Good morning everyone. It is Tuesday, April 15th. 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. Okay. First item uh on the agenda here today is the minutes from the April 1st board meeting. We can stand for any motions at this time. I'll make a motion to approve those minutes. Second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion, Mr. Chair? Commissioner Dietrich. Um, again, I would like the minutes obviously agree to disagree a little more thorough and and um not just a motion and a vote, but I we also did talk about um in discussion that we would include timestamps with this change that the board um the the consensus was and I was hoping that um we could move forward with that and add that to our agenda. Moving forward, thank you. We will certainly have more discussions on that. I know that was one of the items that we are intending to do with administration. I'm not sure if they've gotten to the point on that yet. Um but thank you for your comments, Commissioner Dietrich. At this point, we have a motion, a second. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. I. Minutes are approved. 41. All right. Today's agenda. Is there anything that needs to be added or changed in today's agenda? I'll stand for a motion to approve today's agenda. So moved. I'll second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Moa, second by Commissioner Holland. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. All right. Agenda is approved. Unanimous. Today's consent agenda. Would anyone like to remove something from today's consent agenda for further discussion? All right. Hearing none. I'll stand for a motion to approve today's consent agenda. So moved. I'll second motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Uh consent agendas approved unanimously. Moving along quite swiftly here. We are already up to our first timed agenda item. Our first timed agenda item is the Great River Regional Library. Good morning everyone. Uh, I'm Karen Punac, exe executive director for Great River Regional Library. Why don't you guys introduce yourself? Sorry. Hi, I'm Katie Teasdale. I'm the library services coordinator for the Buffalo Branch. Hi, I'm Mara Sherber. I am the library services coordinator for Monaceel. And I am Nancy Bunty and I am the library services coordinator for St. Michael. So, in your packets today, you have our presentation about library services. We come to our counties twice each year, once at budget time in the summer, but we also come at the beginning of the year to talk about all the successes about uh Great River Regional Library, which Wright County is a strong partner of. We want to thank Commissioner Dedricch for her service on the board. We also have four citizen members from Wright County on that board. JC Wallace, Melissa Fee, Teresa Dah, and Holly Lamers. Um, I'm not sure if you guys are going to be running through the presentation that's in the packet. Um, you guys have a new setup since the last time I was here, so I apologize. I think it's I don't remember what page it was. There we go. So, Great River Regional Library is a sixcount partnership. We have 32 locations with libraries and then a locker system in Sartell. If you go to the next slide, you can kind of see the overview of regional activities. You're [Laughter] fast. Uh we had over uh 98,000 card holders last year. That means somebody has registered for a card and used it at least once in the last three years. We circulated over two million physical items across the six county system. We also had almost a half a million circulations in our digital collection. So there's lots of different ways people are accessing the library and we'll be talking about that. We have quite a few different locations here in Wright County. Um you can see there Anaddale and we can see Clearwater and Coco and Delano. We can also see um Rockford and the new Howard Lake libraries in the middle center there. Um Buffalo, Monaceel, and St. Michael. So, lots of really fabulous partnerships with the cities that offer library services. If you go to the next slide, you can see the statistics break down um for the different locations within Wright County and then Great River as a total. Um what is worth pointing out is the digital library registrations are kind of a subset of total registrations. So about a third of the people who have a regular library card are accessing the digital library. You can also see that it is one of the highest circulating locations in the system. Um but that being said, St. Michael is on the rise. Uh they used to be I think our fifth or sixth largest library and now they're creeping up to second and third. So, it's interesting to see the growth in the southern part of Wright County and how that's impacting the whole system. All of the libraries are well loved by their communities and you can see they're all used very heavily depending on their community size. If you go to the next slide, some of the highlights regionally, we had 13,000 kids sign up for summer reading challenge last year. That is a record number for us and we're hoping to break that again. We had over 3,000 participants in our winter reading program. We also have a youth advisory council