repair so a couple steps that we normally don't have to do if it's just a sard county ditch that we have to with a joint ditch so if you have any questions we have an answer yes um is is the redetermination already been done on this yes was completed in uh 2017 okay thank you Mr chair yes so I I understand there was a request made to repair if someone if everyone got a chance to look at the pictures they kind of speak for themselves the big voids even know there's snow cover you can see it um so is this 10 business days or calendar days I wouldn't no um I'm just trying to just for our window if it's 10 calendar days we got till March 1st and uh I'll be on it because it requires the commissioner whose District it is so then we need first two others to step up and then we pick we can pick the day on our part within 10 days and then you'll re to the other two counties y sure that works with those uh Commissioners who again that their aors will still have to work figure out who they're appointing for that joint committee and then um try to verify time so it's just a lot of coord will this be done via Zoom as we've done in the past I think and I'll verify with Greg the the initial meeting to plan the public hearing can be done but the actual public hearing for the repair request has to be in person that is correct Mr chair just a clarification is that is it just the three one from each County of the County Commissioners or do you need additional two from from right oh yeah yeah so since we're the host County we will have three Commissioners and then there'll be one from each um County if it's a joint ditch with just two counties then it's we as the host would still have three the other County would have two Commissioners um but in this case we have three total counties so we need one from each Mr chair I can volunteer for one of those positions okay we need one more Mr chair all right is there anyone else interested on it I I'm just worried about my schedule Mr Chair by March 1st I won't be so it's within the next two weeks you said be but that one will be a virtual one because that's a planning one the actual iners one will be yeah I think the last one we did we had to schedule for like 8 in the morning to M which everyone schedules and Mr chair this takes about a minute yeah I know they're really quick I've done them L that's fine I'll I'll take the last spot on it so so then Mr chair we would we we could maybe propose like 3 days and then you could get back right to the others y so how about the 27th 28th or 29th at 8 and sorry just quicking screens here 27th 28th those are all at what in the morning you said at what time right 8 and that'd be wherever you're at y do you have to publish where we are for that Mr chair members of the board um you do have to publish for the public hearing will be scheduled no not the public this preliminary to planning meeting prary hearing yes we should public we should notice where we're meeting the for the virtual someone needs to be in this room well I'll I'll be back in my office that we that qualifies right you just well then you have to open it to the public that's fine we do it for Zoom all the time we send it to the generally the open meeting law requires someone in this room right here at least that's the way it worked with when we on all right I'll I can do that so we in agreement for8 on one of those three days 8 a.m. unfortunately myself I will say I already have a meeting already on that uh 27th and 29th at 8 or before so those mornings there I couldn't do it that early I how late how early could you do it I could do the 28 anytime after 8:30 uh the 27th I wouldn't be able to do that one till after probably 10:30 and then the other one I have uh probably not till after 10:30 on the 29th because unfortunately with meetings and then Mr chair I have maybe just a hit little hiccup in there I am actually called for jury duty um starting the 20 six seventh and I call in so it doesn't mean I will be gone but um it it might I might you never so just a little up in there how about the 26th in the morning 8 I can do 8:30 I fortunately getting here by 8:00 that day is not going to be you could be from anywhere I'm going to commissioner dedri uh you're not going to be reporting it 8:30 a.m. for court our judges don't take the bench until 9: and 8:30 is fine but it's just it's a short meeting so I can log in I guess if you want to do it at 8:00 on the 26th if I can if I if I can log in from remotely wherever as long as somebody has to be in this room is that all but if I don't have to be in this room I can make it from a prior meeting yeah I think Mike already committed to being in the room right yeah I'm I'm fine so do we just leave it at 8 on the 26 and if it doesn't work then we got to if that's the case I can do 8:00 on the 27th and two okay that's two so you can get two of them I can even make the uh the 28th at eight if I can be remotely so I can get all three of those then the only one I cannot no matter what because I would have to walk out of a meeting that I chair on the 29th so would okay so 8 A.M either the 27th or 28th is that you said and 26th 26 y okay I'll make a motion then to have the staff try and set that up for 26 27 28 at 8:00 and I'll be present here all right so