This meeting is being recorded. Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, November 18th. We'll call the Wright County Board of Commissioners to order. We'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> [clears throat] >> It's a pretty full agenda here today. Uh first item on there will begin with the approval of the minutes from November 4th. I'll stand for a motion or modifications at this time. >> So moved. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Sh. Second by uh Commissioner Holland. [laughter] >> Mr. Chair, I would like to make a modification um to the cons uh consent agenda D1. >> All right. Hold on. Just uh do we have a motion a second? Just want to say the motion maker is open to amendments on it. >> No, I'm good with it. >> I'm good with it. >> Can I can I finish my comment or no? >> Well, if we're if the motion in the second on there, if we're going to be uh making suggestions for comments, the motion makers have to adopt or be willing to make that amendment. Uh otherwise, if they're not willing to make that amendment, uh we take a vote on this and if it passes, we move forward. If not, uh then we can come back to your amendment. >> For sure. Thank you, chair. >> All right. So, at this time, uh, we'll stand. We have a motion we by Commissioner, uh, Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Uh, any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. >> I >> All right. Minutes are approved for one. All right. Today's agenda. [clears throat] Is anyone like to uh add or remove anything from today's agenda? >> Mr. Chair administration would like to add a memorandum of agreement between the MPIA Corrections Union and Wright County regarding life and disability insurance. I'd like to add that under consent agenda item A4. >> All right, Mr. Chair, I I'd like to add an update to the county's transition to CCA. Um after I mean if we could do it after the consent agenda, it'd be great. >> We'll do it the first time agenda item. So, I'll just going to move that uh right on the top there. Uh CCA transition uh first time agenda item. All right. Any other additions or corrections to today's agenda? >> Hearing none. I'll stand for a motion. >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to approve today's agenda with the additions of uh consent agenda A4 and the CCA transition as the first timed agenda item. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos same side. >> All right. The agenda is approved unanimously. Today's consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion? I'll make a motion we accept the consent agenda as [snorts] presented. >> All right. Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Mo to approve today's consent agenda as presented. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. All right. The consent agenda is approved unanimous. Next we have the first transition uh the first time agenda item, the CCA transition. Commissioner Mo. >> Yeah. Uh Mr. Chair, I'd just like to comment on our situation as it currently stands with the Minnesota Department of Corrections and [clears throat] Wright County's decision to transition to a community corrections system. Um, Wright County was the largest county in the state that was still working through the DOC for felony probation. All counties that were larger than us and smaller ones have moved into a community corrections model uh because it improves public safety and provides local [clears throat] control. Back in April, as you remember, the county board approved a a resolution announcing our intent to stop having the DOC provide felony probation. On November 10th, we officially have transitioned to become a community corrections model county and began operation at the community corrections as the community corrections authority. However, we have run into a significant issue with the DOC commissioner uh Paul Schnell. As of today, we have not received any feedback from Mr. Schnell regarding our decision to handle our own community corrections other than the extortion plot he has attempted to perpetrate on Ray County. We sent him our plan and he has yet to give any feedback regarding our plan to take over felony probation at the county level. I don't want to get too deep into the details, but Mr. Schmemell, Mr. Schnell is trying [clears throat] to get Ray County residents to pay for his contractually required obligations with union employees. Aside from being ethically questionable, when does the state government department get the authority to try to extort money out of a county? If one of our employees went somewhere else to work, we wouldn't expect the new person's employer to pay our employee contractual obligations. Nobody does that. And that's because it's an absurd thought at several levels. I believe Mr. and the DOC are taking this shocking posture because they fear there may be 40 more counties after us that are waiting in line to make the shift from DOC to locally controlled community corrections. I don't believe Mr. Schnell or the DOC should try to balance its budget on the back of the citizens of Wright County by extorting the county. They have a contractual union obligation to pay their