e e e e e good morning everyone it's great to see a packed room here today it is Tuesday September 24th we'll call the right County Board of Commissioners to order we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance I have 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 well this is one of those great days of the year that we get to recognize the wonderful workers here at right County for their years of service uh at this time we will be calling uh the five years first and uh all the way to I think we have a handful of 40-year employees here uh come forward and receive your certificate and mug and at this time if board members want to come up on GRE our recipients yes thank you Mr chair members of the board uh starting with our five-year years of service recognition first we have Matt arant with [Applause] facilities Christa zachman Health and Human Services Alexander Johnson Health and Human Services Colin domes Highway David Yang Sheriff Mark Kellogg Information [Applause] Technology Anna radoff Health and Human Services Mark lion Sheriff Melissa majusi attorney's office Stephanie Bridget Wy Health and Human Services Kelly niss finance and taxpayer services William wak Sheriff Heather lamu finance and taxpayer [Applause] Services Alan sanowski Sheriff Matthew lysik Sheriff Benjamin Rudolph Sheriff Matthew fi Information [Applause] Technology Victoria poof finance and taxpayer services kala Ena finance and taxpayer [Applause] Services Mr chair members of the board moving on to our 10 years of recognition Abby Wacker Health and Human Services Colleen norgren Law Library Michelle Czech Health and Human [Applause] Services Heidi Davis Health and Human Services [Applause] Tammy Anderson assessor Kathleen Brenan Merritt court services for 15 years of service and recognition we have Richard huca with the Sheriff's Office with the 20 years of service recognition Ryan Ferguson Sheriff Ryan Bush court services Joel Tolson Health and Human Services Molly Marty Health and Human [Applause] Services our 25-year Service Awards go to Bob Erikson Highway Edward Adams Sheriff's Office Tony rasmason Assessor [Applause] Lynette Rositas Health and Human [Applause] Services 30 years of service John Young Health and Human Services Jessica Ericson court services 35 years Michelle sanquist attorney's office Carla Nelson finance and taxpayer Services the members of the board the astounding 40 years of service we have two people Tom Decker and Highway and then for the second one Tom feder Parks and Recreation [Music] [Music] once again it is great to to see so many people dedicated to this organization and the people of Ray County I can't thank you enough for all the hard work and dedication that you put in in the many years of service uh thank you and enjoy your day and you're more than welcome to stay for the uh uh remainder of our agenda but any comments uh administrator kryer yeah Mr chair I just like to comment on how astounding the recognition is at this quarter to have every 5year Mark recognized with two at the 40 and two at 35 and two at 30 years is absolutely amazing and we appreciate your years of service to the county and we appreciate everything you do this County couldn't operate without your your service and dedication to the public we'll just take a short little uh three minute break for uh those of you that want to exit out the room so years yes yes I'm waiting for the day when we get 50 they move we're going to start having to give out 50s I said I told my wife if they go to 70 on Social Security my retirement have a retirement I have a grandpa that's 92 and sharp so do I that's what I mean you do you can't really oh all right uh moving back into today's agenda uh the next item would be to uh approve the minutes from the board meeting on September 10th we have uh minutes from the Personnel committee on September 11th and we have uh drainage Authority public hearing minutes from 916 we can approve them collectively or individually I'll stand for any modifications or a motion Mr go ahead oh I had a correction on the ditch meeting minutes page three it's one two the end of the third paragraph after the words were not mapped it should be we found utilities are running through the mobile home park but didn't specifically find the route of the SE septic system out of the park and I'll make sure the minute taker gets that because I just confirmed that before the meeting Mr chair all right uh any other modifications Mr chair yes I did have one request that on the Personnel committee minutes that we remove the words and add on a TPS or senior TPS from the recommendation on the first bullet point under item number two I think that was a little ambiguous I mean that was the discussion but at this point in time that's not the action item that that would stand on its own at a later date but the that was I think part of the discussion but it's not the action item at this point in time so I think makes it ambiguous as to whether or not we're adding an FTE at this point in time which we are not yeah we hav't made that decision yet yep so all right uh with that I'll entertain a motion pardon me I'll make a motion to approve all three minutes with those changes all right moot motion by commissioner dri second by commissioner Shane any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I oppos same sign all right minutes are approved unanimous uh today's agenda is there anything that needs to be added or removed from today's agenda Mr chair I'm asking that consent agenda item under D under HHS item D1 be removed okay and with that I'll stand for a motion I'll make that motion I'll second motion by commissioner Shane second by commissioner catchmark to approve today's agenda with a removal of consent agenda D1 hearing no other comments all in favor say I I same sign motion passes unanimous next would be today's consent agenda would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion Mr chair I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda second all right motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Holland uh to approve today's consent to agenda uh any discussion I just want to comment on E1 just with that Broadband that we were using ARP funds to move forward and I'm just you know just disappointed that those that rural part of County isn't going to be uh benefiting from these ARP funds not by any F fault of the county um but by the provider so um just a comment and Mr chair I don't know if the rest of the board's aware but I had talked with staff about letting these townships know they coincidence are not they're all in District 5 but they did send notice out and got feedback that there was they weren't aware of any companies pursuing this in those specific townships because it's one of those things if you if you do it and it was attached to the township and the township says well when did this happen and nobody contacted us they have been notified and confirmed that there wasn't any progress being made so um I thank the staff for that but that's that's the the other piece to this and and there's an and since we've already kind of opened up the discussion on some of that Broadband piece there's a number of factors that have kind of played into it uh some of those factors being they were looking for more matching state and federal funds that they didn't receive some of them is a capacity from some of the ISP providers they just have so many projects out there because there is so much state and federal money out there and even local money that they still have to be picking and choosing on which ones they can actually move forward with uh based on their economy of scale so it's unfortunate but uh I still will say that we were able to accomplish a lot over the uh last four or five years with uh some of the state and federal funds that we got as well as some of of our local funds to uh expand Broadband across the county all right uh with that we have a motion in a second all in favor say I I I oppose same sign motion passes unanimous consent agenda is approved uh time to agenda item number one at 9:15 I think we're relatively close there and Chad's making his way good morning Commissioners um Chad just go ahead first item all right first item is a resolution to trans transfer the excess to the last two years of our state a municipal distribution to the state aid regular construction account so um basically this is is we get a state aid allotment from basic gas tax license fees for our regular state aid which is the rural single and two-digit roads and then we get a certain portion Municipal State a which is used in towns under 5,000 so if we don't have any projects for a few years in those smaller towns um timing doesn't work or we're saving up um occasionally you have to transfer the stated rules that you can only bank so much and they have to roll the rest to your regular state aid you can still use it in those municipalities and we have three projects coming up so be utilizing those funds in Montrose Howard Lake and anandale which is the next item with one of them so we just asked we in order to not lose those funds we need to roll over a small portion of that so that's what we're doing to asking today all right with that is there any questions or is I'll entertain a motion to make that transfer so moved all right motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner Holland any discussion hearing none resolution vote commissioner catchmark i i i i i resolution passes unanimously thank you next would be the uh adopt a resolution and approve the men. cooperative construction agreement 105 6963 and Chad Yep this is just the uh mot has a project along the TR Highway 25 uh next summer and um one part of that project is replaced the signal at Casa 5 in anandale and this is just our half of that those signal costs any discussion I'll make a motion to approve that all right motion by commissioner Dietrich I'll second second by commissioner Holland any further discussion uh resolution vote commissioner Shane I I I hi hi resolution passes unanimous thank you CH thank you all I got and I know Matt's out there somewhere he's making his way uh we have to approve the order initiating repairs on County ditch 38 good morning Mr chair members of the board yep uh this is just follow up from our public hearing on County 38 on September 16th so this would be the findings in order to approve those repairs including realignment and uh accepting the contract for the lowest responsible bid any discussion no I'll make a motion to approve second motion by commissioner Dietrich second by commissioner catchmark any other discussion M Mr chair I I would like to comment I know we're moving through this rather quick but this is a culmination of literally years if not Decades of work and I I know that this motion will quick but it doesn't take into account the 20 years of effort that I know has happened in finance before we hired Matt and what Matt has done since he's been here um I know when I started in the county 14 years ago whenever cd38 showed up on the agenda you left the room for 45 minutes so but so it's really nice to see that this project is getting done it was needed 20 years ago and Matt has been diligent on it um and I'm just want to thank him for all of his work on this cuz it it couldn't have been done without him and the Parks Department I will anecdotally Matt you I remember you're coming on board I don't know was it about seven six years ago and right off the bat we had to go into getting as builts on this system uh then right after that realized we had to go into a redetermination of benefits uh starting all the repair proceedings which at times were contentious because this is one of those situations where how did we ever get to a situation like this in the first place uh it's nice to actually see that the work will actually be done in this situation will be resolved and we can move forward and I just want to follow on Greg said everything I Touch goes to Greg's death after