Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, July 29th at 9:00 a.m. 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. >> Yes. Uh at this time I just wanted to uh take a brief moment to honor the work and legacy of Senator Bruce Anderson and the wonderful uh efforts that he's done for Wright County and the citizens of the state of Minnesota. Uh if we just bow our heads for a quick moment of silence to honor him. Thank you. Uh, first items on today's agenda would be the approval or modification of the minutes from July 3rd and July 8th. We can approve them collectively or individually. I'll stand for motions. >> A motion to approve both agenda or minutes. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. >> I'll second. >> Second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. All right. Minutes are approved unanimous. Today's agenda. Is there any additions or corrections to today's agenda? >> Nothing from administration, Mr. Chair. >> Any board members? Uh, hearing none. I'll stand for a motion to approve the agenda. >> So moved. I'll second. >> Right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. >> All right. Agenda is approved. unanimous today's consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion? >> Otherwise, I'll stand for a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I'll make that motion. >> Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. All right. Consent agenda approved unanimous. uh flying through that quite swimmingly. We are right on time here or close to for our first at timed agenda item with Clifton Larson Allen in our annual audit update. >> Good morning, Mr. Chair and commissioners. I get to play the role of Lindsay today as she's out introducing our audit firm. So, it's that time again this time of year where we review the county's financial statements. And today we have with us Kristen and Eric from Clifton Larson Allen who will be reviewing the 2024 audit results with you. We've also got a few member of our finance team in in the audience as well should you have questions for them. But with that, I'll turn it over to Kristen and Eric for their presentation. >> Good morning, Mr. Chair and commissioners. >> Good morning. >> Okay, do we have the PowerPoint? Okay, so we are here to go over the 2024 audit. So, just to welcome or to introduce myself, I'm Kristen Hul. I'm the signing director on the audit. And with me, I have Eric. >> I'm the manager on the audit. Just kind of trying to make things run smoothly so Kristen doesn't have to. >> Um, so on the agenda, we'll go over required communications, followed by internal control, then the single audit Minnesota legal compliance, then Eric will go over the financial results and other items. So in terms of required communications, we do issue a stapled letter. It is our governance letter. So everyone should have obtained this. It is five pages, very boilerplate. It is required by auditing standards. The first page goes over if there's any new standards that were implemented during the year. So we did implement Gazsby 101 around compensated absences. And then it goes over any um uncorrected, corrected misstatements, difficulties, if there were any difficulties encountered in performing the audit, which there were not. Also discusses that there were no disagreements with management. So everything like I said is very boilerplate in there. And then the other item on this slide is that we did issue an unmodified or clean opinion. So that is the best that the county can get. So that was issued as well. Okay. So going on to page four. So in terms of the audit, we're looking to make sure controls are working properly. So if we find anything to note, there are two types of internal control deficiencies that are required in writing. And the first is a material weakness. And that just means that a material misstatement um could happen and it won't be prevented or detected and corrected in a timely basis. So there was one this year and it is the same as last year. So audit adjustments just there were various items that we did correct during the audit around um cash and investments, deferred inflows, receivables and inner funds. Okay. And then the other type of internal control deficiency that we would be required to put into writing is called a significant deficiency. So it's less severe. It's not material in nature, but still important enough to merit in writing. And you'll see here that there were none in 2024. So going on to page six is the single audit. So the federal single audit means that you've spent more than $750,000 of federal expenditures. You did spend 15.2 million in 2024. And with that we needed to test 40% of that at least 40%. So we tested two major programs. The first is your um coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds as well as child support. And you'll see here we did not have any material weaknesses and we had one significant deficiency around the corona virus funds and that was suspension and debarment. So we tested six transactions they were checked that the vendors were not suspended or debarred but it was the date that it was checked was not retained. So that has been since put into place and that they're checking it now. So, it's not that they were suspended or debarred. They did make sure that they weren't. It was just the documentation wasn't there. Okay. And then finally, we are required by the state auditor's office to look at the Minnesota legal compliance guides. And so, there's about 25 pages of checklists of various statutes that we ensure the compliance with. And you'll see here that we um noted none as well. So, very good. Any questions on those before I hand it over to Eric? >> Board members, you have any questions? Okay, continue on. >> All right, thank you. Uh, so now we'll go over the financial results results. The first slide here is looking at uh the months of expenditures in fund balances you have. So, this is an OSA recommendation of you should have about 3 to five months of expenditures in your fund balance because that kind of plays into the timing of those property tax settlements. uh you did have a slight decrease from last year to only 0.04 points, but it's still very healthy fund levels where you want to be at. On the next slide, we're looking at all of your funds combined, what the revenues and expenditures are compared to each other. Uh you did have expenditures and excessive revenues, which kind of plays into the timing of some of the funds coming in for as we'll go into later highway projects. Uh you did have a $5.2 $.2 million increase in revenues, largely driven by a tax levy increase as well as you did have some uh intergovernmental revenues more than last year, but your expenditures did increase $23.5 million largely because of those. You had a some big highway road infrastructure projects. You had your Maple Lake shop big projects this year that didn't just happen last year. Uh next slide is a breakout of the different buckets of revenues for all your funds. You can see here the two the big players are definitely your tax revenues and then your intergovernmental and your charges for service. Tax revenues just increase every year as you increase that levy. Intergovernmental fluctuates quite a bit. The big spike there in 2020 that related to the uh corona virus relief funds as well as uh ARPA kind of plays a part in this how much you spend and then everything else is pretty consistent. Uh the next slide goes over expenditures by the buckets. Now, you can see here you have kind of four main categories. Your general government, public safety, your highways and streets, and your human services. Uh most of them are increasing year-over-year. It kind of relates to cola and step increases for payroll does fluctuate with different uh projects. The one category I will point out that kind of changed this year was highways and streets. You see a huge decrease this year. Something that was required for financial reporting is your road project costs should be reported as that far or second from the right column capital outlay just for proper reporting. So I want to say it was like $30 million was shifted from one bucket to the other. Um other than that capital outlay does fluctuate based on the big projects kind of in 2020 I think was the last year you had the government centered project going on. Next slide goes into your debt. So that top line, that's just your uh geo bonded