employees when they leave employment of the DOC. I think it's time for Mr. Schnell to own up to his responsibility to those employees who work for the DOC and stop trying to shake down right county residents to make his books work. Plain and simple. I think this is extortion. >> Commissioner Mo, I appreciate your comments there. Uh is there any board members have some questions or uh regarding the transition to CCA? Uh staff has worked diligently hard here over the last uh six plus months here to uh bring us to a community corrections uh organization here transitioning from a state ran for felony uh oversight. And in that time we have worked hard with the DOC. We have given given them the documents as prescribed by state statute and yet here we are. Uh state is trying very very diligently to find ways to uh pothole or stop this process from happening. Uh Kirby uh Commissioner Mo you have illustrated it quite well on how I'm going to use the word chaotic this has become. And at this time, it's a very poor use of tax uh dollars at the state level to be uh fighting with us over a process that is prescribed in statute that was followed to the tea on our side. And right now, it creates a great level of ambiguity for the bench and where felony cases should be going and it needs to be rectified sooner than later. >> Mr. Mr. Chair, if I could comment to that. Um, Commissioner, thank you so much for bringing this to light. Yes, we have been working on this very diligently and have followed everything we needed to follow. Um, my commitment is to the residents of Wright County and this isn't just about a policy disagreement. This has real consequences and how we deliver to our residents. So, by all means, um yes, I think this needs to be looked at. Yeah, I I concur. Um uh thank you to uh um Mike McMillan for all the hard work on this. And as a board, I feel we're committed to make this transition work. And this is a states this is a state throwing a hurdle in our direction that is just un unheard of. So I I think it's important that uh this message gets out there so that the players involved in this will hopefully take swift action to allow us to make this transition and all pieces of the puzzle uh from a staffing and uh budgetary and funding perspectives are rectified so we can all move forward and have the best use of tax dollars in the oversight of felony cases here in Wright County. So with that, um, this was a public information I assume. Commissioner Mo. >> Yeah. I just I just wanted to bring to light that, uh, what we've been dealing with behind the scenes is a lot of people don't often get to to see how the sausage is made, as they say. And, uh, I just I think it was important to bring it up that we are being extorted or attempting to be extorted by the Department of Corrections and the commissioner, uh, Mr. Schnel. All right. Uh, with that, we'll enter into our 905, which is now our 910. And we have our, uh, also famous uh, Captain Ali, who's going to make his way here to the, uh, podium. [snorts] He's here to sign autographs today, >> commissioners. What's that? >> You're here to sign autographs today, right? >> Yeah, sure. Long as it includes a pay bump, I'm [laughter] >> No, thank you for having me here today. Thank you for giving me some time. uh talk a little bit about jail operations. Um uh [snorts] in the in the we're here to ask for uh some money from the opioid fund for regarding a system called re reassurance. Um one of the things and I'm sure that you've all seen some stuff on TV um recently in the last probably year jail things that are happening around the state. Um people that that you know you typically see some really nasty looking video um and whatever. Unfortunately, you don't always hear the whole story of that. One of the things that we have to do in the jail is or we have whatever our number of people are, we are required to do um checks on all of our people. We typically work in about a 1 to 40 or 1 to 60 housing ratio for staff to inmates. Um so meaning that there's no possible way for us to do 247 watching of any particular person. There's always going to be gaps. We typically or we are required by law to check on every person physically every 30 minutes. Um, which we do. We actually exceed that. We check on every person every 25 minutes, physically check on every person every 25 minutes. Um, but unfortunately there's still those gaps and we can't we can't know what's happening when we're not in a specific space watching a specific inmate. What this system will do is we'll it will assist us with once we identify those people that that are um in need of some kind of need whether it be through withdrawal issues whether it be through uh suicidal issues whether it be met other medical things this system will place a monitor into the into the ceiling of the c of the cell and it will essentially it will act like a Fitbit or a Apple Watch or whatever you want to call it where it'll monitor the person's respirations. It'll monitor their heart rate. It'll monitor uh amount of movement that they're doing within that cell. Um and we can have it pulled up on a computer screen and if once we establish whatever those