and the photo that you see there is the youth advisory council's first ever presentation to the great river board. We have 14 young people who represent all six counties. And here in Wright County, Gabriella, Karina are from Buffalo. Faith and Alisandre are from St. Michael and they are representatives. They're some of them will actually be joining us tonight for our strategic planning work session with the Great River Board. So, we're really excited to have that involvement of our youth and helping shape the services of the library. So, I will turn the the mic over to our local staff to talk about the successes happening locally here in Wright County. Okay. So, yeah, I um as highlighting all of the growth obviously that you see um up on the charts and then St. Michael in particular really growing. And I just wanted to highlight a couple of um fun events that we've had that kind of um typlifies um what we're seeing in St. Michael. And one of them was February 1st is National Take Your Child to Library Day. And uh we decided to do like a little winter carnival and invite families. And we were so shocked that we had over 300 people show up that day and it was really a lot of fun. Um we were able to um show around the library, get um about 25 kids signed up for library cards that day. um the summer reading program um overall it was over 13,000 well 2,000 of them were in St. Michael and um that is was is a fabulous um program that we have which also includes um up to around 40 teen volunteers that come and help us to run that program. So we would not be successful without all of the teen volunteers. Um and then the other collaboration that I'd like to always highlight is with our senior center. We're fortunate in St. Michael to have the senior center right there. And so um we work together to try to bring uh library services um directly to them. But for instance, today or I guess it's tomorrow, we're going to do a book bingo with the with the senior center and um so we're really enjoying that collaboration and um continued growth in in the library. Thanks. Thank you. Um Nancy mentioned collaboration. And so we also have a great partnership with our senior center which is across the street. Um and we were able to um provide programming for them. Um and one of the things that's in the slide there is we got a brand new um carpet uh project. We had a brand new carpet project and painting project at the Monaceel Library. If you haven't been in there uh recently uh take a stop in. It almost looks brand new. Um even if you have old shelving with new carpet and new paint, it looks fantastic. So, the city of Monsel has taken very good care of us and we really appreciate um the uh collaborations we have with our city. Um our city also provides us with um programming money. So, we're able to do a little bit more programming with our city and that's why we kind of try to do a little bit more and use the the space across the street um by providing programs um on their on their uh property as well. Um the other thing I would like to mention is Monaceel is partnering with the um the school district and the community of Monaceel with the rally to read um partnership. Um it's a community initiative and we're working with the city of Monaceel and businesses Rotary etc to work on getting the um reading scores in Monaceel ups. We are focusing on ages 0 to 5. Um I am the community uh connections team leader. Um and so we're working with the library and that um uh rally to read partnership and working on trying to get bring our services to them and enlightening the people of Monaceel with the services that the public library has. Um Buffalo's had like a really busy year as well. Uh we had a lot of record-breaking numbers um kind of across the board in terms of participation in our big programs. There's a picture up there of our Touch a Truck event from last September where we had 450 people come uh which was way more than we had the previous year. Um I love highlighting a lot of our community partnerships as well. We work really closely with organizations all over the city of Buffalo including um some folks that live are right here in the government center at Health and Human Services. Um we also like Touch a Truck is a collaboration between like a bunch of city um workers including parks and wreck and the city streets group but also the historical society and um ECF and the community center uh to have that all come together and happen which is super cool. Um we also got carpet last year where the middle picture uh kind of just like Monaceel it's almost as if the building has been completely remodeled. it looks bigger on the inside somehow even though it's the same amount of furniture and everything. Um, touching back to some of our like increases in participation, uh, I do have so like last year for summer reading and also this year for winter reading, we had kind of modest increases in the amount of people that participated, but over 30% increases in the amount of time that people were reading during those programs, which was just kind of wild to me. for summer reading. We had kids read about four 459 days worth that got tracked and turned in, which is just like that's so