debt, which just slowly goes down as you make your principal payments. The middle line there, that's your net pension liability related to PAR. Uh that's kind of a madeup number in that the actuarial companies, they based on their assumptions for any given year, it increases, decreases accordingly. We just base it off their numbers. The rest of the numbers are all pretty consistent. Nothing big going on there. And then the last slide here is just what was new in 2024. not a lot going on which is good for us and the finance team. So there was a new standard called Gazsby 101 compensated absences related to like PTO and sick leave payout. There was a change in how it was calculated looking more at like what you expect to use, not just what you're going to pay out at the end of an employes uh term here. Didn't change anything materially, but we still had to consider it for this year. But other than that, there was nothing else really of note for this year. Finance team was great to work with. love dealing with them every single year. So, any questions on the financial stuff? >> Board members, any questions? >> No. Thank you very much for uh the time and dedication to going through everything with us and going through all of our financials to make sure that we are in uh good shape. >> For sure. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do you need a motion to accept it? >> Yes. I'll make a motion that we accept the Clifton Larson Allen um financial report and audit. >> Yep. All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. All in favor say I. >> I. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. And now we are on to our 9:15 timed agenda item. We have the M MCIT here somewhere making their way up. >> Good morning. >> Morning. >> Good morning. >> Appreciate the opportunity to spend a little bit of time with you and I saw you look at the clock. Okay, I'm going to keep my eye on the clock as well so I don't run over. Uh my name is Garrett Claybel. I'm the executive director of the Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust and really do appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. Um, if uh I know we've got the handout electronically if anybody wants a paper copy. I'm kind of old school that way. Um, I'm happy to give you a a paper copy as well. Uh, but let me roll on and uh flag me down if you you uh uh would like it like a paper copy. Um, I want to start just by refreshing a little bit on what MCIT is. I think you can think of MCIT as your insurer, but we like to think of ourselves as being a lot more than an insurer really uh as a partner. Uh and that our our relationship with our members, our 81 counties and 400 other governmental organizations in Minnesota is really a partnership. we really work with you and and I want to sort of make the case for that today and provide a little background information on what we're doing uh for you on behalf. Uh we're a public risk pool. So we're created by uh state of Minnesota law joint powers entity and we were originally created in 1979 in order to help counties respond to a workers compensation coverage crisis at that time. So you got in your way back machine and went back that far 46 years. Uh there was literally no private market coverage for workers compensation for governmental entities at that time. So a couple of dozen counties got together and uh established MCIT as a mechanism to create that create that uh plug that gap. And so we've been around since then. In 1984 we expanded to property casualty insurance as well. So, as our membership has uh needs have changed, we've uh made attempts over time to respond to that as well. So, again, we're a public risk pool. We've been around for almost half a century. Um we uh we're a public entity. So, I mentioned we're a joint powers entity. Our board are your peers. So, county commissioners across the state, other county officials uh serve on our board. We have nine members and you all get an opportunity to cast votes for who those individuals are. And of course, you've got a board member uh in the midst here, uh Lindseay Meyer, who we appreciate her service on on our board as a recently elected member. We're not for profofit. So, as a government entity, obviously, we're not generating a profit. Uh if there's excess resources that we have available, we return them to members. So, we return those to you. And our board has done that pretty consistently over 30 plus years. Uh and has done that again in 2025. but we're not putting money in shareholders pockets. Uh we're not paying insurance salespeople to call on you. So we're looking to recover our profits and we do that through investments and obviously we uh have contributions that our members provide as well and we'll talk a little bit more about that. Um as I said, we uh have a partnership with you. uh our interests are aligned with yours, which doesn't mean we always agree, but it does mean that uh we're working with you to try to provide the best coverage, the best support and training that we can uh for all of the liabilities and the risks that you're managing. And there are many uh just inherent in in government service. Uh we're very fiscally sound, financially secure. Our board ensures that, and I'll talk a little bit about that in a minute. Um I mentioned we cover 81 counties in the state. Uh so there are six counties. The primarily the larger counties Henipin, Ramsey, Dakota, Noa, Olmstead, and St. Louis are not in the pool. 400 other uh small government entities, many of them are connected directly in some way in some fashion with county governments, soil and water conservation districts, uh library districts, lake development districts, uh organizations like those. Um I and I again I want to just emphasize at camp on a little bit the fact that we see this as a partnership with you and we do everything we can to provide good coverage, good training, good support along the way. But there are things that you can do that your staff can do along the way just to make sure that we are our partnership is as strong as it possibly can. Uh, one of those ways is as you respond to the needs in your county, obviously you are uh being faced with challenges every day, new challenges, things that weren't anticipated 20 years ago, 10 years ago, when you're thinking of creative ways to solve those problems. As you make those decisions, think about where our coverage fits into that. Um, obviously our our liability coverage, uh, our property casualty, there are limits involved with that. Uh, and so as you think about those new things you're doing, they may be things we never anticipated either. And so reach out to us, ask questions, we're happy to talk about with you and your staff about where those uh risks are and how we manage those. We uh are not your attorney. So your county attorney is obviously the person you want to look at contracts and give you legal advice, but we can provide advice in the risk management area. So, if there are contracts that you're entering into, certainly tap our staff, reach out to us, share those agreements with us, and we're happy to be another set of eyes and ears, particularly thinking about risk management in those agreements. Cyber hygiene, cyber security has obviously been a big issue uh recently and it just doesn't go away. You know, it's one of those issues unlike a lot of our other coverage. This is like crime. So, we're ensuring we're covering against crime losses due to crime. And so, it's it's a little different both in terms of our coverage as well as what you and your staff are having to do in order to keep your systems uh safe and secure. We are uh continually tapping national resources uh to provide support and consultation and response when that's necessary and it has been unfortunately. uh a little bit of information in the handout on that, but uh we want to be a partner uh in in that work as well. Uh our safety efforts uh as you have uh your safety staff, uh I know Tim Dah is your uh safety manager. Uh our staff are available to assist in any way we we can to help support Tim's efforts and and the efforts here in the county to make a safe workplace. Take full advantage of training opportunities we provide. We provide for our members lowcost and in many cases no cost training. We've got a very robust human resources liability area that we provide training in. Uh in during 2024 we've had 49 uh county staff registrations for lowcost