e e e e e e good morning everyone it is 9:00 a.m. on Tuesday July 2nd we'll call the right County Board of Commissioners to order we'll begin with the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance 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 okay we have a fairly robust agenda here today uh we'll start off here with approving the minutes from the committee the whole uh for the joint ditch uh 44 and the minutes from the county board meeting on June 18th they can be approved collectively or individually I'll stand for modifications Mr chair I'll make a uh motion to approve both of them collectively motion by uh commissioner Dietrich I'll second second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I oh same sign minutes are approved unanimously uh today's agenda uh is there anyone that would like to make any corrections to today's agenda uh Mr chair if I could I would like to uh take item B5 underneath the consent and just lay that over to the meeting on the 23rd if possible all right so item B5 we'll be removing item B5 and that'll come forward at a later date Mr chair is that a [Music] timely that the application is that what you're looking at uh yes that's correct um it is a consent agenda item however I just thought we'd address it now um we'll still be able to make the event which is held I believe on the 27th so okay all right thank you all right um Mr chair yes I'd like to make a motion to amend the agenda to add a closed session forant to Minnesota State Statute section 13d .05 subsection three paragraph a to review review the performance of County Administrator Lee Kelly under terms for consideration item C all right so we're adding a closed session under items consideration uh item C okay is there any other items or modifications to today's agenda Mr chair I'll make a motion to approve the agenda with those changes all all right we have a motion by commissioner catchmark second we have a second by commissioner Shane is there any further discussion Mr chair yes um well that would be the close session for today you're talking about on the agenda today do we have the material supply to us that we're going to be discussing I I would not want to go into close session without having the same information that there is no information that's provided this is uh this is news to uh the group here so this is something the commissioner Holland I guess there there's no material um is there there's no material to be reviewed so no is there no all right all right all right with that uh is we have a motion we have a second any other discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign I all right the agenda is approved uh for one moving on to to today's consent agenda uh is there anyone that would like to uh remove anything from today's consent agenda otherwise I will stand for a motion Mr chair yes I'd like to remove A1 under Administration for discussion and letter D1 for discussion A1 and D1 all right with that I'll entertain a motion I'll make a motion I'll second that all right motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Holland all right uh any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I post same sign all right motion passes unanimous uh first item there would be we'll just deal with them right now here uh commissioner catch Mark the authorized signatures on a temporary license agreement with the cities of anandale and buffalo and Howard Lake right thank you Mr chair so in reading it over I didn't hear any feedback from the cities but when I get to the back page the signature page they differ they vary you have a One S one city official signature on some you've got two City officials signing so they're taking up all the signing space and what I'm uh interested in is having a county official in particular the County Board chair sign this document if it's approved because I I don't want future boards or anybody to have to reflect and look for meeting minutes to connect the dots here and we've seen that in another agreement I don't think it's very clean or or fair to both sides so I think just as a housekeeping item uh we should designate who's going to sign this and you're going to have to add an extra line or two if we need another County official to sign it m Mr chair commissioner catchmark excuse me um I think Steph can easily I mean we can just add another signature page referencing uh if you want to be the board chair County Administrator sign it whatever you'd like um but yeah I I do see that some of the Cities we didn't fill in who the title is or what the parties are and some cities have their mayor and you know administrator or clerk also dual sign contracts in this particular case we're not dealing with a large dollar amount if anything really it's just a license to go and use a facility so anyone can really sign it at this point in time in leadership Mr chair we did draft the paper copies in the signature noting that so we do have a separate page for County I think our initial intent was there'd be one line for the county one for whatever entity most of them took up both so we just added I I I appreciate your your point of bringing this up here commissioner Catch market it's more about the consistency on who signs what in on both ends whether it's us or the uh person we're Contracting with and being able to identify who that was that signed that contract so hence because we've had ones before where who is this individual that signed this on the other end uh it begs a lot of question so and saves us a lot of research so appreciate it well Mr chair does anyone else have any feedback one way or another otherwise I'll I'll make a motion to basically amend that to add a another signature line for at least the board chair I agree all right so right so is that a motion right motion by commissioner catchmark to authorize a signatures on temporary license agreement for the cities