cool. Um, one of the cool things we're kind of working on this year is I've been working with community ed and the community center to kind of create this programming partnership where we'll be able to create programs that are more intimately built around like the needs of the city of Buffalo as well as um avoiding that duplication of effort so we're not doing the exact same thing. um at the same time in different locations, but instead like being able to support each other and kind of increase the efficacy of the work that we do, which is super cool. So, we want to thank Wright County for your support of the library system. You're one of the main sources of revenue for Great River Regional Library. We have the six counties who support us and state library services um provides several state grants to the system. Um I want to give an extra shout out to the city of Howard Lake. If you haven't been to their new net zero library, it's the first net zero library in the state and uh they did a really fabulous job on that new building and it's definitely worth a visit. Um I'll stop here for questions. We really appreciate um your support. I don't know what questions you might have about what's happening at the library. In addition, we had the minute text resolution, so I I wasn't sure how you want to handle that, but I'll thank you Karen and your uh team for coming out here and uh going through all the great things that you have going on at Great River Regional Library. Uh board members, do anybody have any questions? Sure. Bet. I have one question. Um, Adigo is now the biggest city in Ray County and I was curious, do do they go to the Elk River Library or do they do we see that traction in St. Michael? We just had a long conversation with that about that. Do you want to answer it since you were part of that? Yes. Yes. So, yes, we um uh were looking at the numbers recently and uh we were surprised, you know, because they share the same zip code with Albertville. Yes. But the numbers um definitely show that they're coming our way from that segment of um Atiggo. Um yes, they still have the other side of town going to Elk River, but there's a good majority. You're right. Their numbers have really grown from Atgo. Oh, yeah. Good. Thanks. Yeah, it's harder to track because it doesn't have a post office of its own. So, it's like, okay, five zip, how much of this is actually how much of it is another city? But Elk River and St. Michael are both seeing a lot of growth. So I suspect it's related to the location being close to great. One other thing and then I did have to add them to my visits for the schools that I do to promote summer reading. So we just added uh Prairie View um to that rotation. So yeah, a couple of years ago, the city of Atgo reached out and asked about our partnership with the city of Sartell to have lockers in their community center that's primarily funded by the city of Sartell. They haven't gotten back to us, but we did give them the information on how that works and maybe someday that's something that happens there, too. Good question. All right, Mr. Chair, I did have a question for Karen. Going back to your first slide, you mentioned I think you had 158,000 reference calls, I think, over the course of the year. And I mean, just my quick math, that's about just over 400 calls a day. And I was curious, how is have you seen anything happening with AI coming out, artificial intelligence, is that helping you answer these calls? Because I can only imagine the calls you get and how you answer those so quickly when you have 432 of them a day. I'm wondering, is it helping you answer those co calls? Is it dropping it? Are you seeing any trends? Just curious as to how That's an interesting question. Um we are talking about how AI can work in the library but we are very dedicated to patron privacy as a number one you know so all of those are handled by staff and some of them are coming in at the desk some of them come in through the St. Cloud Public Library. We have over 200 staff across the region. So between all of the locations we're able to share that with an 800 number that people can call. Um, but a lot of those are just coming in at the local library level. Um, we work really hard to have like selfch checkout stations in most of our locations so that if a patron calls in and needs more one-on-one assistance or even comes in, um, they're able to get that personal touch. That's one of the things we've been healing hearing from our city meetings recently is people really want that small town feel. They want a familiar face at the library and I don't think they would really welcome a chatbot on the other side. I was just wondering how you answer that. I'm mainly just wondering how you answer 158,000 questions that could range from anything. The short answer is we have amazing staff. Yeah, good question. Thank you. Uh then I guess we have one order of business left here. We have the resolution for the Minuteex Library Services. Uh I don't know if you have any comments on that before we uh move forward with that resolution. Um, I would just point out, um, this was brought at a request of our Great River Board, which has already passed the resolution. Federal