so that giv Direction I don't think we have to make any motions at this point I think it is yeah again also have to you know verify some with those other two Commissioners as long as we have a quum to set that public hearing date we should be good though all right perfect uh second item permission to apply for a conservation partnership Legacy grant program through outdoor Heritage fund yeah got qu quite a few Grant applications so just let me know if you guys have any questions or concerns it's a pretty uh local a local match at only 10% is the the minimum that's pretty local match so and can be in kind so labor and it's a my opinion kind of a no-brainer so entertaining a motion I'll make that motion all right motion by commissioner Shane second second by commissioner Dietrich any further discussion discussion hearing none all in favor say I iose same sign Grant application approved unanimously next permission to apply for the water quality storage Grant through the board of uh water and soil resources Mr chair I'll make a motion to approve that Grant all right I'll second that motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign Grant uh application approved unanimously the fourth item to apply for the Cooperative weed management Grant through the Board of Water and Soil resources Mr chair question on that can this also work with highway department and RightWay weed management yeah it could be reimburse uh you can reimburse residents you can reimburse cities and townships for all um activities for removal of noxious weeds but our Highway Department too yes okay we as a parks and recck Department have actually received funding back through this for some of the management we do in our Parks okay I'll make a motion to approve applying for the weed management Grant second all motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Dietrich any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign Grant application approved unanimously the fifth one year is a permission to apply for the noxious and invasive plant Grant through the min the Department of Agriculture I'll make that motion all right motion by commissioner Holland no second second by commissioner catchmark any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign Grant application approved unanimously I tell you Matt you've been busy and I think you're going to be even busier if all these come through I yeah yeah that's part of the fun yeah yes well we greatly appreciate looking for any outside uh sources of revenue to uh help take care of these issues permission to apply for the um multi-d drainage management Grant through the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil resources is the sixth item on there just want to bring up Tina this is one that Rita discussed at length as yes definitely apply for this one I'll make that motion second motion by commissioner dietr second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I post same sign all right Grant application approved unanimously thank you thanks all right and now moving on to the second timed agenda item Ross is making his way to the podium we have to adopt a resolution related to a Grant application through the Minnesota Department of National Resources outdoor Grant Improvement to monii park yeah thank you Commissioners uh this grant is for $350,000 the funding for this uh project the project's already in motion the funding has already been approved so this grant would just be in addition and would allow us to potentially put in uh port in place to make the playground totally completely accessible and then also add some additional amenities so the the grant the match and everything is already in place so you're putting in those what is it like that foam port in place it's called yep yeah it's kind of like a high dense foam yeah it's uh those are nice features in playgrounds but man I couldn't believe how expensive they are they're really expensive how long do they last that's a good question probably between 15 and 20 years right because I say they relatively new I don't think we've seen a lot of them that have hit their end of life yet correct so all right with that I'll entertain a motion I'll make that motion all right motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner Holland uh to approve approve the uh resolution for the Grant application through the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for art door Recreation and that is a resolution commissioner catchmark i i i i i resolution passes unanimously thank you next would be to approve two resolutions related to the active Transportation Grant application for the construction of segment B of The Crow River Regional Trail similar to the last resolution this one is just to go after the um active Transportation Grant which is about a million dollar to complete segment B of the crover Regional Trail uh We've the Department Brad especially has already received uh funding up to about 719,000 from the uh Transportation alternative Grant and we're leveraging those funds as our match for this particular Grant and we have $550,000 set aside in the CIP for this Grant and so we're going to be looking to try to maneuver and do some preliminary design and Engineering to get this project started any questions