Second second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Same sign. All right. The minutes are approved unanimous. Uh today's agenda. Is there any corrections or additions to today's agenda? I do have one addition to the agenda myself. Uh under items for consideration. I am going to name that as item sorry uh item number five to refer to the revisers committee to look at restrictions on common access lake lots and to schedule a revisor's meeting for that. Is there any other additions or corrections to today's agenda? Um, I believe there was another one to uh remove under items for consideration A1. Mr. Chair, that's already been done. It's already been done. Okay. Oh, yeah. Sorry. I got an old one. All right. The other ones are done. Is there any other corrections today's agenda? Otherwise, I'll stand for a motion. I'll make that motion. Second. All right. We have a motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve today's agenda with the addition of one item under items for consideration A5. All right. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Today's consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove anything from today's consent agenda for further discussion? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve today's consent agenda. So moved. Second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Dietri. Is there any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. The same side. Vote twice. case said you guys hesitation. Well, there was hesitation. Okay. You had me thinking there. All right. The consent agenda prove unanimous. You want to do it again? You guys, you guys are just messing with me. That's when you're doing other. All right. Next, the t timed agenda items. Now that we are through the uh mundane portion of the agenda, uh Mark Matise uh is making his way. We have the appoint Charles Webb as Wright County surveyor. Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the board. Uh with the retirement of Steve Job on January 31st, uh Charles Webb held the office of interimm county surveyor until today. Uh we uh went through a lot of transition. Charles has proven to do a great job at his department. He's got a great uh relationship with his staff. Uh we went through interviews a couple weeks ago. uh believe Charles is our best candidate to lead our county surveyors department into the future. So with your approval, we'd like to appoint Charles Webb as our county surveyor uh starting May 20th of 2025. Oh, welcome Charles. It's great when I get to appoint you twice in a year. That's right. You must be doing fantastic work. I know from the outside I don't get to work with you very close on a lot of things, but uh everything I hear and uh have got to work with you, you've done a fantastic job. So, thank you. Thank you. I'll make a motion to appoint Charles Webb as Ray County surveyor as of today. I'll second that. All right. Motion by Commissioner Moina, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Uh, all in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Welcome, Charles. Thank you. He'll be taking he'll be taking his oath with Tanya West in the recorder's office after the meeting. So, thank you. Yeah. Thank you. All right. And it is 9:08. We are just a few minutes ahead, but we'll move forward with uh Chad, which you got the new uh title, I guess. The Chad. The Chad. Exactly. I answered anything. All right. Um first item this morning, chairman, commissioners, is the um uh approve resolution 2530 to begin eminent domain proceedings on the 35 and 8 roundabout intersection. Um, like I said, this is basically to we have a federal grant. There's some timelines on when we have to begin work. And this is I fully expect we'll reach a resolution with all the property owners on this project, but this is just to maintain our timelines and like I said, within this whole timeline, we we negotiate in good faith to try to avoid moving forward in the proceedings, but this is just the next step in the process. So, thank you for clarifying that with me this morning. Yeah, thank you. Fair enough. Yep. All right. Motion to approve resolution 2522. I'll second that. All right. Motion by Commissioner Moina, second by Commissioner Holland to uh f approve uh resolution 2530 for the condemnation of County Road 8. Any other discussion? Hearing none, Commissioner Mo. I I I I resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. Um next one, very similar. This is for our Conrad 13737 project by I94 where Costco is going. Um, same situation. We have some state grants that have some timelines. Um, it took us a while to dial in the amount of rightway needed and working with the property owners. Once again, I think we'll we'll we'll get there before needing to proceed, but this is to basically maintain that timeline to not lose those state grants. So, um, any questions? I can answer those. So, no, I'll go ahead and make that motion. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane. I'll second that. Second by Commissioner Holland to approve resolution 2531 on the condemnation on County Road 137. Any other discussion hearing? None. Commissioner Shane. I I I I I resolution passes unanimous. And the last one here. Yeah, this is um another resolution. This is basically related to the 35 and 8 roundabout. Also, this is a um basically we're doing a fund swap with Benton County. They have a federal safety project. We have a federal safety project. Um we need a little more time to do get our basically acquire the rightway and start construction this fall. And so what basically they're going to accept our federal funds. They're going to send us back an equal amount of state aid funds. Gives us a little another month or two to um uh get this project ready. And then so there's no extra work for anybody. It's just a fund swap and MDOT has to administer that because they hold both pots of money. So, um we we've done this periodically for other counties and they're helping us out this time. So, it's nice that they allow the those fund swaps like this in that latitude. So, yes, and it also uh will eliminate the need to do a federal prevailing wage and uh during construction, too. Even though we're doing everything to the federal standards, we can avoid some of that stuff, too. So, it streamlines things for mind, too. So Chad, thank you very much for doing that and identifying that and making that work through because that's a a great utilization of that. So I'll go ahead and make that motion. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to approve resolution 2532 on the agency agreement for exchange of federal funds. All right. Any discussion? Hearing none, I'll vote I. I. I. I. I. All right. The resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. And Ross is hiding back there for 9:18. I suppose this is a timed agenda item, but I don't view it as controversial. So, we'll move forward with adopting the resolution. All right. Yeah. Uh Ross, Mr. Chair, this uh just a procedural resolution to adopt resolution 2025 authorizing the director of parks and rec to sign grant applications um and certification for the Wright County Snowmobile Club to participate in the grant and aid snowmobile assistance program. We've been doing this for a number of years, really procedural. It's a great relationship with the snowmobile association. So, all right. Any questions on the snowmobile grant? It's a annual resolution that we pass. Mr. Chair, I just want to make a good comment that um they said that things went very smoothly this year and they just really appreciate all your hard work as well with the association know a lot of them on the association so they want to make sure that you were identified. So thank you very much. Yep. Thank you. They've had a little bit of a tough year. They missed their third benchmark because the state withheld those funds. So yeah, kind of help. Not great with uh some trail maintenance, but otherwise they're a great group to work with. Yeah, it's been a tough two years for snowmmoiling in Minnesota. Yeah. All right. I will entertain a motion for uh resolution 2533. So moved. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Uh Commissioner Holland. I I I I I resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. And now we are on to the 923 and Barry is waiting. so patiently back there. We have the not very long. I'm not prepared. Action on ordinance 251 amending the Ray County code ordinance chapter 155 land use zoning. Yes, this is a solar ordinance amendment that uh when we went through the moratorum in 2021 2022 uh after establishing the moratorum, we did adopt uh an amendment that included a table for the shy and escro amounts. When the full rewrite was done in early 2022, because of how the cotification worked, we didn't grab the updated version. it was the old version and so the table was inadvertently omitted and so this amendment puts that table back into place that sets the minimum shity amounts based on the megawatts of the project and it's also indexed to to inflation and that type of thing is that yes we did increase we did increase the values that were listed in there from 2021 uh $100,000 on each level. Okay, thank you. No, I appreciate the revisers group uh taking some time and reviewing this. This is a good maintenance work as well as a corrective action. Uh we knew there was going to be a little bit messy when we uh made that big transition from CUPS to IUPs, but we're cleaning up some of the things with that right now. So, yeah, and with and with the way our cotification works now, they don't automatically get codified into the entirety of the ordinance right away. they're listed on the website as an amendment and they stay there until the codifier grabs it usually at the end of the year and recodifies the entire ordinance. Um, so that's why it was missed. We grabbed from what the codifier had on on our American Legal Publishing site and didn't include that amendment that was done uh earlier in the year. All right. At this time, I will enter uh entertain a motion to approve action on ordinance uh amendment 251. So moved. Second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. All right. Ordinance 251 is approved unanimously. So the next item uh is a resolution to publish summary language. We don't want to publish the entire chart uh and all of the language. So we would uh publish summary language for the amendment. So this would be a resolution for that approving that publication of submarine language. We would rather do that than to pay the hundreds of dollars to uh publish the entire ordinance. So uh at this time I'll entertain a motion to for the re resolution for the publishing of a summary language for ordinance uh amending 251. So moved. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second by Commissioner Holland to approve uh resolution 2534. Any other discussion hearing? None. Commissioner Dietrich. I I I I I Thank you very much. Resolution passes unanimous. Mr. Chair, did we need a resolution vote for the first one? What? A resolution for the first one? No. No. The first one is a It's just a general motion to approve the ordinance and then the second one is adopting the summary publication language. Thank you. Yep. All right. Now, moving on to items for consideration. First item on the agenda for items for consideration was the ditch committee. Uh the ditch committee had met myself and commissioner Moina to discuss county ditch 33. Uh really what we're looking to do is mostlyformational and just bringing forward uh land owners regarding feasibility and empowerment of wet land and looking uh and wetland banking acquisition and proceeding with outlet engineering in collaboration with Houston engineering. Uh really just giving us the ability to uh use some of the funds within the ditch 33 uh aotment to get engineering and to work with land owners on wetland banking and acquisitions. All right. With that, I'll entertain a motion to approve the recommendations from the ditch committee on May 5th. I'll make that motion. All right. Second. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. Oppos. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. Next, we have the budget committee of the whole that took place on the 6th. And there was this one here was uh entirelyformational. Uh we looked at everything from the assessment information to the forecast forward and then the uh fiscal landscape of the county overall. Uh there's no action to be taken on it. Um I guess administrator Kryer, do you believe we should make a motion to approve it or? Mr. Chair, it's information only at this point in time that there's action noted in the record that you accepted the minutes. Yep. All right. So, with that, we're moving on to the uh workshop on the 13th. And we had a few different recommendations here from the workshop on the 13th. Sorry, hold that one up here. Uh so, first action on there was uh schedule meetings as needed. Uh and then there was the uh county fairboard discussion. The recommendation was the completion of the 2023 audit and the presentation to the fin right county finance department uh before the 2025 funds can be released. Then the recommendation for the next item was the budget amendment workflow was to adopt the policies as presented and monitor its uh implementation and modifications at a later date. uh this is largely just on uh trying to streamline the processes that we have here internally and then the information only on the 2025 uh budget timeline and employment and training services contract. Uh that one was to go forward with an RFP for other vendors for employment and training services within health and human services. And we had a just aformational only was a continued discussion on trying to find uh amicable minutes that meet the needs of the people and the board and administration uh which is just an ongoing project. At that I'll stand for a motion to approve the workshop minutes and recommendations. So moved. I'll second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any further discussion? Yeah, Chair. Um just on one item on the the board minutes. Um I want the public to know that you know the reason that we've consolidated the minutes is because of the the the cost and that Commissioner Moa and I sat in a hearing um at the state capital when they were talking about letting us uh go away with having to put them in the paper. and that came back and uh was not approved. But the League of uh cities was there, the townships, the school board. Um and so was uh AMC there. Their their lobbyists were there trying to get that removed. Uh right now we use the Howard Lake paper. Um my constituents from Adigo will not be reading the Howard Lake paper. So, but that it it we're not trying to be uh non-transparent. We have free YouTube and uh and the discussion is is uh well-rounded on our on our um YouTube channel. Mr. Jer, I would just like to add to that too is that it's a state statute that we are required to publish in the local newspaper. Um, sometimes I think as a holistic u discussion of what you're referring to is that in in some counties they don't their newspapers close and there's nowhere to publish and they're required to publish it like in the Star Tribune. Um, so I I adamantly uh oppose just putting things online when we're supposed to follow state statute and put minutes that actually mean something in there. um we'll just agree to disagree a little bit on it, but I understand the argument when you don't have a local paper to publish in anymore and then how do you do that effectively uh instead of sending money to the Star Tribune um as the only circulating newspaper in your in your county? So, um I appreciate all of that whole big picture when it comes to discussing this. Um but I am adamant that we need to be as transparent as possible and you actually have to have minutes in the minutes. So, thank you. All right. And we are and we are going by what other counties are doing to have minimal minutes so that we can save our taxpayers. It's all right. Uh this is a transparency. We can have this debate. Go ahead and call the question. All right. Thank you. If there's at this time uh we have a motion. We have a second. Uh all in favor say I. I. Post same sign. All right. Uh the workshop recommendations are approved unanimously. The last item is the item I petitioned on, which would be to refer to the revisers committee to look at restrictions on common access lake lots. Uh this is and I believe that uh planning and zoning may be putting on a few other items that they have had a long laundry list of items to discuss uh with as far as ordinance that need to be reviewed and updated. Uh so I will kind of leave a latitude for staff to do so. Um, I guess we wouldn't necessarily have to reschedu it at this particular meeting, but we certainly can. I believe is it Commissioner Holland and who is the other? Is it Commissioner Shane or is it Commissioner Moa? It's Commissioner Shane and Commissioner Holland that's set on advisory committee. All right. So, Mr. Chair, uh, planning and zoning and myself will work with the revisers committee to schedule a date. Uh when we're looking at this issue, we also want to look at some uh rewrites to section 155 in the PUD and 154 and just general subdivision ordinance as well. So kind of take a more holistic look at that ordinance as we make this modification. I'd appreciate it. That would be great. All right. With that, I guess uh we can let you guys schedule that one since uh outside of the schedule when staff is at ready. Hopefully, they can have a first initial meeting sometime within the next uh couple weeks. All right. If there's no other business to attend to at today's meeting, uh we will adjourn today's county board meeting at 9:20. This is like a record short meeting. It's uh it's a rarity. Well, and Mr. Chair, we have the HHS meeting at 10:30. at 10:30. I do want to take a quick moment to thank the I'm gonna say hundreds of citizens that uh came to our call to action and sent emails to legislators and to the governor in helping us try to prevent this cost shift. Uh we are still uh biting our nails as we work through day by day to see what shakes out down there. I will say we're not out of the woods yet. Uh we're hopefully optimistic that we'll maybe come to some compromise that won't leave us as damaged as some of the original proposals. Uh but hopefully maybe with a little bit more push we can get it over the finish line and come out unscathed as we all agree that the local property taxpayers are burdened enough and they cannot uh take on any more on their plate. Uh so that was yeah great. Um, and yeah, and thanks for everybody uh going down there last Thursday. I did get a call last night from Julie Ring. Uh, very appreciative of uh the Association of Minnesota Counties. She uh asked if we would just do a thank you to our legislators that are working hard, especially Senator Hoffman. I do want to do a shout out. He's been really working the House. Hopefully they go with what the Senate did does and not push that onto um the citizens of Wright County or any county. Mr. Chair, I want to say thank you for everyone as well. Um and you're exactly right, Genie. We sent out a a thank you last night to our legislators because last night they did not leave there until midnight. So, they've been working really hard. So, yeah. All right. At this time then I guess we if no other business will adjourn the county board meeting at 9:22. This meeting is no longer being recorded.