thresholds are, it will sound an alarm for the officers to know that that this person's fallen below those thresholds during those periods of time when we're not able to be physically looking at that individual. Um, this uh product has been placed into a number of jails around the state now. When we started looking at it, uh, Brandon Stein brought this to my attention. We actually been looking at it for a couple of years, but it was new technology and as you know, when new things are on the market, they're extremely expensive and they're not super reliable yet. Um, so as time has gone on, products had been re refined. Um, this came to our attention through a conference. Um, we started talking to a few other jails that have already put it in. They've all used everybody I spoke with in the state has used opioid funds to put this into their jails. Uh several new jails are being built built around the state and this product is going into those new builds as well. Um I believe there was a a save just within the last 60 days up in the northern uh I think I want to say Cass County, but I'm not 100% sure. uh with this system. Um so uh we brought it forward to to the board to hopefully be able to purchase it and place it. We're this is for 10 devices that would go into 10 cells. Like I said, we would triage those people and put them in and classify them into the appropriate place. Um and this will help our officers maintain the safety of those that are most at risk within our jail. >> Thank you, Captain Ali. >> Very welcome. >> Questions? Mr. Chair, I have just a comment on it. I support this request wholeheartedly. I think it's going to be a benefit for both staff and of course the the inmates in the jail. Um I'm just and it and it fits with the criteria of the opiate settlement committee and it all of that. I mean it's just a really good project. So I wholeheartedly support it. I just I just like to speak to the the process. Um, in the past, um, the opiate settlement committee brings a recommendation after they've, uh, worked hard to put criteria together, um, and RFP out and and get applications for these, uh, [clears throat] for the settlement funds. Um, that's my concern only, that that that we haven't followed the process. Um, it's come right to the board. I'm not objecting to it. I'm going to vote yes. Um, I think this is a great product. I just, um, I just am concerned that we didn't follow the process. We have people on that committee that have met um and put a lot of time and effort um developing and having these these RFPs go out and they have to document that all of this data and track it. So um I just know moving forward we'll work together and um it'll that will all get done, but I just um it's important to me um for the process to be followed. So thank you. >> So uh uh Captain Omeia, I'm going to speak to this one. So, uh, Commissioner Dietrich, just so you understand, and maybe you saw already this afternoon, and if you read the, uh, workshop agenda, there was a reorg of the opioid, uh, [snorts] uh, committee that we're working forward with. Uh, Commissioner Moa, myself have been working on trying to make some, uh, improvements to that committee. That committee, we have found as we previous in a [clears throat] couple board meetings before, had turned down a number of their recommendations. And we've seen previously a number of recommendations or lack of recommendations coming out of that organization as well as that re organization uh seems to only want to uh fund nonprofits which we know across the state of Minnesota has been quite of a quandry in funding nonprofits and as to whether those funds are being spent properly or not. and that uh group has systematically almost denied any type of uh uh request by the county itself to use some of those funds. So, uh, I will actually say that I circumvented that group and actually, uh, worked on putting it on the agenda so we could get this thing, not this thing, this this, uh, purchase, uh, streamlined and move forward to the board so it can get done. And all while working with Commissioner Moina, uh, which we'll discuss this afternoon on changes to that opioid committee so that we can get, uh, better parameters and a better understanding of how those funds should be used. I think there's a little bit of a misunderstanding on that group as to uh what abilities they do or do not have with those funds. Uh they are a recommending body. Uh they are not a deciding body. Uh we >> Mr. Chair, >> sorry to interrupt. I I think this will be part of a very good and robust conversation that we'll have later. But um >> I as long as you're okay, I'd like to make a motion to approve the use of the opioid settlement funds to purchase uh the reassurance solutions monitoring system in the jail. >> I'll second that. >> All right. Thank you, Commissioner Mo. Motion by Commissioner Mo, second by Commissioner Holland. Is there any other comments? >> Uh yes. Uh thank you for bringing this forward. Uh I see this as a huge benefit. I think this will save us from a lawsuit that could potentially happen >> and uh I'm glad uh thank you Commissioner Vetch for bringing it forward in this uh timely manner so