of annendale Buffalo and Howard Lake with an additional signature line as noted I'll second that second by commissioner Holland any further discussion Mr chair just to acknowledge Administration for working on this for several months I think at the board's Direction and our city seem content with the arrangements so I I'm looking forward to this actually happening thank you very good all right any other further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign all right motion passes unanimous uh moving on to item uh see here D1 authorized signatures on the Minnesota Department of Corrections Work Release contract renal uh I don't see uh Mr Ali in here uh I don't know if the chief is in the position to answer any questions on Mr chair if I can speak to why I pulled it in the first place sure thank you so I I talked to Administration yesterday and finance and I read through the material here and this comes up every three years or so and they didn't have any background and I said well see what you can find and then I asked another board member and they weren't familiar with it so I knew it just wasn't me that was looking for more information but as I look through it I'm I'm wondering it it says the doc pays $60 a day for a regular inmate to go get a job and look for housing and an extra $20 a day if that person wears a GPS device I'm wondering if there's any data on the success rate of this program over the past three years I think I asked same or similar questions the last time around and uh what kind of percentage of folks actually found jobs and housing and then I know that this figure is directed by Statute but with wages going up and everything else how does this fit into the budget and does this actually cover expenses that we have into the program and I don't have that in about 15 pages of data here but Administration never got back to me since yesterday with any more information and since there's at least one more board member that was looking for more that's why it's here right now today for discussion thank you Mr chair commissioner catchmark I almost wonder if this might be a better item for a workshop meeting it it really ties in cross- departmentally between court services with Mike McMillan the Sheriff's Office the jail because the questions you raise go to recidivism you know what people are doing on conditions which is really more of a court services end of the the Spectrum um so I'm wondering if maybe some of the data you want would be better presented at a workshop um or we could identify that I'm just saying it seems like a lot of what you're asking for is most likely retained with Mr McMillan's office and Mr chair I won't repeat it all again if the board is it's fine with that if the minute taker has those items for clarification on the request for data I I think that's fine I I just didn't see any of that reflected in the all it said is there's no changes to the contract and that doesn't help me or the other three that weren't here when we signed this the last time around and I I just want to make sure that one aspect of it to getting the data in being able to understand the success of it or lack of success to it is is a very pertinent question um there is also the factor of the time sensitivity of this and I'm just want to make sure that the contract is approved in the time sensitivity as there is value in it uh regardless at at least to my knowledge so not doing it at all is probably uh not approving it I don't know how much time we have to get to keep renewing this contract Mr chair I I guess I will point to the fact that probably everybody knew when this contract expired as of three years ago and we signed it and that's not on the decision makers as to why and when it was brought a day or two after it expired it looks like in defense of those that are bringing the contract forward this contract has been In Perpetual uh renewal uh for uh quite many years uh and it hasn't been controversial in the p in the past so they've kind of kept it on the same schedule uh not foreseeing that it would all of a sudden out of the blue become uh something of a question so I can see why they wouldn't necessarily feel like they need to have to give that renewal a 60 or 90-day Runway Mr CH you know I appreciate that but the majority like I said of members voting today were not here before and would they really know what to really ask for sure I don't know what they read or what they asked before but uh and it's not out of the blue Mr chair because I believe I asked the same or similar three years ago and that is a fair question and and to that point I mean they they may there is some time on this I like I said I don't know where this sits at this point I don't have anyone uh here right now that's willing to speak before it at least from a staff perspective I guess then it uh the terms through I guess it actually ended on the 30th of uh of last month so it's already open I guess I don't know what that means when the contract is open does it uh Mr chair members of the board the the contract did expire on its own terms on Sunday the 30th of June which would be the end of the fiscal year for the state of Minnesota we are dealing with a state agency here namely the Minnesota Department of Correction so the fact that this came in on the 26th I you know I don't want to impute any ill will and I'm making assumptions here but we are dealing with state agency so given the lateness of this I would not find that to be out of the ordinary given the state agency we are dealing with now Mr chair I'll make a motion to move it to the workshop as recommended by attorney kryer to clarify the the questions already raised Mr chair member commissioner catchmark my recommendation was that my common was actually to refer your questions about statistics and everything for that discussion further to a workshop I I think you need to approve this