Call to order. First, all that does, this is the approval of the agenda.

Move approval.

Seconded.

It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Next order is a new and approval of the minutes from March 12.

I'll attend a motion.

Second.

Very new.

What was there? Second. Second. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Oh, same sign. All the way. Claims. We have claims for new manual checks of $143.15 and we have cash requirements of $180,720 at $79, Sam, for a total of 188, $63, $94, sure, a pleasure.

They moved to approve the bills.

Because it's William's Moons, you'll kill them.

That's not sure.

It's like 30 seconds.

Didn't anybody else last?

All in favor?

Hi.

You guys are getting off cheap.

Only $8,000.

It's like, what?

Well, we have that behind us.

We'll go into our departmental reports.

First one is animal control.

I'm sorry.

Public comment.

No, thank you.

Let's cover our bases.

No, that's fine.

I'm sorry.

No, you're good.

Okay.

In March, we took seven cats in.

Three were surrenders.

Three were city strays.

One was return.

that was adopted previous month. Five were transferred to rescue, or sorry, three were transferred to rescues. Four are still adoptable. Our dog intake was nine dogs, two surrendered, seven county strays.

Five of those dogs are adoptable. Two were reclaimed and two went to rescue. Our current Animal Inventory is 14 adoptable cats. Two are on hold. Dogs, we have 21 adoptable, one foster, and three on hold.

Two of those are Jessica Jones' court date dogs. Today we went to court.

She is claiming that the Great Dane, the one that we were mainly charging her, was not her dog.

There is no way we can prove it was her dog. So I asked if we could just have her at least sign the Chihuahua over. And since she's not claiming the Great Dane, then we've had it for July of 24. Nobody's reclaimed the dog. So he's ours then if she's claiming it's not hers.

so she did sign the Chihuahua over so both dogs are ours now to go ahead adopt them out neuter them rescue whatever we feel fit it's not the outcome I would have liked but these dogs have been with us long enough we're not going to prolong it any longer Andrew crisis cases were also today he did get a continuance on them I don't know the date of that I believe it was June for an hour bench trial. Mary Mankey, which is the Cocker case, she somehow did not do something. I believe it might have been the mental health part of the case. So that's back in court 512. She's been paying and I don't think she has more than two dogs. So that's the only thing I can think of that was part of her order was the mental health.

Other things, unfortunately, I was in an accident with the work van. We're still waiting on insurance.

However, Bakker Auto Group donated a 2007 uplander van with 94,000 miles on it. It was originally owned by an older couple, very well maintained. I think we'll have many, many years on it. I've driven it about a week now. I think it's been licensed.

it's running good perfect it's basically the same as the old van little longer front and I gotta get used to but no it's running really good I'm very thankful for Delbert and his group for doing that otherwise in the front of your pack I this check came in yesterday yesterday I had Stephanie look into it because of the amount and it's a legit tracking number. And so that went in the bank yesterday. We're going to give it a 30-day grace to make sure it's all legit.

Where's it from?

I don't think you've got that. I don't know if I sent you the copy of it or not.

So we did some research. There is an 80-year-old woman with that name in Pecatonica, and I think that's probably where it came from.

I'm going to send her a letter to thank her, hopefully it's, if it's not her, she'll obviously say it's not her, but just because there's no way else to thank her, and I'd like to thank her for that donation, that was very generous, and will help a lot, 14,890, yeah, so a whole bunch things are going to get made. Yes. I'm like, let's see. She could have a whole room. I'm thinking a bench outside. Nice. If I figure out it's her, yes, I'm going to ask her what she would like. Yeah. Seriously.

Yeah. Cause I like maybe the isolation room could have a nice, whatever. She wants to dedicate it to one of her past animals type thing so I really want to find her and hopefully that's her impact I'm thinking it is because that name is in this area so Emmett I don't know that's it for that plans were the usual and an oil change on the old man because is it total oh Oh, yeah.

It had $234,000 for decoys, so.

Yeah.

I didn't, you said, we haven't got any official word, but.

I don't think that Jogerst would have been out to it, but it's rest in pieces.

I thought maybe, you know, you just scraped something.