we can go move forward. Um thank you Mr. Chair. I'd like to say thank you to you to also I know a lot of work went into that. Um again it's being fiscally responsible to where this money is both mostly utilized to be utilized the best for our area. Mr. Chair, just a follow-up comment. We have funded the um co-responder [clears throat] program for the sheriff's office as well, and that has been a great asset to our communities, too. >> Yes. >> Well, we have a motion. We have a second. Any other discussion? Hearing none. Uh with that, uh all in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. >> Motion passes unanimous. >> Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Thank you. [snorts] And now Larkin. >> Good morning. >> Good morning. >> Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board. I'm here this morning um to ask that you adopt a resolution proclaiming tomorrow, November 19th as National GIS day in Bre County. Um just a few comments. It's National Geography Week. Um that's kind of why we do uh I ask you to to adopt this this time of year for the past three years now. Um it's a good week to talk about geography, talk about GIS and um just just have those conversations and really um just keep continuing to talk about uh this discipline. Um we clo the GIS team closed 10 different projects this year and I just want to highlight a couple of them. Um we worked with the recorders office to convert a a process that was done on paper maps to the digital um product in ArcGIS. And for the GIS team, this is the first time we got new people using um the tool GIS. And it's a big kudos to the land records processing specialists because learning GIS is not uh it's not an easy thing to do. but we got them um building uh parcels in uh the the software that we use. Um so that was a a a project that we haven't done before. That was really um really good to accomplish. Uh the second one is the cannabis setback application. We worked for from October to February um to create an application for our cities, but also our planning and zoning office in collaboration with public health to help interpret um the ordinances that were passed in our cities and at the county uh for where you can license a a cannabis retailer. So, um, that was something we haven't we haven't really worked with our cities on a big project before. And, uh, doing that one was, uh, rewarding to get to give them a product where they can actually use GIS, interpret their ordinances, and make sure that they're making, um, decisions that follow the ordinances they put in place. So, um, that's that is all I have. >> Thank you, Larkin. Uh, so >> I'll make a motion to approve this. >> You we have a motion by Commissioner Dietrich. >> I'll second that. Second by Commissioner Holland to proclaim November 19th the sorry that day of November I think of the week sorry the November 19th as National GIS day here in Ray County >> and I and Commissioner Vetch I'd like to thank you for uh all the hard work our cities do really appreciate that uh all the work you did on that cannabis uh um setback um software. It is great and it helps not only our staff here but um across the the county is and it's well wellreceived. Thank you. >> Yeah. And I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't recognize Alex and Jacob for being really talented and doing a great job learning new [snorts] skills and um yeah developing these applications. So >> thank thank you. >> Thank you. All right. At this time, uh, resolution 2573. Uh, Commissioner Mo, >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> All right. Resolution passing hands. Thank you. >> Now we're down to the 913. >> Morning, Mr. Chair, commissioners. Um, happy to to welcome Shane Sheets, director of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office, and Dr. Anne Bracie. It's a n e b r a c e y. Um, a doctor at the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office, Dr. Piper, had an emergency today. Couldn't be here to present the annual medical examiner's report. And I apologize about the timeliness of it. I think uh, director Sheets and I were not We had a snapoo with our email. So, the the report actually came earlier in the year um, but I I didn't see it timely, so it's a little bit later this year. But with that said, I'll turn it over to Director Sheets and Dr. Bracie. And I'll just note um kind of timely, we had a a horrible tragic murder last week in Coco that you know has gotten a fair amount of attention on the news and Amber Czech unfortunately lost her life. Seems like a great young woman and Dr. Bracie actually performed the the medical exam on uh Miss Czech. So you never know uh when we're going to need the services of the of the medical examiner's office. So appreciate all you do. >> Thank you very much. And Mr. Chair, commissioners, we appreciate uh you hosting us today and again condolences to your whole community. It was all over I think the US News, correct? I think I heard it was on on people's news and things like that. It's it's just unfortunate our small community can deal with that. But yeah, I'm Shane Sheets. I'm the director of the Midwest Medical Examiner's Office and I don't