library funding has kind of been put on hold. Um, part of it is stuff that was already appropriated, but the people in the IMLS office were actually laid off and can't cut checks. So, there's a lot of uncertainty about current federal funding in addition to future federal funding. Majority of the federal funding at the state level goes to state library services which is then subgranted to Minuteex. That agency is responsible for interl loan the ELM databases. While Great River only receives about $7,000 indirectly from Minitex to provide interl loan delivery to St. Cloud State, St. Cllettech College and St. John St. Ben. We probably would see an impact of over $20,000 just immediately if inter library loans ceased. We had uh 14,498 items borrowed through Minlink last year. So if you multiply that times 20 to $30 a book, you can see the impact indirectly on library services. And so we are asking our counties to also support show their support for Minuteex. There's some bills happening at the capital in addition to the federal funding being at question right now. So, it's safe to say that without this service, you could lose maybe potentially one-third of your material or more, access to one-third of material that you currently do or more. I I don't know if it's a third, but I can say that about 16% of the items that were requested in the last six months by patrons were inter library loaned. So, yeah, it's it's a big number. It's it's at least a double digit or at least close to 20% of Yep. It's a big number. Uh board members will stand for a motion. I'll make that motion. Second. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane uh to approve the resolution supporting the Minuteex Library Services for Great River Regional Library. Any discussion hearing? None. Uh resolution vote. Commissioner Mina. I I I I resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. Thank you for your support. And now moving on to our 9:15 As thousands of men and women move forward to go and repair and improve our streets, it is of a great timeliness that we pass this resolution recognizing National Work Zone Awareness Week here in Wright County, April 21st to April 25th. Yes. Good morning, chair. Uh property services safety committee is uh recommending that you pass this resolution in support of work zone awareness week. We have a lot of our highway maintenance staff, our engineers, our county surveying staff out on roads this time of year as you come through Anenddale every morning on the commute. It says be aware road work starts on April 21st. So, uh obviously going to be the season coming up and we'd like everybody to be aware of our important staff and the projects are out there, our surveyors, our county maintenance staff, our engineers, and our contractors out on the road. have a few of them here today uh from the property service and safety committee to uh as you pass your resolution. Uh thank you Mark and once again this is always a great show of support and a good uh attention to safety that we do this every year. So I appreciate uh board members support in designating April 21st through April 25th as National Work Zone Awareness Week here in Wright County. I'll make a motion to approve that resolution. Mr. Here we have a motion by Commissioner Dietrich. Second. Second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Resolution vote. Commissioner Shane. I I I I I All right. And resolution passes unanimous. Yep. We'll grab a quick picture for uh John. All right. And uh have you guys come up? They all they they like all got new vests. Last year was a challenge to see who wore the dirtiest vest. just your Now, I'm sure everyone here will attest to Nate always has a clean vest, right? Get it to John when you're done. Yeah, rumors. He still knows how to drive a truck. So, get a little closer. Hug each other. All right. Do one more. Perfect. All right. Thank you. It wasn't intended. That's good. Oh, yeah. Whatever. Okay. And Mark's back up here filling in for Chad on our 920. First would be approve the resolution prioritizing uh deficient bridges in Ray County. This is an annual thing that we do here in the county uh to keep our list updated and current in terms of the status of our bridges across Wright County. Mark floor. So the resolution that's in front of you today up is updated to include two uh township culverts uh one from Silver Creek and one from Chadam uh and updated costs anticipated costs for those replacements. So this is a requirement that we do uh when we update the list for eligible funding activities. Mr. Chair, I just want to say thank you for evaluating those um for highway for evaluating the Silver Creek and Chadam Township. Those um those are some big projects and um this would be great to add them to the list. So, thank you. Sarah was going to handle this, but she's got langitis. She's battling the same thing I'm going through here. All right, with that, um I'll stand for a motion. So, moved. I'll second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to adopt the resolution for prioritizing the uh efficient bridges in Wright County. Any discussion? Hearing none. Resolution vote. I vote I I I I I. Resolution passes