Good.
All right.
We're going to get started with the Administration and Legal Affairs Committee, Wednesday, July 8th, 20.6 at 5 PM 1.0 prayer.
We'd like to do that.
Thank you.
Father, we just thank you for another opportunity together, Lord, to handle the county's business.
We just pray that you watch over this meeting, Lord, and that you give us wisdom to make the right decisions.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
How about 4.0 or 3.0 approval of agenda?
Which one first?
I don't know.
Steve first and then Senator Oseke.
All of the new payers say aye.
Okay, thank you.
And then 4.0 approval meeting minutes from June 10th, 2026.
I move to approve.
Should I second?
Yeah, I second.
Can I just move them or?
Very.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
So moved.
All right, 5.0 approval of claims.
Got a cash requirements of $56,105, 41 cents.
And manuals, $1,651 and two cents for a total of $57,756.43.
Thank you very much, Joe Cruz.
And I'll second that, I guess.
If things don't, all those comments are in it.
All right, all those in favor, say aye.
Aye, aye, aye.
So, me, 6.0, public comment, there's no one else here.
Let's jump down to 7.1, Call Me Treasurer.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate it.
So of those claims that you just heard, just wanted to point out that $1,935.93 are my apartments.
The biggest one we had was to Village Voices for a thousand.
You caught that, what we worked with Dan, because we have depleted a lot of his resources over the past few years with our very large publications is to basically pay a reservation fee so that we hold our spot, that no matter what else happens in the date that we need to publish or guarantee in our spots or pre-paying a portion of that.
So that's what that's for.
It's an unusual one, I just want to point that out.
Also, one of the larger expenses, I had to replace our barcode scanner.
So if you've ever seen us process tax bills, there's a barcode that we have to scan all 52,000 of those.
So they tend to wear out.
So we got some brand new ones.
So those are our biggest expenses.
Moving to the financial part, hopefully you all have had a chance to review this, which I sent over Sunday afternoon.
On the cover page, you note that the, there was kind of a dramatic drop in income tax month over month.
That's, it's kind of exaggerated because the previous month was a lot higher than it normally is.
This one was slightly lower than it normally is.
So really the difference is in the middle.
So the drop really wasn't that dramatic.
We're still up compared to last year.
And currently through June, we've selected 4.7 million.
So I don't see any patterns that would trouble me at all.
And then actually none, you'd just be kind of pleased with what we're receiving.
As of the end of the month, total county funds were only down 71, one hundredths of 1%, about $173,000 compared to May.
So obviously that's a very minimal balance decrease, just like in some proceedings over months.
Again, very pleased to say it's well below which we will normally see in a month with no property tax distributions.
On the page with the yellow, the investments page, eight investments matured, $37,000 in interest.
At the end of the month, 15 investments remain in place across nine different ponds.
I'm waiting until next week to place some additional investments because then we'll have the property tax receipts in those counts and I can invest a little bigger and the cash flow is a little easier to manage at that point.
Do I have any questions so far?
Thanks.
So that really, I mean, it's kind of a no news is good news situation with, you know, I feel like a broken record each month, but I think that's good.
I mean, there's nothing negative to report and next month will be even bigger and brighter with property Paytanks distribution's coming.
So I'll move that onto the collector side.
So as we close out that first installment due date, last June 26th, obviously we've been a little busy.
We keep getting good feedback on the tax bill redesign.
So we've decided we're going to stay with that plan going into the future.
One issue that has increased with frequency or has increased in frequency compared to the previous years is I've been getting a lot more NSFs and rejected EFT payments, which I did not expect that this year or up to about five would combine the last three years together.
We're more than that this year, not a huge amount.
We're about 135,000.
So relatively speaking, but the number of occurrences is what's troubling me a little bit.
And that just creates some extra work because we have to back all those payments out and then subtract them from the distribution.
So it's not a consuming thing, but an unusual thing that we continue to monitor.
