. We in an noa county make a good faith effort to follow the law in all that we do. Uh I do want to just call out the fifth whereas clause and just read it again because I think it it really does bear repeating. Whereas Anoka County and its officials, including the sheriff and the county attorney, have never passed any ordinance, adopted any resolution, or set any policy or procedure aimed at or resulting in the county being a sanctuary jurisdiction for undocumented immigrants. It is just inaccurate to describe the county as otherwise. This resolution seeks to affirm the rule of law and to set the record straight and I will just offer to um the county board that I support it even though I don't have a vote. Thank you. Thank you. Um Sheriff Wise is here and I'd like to have him make a comment as well. Thank you chair for coming. Yeah, thank you Mr. Chair, commissioners. Uh clearly this was become the topic of immigration enforcement has become a very political topic. Um one for sure that I think it's appropriate that we address via this resolution. I think it needs to be clear to the public that I I too support this resolution that this resolution is a statement of fact. It's not a reflection of any sort of policy shift or change. As you know, I've been in local law enforcement in an NOA County for 30 years, um, including a senior leadership position in another city for more than 10 years before coming to the sheriff's office. Um, I think part of the, uh, misconception with either helping or not helping ICE uh, do their job is some sort of new thing. In my 30 years of law enforcement in NOA County, no ICE official has ever come to me and said that they would like local law enforcement help in doing their job. They are adequately staffed to do their job. They do their jobs very well. They frankly don't need law enforcement's help, local law enforcement's help to do their jobs. Um what people are seeing today is um if you want to describe it as a bottleneck of removals for people who uh shouldn't be in the country, the bottleneck exists within the courts. The uh bottleneck is not due to arrests. So what that resolution specifically is talking about um is uh saying that we in ana county are going to continue to follow law just as we always have. We will continue to work with federal authorities in the capacity that they ask us to. But that said, they're not asking us for our help. They just don't. They do their thing. We do our thing. We have a commitment to serve the citizens of Anoka County. From time to time, we run across people who u wind up not having status to be in the United States that have committed crimes. they get arrested on those state charges and then the feds are notified and then the feds do the job that they need to do for the immigration removal. So, um I wish we weren't in the kind of place that we had to make some public pronouncement that wasn't necessary for the previous 29 years that I've worked in in no county, but apparently it's something that's important today to um satisfy the needs of of certain elected officials. So, um, I support the resolution. Seems silly to me that we have to be in a position to make a statement such as this, but if that's what we need to do, that's what we need to do. Thank you, Sher. Um, appreciate the comments. Uh, that's exactly my feeling as well on that regarding the seemingly seems to be unnecessary, but um, I I do appreciate that and thank you very much for that. Um, any comments for the board, Commissioner Meisner? Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. And I uh I I'll I'll start off with with positives. First of all, thank you so much for allowing um the colleagues to flesh out the reasons why we're doing this because this is I think uh it is confusing topic because there's not even a legal definition of what we're actually addressing. So there's a variety of layers with this. Uh but I think it is important to educate um the public about the reasons and it is extremely unfortunate that we find ourselves in this position. I will not be supporting this resolution for basically the the foundational reason of that this is politically driven. Um I understand the the reasoning that um that was just shared. Uh but in in 2021, this board did uh make a commitment to try to avoid actually this kind of predicament. Um so being that this is politically driven, um I I'm not going to be able to support this in terms of just wanting to be consistent with that. Also, I would say with this logic, and again, this is a very unique situation. I I will recognize that I don't think anything like this has ever come before this board in terms of trying to negate something or prove something we're already doing. Um I do think that it is also unnecessary that word has been used before about this and I think this resolution is unnecessary because of that. Uh in terms of the logic we are making a statement that you know we are following the law and nothing has changed or is changing. So all those things are true, but by that logic, then are we going to have 50 other resolutions stating that we're also following the law? So again, that just is my basis for my argument. Um, and that is the reason why I will not be supporting this resolution. But I do also want to thank most sincerely the language that was used in this. I know um it was really labored over how to how to address this situation and I I do appreciate the language that was used. I think as far as that goes, it is the the best that we could possibly do for something like this, but uh um I I still am not able to support it. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Jeepson and Commissioner Schulty. Uh yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I won't reiterate everything that everybody said except I I really feel um that this is very politically motivated, but I don't think our response is political. I think the attorney's office, the sheriff's department um administration did a very very good job in writing this resolution as unnecessary or silly as as some may think, including me, is where we're at today. Um and so I will be supporting this um because we are to a point where we're having to validate and affirm that we are following the rule of law um based on a response of politically motivated um decisions, actions, words, what have you. Um and that's really unfortunate but um that's where we are. So, I just also wanted to comment that this there is some potential funding issues that we might have and this is also a response to support our staff at in the county's attorney's office as well as the sheriff's department. And the concern that I have based on comments from the sheriff's department and the attorney's office is that we could lose some really essential essential funding if if any more u misinformation or confusion or very clear direction is not given. Uh so I just wanted to make make sure people know that this is also in support of our staff um as well as our reg residents constituents and such. So thank you Mr. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Schulty. Commissioner Jeepson covered my points. Okay, Commissioner Heinrich. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, first off, I just I do want to thank the the um administration uh county attorney's office and the sheriff's office for um all the hard work and um and dedication to put the right language together uh in this resolution. Specifically, want to thank Sheriff Brad Weiss for his comments um here this morning. um total agreement with kind of a frustrating spot that that we're in. Um I don't look at this action that the board's taking today as a uh politically um motivated in the sense of that the resolution because all we're doing is stating a fact. Uh it's unfortunate that we have to do that. Um but the fact is that um Anoka County is committed to following uh federal law and state law um respecting individual rights and uh and following our our constitution. This this resolution is more about public awareness and I I've pulled the resolution uh that's been talked about um I know county policy for symbolic resolutions and proclamations back in 2021 um long before I was on this board. And um one of I'll just make one uh read one part of it here. You know, county board of commissioners will continue to consider and issue as appropriate ceremonial resolutions and proclamations issued for one of the first bullet points is public awareness. This is really a public awareness issue at this point. It's about setting the record straight. We've been as Noa County has been misidentified. Fact, we are not a sanctuary county. The term sanctuary was originally politically motivated to satisfy some voter bases in municipalities, political bases. It was more virtue signaling and was a facade that had no teeth in the first place. Uh municipalities chose to uh come out with some statement that was at the time called uh sanctuary to essentially fly in the face of federal immigration law. Sanctuary status used to be an opt-in. I think it still is. Municipalities would opt into they would make a motion and or a resolution declaring themselves a sanctuary. Again, what what kind of teeth that had, uh I don't think it really did, but um but they did that. That was politically motivated. What we're doing here today is is not politically motivated. Uh this is about setting the record straight. Um at first glance it it does seem unnecessary but we've been m misidentified and so it's our job to address this and set the record straight um that noa county and uh the officials are committed to following uh federal and state law. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you uh Commissioner Heinrich. Commissioner Braided. Uh thank you, Mr. Chair. Um good points, Commissioner Heinrich. I just want to say it isn't just since like May since this misinformation has been out. It's been well over a year that some of us have been dealing with this. So, it's it's time that we go on record and and make sure that the data is correct. And that's the impetus behind this whole resolution is just to cor correct the bad information that is out there and and make it very very clear. So I I think this is really good. It's in my opinion probably actually a little bit too late but here we are nonetheless. Thank you Commissioner Breast. Commissioner Reiner. Yeah, just short comment. Um um you know silence a lot of times can be interpreted as um agreement acceptance and um you know to u commissioner Brastad's point this has been going on for over a year and so I've been pushing for you know some kind of action to basically just state that we are not a sanctuary county. Uh so I'm glad we came out with this. Uh it's got full support of uh staff and sheriff's office and the uh county attorney's office and uh very well written, but uh yeah, we it's time to respond. Um you just sometimes you just have to respond. We do not agree with what's been saying. It's at the national level right now coming out through DHS, a federal agency. Uh yeah, it's time. So um um I will be supporting this. Thank you, Commissioner Ryder. Um, the resolution is called resolution affirming the rule of law. Um, which I thought was a good title. Um, and most everything that's in here is just going over the fact that we take our oaths of office every time we're reelected. Uh, we support the Constitution of the United States, Constitution of the State of Minnesota, and we faithfully discharge the duties of of our offices. Um, county attorney does the same, county sheriff does the same. Um, all of the sheriff's deputies take those same oaths of office. Um, so all of those things are being done right now currently. And there's one quote in here that we didn't add in or anything like that. Um, but I think it came from the administrator's office is that no ana county policy is aimed at impeding ISIS's federal authority to enforce the nation's immigration laws. And I thought it was great that the sheriff indicated that over the 30 years um almost that he's been out he's never had an ICE agent come to him um asking for help. Uh they do their job and they can do their job. Um so it is frustrating that we have to um sit down and and go over this and take a vote just to get clarification um um into into Washington DC. Um, and that's that's one of the things that bothers me the most about this is that um if you do your job and you figure out what the truth is um you will find out that we should not be on this list. Um and from what um attorney county attorney Johnson said, there's probably a few other counties that are have are going to have to uh look at this as well. Um because they've gotten placed on a list that well doesn't really doesn't actually exist in the minds of the law because sanctuary county doesn't mean anything um in the li in the eyes of the law. So it is frustrating to have to vote on this. Um but in this regard, we're trying to clarify. We're trying to make sure everybody understands exactly um what's going on. Um this does support staff. This does uh I'm sure at the sheriff's office for sure, but in other many other areas of Anoka County within the county attorney's office and in even in our human services area as to exactly what the points are and and the fact that there could be federal dollars uh that we're already concerned about losing um in certain areas based on um legislation that's going through DC and through the House and the Senate. Um those are things that we're concerned about and don't do not want to see happen. So the possibility that it could happen erroneously based on something that's not true. Um this is our opportunity that we can at least make that statement to say this is what what's out there is not true. So again it's the resolution reaffirming the rule of law and we have a offer of the resolution. All in favor signify by saying I. I opposed. Nay. Um it passes 6 to1. Thank you. Um that is the if there's nothing else to come before the county board uh we are adjourned.