Yeah, vote to leave executive session, no action was taken during that time. Pick up where we left off, which is 6.2, the highway. Want me to go first? Yeah, please. The last month, we, there was a couple times we plowed and spread the roads, it was real light snow, not a whole lot, and then most of it's been, we've been cutting a lot of brush, and If you recall, we got that new boom mower last year, that's worked out real well, we've been done a lot of smaller stuff with that, so, and we've been working on Orangeville Road, because that gets redone this summer, so, we're cutting everything from fence to fence, clearing everything that we can, so, all the way in Burnham, so, fixed a few potholes, it's been so cold that they don't.

father a lot. So other than that, that's about done brush mostly. I haven't been up north on 26, but you've been able to kind of tidy up our little corner up there a little bit. Yeah, we got all the guardrail cleaned up. We were burning the brush pile there. We've got some big stumps that we tore off. So we've been trying to, we keep burning a little bit, but those houses are close there. So I only burn one. There's a west South or East Wind, but mostly, mostly West or South because I don't want this stuff going in their houses. So I try to be good to them about that. I don't, I wouldn't want to sit there and read smoke all that long.

Yeah, so yeah, there's not, there's not a whole lot left there. There's a little bit, there's a pile of stuff that I, I want to get out of there, but it's froze. So when it thaws out, we'll get that.

and it's mainly dirt, rocks, and I wouldn't say garbage, but like just stuff from when we tore a building down as a corner.

They had like, I would say like drywall piled up in an area there.

Not a lot, but enough that it kind of mixes in with dirt.

You don't notice it, but you got to get it out of there.

So other than that, there's not a whole lot there.

Any questions for Scott?

Thank you, sir.

Okay, you get the highway update in front of you.

I plan on having a super letting on March 3rd, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th project.

We're going to be letting March 3rd, but I don't have final approval on three of the projects from the IDOT yet.

So our super letting is going to have to be delayed about a month.

So I think I've got it set up for April 6th, I think.

And it wasn't all IDOTs, but one took a while to get out.

right away cleared from one of the highway commissioners.

And the other one, well, the joint agreement that's on the agenda, that has to be approved by IDOT first before we even go to letting.

So once you guys sign it, it goes to IDOT, they'll sign it, and then we can go to letting.

So we won't be ready for March 3rd, I don't anticipate yet.

So other than that, everything else is on schedule.

The only other thing is Alan McNutt, originally said he was going to retire in February.

He's changed it to mid-April now So There was some misunderstanding about Working for an I He went with it He talked to IMRF He said he couldn't work for anybody for another 60 days after he retires But it's only for IMRF employees So He planned on working for Willard Hoffman When he retired from us and then we'll hire him to do construction for us so it's it's it's a win-win for for them for us so so uh that's all I've got any questions for Dale okay you know thank you sir Brian current budget and debt status but uh budgets beginning of the year so it's still looking good um um we have the water heater from building went off with a it was a thousand bucks so and then the HVAC was on the agenda to offer the crossword proposal so and that's budgeted in with our that we budgeted and it came in I originally went out for a bid like just to kind of pull just kind of see where we stood and if we put if we just from different companies. If we replaced one of them, it was going to be like $15,000, but if we replaced all four of them, and two of them are, one's actually not working at all right now.

There's two other ones that we've had quite a bit of work into it, but if we replace all four of them, it was going to be like around $30,000 to $35,000.

Jason. So we'll see if you guys approve to go out for proposal. We'll see where they come in at. Hopefully they come in pretty good. And then Sony was going to help us out with some of that. So that will help with some of our budget and stuff like that. So other than that, on the excess sick time, that's a one time a year. So that's why it's like at 50% right now.

So, other than that, the budget is looking good.

Questions from Brian?

Brian, thank you.

No business.

We'll move on into new business in 8.1, which is the local funding project there, and Seedville, right?

Yeah, this is for Seedville.

Well, this is one of the grants we got for local funding, it's 100 percent funding, but we have put a dollar value in there in case it goes over budget they want to make sure we'll cover it so the budget it should should be covered so I don't I don't see any problem with this so I have a motion to accept the HG 2603.

So move from the Mr. Ritero seconded by the district of the championship.

So this one's a short mile for that right before building a road?

It'll be the end of the project, the last section, other than the intersections.

So the intersection, I don't have funding.