contract so we can keep continuity in this program um this isn't anything that staff sees as controversial and this is a good program to keep it going and we have to do it for the state to keep it going Mr chair yes is there anything in statute that precludes us from tabling it until we actually have further information to make a decision you you won't have a contract and ability to do this program they probably could cut your funding prated um Mr chair I didn't see that language and all that writing can you point that out Mr chair commissioner Mark the contract expires uh or expired on June 30th 2024 this is an amendment to amend the only thing being amended is the expiration date they're striking 2024 and inserting 2025 that's the only change to the contract well I I didn't enough talking I'll let the other three that weren't here in the first place maybe see what their thoughts are so commissioner catchmark when you articulated this to Administration whether it was yesterday or Friday uh did you articulate that your intent was to uh to get the metrics that you have that you were requesting uh cuz if that was the case I'm kind of surprised if then my question is did Administration contact uh either Corrections or did they contact uh court services to have somebody present here to speak to those things Mr shair yeah thank you well with all the data there I summed it up to say who's giving or getting what for or what and afterwards read through it further because when I sat down with them they couldn't answer it right off when they read it either so their interpretation wasn't any different or better and I didn't get any response Mr chair any response from Administration correct then then my question would because I I mean I I'm not going to blame uh court services or Corrections because if they didn't know they didn't know so from that fact then my next question is is it your ownest to go right to the department head or is it your ownest to go to Administration and the administration should have articulated your questions and had somebody present here to answer them I believe that's true the second part Mr chair because once I start running around and trying to clarify clarify my own I can't run down the hall and explain this to three people that weren't here in the first place and guess whether they have infused knowledge of it or not that just came to them and when I outright asked one and they didn't have any information that tips the scale more m Mr chair to come here and talk about it but for for zero response from Administration I guess that that says something to to that fact that we had the question out there and I I didn't get a response Mr chair and board members commissioner catchmark and I had a conversation about this yesterday specifically about the $60 charge and what that's for what that's paying for and I did pass that information along to the Sheriff's office this morning to ask them if they had additional information about that um they indicated that they um the people the staff that were going to be here today weren't the experts in that piece of information and wouldn't have that information available this morning so I I I mean I guess my question to you commissioner catchmark is is it that the dollar mount isn't enough that we're getting from the state is is that what you're the question that you're begging I I don't know because in three years Mr chair we know that expenses and wages and everything have gone up and I know this is a statute regulated rate but if we look at it internally and say we're getting $60 but it actually costs $80 or $100 to manage this program and an extra whatever dollar amount if the person's were in a GPS then we that's another part of the decisionmaking process for me but like I said I think why don't you direct some questions to the other three that weren't here I think I've been made it clear as to what my questions were um Chief good morning Mr chair uh members of the board I don't have all the answers I'm not the expert on the DLC work release program but I can maybe offer some insight and answer some of these questions $60 is set by the state um they probably go through their same decision-making process that we do when we set our fees trying to figure out what is uh the best to set for recouping the counties to to overseas inmates these inmates on work release um end up costing us less than another County border for the fact that they are not here they they don't eat in our facility during lunch they kind of on their own so our cost for overseeing those inmates is less than other outof count border um we currently don't have any inmates on uh GPS monitoring so we don't incur those costs as far as success of the program I don't have those kind of Statistics I don't know how those are tracked they might be tracked through either Court um Services I'm not sure um maybe we could get some answers from them at a workshop but as far as the program um I think it's relative how many do we have this year currently three four we have six six yeah all right but it's it's not it's not an over um overburden for our staff to run the program thank you chief for offering yourself up as a sacrifice here what and we appreciate somebody coming up and saying something given the it's a lengthy contract for a couple years and just I don't like to put on an autopilot Mr chair either to without a little bit of a lot has changed over three years in the business and I don't think this is the I mean this is more of a situation where you say yes we'll participate in the program and get the funding for uh said inmates or don't participate in the program don't board such said inmates get nothing uh in terms of changing the rate you don't have that ability to negotiate with the state this is a legislative approved rate and if you want to change that dollar amount you have to Lobby uh either through AMC