unanimous. Oh, thank you. Uh second item of business is to rec uh ask you to authorize a purchase agreement and signatures on 5.98 acre uh parcel in the city of Montro for the new Montro uh slashreplacement of the Waverly shop. The highway department's been looking for several years to acquire different properties in the Waverly and Montrose area uh to replace the underside outdated Waverly shop. Um this purchase price is $70,000 higher than what we have in the loss funds for the CIP. So approving the purchase agreement would also then look at approving loss an additional loss funds of $70,000 um for that. This is a project that has been approved in the 2025 2029 CIP uh with loss funds um totaling $400,000 for 2025, $400,000 for 2026 and a CIP levy of 1.9 in 2027 and again additional loss fund for construction of just about 2.9 for that same year for construction. So this would allow us to purchase property, get through the planning and zoning at city of Montrose and then start design work and construction um probably 6.7. So thank you Mark uh for the recap and I appreciate all the staff and the amount of time that is gone into this. It was not something that we've uh done overnight. This was a process of years of looking for properties and finding the right one in the right location. right size so it meets our plow routes in getting them done in a timely fashion. So I appreciate all the staff members involved in it. Board members, Mr. Chair, um I just had a discussion this morning with Montro City Council member um about there was a proposal or a discussion and can you tell me more about um the lot that they proposed that they would actually give to the county um with the city of Montre give to the county. Get give I'm not sure. I don't think there was a give, was there? That was my understanding that I'm going to call on Jeremy Carlson to see his his his opinion on this. Jeremy Carlson is our rightway agent that has been dealing with all the negotiations. So, this would a new concept. Yeah, everything is a new concept. Morning, Jeremy. Good morning. Jeremy Carlson, Right County Highway Department. I'm the right-of-way agent. So, I've been dealing with mate and I both met with the city of Montrose here probably a couple months ago just to reiterate that we want to move into the city and we asked the city for potential land locations that our shop could be located at. So, yes, they did mention some sites south of 12, mentioned some sites north of town and ultimately the site that they suggested is the one that we're trying to purchase now. But there is no land swapper of any kind like that. Okay. So, we're just looking at the 5.9 acres to purchase and that's in your packet that's on the west side of town. Yep. Thank you, Jeremy. So, great. I just I mean I wanted to bring it up. I think it should be part of the discussion of you know how the process came. So, that's all. Thank you. Yeah. because I'm not aware of any any property that that was available for little or nothing, but it would have been nice if that was the case. But um but anyways, uh board members, there discussion items on it. I guess I'm curious what property that would even be. understand property for the city that we've had some business. So that's that's the city that's my stance and my city. Yeah. So the parcel of land he's talking about there, well there was actually two that were suggested to us south of County Road 12. One was just directly west of the water treatment facility, but that was talked about to us that that would be future city offices. Correct. There was also a parcel down by their city shop which would be south of their water treatment facility. Nate and I went out and looked at that and were really concerned about water runoff with our salt storage. There's a creek that runs through there. There are also poor soils in that area. So, that was a site we felt was not a good option for our facility. That's next to the DNR land there. Yep. I guess I don't know about staff. I've received zero communication from the city or uh from other individuals within the city of Montrose articulating that they would rather have us on a different piece of property other than the one that we've been working with them to move forward with. I don't know if staff has a different any other communication other than what I've had which is none. Yeah. And that and that's why Nate and I met with the city first. We wanted to make sure that hey, we're going to look at parcels in the city. We want to make sure that these parcels are okay and that's where we were directed to go to begin with. And I understand that there could be some concerns from council, but we just met with city staff. So that's where city staff directed us. And I'm going to defer over to Commissioner Moa just because he has a little bit of a better knowledge and working understanding of the uh city of Montrose and being it's his district, he's more likely to get communication than I am on any partic particular conflicts. Uh have you gotten any communication, Commissioner Mo? Uh what we just heard from which is now the current mayor of Montro had said. Um, yeah, that's the same thing that I've heard from a couple of other council