My plan is turning that into a roundabout, but I don't have funding for that yet.

Figured it'd be on that end somewhere.

If it never happens, it won't happen.

We have a grant out there right now looking for funding for the engineering forward.

We submitted HSIP funds for the roundabout, got rejected, but you can reapply every year, so I'm going to reapply next year for HSIP funds for it, and there's a rural and tribal assistance grant out there that we applied over the engineering for it, and that grant was only for engineering, not any construction, so we're going to look for it, we'll get it paid for it somehow.

Thank you.

Any other questions or discussion?

See none. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

All right, moving on to 8.2, the RFP for four HVC students on campus.

That was my mistake before we sent, we sent out the RFP already, but we have to get this county's, or this committee's approval before we sent the RFP out, so we canceled it.

How many did we get, how many came out and looked at?

Yes. There's been five. Okay. We had several come out and look at it, so we've canceled it. So after you got the approval, we'll send it back out. We've actually never had any come in yet, but we're still good. So we need to get our heating system fixed because it has been anywhere from 61 degrees to 85 at the time.

Is the money for it all going to come out of your budget or is it going to come out of some zoning? The zoning department is going to pay for 50% out of their foundations. Thank you.

So it's not even county funds. Move to approve.

I have a motion to approve the RFP. Second. I'll do a second.

I'm seconded by Mr. Schultz, I'm sorry, so I know it's done to RFP as in carrier, R2, R2, I don't know if it is R2, R2, R2, R2, I think qualifications is for consultants, so is that you want to, you ask for their qualification, but both as a bid price, you already know that you need anyway Yeah, so specified carrier is that Yeah, but if I believe on the top of it, it says like or equivalent, so whichever I guess I could, I should have taken carrier out of that, but I think I think the last one we went out or the last one I viewed from the county had a carrier on it, but in the description it says or equivalent and we had a budget of one unit.

We had a budget of $15,000 and we could have like, you could make like $20,000, we could have gone a little bit over but now they came in so, it came in so much cheaper and then with the zoning stepping up, it really helps.

Yeah, I agree that it's a thing to do.

It's just the budget is capable of handling 50% of...

Yeah, and I mean, if all those fails, if the committee doesn't agree that we get all fours, then I guess we don't have to.

I don't know if it's still probably just one, but it'd be probably significant anymore.

What's the age on those?

22 years.

I think it was 2003 was when the building was one of the...

and they're definitely, I mean, the one that controls our cabin, my office, Kristen's office and Dale's office is no longer, doesn't work.

But yet you go in the girl's bathroom and there's like a sound of your screen.

Yeah, if you want to warm up, you just go into the bathroom for a little while.

It's like 80.

But luckily the other three, when they're running properly, they kind of maintain the, You know, I heard that the shredding contract was up.

We wouldn't need to send all that energy away.

We could just burn it in our heat.

There you go.

Like burn it in your wood stove.

Yeah, there you go.

Just eat a wood stove.

Yeah, exactly.

And you guys are coming to your job.

I get done loads of wood up in the front of the building.

Every day, just open up Kristen's window and we'll just throw all the wood chips in there.

It's been moved and seconded to approve the RFP. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion. Moving on to 8.3, 26-04, the tandem cabin chassis, resourceful. I don't know, man, so I'm going to turn it over to Scott to talk about cabin chassis.

That's the, it's a chassis for a new snowplow. In 2020, I guess what I should say is it's going to be a 2027 modeling year. But when they start building chassis in 27, the emissions changes and the prices can go up dramatically. I thought maybe it would change.

I talked to the salesman a couple weeks ago and he said it's going to stay the same and he says everybody's trying to do what we're doing, just get one before and then maybe wait a year or two and see how things work out with the new emissions.

even though we get this it probably wouldn't be till the end of this year and if if we Monroe truck like if we had bid it out for them to equip it we're looking at 400 days out so that's from when you would let them know that hey we've got the chassis tied up go ahead and get us on the list so we would be looking at the earliest getting that the earliest, probably the third quarter of $20,000, so amazing.

And the cabin chassis, we have that in the budget for this year, this year, $20,600's budget.

It actually, the price actually is a little lower than it was the last one we got a year ago because I, well, I changed one thing a little bit so it lowered the price of $2,000 or $3,000.

and he wasn't, yeah, total price, yeah, so that's the scoop of that.