in said venues to get a rate higher than $60 so if your question is whether is justifiable for the $60 rate that that's that's something that you have to argue at the legislator uh if you don't want to participate in having doc inmates that are in this program housed in our facility I mean I would say right now and rudimentary I will say that the dollar month when you look at the $60 that we're getting that's the same rate as our standard uh our boarding rate isn't much more than that and we're actually paying more by the time you factor in the food and other other things into it so I can say if you don't like this rate for the ones that are on work release you shouldn't like the rate that we're getting for other borders because that's not going to be high enough either then and Mr chair it's not a matter of like or dislike and I'm not going to go Lobby to St Paul for anything I'm just wondering as decision makers here if if the math adds up that's all if if the data says it's a good deal or it's not a good deal I think that's what that's a consideration here but if the consensus is to approve it as is with getting the information at at a workshop I'm fine with that but I I don't want to speak for the three here that aren't saying a lot I'll make a motion to amend his motion to um approve this contract today and bring this data back um and and more information to a workshop I'll second that all right we have a motion by commissioner Dietrick second by commissioner Holland uh I think that is a great compromise I think moving forward with the contract is good in the short term but having information and data uh to illustrate it is it's either success or lack of is good for the ongoing discussions especially if you want to take uh that information and bring it down to the legislator to see if that dollar money is correct you're going to want that information Mr chair and just that this is a one-year contract it's it is it's a three year does it didn't it not say from 202 2025 Mr chair this is an amendment to extend the expiration date to the uh June 30th 2025 can have this conversation are and move forward it's a just a year contract and Mr chair if I could say something again Chief thank you for coming up that clarification made it made a difference we appreciate that happy to help thank you all right we have a motion and by commissioner dri second by commissioner Holland is there any further discussion none all right all in favor say I I post same sign all right the uh contract with the Minnesota Department of Corrections uh work release contract renewal is approved for another here all right now moving on to the timed agenda we have to schedule a tobacco ordinance Amendment 24-3 public hearing yes Mr chair members of the board before you as a request to schedule a public hearing on the proposed staff amendments to the tobacco ordinance number 24-3 uh staff is proposing that we do this as part of accumulated the hall either on August 12th 13th or 14th um I will admit when I submitted this I was not aware of your budgeting schedule so if that creates a conflict we can push this back probably till uh second week of September if that would be more convenient I'm just looking to try to get this adopted by the end of September because most applications come in in October or November but we do need 30 days notice by Statute I'm open to discussion here on board members um we can go with the either 12 13th 14th or if you want to keep it within that week we have budgets all day those days but we could carve out period of those days but I think we kind of want to keep them dedicated to that so we keep moving on it otherwise your option would be doing it on that Thursday August 15th otherwise we move into September I think we should move into September Mr chair okay I agree and when looking at September um I would say let's look at the week of the through the 12th uh we want you want to look at um SE Mr chair we could do it after board Workshop if you want it on Tuesday afternoon the 10th go with the 10th at um we should we just go with like a 1:00 because we we already have uh I have budgets I got budgets too that's where I saying I got variety of different meetings from 10:30 to noon after Workshop that day what about the 12th so we can either do the 10th at 1 or we can go to the 12th um I can do the 12th at 11:00 or later in the day on the 12 I'm good with either one yeah me too l l a little bit later yeah I mean or 11 you want to go one or one one one I can do 1 o00 on the 12th September 12th okay I can do September 12th at 1:00 yeah that's fine odds nods all right so I'll ttain a motion to set a public hearing for tobacco ordinance 24-3 at 1:00 on September 12th do have motions is a motion by commissioner D and second by commissioner Holland all right any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I post same sign all right the public hearing is set for September 12th at 1:00 in this room all right now at this time we will move into our health and human services portion of the agenda and we'll put our health and human services hats on uh as Jamie Makes Her Way Forward uh we have a number of items I was going to be willing to seed my time my budget time for the committee of the whole uh so first item on the Health and Human Services agenda is to approve the consent agenda we have five different items on there would anyone like to remove them otherwise I'll stand for a motion to approve the consent agenda for the health and human services so moved motion by commissioner Shane second by commissioner Holland any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I close same sign all right motion passes unanimous next we have the uh timed agenda item adopt resolution 2407 to accept the June 2024 donations so moved motion by commissioner Dietrich second second by commissioner Shane any further discussion hearing none all in favor