on that otherwise I'll entertain a motion I'll make that motion I'll second that all right motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all right resolution commissioner Shane i i i i i resolution passes unanimously all right thank you all right now moving on to items for consideration we have a few meetings to schedule uh first one is to schedule a committee the whole uh as a secondary followup to the Sheriff's Office conference room uh this was briefly discussed and staff is working on collecting some information uh prior to this meeting looking for recommendations from Administration on uh when that information will be available to held this meeting uh yes Mr chair given that we do need to post this in chatting with the sheriff I would recommend we try and meet meet on the 27th uh knowing there's other things if we could look at either 10:30 or 11 on the 27th I'll be gone I will be too I mean is it in are we in a hurry I guess it's not urgent by any stretch I mean we've got it's it's sat out there that's true um I think they've already articulated two Bradberry that it's that that that contract is this you wanted I mean at this point I think the only thing that's hanging out there is that contract and whether we were going to try and execute that contract as is or if we should just end that contract and then decide uh and Mr chair I thought it was expired anyway wasn't that it was expired it is but there there's some ambiguity as to whether they were going to ask whether they could honor that contract or not either way you'd have a new one coming forward so I think it's probably pretty much dead so there is no urgency in in my opinion so you want to move it to the following week you thinking like fourth fifth sixth there was is there going to be some openings at that point if we go later in the week like 6th 7th yeah like sth or something try seventh get me a little bit old a little bit longer time just in case yeah commissioner Holland the seventh Works seventh early 10 o'clock or nine or n N9 I would prefer to go later if possible just so I can get through leadership team okay do you want to go 9:30 10 you think it holays your 10 o' so I can't do that all right um nine works so or noon that's the Historical Society thing event oh I don't have that on my calendar I don't either where did you get that invite on the seventh speci you are where is it oh that was that uh that yeah it okay yeah that's at noon so anything before noon okay so uh otherwise you want you want to go the 8th in the morning or we can't do nine on the 7th uh they have leadership so uh they all the department heads they have their monthly leadership meeting I mean and then what's with 10 10 1030 she has a meeting at 10: oh yeah so would you be done by 11: Genie what on on the 7th on the 7th I have a I have a a meeting at 11: okay yeah I'm done I'm done around noon that day the fifth we have a board meeting on the fifth want to go in the afternoon we have have a ways and means scheduled for 11: that day but then yeah then it's then I'm free from noon I just don't know if I'm but otherwise the remainder of the day I believe would work on the 5ifth one how about one on the fifth does that work for everybodys for me that's fine I mean if I'm not here depends on you how you feel if you want to weigh in on it I mean how strong of feelings you have on it so yeah we can what about the six 6th in the morning I'm wide open fur yeah I'm wide open Wednesday the go back to the eth get it further we just got 11:30 egg tax review yep couple of us but you you you're you're going more for the eighth that works better for you oh that's Shane um 8 in the morning I'm I'm good how early 8:30 N9 8 9 9:30 10 be I can't do on the eth oh wait no I can't the eighth I I have to be down in St Paul then we're just GNA go the sixth we're going to go the sixth and we're going to go at 9:00 am on the 6th y all right 9:00 am on the 6th it is we we tried diligently hard no all right with that I'll entertain a motion I'll make that motion all right motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Holland to set a committee the whole to Red discuss uh construction projects in the sheriff's department at 9:00 a.m. on March 6th all right all in favor say I I post same sign all right motion passes unanimously all right next is to schedule a meeting to uh discuss legislative updates so we are uh going into second week of the legislative session here uh we have a lot of things that are moving fast and furious I felt it's important that we uh get an update with the group especially in light of the fact that there's some items that uh we want to weigh in on one item that I wanted to get in front of the group was related to uh the the next item on the agenda was the uh Department of Revenue regarding their proposal to from a gross operating Revenue uh taxing system versus that of the state assessed properties which is um largely similar but different of of assessing based on value so it's a big change it's got a lot of moving parts to it so at this legislative uh uh committee the whole we're going to go over that as well as some of the other items as we have a variety of bills in there and we also have a document that I've been working with uh administrator Kelly we