that um we're very lucky as a county a lot of their counties hire professional attorneys to handle a lot of this um that just specializes in drainage Greg handles basically everything at a huge cost savings to the benefit of land owners um it's very impressive his knowledge base again they get to specialize in just drainage law as we know Greg has to specialize in aot of other things now in his current position so again Greg thank you for all the help over the years on this one Mr chair this one of many that I inherited when I came on and just to show how important meeting minutes can be we found some correspondents from 1972 that was actually the first I think documented petition that the ditch isn't working properly can you help 1972 and it's 2024 it started and stop many times and there's land owners that have stacks of Correspondence we looked at in the old building from the 80s so it needed a lot of pushing and proding but overall now the resistance seems to have subsided I I think that as word trickles out those that weren't part of the process the phones might be ringing a little bit but I think we can easily justify the work here and I'm glad we got a good bid and looking forward to the water flowing again all right thank you you all right we have a motion we have a second and no other discussion all in favor say I I po same sign all right motion passes unanimous now we're already on to the items for consideration uh the next item on the consideration is the culmination of weeks if not months of well really I'm going to say months of work with staff and at the board we've been working on this for at least six weeks plus on uh the recommendation to adopt a resol solution to approve the levy of 5.71% uh at this time I want to thank staff for their hard work on this I want to thank all the departments in doing all their uh due diligence in trying to find a what do I say a resolution that uh meets the needs of the taxpayer as well as the operation of the organization uh so at this time I'll leave it open to I would like to add um some comments to this as well um I'd like to thank our department heads and staff for working diligently to bring forward their 2025 preliminary budgets thank you for prioritizing your budgets in order to serve the people of wri County well I very much appreciate you working with the board for and all your thoughtful responses to a lot of our questions I would also like to thank my constituents for their thoughts and feedbacks regarding the levy Mr chair I am struggling with one thing to understand why the majority of the the board has requested an additional 195,000 to be removed from the Sheriff's Office budget for 2025 I strongly object to the board's efforts to defund our Sheriff's Office the sheriff's office has already reduced their 2025 budget by 500,000 during the budgeting process during our last budget Retreat commissioner Shane directed staff to cut the wellness program cut the mentorship program and cut the Professional Services Mr chair in the total amount of 195,000 from the sheriff's budget the Commissioners Holland and catch Mar catchmark agreed the interim County Administrator did remind the Commissioners that they cannot determine the line items to cut in the sheriff's budget there's also no consideration at all during the meeting to bring the sheriff's office staff to the table to discuss the implications of the proposed Cuts I'm sure you're aware the last four years has been very difficult for law enforcement in our County State and Country since the de defund the police movement Staffing shortages continue to stress our law enforcement's efforts to protect serve our communities we are the fastest growing county in the state and keeping a resident safe is my highest priority crime statistics statistics in right County are beginning to reflect the continued impact of these societal changes for example in re County the investigations for child pornography cases has dramatically increased 200% just from last year and unfortunately there have been five homicides in right County since 2020 including the recent homicide in and Andale we've also had four officer involved shooting since 2020 which all the offices are alive and well today and have been cleared because the Sheriff's Office emphasizes highquality training and a positive and supporting culture these are the very things that my commissioner's desire to cut law enforcement is inherently a high-risk job fortunately even the legislature has attempted to address these concerns by signing a law which went into effect in July 2023 that introduces mandatory Wellness training for officers and further emphasizes mental health awareness and support in this field these reforms aim to balance the well-being of officers with the need to maintain a functional and financially sustainable law enforcement Workforce the impacts of these proposed cuts to the Sheriff's wellness and mentorship program budgets would include cost mandated OSHA hearing and fit mask Health testing gym equipment mental health education peer support teams and the chaplain program participation in these programs continues to grow every year since they've been implemented perhaps without understanding the packs of the cuts to the Professional Services budgets these items do include language Services document shredding psychological testing vehicle toes and the retired FBI expert which trains our trainers and the deputies at our training center just because my fellow Commissioners do not believe his services are necessary doesn't make it so on the note regarding training I would like to to share an unprompted compliment to the Sheriff's Office from I while I attended the AMC conference an attendee asked me which county I represented when I responded right County she then stated her County was interviewing a right County Deputy who was moving to her area she was extremely impressed with the candidate and the training he'd received she also complimented the three sergeants she followed up with