No, no.

Got it.

Tickets issued?

What?

Tickets issued?

Yes, I got a ticket.

So what was it that you were ticketed for?

um failure to reduce speed um failure to reduce speed or failure yeah I think failure to reduce speed or avoid an accident something like that it was my fault I had a coughing at coughing fit and by the time I realized they were stopped ahead of me there was not enough time to stop I I tried I floored the breaks. I meant there was no time. I was crushed. I got out of the van, hobbled to the lady, and she was fine.

What? No, no. I had airbag related. I went to urgent care. Georgia told me to go there. Just, you know.

Post-expo. Yeah. And I learned from the airbags, but otherwise sore, obviously. But and I called the lady that was in the accident with me and she was fine and I called her like I think two days later and she was doing fine and so unfortunately trust me that's the last thing I want to happen. My record was beautiful. Anyways yeah so I met we got a van and got it licensed went to Mary's and got it licensed and it's insured and everything's good on it.

Um, tires looked good. Um, this is a question, I guess. Okay, we pulled the seats out. Can we dispose of the seats? Or do we need to keep the seats? We're never going to use the seats. So what we did right now is we put the seats in the old van, because that's going to get totaled and taken away. So why not? But I didn't know. It was donated.

Don't ask, don't tell Okay Who's going to ever use them?

It's your new bench Yeah, thank you You're in a trailer No, that's all right I was thinking somebody had mentioned one of the bars, bobbers uses old seats, I'm like I say we just go away. Anyways, the weekly intakes, like I said, the pickups, we really haven't been getting, I've been picking up dogs, they just haven't been getting reclaimed, unfortunately, we've had a lot of dumb thoughts.

He's had a lot of dumb dogs. I think the one day end of the month, I picked up three dogs in one day, one cat for a bite order, and nobody's coming to get these dogs. They're just, I don't know. Springtime, we usually pick up on pickups, but they also get picked up by their owners. So I don't, people are just in a rough spot that they just can't afford them anymore.

So you've got about 35 animals right now, 14 cats, 21 dogs?

Yeah, as of this report, it's gone down.

So what capacity do you have? I mean, at what point do you no longer take the animal?

We're no longer taking dogs right now, other than strays, our strays, our county strays.

So what's your total capacity right now?

We're at it right now with, I would say, 25 dogs. Yeah. 25 dogs, 14 cats, 15 cats. We could do more cats, but 25 dogs is the highest we can go. So how many cats can you take? If you can not take more than 25 dogs, how many cats can you take? Probably about the same.

Okay, so 50 animals, give or take?

Yeah, probably.

Thank you.

But on the cats we have, we have, I think, there's actually not even 14 cats right now.

We have four kittens, four kittens, an adult cat going to Anderson Humane Society on Saturday, and I think three cats going to Iowa County Humane Society on Saturday so we just the cats we can move out dogs I we're just everybody's so full that for some reason the cats are moving right now and the dogs are just sitting everywhere friends forever is full I had somebody call me yesterday wanting to sign a nine-month-old dog over I'm like I can't what what am I supposed to do I'm like I don't know we can't take anymore and I and if we don't have room we can't take them I Okay. Where are you taking the other ends?

Iowa County, which is Dodgeville, Wisconsin, is taking three cats, and then Anderson, Cumaine is in Elgin.

They're coming to get them?

There's transports going that way from other shelters.

Okay, so they're coming, picking them up?

Yeah.

They're not delivering?

No.

Okay.

Thank you.

Any questions on the weekly?

And then Meadows Drive really didn't change a whole lot. I did have L.A. Taxes do a $2.50 check for the cat condo price, but she says whatever. She doesn't really care. She just did the $2.50, so she doesn't care what it owes to.

Any other questions, guys?

Is there anyone else?

That's good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Well, we'll go ahead and do our highway reports. Thank you.

Well, that's got to go first. On the last month, I guess it started out, I think, after our last meeting, and we ended up, well, I think for three days. That's most of them after we, that next week.

