WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:16.500 Yesterday, 6th of the day, they're going to keep overnight, so, for Dale, Dale, yes, well, do you need the agenda? 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:29.920 Actually, let's go ahead and open this meeting. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:42.640 I'll call it to order. First item up is the approval of the agenda. Second. A motion and a second by 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:57.100 Morrow. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Next we want to review and approve the meeting minutes 00:00:57.100 --> 00:01:00.060 from August 13, 2026. 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:01.960 Sir, motion. 00:01:02.220 --> 00:01:02.760 Move approval. 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:04.460 In a second. 00:01:07.320 --> 00:01:08.660 We're just going to take it. 00:01:08.860 --> 00:01:09.080 Yeah. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:12.200 We'll move by Monterey in a second. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:17.040 All in favor, say aye. 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:17.520 Aye. 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:19.500 Any opposed? 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:21.900 All right. 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:28.700 Approval of the claims for, let's see, I'm getting out of, 00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:57.920 $515,678.49. Is there a motion? Sure. Seems like I have a motion. Second by Maduro. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? We don't have anyone here for public comment. There isn't anyone, so let's go right into the departmental reports. 00:01:57.920 --> 00:01:59.940 Cat and Animal Results. 00:02:00.800 --> 00:02:19.040 Well, for cat intakes, we took in 15 pets, five were surrenders, nine were part of the eviction case, one was coming stray, four have been transferred to rescues, five are adoptable, five are on hold, and one of the younger ones passed away. 00:02:19.040 --> 00:02:48.440 Okay. Dog intakes 14, 11 commie strays, three were eviction dogs, two are adoptable, 11 were reclaimed, one is on hold, and current inventory of cats are 14 adoptable, 18 hold, so 32 total, and dogs, we have 14 dogs adoptable, one on hold, so that should be 15 total. 00:02:49.040 --> 00:03:19.020 um Nia has started the work on the website um she's been working on it today actually it didn't publish so I don't know so I'll have to look into that she was working on it today she's reamping it um two of our longer longer residents have been adopted Kenzie went home um she's been with us since April and Sasha will be going home Monday she's been with us since January um we have on here it says 00:03:19.020 --> 00:03:42.680 six puppies left. We actually have five. We had one adopted yesterday. October 10th, we will be doing the adoption fundraiser at AutoSmart. We'll have more details later. We're going to do a cleaning orchard fundraiser, hopefully October also, either at the building or at the brewery. 00:03:42.680 --> 00:04:10.100 I moved the sign that was at the highway department to the building by the sign that's existing out there Jerry signs is getting me an estimate on the roadside and the van lettering head to toe is supposed to be getting me an estimate on plaques and lettering for the van also. Neither of them have got it. 00:04:10.100 --> 00:04:39.480 Okay. It's yes. Any questions on that? The animal hospital, the Freeport Animal Hospital does takes for three or four different counties. I found that they screwed up some of our August. So I'm working with them to get the funds figured out. They were either issued Winnebago tags should have been Stevenson or vice versa. 00:04:39.480 --> 00:05:09.000 so the checks were off so we're going through that trying to fix that otherwise caught up on mail caught up on online I have a deposit going tomorrow for $5,000 and I have another one that will be going in on probably Tuesday for this week's money coming in we're still waiting on the animal hospital check so that will go in probably Tuesday 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:35.260 I was going to get it here today, but we've had several people come out to the building. More people are coming in to look at cats and dogs. I think we have two cats getting adopted this week yet, so we're moving animals. Iowa County did reach out to me again for what list of animals we have, and it sounds like they'll pull again, and usually they pull at least 10 animals at a time. 00:05:35.260 --> 00:05:46.810 so hopefully they pull some puppies, kitties, whatever they pull I'm happy with. 00:05:47.510 --> 00:05:56.250 The claims for the dog kennels, the building rent, and our software was on there this month. 