Do you know which funds, do you remember which funds, operational equipment and construction equipment, both in that $100,000?

Well, we got a supplemental for $100,000, and then the construction is for $100,000, so it's coming out with construction, construction equipment, and then the balance will come out of the subliminal that we got.

So that will take either way our $35,000 of that.

And you're not trading in Gen 1?

No, but I might likely try to sell one, like on an auction site.

When I talk to them about trading in an old dump truck, there's no problem.

They kind of look at me like, no, they prefer not to.

Do you remember what year the truck is that you're replacing?

I knew it would be 99, 99, yeah, it says.

Yes, Chairman Helms.

If you are going to dispose of it, it has to be declared surplus property before you can put it on an option site.

Okay.

So George can help you with that.

Just, yeah, don't get rid of any equipment without clearing.

We haven't even thought about it because we have that old oil truck that I'd like to do at the same time and get rid of the bill. So it would probably be a good time to get rid of two pieces.

So even if we go to auction with what we want to declare?

The board has to declare surplus properties before it can be.

Is that just the one time of a year? Or can you do it like each month as soon as you want?

Okay.

But just make sure you declare it first.

Okay. Yeah. That's good. Even something like a copier. So, like, you know, when we did the copier assisted. Oh, really? That's the process we just got. I had the copiers declared surplus property and then did it all right. We've done copiers, we've done desks, we've done... It's a state statute. You've got to file this. Maybe a paper little bit. Probably not. But, you know.

Big fix.

So, I guess, if I sold used guardrail.

You're talking hypothetically, right?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay.

I haven't.

We haven't, but so we have all that used guardrail up on the guardrail stick.

It's laying there.

I've had farmers that want to buy it for their cattle, you know, for cattle yards.

That needs to be the same way.

Okay.

that's what I want to know, so I need to make that before, that's good to know, I mean, I wasn't sure where you're headed there, so that's why I was asking you, hypothetically speaking, hypothetically, yes, it was, hypothetically speaking, still lying back, I know, yeah, most recently, that was a copy, I was kind of declared surplus property, and I went out for seeking false vids for that, I believe I was just, and the whole board needs to make this declaration, not the committee, so it's a board and then committee, and you can do it.

You can do it.

You can do it.

You can do it.

Anything that holds any value is on the statute of practices.

It's very subjective as far as value.

It's valuable or not.

Well, some farmers want that.

So you just declare it all.

Can I just say everything we own?

Can you just say everything?

We best like this.

I do have a motion and a second to approve this, any other final discussion, I'm sorry, we didn't move, no, I don't think, I didn't write anything, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't motion for accepting 2604, so moved, moved by Mr. Maduro, second by Mr. Jogerst, Now, is there any final discussion?

That's the only bit we have.

It's through Swordswell, and I got another quote from Kenworth, which was, and this was back in the fourth quarter of 25, when he gave me one, and it was, let's see, $149,000 compared to $132,000.

Yeah, we've got Freightliners now, right?

And we've got mostly freight liners that's kind of nice to keep everything uniform parts wise. Sounds good.

And I did contact administrators earlier today about the RFP about this with using a source well. We've done it before. I think it was a John Deere tractor or something. And since that time, we've asked for Mr. Larson's approval on this.

and he again blessed it and thinks everything's fine so I think we are good to go with that sorry I should have mentioned it earlier discussion. Seeing none all those in favor say aye. Motion is approved.

Oh, okay So it is That's good I was going to say Are we only two copies here?

Oh, then that's even I was not sure Mayor Mrakas, Steve, William, Scott, Steve, William, Scott, Steve, William, Scott, Steve, William, to Executive Session.

We talked about, you mean review them, you can either go into Executive Session to do so, and if we do, you should probably go into that room since Nursing is going to be starting here pretty soon.

If you're not going to deliberate, you can adjourn, you can go into that room and you can review the documents, as long as you don't converse amongst one another about the documents.

We can't take them like this.

No, absolutely not.

okay so it's up to you guys you want to do executive session all right I was just thinking out loud and it might make more sense not to like us the decisions to be made or anything so correct it's just information getting correct I I think um just reviewing them roster by ourselves I think it's fine it'd be no different if you went up to george's office so we're back looking for a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second we've been seconded session all those favorite agents turn and thank you fall for making that message