resolution commissioner catchmark i i i i i all right motion passes unanimously thank you for that donations there's a a few of different ones in the total of $396 thank you all right next is the uh director's comments Jamie thank you for your time today yeah thank you all um I have I'm adding a couple additional um director's comments I won't take very much time um initially I would like um to let you know that R County child that our organization HHS um was awarded a child passenger safety we were selected as a recipient of the gift of safety from Buck buckle up for life which is actually the Toyota organization a nonprofit or organization dedicated to promoting child passenger safety and providing resources to families to keep their children safe on the road the gift of safety is a highly competitive program that provides free car seats we received 50 free car seats um and educational resources to both new and seasoned child passenger safeties um so that's a extraordinary and wonderful um award from that organization I actually often come into the building through the um Public Health Bay and there was a family with about four or five kids down there today getting there um passenger van all outfitted with you know car seats and things like that so it's a great program that um our Public Health Department runs um and then on top of that we just found out just this week that the United Way is also awarding um us um $5,000 find my comment here um right County United Way um funds help us purchase a variety of car seats child car seats to have on hand when clients come in for safety for a safety inspection sometimes their current car seat is outdated because typically we'll we'll fit the children into the car seats that the parents come in with and sometimes we can't do that if the car seat is um no longer usable um missing property equipment are is no longer safe to use we can offer a replacement seat for a minimum of $10 last year we distributed 40 40 child car seats to those who had Financial hardships funds also allow us to promote child passenger safety at community events health fairs and Expos we're able to purchase promotional items and educational materials our goal is for children to leave the inspection site safer than when they arrived um the United Way also gifted us or awarded us another $5,000 grant for our special needs fund a special needs fund can be utilized to meet clients basic needs with no other resources available it's kind of that um all donated funds that we can go to in a fam is in kind of a dire situation the fund enables us to help families overcome barriers our special needs funds have been sustained for over 20 years through Community grants and donations and just were a couple of examples um of how they're used um new baby bottles were purchased for an infant being placed in foster care um we were able to provide a smoke detector and a fire extinguisher to a grandparent so they could become licensed for foster care for their grandchildren adult was an adult was able to get a copy of their birth certificate which was necessary to start a new job um says we were able to provide same day service Allin one building which is new for us which we really enjoy we P paid a utility bill to prevent a shut off for a family and an adult was able to reside in a hotel until they could get into their own apartment last year's funding sources in um in case you're interested in 2023 we received just over $9,000 in donations from United Way Buffalo strong right hennipin marville Township and the community United Methodist Church of monacello um one final director's comment which is maybe not quite so uplifting is just a um heads up that we're still really struggling in our men choices area um we're currently have about 250 people on our weight list and we're about 8 to 10 weeks out we're not in compliance in this area it's definitely a pain Point um we do have some information for the board and maybe if the board would consider hearing that at either a workshop or a future um board meeting we'd appreciate it that's all I have I have a question uh when will you I we I love that car that car seat Port that we have here it's so nice and and uh would you ever consider having a grandma day because grandmas have a hard time getting car seats Grand is part of any grandmas come apparently grandmas come all the time as the grandma of newborn twins um I probably could be figuring out that myself so I have not transported them anywhere yet and I'm a little nervous to do so so we'll have to come and see Kai to get us all set up with car seats so thank you and yes definitely if you have other folks in that situation send them our way we're happy to help them okay great thank you Mr chair um Jamie before you sit down commissioner Holland and I um got invited to women connection last week and to St Michael and the or Cornerstone I'm sorry um what was really interesting to me is we asked what their what their struggle was and it was the car seats yeah and and here we have infants being born without car seats so just want to add that that that's very important and thank you for what you're doing right um and I would say it's a program that like you know we've had it for many many years but um I mean and it's the kind of thing you don't hear about you don't hear about the accidents adverted averted or the deaths you know um um mitigated because of you know car seats were in place and in the right way you know so I think it's things you don't hear about but that's good things to not hear about versus the opposite so um yes we'll continue to do our best in this area and with an additional $10,000 of funding um I think we'll help us do that so Jamie I appreciate you bringing up the conversation regarding the men Choice assessments and the backlog of where we're at uh this is it's funny looking back uh I think it's probably six years ago that