00:05:57.390 --> 00:06:04.450 I did do an updated list of metals drive donations on the actual link. 00:06:04.450 --> 00:06:34.310 didn't have the total. So the total is on your guidance copy. I reached out to the Department of Ag for our license because it's supposed to be mailed to here. You guys said you didn't get it. So I reached out to them while they emailed me a copy. The copy didn't have the right. It didn't have the suite. Would that have mattered? It shouldn't have. But it doesn't matter because the address is listed at the Freepore Animal Hospital. 00:06:34.450 --> 00:06:53.010 so the lady that does those was out of town until I think she gets back tomorrow so if she's going to fix that and send us an email me and mail a copy and I did update to have the suite on it also so we should be getting it but either way they're going to email me a copy. 00:06:53.010 --> 00:07:20.870 The other thing in your packet is the inspection from the Animal Welfare Department of Ag, which has the 420 address on it. He physically came, so he just didn't, I don't know, he printed this from his computer. So everything was on par, everything was acceptable. We got no dings on us. 00:07:23.010 --> 00:07:28.690 He didn't tell us anything that we needed to do different. So we'll get on that part. 00:07:28.690 --> 00:07:37.410 Yeah. We're way better than what we were. So he's very happy with the kennels and everything 00:07:37.410 --> 00:07:46.530 else. But having a cat isolation. Any questions on that? 00:07:46.530 --> 00:07:51.990 It's a pretty good question. 00:07:52.430 --> 00:07:52.910 Yes, yes. 00:07:52.910 --> 00:07:58.950 You said you're making a deposit tomorrow and then a deposit on Tuesday for this week. 00:07:59.490 --> 00:08:03.150 What you're depositing tomorrow isn't through today, deposits received. 00:08:03.770 --> 00:08:11.610 It won't be like the paperwork that I collected, like the animal hospital and all that. 00:08:11.990 --> 00:08:13.850 That will be done Monday or Tuesday. 00:08:13.850 --> 00:08:18.290 I guess what I'm asking is are you depositing tomorrow everything you have on site? 00:08:21.990 --> 00:08:43.150 The mail and all that stuff it won't be like the stuff I can try to I'm going to try to do it in the morning do a second deposit so it's all in otherwise it's just you're standing you have unopened mail is that no it would be like the stuff I collected from the vet clinics on today or yesterday. 00:08:43.850 --> 00:09:08.910 Okay. So that stuff, and I'm waiting on the Animal Hospital because I'd like to do all the weeks, like the Animal Hospital, TLC, not TLC, they don't get money, Paws and Caws in Orangeville and the Animal Hospital for that week, all in one deposit. So the Animal Hospital should have their check done tomorrow. So then I'll have that. So if I don't get it first thing in the morning, then it won't be until Monday. 00:09:08.910 --> 00:09:15.310 Okay, which is fine, but I want you making deposits weekly at a minimum. 00:09:16.190 --> 00:09:16.390 Yeah. 00:09:16.510 --> 00:09:17.750 I'll hang you on to check, sir. 00:09:18.010 --> 00:09:19.970 God forbid you have cash out there. 00:09:20.110 --> 00:09:20.290 Yeah. 00:09:21.530 --> 00:09:22.430 Yeah, excuse me, tax. 00:09:22.830 --> 00:09:23.610 Well, I don't know. 00:09:23.670 --> 00:09:26.710 I have quite a bit of cash, but that's why I want to get that. 00:09:26.790 --> 00:09:28.410 Cash should be deposited every day. 00:09:28.590 --> 00:09:28.810 Yes. 00:09:29.610 --> 00:09:30.450 You don't have safety. 00:09:31.030 --> 00:09:31.410 Yeah. 00:09:32.330 --> 00:09:33.970 Every day, cash should be deposited. 00:09:33.970 --> 00:09:34.270 Okay. 00:09:35.830 --> 00:09:38.030 If you need help with that, work with George. 00:09:38.270 --> 00:09:38.510 Okay. 00:09:38.910 --> 00:09:40.510 can't leave cash laying around. 00:09:42.030 --> 00:09:46.710 I mean, it's a locked box, but it's not in a safe form. 00:09:47.570 --> 00:09:49.250 If we could get that safe, though. 00:09:49.950 --> 00:09:53.170 Well, even so, you shouldn't get cash on site. 00:09:55.370 --> 00:09:59.070 I do have one other thing that I didn't have on the list. 00:09:59.070 --> 00:10:00.070 So I had a... 00:10:00.070 --> 00:10:05.860 I didn't have on the list. So I had a weird situation with the sheriff. I had a lady call on Wednesday. 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:12.640 She was missing her dog. She believed somebody took it out of the yard. I took the information. 