have no idea. And as I told Derek yesterday, I received Greg. [Music] Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, June 24th. We'll call the Wright County Board of Commissioners to order. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Since the board last met, it has been a very uh tumultuous time in this uh political world and in our nation and across the world holistically. Um I want to start off and I want to take a moment to honor and pay our respects to Speaker Hortman and her husband Mark who lost their lives in a terrible act of violence. Also, I want to extend our grace and healing to Senator Hoffman and his wife Yevette who were also injured in this act of terror. Please join me in a moment of silence to honor these representatives of the people and their families who lost their lives and were injured doing the work that they loved representing us. Please join me in a moment. Thank you members. I don't know if any members have any words they'd like to say. I know we have known some of those individuals quite well over the years. Chairman B. Um, uh, Senator Hoffman, um, had just probably 12 to 14 homes in Dayton that, uh, represented that he represented. And he represented him so well. Um, and he really was uh a champion for Wright County um and all of our counties because it was because of his um tireless work that we didn't get that uh cost shift to come down to the counties that would have been detrimental to all the counties. Um he serves HHS well um at the state level and we so appreciate everything he's done. um any time that that we would go down there, he would say we had to come to his office and he would drop everything and he came to every legislative uh meeting that we had here in the county uh with a smile and a laugh and yes, we just hope good things. We hope he heals well and uh um we certainly are proud to have him as a senator. Thank you, Commissioner Holland. So, Any other words otherwise thank you for that time. Uh now moving on to uh another note here. I appreciate the great attendance here. Uh once again we will do our uh honoring of our years of service for the many employees here in our second quarter of the year. Uh at this time if board members would like to join me up front here and we will announce and pass out certificates. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Members of the board, I think we can start with the five years first here. So, for the five-year awards, we have Simon Willard from the sheriff's office. [Applause] Dustin Nika from highway [Applause] Frank Patita III information technology [Applause] Katie Peterson Sheriff's Office [Applause] Nick Hoffman Sheriff's Office [Applause] Brent Cornelia's information technology. [Applause] Mr. Chair, members of the board, going to our tenure awards, Becky Turning, Court Services. We're gonna have to get that back to There it is. [Laughter] Katie Loftess, Health and Human Services. Misty Tibido, Information Technology. James Odell, Health and Human Services. Bradley Harrington, Parks and Recreation. [Applause] Ellen Bik, Health and Human Services. Annaise Meyer, Attorney's Office. [Applause] Nathan Brown, Sheriff's Office. Joseph Foy, Sheriff's Office. Casey Henry, Health and Human Services. [Applause] Edward Anderson, Court Services. [Applause] Mr. Chair, we're going to hand the mic over here shortly. I get to announce the 15-year award of service. I didn't practice the name, so hopefully I get it right. It's Greg Kryser in administration. [Applause] You have to stay long enough so you can have like a group of five or six. I'm hoping for eight to get this 50. Yeah. Right. For 20 years, we have Paula Thompson, Recorder's Office. Paul Fang, Sheriff's Office, [Applause] 25 years. Michael Jankla, information technology. and Julie Zarky, Health and Human Services. [Applause] Mr. Chair, members of the board, those are the awards for second quarter this year. [Applause] So, we'll just take a brief moment here uh while everyone uh kind of makes their way around here. I want to thank you again to all the staff for their dedication to the organization and to the citizens of the county and the great work that you do. Um just one second here. [Music] All right. Now, moving forward and back into the agenda here. Uh, next item up on the agenda would be the re and the approval of the minutes from the June 3rd uh, board meeting. I will stand for any corrections or motions. So, moved. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second. Second by Commissioner Hall. And any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Same sign. Minutes are approved unanimously. today's agenda. Is there any corrections or additions to today's agenda? Nothing from administration. I'll stand for a motion. So moved. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Same sign. All right. Today's agenda is approved unanimous. Today's consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion? I'll stand for a motion to approve the consent agenda. Otherwise, I'll make a motion to approve the consent. All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland. Second. Second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. All right. Consent agenda is approved unanimously. Now on to our 905 agenda item. I believe I see uh Mr. McMillan out there making his way to the podium. Good morning. Good morning. Uh good morning. Uh Chairman Vet and county board. Uh before you today is a a request to get approval for signature for a joint powers agreement with the department of corrections. This is related to our transition uh with the department and bringing them into uh our new CCA operation which takes effect October 13th. If you remember uh through the process earlier on, we talked that they would probably be losing some staff. Um that's already started