want to uh walk everybody through that as well um Mr chair yes another item just uh maybe to catch me up to speed I was looking at the egg tax that was disseminated to townships and we asked the legislators to look at how that tax was divvied up to townships because supposed to be for road maintenance for roads that are abused by hauling from gravel pits but some of these gravel pits are not on Township roads in the township but they're getting money to maintain a road that's not being used and abused you're talking about gravel tax right egg egg tax otherwise they aggregate tax oh okay yeah that's a more legal name but do we have any update on where that went or does that need to be Revisited or I don't remember hearing anything uh from last year so the we didn't propose anything on it uh having a lot of the conversations that I've had out there with it is it was something that we really need to get the townships Matt Minnesota associations of townships to sponsor it first um we would be better off on a a secondary route because they can't even collectively agree amongst themselves because those that those Cy or townships that have gravel pits uh don't want to share their money with those that don't so if we weigh in on it we're choosing a side uh this is something that they have to they have to sort out amongst themselves we we're not we're really non-players in it uh well except that we write the Jack well we we're just we're just pass through money because they don't like a lot of uh their Township Road Assistance stuff all go through our our Highway Department that I can't articulate what was their methodology of that back in the day but that's the way it is we're just pass through money uh so well I I understand that then Mr chair it just it's glaringly obvious when you know the townships that have gravel pits that are accessed off County roads but they're given thousands of dollars to Main maintain Township roads that are used to access these pits but they don't exist that that's where what I'm looking at but has correspondents been sent to the townships that say Hey we've we've heard concerns but you folks should really take the Reign on this did that ever get relayed that we discussed and feel that it should be brought up by them just so that they're not looking at and waiting for us to do something I will go back in time to we uh we've had discussions about this a couple of times over the years at the uh Township officers meeting I guess we haven't given them I would say a do this then this a a checklist of if you want to make changes to this do here's the path forward we haven't done that for them um we can certainly have some discussions uh you and I prior to the next Township associations if we want to give them some of that guidance um a lot of it been at this point was articulated to them is that if you're interested in seeing changes with the aggregate tax and how it is dispersed uh the balls in your court on it uh you guys need to collectively agree amongst yourselves as an organization uh how that should look uh with that but because 50% of the counties and well I don't even know if it's 50% but it's not not every county has a gravel pit and the ones that do don't want to share so it's it's going to be a complicated discussion so that's a good point I'll just bring it up at the next meeting Mr chair at township officers sure just for review and update okay thank you all right uh with that let's look at the calendars here uh we hate to wait too long just because I'd like to get in front of everyone there's a great document that I think every I want to walk everybody through that uh administrator Kelly's done a fantastic job on uh and I think it's going to be a helpful tool for a lot of you uh in being able to follow some of these uh topics that we're working through in this session so as well as I want to get uh some updates to everybody sooner than later I understand that some of you are gone next week so could we teams in for that I've asked legal no not to okay mean are we able to also pick that uh sixth day with that work following the committee the whole we just scheduled we can certainly do that sure all right close enough for your timeline Mr chair it'll it'll have to do so um we'll just work on the meantime with uh that'll come to their next item so I want to get some direction from the board on the next item so we can work on some stuff in the meantime but all right what time on the 6 we have a meeting so we're have a committee the whole we'll just add this as a secondary item on that Committee of the hole so it'll be uh two items at the 9 A.M March 6 committee to hold oh okay as long as we're done by 11:30 then yeah we should be chairman vetch uh uh commissioner Dietrich had a good point uh talking with uh flarity and Hood maybe having a day at the capital you know uh with with Shane just to kind of push forward some of these uh things that are are select to our County we can certainly talk about that on that six th he's down there all the time so if any of you want to go down there and meet ahead of time he can help you make sure they find out which items are being heard when and where uh so you're more than welcome communicate that though Mr chair how do we communicate of them I don't have