00:10:12.800 --> 00:10:18.340 I told her to text me a picture of the dog just in case we got it in. Then that was Wednesday. 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:26.260 Thursday, we get a call about a deceased dog in Winslow. We go get the, Mia went and got, she volunteered. 00:10:26.260 --> 00:10:56.220 Nia went and got the dog, scanned the dog on sight, the dog had a microchip, the dog's microchip led to this young lady's mother, so then we called it, I called the sheriff, the sheriff actually, I was getting ready to call them before we realized what was going on, they ended up calling me, I'm like Nia's on her way, I'll tell her how to touch anything, because it kind of, the picture she, the original lady sent me, 00:10:56.220 --> 00:11:25.720 of the dog, deceased dog, looks suspicious. So I'm like, I'm going to call the sheriff and have them come do pictures and do investigations. So we got that dog back to the animal hospital. We knew who the owner was. They went out to that house where she was living, trying to locate her. That night, Thursday night, I got a call from the sheriff at the house in Lake Somerset that they found the daughter's dog deceased. 00:11:26.220 --> 00:11:40.020 um she the mother claim admitted to killing all three dogs we are still missing one dog um it's she's in the mental 00:11:40.020 --> 00:11:46.420 ward I believe she's not been she's been arrested but I think she's hospitalized obviously she's mentally 00:11:46.420 --> 00:11:53.180 unstable that's all we know the two dogs that we have are in the animal hospital's freezer 00:11:53.180 --> 00:12:17.560 as evidence, I don't know what's going on, but yeah, so that was, I, yeah, not, I don't know, people, I don't know, mental health is real, and this lady needs help, and unfortunately, the dogs paid the price. 00:12:19.060 --> 00:12:22.760 Have you ever had another case before you had an investigation down? 00:12:23.180 --> 00:12:42.480 Oh, there's been a few. This is probably, it's been a while. It was just the whole, I don't know. It was just weird how it all, like, I didn't ask the daughter, like, who do you think stole, you know, took the dog. I thought maybe ex-boyfriend type thing, but it was actually her mother that lived with her. 00:12:42.480 --> 00:12:52.020 and we hope the cat really did get booted out of the house but she basically told her that 00:12:52.020 --> 00:13:03.940 if I die you're not taking care of my animals so mental health I'll help because that could 00:13:03.940 --> 00:13:10.100 have been prevented. NEW SPEAKERS ARE THERE ANY OTHER INFORMATIONS? 00:13:10.100 --> 00:13:12.420 NEW SPEAKERS ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? 00:13:12.420 --> 00:13:40.240 for it. Thank you. Thank you for the report at this time. Who's the high with? Scott had to go about 345. A hose broke on the paver, I believe it was. So he had to go out to the field to help at him with it. So he said he was probably not going to be here. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:14:07.920 But they've been working, obviously, patting, patching pot holes. They've finished up all township seal coating, mowing, cutting brush. We're hoping to start the Orange Hill Road project. They got the cold in place recycling done last week. 00:14:07.920 --> 00:14:14.700 and we're just waiting for the moisture test to come back to be 2% or less. 00:14:14.700 --> 00:14:23.920 And at that time, they'll do a double pass of seal coating on that to complete that project. 00:14:26.140 --> 00:14:32.320 I think that's all for the maintenance department. 00:14:32.320 --> 00:14:45.920 And for highway updates for projects, like I said, the Orangeville Road is, we're just waiting on the moisture to be below 2%, and then we'll see, we'll put that, finish that project off. 00:14:46.920 --> 00:14:52.300 Cedarville and Dakota Road, we've started that full depth reclamation. 00:14:52.300 --> 00:15:08.480 Again, on those projects, we're just waiting for the moisture to get lower, and then they'll come back with and put the four inches of hot mix over top. So hopefully you get that completed here in the next week or the week after. 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:28.960 here. The railroad crossing out on Five Corners, Fishers was awarded that contract, still working with them to get that project going. Hopefully by the end of this month, that will be, it shouldn't take very long, so hopefully by the end of the month it should be done. 