for their knowledge and professionalism R county has the third largest sheriff's office in the state why because re County Sheriff's office has intentionally built relationships invested in highquality training and Technology supported and developed our deputies and staff to build the trust to serve and protect our communities and our schools the people of Wright County believe in the professional leadership of our Sheriff's Office therefore I would like to work together as a team and ask my fellow Commissioners to join me to make a motion to approve the preliminary budget to include $195,000 into the Sheriff's Office budget using Lev excuse me using Reserve funds and that is my motion all right uh any other comments um I'll make a few comments here uh commissioner Dietrich I appreciate your your statements and um they're well taken and I will speak on behalf of of uh some of the board members and some of the discussions because I'm I'm sure there's quite with this statement quite a lot of questions the board itself is not in the inclination of defunding law enforcement actually quite in favor of in of funding law enforcement and has for many years and actually uh over the decades the right County Sheriff's office has gotten the line share of funding uh from uh across the board when in comparison to that of other departments uh but that should be the case too we are a growing County and we do have a lot of contracted work and it should be funded to uh the said degree um now I understand that the there there may be a perception that with this reduction that that would be the case but that do understand that the 195,000 is about a half of 1% of the entire budget of the right County Sheriff's Office uh there is many departments in this County and other organizations that we send allocations to that have had far greater cuts that have made Cuts upwards of five or 10 or even 15% uh to help make sure that they lessen the burden in on the taxpayer of right County uh so it is respectable and and honored I understand that need to want to try and fund law enforcement to the best of the abilities but it is constantly a finesse game that we do here as board members to make sure that we get the services that need to be met at a dollar amount that the taxpayers can afford uh so sometimes it es and flows from whether we have enough funds to put more money in versus other years where we have to retract and this is one of those years where we are trying to lean some things out and there may be a next year when going through the budget process there is a good possibility that that may be able to go the other direction so with that I will uh stand for any other discussion by board members yes I'd like to make a comment um I too am very uh very proud of the Ray County Sheriff's Department um and we've been told many many times uh that according to State Statute that we cannot tell the sheriff how to allocate his his budget um that is per state statute and um just like we went to all the department and asked because I did not I did not want the 8 and 12% Levy as you did commissioner Dietrich um I said I wanted four I'm compromising to 5.71 I went last week to Albertville my little city and told them that it would be 5.71 and um the comment was from commissioner Aaron cocking can you get the sheriff to bring down uh their prices cuz it's killing our budget and I said I wish I could but I can't uh we have a lot of struggling families last night I went into oigo city council meeting and for three hours heard how people do not want their taxes to go up and refuse to have a fire department of a a a city of 25,000 people and they are okay with having contracted from other cities a department so I I understand that that it looks you know like we're cutting that is a very s there's a very small cut and there are ways that they can generate Revenue by either the jail or the training facility to keep those costs to keep those uh positions that they have there there are other other things that they can do um so uh I'm happy I'm not happy that it's uh 5.71% but I will uh I will go with what the board has discussed because we had a lot of very good thoughtful meetings all right Mr chair I'd like to make a little comment to I can stand by it all day long with my constituents on the 5.71 I also was not in favor of the commissioner's 8.5 being okay with that um we had to make some very strong Cuts in a lot of areas we would never there was a comment that I dictated taking out um The Wellness Pro program that was never said I am not here to direct what he does with his budget and I will stand by that all day long so and again with my constituents I know that I can stand behind what I proposed Mr chair just a response to that when we had set those numbers in the beginning they were preliminary and we have moved through that and I and I and I credit that all the Department's heads working with admin and with our board to get to that point I'm not asking to change the Levy right now I'm asking to utilize our Reserve funds and are you on making a formal motion on that right now yes okay we have a motion by commissioner dri to you amend the proposed budget for 2025 with an increase of 195,000 using fund Balan for uh set amount uh do we have a [Music] second do we have a second do we have a second uh for the F for the lack of a second the motion dies silence is noted all right motion to approve the 2025 budget uh uh for the 2025 years second all right we have a motion by commissioner Holland to approve the resolution uh setting the budget for 2025 Levy increase at 5.71 uh seconded by commissioner Shane any discussion Mr chair yes I'll shift gears a little bit from some of the other money we're talking about but my uh I guess you could say that do not pass go numbers this year are all around I got it down to Appropriations mainly and I'll just everybody knows pretty much what they are but the one that's still outstanding that kind of bothers me is because uh the medical clinic was started