nocost training that we've provided. So that's great. You're taking full advantage of that and we want to uh encourage that. So again our interests are aligned with yours. We're doing things that we can and looking at new opportunities every day to to do more with that and I'll talk a little bit about that as well, but we want to maintain a dialogue with you uh in doing that. Let me uh turn to page two and it's right here in front of me on the screen. So, that's very very nice. Um we're obviously doing things to keep our program offerings financially secure. We're paying out tens of millions of dollars in claims every year. And that just means that, you know, we've had uh your employees, other employees injured, uh buildings burn, uh damaged in wind, vehicles damaged, uh those kinds of things, liability losses along the way. We purchase reinsurance so that we've got a backs stop. We have a financial back stop as well. So, we're your financial backs stop. We require reinsurance as well just to make sure that we don't get ourselves crosswise financially. And you'll see on page two what's happened with reinsurance premiums over the last five five years. The blue line is is property reinsurance. And I know everyone has read certainly a lot and heard in the news uh whether it's weather, storms, uh fires, uh what have you. Uh and on the heels of of the COVID pandemic, obviously inflation has driven those costs just very high. uh wars in Europe uh all contribute to that because that reinsurance pool that we're purchasing from is an international pool. So those uh organizations are are providing reinsurance across the across the world. Um and property has been an area that's been a real challenge. your board has made some decisions to try to maintain control of that reinsurance cost. But you can see there just in the rate of increase in the blue line that the property reinsurance has gone up quite substantially in the last two to three years particularly the brown line there the liability insurance we've seen increases in in liability coverage as well. Uh but all of that is important to our maintenance of of financial liability. uh property reinsurance as I mentioned uh the increases there due to large claims construction costs inflation labor uh cost increases all things I know you've seen here in in your construction projects and your building projects law enforcement liability you know it it it goes to show that law enforcement's a critical service that you provide to the community and those uh folks who are on the front line are doing really really difficult work in really difficult situations and we do see uh liability claims as well. And it's not just unique to Minnesota, it's across the country. They're they're increasing in costs and and frequency. So that's a little bit about uh about reinsurance. um to to uh uh camp camp just briefly on that lower leftand corner on page two the total insured values for us continue to climb and I'm talk I'm going to talk a little bit about rates our rate making structure um just like similar to you when you're providing your tax uh on your on your residents on your citizens you're taking property values times a rate and that's basically how you're uh allocating your your tax levies We do a similar process as well. We have a rate that we rely on an actuary for us to develop that rate and then we apply that in the case of property for example. We apply that to our exposure which in property is total insured value. And you can see again in that brown box on the lower half of page two how our property values, our total insured values have have been increasing again over the last two to three years. As you can see that line is sloping up at an even greater rate at $9.2 billion now. So that makes a core part of our calculation when uh when we uh uh are calculating our rates. Um on to page uh three uh rates anticipate expenses. Uh you know as I mentioned a minute ago as we develop our contribution rates that go out you think of them as premiums. I think for insurance we call them contribution rates because we're not insurance. were a risk pool. So, we use terminology that's a little better, but think of them as premiums. We take our exposure times those rates and that's what we allocate. And again, as I mentioned at the outset, we're not out to generate a profit. We're not out to pay salespeople to call on you. We're trying to cover those costs. Uh, and obviously inflation and other factors have have loomed large in the last uh two to three years particularly. You can see in that graphic in the blue on the top of page three just what's happened with our rate changes. Now this is just the rate part. This is just like the levy part. What's happening on an annual basis as things uh shift around. Last year and I know you've seen this. We had a pretty substantial increase uh in costs in the rate relative to our property. And that rate added to or multiplied by the total insured value results in some pretty substantial increases. Um, our board has heard from members. They're sensitive to those increases. They're paying those rates themselves uh in their home counties and so they're doing everything they can to make sure that those rates are covering those costs uh that are are that we're seeing from from our members. Part of what I mentioned at the outset and this is the tan box on the right is that we're also providing dividends back to members and have done that consistency I believe since 1996. So just nearly 30 30 years. There's no guarantee that there's going to be a dividend, but the board has seen fit to do that. And that dividend is uh uh provided after an actuarial review is done evaluating our rates, the uh sufficiency of our u of our excess our reserve pool to meet the future demands. Some of our u some of our um liabilities, long-term liabilities uh are in the workers comp program area, for example, can run up to 70 years. you know, if you have a young individual employee who has a severe uh accident, uh we're on the hook to cover that expense, uh treatment, surgeries, uh lost wages for their lifetime. And so we have what we call a very long tale uh for workers compensation. And so it's critical that we have an actuary evaluate what the length of of uh of our obligation is, our liability. We're accepting that liability on your behalf. and then we're managing that financially. Uh so we have to make sure that we're just cleareyed about what those long-term obligations and liabilities are and ensuring that we've got a sufficient surplus to cover those long-term liabilities. But where where we're where we are in in excess of that, again, our board is returning those uh excess proceeds to to members. In 2024, the board uh returned $3.5 million in workers compensation. And now later this year in 2025, we'll return at $1.5 million. If you look at those dividends over time, they've been uh declining over time. In fact, property casualty, I think for the last two years, has not had a dividend at all. And that's not because the pool is uh in dire straits. Uh far from it. But the board is being very conservative in the way that it's trying to manage that because we've seen incredibly high variability and property and especially again with inflations and some of the other cost increases that we've seen the last two to three years on the heels of the pandemic. The board wants to be very cautious about what it's doing in the property casualty area in particular. Some of the volatility you can see in the brown box on the bottom of page three u in the cyber claims area. You can see that brown line, that top line, how much it bounces around from year to year. It went from 2022 at $145,000 in cyber claims to 1.7 million the next year and now back down to about onethird of that total. Incredible variability. As I said, this is a crime and it's hard to it's hard to provide coverage on that. It's hard to defend for you uh as our member against that, but we're doing everything we can, including providing training. We tap national resources. Um and you know, I'll say just unfortunately, we we do have claims in this area and we're uh developing a level of expertise among our staff and responding to them. Not not the kind of thing I'm necessarily proud of, but it's a reality. It's part of the work that we we do uh on on your behalf. I want to jump uh finally here to page four. And again, as I've been doing, just hit uh a few highlights along