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:58.960 the West Point Shippey Road bridge has been completed so and they're going to be starting the second bridge on Shippey Road here in the next week or so hoping to get that that's a smaller project than the first Shippey Road bridge so that you should be able to get that done um yes coding Orangeville Road yeah and then McConnell Road intersection 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:26.260 They had a pre-con, Martin was the low bidder, but we got an email from NICOR yesterday, just they had some concerns about the gas line and stuff in the intersection, so they're working on fair grant on that to see what can be done, but we're still hoping to get that constructed this year. 00:16:26.260 --> 00:16:39.340 They were hoping to start this project this month, but I don't know, with NICOR now coming out and saying that there's potential issues, I don't know, or if that's going to entail. 00:16:43.250 --> 00:16:48.430 That's all I got for making a comment. I went on to look at that bridge on Shippey Road. That looks really good. 00:16:48.430 --> 00:16:57.610 And like I said, the second one is a lot smaller project, so it shouldn't take nearly as long, but I think we'll start. 00:16:58.270 --> 00:17:01.370 at the pre-cal and everything. Look at the call on that bridge. 00:17:01.390 --> 00:17:06.350 I didn't notice they fixed a lot of that gravel that had washed out state's boats. 00:17:06.990 --> 00:17:18.490 Oh, yeah. Yeah, a lot of, we started, we worked, I know Scott was working on that just to kind of fill from the guardrail to the road. 00:17:18.490 --> 00:17:35.490 And then the guardrail project, Helm and Galantine, they're going through the, like, on the other side of the guardrails to fix and reseed and blanket over. 00:17:36.410 --> 00:17:38.210 Yeah, correct, perfect, okay, great. 00:17:38.850 --> 00:17:40.110 And that's at no cost of the counter. 00:17:40.290 --> 00:17:41.430 Yeah, so good job, sir. 00:17:43.570 --> 00:17:47.350 Any other questions regarding local items? 00:17:47.350 --> 00:17:51.490 We might as well go ahead and do the current budget status. 00:17:52.490 --> 00:17:53.450 That's not sure. 00:17:53.870 --> 00:18:12.410 Current budget status, we're still doing okay. We did it recently. Just get an $8,000 bill for a tractor, and then we're still waiting on a Berkey's invoice for, and Scott thinks it's going to be about $14,000 to $15,000 for a tractor. 00:18:13.250 --> 00:18:13.410 Oh. 00:18:14.410 --> 00:18:15.610 You did make it. 00:18:15.610 --> 00:18:17.450 I'm actually, yeah. 00:18:17.690 --> 00:18:18.550 Can it all fix? 00:18:18.610 --> 00:18:19.010 Fairly. 00:18:20.730 --> 00:18:21.010 Yeah. 00:18:21.590 --> 00:18:28.890 But everything else, we're still, we've still got quite a few projects and stuff like that, 00:18:28.930 --> 00:18:35.010 so we're getting bigger and voices and stuff coming here, but we're still looking okay. 00:18:35.450 --> 00:18:37.670 And those projects, they'll go over a bunch of those. 00:18:38.390 --> 00:18:38.950 What's that? 00:18:39.050 --> 00:18:41.010 None of the projects that you think are coming up. 00:18:41.630 --> 00:18:42.750 Oh, no, no. 00:18:42.750 --> 00:19:10.670 And some of those budgets, we got like grant funding and things like that, like the Cedarville project is grant funding, so none of that, I mean, and that's below budget, Dakota Road, we, I got the manual plan here for the ARPA funds, and then also from the funding that you guys gave us last year, or passed last year for this year's research, so we'll start using that also. 00:19:12.750 --> 00:19:16.300 Any other questions? 00:19:16.700 --> 00:19:17.640 Everybody good? 00:19:19.720 --> 00:19:21.440 We'll move into old business. 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:26.540 Item 7.1, animal control budget. 00:19:28.060 --> 00:19:31.080 And the supplemental request. 00:19:31.080 --> 00:19:33.120 So animal control budget. 00:19:33.120 --> 00:19:53.080 Let's walk us through it again real quick so we can take a look at where we are going forward. 00:19:55.820 --> 00:19:57.960 So I want to make a statue tour. 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:04.960 So the Illinois statutory fees are, so when it's the difference between a intact dog and a spayed and neutered dog. 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:16.100 So let's say we charge the $80 for the three-year tag for a dog that's spayed and neutered. 00:20:16.860 --> 00:20:21.540 So out of that $80, $41 of it goes in that line. 00:20:22.060 --> 00:20:24.520 The rest goes in the regular registration. 