you had set the table about the conversation that uh based on the Aging population in the county the increase in population the trajectory wasn't looking good at that time and we knew that it wasn't a matter of of if but a matter of when this case load was going to hit at an extraordinary level especially because at that time we knew looking at the demographics of the people that were between the 60 and 65 and you don't know when they're going to hit into that so the the and I won't I won't um share all the stuff from the PowerPoint that Jill puler has been working on but a couple of things kind of come to Bear here um we were hoping that this legislative session would have provided us some um opportunities to alleviate some of you know this strain um by either um reducing the number of mchoice Assessments that we need to do in general or providing us with some better Technologies or ways to do the assessment or some maybe shortcuts that don't hurt the quality of the assessment those weren't forthcoming so we're a little disappointed in that area um there was one area what they did approve which was to extend the time that our um men Choice assessment can um I think was extended to a year from the time where men Choice assessments are good for so if somebody becomes eligible for ma within that time we don't have to redo the men Choice assessment but that's kind of a little piece of a much bigger puzzle um so yeah we really struggle in this area um the numbers that I I saw most recently is like where we used to be getting about a couple years ago um about 60 referrals a month we're up to like 90 referrals a month um it's and these and the the doing the assessments has not gotten any faster it's only taken longer so um it's really hard to say that we're 8 to 10 weeks out on getting people and usually and I've said this before in this room people don't come to see us until like something is really happening and you know it's kind of we're behind already behind the G and then to say we have to wait 9 weeks before we can get your mother seen or whatever the situation is um is a difficult message so um I'll do everything I can internally um it's just been a real struggle just to set the table on it and make sure confirm of whether I'm right or not uh prime example you get an individual who has either a massive stroke and they may have been within a rehab facility uh for 6 to8 weeks and at some point they get to the point where they say we've done all we can do at a rehab facility now they send you home now you will not be able to get any type of assistance for a PCA without a men Choice assessment now you'll be that individual will sit at that home for 4 6 8 12 weeks till we can get an assessment so that they can get dollars to be able to hire a PCA to be able to assist them in that meantime you are looking at sometimes a all hands on deck from family members doing things that they never thought they'd have to do for their parents uh are we able to do it in a 24-hour turnaround no is that is that reasonable no but is is it reasonable to wait 8 12 weeks no um and that's where I will say I fielded more calls on that in the last year than I have in all my years prior to that uh we we are aware of it and it is about trying to figure out how we can fund it to be able to get enough people to do those assessments but also without a a burden to the taxpayer as well so there is funding from the state on this that I don't remember what is it uh um well other counties look at it differently um I would say you know we treat it a little bit differently here as far as but it's it's not insignificant um I think it's in the3 to $400,000 range is what our um is what we're about at that we you know that we bring in for this but I think the other piece of it and you kind of alluded it to it um um board chair vet is that once people kind well first of all most families are not wealthy enough to afford those kinds of things then it takes a long time to get find PCA to do the work a lot of times after they even get approved for them um and the other thing is once they're on medical assistance if that's a situation you know they spend down their resources this does allow them to bring Services into the county that is good for the county I mean it's an economic Boon for a lot of service providers to be able to provide services for our growing population and get reimbursed for it so um you know I mean if everything was working if we could catch up I'd be happy with a you know having a weight list of 25 people because then it's not like so insurmountable and right now it's just reached a a point um it's really going to be all hands on deck we've done a lot of in internal things I feel like we've done as much as we can internally not that we're not we're not going to stop looking at how we can um you know work through this but it's becoming quite um we're not catching up we're kind of falling behind and chairman vet too I like that that Antiquated uh system that the state has you running it it I've been talking to legislators I've been talking to you know just common folk that it's just alarming how and the joke is a Cyber attack wouldn't matter because they wouldn't even know that system it was like still in the recogn yeah lot systems don't recognize the new systems yeah and it's jaw-dropping as to how bad it is and I feel sorry for your staff too because that makes it even more difficult this um this is one area where they are working on the system but the system that they came up with isn't saving any time and that was I thought one of the goals of the new system um I what is I don't know if it's called Min Choice 2 or Min Choice 3 imagine but they did come up with a system but they it inherently created more opportunities just take more time to get the assessments done versus fewer so um we have folks right now some are working in the new system some working