the way. Um in the claims box on the upper right, you'll see this gives you a little bit of a snapshot uh in terms of the type of claims that we see both for workers comp and our our property casualty liability program. These are annual averages. These numbers here are annual averages over a 5-year period. So this is from 2020 to 2024. And you can see u sheriff and jail for example in the workers comp area. Not surprising. Again, they're doing very very difficult work uh with the public uh are our highest number of average claims per year in that area. Um uh with a with a relatively high amount paid per claim as well. Um if you jump down to property liability for example, we have 30,000 uh vehicles in our insured fleet. Some of those are yours. Um you can see there the number of claims we have is very high. Again probably uh predictable. The the relative amount per claim is fairly low. But if you drop down on law enfor law enforcement liability, for example, a relatively low number of claims, but the average cost per claim is is relatively high. So, we're managing all of that variability across those uh those two programs. I want to finish just by uh highlighting again the the bottom half of of page four and just mention the resources that we have available for you. Uh we have uh consultation resources. So, we've got our field staff. Althia Sheridan is our loss control uh consultant here for Wright County and Joe Saminsky is our risk management consultant. They're always available to attend safety committee meetings to come on site, uh provide consultation, always available by by phone as well. So, be sure and I know your staff are are contacting them. Tim is in regular communication with them on on the needs that you have and the needs that your staff have as well. uh our website about a year and a half ago we re launched our website made it a little easier to use easier to search find articles wealth of information available for you available for your your staff as well so take full advantage of that we're we're also looking at ways we can improve things that we're doing and we're we're always open to hearing uh thoughts about ideas one of the things that we've recently done is we have in our origami claims management system that's the the the claims management system that we've used. We've opened a portal on that about two to three years ago where we're beginning to post reports for workers compensation on that data that may be useful to your staff, to other counties, to other members in terms of getting a picture uh into what their claims experience has been. Thinking about safety, thinking about interventions, where can where are we seeing claims and what can we do to improve on that? We've added more uh reports to that just recently in the way of supporting safety committees, in the way of supporting your regular OSHA reporting and more is coming along the way. So, we're we're happy to say that we've done a soft launch of additional data uh on that portal and again I think you'll see more uh in the near future and once we've make sure we've got the bugs worked out of that, we'll be doing a more aggressive announcement on that. But, uh, those are out there now for for for people to use and and try and give us some feedback, uh, on those as well. Um, obviously training, you know, we're doing a tremendous amount of training. I mentioned earlier you've had 49 staff in 2024 take advantage of some of our training offerings. Continue to do that. It's a great training. We're bringing attorneys and other national experts at different times to uh, those training opportunities. Uh five years ago we were doing trainings in persons. Today we're doing by by webinar. We're saving money, time lost in the office, uh overnights, uh food costs, all of those go away. And we're doing one-hour sessions instead of day long or or half-day long sessions. We still are doing those, but we're relying more on the webinar format to get that information out. So you're taking advantage of that training. Continue to do that. uh and uh um we're we're just pleased to to be able to support your work in that way. We're also starting up and this will happen before the end of September, uh a riskmanagement quarterly group. Uh so risk managers, yours like Tim Dah for example, uh and others across the state uh are looking for opportunities to get together, to collaborate, share information, and it's an opportunity for us really to share what's going on at MCIT. challenges we're seeing, information we have available. It's an opportunity for us to provide resources to that key constituency that we have. So, we're going to give this quarterly meeting group a try. Uh the first meeting will be before uh the end of September and and ongoing from there. Um I'm going to stop with that. I I could talk a lot more. My notes go further, but I think I'm I'm running out of time. So appreciate again the opportunity to talk with you uh this morning and be happy to answer any questions you might have. >> Uh I'll put up to board members otherwise I have a couple quick questions but board members any questions? >> Great presentation. >> Thank you. I I guess one of my quick questions is what do you see on the forecast given the legal climate surrounding PTSD and is are we seeing the tip of the iceberg on that? Um, and what do you look like the pool's uh backing? Do do we feel like we've sufficiently put funds away uh for potential claims going forward with it or is the risk still pretty high on that? >> Yeah, it's it's a great question and I'd say we're still early in the process. You know, state law recently changed around that uh put in place some required uh treatment uh uh that wasn't uh required prior to that. Um, I think if you are the cities, uh, what I understand from the city side is they're seeing quite a bit more in their law enforcement community on PTSD. Um, we're seeing it for sure. In fact, we've had some outreach from the Minnesota Sheriff's Association recently to speak to their board about what we're seeing. So, um, we're collecting again our data and we'll have an opportunity to talk with them. Um, ongoing risk, I'd say it's too early to know. Um, we're certainly seeing cases. I would say not at the volume perhaps that the cities are seeing. That may be just uh by virtue of the fact that they've got a larger number of individuals who are in law enforcement, more cities out there. Um so, but um certainly a risk, something we're watching very closely, something we're monitoring. We're we're supportive of the recent law changes about treatment. I think that may have at least uh slowed down some claims, but I think uh we're going to continue to monitor that for sure. Then my other question is kind of around the uh cyber claims and the would you say that where we're at we haven't experienced at least in our pool any significant cyber claims uh or would you say that the the pool you see that the severity of the the instances that that occurred out there range all over from very very minimal to very very extensive very very costly within our pool. Have we experienced significant cyber claims or have we really been kind of more the middle of the road or lower significant? >> Again, another hard question to answer. You know, I I look at that 2023 number on cyber claims uh back on page three. Uh I know one claim uh in that group affected 19 members and uh I think because honestly because of I think really shrewd negotiation that we had from a national expert that we have accessed on our contractor panel. They did some outstanding negotiation with a Russian bad actor. I mean it's crazy. Here we are in the middle of Midwestern America. We're talking about uh negotiating with Russian hackers. But literally that's what happened. And uh so one of those claims uh which turned out to be could have been a massive major claim because it affected 19 of our members um was was not as bad as it could have been but it contributed to that $1.7 million. You can see uh in that same year 2023 we had 76 claims. If you compare those numbers to the claims totals that we have on the back for autos uh for workers comp claims um you can see it's a pretty small number but the variability between claims is huge. Some are as you mentioned most I would say are very low. Some of the claims that we're getting, for example, are um of the of the variety that there was no real issue um and there may have been some administrative