00:20:24.520 --> 00:20:53.700 administration. So that's where that money comes from in that line. The microchips are just the chips that we do for pickup dogs or they're kind of like a low cost type microchip that the city pickup dogs can have or any dog like that can have because we have to technically have like a microchip clinic and that's how we do it. 00:20:53.700 --> 00:21:19.800 any dog that's picked up Stevenson County or Freeport does the microchip. So we get $10. Out of the $15 charge, we get $10. The vet gets $5. But now since a lot of our dogs are getting done at the college, we will get the full $15 for any dogs that we do on our own. 00:21:19.800 --> 00:21:53.200 and donations. I don't know. I don't know if I'm too high on that. I'm having a problem with that one. Animal pickups, any reclaims, some of that money for pickups, some of that money is supposed to go to the Illinois statue fee also. 00:21:53.200 --> 00:21:58.840 So I think it's like $20 or $25 of that goes into that. 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:00.200 So it's divided also. 00:22:05.430 --> 00:22:07.170 Let me stop right there. 00:22:07.250 --> 00:22:10.250 On the donations, what make you think it's going to be, you're going to take in that much 00:22:10.250 --> 00:22:10.610 forward? 00:22:11.110 --> 00:22:12.550 That's what I'm having. 00:22:13.150 --> 00:22:19.610 I just think we'll have more fundraisers and stuff and more events in that year. 00:22:19.610 --> 00:22:21.350 But I think it's too high, probably. 00:22:22.350 --> 00:22:25.910 You're going to pay for $35 for $20, $26, right? 00:22:25.950 --> 00:22:29.550 and you're broadcasting 30 for next year, right? 00:22:29.670 --> 00:22:29.910 Yeah. 00:22:31.270 --> 00:22:31.590 Okay. 00:22:31.910 --> 00:22:32.270 Geez. 00:22:32.490 --> 00:22:34.150 Are they tax deductible? 00:22:35.170 --> 00:22:35.410 No. 00:22:35.410 --> 00:22:37.890 No, it's for government. 00:22:39.210 --> 00:22:39.690 Gotcha. 00:22:41.150 --> 00:22:45.110 If we were tax deductible, it would be amazing because people would. 00:22:45.310 --> 00:22:47.270 I was thinking maybe you'd get some at the end of the year. 00:22:47.710 --> 00:22:49.450 More people would donate. 00:22:50.070 --> 00:22:52.750 I mean, a lot of people don't care, to be honest. 00:22:52.750 --> 00:22:59.000 We said $35,000 we're on track for 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:01.080 Yeah 00:23:01.080 --> 00:23:03.940 Just a question while we're on revenue 00:23:03.940 --> 00:23:09.920 Registration fees, you're on pace for $88,000 for the year 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:11.000 $88,000 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:15.920 I know you forecasted $97,000 through $26,000 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.340 Do you think you can make up that $8,300 00:23:18.340 --> 00:23:23.360 $27,000 difference between what you're going to collect 00:23:23.360 --> 00:23:26.320 Supposedly in 26 00:23:26.320 --> 00:23:28.780 Is that a realistic 00:23:28.780 --> 00:23:29.680 No. 97? 00:23:31.280 --> 00:23:33.460 I don't see that you've ever made it 00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:41.740 And this 26 is going to be the worst year for it 00:23:41.740 --> 00:23:42.820 Yeah 00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:45.140 If your numbers aren't true 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.300 And maybe they won't, maybe they will 00:23:47.300 --> 00:23:49.800 This is as of the end of August 00:23:49.800 --> 00:23:50.580 So you've got full 00:23:50.580 --> 00:23:51.600 Right, right 00:23:51.600 --> 00:23:55.980 I don't need an answer right now 00:23:55.980 --> 00:23:58.120 No, I think we will 00:23:58.120 --> 00:24:05.130 just because Nia's in the office now and she's really getting into the program now, so. 00:24:06.030 --> 00:24:12.770 Okay, so help me understand that because you have help now, the registrations will go up? 00:24:14.290 --> 00:24:14.610 Yeah. 00:24:15.830 --> 00:24:17.630 So are you turning people away? 00:24:17.770 --> 00:24:20.130 No, just they'll... 00:24:20.130 --> 00:24:25.590 The amount of registration should be somewhat static regardless of how many employees you have. 00:24:25.590 --> 00:24:33.340 The notice was, we'll get out sooner, and like, the second notice is, we'll get out sooner 00:24:33.340 --> 00:24:42.990 Like, does anybody, um, vet with TLC or Lena? 00:24:44.610 --> 00:24:45.050 They both 00:24:45.050 --> 00:24:45.990 Okay 00:24:45.990 --> 00:24:58.570 So, one of the new vets at TLC, um, used to vet, or put the vet up in Wisconsin, which is the vet that 00:24:58.570 --> 00:25:31.560 the owners of the building uses so she's going to try to get them to do takes for us so that would help out a lot to be honest because then we won't have to send more notices out because they'll go and get the take like everybody else goes and gets their takes we have to go back and send notices out again because they got the shot and get a take I think that will help a lot because like the stacks that come in from those two vets we could get it 00:25:31.560 --> 00:25:36.940 at least TLC on board would be ideal. 