And then, since then, we've been cleaning curb and gutters in some of the smaller towns where we maintain them, working on shoulders, patching potholes, started sweeping intersections this week, and we did do some cutting brush with the boom mower, cleaned up some downed trees from high winds, and started maintenance on the, or taking plows off, paint in the front of them to get the trucks ready for some of the work.

I have information.

All right.

Good.

You got the hiring department updates in front of you.

I've highlighted our construction work that has changed since the last meeting.

I'm still waiting for a landing date for the Citaville and Dakota Road project.

We executed a joint agreement on February 19th.

It's down in Springfield.

and on a desk waiting for them to fully execute it so we can let the project and I've been on the district and just say they're waiting for, they're waiting to sign a bunch of them so I don't know what that means so as soon as they sign the agreement that we can go to letting on the city bill and I'm packaging Dakota Road with it that's totally local funding but I want to do them both together because they're both filled up reclamation jobs so I and we'll get better bids if we get them both at the same time. The West Point Bridge was let earlier this week and then we got a second one. The preliminary plans were submitted and we're going to have another late spring letting for that project. So I can't let them at the same time because they're in the same road. We have to open up the one before we can let the open up the other one. Otherwise, we'll landlock somebody.

So, monthly or yearly overweight permits, right now the only permit process we have is a per-use permit, and it hasn't been a problem to date until we got a phone call this week from a safe place about somebody who's an overweight hauler hauling raw milk products to, again, two trips a day, six days a week, he's hauling $110,000 to $120,000.

He just called, he had, the state cop had stopped in earlier, late last year at one point, which is kind of curious on the permit process, because he stopped a trucker, a bill caller, and said that there's, they're hauling two times a day, six days a week, and when they're loaded, they're about $110,000, $120,000.

Council. And up until this time, they said which contractor it was, and we had never gotten a permit from them. And so it had gone basically to October, and I didn't know, I can't contact, he didn't have any information on who the contractor was or anything like that.

And then he came in earlier and brought in the permit that they get from the state, which is $1,000 a year per truck, and it's supposed to be only on highway or state roads, not local roads.

and so I contact I went off the permit so I contacted that but it's TIA um trucking so I contacted them and his first response was they have basically have a permit for state roads and I was like well that's the state roads that doesn't include the local roads and he's like so then he replied to that he's like after more looking into it you're I was incorrect it doesn't it's not included in the price because he thought it was if you're delivering within so far of a state road it's included on the permit it's in full type on the state permit says this does not include local roads you have to contact local authorities and they just a lot of them they just ignore it they think it's good yeah yeah so I guess the question is do we want to do go through trying to set up a monthly yearly or do I just say he has to follow the same procedure as everybody else and because we have local contractors that like Fisher, for example, they do quite a few each year and if we're I guess if we're going to do this for a non-local contractor do we do it for local contractors and so and that size of a load is $300 and realistically that doesn't cover the damage that it's probably doing to the road.

And you're saying $3,000 a year?

No, no, no, for a year, for two a day.

And he's been, I mean, he's got, and the state cop basically said when he was talking to this, this trucker, there was another one that was coming through and they were going on $20,000.

and I'm assuming they go 20 to Kent on Kent and this one was coming off a 73 going on Dublin so this company is just doing it twice a day, six days a week. What's that? Was that contract particular? No, I don't know. I think that's $3,600 a week. So how did they know? Because the officers spoke with them, like talked to them, like they pulled them over and just gave them a warning.

So he gave that information voluntarily, he didn't have to weigh the truck Yeah, I mean, like, the permit that was sent that they had was sent that they had said it was like 110,000 pounds or whatever, but the guy, the officer told me that the guy basically said he was found 104 to 110,000 pounds.

So it's like three truckloads instead of him doing it twice, they need to be like having a truck.

And realistically, I mean, like the town Dublin and Canada, I mean, those are 80,000 pounds, but 473, 280, 73, 280, so they're not designed to handle that 110,000, 120,000 pounds.

And you're fermenting local companies know that they have to get permits.

Yeah, so when fishery asks for a permit, we give them for use permits, so every time he hauls, he gets a permit, so, but this is kind of an unusual situation where he makes 12 permits per week.

and he hasn't, he's gotten one permit and he hasn't gotten anything else.