costs involved in doing some cyber investigation. There may have been some communication on lost data that went off out to people and that contributes. We we cover those costs as well. So, we're we're certainly at $1.7 million in 2023. We're not seeing $10 million claims for sure, but like I said, the variability is amazingly large. >> Well, thank you so much for the overview of this information board. I I would like to say thank you uh for uh starting that quarterly riskmanagement group that on behalf of the county. We really appreciate that and and we're very blessed to have good risk management team here too and and that enjoy working with you and >> we you do have a strong team and we appreciate that and and I think that quarterly meeting will give us an opportunity to engage Tim and others across the state in that role and we'll do some birectional learning for sure. >> Yeah. Great. Thank you. Thank you very much. I actually have one thing to add too. Um, you know, I haven't had a lot of time working with you guys, but I appreciate what you you bring to the counties and everybody that is associated with MCIT, and I had heard that you are retiring in the near future. So, I just wanted to congratulate you on that and and thank you for your work with MCIT over the years and what that brings to county. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate that. >> All right. and uh running slight bit behind here, but Barry's waiting ever so patiently and we'll come to our 9:30 uh timed agenda item. Review and adopt the notice of order for denial of application for reszoning. >> Uh yes, Mr. Chairman and and county board. Uh this uh notice and order is the result of two public hearings held by the planning commission and a site inspection and then a third hearing to adopt the findings and make the recommendation for denial. Uh all of the supporting documentation, the minutes and the staff reports have been included in your packet for review. So we're just looking for adoption in the chairman's signature on the notice and order of denial. >> All right. Board members, any discussion? I I guess um my question would be is um what was the justification for the denial vote after the township board had unanimously approved uh the the plan that was put in front of them. >> Well, the that's all articulated in the minutes and the findings. I guess I I'm not in a position to speak to each of the members uh desires or thoughts on each of the different criteria. In general, um the commission found that it did not see it was infill. Um they did not see the justification for the reasonzoning in that location at this time. I'll speak on that a little. Um it some of the what we're we're really finding frustrating on the board is that some townships really put in a lot of time and effort in their justification of why they approve and they don't approve these um when it just comes back as board approves. Some townships have public hearing and talk to the neighbors, some don't. we don't really know which ones do and don't. Uh so it really comes down to looking at the land use plan, looking at the area and um and we do take a lot of uh credence into what the townships say. But when it's just a vague board approves um with no justification uh then then we tend to run with it in our own direction if that makes sense. >> Mr. Chair, the findings have been provided to the board. Um you've have access to the whole record. Um presume the board has read everything here and ready. Um, if the findings are in order, a motion would be in order to accept the findings as presented from the planning commission. >> I'll make that motion. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Shane. Discussion. >> Any other comments? Any other comments? All right. No other comments. Uh, all in favor say I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. >> All right. Mr. Mr. Chair, pursuant to Minnesota statute 1599, I'm going to ask if anyone is here on this matter. If Paula Dalbeck or anyone is here on this matter is Paula Dalbeck, are anyone here? Mr. Chair, if the record could so reflect that u no one is here on behalf of the applicant uh Paula Dalbeck to accept the findings as currently adopted. >> Staff will be providing it to the property owner and applicant via US mail. All right. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thanks very much. >> And catching up here. Uh Jesse's making her way here. >> Good morning, uh chair and board. I'm here just to talk about the Right County License Center, give a couple exam room highlights, as well as spotlight the fact that we have a legislative initiative that we took on in 2024 that goes into effect officially on Friday. So, quick highlights here. We did open the exam room in May of 22. We are one of the first larger service centers in the surrounding metro area to take on this service. In the first year, we did administer over 2,000 exams, clearly fulfilling a need for the inadequate amount of testing that the state was able to provide due to the demand. So, the demand was much more than what the state could handle. So, this third party proctor program was a great opportunity for us to meet the needs of the community. In 2023, we went ahead and administered double that. So over 4,000 exams that following year, mainly in part uh that was due to the launch of ID for all. Unfortunately, DVS um didn't plan very well for that launch and did not make any changes to extend their testing or offer more capacity. So therefore, that's where our numbers doubled. So it was a really great opportunity for us to meet the demands of the community and surrounding community. Um, in that time frame, we realized that we really needed opportunities to have more language options for our testers. So, we did begin advocating in 23 for that. In 2024, DVS did allow proctors to be able to give exams in up to eight languages as well as audio versions. So, that's a really great opportunity for testers coming in to be able to pick their language. They can do the audio test or just read. We also received a bunch of feedback over the two years uh 23 and 24 that testers felt the time limit of the 30 minutes was too short. Uh it was a 40 question test. So basically less than 1 minute per question. So we then began advocating to DVS to say hey can we at least get one minute per question. I think that that's fair for these testers using our location. Uh, we also ran into having to deny a bunch of people due to some statute language that said testers who need to test on their fourth or subsequent tests must use a state exam station. As we know, kind of looking back, historically, DVS was really struggling to provide adequate testing and accessibility to testing across the state. So, we were turning away people um into these exam stations that are were already overloaded. So, I came to the board at that time asking for help. Uh, and you all graciously said, "Hey, let's take this on." Um, you were able to help champion a bill that we got into the right hands into the right committee and they approved that in the 2024 session. Unfortunately, it didn't go into effect that same year. So, we had to wait a whole year to get that in. But, as of Friday, that statute will change and we'll remove that language, which ultimately allows us to be able to offer those tests if they're uh wanting to use our location. So, it doesn't mandate anybody use ours. It just basically provides more accessibility to testing across all of the state. So, it benefits Wright County, it benefits our community, but it also benefits the entire state. Uh last year, we administered over 3,000 exams. So, to date, we've administered more than 10,000 exams. So, I think that this has been a very successful program. I think we've met the needs of the community. Um, the board has been very supportive of our license center and providing really good service. So, I just wanted to give a shout out to say thank you for helping us out and getting that championed. Uh, DVS was also very willing to have the statute changed. They just were unable to take it on in their legislative agenda. So, I'm really appreciative that uh you supported that and that we were able to actually make some positive changes. I'd also like to report that this year they also extended the testing limit uh to 40 minutes. So we've been able to since 2022 bring the languages from two testing languages to eight. We've extended the time limit