in the old system we were looking forward to launching the new system so we would by that gain you know um some viability in this area but at this point that's not happening so again I appreciate your hearing uh my question with you Jamie is this something you're I know this isn't on our Workshop this coming following week I also know that this is has budgetary implications and in the discussion about uh the needs versus the the impact and we need to have a bigger holistic disc discussion on that uh I'm not sure if you wait until the August Workshop if you will be able to get in front of it enough uh into the budget aspects or is this something that you want to do on a separate one-off meeting we could certainly do it on a separate meeting if Administration was amendable to that um you know I think our long range plan and something that we did talk about last year um when we're looking at men Choice um um workers is that and this is just my pie in the sky but should we add additional men Choice workers to deal with our growing population right now and let's say I always think we're going to reach that saturation point where we get where we get things done and it doesn't ever really seem like it happens because we're growing so fast you know those men Choice workers I wouldn't be too worried about it um having like being over staffed because those waiver staff that's where these men choice you know these men choices end up as waiver cases and those waiver cases are very highly reimbursed you know staff so we would could basically just be in a shifting um modality where we could use our men our men staff as waiver staff down the road and be you know reimbursed very very favorably in that area so so we do have a lot of the we have the budget numbers right now but we certainly could we would be willing to meet at anybody's um at anybody's convenience anytime I guess I'd be interested in trying to meet somewhere in the later part of July say looking at the week of like the 22nd to the 26 6 or the 29th through August 2nd uh I think it'd be good for us to get in in front of this have a discussion holistically on the on the impact financially versus the uh impact on the citizens themselves would you I could work with Clay to come up with a uh Mr chair I think that would be good we'll work on a date bring that to the workshop and schedule that at that time if that works for everyone that that sounds like a good plan thank you very much thank you thank you all right next we're moving on to items uh for consideration we have to adopt two modified resolutions there were some very very minor changes in the language that we needed to uh bring back these two resolutions to uh reopt them with this modified language uh it's all very benign but still needs to be within the uh resolution itself I'll make a motion to approve all do you want to do them one at a time because it's a resolution or um I suppose we well I guess it doesn't matter I if it's going to be the same vote for both we could do them together I guess if we have a motion for both uh we we'll stand to do them both together together because it they've already been approved we're just adding some additional modified language that needed to be within the resolution so okay I'll second motion by commissioner dri second by commissioner Holland uh resolution to uh approve the agreements for the bridge local bridge Ro replacement programs for the Eastwood Avenue and casat 2 all right any discussion Mr chair yes maybe a question for Chad as he was sing relief back there but it'll be brief with the high water mark is that going to change the time frame for the [Music] work uh good morning um no there will be no changes they're starting the Cassat 2 bridge on July 8th and we just verifi the morning so we're sending out press release property notifications um and Etc and um Eastwood Avenue Bridge will probably be a little bit later um but to my knows they're not concerned so with high water or anything so thank you not ideal but get it done great thanks all right and no other items here uh resolution uh commissioner Shane i i i i i resolution passes unanimous all right uh topics for the uh workshop for July 9th next week uh there's a variet variety of items listed within there I'm going to add one other additional item and that is to discuss the Planning Commission at large position uh as that position serves on two boards the board of adjustment and the Planning Commission per statute uh so we'll have a discussion about that position uh at the workshop next week Mr chair just for a little background is there a suspected change in that position or no it's just the position has is comes up uh the individual is still interested in serving on it but the practice is that we it is an at large countywide position and their person has to be on both the Planning Commission and the board of adjustments the person who has served on it and serves as the chair on our Planning Commission is still interested in such said position uh does a wonderful job but we still need to have a a a uniform discussion about it cuz uh it's not one that we can easily uh post per for people to apply for it because you can't apply for one because you have to be on the other so if you're not open on the one side you can't get the other side so you know what I'm saying right so it's kind of one that we have to we have to pick from one of the Planning Commission members to put them on the board of adjustments so so with that thought if staff can dig into whatever statutes or whatever apply lies to because we got a uniform decision about posting openings but this one is a little unique because of the two but if staff can tell us at that meeting uh maybe untangle a little bit if there is an option to post or or that because we all were in agreement with the posting piece but does that a does would have to be one of the other seven