And then he cuts his load down.

Well, that's the other option is just don't go away.

And how do you monitor this?

Are you sticking at the wrong saying, okay, you can't go over there?

That comes down to an enforcement.

That's the sheriff's office.

Now we have, we have the scales.

Yeah, we have the scale for it Do you anticipate that there are many other companies that are doing the same thing and you need a new permit?

I have no idea There might be other ones doing the same thing What happens when they get a state permit I'll get, like, not these yearly ones, I don't get notification for this but if somebody gets a state permit and it's going on a township road or a county road I'll get like an email from the state like showing me the permit and then if I notice that they don't if I have time and notice that they haven't gotten a local permit I'll send an email to the contact on the permit three times out of 10 maybe they'll get a permit but realistically we have no I can't we can't enforce it.

So you can't drive this road without giving a permit Until they get caught And even then, I don't know if they'll give a ticket if they get caught I mean, this contractor got caught and he still has it twice And he still hasn't gotten the ticket So you said the sheriff, in my understanding, can enforce this So does the sheriff write overweight tickets?

Sheriff can write them, state police can write them They can ride them, but didn't ride this guy. They did, but they have in the past.

Two separate issues, though, right?

It is.

Right.

So we definitely do not want overweight trucks on our roads, and roads are bad enough as they are severely underfunded to repair.

My personal opinion is absolutely there needs to be permits because you're trying to get people to not do what they're doing.

The other side of it, that's public property and safety, that's talking to the sheriff, who's an elected official, and asking them to be looking for this type of thing, for two separate issues.

Well, so if I'm understanding correctly, we already have a policy in place, but it's been kind of used as needed, point by point, because this would be such a continuous use, that's what makes the situation unique?

Correct. I mean, in reality, he'd have to get 12 permits per week at $300 a pop, so $3,600.

would be so he won't do it because his state permit is a thousand. So he'll just have to hold 80,000 pounds, which is what we are. Right. We want to make money off of this. I'm going to keep keep the policy as it is. But I just want to I I want to see your feelings on what what to do with it. Leaving it alone. Can I just say leaving it alone seemed to be more of a honest to make a new right if we can then talk to our public safety about doing a few checks to put some pressure on.

That's not putting any pressure on by making the yearly, but we can talk to our other department about doing a few courtesy checks.

That might help them to put that other truck in play, like you said, because they need to be having another loan.

Senator Weatherford saying we're going to enforce this or something.

from the cheese factory.

That would do it.

Yeah, 100%.

Yep.

And actually, even the state police have been very cooperative ones.

If we've let them know that somebody's running overloaded, they'll get out there and check it.

They'll need a couple tickets.

Yeah.

It's not going to take much.

We could probably send a letter to the cheese tab.

He said, listen, we're going to start sticking to your guy.

They'll care.

They don't care.

You think much?

I think the driver's going to get tickets on.

getting a trucker's license and his insurance for the tickets.

So that's their livelihood.

There was a super load that went through my guy Township and Sheriff stated to the police, flew him over, and I got a phone call from the trucking company the next day asking if there's anything I can do about his $30,000 ticket because he was running $190,000.

I think it was like $250,000.

Was it?

Yeah, I think it was like $2,000.

and I think there's a couple of them, yeah, I think there was one that had already gone through the township and this one actually got stuck, yeah, so there was multiple, it wasn't just that long, yeah, oh, wow, and these guys know what they're doing, they do, they try to pull their, say, oh, I didn't know it, they both print, they know, or we can bring it up to what we can do here, right? I think the policy probably checks out. And again, the inconvenience of it is more the incentive than anything else. You don't want that continuously going across and flows and, you know, all right.

Okay, BID tabs, I think you've got those in your packet.

We had a lending for the first West Point Bouncy Bridge.

We had one, two, three, five bidders.

A low bid was $650,000, $55,430, which is about 3% over the engineer's estimate.

So it's within 5%.

It's a lot of cost.

And so we had some good bids for that bridge.

And then we had, on the same day, we had our material letting for our favorite preservation project on Orangeville Road, and we had good vids for that, and they're under the engineer's estimate, so that material will be, is awardable.