on speculation but now we've got actual numbers and I'm kind of disappointed or frustrated I think the setup of the department 100 fund that has $4 million in it to start you have to keep peeling away at it to find out what's in there and if you don't ask nobody tells you and that's where I found the 300,000 that's being asked above the 3/4 of a million that was paid to keep the doors open downstairs for the prior years but I wish somebody would have said hey we got some numbers here U it's buried in a 100 but we could have considered this until now it's way late in the season and the staff says we're having meetings on it but with that the levy is as we approve it today would still set aside 300,000 for that so just something for the future board to consider um I don't know where we're at I think the timing is just is just poor but my overall number that I can't get passed for the taxpayers is at about 520,000 and it's all around Appropriations and I'll call the Medical Clinic kind of in that same line so that's why I I I'm not going to be able to to go with it but my only point for discussion was if anybody had anything on the medical clinic but if not you can continue Mr chair all right thank you thank you any other comments hearing no other comments uh we have a motion we have a second uh resolution vote I'll start off I I I no I all right resolution passes for one all right uh next it would be to take action to set the uh truth and Taxation public hearing meeting uh but one quick second before that uh I know this was a contentious discussion I wanted to backtrack a quick second inate that uh the the big discussion here I think on this entire Levy uh and out of the $200 million budget of the County uh we're talking the 195,000 which of that reduction 50,000 of it is still left it was just moved into a different uh into Department 100 if it needed to be allocated back uh I do want to note that the sheriff has been an excellent partner in getting the citizens that they need and and he has a lot of liquidity within his budget he in most years almost every year has turned back far more than than the 200,000 so he can true up his entire budget and can actually have no reduction in service or within uh implications of the of the operations of his Department uh as the money is there within the budget to do it uh I get that it makes it a lot tighter than it may historically been but there is options within it uh provided there is no uh unforeseen things but unforeseen things do happen and I understand that and if he needs the funds he can come forward at any time in 2025 and we can reallocate those funds as necessary to make sure that he can operate and do the Staffing and services that he sees necessary because to me law enforcement is important and Sheriff dager you do a fantastic job and you're a great leader so Mr chair I would like to submit um the letter we all received from the deputies Union and my comments um for the record on to the minutes all right all right so with that uh taking to the next part here is the take action on the truth and Taxation meeting uh staff is recommending setting the uh what is used to be known as a truth and Taxation meeting but I guess now it's uh public hearing for uh the levy uh looking to held that on December 5th at 6m in this room I will entertain a motion so moved second all right motion by commissioner d second by commissioner Holland any discussion Mr chair could you repeat that date and time please uh December 5th at 6: p.m. okay all right and hearing no other comments all in favor say I I hi post same sign all right motion passes unan unanimously next will be to schedule and ARP uh committee the whole this would be a me a meeting to discuss uh where the projects have been and to look at where we have for balances that left that need to be reallocated prior to the expiration of said funds uh so at this time is there a recommendation by staff um Mr chair staff doesn't really have a recommendation we could would next Tuesday work after board I think it would after board could do it right then just to try to get these funds moving and start discussing it yes yeah we' say that we want to get going on this sooner than later as the talk the clock is ticking in light of the consent agenda item dealing with the Broadband cancellation is that oh I see and Elizabeth and Mark oh it is okay there we go all right after leers you want to go at like one o'clock next to let's go with one o'clock then all right so Ser is that's October 1 October 1st at 1 p.m. I'll end I'll stand for that motion oh yeah that will work or do you want to go we could go no we can yeah all right I just has open all right we have a motion out there anybody want to make that motion for October 1st at 1 p.m. I'll make that motion all right motion by commissioner Shane second by commissioner Holland to schedule a committee the whole for October 1st at 1M in the uh in a room to be to be determined to discuss the ARP funds all right um favor say I I oppose same sign motion passes unanimous all right next would be to schedule a committee to hold to discuss the law enforcement training uh Center memo memo of understanding with the FBI uh looking for a date I think somewhere in mid October was the expectation on that Mr chair yes please um looking at the calendar I think October 9th could work we also have some public hearings and a cannabis work Group after the board meeting on October 15th but I think that day is going to be probably full of meetings could the 9th and 10th I'll be at a shack Retreat should we just go October 16th that's falling into mea time Mr chair what's the E the eth board meeting that's Workshop we could add it we could do it at um you could do it in the afternoon after the workshop but it is a full Workshop agenda I don't know how the board feels about that was power through and do the after one one o00 on the 8th one o'clock works on the 8th okay so I'll stand for a motion make motion I'll second all right motion by commissioner