So the big day coming up is Monday, first distribution date of the 94.19 million that the county clerk has extended.
I anticipate it's triggered about 51 million of that.
So well over that, the county itself should receive at least five and a half million.
And of course that's across the 13 different funds that have property tax as part of their budget.
So, that's what I'll be doing for the next few days, those 104 casting districts, if anybody has any questions, not in the event.
If the payment anomalies continue, what kind of preventative measures can we take, or is it strictly plain catch up?
I don't know that there are any, I mean, it's punitive, basically, so I assess a fee, because, you know, there's some work involved in doing that.
Doing that.
Um, most people though do make it right.
We get paid eventually, but it's just in terms of just the work that we have to do, you know, the different banks are involved when their EFT rejects, that's a little more complicated.
So then of course we have people who want to argue that it's not their fault.
You know, it's, it's just, it's just an unpleasant process all around.
We usually end up being made whole one way or another.
It's just an than usual, I'm used to seeing more of this and not even very much of it, but at the end of the tax season, not this early.
So, yeah, I don't, I don't know how to, how to stop that.
I am surprised at the number so far.
Luckily though, not a large number, and it's actually some, a couple of corporations.
So that was a little, that's disturbing.
And they were true NSFs, not just returned for a myriad of other reasons.
So, but I think it'll all be fine in the end, except pull that out of the initial distribution, but we've collected so much already.
It's a drop in the bucket compared to what we'll be going out today.
So that's all I have.
Thank you.
Let's go to Sam.
Thank you, Chairman, we'll see based on the report on large increase in reportings in June, June from May.
So recorders have been busy on the elections, gearing up for 2026 election.
You'll see before you a list of the judges, Tiffany approved by the county boards, so communicating with the election judges and gearing for 2026 and preparing for the training class.
So we do have a lot of judges that have retired and we will have a lot of new judges as well.
Just yesterday, the state board of elections released the 2027 election calendar.
So as we're gearing up for the 2026 election, we're going to get us started for 2027 as well.
I'm still busy but a little quieter than usual.
Any questions?
Sometimes I think we'll move on.
Thank you.
7.3 Supervisor assessments.
3.3 Supervisory Assessments.
So like I've said in the past meetings and stuff like that, we have seven townships.
As of tomorrow, we will have completed four of the townships already for the field work.
And two of them, two and a half of them have been valued and completed.
So the simple fact that we've got them all back in our office has been going very smoothly.
The new girl is catching on amazingly enough and it's nice and quiet now that the last payment was done for a little bit and I'd like that that way.
Quite good.
Thanks for sending your report.
You're welcome, hi, how's it going?
That's fine.
So any questions, Adam?
You all said that.
All right, I told people what was there.
It's about some going forward coming, we'll see how it can be.
Just kind of update.
The next court date for the nursing center is on the 20th.
For the nursing center is on the 29th.
It's still continuing along with that.
Thank you to Nate because he's got to be involved in some things to help out with our attorney.
We have Chairman Helms and I have requested that Mr. Larson pursue a small claims case against our former nursing public administrator.
He has defaulted on his payment.
So, with the upcoming updates, I guess, on that, the next land bank meeting is on Friday the 10th, which is this Friday, so I'll provide more information on that next month.
Sickage, our auditing firm, was able to have a couple phone conversations with the nursing home and we did get a lot of information finally submitted from them.
There's been a lot of follow up and back and forth, but it seems to be moving in the right direction to get that outstanding information from them.
Uh, this month's, uh, well, the June, uh, Gradyford Park partnership meeting actually, uh, was held out at Highland as it was Chris Gorski's last meeting on the board.
And they introduced Dr. Jewell Scott, um, who took over July 1st or 3rd was his, his first day as, as president.
Um, after the meeting, they, uh, did do a short tour to kind of show their plans for the new athletic facility down the road for how things are going, but kind of show us what they would like to see what the original plants were, what they've downscaled it to and how they're set up will be.