Last thing was the good news for the county, we received a rural and tribal assistance grant.

for $523,915. That was for preliminary engineering for the roundabout at Seville Road and Galena Road.

The grant is only for preliminary engineering work. It was one of 50 projects awarded in the country, and there were two in the state of Illinois. Boone County got one for some bridge-bundling project, and we got artists for roundabout and it's 100% funding so it'll cover all of the phase one, phase two for the design of a new roundabout so then and this is a federal fund so that takes about two years so for FYA 2028 we'll pursue safety funds for for the construction of it um HSIP loves the federal federal Both safety funds love roundabouts. So that's what we'll have a good shot at. The estimate, I think it's inflated, but the preliminary engineering, the estimate was for the exact amount for construction, the roundabout, 3.4 million. So I think it'll come in a little bit less than that, but I've got an engineer's estimate for the construction.

So somewhere around 2028, we'll try to get funds to the builders.

So everything's moving pretty good along for that.

So I'm going to say probably 12 of the states?

No, it's Belita Road and Cedarville Road.

It's a kind of a skewed intersection and we run into wetlands.

So it looks like around the bottom is most feasible alternative for that because you have to try to fit at feet, Stay away from the solar farm, the railroad tracks, the wetlands, the storage place right there, so, and there's a tall power pole right there, too.

I think I think that's it Yep, that's it Any questions for Daniel To our budget report Everything's looking good We haven't gotten into the construction season yet So Everything's on line With that so far So Unless anybody else sees anything That there's with all of a sudden construction season hasn't really started yet, so we're all.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're all business, so we'll move to 8.0 new business, and 8.1 is HD 26.06, the other one.

Yeah, this is at West Point Township Bridge, it's a township, it's a TBP project, and so that's 80-20 funding, and now it's 100% now, 100%, yeah, so Engineering is Engineering is 80-10-10 What construction is Construction is 100%, so 655,000 is low bidder, current construction is the contractor, and they've done work for it before, and they do a good job, so I recommend awarding it.

Let me make a motion to approve.

Opposed by Larry, seconded by Marlowe, all in favor say aye, aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

Good.

Sounding open.

If you want to try to give additional information.

I'm good.

Steve, so Steve, I wanted to approve all the bids for the kennels, and if it's all, it's a picture, information, cheerleaders, kennels.

Oh, sorry. So, we only got one bid that came in, and actually, I compared it to the company I was originally looking at, and they are actually under that company by the fact that the amount they quoted us was with shipping and the amount that I was looking at the other place was $16,000 without shipping.

So I had three companies contact me, only one sent the bed bill.

and this company actually works with government animal controls so they know you know what the kennels need to be they have everything that the other kennels were going to have in it including like the bulls that swivel in that way you don't have to you can feed without actually going into the kennels the special anti-fight design so the dogs aren't fence fighting Yeah, so I did send them a diagram to all three companies that reached out of the terminals we were kind of looking at, and so they had kind of an idea of what we were looking for.

They're based out of Texas. The only thing I have to change, they think they're shipping them to the Lamb Road, which I'll get that fixed before we're getting, so they understand.

and they're not shipping them there.

Well, wait.

Is there a satisfaction?

Yes.

I agree.

Do you think you wish your pleasure with one proposal that we have for this evening?

I'm wishing to accrue.

William's motion.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Mr. Margo seconds.

Mr. Chairman.

Yes.

At least.

They know we don't pay sales tax, right?

I believe so.

Please make sure we don't have to pay that.

And does this increase your capacity?

Or is it still going to be $25?

Yeah.

Thank you.

I'll give them the text.

Yeah, I got that.

Anybody else on the family have some?

I don't have any questions.

.

All in favor say Aye.

Aye.

And for all say Aye.

Follow that bid is accepted.

All right, that brings us to the end of our meeting.

Any comments from committee members at this time?

Thank you have any questions?

I'll make a second to adjourn.

It's been moved and seconded.

You want to have a good evening?

Yes.

Thank you.

And vote.

I don't know.

I brought it.

I know that's good.