members as well, but it sounds like the city staff met with the county and said this is a good spot for you. It's a great location right off the highway. So, this is is this a situation where potentially one or few council members have a different perspective than that of staff on this? I think when you have a body of five people that are elected, you're going to have differing opinions between different people. So, all right, Chairman B. I I think it's a good idea. Okay. I I I'm I'm I'm trying to get an understanding of of the positioning on this. So, um this will obviously have to go through the city's planning and zoning commission and approval through their city council. So, we are looking to in your motion include 120 to 150 day due diligence. Right now, the purchase agreement says 60. That allow them time to approve or deny. Um, if there's any conflict at time and the city planning commission denies the use, uh, that would give us an out on the purchase agreement. Yes, I was just going to say the opportunity that it is it is heading towards their planning and zoning. So, this will all be vetted out in their city council arena before we even purchase it. This is just to go ahead and sign a purchase agreement. Then it'll go to the planning and zoning. And that's why in the motion that we recommend is uh upping that uh due diligence period to 150 days because they have 120 from the time they hear this to make a decision. And we don't want 60 days and then be 65 days. I can't do it. Fair enough. Then at this time, I will entertain any motions by uh members. I'll make that motion. Second. A motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Moina to move forward with a purchase agreement on the parcel in the city of Montrose for a highway maintenance shop. Mr. Mr. Chair, could I just clarify that the motion is to approve signatures on a purchase agreement for 5.98 acres of parcel 112-050 hyphen 000050 the city of Montros for the highway shop and authorize administration to negotiate a due diligence period not to exceed 150 days. You are correct. I was just trying to avoid with my voice to read all that. Yes, that's why I'm here, Mr. Chair. All right. And those are incorporated by the motion makers. Yes. All right. Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Oppos. Same sign. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. And now moving on to our 925. We have Ross somewhere here. He's making his way up here. We have approved and adopt the resolution accepting donations from the friends and family of the Mary Joe Schmid in the amount Schmid in the amount of $1,600. Yep. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Pretty straightforward. This is just following the donation policy. We need a resolution to accept the $1,600 for donation of a bench in uh at uh Schroeder Park. Very nice. I'll make that motion. All right. Motion by Commissioner Dietrich. Second. Second by Commissioner Moina. Any further discussion hearing? None. Resolution vote. Commissioner Holland. I I I I I resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. All right. And now we're on to items for consideration. Uh we have the first item would be to request to schedule two committees of the whole uh looking to do them on May 6th uh with the parks committee first and then uh following it by a committee the whole for budgets. Yes, Mr. Chair. Staff is looking to schedule a parks and recreation committee the whole on May 6th. We previously scheduled a a um budget committee of the whole that day and it's currently slated for the whole day mainly as a placeholder given board meetings just to make sure we had it on everyone's calendar and we're asking to narrow down as part of this resolution the budget meeting of the whole probably start at 1:00 in the afternoon would probably be in order looking at the park committee meeting starting at 10:30 after board and then the budget meeting at 1 if that works for the board. Is that something Mr. Mr. Chair, is that something we have to do in the same day? We wouldn't have to. I'm just, you know, I would like to dedicate the the budget time for the budget time. We can move the budget meeting. Um, we could look at doing it on the the 13th and lie of the workshop or after the workshop. Um, the 13th we're slated to do transportation that day. Yeah. Could look at a Friday, a Monday. Could we keep the budget as we've already established that and and maybe move the the parks meeting to a different date or committee of the whole to a different date? Monday the 12th Monday the 12th works for which meeting we're looking at the 12th. Park and rack. Park and rack on the 12th. Okay. All right. And then have the budget meeting at start at 10:30. Yeah. So that we still have aotted time. All right. So we'll entertain a motion. Do you want to do 9:00 a.m. on May 12th? I'm good with anything that's fine with me. It's crickets. Crickets. Wait. 9:00 a.m. Can we do it at 10? Because I have a meeting at 9. Okay. 10:00 a.m. on May 12th is. So I'll stand for a motion to set a parks committee of the whole on May 12th at 10 a.m. So moved. I'll second. Motion by Commissioner Shane, second by Commissioner Holland to set May 12th at 10 a.m. for a