And sounds like they're working in collaboration with the Y, so they're not stepping on each other's toes about what is being offered and things like that.
So it sounds like they're moving in the right direction was interesting.
I've talked to some people from Hawaii and seen their vision and their plans.
So it was interesting to see the current space and how they're planning to change it to meet the college's needs.
So there will be no GFP meeting in July.
So the next one is August 26th.
They also held a ribbon cutting out there for their Ag building dedication.
And Animal Control is up and functioning in their new location.
It's still getting settled, but they haven't used it yet.
So is there a single, that's a good picture, they had all the information to save it certainly.
That's what I thought, and then the new A building, that's, that's so, did they redo I don't know what the former building looked like, so I don't know if it was updated or not.
There are two new buildings for the hydro farming thing, is that what you're talking about?
There's two new buildings that are built.
I don't have any specifics.
The building I was in looked like it was, I don't, I didn't recognize it as a new building and it's on the campus.
These aren't on the campus.
They showed us pictures of what they were doing, but it was a dedication to one of the original Ag teachers who kind of started, so they named the building after him.
I'm just curious about that place.
They did talk about kind of that programming and growth and growing students with that program and talked about the other thing.
The growing program.
Yeah, the hydro thing.
That's good.
7.5, My team managed it.
Nothing to report, I don't understand.
Yeah, someday, someday.
Wishful thinking.
Busy month as usual.
We have completely overhauled the wireless at the courthouse.
In the last month we got everything updated to our new APs that the previous IT director had purchased and never got put in so we've been I think now we got the courthouse courthouse could maybe use a couple more for coverage that we're still contemplating but we've done Steward Center uh you guys may not even realize it but you're on new APs or whatnot so um access point so yeah sorry IT talk so uh we're going to eventually do that at every location I and I think the Health Department might be on our list next to MENA, by the way, just to get those rolled out and completely installed or whatnot.
The other thing that, so hopefully you guys noticed the last board meeting, I think is the first or second one in a row that we've had in a while without a hitch.
So we're slowly digging through the network issues over there, trying to get things stabilized.
Unfortunately, I can't stop people from plugging stuff in, you know, when they're not supposed to.
Gubbs, Courthousewide, that we've had to research.
But the new tool that I got has saved me an immense amount of time and that's getting things done.
What really needs to happen is we need to just get a network diagram of what's going on.
But the problem is, is I can plug in the one switch and it's kind of an eligible problem because it goes from the switch to some other port.
And then I gotta go through, you know, where you're just trying to choose where it eventually starts.
So as we get downtime, and I'm glad to say, I think for the first time in a long time, and I don't want to jinx myself, ticket queues at zero.
We got everything zero.
I think most of the bigger projects were on top of them, working on network discovery now for this nursing center case.
But other than that, animal control, we were able to get them in there by July 1st.
I took a bit how there was a little confusion between the city area and such.
And it's probably the biggest hiccup in getting it all done.
But arrow was nice.
And I got in there on the first Monday of the last week of June and had it all done in a day.
We went in and get everything pre-wired and ready to go.
And I had to mess with some site to site stuff between there and the highway building on Tuesday.
But they're up and running, as Georgia said, with no hiccups, phones everything are good to go printers even put new wifi in out there so that was the last month any questions?
I do think we have renewals coming up that we'll talk about.
So you said there isn't a set map of all the.
Is that a security concern?
I don't think it's a security I'm pretty concerned because we do have all the machines that we access in Ninja.
So I'm able to see what they're doing and what like, it'll give us any alarms as far as it goes.
But a schematic of how things were installed would absolutely be nice.
But nobody, I even think there was a company hired at one point in the past.
I forgot what their names was, but they came in and spoke with their network diagram for us.
I simply remember that company went by chance.
But long story short, theirs wasn't great either as they gave up about halfway through.