Holland second by commissioner catchmark to schedule committee the whole uh to discuss the memo of understanding with the FBI uh for October 8th at 1:00 all right all in favor say I I post same sign motion passes unanimous all right uh we have the just for informational purposes to set the agenda for the October 8th uh Workshop included in the packet are those items is there any discussion on those Mr chair uh two things if we could speak about the outa county Agency use of the training center and see some type of propos propos Al there's some progress on that with uh staff that can be shared did you say out of County right and then the second piece is our subscription and payment to AMC we all got some information that the dues went up and there was a whole page of alleged benefits that were getting as a result of being a member and I'd like the staff to check into that and see actually are is some are all those benefits things we would have gotten with or without the subscription to AMC and maybe they could speak to a couple of the counties that aren't members because every county is not a member and maybe compare how things are going without AMC and and such Financial benefits that we received the whole page that allegedly we're getting because of that membership all right so uh being that the agenda is so robust I'm open to and exe there isn't a lot to present on the out of County uh piece commissioner catchmark is there one thing can one of the two get pushed out I mean I think there's more of a good discussion to have on the AMC membership the out of County use on the training facility uh it's kind of they solicited the the the the interest isn't there at least under the the time and parameters that we currently have based on the previous discussions um I think there there's a little bit more time I think we could hold off and do that one in November I but I just looking at how many items we have on there and then with us trying to have a meeting at one o'clock I feel we one of these ones might need to be well thank you Mr chair and to the point that there's not as much interest you had made that comment before and since then there has been interest there has been other agencies that that have has done some sounds good the staff has got some information on what that could look like for a potential Revenue source and fee schedule which we agreed to having them look into this when we had the Inc count folks first and that one has been fleshed out so the staff's ready to share it I don't think it's going to be very lengthy because they already got a lot of the groundwork set because of the in county and they give us an update on that if one or two of those said they're not interested then that would be more time potentially for other agencies um the MC yeah that might be lengthy I don't know what kind of deadlines we have to subscribe for next year or to call a Timeout on that is that a consideration so to my knowledge we don't have any uh like due diligence that we have to give them notice of non-renewal uh so at any time given next year usually we pay in the first quarter our membership dues to AMC so anytime if we decide we do not want to pay our membership dues or we can cancel our our membership to AMC so there's not a time sensitive at least in the urgency side of it so if you'd rather push that one to November I just am trying to make sure that we can still get all the business that we need to get done and and trying to get the ones that are more time sensitive uh accomplished first if staff is ready to uh present information on out of County use on the training facility uh we can happily do that I just because at this point they weren't presenting it as an item I wasn't sure that they were uh ready or to do so and then I'm not quite sure where those discussions are in coinciding with that of the sheriff and the sheriff's usage as well as that of the FBI that's the only piece that I want to make sure that all three people are uh collaborating on this well thank you Mr chair and I I spoke to Clay so I guess he's got time to do whatever more needs to do everybody's here that would be a part of that meeting so there's been interest in other agencies to use it for this year yet if everything worked out so for those that think there's no interest there there there really is and a few calls that were made Mr chair I'd be okay with keeping it on there I have full faith in you that you'll keep the the meeting going very productively and and stay on task that's it's fair enough we can do that um but are you is everyone comfortable with having the AMC discussion in November then just yeah that gives us ample of time to decide if if there for some reason that was the case I and I want everybody to have time to do their due diligence on that and Mr chair I just I didn't want staff or somebody to automatically send a check to AMC and then we make another decision to go another route because you got to pay by a certain time frame for the next year so if we can have that pause I don't know what that regular procedure is but I think it's worth consideration before we mail him a check all right but if can wait all right very good then we can add the out of County use um so looking forward to that discussion uh so uh I haven't wasn't aware but if there is uh out of County use and there is time and availability to it we by all means should have that discussion because we want to leverage the uh facilities and our tax dollars to the best of our ability yeah Mr chair staff can of course accommodate the discussion on the training facility I'm thinking we would put it right before the 1055 legislative items squeeze it in there I think would be the appropriate time slot for it and I do appreciate you pushing the AMC item over um I had not heard of any County not being a member and my quick messaging to the assistant County administrators they didn't know of anything either so we'll be doing some research as to the membership list as well and that gives