one of the seven Planning Commission members would have to apply to be on it because they'd have to serve on both yeah Mr chair you you given the fact that we're talking about the Planning Commission at large there are only five people in the county who could apply for that position those are all the board of adjustment members that's what yeah I got it reversed y so there's only five people that could apply to be on it so they um I okay apart from that Mr chair are we adding the docc contract as well to the workshop next week the which contract the doc the work yes the doc contract yeah as noted earlier will be uh for an informational update uh either from both Corrections and uh court services Mr chair yes I have two items one is the membership of the mayor Association I'd like to discuss because they had made a motion two years ago for us to pay dues a pass County Board voted to be a membership and pay dues without knowing what the dues were now uh we still haven't paid any dues we got three new members here so I think we should get a a group disc discussion going forward on what kind of position we're going to take here if people are in agreement with that so just call it membership to the mayor's Association and then the second is the Staffing at the front desk I'd like to see a the last four- week schedule and have it denoted if it was staffed by RSVP and what days and hours and which days were staffed by county staff and I'll just note if there were County board members Staffing it that we don't count as our SVP because allegedly that's happened but uh just to look at other Staffing options uh I'd like to bring that back and where could it potentially be aligned realigned that kind of thing if everyone's in agreement just call it Staffing of the front desk all right is there any other items otherwise uh that's uh a non-actionable item as we have uh already uh we don't have to approve them so next would be the uh committee recommendations to approve and adopt the recommendations from the committee of the whole for the joint ditch County ditch 14 uh there's a handful of recommendations here uh the recommendations were to review the petition for repair on joint ditch 14 uh then there was the review of the inspection report submitted by staff and they determine if the drainage system needs repairs uh pursuit to Minnesota statute 103 713 subdivision 2 uh and then also if repairs are determined to be needed then joint ditch Authority shall appoint an engineer firm to examine the drainage system and make reports uh the reports shall show necessary repairs and estimated cost repairs uh so with that uh Mr will entertain a motion to app I'll make a motion to approve all right I'll second motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner catchmark any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign all right the uh recommendations are approved from The Joint dit1 14 at this time it is 9:48 uh we will be moving into a close section uh Clos session pursuing to Minnesota statute 13d do5 subdivision 3 par paragraph five or paragraph a to review the performance of County Administrator e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e okay we are back out of close session it is 1010 here on July 2nd at this time um board I am asking is there any action that you are looking to take at this time Mr chair just for the board's sake as well and for the listening public I have distributive resolution to the board if someone wants to move and second that then I can read an into verbatim it's you're this is the resolution right here in front of you this is the it's the uh believe I hand it out didn't I sorry if I didn't six pages worth what six pages worth of resolution no no uh some of us got it some of us didn't get it that's I think they were looking for where the resolution was okay oh I think I hand it out in the oh did I miss that one oh I didn't get that one all right thank you I must have uh missed that one all right all right all right so at this time uh the the distributed resolution uh per the conversation from the closed session uh uh no do we need a motion if there is interest I'll make a motion all right motion by commissioner Holland second second by commissioner Shane uh to adopt resolution uh to place County Administrator on paid administrative leave uh any discussion uh would you like to read the resolution at this time Mr chair I can do that uh Board of right County Commissioners resolution to place County Administrator and paid administrative leave whereas the right County Board of Commissioners has the authority to manage Personnel matters within its jurisdiction whereas the Board of Commissioners has identified circumstances necessitating the placement of the County Administrator on a paid administrative leave therefore be a resolve that effective immediately upon adoption on July 2 2024 the W County Board of Commissioners hereby place es Le R Kelly un paid administrative leave pending further review and suspends all duties and responsibilities associated with his position during this period be it further resolved that the right County Board of Commissioners authorizes chairman Derek fetch to oversee the administrative leave process including but not limited to determining the length of the leave notifying the County Administrator of the resolution in any Associated terms be it finally resolved that the right County Board of Commissioners directs chairman Derek fetch to report recommendations within 21 days regarding the continuation or modification of this paid administrative leave all right we have a motion by commissioner Holland second by commissioner Shane is there any further discussion hearing none resolution commissioner Holland I dri hey I I I resolution passes 4 One at this time it is 10:13 in the there is no other business to attend to on today's uh board agenda uh so we will adjourn at 10:13