want to steal Dr. Bracy's thunder here, but she is here to go through the annual report, the data that she's going to provide you today. We we always hope that that uh you as commissioners will look at that and [snorts] and act on it and decide kind of what you want to do with your community differently, but I just want to give you a quick update on some things that one thing that that we've done recently and that's OD MAPS. If you're not familiar with it, I'm definitely happy to share the link and I can provide that to you. But the ODMAP's integration, we were the first medical examiner in Minnesota, if not the Midwest, to apply fatal overdose data in real time automatically for the communities. So, it shows up as a heat map. So, you can actually use that as a for the opioid people or for the sheriff's office to really look and and target these areas that might be facing overdoses and what's in their system when they pass. So, that's been a huge help. And just to be clear, it's not outlining a specific address or individual. It's very vague and it's always updated. Uh, typically it's reserved for EMS and law enforcement when they've delivered Narcan, you [snorts] know, an overdose. But really, the fatal overdose data was lacking. So, we as a medical examiner decided to take that piece over and automate it so that that you can see that in real time as well. So, if you have any administrative questions for me, I'm here. Otherwise, I will leave it to Dr. Brace your assistant medical examiner. >> Morning. >> Good morning. >> Good morning. >> Thank you for having us today. Um Dr. Piper would have enjoyed being here today, but unfortunately life happens. Uh so about us, I think you all all know us. Uh currently we serve uh the Midwest Medical Examiners uh office provides uh services to 37 out of 87 Minnesota counties. Uh that's about 32% of the population of Minnesota. Um we also serve counties in Wisconsin. Um and within the past year um we've started serving or uh county in um upper peninsula, the upper peninsula of Michigan. Um our goal as always to provide and promote highquality forensic services um forensic pathology services to the communities that we serve. Um specifically for Wright uh county in 2024 there were you had 782 deaths total in your community. Uh 572 of those or 73% were reportable to the medical examiner's office. Um as you know the reportable are those uh non-natural manners of deaths or where an injury has occurred um or where an individual u might be a natural death but they were not under a physician's care. So essentially not in the hospital. Um, of those uh the 572 that were reported, 465 were declined. Those would be a lot of people who are registered in hospice. So, they were reported to us when they die, but um we decline jurisdiction or we determine that they do have a significant medical history. Uh and we can let their primary physician sign. Uh uh so 107 cases were assumed out of the 572 reported. Um and then breaking down those numbers of the 107 107 assumed cases um the majority of those are natural and accident uh 41 and 36% um which is pretty pretty standard across across the medical examiner system. Um very rare homicides, two homicides total. Um one of those was a law enforcement uh involved shooting. Uh one of those was a a domestic incident. Um so overall your um community is very safe. These are not um random incidents as unfort as the unfortunate one um last week. Um about 20% were suicides. Uh and uh there was just one undetermined case which means that we couldn't determine it was an individual with a substance use disorder. Um can't determine whether it was an accident versus um a suicide. It was a very strange strange case. So there was one undetermined um breaking down the um accidental manner of death. Um so 39 of your cases out of 170 that we uh took jurisdiction of were accident. Um 32 of those were blunt force injuries. Uh uh about 40% of those being uh motor vehicle collisions. Um the rest of those were um mostly falls with fractures. Um falls with head injuries. Um so these are people at home on um anti-coagulants or older where they break a bone and then they kind of decline afterwards. um five of those were drugs. Um out of the drugs, two of those were misuse of um uh unintentional misuse of prescription overthe-counter medications. Um two of those involved fentinel um with other substances. Uh and one of them was actually an acute cardiac event. Um but because the individual is using methamphetamine um if uh if a stimulant contributes to a cardiac death, we uh call that an accidental manner. Two of those were unsafe sleep. Um unfortunately a two and a three-month-old. Um and um I do participate in um kind of statewide review um infant mortality. Um one of the things that we've so one of these infants was under a care of a non-parent. Um and we talk about kind of encouraging safe sleep uh educating and encouraging safe sleep. Um we talk about statewide that that um that parents get that education but um if they aren't in a licensed if their child is being cared for by someone else um not a licensed daycare provider that um are these other people other family members um