parks uh committee of the whole. Any further discussion hearing? Uh I the only thing that I would just bring up that is more that I'm curious is now we're setting three meetings. One for the 6th, one for the 12th, one for the 13th. Can we do that in one motion or do we have to do it in three? No, the one is sixth already stays because that one was already scheduled for 10:30 all day. So when when it ends it ends and the 12th one we have the 12th one is a new one and we have to schedule one more after this. But we could do them all in one. If you want to schedule one for May 13th as in this motion too, we can for the transportation. I was just curious. I Otherwise, we just move on and make the motions. All right. So, do we have a So, we had a motion and we had a second to set May 12th at 10 a.m. for the parks committee. The whole Any other discussion? Hearing none. All in favor say I. I. Those same sign. All right. May 12th at 10 a.m. is uh pass unanimous. Now, we're looking at May 13th was the recommended day for transportation committee. The whole uh I'm assuming the suggested time is a 9 or 10 a.m. or no, we have a board meeting or workshop. So, I'm guessing it's 10:30, 11:30. 10:30. 10:30. It's already on here. All right. May 13th at 10:30. I'll entertain a motion. So, moved. Second. Motion by Commissioner Shane. Second by Commissioner Holland is said May 13th at 10:30 a.m. for a transportation committee. The whole Any discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Post. Same sign. All right. Meeting scheduled unanimously. Next, we have the approved resolution and final acceptance of the contract 2306 and authorized final payment to Dunix in the amount of 57,5826 for the construction on County Road 148. Is there any I'll make a motion to accept. Second. All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve a resolution for final acceptance of contract 2306. And any other discussion hearing? None. Resolution vote. Commissioner Dietrich. I I I I I All right. Motion passes unanimous. All right. One second here. And now we have the uh ways and means recommendations. Um I'm sorry. No, the first one be adopt approve the recommendations from the ways and means. I sorry my computer stalled on me a second. So the March 26 ways and means meeting uh ways and means committee met. The change would be the Wright County probationary delivery system to uh community corrections. Uh so this is one that we've been working quite uh diligently with uh Mike McMillan and his team and they've been looking at this over years to look at making this switch and it has finally come to the point where it is in the uh best interest of our organization and then the best interest of our citizens in looking at making this switch to a community correctionsbased uh correction system versus that of a probationary system. Um, board members or staff, do you have any comments you'd like to make at this time? You'd like me to? Yeah, sure. Mike, if you want to come up and Thanks, chair, board, and administrator Kryser. Um, as you've mentioned, we've been thinking about this for a number of years. Matter of fact, we've been on everybody's list for a number of years to go to community corrections. But uh our feeling was now with the new funding stream and the timing as you heard in the Ways and Means Committee and also individually with individual commissioners that have met with me since that meeting um that our feeling is the time is is right. Before you in the packet you have a implementation plan that we put together and also a resolution uh that would u move us to uh 401 CCA county as well as establishing an advisory board. Uh we've worked very closely with our criminal justice partners in Wright County. Um the judges who are 100% support as you heard at the ways and means um as well as some other correspondents. Um the also the county attorney's office, county administration, finance, we worked with after ways and means that was very helpful uh for me and them, but our draft helped them and also our IT provider who we need a little bit of time to make the transition which I outlaid to the ways and means and also individually to the board members. So at this point, we'd like to ask that you approve the resolution. Uh if you need Mr. Loots to restate that because I forgot to bring it, but it is in your packet. uh and then also look at um you know the timing of the transition, but I think I've laid that out pretty clearly for everyone. Thank you. Yes, Mr. Chair, members of the board, um administration has met with finance and also uh with Mike's office as well, the county attorney's office, and we've also had a meeting with the court as well. And um looking at this proposal, I think now is the time to switch over to Community Corrections Act 401 county. Um, the funding is there and I believe it'll be a a good benefit for the citizens of Wright County here. Uh, it'll be a good delivery of public safety needs that we have in our community and I think making the switch now is the appropriate time and I'd recommend its approval. All right. Thank you, Administrator Kryer. Uh I think the biggest highlights that people should understand with this move is that it is a move to streamline delivery service and then also it offers an immense more local control on the levels of services and how those services are delivered and what they look like. So and with that uh it puts us in line with most uh counties or most of our peer counties. That's correct. I'll make a motion to approve that resolution. Second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Moa. Second by Commissioner Shane. Any further discussion? Hearing no other discussion. Resolution vote. Commissioner Mo. I I I I I All right. Resolution passes unanimous. Thank you. And a side note, we will be meeting immediately afterwards with the Department of Correction staff as well as our staff to update them on what happened today and the plan moving forward. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. And next we have the uh recommendations which isformational only from the uh April 8th uh committee of the whole which was a presentation on uh social services and health and human services. There's no action to be taken on that one. The last recommendation is from the Ways and Means Committee that met on April 8th as well. Uh there's a few different recommendations from that one. So, oops. And now Yeah, my my computer was stinging out on me there. All right. So the first one we have is the uh joint ditch uh 15 funding request uh is to bring forward to the board approved the allocation of 72,000 for joint ditch uh 15 to cover the outstanding expenses. This funding was uh previously approved by the water quality improvement projects. The next one was the mintex resolution which was already passed earlier in the board meeting. So that would beformational only at this point. And then the last one would be the opioid advisory council request for proposal uh which was to bring forward a board approved for a submission of the opioid reports for additional uh designated staff and presented to the workshop for approval. Uh just adding another layer allowing staff to look at the scorings of the opioid council prior to them coming forward to the board. I just wanting to make sure that the process is followed and that we are getting a uh good movement on the funding that is available in the opioid council. I'll make a motion that we accept um all those recommendations. Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve the April 8th Ways and Means Committee recommendations. Any further discussion? Mr. Mr. Chair, I would like I would have liked to have done these separate recommendations as they are two different topics, but as the motion is set to just move forward, I guess. Sure. All right. There is there any other discussion on it? I appreciate uh Commissioner Shane, Commissioner Holland on uh reviewing these items. I think they are uh um all good projects and good uh changes that should be entertained. So with that, no other discussion. All right. All in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. I abstain. Abstain. All right. Motion passes. 4 0 one one abstension. All right. With that, Mr. Chair, I would like to add one item to the agenda if I could here for consideration by the board. And I apologize um I didn't have it in front of me at the start with the uh start of the meeting, but as the board is aware, we rejected the electric bids on the household hazardous waste facility and we rebid those. Those bids came in again lower than what was the highest qualifier, the lowest qualified bid on the initial round. Um believe it was 680 85 685,000 I think was the original lowest qualified low bid. 647 Mark 647 647,000 was the lowest qualified bid on the last goound. We rebided and it came in the lowest qualified bid now is $573,400. We'd like to award that to AJ Moore Electric Inc. so we can get that signed and not have a three-week delay. I apologize for this came in after the agenda deadline and I missed my note. So to add it at the top and board members should have seen the email that I think went out I believe late Friday. So, uh, this is something that board members should have at least been aware of. So, yeah. All right, I'll make a motion to accept that bid. Second. All right. Motion by Commissioner Holland, second by Commissioner Shane to approve the bid for 573,000 and some change to AJ Moore for the household hazardous waste electrical contract. All right. Any other discussion hearing? None. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. All right. Motion passes unanimous. All right. At this time, there's no other business to attend to on the agenda. Uh we will adjourn. Um can I just mention one thing? I want to thank Mark and Sally. Uh the the historical society got a grant from the central Minnesota uh Council on Aging. Um and they got a $16,000 grant. Oh, and Allen as well. they will be able to make that handicapped accessible the front door and the bathrooms. Uh it was a quick turnaround and we're very excited that uh that was awarded. There was not very many awards this time. So um uh Lori from Central Minnesota Council on Aging was very excited that we got what we were looking for. So excellent. Very good. Wonderful. That is great. Is there any other comments otherwise? Hearing none, we'll adjourn uh adjourn today's board meeting at 9:47.