to happen. Two staff have uh taken a transfer to other counties and we've worked with the Department of Corrections first of all to hire one of the new staff. So Tom Feda, adult supervisor, was part of that process. But as we get closer to that date, the department uh reached out and said they would be willing to do a joint powers with us to allow us to bring them on our our payroll. now and start the reimbur reimbursement process immediately. So before you I believe it was added uh Mr. Chryser the joint powers agreement uh to the packet but it has there has been one that uh is available to sign so within the last 48 hours I guess it was completed and Mr. chair and Mike, I I received a electronic copy of the JPA yesterday afternoon, so I think it's ready to go. Everything would be in order with it. And if uh and Mr. Loots, if there is is that accurate because you had a meeting yesterday. Yes. Yes, I I worked for worked with um um I don't think she's a lawyer, but does the contracts for the DOC and we made one additional change and that was forwarded I think uh via a docu sign. So we did look at it and approved it. Well, great. Uh Mike, I appreciate uh all your work on this. Sometimes we get a bad rap for government agencies not working well together, but this is one of those ones that shows that that isn't always the case and more often it isn't ever the case. All right. So, it's good to see that uh we're able to make this transition even smoother with this action. Thank you. And a big thank you to uh County Attorney Loots. He did an amazing job working with the department and back and forth. So, thanks, Brian. All right. And at this time, I'll stand for uh any discussion or if there's a motion to approve the JPA with the state of Minnesota, Department of Corrections. So, moved. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich, second by Commissioner Holland. Any discussion? Mr. Chair, I would just like to say thank you again, Mike, because I know there was a lot of leg work behind that to get that go and to kind of piggyback on what Mr. Chair said about how government entities is working well together. So, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. If there's no other discussion, uh, all in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you, Chairman Vet. One one more thing, Mike. We had right choice on the agenda consent and I just can you thank the teacher that works so hard. This is such a great program and uh and you know when it comes on our agenda then it brings it to light again that we we're lucky to have this program and so we really appreciate that program. They're awesome to work with and couple changes going on but uh the mission the vision are going to stay the same but this is the contract to uh for rental space and leasing space and it's been a great partnership and they are doing amazing job. Yeah, great. Thank you. Thanks. And now on to our 910 agenda item. We have the resolution 2537 for performance management and acceptance of the performance management grant application. Good morning board. Um before you is an application. We need a resolution to um accept our performance measures. We have been receiving this grant for many years. Typically, we receive between 21 and 24,000. Um that's what our estimate is for this upcoming year. It is based on cents per population. And the only stipulation to this grant is that we submit our performance measures as you can see in the resolution. Thank you. Any discussion board members? Mr. Chair, just just a quick question on those funds then go into finance or where do they end up landing? They go into the general fund within department 100. They can be used for anything general purpose aid. Okay. Thank you. I this is a great action for the the funds that you get for the minute amount of extra reports that we have to do in order to meet this measure. It's worth it. Most of the work that's included in this grant we already do just as standard operations. So correct. It's just compiling the information and submitting it. So with that um motion I'll make that motion. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to approve resolution 2537 accepting the performance management grant application. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I roll call. Oh, so sorry. Good call. Yes. Thank you, Commissioner Mina. I I I I. Resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. The next item I have up is to set the payment tiers and interest rates for the county drainage authority for our ditch assessments that will be on the tax roles for 2026. Um we had lengthy discussion last year as we talked about the process um for catching up some dated expense balances that we have in our drainage accounts. Um, as part of that, the team has been working on reconciling our balances owed by ditches and benefited land owners. And in order for us to begin the work within the tax system, we need to have this um the tiers and interest rates set by the drainage authority so that we can start setting up those tiers within the system to prepare for the 2026 tax statements. So board members, with your drainage authority hat on, uh we are looking at a couple different options here. One, there was a recommendation by staff on there on putting it at uh one year for $750 or less and 7 years for 750 to$10,000 and then the 15-year option for 10,000 or more uh setting a standard a interest rate of 5%. Mr. Chair, I'll just make a comment that um that was quite a lengthy meeting and there was a lot of really good discussion and so I'm still good with going forward with that and appreciate you guys' time that was dedicated to that as well. It Yes. So, I'm okay with that. Is that a motion? Yes. We'll go ahead and make that as a motion and I'll second. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to approve the drainage authority uh tiered payment assessment. Mr. Chair, yes. Just a question. Um there's that's the same tiers as last year. Correct. So it's there's no change. Yep. Just wanted to verify. Thank you. All right. With that, we have a motion and a second. If there's no other discussion, all in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. The last item we have uh I see Tyler is still in an elections training. Um he did want to come and uh discuss this with you, but um the this is the usual large group assembly at Up the Creek Bar and Grill. Um they do have all of the applications requirements have been met. We do have a bond in our hands for 25,000 should anything happen. I appreciate the uh great organization on this submitt. Very easy to find all the items that are needed and being able to check all the boxes. So, great work on Tyler and his staff. So, all right. With that, uh I'll stand for a motion. So, moved. I'll second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Post same sign. All right. Thank you. Motion passes unanimous. And Matt, we're on to the 9:15. We'll maybe get caught up here at the rate we're going. Yeah. Hopefully be a a quick one. Uh good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board. Um we uh received our u repair report for county district 19 from our engineer um Garrett Mson of More Engineering. And the next step is to schedule a public hearing on this. So, as a part of my attachment, there is a memo with uh six dates that worked for Garrett. Um, as you can see, they're out. Uh, earliest is July 29th. Um, and that's just due to a lot of notice requirements that we have in order to host a public hearing. Um, so just if any of those seem like a good day to to host the public hearing, what works in you guys' schedule, we can get that set today. Mr. Chair, if administration could rank a recommendation, I think Thursday, July 31st might work good if we started at 9:00. Yeah, that was I I think that we need to find a little bit of a later time frame. I think those 9:00s are tough for the people that are going to show up and want to give an opinion on this. Um, that's just kind of my opinion. I think the the later time frames work better. Do you have a suggestion? You thinking like you think you're thinking like more the 3 to five or five or later? Well, I don't see any times like that on here. So, I mean, if they have a time frame that I mean, I don't want to push it out too far, but um I mean, if they if they can do We have a I I mean, we could probably do two. Do they have any issues with later or is this the only this the only times they have? I I did get him to kind of give me some some dates and and time periods he was open. Um, I guess we could set it and I could follow up and then bring it back for you. We want to hold off. I mean, we're these are all later. We still have another board meeting. I think if if there's an interest in wanting give them a time frame to work with the engineer to give them some time a day that you're looking at and you come back with some recommendations for the July board meeting and set it at that time. Yeah. I mean, if they can come up with anything that's 1 2:00, I think that would be better for the benefited land owners to be able to have at least an opportunity. It's a little easier to leave early from work than it is to go in at noon. So, if I suggest maybe one, I think it was an issue with picking up children at daycare is why the afternoon sessions didn't work. Um, so maybe just a little bit earlier because I think they're coming from uh Maple Grove, I believe. So, if one:00 I could confirm that. If I could ask, Mr. Chair, Matt, what's the publication timeline here? Is it three weeks in notice? Three consecutive weeks in newspaper is our biggest deadline. If we continued off of these dates to July 8th, we'd be looking at a hearing sometime in August at the earliest. Yep. So maybe Mr. Chair, just pick a date and we'll verify the time. Um I would guess otherwise if we go with August 11th and try to set it at like a 1:00 on August 11th since he's saying 9 to noon, it might have a better chance and then Yeah. and I'll verify with him right after this and then I guess I could bring it back if we set the date. It's just more verifying with him that then you can public then you can publish it right away than if it's if that one o'clock on so I would I would probably say since he's saying 9 to noon on the 11th maybe there's a better chance if we pick that date why are we not I'm sorry why are we not if he's saying 9 to noon why are we not picking the noon then they are trying to go as later in the day as they can so people can work a half day and still be able to come out that was the the intent of it. So, uh, I'll stand for a motion. I think it would be best and my recommendation then would be to set it on Monday, August 11th at 1 p.m. uh, in this room and then we'll, if that works, then he can publish it. If not, we'll come back at the next board meeting and and regroup. Yep. Do I have a motion? With that, I'll make that motion. All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Moina to set the public hearing for county ditch 19 for the repair report on sorry Monday, August 11th at 1 p.m. in this room. All right, any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I same sign. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. And Chad is up at this time. Morning chairman, commissioners. Um, first item today is well the first couple are basically just cleaning up the right of way with the 2583 project satisfying some mindot conditions. So um first item is uh approve offer to sell and approve appraisal and compensation waiver. Basically we're dedicating an a drainage utilities for the pond at the corner. Um, it always held water. It's just now an officially a pond, you know. So, that's the first action. If there's any other questions. All right. Any other uh discussion? Otherwise, I'll stand for a motion to authorize changes to contract 25501. So, moved. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Dietri, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. All right. Contract 25501 is amended unanimous. Sorry, that was our that's the last item. The first item was the the offer offer approve offer to sell on memorandum of conditions. Is that or did I went out order? Yeah, this is the mindot project that I'm just following on my agenda. I or maybe our agenda is different. It's is our agenda different than yours? I I got that as item four. I mean it's fine that D1, Mr. Chair. Pardon me. D1 D1 offer to sell in memorandum of condition. Yeah. Isn't that what we just you you indicated contract which it says underneath it. Oh, I missed the Oh, y says you're right. Yep. I see there. You're right, Mr. Chair. Yes. No, Mr. Chair. The motion would be to off to accept the offer to sell. That's okay. That's where I said I got messed up on there on some of my notes. Sorry. I see the notes were correct. Sorry, Mr. Chair. All right. Well, let's just redo this, start over since I got a little bit messy there. So, all right. Now, the first item on the agenda would be the offer to sell the uh memorandum of conditions. So, I will make that motion. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Dietrich. I'll second that. Second by Commissioner Holland. Any other discussion? All right. All in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Okay. Second item is um a resolution for the easement on 25. And this would be for um the permit easement for the drainage utility of the pond. There's a temporary easement to work on the driveway up to the historic society during the construction of Mindot's project next summer. And then the third item is um removing an old access that abuts our county complex. So it's one resolution that would cover all three actions. All right. I'll make that motion to approve. All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. I'll second. Second by Commissioner Holland to approve the resolution uh for 2538 for highway easement on Mindot Trunk Highway 25. Any discussion hearing? None. Commissioner Shane. I I I I I resolution passes unanimous. And now we have the authorized purchase agreement on P number ending in 3000. Yes. Um purchase agreement was previously approved by the board on April 15th. Um, some language was removed that originally was going to clean up the title, but we'll clean up the title during the platting. So, it saves us a little money doing that. We'll let the property owner do that. So, we have to bring it back to the board so it doesn't hold up the closing if there's language that's not being addressed. So, it's just to clean up the original um purchase agreement. So, we figure we just to be safe, we want to bring it back to the board. So, very good. Any discussion or questions, board members? If not, I'll stand for a motion. So, moved. Second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to approve the purchase agreement and authorized signatures. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Post same sign. Right. Motion passes unanimous. And now we are on to we'll redo the 251 uh contract. Uh yes. Um uh this is a a we're requesting to add a uh scope of work to the pavement preservation contract with Knife River Corporation. We originally had a maintenance patch scheduled for Kasoft 40 which is just south of Clearwater. Go it's 3,000 ft goes into Sterns County. Um Sterns County had a project last year made it a 10 ton road. We were going to do a maintenance patch. It's kind of degraded a little faster than we thought. In addition to that, MDOT has a project next summer on 24. So we'll have a lot more traffic on that road for probably a summer. So just to be safe, we want to instead of spending we can for double the price, we can get triple to quadruple the length of service on that road. So now would be a good time to do it. Um so that's what our proposal is to is to have Knife River do the paving and we will provide trucking for the millions and we'll use the millions on other roads. So it's kind of a our stockpile is getting a little low anyways. So we'll provide all the trucking to save costs and then just pay Knight for River to do the paving. So that's our recommendation. All right, Mr. Chair, I'll go ahead and make that motion. And I just want to say thank you for your due diligence. Thank you. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland uh to approve the changes in condition or sorry not to approve the addition of 3,000 ft on Cass 40. Perfect. All right. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. And now we're moving on to our 9:30 public hearing. At this time, we'll have a public hearing to update the local options sales tax list. If there's anyone here that is interested in speaking on the updated local options sales tax project list, please step forward and give us your name for the record and the city or township of residency. And if there's at this time the floor is open, please step forward. Would anyone wish to speak? Would anyone wish to speak? One last time would anyone wish to speak? Seeing no interest at this time, we will close the public hearing and bring it up to the dis here for discussion. Board members, uh we have included in your packet the updated uh local options sales tax list uh for adoption. Uh open the floor for discussion. I'll stand for a motion to approve the local option sales tax project list uh as amended. So moved. I'll second it. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Is it a resolution? It is. Mr. Chair, resolution. Is it a resolution? I'm sorry. Resolution. Oh, I'm sorry. And resolution vote. I vote I I I I I resolution passes unanimous. All right. And now if we are to the 935 and Chad is coming right back up here or well actually Mr. Chair, we already did that was part of the one. I'm reading right verbatim off mine. Didn't even realize real quick that that was the same local option sales tax that we just passed. You could just stayed up there. You're good, Chad. Yeah. All right, Mr. Chair. Uh, next item on the agenda for you is an update to the board meeting schedule. Um, we discussed this at the workshop. Just bringing this forward formally to show you what the amended schedule is looking like for summer uh for budgeting uh purposes and to try to get our prelim adopted on time. So, and to work within their confines of what we have with staff. So looking at the amendments that you have here with the cancellations and the proposed amendments. All right. So with that uh any discussion with board members? We discussed it pretty thoroughly and worked at everybody's schedule uh a week ago. So I'm guessing we're probably still in good shape on that. With that, otherwise I'll stand for a motion to approve the uh revised uh county board meetings for the next month. So moved. I'll second. Right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. All right. The board member board meeting revisions are approved unanimously. All right. Next, we have the take we have the uh PUDS here. Uh Mr. Chair, the next one is related to the purchase of P ending in 1040 in the city of Buffalo. Um you have a number of actions here uh that could be taken collectively if the board wants to be authorized signatures on the amended purchase agreement which includes a reduced price of $25,000. Um authorized signature so we can get closing done uh by the end of this year. So then we can try to classify the prop not by the end of this year by the end of this month. If we do that then we can classify the property as tax exempt and meet those deadlines for the 2026 payable tax year and then also the budgetary amendments that follow therewith. Mr. Mr. Chair, I'm okay with going forward and doing this in one action and making the motion to purchase um with the P with these changes. And I'll second that. All right. Motion by Commissioner uh Shane, second by Commissioner Holland on the actions related to the purchase of P number 1030690040. Uh, I appreciate staff and their time on working very hard through this due diligence period and being able to uh make the modifications that were necessary to make sure that this uh purchase is in the best interest of the citizens of the county. Mr. Chair, just a question uh regarding the lease agreements that are currently in place. Will those be maintained uh through the end of their contract and then renegotiate it? Mr. Chair, Commissioner Dedricch. Yes. Uh we are the the lease agreement with the federal government or USDA is going to be assigned over to Wright County. Um we'll my understanding is that the federal government pays a month after the lease not the month before it begins. So first payment will be received at then July and then soil and water will continue to pay a lease agreement or lease over to the county because they do get reimbursed on that with their grant funding from the state. Thank you. Very good. Uh then with that, if there's no other discussion, I see this is uh not a resolution vote. So there's a motion and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Post same sign. I. All right. Motion passes 41. All right. And now moving on to the authorized signatures on the Oracle licensing agreement. Yes, Mr. Chair, members of board. This is a three-year renewal on the Oracle ERP licensing software. We're looking at a total overall cost of $1,400 over the originally anticipated amount. There are a number of different items that moved in this contract um going from enterprise reducing some licenses increasing the EMP modules in some areas. So overall, all the movement results in u what could negatively called just a negligible increase to $1,400. So, I think it's a good negotiation on the part of finance and our and our legal department to try to get this done. Thank you, Administrator Kryser, and for the finance team and our legal team for your work on this and being able to uh make this modification with minimal impact. Uh, usually that's never the case, especially on these large IT contracts. Double thumbs up on that. So, with that, I'll stand for a motion. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second. Second by Commissioner Holland. Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. And now moving on to recommend appointing to the Metropolitan Water Supply Advisory Committee. Yes, Mr. Chair. This actually came as a request from the governor's office um through one of our micro representatives to us and I received it. and the governor's office um is looking to appoint someone from Wright County to the Metropolitan Water Supply Advisory Committee. Um this would mainly affect the cities of Oiggo, Albertville, and St. Michael. So given where the impact of that likely would land, we reached out to some representatives from out there. And just this morning, after much lobbying on the part of Commissioner Shane and myself, we got a thumbs up from city administrator Steve Bot that he is willing to accept the recommendation. So, um I think I think we have a solid representative with um city administrator Bob an extreme knowledge in that area. That's he'll be a a great replacement and a good representative on that board. Uh so I I look forward to hearing back on the ins and outs on how that all continues to move forward. So yeah. So Mr. Chair, I think we could just make a motion to recommend Steve Bot to the Metropolitan Water Supply Advisory Committee. I'll make that motion. I'll second that. Motion by Commissioner S Shane. Second by Commissioner Holland to recommend appointing uh Mr. Steve Bod to the Metropolitan Water Supply Advisory Committee. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Now the committee minutes. We have uh quite a vast number of them here. Um we can go through them individually or we can approve them collectively just depending on the desires of board members. I will we I'll make a motion to uh approve all of the minutes for all of the work groups and meetings. So I'm going to make sure we understand your motion. So, it's approved the minutes and recommendations from the uh aggregate tax committee which met on May 29th and approved the minutes from the joint ditch meeting uh for our joint ditch 15 meeting on May 29th. Approve the and adopt recommendations from the revisers group group on May 29th. And then approve the minutes and budget committee of the whole meeting on June 3rd. And then approve and adopt recommendations from the revisers group on June 10th. And then approve and adopt the recommendations from the ways comm ways and means committee from June 10th and approve the minutes and recommendations from the county board workshop on June 10th and approve and adopt recommendations from the personnel committee on June 16th. I'll second that. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner uh Holland and second by Commissioner Shane to make the collective approval. I appreciate all the members who participated in these large number of committees and for their recommendations. I think they were all very well vetted out. Uh these are a lot of these ones were just bringing vetting through all the positions that we held back from a personnel committee and some of the work on the joint ditch as well as some of the uh pieces with the revisers group in getting our ordinances pertaining to our cannabis in line with that of other ordinances. So I appreciate all the great work of the commissioners and staff on this. Any other discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. I. Oppos. Same sign. All right. The recommendations are approved unanimous. Oh yes. And uh at this time I also it was a great uh email that we all gotten and uh interest the awards that were given to the uh county staff for their work by Nico. Uh sorry that was projects. Oh yeah, Elizabeth. The projects. Um I don't know if Elizabeth's in here or she was player anybody wants to speak to it. I thought that was a a wonderful award that they were gotten for their work on anybody has any more details on Yeah, Mr. Chair with the project that they initiated here was a a software model where that we're looking at making sure that all of our software is used across the county and you know we have how many different departments here and every department has different software needs. So now we have a centralized um method for evaluating software to make sure we don't have duplication of efforts. Um we're not getting duplicated contracts. We're saving taxpayer dollars by ensuring that whatever software may have already been acquired by a different department is able to be utilized by a different department just by simply adding on a license versus getting a whole new contract. So we're saving taxpayer dollars here um by doing this and trying to create a one model, one software methodology. So it was nice that they got the award. It was a lot of work on the part of Elizabeth and her projects team and I think it's a well-deserved honor and recognition. I think it's funny because if you go back 8 10 years ago they started having the discussions about the siloed effect and how there was so many different and they went about it in a variety of number of ways over the last decade. And it's great to see that we finally were able to come up with a process and uh a software that can get it done in an efficient way. Uh hats off to Elizabeth and her team. Thank you. Yep. Yeah, Mr. Chair. A software company would be happy to always issue you another license with with another contract. What they don't want to do is just add one license to their already 10 license they already give you. Mr. Mr. Chair, I think there'd be a commissioner that uh would be very proud of this moment as as well that's no longer with us, but um I know that was one of his things that he really was digging into. So definitely I I will I will give uh sing the praise for uh Commissioner Doide and that was his uh his big thing when he came in here was trying to inventory all the different softwares in the department and trying to make sure that they were not being duplicated and that we weren't paying for anything that wasn't being used or paying for things twice. So after a long path of hard work, we are finally there. All right. and Commissioner BCH. Uh I think too it would be a good time to uh recognize our silent heroes of it. They don't always get a lot of uh of praise, but uh this weekend they worked exceptionally hard came in on the weekends due to the heat that um uh the heat issue and uh made sure that everything was up and running uh by Monday morning. There wasn't a glitch to be had. And um that was that was great work. They spent a lot of hours this weekend. And so I want to I want to thank them all for what they did. Thank you, Commissioner Holland, for uh bringing that out to light. Uh, we do want to thank our maintenance staff and our IT staff for their great work this weekend and battling the heat and making sure that things work smoothly and things that weren't working smoothly, they got them back online in a efficient and timely manner uh with their abilities that they have. Well, thank you. So, with that, it is 9:45. If there's nothing else to attend to to today's agenda, uh, we will adjourn. Thank you.