by 10 minutes. We are successfully able to uh administer any test whether it's third time, 10th time, 20th time as of Friday. So, I feel like we've made a lot of really great changes statewide that just really provide better accessibility to testing, which I know the board historically has been very passionate about. Um, I personally am passionate to just be able to provide the service and meet the needs to the county. So, I just wanted to quick say thank you and as of Friday, our our hard work will finally go into effect. though. >> I want to say you can thank us all you want, but you did you were a rock star down at the cap and uh the fact that they requested you to speak it speaks volumes for one. You're a very good speaker and the way they changed the rules from underneath you and you still went in there and and did it did your spiel. It was great and you really truly uh should take a lot of thank you for all that you've done to make our testing center and DBS uh just a great department. >> Mr. Chair, I'd like to say something too. Again, I'm right with Genie on that. Working with you through this um the knowledge that you brought to us as well so that we could advocate for you. But a lot of thanks goes to you and your knowledge and everything that you're involved with brings that all that to the table. So again, it was my pleasure to work with you. Thank you for working so diligently on that. >> Yeah, >> Jesse, this goes way back. >> It does. >> It goes back uh precoid. We started having the discussions about DVS and the inefficiencies and challenges that the clients were having as well as just from a systematic perspective. You worked side by side with me for many years on this. I can't thank you and your staff enough to see that we were actually able to check the box off on a lot of these items and being able to actually get them to come forward. And I I believe we're actually at a point now where you can make a physical driving test within a one or two weeks of when needed. When you were if we would have been back maybe two, three years ago, it was six months. Yes. >> When you could get an appointment, you can walk in and take a same day written exam. >> It's amazing that we've actually gotten there. In light of the challenges of the license for all and stuff that we faced through this, we still pushed forward and and you and your staff kept advocating down in St. Paul as well as with us and you kept finding efficiencies there to get people through the line as fast as you can in light of uh crowds that we've never seen before. >> Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. I do think Wright County in general um truthfully Derek would know this. I think we were a big proponent of actually the proctor's program actually starting um just because we were so adamant working with them during the COVID era. They had processed tests online and it was successful but there was obviously the uh inconsistencies of who's taking the test which is really what why they stopped it. Uh I don't think that personally they were they're going to say right county is the the reason but we didn't stop you know we just we really wanted the testing should be accessible to all motans it should be easy to access it should be available the demand has just been there and the state unfortunately didn't have the resources to meet it so I think this was a really good program and I think it's been very successful here for a county >> I think we've checked almost all the boxes other than we need to get motorcycle licenses I know. I'm still working on that. >> We're real close. >> Yes. >> So, that's it. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> All right. And now we're on to our 940 and Carson making her way. All right. Good morning, Mr. Mr. Chair and members of the board, I am Carson. >> Morning, Dia Zapontiac. >> And we're here requesting board action to approve the resolution accepting donations from various businesses uh for prizes for the Wright County Parks and Recreation Challenge, right program. And a be brief background on that program, the goal was to um get people outside during the summer and exploring various parks that we have. And in order to do that, we had people register for the program and we had preset seven different parks. uh for people to hike kind of all over the county. The idea behind that was so that people could have a park that's close to them and then also go explore somewhere that is in a different area of the park of the county. Um and they would have from June 21st to August 2nd to complete all seven hikes. Um in a way that we monitor that is that we have medallions at each of those hikes kind of at a halfway point so people could go to that spot and continue on or turn back. Um and then they would take a photo of that medallion and then send it to us. That way we can keep track of who is completing the hikes and who may not have done that one yet. Um and that is something Julie and I have been working on keeping track of all that. And part of the tracking too was so that way um people would have to complete all seven hikes in order to receive a prize from one of our donations. So on August 9th, we'll have our prize kind of ceremony at Robert Nature Center and where we will have people who anybody who's registered for the program come and participate in it. But then those who have completed all seven hikes, we will draw from those names and give out the prizes that were donated to us. Ney can speak on those donations. >> Yeah. So we were fortunate enough to have um seven sponsors. They have donated various items. Um there's some cash donations. We also have um Buffalo Pizza is doing is donating the pizza for our final um August 9th ceremony. And um yeah. Yeah. We hope to the goal too was to work with community the community not just the members of the public who would be participating in the program but also local businesses. And that's why we reached out to them for the donations was to kind of highlight those areas, those businesses who were willing to participate in this program and kind of take a leap of faith on this very new program that we were introducing this summer. Um, and it has been very successful. We've had 24 families register and 12 individ individuals equaling to about 100 people participating in this program and hiking throughout the summer. Um, and it we've people have been really enjoying it. they've we've been getting all the photos in and like a lot of different families and um people of all ages from the county have been taking part in this. So, that's been really great to see. >> Well, I appreciate all your effort, Carson, Dileia. You know, this program, you know, it's great. It promotes activity. It promotes our parks. It it promotes uh preserving our environment. So, all the way around, it checks many boxes and we really appreciate all the businesses that support this. Uh can't thank you enough, >> Mr. Chair. I'd like to add to that everyone go on FA Facebook and look at all the fun p photos. It's really fun. What a great program, a great start. Um I hope you we continue this moving forward next year. I'm just making that awareness of all the parks that we have in the system and how beautiful they are and um the programming is great. So, thank you. And I'll make a motion to accept >> all right >> for the resolution to accept the donations. >> Absolutely. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich, second by Commissioner Holland. >> Any further discussion? >> I I just want to say, you know, not only thanks to you guys for putting this on, but to the businesses that did donate to this program and that they they are all listed in this resolution as well, what they donated. So, >> yeah, I just I I feel like I should probably do a shout out to those businesses. I want to make sure everybody receives credit. Um, we have Sentra Soda, Imagine Theaters, um, Fleet Farm, Runnings, the Buffalo Pizza, Buffalo Compan Companion, Animal Shelter, Arby's, Dairy Queen, and um, >> yeah, it all seven. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? All right. Resolution vote. Commissioner Mo, >> I >> I >> I >> I >> resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Coming to our 9:45. We are up. Chad's making his way here. Morning chairman, commissioners. Um only item we have today is the county mind agreement related to the local partnership project funding related to our county road 137 project. um the agreement comes first and then once we open bids, we'll modify to reflect the actual bid prices. So, this basically just ensures that we're all going to proceed with bid opening and and and then we'll do the next step is um update for the final cost, but we're capped at a million dollars and it's going to be well over that. So, we'll take what we can get. So, any questions? >> I just want to thank Chad. It's been a long time coming. uh Mindot was dragging their feet and uh he had two cities and uh Costco on his back for months. Uh he did he did say to Costco that uh if they gave him a $2.5 million check, he could start earlier, >> but he that that check never came. So, >> it did not. It did not. >> But my two cities appreciate all the hard work. And >> thank you. >> And we're glad we're at this point. >> They're two good cities to work with. It's been it's been a fun but challenging project. So looking forward to it. >> Yeah. And Mr. Chair, members of the board, and Chad, bid opening on this. You're anticipating is it Monday or Tuesday before the special meeting? What's your timeline? Because that's the whole reason we're coming back here again next week is to look at these bid table. >> We're opening bids on the 4th. Um we should have the ad basically have the bid summary to the commissioners prior to um Tuesday morning's meeting. So, and appreciate the flexibility and not waiting to the 19th should give us a can't give away those two weeks in the fall. So, it's greatly appreciated getting the special meeting on the 5th for this. So, >> thank you. >> Very good. All right. >> I make a motion we accept the resolution 2545. Second. >> Motion by Commissioner Hall and second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? >> Hearing none. Resolution vote. Commissioner Shane >> I. >> I. >> I. >> I. All right. All right. Resolution passes unanimous. All >> right. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> And now we are on to our health and human services portion of the agenda. We'll put on our health and human services hat. Our first item on the agenda would be the approval of the consent agenda. Uh would anyone like to remove something from the consent agenda for health and human services for further discussion? Otherwise, I'll stand for a motion. >> So moved. >> I'll second. >> Motion by Commissioner Moa, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Post. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. >> Thank you. >> And now Jamie. Uh first one be adopt resolution 257 to accept May and July 2025 donations. >> Uh yes. Thank you. We have a couple of donations to um to recognize. We have a donation from for the 60 plus clinic in the amount of $10, special needs fund, $300 from the Mayersville Township United Fund, and our HHS donation closet in the amount of $280 for a total of $590. >> I'll make a motion to accept those donations. Second. >> We have a motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to accept resolution 257 uh for donations for May and July of 2025. Any discussion? I appreciate all those individuals and their contributions to uh betterment of the citizens of Wright County. >> Thank you. >> This a resolution vote. I will start it off with I >> I >> I >> I >> resolution passes unanimous. >> Thank you. Our second resolution is to proclaim August 2025 as child support awareness month. And I'd like to invite Karen, supervisor of child support enforcement, Karen Popkin, to join me. Um, as I've probably stated many times, I got my start in child support here in Wright County in 1992. Um, so many years ago, it's a great program. It's highly federally subsidized. Um, reimburse, subsidize, I don't know which one is the correct term. It's a great program. We have great staff administering it. And I would just like to say that I feel and I what I've um recognized while I was a child support both a child support officer here, a hearing officer here and then working at the state for eight years as a child support trainer um that people who typically pay their child support are typically parents that also feel an obligation of both, you know, physical obligation um financial obligation, emotional obligation for their children. So it really supports families even though we're talking about child support where one family may be not in the home. Um, with that, I'd like to turn it over to Karen. I will ask that we maybe um not read the proclamation, but I think Karen has a few things to share with you um prior to hopefully adopting the resolution. >> Maybe a little more interesting than just reading the whereas proclamation for you all. Hello commissioners. My name is Karen. I have supervised here in child for quite a few years. So, I thought I'd provide you just a little bit of information about the state. They evaluate us on five different measures. Now the state averages come out every year and I just want you all to know that Wright County exceeds state averages on every measure. >> Above average. >> Yes. Above average. We are above average. The collections for the average state um our collections every county averages at 73%. But Wright County is at 79%. We collect almost a million dollars every month. The next measure I think that is really important and probably most impactful for you all to know is the cost effectiveness. The state monitors our cost effectiveness very closely because they reimburse us at a rate of 66%. So they want to make sure that we are all doing a really good job with those funds. So state average cost effectiveness is $2.65 for every dollar spent. That's what average counties collect back. Our county collects more than two and a half times that we collect at $5.99. >> So, a really, really high percentage there. The next number I'm going to leave you with is we have 15 staff and the longevity in our staff here. I totaled up the number of years of service our staff has put in for Wright County. We are at a total of 162 years for our staff. So we do our job very well and we clearly like our job and we like being here. So thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You have any questions? >> No. >> Board members question. >> Great report. >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> At this time I'll stand for a motion uh to approve resolution 258 proclaiming August 2025 as child support awareness month in Wright County. >> So move second. >> Right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. Second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion? We appreciate the >> That's a resolution. >> Thank you. Appreciate all the hard work that our child support workers do and keeping us at the top echelons amongst uh those in the industry in the state of Minnesota. >> And I was going to mention too that while they're not in the off or in the um boardroom with us today, I believe that most of them are watching. So they're um very appreciative of your appreciation. Thank you. And uh resolution vote. Commissioner Holland. >> I I >> I >> I >> I resolution passes unanimous. >> Thank you board. Um the next item I have is something that we're delighted to do whereas we're both a little bereft that Cecilia Cecilia will be leaving us. I'd like to um ask that Cecilia, John, and Sarah join me at the podium for a retirement um announcement regarding Cecilia. So Cecilia began working for Wright County Health and Human Services on May 20th, 1996 as an office tech 2 at the reception desk for financial services and fiscal technology teams, which obviously would have been back in the um the downtown building. Um, in August of 1997, she made a lateral move to intake and resource team and social services. In January of 2001, she's promoted to information system specialist position, which was a new position that um the county um classified at that time with the fiscal technology team where she worked for over 15 years. In April of 2016, she moved um came to public health as an office technician, too. And in September of 2016, she was promoted to case aid position for the health promotion and protection team in public health um that John supervises where she remains today until her retirement on July 31st. So in a couple of days. With that, I'd like to turn it over to John, her supervisor. >> Yeah. So uh years ago in HHS, we adopted um staff core values of integrity, compassion, honesty, accountability, respect, and teamwork. And uh Cecilia demonstrates these core values