So, ideally, right now we're triaging and replacing equipment as needed.
We got all the firewalls, major firewalls in the county replaced.
I still need to do the courthouses.
The problem is, is that when you do that, it affects like five to six other things because all these buildings connect in some aspect.
So when I, we had to coordinate about four of the locations at the same time, because they all connect back here for CIC.
So it's not just something you can do in phases.
Once you do it, you have to do it.
So, um, we do have some projects up on our list that we'd like to get to, uh, Three Rock is actually losing one of their people for a period due to, uh, uh, surgery.
So that would just be two of us overall.
And, uh, but we'll keep plugging away.
I would say, and I'm not saying this as a pat on my back, we're pretty spoiled as far as ticket response goes, you know, it's usually done within a day for the for the most part, maybe a couple of days, if it's more, takes more on our end, but it may get to a point that they have to wait just a little bit.
Anything urgent, obviously we'll take care of it, like simple irritances, like extra monitors and such may have to wait depending on what's there.
We got to take each day and the emergency goes to the top of the list.
And I mean, we get back to whatever else.
So, but yeah, ideally in an ideal world, we upgrade all the equipment and we know where everything goes.
That's the goal.
And that tool that I purchased a couple of weeks ago is a big help.
It'll at least tell me if I plug into a port on the wall, they'll tell me what switch it goes back to and where it connects.
So that eliminates all the trace on the wires in the ceiling and trying to figure out, is if you looked up in the ceiling of the courthouse, you'd be in my head.
So, but other than that, we're plugging away.
I think that was the question.
Mr. Fricke, did you have a question?
I was just going to, you answered it though, when you talked about the wiring at the courthouse.
I mean, I know that there was closets folded and that's still that way.
Yes, and I'd be willing to bet the main closet on the first floor, probably 90% of it is in use, but I can't just go ripping wires out because it'll be the one that connects to something that takes the whole courthouse down.
I'm ending, I'm getting tired.
If it's not broke, don't fix it is kind of what we're doing right now.
Eventually we'd like to, and maybe we'll get to a place where we have downtime that we can, but you also can't do it when people are working, you know?
So there's a catch-22 there almost has to be, ideally we can shut the cordiles down for a few weeks and, but that's, that's never going to happen.
So we try to pick our spots sometimes on holidays, we'll be in there for animal control so late, I ended up breaking it.
I had it working and then I broke it and I was like, you know, I'm going to go to sleep.
I'm just too tired to mess with this.
So I got up Tuesday morning and went back out there and get everything working.
But you just try to pick your spots when you're not affecting a lot of people.
And then yeah, you get in there and do what you can.
So.
9.1, Approval in both renewal and Microsoft licensing agreement?
You will see that the influx is finally starting to hit us.
I think last year it came in at like 110,000.
This year we're up around 120,000.
Just before our renewal, Microsoft raised prices, which affected this renewal.
Again, I don't think we, it's not like, it's such a competitive market, I don't think they're ripping us off by any stretch.
Microsoft kind of sets that and they kind of have the monopoly on us.
You're kind of stuck there.
So basically I have to let them know so many days in advance.
That's why it's coming up now.
I don't think our renewals until like September-ish, but I got to give them plenty of lead time to let them know it's approved, move forward.
They put in the order with Microsoft for the renewal and then they have the license sitting there, basically our licenses get replaced with the new ones and we're good to go.
So that's what we need.
So budget, it's going to go over my budget line item, but I've been pretty frugal and other, basically I'm going to go over in that line item, but I don't think I'm going to go over overall.
And if I happen to, I have that IT upgrades line that's in like the 014.
I don't I don't know what fund that is, but I'm willing to use whatever the opurge would be to make sure that it doesn't, we don't have to look for it somewhere else.
What do you think, what, 10 or something there probably?
110 Is probably what you're asking.
Around there, I think I had a little bit of influx in there because I think last year might have been like 108,000.
