Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, April 1st. We'll call the Wright County Board of Commissioners to order. We will begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Uh, going right at it here. Our first item on the agenda would be approving the minutes from the county board meeting on March 18th. I will entertain a motion or modifications at this time. So moved. All right. Motion by Commissioner Sheen, second by Commissioner Mina. Any further discussion? Yes, Mr. Chair. Yes. I'm just going to say I would like the minutes to be more robust so that we have more transparency and accountability. Therefore, I'll be voting no. All right. Is there any other discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Oppos? Same sign. I. Motion passes 3-1. All right. Next would be the approval of the agenda. Is there any additions or corrections to today's agenda? Mr. Chair, I would like to petition on the agenda the authorization of signatures for a nonprofit gambling permit in Rockford Masonic Lodge. There was a little confusion um on this event location and who had to authorize this, the city or the county. Since uh all information or applications been filled in and received by staff, um I would be recommending placing this on consent agenda, but I'm open for board disc uh board discussion if there's want under consent agenda. Did you say I was going to add it to consent agenda since it's just a a permit application has all the information, but we can add it onto a timed item if you'd like. No, I'm just saying is if it's timely, it's a timely permit that has to be it has to happen this week. So, yep. So, for that reason, we'll just add that to the consent agenda under the uh cons uh sorry, finance taxpayer services number four. The adding under consent agenda for the gambling permit for the Masonic Lodge. Thank you, Mr. chair. All right. If there's no other I I'll make a motion to approve the agenda. All right. Motion by Commissioner Mina. Second. Second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Same sign. All right. The agenda is approved. Unanimous. Next, the consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion? I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. Second. Second by Commissioner Mo. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. Same sign. All right. The consent agenda is approved unanimous. All right. Next, we have uh Mr. Loots here who is going to come forward and introduce a new staff member. Good morning, Mr. Chair. Good morning, uh, commissioners. I just wanted to take the opportunity to introduce my newest attorney, Reena Field, and present her certificate of appointment uh to the board. Uh Reena grew up in uh the Ianti area in Bram. Went to college in Florida and law school in Virginia and then came back here to start her career. Uh she started out as a public defender up in the Lake Superior area and then moved out as a public defender to Sterns County and then she joined most recently uh the St. Cloud City Attorney's Office where she was a prosecutor. Uh she's been a lawyer for about eight years and she has a passion for uh CHIPS cases. She did them um partially when she was a public defender. So that's going to be her primary assignment as part of my civil division uh doing chips cases. uh primarily maybe a few odds and ends of other civil matters. Uh she still lives in the Asanti area with her husband um who's in law enforcement with Henipin County. Uh yesterday was her first day. She's doing her orientation today. Came down from that to be introduced from the board. So very excited to have her. One of her former co-workers um was my next newest attorney from also with the St. Cloud City Attorney's Office. So spoke well of of Reena and we're excited to have her. Well, welcome, Marina. Thank you for uh joining our team. You'll find our county attorney's office an excellent place to work. Uh Brian being a great leader. We appreciate you coming over here. Thank you. I don't know that Brian will be allowed anywhere near the St. Cloud City Hall anymore if he's poaching all these employees from there, but I know, right? I apologize the first time. I didn't even reach out this time, so I didn't want to didn't want to run test my luck. So, Oh, great. At this time, I will entertain a motion to approve the oath for uh Reena Field. So moved. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second. Second by Commissioner Dietrich. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Uh all in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimously. Welcome aboard. Thank you. Thank you. And now we are putting on our Health and Human Services hat as we enter our Health and Human Services portion of the agenda. The first item is the approval of the consent agenda for the health and human services. Uh would anyone like to remove any of those items for further discussion? Otherwise, I'll entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda for health and human services. So moved. Second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Moina. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. O. Same sign. All right. The consent agenda is approved unanimously. And Jamie, the floor is yours. Yeah, we have one item today. Um, and I have Sarah with me right there. Yeah, one item, Sarah. Um, as you know, we have a very um robust and effective public health department and um April is when public health week occurs. So, I have Sarah here to um join me. And I don't know if she would like to just say a few words or if she'd like to actually um read. She has a she has a cold, so she may not want to read the whole um the whole um resolution. Um good morning, commissioners. I can Yeah, I don't know if I sound great. This is two weeks of no voice. So, um I think I'll just go with Yeah, we would appreciate your support in recognizing National Public Health Week. This is something that our department has celebrated for many years and we want to make sure that we extend uh an invitation for you to join us for our annual salad bar that we celebrate on the Wednesday of public health week. You probably got an email invite. Um I don't think I did. I don't know. It's on its way. Maybe if it didn't go out, it will go out, but we always extend that to the commissioners as well as everybody in our HHS department to celebrate National Public Health Week, and we host everybody for that. Thank you. Thank you. So, with that, we would ask that you um approve this resolution. All right. I'll entertain a motion for declaring April 7th through the 13th as public health week in Ray County. So, moved. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second. Second by Commissioner Dietrich. Any further discussion? It's a roll call vote. Roll call vote. Yes. Resolution. Commissioner Mo. I I I I. Thank you. Resolution passes unanimous. Um I would I guess just follow up with a couple of things. Um this year has been a good I would say uh I said we have a robust um public health department. As you know, this past year, um, they've added, and Sarah might need to help me, the environmental, um, services in the new water lab down in the, um, L0, our our area downstairs. Um, we took on additional licensing things from license. Um, so there's just been, I would say, things added to public health this past year, which makes us, I'd say, even a stronger and, um, better department. Thank you. Thank you. And uh Jamie, I appreciate uh all of your work that you guys have done in uh as we wind out of the COVID funding and kind of transitioning away from that. You your detailed information that you've given to us and I know you guys are working hard to, you know, ship things around, right? It would have been nice to have a little bit more time to execute the termination of several um local contracts. Um, so unfortunate in one sense. Um, but you're right, this does kind of close out, I think, an era of the CO 19 pandemic tales. So, which I I guess I didn't expect it to play out that way. I kind of thought that they'd be like, okay, as of the end of the year or giving you like at the end of the third quarter, like it was just like, okay, we're flipping a switch in now. I agree. I believe we got the email on the 25th, ending it on the 24th. So, yes, that's correct. Yeah. And we were expecting several a large part of the funds were ending in June anyways, so at the end of June. So we were prepared for those, but the community grants were to go towards the end of the year. So that was disappointing. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, moving on to our 915, but uh we'll move ahead with it anyways. Here we have uh Mark Matise who's stepping in for Chad on approving the resolution requesting variance for State Park road account. Mr. Chair, I don't think your mic's on. I think Frank's working. Uh good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board. Uh back in the first uh meeting in March, we passed asked to pass a resolution on this variance on the state park road account with Karina Township. We missed two words in the resolution that is vertical curve. There's a variance on the vertical curve. So we are requesting a revote on the new resolution that is accurate. I'll make a motion to approve that. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Diet. Second. Second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion? I just want to say thank you for bringing it back. So they've been they've been waiting on this to get this project going for two years. So, um, as as soon as we can get that to them, that'd be great. Thank you. Thank you. I think it's great. This just shows how much weight every single word on those pieces of paper make that if if one or two words are missing, it's it's no good. So, that's great. Uh, it's a resolution vote. Uh, Commissioner Shane, I I I All right. Resolution passes unanimous. All right. Uh now this was a very swift agenda here and we have a public hearing that we cannot do until 9:30 and I don't know that we have uh enough things to uh discuss for 20 minutes here. So we might be taking a recess here for a period of time and reconvening at uh 9:28 to for 9:30 public hearing. All right, with that we'll take a short recess here for about uh 15 16 minutes. Okay, it is 9:29 and we're reconvening here. Uh we have a public hearing scheduled for input on and comments on the Wright County Sheriff's Office draft body cam uh warn policy. Uh at this time I don't know if staff has anything they want to share on it. Um but morning Mr. Chair, members of the board, I don't have a whole lot to share other than we have not received any feedback via email or phone calls or at the front counter. Uh we did get some uh valuable insight from Carol from the county attorney's office. We'll probably make a few a few edits. nothing substantially material to the policy. More um some terminology, a couple of uh redundant paragraphs we'll probably clean up just for clarity. Outside of that, the policy is pretty much where we believe it will land. And this uh public hearing is to meet statutory requirements uh in order for the implementation of body cams. Correct. Correct. Okay. Uh, at this time we will open up the public hearing. If there's anyone here that wishes to speak, please come forward and state your name for the record. Is there anyone that would like to comment? Is there anyone that would like to comment? Is there anyone that would like to comment? Hearing none, we will uh close the public hearing at this time. It is 9:31 and we'll bring it up here to the dis. Uh so no public comment either in written or in public uh presence. Uh there at this time we're looking to just continue moving forward. Uh this was just part of the statutory requirements. So there's no board action at this time I believe. Is that correct staff? Yeah. Yep. Correct. All right. So, with that, uh, the comments or lack thereof will be noted for the record, and we'll be continuing forward with our process of the implementation of body cams. All right. Uh, at this time, we will adjourn the county board meeting at 9:32.