non-licensed daycare do they get the message about um safe sleep. So that's something to um think about in terms of prevention. Um uh going just uh doing an overview from 2021 to 2024. Um this is when we kind of have our newer um uh case management system so we can compare. Um the manner of death by year has been relatively stable. Um you do see the spike in 2020 and motor vehicle collisions or u blunt or uh and that was uh kind of seen nationwide during the COVID pandemic for whatever reason that motor vehicle accidents spiked. Um but the rest of the manners uh stayed pretty stable across across the years. Uh on the next slide, it's a four-year comparison of the subclassification. Um so on the next slide, if some you can scroll down. Um the important thing here to note is that the um drug substance abuse deaths um they have declined dramatically. And again, this is kind of a nationwide trend we're seeing um going from 15 in 2021 to uh five in 2024. Um so this is a a a encouraging trend. Um I'm don't think anyone has uh I don't know if it's getting the drugs out of the market um making more um Narcan available. I don't know if if there's been kind of a theories as to why these numbers are coming down. Uh and then on the next slide, so just the uh substances overall that are in the community. Um again uh reflecting kind of nationwide trends, fentanyl and methamphetamine are the most common three each. Um cocaine has um kind of been making a comeback. We've been seeing that increasingly. Um one of the deaths in Reich County um had cocaine present. Um heroin um very rarely see that. Uh and then xylazine. You had one case and as uh you may know xylazine is an adulterant um that um has been added to um typically fentinel. Um it's quote horse tranquilizer. Um it's you know they're adding cutting substances into the drugs um trying to you know essentially get a better high. Uh so that is the data for 2024. Uh are there any any questions? >> No I appreciate the information here. I I just learned something. I've never even heard of xylazine or whatever. >> That's what I was [laughter] thinking. >> Interesting. [clears throat] >> Thank you. And this is really good information for our public health people that are in the room too. It's always It was well put together. Thank you. >> Yes. Jamie Ryerson, our public health, she has a masters in public health now and she uh did a great job putting this together along with all of our all of our hardworking people in our office. >> Thanks. >> Well, we appreciate you taking the time to come out here and giving us the overview over the last year. So, well, hopefully next year will be uh even better and seeing more downward trends as we've seen over the years. So, >> thank you so much. And and again, if if public health or anybody has any questions, please feel free to have them reach out to us. We're happy to discuss, especially the xylazine new in the market. Um, yeah, you're you're noticing even a a trend of of people actually having sepsis from xylazine like it it eats tissue. Uh, so don't Google that. I don't encourage it. [laughter] But, um, no, we we do appreciate your services as well and serving your community. And again, we we do express our condolences for your recent loss that's covered everybody. So, all right you guys take care. >> Thanks. >> And now moving on to our 918 and Lindsay, good morning. >> Good morning, Mr. Chair, board. >> Good morning. >> Um before you is a request to set two public hearings. Um back toback would be fantastic if possible, but whatever works for your schedules. Um we have um a subordinate sewer district that the county owns and is serviced by the city of St. Michael. Um typically a delinquent utility bill would be um certified by the city that services. However, because it's under our jurisdiction, we need to certify the delinquent utility bills here at the county level. So that's the first and the second is for a an emergency fix that occurred on this same sewer line. Um the fix was enacted by the city of St. Michael which then the county had to uh subsequently reimburse the city for and um because it is not broadly used it is an item that needs to be special assessed to the users of that sewer district. So, you're looking to do December 16th at 9:30 and 9:40. >> I'd recommend we just schedule both of them at 9:30. >> We can. We can do that. Okay. I didn't know if we had to make it as two separate. >> We just can't do it before 9:30. >> Yeah. Okay. >> I'll make that motion. >> All right. Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Moina, second by Commissioner Shane to set uh two public hearings for the St. Michael subordinate sewer district and December 16th at 9:30 and 9 or 9:30 a.m. in this room. Any [snorts] discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> Motion passes unanimous. N. And moving on to our 920. Chad is making his way up to the podium. We have the first item on there would be to approve resolution 2574 for the sponsorship of the Monaceel Township local road improvement program application. >> All right. [laughter] Morning chairman, commissioners. Uh we have four separate resolutions for the local road improvement program grants that are due December 12th by local agencies. Um and part of a condition of a any city or township under 5,000 that can't receive state funds. we have to pass a resolution to um saying that we'll receive the funds and make sure they're expended properly. So, we have four so far this year. The last round was in 2023 and we had four projects selected in Ray County, which is pretty impressive. There's only 105 million. I think we received over 5% of that. So, we received it for Conrad 137. Albertville got a million and a half for Maine, Buffalo Township over a million for 12th Street, and St. Michael for Lander Avenue another million and a half. So each of the four there's four different categories. So and we we basically received a prize in each category. So we score well on this type of stuff. So we encourage them to apply. Um any questions? I can try to answer them. But like I said the first one is um Brierward and 90th in Monosel Township which is by um Bertram. So we can take those one by one if you >> I'll make a motion to approve uh resolution 2574 for Bertram. >> All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Holland. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Resolution vote. Commissioner Shane. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I >> resolution passes unanimous. Next would be 2575. >> Yeah, this is um Mary'sville Township uh Clement Avenue and corresponding the city of uh Montrose is applying for the basically the same project. So that two separate pots of money double their chances of receiving some funds. So um any questions now? So >> and do I have a motion? >> So moved. >> Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Moa to approve resolution 2575. Resolution vote. Any discussion? >> None. I'll vote I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> All right. Resolution passes unanimous. Next would be resolution 2576. Just see >> second. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Moa, second by Commissioner Shane. Is there any discussion on resolution 2576? >> Hearing none. Commissioner Holland. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I resolution passes unanimous. Now we have a resolution 2575 for Franklin Township 77 >> or 70. Sorry, 2577. >> Too many numbers in a row. >> Motion by Commissioner Dietri, second by Commissioner Moa. Any further discussion hearing? None. Uh, Commissioner Dietrich. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I resolution passes unanimous. >> Awesome. >> Chad, I just like to say thank you working with our township center communities. I really appreciate the effort and getting these put forward. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All right, Ross. Waiting so patiently out there. >> Good [snorts] morning. >> Good morning, Mr. Chair. Commissioners, we have a couple requests before you. Uh the first one would be entering into a master service agreement with SRF consulting group. Um and that's for providing you know consulting services for park and recreation um projects. Uh specifically we're going to be looking at at least initially for some of our grant funding projects. As we've progressed with grants and applications, the requirements for uh concepts and indepth more in-depth uh cost breakdowns and cost estimates are being required. And that's a little bit beyond what staffing is able to do at least to be competitive with a lot of these grants. And so we're really looking to enter into agreement so we kind of have a we can rely maybe some quicker turnaround instead of going out after an RFP every time we have a grant come up. Sometimes those grants come up and it's a quick turnaround to get those through. Um we also have several master plans throughout some of our regional parks and as we want to modify those it would be nice to um as we're some of the public engagement pieces. If we're able to use one firm, potentially we'd be able to uh provide some of those public engagement pieces through a couple different projects instead of doing a public engagement piece for say three or four projects and kind of um looking for some cost savings with that as well. So we had four firms apply. SRF really stood out. We felt there's three staff that scored them through a best value. And the two things that really I think we thought were their capacity as far as having engineering. They have a lot of professionals. They do a lot of trail regional trail um grant support and then park and recreation. They've done master plans and consulting in the past and their cost too. They were very specific with their costs. A lot of the other firms provided more of a range where SRF uh they provided specific costs. >> Ross, I appreciate the work in this. this makes sense to get the economy of scale with it. Uh so and I appreciate the diligence you uh put in in looking at a variety of different uh firms for this. Uh so I think it was well vetted. So I would support motion by the >> I'll make a motion >> to accept the master service plan. >> Second >> motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve the master agreement with SRF Consulting uh for our parks department. [snorts] Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. Next