So, but yeah, we'll just go over, and I already talked with Adrian a little bit, now I'm going to go over and that's the way they prefer it, over and the line item is supposed to and then we'll just make up for it elsewhere.
I don't know if you're involved with that.
I had to laugh and they jacked it up and then they did discount.
That's great about that.
I had to throw it in there.
Yeah.
Anybody want to make a motion to approve that?
Mr. Moderow.
Second by Mr. Zimmerman.
All right, do more conversation.
Yes.
So, if this is approved at the board meeting going forward, will the inception date begin September renewal?
Correct.
Or does it begin in August and with this month?
No, no, you just have to, due to the amount of volume that they have, you have to be ahead of it.
So, that's why we're doing it on the rest of the day.
Yeah, it won't take effect until we're expired.
Thank you.
All right, no further questions.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
So moved.
Let's see.
We have next provable payment to Ninja One LLC.
This is our ticketing solution.
It's also our backup solution.
And what I want you guys to understand is this is going to continue to grow in price because of our data scrolling.
And eventually when we get it all right, it's going to be a lot of data.
I mean, right now we've got and we've got NAS, which is basically a big storage unit in different areas of the County for different offices.
And I'm not comfortable with that.
Eventually they all need to be on the cloud or online or, you know, just where they're safe, in my opinion.
But it's going to cost money to do that.
And if we do all that on there now, I don't even know what the price will be, to be honest.
So we're kind of doing it in chunks so we can gradually get where we need to get and get the most important.
I think all of our servers are backed up and offsite, so I'm able to get to that.
And I think we have some important workstations like the treasurer, the administrator, and I think we have one other that we back up daily.
So they did let me know that our quota, we're at like 20-something terabytes, and it's just continuing to grow.
So they just let me know, hey, can go off the more data you have and I can't predict that because they just do it as they go.
So there may come a time I say, hey, they're sending us an overage bill.
It's not usually a lot, but I mean, with the way we're growing and where we're trying to go, it's just going to continually grow with us.
Yes, that's under my contractual expenses or whatever.
So, and we, I have Part of my extra money is is that CrowdStrike I think some of that money was in there that we don't pay for anymore so that's why I think that'll help with Office 365.
Once I can figure out what these truly are I can calibrate that better for next year um but I left a little bit of that in there not because I knew some of the stuff was going to increase.
So we'll be talking about budget sharing.
Yeah, very good.
Thank you.
Is everybody able to make a motion?
When the data gets to a certain point and you do feel comfortable moving, would we still go through this company?
Yes.
Yeah, it just grows with us, you know, that hassle of once you get so big and move in the data can, you know, and I'm not saying we're stuck with this company, it's just a huge project that, you know, eventually if we get so big and we want to move somewhere else, that's data we have to move, but I mean, that's everybody's problem, you know, depending on where they're at.
So I feel a lot safer with it here because it's also, I forget the word for it at the moment, but it's, uh, encrypted and, you know, uh, people can't get in and mess with it or whatnot.
So I'm really comfortable with where it's at.
So if we, essentially if we got hit today, we can just go back to yesterday's stuff and do five each time.
Hey, all those in favor say aye.
Aye.
All right, so, and 9.3, approval of resolution establishing 2027 holiday calendar.
Aye.
This is a standard procedure, sometimes when it makes a motion or decision, we sign the second and say, Mr. Moderow, the conversation, otherwise we're going to go follow the papers and say aye.
Aye.
And we have 9.4 approval of the resolution appointing election judges to serve for the November 20th or 6th through August 20th, 2028.
Move to approve.
Okay.
Second.
And a second.
Mr. Goodman.
All those in favor say aye.
Aye.
So moved.
All right.
10.0 Comments from community members.
Okay, let's do the 11 point agenda.
Make an initial.
Okay, and then I'll make a second point on those.
Yeah, thanks everybody.