to be the point person but if because you're more than welcome to contact Shane if you have a particular bill of interest that you want to weigh in on or you want to hear it more uh on a closer or you want to uh work on setting up appointments to speak with individual legislators you can certainly communicate with Shane and he can help you navigate that that uh to getting you the uh meeting appointments that you need as well as keeping you in line with uh possibly giving testimony or uh guiding you as to when things are being heard do you get a do you get regular emails from him him and I correspond uh probably at least every other day or do you want to pass some of them on because so we know what bills are like coming up or so like my correspondence I'm certainly happy to pass them on with you mind more more on like an individual topics they're not h so there's like some of the ones that are in that we have on that list I don't I don't track as close uh some of them Greg is following from the data practices side so so he has the correspondences on those ones because he is working on helping craft the language some of the other ones are more specific to like HHS uh they're having conversations with Shane so it's it's more of you have an ISS a particular item on those legislative initiatives that you have interest on and then he he can keep you informed on those so all right uh so by all means you're you're always more than welcome to reach out to him and uh communicate if you have some uh issue uh an interest in weighing in on a particular topic so uh with that I suppose do we need to make a motion administrator Kelly to add that item to it I think that'd be good and just for clarification are we going to do that here or do we want to go on site for the Sheriff's conference room again I think at this point we can do it here yeah I think we've just wanted to clarify so we post enough all right so I'll entertain a motion to add the uh legislative uh committee the whole if we invite Shane to see if he can log in Via Zoom to at least talk to us uh on what he knows yeah that'd be great all right so with that uh motion I'll make the motion all right motion by commissioner Holland second second by commissioner Shane uh to add the legislative uh discussion on the March 6th 9:00 a.m Committee of the whole all in favor say I I post same sign motion passes unanimously all right next one is uh looking to get the approval of the board to authorize a letter as well as comments to the uh Department of Revenue as well as possibly uh pu and possibly the legislative delegation depending on how this route comes forward uh this will be an item that we'll discuss in a little bit more details on March 6 it's kind of a complicated change that the Department of Revenue is proposing regarding how State assessed properties are valued so right now State assess values are State assess properties are those of railroads uh pipelines uh utilities um there's a few other but yeah y there's there's a variety of other ones as well but they're proposing and changing this methodology currently they are assessed based on the value of the buildings as well as the personal property on the uh property itself uh now they're change they're having a discussion about changing it in taxing them based on their uh gross revenue and not based on the value of the properties we have some great concerns about this because there is a lot of uh exemptions to this as well uh so with doing this they would be exempting uh from an energy perspective uh solar and wind power that was generated would be exempt from that basically that Revenue would be taken out of that gross revenue so essentially any power line uh that's running uh electric or running uh solar or wind powerered energy through it would then not be uh paying any tax for those uh power lines and so there's really now we be losing an immense amount of of value on just those especially when you fact that you look at the makeup of the grid is is looking like in all actuality by maybe 2028 2030 and definitely by 2035 we could have maybe 60 70 80% of our grid made up of the those those sources of energy and if they're exempt from the gross revenue tax then essentially uh all those power lines in our throughout our County would be paying nothing uh that's just one aspect of it there's other aspects of it as well and I want to get everybody uh informed about it and what some of our concerns are uh so that we can articulate to the Department of Revenue as well as the legislator uh why this move has uh a lot of potential pitfalls yes so but in the meantime because the comment period closes on March 6th or March 9th uh and I want to be able to be work with uh we're having a meeting tomorrow with uh Sherburn County Becker and monacello uh on being able to get comments in sooner than later I just want to at least get the approval of the board at least in the short term for us to be able to put some comments together we will share those with you um but it's kind of want we want to stop it sooner than later so we're taking a very active approach on it sounds good all right with that I'll just stand for a motion to at least give staff the ability to direct us to be able to construct letters on behalf of the County Board and