item. >> Great. Thank you. I believe the next item is for the um Minnesota land trust for the access easement. Am I right? Very good. Harry Larson. Yep. >> You're Harry Larson Park. So, if you recall, we we talked through this at the Ways and Means Committee. It came back to the board for approval. Um, we're going to be purchasing with the Minnesota Land Trust and we're using park dedication funds and some pullback dollars for a 41 acre piece, just under about 7,000 an acre. That's already been approved. As part of that, the Minnesota Land Trust is going to be providing a conservation easement on that 40 acres. That has to happen before we purchase the property because they can't do it on a public land. They have to do that on private land. As part of that, there's a requirement to provide an easement through the park to the land. That's part of their requirements. And so really, that's just following the established trails that are already there. So this is more a formality than anything else, but something that's needed to pro push this project forward. >> All right. At this time, I'll >> I'll make the motion to accept that. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland. >> Second. Second by Commissioner Shane to approve the uh agreement with the Minnesota Land Trust for access to Harry Larson Park. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Thanks. >> Sweet. All right. Last one. I'm two for two. So, let's go [clears throat] through. So, uh the next one is uh to approve anou at the city of Monaceel for the design and bidding support of a shared maintenance facility at the Burchham Channel Lakes Regional Park. Uh this is a pre this has been approved at the CIP level already at the January 29th to move forward with this. Um so we're partnering with the city of Monaceel. We're just going through the design and engineering phase right now. The city of Monaceel has um dedicated 80,000 and we've uh put up 45,000 for this design and engineering phase. And so theou really just kind of outlines this county is really going to be taking the lead on this. And then just also it just has that the the city we're not going to be moving forward without the um interaction with the city. >> This is uh great that we're able to get the collaboration out of this. Appreciate your time, Ross. It's been a number of meetings and conversations to get to the point there that this building has been talked about and needed out there for quite some time. So it's it's been well vetted. >> Yes, it has. So with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve theou with the city of Monaceel for the design and bidding support for the shared maintenance building. >> Motion by Commissioner Dietrich, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> All right. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> And we're coming down to the uh end of the agenda here today. We have just uh one brief minutes to approve under items for consideration was the uh minutes and recommendations from the personnel committee on November 10th. Uh we met there with uh Sean Johnson, uh administrator Kryer, Commissioner Shane and myself, and uh administrator uh Clay. We discussed the backfilling of the highway department's maintenance position. uh we've already uh well looked over it and we would have delays in our road maintenances and plowing if we didn't backfill this position because we run our highway department uh nice and lean. So the recommendation was to move forward with backfilling that position that came open. And the other one was a grant opportunity for a uh cadet position within the sheriff's office, which I think is a great program and uh we see a lot of value in in trying to work through that and see if people can transition from one line of work to uh law enforcement. So >> I'll make a motion to approve those recommendations. >> Second. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve the minutes and recommendations from the number November 10th personnel committee. >> Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> All right. >> Chairman B, can I just uh make a >> um an acknowledgement? One of our own uh staff members, Drew Sherber, last night um received the STMA. He's STMA board chair and he uh got the all state school boards um award that is given out of the 2,000 board school board members. Uh he got they picked seven and he got this award last night. Uh he will be giving it to him officially in January at the Minnesota School Board Association convention. Um he served 20 years as a board member for St. Michael Albertville and his leadership has made uh STMA one of the best schools in the state of Minnesota. >> Well, Commissioner Holland, we appreciate you uh sharing that and uh congratulations to uh [clears throat] Drew Sherber and for his great work within the school district and here at Wright County and he's a great asset and value to the citizens of Right County. He is definitely a true servant of the people. >> Absolutely. >> And with that, I have no other business to come before the county board. No other comments. All right. With that, we'll adjourn the county board meeting at 9:45.