every day in her work. She's always on time. She's prepared and she's ready to go every day at 8:00. She's just that's her style and really appreciate that over the years. She's never missed an important meeting. Um she's she's come to me and said, you know, I'm thinking about going on PTO this day, but we got this opioid advisory committee. I should really be there. I said, you got to go on your PTO. We'll we'll cover we'll cover Um, she's our subject matter expert on computer issues. She's always open to assisting fellow co-workers. And in the years I've supervised her, I often wondered staff are always coming to her computer her cubicle and asking computer questions. And I often wondered, does she get annoyed with all these people coming to her cube, always asking about software issues? And she always has the answers. So, she's very good at that. Um, she's been an excellent member of our team. We thank her for her contributions and congratulate you on your retirement. >> Just one more word before I turn it over to Sarah with the plaque. Um, and as you saw, she was in many areas. She ended up in public health, but she was in, I think, all the areas um, with health and human services. So while public health is here recognizing her all of health and human services has indeed been in her space at some time or other asking questions and getting the answers that that we need. So um again Cecilia's has been really phenomenal. [Applause] So, yeah, I'm excited to um well, and also a little sad. Uh we're all um bemoning and going to be missing you and a few of us more than others, but and uh Brian will be getting this fixed. So, we'll have a replacement for you this afternoon. >> Oh, okay. We were going to >> We were going to have Chad come give this to you, >> but her plaque says that she's from the highway department. She was too shining. >> We know she worked in a lot of parts of HHS, but I don't know if she had a spot at the highway department. It was also a good thing that I opened this before I came up here. >> Yeah. So, but um yes. So, this is this is just temporary preview, but thank you Cecilia so much for all your >> Thank you. >> your um I don't know. It's going to be hard to fill your shoes. So, thank you. Thank you, >> Cecilia. I can't thank you enough for your dedication to this organization and the citizens of the county. And uh as Sarah just said, you're you're leaving big shoes to fill. Uh we'll miss you deeply, but we also want to encourage you into uh enjoying your retirement in the next phase of your life, >> which sounds like the highway department. >> Yes. >> Hopefully you're not a plow driver, right? >> No. Thank you for the years and I appreciate the opportunity to work here, work in the county I live in and I've made a lot of great friends and co-workers and um used my skills and learned a lot. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. [Applause] All right. >> I just have a >> director's comments. >> Yeah, thank you. I do have a couple of comments. Um I might go just a little bit off script here. I did want to two reminders. One is that we're having um foster care adult picnic on August 13th. I believe you got the details um via email. So it'd be lovely to see you there. Um that's at BB Park. Also, I believe we did get some responses from you to join us on September 10th for an all staff um training, which would be a deescalation training. So, that's something that's been in the works for quite a while. Um I also wanted to mention um in the news we see a lot about fraud, waste, and abuse. And I just want to assure or reassure our board and our community that um these incidences are really for the most part not at the county level. They're at different levels of government. I'd like to say that here in Ray County, we have a strong community presence on preventing fraud, waste, and abuse. So, um, as you know, I think we recently reported about Dan Christensen and some of the work that he does. And I think again amongst counties that I talked to, we probably have one of the strongest um um presences in the county um to combat anything like that out there. We don't see a ton of it, but obviously it's endemic. Um, so it's something that we do keep on top of. So, I just wanted to let you know that. Thank you. >> Um my other comment was just that I think um it's been a difficult year for HHS. I'll say 2025 with the governor's proposals way back when it's been a difficult year. I think all of our staff are aware of it. I think we're all kind of if not reeling um because, you know, every legislative session comes with changes. This one just seemed like it had more changes than a lot of them did. And then of course the some of the federal changes coming. Um so I think just an awareness that our staff are aware of it. I think we're all very um you know um I think we've always been a very compliance driven county and a compliance driven HHS area. So obviously we're upholding whatever comes our way as we learn more about it. I do feel like some of the information may be kind of slow and coming. It's quick to legislate, slow to inform. So I think we'll all just kind of be gathering information as we go forward. Um but I just want to appreciate our staff that they um you know they read the news headlines too and they come to work every day and they do a great job. That's all. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jamie. >> All right. Items for consideration. First would be on the agenda would be adopt resolution 2546 authorizing county administrator to sign negotiation agreement with the USDA uh on the lease. >> That's correct, Mr. Chair. In light of the purchase of the soil and water building, this is just a resolution to allow me to execute any agreements necessary with the USDA to affect the transfer of that lease from the prior owner over to the county. >> Any discussion or questions, board members? >> Mr. Chair, I think we were we were all anticipating this, so I'll make a motion to move forward with >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Shane. Any other discussion? Uh hearing none resolution Commissioner Dedric >> I >> I >> I >> I resolution passes unanimous >> and then Mr. Chair the second item for items for consideration from administration is to reschedule the budget committee the whole that was originally scheduled on August 12th to August 13th um after we published it I realized that the 12th conflicts with the FEMA rep drill um that day. So, um, Clay, myself, and a bunch of other staff need to be elsewhere within the county, um, participating in that drill. >> I will agree with you on that. So, uh, I think that's a no-brainer move there. So, I'll stand for a motion to, uh, make that adjustment to the schedule. >> So, moved. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietri, second by Commissioner Moina, uh, to move the budget committee to hold from August 12th to August 13th. Uh, any other discussion? I'll just make a note too that on that day that is the all county safe schools as well. So >> we'll be quick. >> We'll be we'll pack the day full. >> All right. If there's no other comments, uh uh all in favor say I. >> I post same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. And now at this time we have come to the end of the agenda. Is there any parting comments by board members before we adjourn? >> Yes, Commissioner Veg. uh just an afterthought. Uh we just finished the the Ray County Fair and uh I think it would be uh good of us to recognize that Dennis Bisy passed away and he has served over 60 years on the Ray County Fair board and he was still at age 90 an active member of uh his Rockford Township board. Um, we want to send out condolences to his family. Uh, and and you know, thank them for their sacrifice of Dennis being gone quite a bit of time. That's a lot of that's a lot of years serving Ray County. >> And he loved it. >> Yes. >> That that is a true uh verbiage of a work of passion. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chair, if I could just add about Dennis, he was one of the first township officers I met here 15 years ago. And it was really interesting to also learn that I also growing up as a kid probably saw many of his largest hogs at the state fair. So quite an honor that he gets there as well in the state of Minnesota. >> Yes. >> Well, at this time, if there's any other comments, we'll adjourn the county board meeting at 10 uh 10:13. Thank you.