us some time not to be rushing this discussion so I appreciate that all right uh so I'll stand for a motion for the items for the workshop for the October 88th I'll make that motion motion by commissioner Holland second second by commissioner Shane any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I I post same sign all right motion passes unanimous next will be the authorize the Commissioners attendance of the association of Minnesota County's conference uh December 9th through the 11th and cancel the December 10th uh Workshop of the County Board which is a a standard practice that we usually don't have a work shop in December I will not be going I won't be all right um I don't necessarily know that we have to even take action on this because it's an item that they can the more the action pieces whether we still want to have an workshop on December 10th um we don't really have to authorize attendance because that is one that uh Commissioners can decide upon themselves if they want to attend it uh it's Mr chair Mr chair we usually do an open meeting posting to say that three or more commissioners may be present at the conference so that's what the action item really is for staff today is to be able to post that three Commissioners maybe and maybe be there for open meeting purposes I mean I guess it doesn't hurt to post if if I because I don't know if you're going down for Minnesota rule counties or not no no commissioner dri's going commission dri's going okay so um then we're probably not at any risk because it doesn't sound like there's going to be a quorum of of board members there for posting purposes okay sounds good Mr chair okay but are we we're still canceling the workshop though on the 10th that was my next piece of discussion I don't know it depends if we have to push some of these things off yeah if we got four that are going to be here I I don't know that I want want to give up that day with potentially unfinished business before the end of the year agreed because we don't know that's a that's too far out to say what's going to be on our plate we have time to discuss that we can discuss it at one of the board meetings in October whether there is interest or not interest in having a December uh Workshop so all right so we'll hold off on that one so that item will be tabled to a later board agenda all right you need a motion to table it or just table oh no I can just table it so all right uh next would be the committee recommendations sorry Mr chair on the Personnel committee I just remind the commission that at the top of the agenda we amended the this resolution or this recommendation under item two under Finance so this recommendation with the minutes would be changed as result of the prior action yeah so the second recommendation under the restructuring with the add-on of a TPS or a senior TPS uh there you everyone is aware of the language changes that that is not a determination at this time uh the other recommendations of the eliminate the ECM business process analyst they create the ECM Solutions analyst in central it and eliminate one business uh technologist position through attrition and rename two business technologist positions as uh product uh sorry product administrators and approve the product administrators job description and rename one business project coordinator position uh to a product owner's position and authorize Administration to uh an additional TSS position in central it effectively immediately Mr chair yes um I would like to make a Rec um I would like to make a motion to return this item back to Personnel um to go through um so that it and HHS are represented at the Personnel meeting to review those changes being made and to uh accommodate any of their uh feedback so we have a motion by commissioner Dietrich do we have a second do we have a second do we have a second motion dies for the lack of a second so I will say that this uh process has been well vetted I I thank our internal projects Department in their thorough uh review of the it as well as the HHS and leveraging uh the people and the processes and the softwares that are in these departments to make sure that we're getting the most bang for our buck from a Personnel perspective as well as efficiencies in the uh systems that we use uh this entire uh reorg is to a cost savings to the taxpayers as well as it leverages uh systems that we have in the county and eliminating some potentially in the future that we no longer need as there just isn't enough demand for the amount of service that they require to operate uh so with this um per members on both sides HHS and it uh to some degree have been involved especially outside of it on the early end side when we went to centralization of it and financial services and this is just one of those final steps that needs to be made uh to get the efficiencies that we need with that centralization I'll make a motion to approve and adopt the recomendation from the Personnel committee meeting uh on the 11th with those with the changes we made this morning second motion by commissioner Holland second by commissioner Shane any further discussion yes Mr chair I just want to add a comment um with the property tax administrator position um that it came back to re to be reclassed to grade 15 and I just I just want to add that I'm just disappointed when this position was reviewed last year and it was it was not approved it was denied and we lost a really good employee since then in that position and um the amount of effort to hire and rehire and train um had we had some insight back then it would have been way more appropriate to to reclass that position at that time the job descriptions hasn't changed since then but now we're approving it so I just want to say add that I'm disappointed I'm hoping moving forward um you know we'll be thinking ahead um when we make these decisions in in Personnel uh thank you for those comments uh we're working diligently on trying to find a solution that is uh palatable from an expense