to uh render comments on the Department of Revenue regarding our concerns on this proposed change so moved second motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I oose same sign motion passes unanimously all right now moving on to the county board uh Workshop recommendations uh we had a collection of eight different recommendations uh does the board want me to go through them or do any of the ones particular that want to be removed for further discussion Mr chair I'd make a motion to approve the recommendations from the workshop except for number three the Historical Society all right so we have a motion by commissioner catchmark to approve 1 two 4 five 6 7 and8 uh from the County Board Workshop do I have a second I'll second that second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I HST same sign all right the recommendations are approved unanimously uh the third item was the historical society performance measurement presentation uh the discussion was a good presentation by the Historical Society uh in the consensus of the board was to issue the onethird of the appropriated uh amount budgeted for the Historical Society for 2024 um commissioner catch [Music] Mark I don't have anything just okay someone can someone else can make the motion okay so this was uh you had stated earlier in your there your uh your piece with a minute so I think I'll make a motion to approve the recommendation all motion by commissioner Dietrich I'll second that second by commissioner Holland I will State uh they have done a fantastic job on uh leveraging their uh resources within the historical society and have uh brought uh much greater attention to the services that they have there I think they're on a good path forward I am very pleased at the short term so with that I give them a hats off um is there there's no other comments all in favor say I I I oppose same sign I all right the historical society's recommendation of allocating their uh funds for the first third of the year is approved for one and Mr chair I'd make a motion to approve and adopt the recommendations from the revisor's work group from 213 all right motion by commissioner catch Mark I'll second that second by commissioner Holland I will first off say thank you to the two of you on your uh diligence to review uh these proposed ordinance amendments as well as I think sounds like there might be a a good number of them that they have to be revised over the uh future here so I appreciate you guys's uh due diligence to that and Mr chair just for those that weren't there uh planning and zoning and administrator mati was there and we we went through a list and then we kind of prioritized and we we said this is higher priority or lower priority and they they came up with a list based on that concept thank you let's well at least you have a good pro at least you have a good uh good process and a good uh I guess staging for the months ahead to try and get through them all be in the next 12 months because I don't think there's any way you can possibly try and do them all in a short period of time and I think there's some of them that need to be done more urgently than others I appreciate your uh on the large assembly and some of the proposed language changes there walking through that so I think that was uh well done yeah it should be communicated well it's a change and and one of these things as you do this this is a topic that it'll will probably be changed a couple more times as we uh live and learn and and more guidance comes our way but this is the best we can do at least in the uh short term with that so all right uh if there's so we had a moment motion we had a second and all in favor say I I oppose same sign all right motion passes unanimously all right as we're com to the end of the agenda uh commissioner diet you had a few words you want to say here at the end yes I would I would like to um I'd like to acknowledge the precious lives of the Burnsville police officers and um Paul El Eland and Matthew Rouge and the firefighter par paramedic Adam fith taken by a murderous felon my heart is broken for the families friends and co-workers grieving the loss of these Heroes I cannot fathom the extent of their pain and I'm so sorry for their tragic loss now I call upon the people of right County in the great state of Minnesota to stand up to this lawlessness when is enough enough the policies of defund the police bail reform and open borders has created so much chaos and suffering for families businesses and communities victims are forgotten while criminals are repeatedly let loose within communities to continue to commit crimes right County believe believes and is committed to Public Safety and the rule of law thousands of people have fled from the metro to wri county in just a few ways for this better way of life let us stand together to be a Beacon of Hope and Justice the God I serve is full of grace mercy and love so please join me in a moment of silence to remember those who have sacrifice for our Safety and Security thank you commissioner District that was a very very uh great tribute um terrible tragedy with that uh we will end uh today's County board meeting if there's no other further items that need to come before the board we will adjourn at [Music] 9:51