perspective as well as uh meeting the demand and desires within uh Property Tax Administration uh there is there is a change that is necessary there and we are trying to determine uh what that organization uh looks like it's taking a little bit more time than we would like to have but it is a costly change and with that it takes uh sometimes more time than some of us would like uh I know I would like a swifter resolution on it but uh once again we still need to make sure that we get one that works for permanency here in the county all right so we have a motion and we have a second uh any other discussion hearing none all in favor say I I oppose same sign all right motion passes unanimously next we be to approve and adopt the recommendations from the drainage Authority which we've kind of already done earlier in the agenda uh with the approval of the repair on County ditch 38 under Minnesota statute 103 e-715 and to direct staff to prepare findings and order for the repair and deemed necessary uh so Mr chair I'll make that motion to approve all right second motion by commissioner catchmark second by commissioner Shane any further discussion hearing none all in favor say I I post same sign all right motion passes unanimous and at this time it is 9:56 and we have uh completed today's agenda I do want to take a quick moment to thank uh uh commissioner Holland commissioner Shane and administrator kryer for their uh dedication and uh hard work in DC this previous week and uh working on creating fostering future relationships so do you have an update from us for us yes I want to first of all I want to I I do want to thank commissioner Shane it was really uh it was really nice to go there because we were on the thank you tour and very fun to see our you know friend uh Senator the Whip emmer and uh David Fitz Simmons and I just want to say that I've learned that 13 years ago uh mindat didn't even have the I94 on their 20-year plan and naen as a a councilwoman found that out went and uh at that time David Fitz Simmons was uh working in the house and they found the corridors of Commerce money and I have to tell you that uh uh Senator hornstein shouted out to her at the shovel ceremony at the opening um a lot of hard work she knows a lot of people down there and a lot of counties and mindat said if it wasn't if it wasn't for the I94 uh Corridor uh um group Coalition we wouldn't have I94 right now so that was really fun to hear um and and I want to thank you nen for all that hard work because there's a lot of relationships built and a lot of hard work and that was an exhausting trip and I do want to shout out to Chad too because he was trying to work and the amount of people that he knows from mindat he was a huge asset to be down there um Making Connections uh and they all really really like Chad and and that was really encouraging to see too so very it was a it was a very nice uh nice to see and thank you Greg too for coming cuz I know they have to come back to a load of work Chad was making calls in DC like he' slip off and and he was working and uh and that that's hard to do so but yeah it was a very successful trip and uh and I'm really glad I went and my cities were really glad I was I was there to represent so Mr chair if I could um first off you're way too kind giving me way too much credit um commissioner Holland was just a Powerhouse she stepped in with both feet and she kept us running and I'm really also glad um that you were there Greg um you got to see and I think you'll really bring that to a Full Circle being able to see how things were ran down there um by some of the other lead administrators it was one of the strongest trips that I think we could have made um I I right now I feel like they're right out checks for us just because we were there yeah Mr chair members of the board it was an excellent trip and I I think Commissioners for their leadership that they um exhibited in the meeting um you know getting to have FaceTime with the majority whip in The United State's Capital was well worth the trip and being able to talk about congressionally delegated spending because they don't like the word earmark anymore talking about that with the majority whip and also getting time to meet with uh senator Amy kashar um in her conference room in her office is pretty invaluable and I think just those two meetings alone were worth and that doesn't include the other staff meetings we had with every other elected official in DC so the networking opportunities the ability to promote right County and to be able to get Buy in on across um congressional district basis I think is pretty phenomenal Mr chair also Greg enlightened us exactly to that point of of being able to sit down with the actual Senator and the actual whip most of the time you get one to four of their staff members and we actually had time with them so we're definitely on their radar to projects that are coming up that need to be done yeah Mr chair I think as commissioner Shane knows from her prior experience with the city of St Michael having this Coalition and having a broad spectrum literally from Maple Grove to Clear Water um that gets the attention of elected officials when you show up to have that many jurisdictions in the same room um and as the people out there who are in the experts know that when you have that brought of a demographic then you get Senators paying attention because they know with one decision they're helping out a large section of the state of Minnesota and you know as um Senator clasher even mentioned I mean one of her big achievements was getting the St Louis Bridge um that funding through um up there because that then frees up under spending from mot across the state um to be able to bring it back to our district so having that kind of spending here literally on the last eight mile Gap I mean it it all ties in you know so it was a great trip yeah all right well if there's no other business to attend to we will adjourn today's County board meeting at 10:01 emmer was