00:25:41.060 --> 00:25:42.620 You can go finish it up. 00:25:42.740 --> 00:25:43.920 You said adoption fees. 00:25:45.800 --> 00:25:52.960 Adoption fees should be going up also due to the fact that the dogs are at a nice facility 00:25:52.960 --> 00:26:00.740 where we will be able to show them properly and I can take pictures and do videos of them. 00:26:00.740 --> 00:26:21.060 And we do transfer a lot of dogs out, a lot of animals out so that we don't get money for that. That's another problem that when we transfer to tan the animals out, we don't get any money for that. But we also don't have manpower. We don't have to feed them or take care of them. 00:26:21.060 --> 00:26:39.360 So, again, Sarah, so far, that there should, well, it's in my deposit I have now, and there 00:26:39.360 --> 00:26:46.300 will be some for the next deposit to the puppy, the two puppies went home and a cat is going 00:26:46.300 --> 00:27:06.030 we're hoping today and so we'll get miscellaneous in case something come up that didn't fit lines. 00:27:13.550 --> 00:27:24.320 Do you want to have anything else to ask regarding? 00:27:24.320 --> 00:27:36.100 We have concerns about actual revenue for 26, it's tracking at 138, that's with 20,000 of ARPA money. 00:27:36.860 --> 00:27:54.160 The 20,000 of ARPA money, it has not been transferred. We can do that if things get rough. There's also an allocation in the capital fund for a 40,000 that was approved last year. 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:58.140 a supplemental request that is available for the department as well. 00:27:59.280 --> 00:28:00.280 What is that for? 00:28:00.820 --> 00:28:04.440 That was for, it was kind of one or the other. 00:28:04.440 --> 00:28:10.560 If the donations came in really well, then she wasn't going to use the capital money and vice versa. 00:28:12.260 --> 00:28:14.640 What was the time to have the capital money? 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:21.220 For improvements to the facility, kennels, that type of thing. 00:28:21.220 --> 00:28:28.200 because there's a corresponding expense right here, the building maintenance. 00:28:35.960 --> 00:28:45.520 Now, if we don't use that money, does that look bad because we asked for that money and we're not using that money and somebody else could have taken that money? 00:28:48.580 --> 00:28:50.940 Well, you're limiting what you could spend it on. 00:28:50.940 --> 00:29:22.610 Right. But I'm saying does that. Yeah. Yeah. If you have capital expenditures, you can't use it to just prop up the revenue. No, no, no, no. That's not what I'm saying. It's not a bad thing to not use backup plans. Thank you. That's what I want. Because I'm like, now I feel bad that we don't need it, which I hope we don't need it. 00:29:22.610 --> 00:29:26.270 Your budget is good as long as you're operating efficiently. 00:29:31.650 --> 00:29:37.650 Without those donations, there would be issues, for sure. 00:29:39.650 --> 00:29:47.060 Yeah, we've got to keep that thought about that. 00:29:48.580 --> 00:29:53.300 So, any other problems or any other thoughts here? 00:29:54.590 --> 00:30:02.610 I'm not happy about the last day of get-ups, but 00:30:02.610 --> 00:30:06.270 she's done good. 00:30:12.270 --> 00:30:24.840 All right, well, we'll take a motion for moving this to finance if you're comfortable. 00:30:27.120 --> 00:30:38.500 That is fine, and well, if you're fine, Mike, excuse me. 00:30:38.500 --> 00:30:39.500 No, a second. 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:44.500 The motion you have to lay over to next month, are you okay with that? 00:30:44.500 --> 00:30:45.500 Yes. 00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:50.120 Yeah, I don't have a problem if we can still get it for retirement. 00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:55.760 So it sounds like there's some numbers that will change quickly. 00:30:55.760 --> 00:31:03.300 So, or shoot inside, so, so, yeah, for a more complete picture, are you able to update through 00:31:03.300 --> 00:31:05.600 930 for next month? 00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:06.600 Mm-hmm. 00:31:06.600 --> 00:31:20.510 Please, motion by Mr. Wilbers to, and a second by Mr. Monty Wilber, that's what, all in favor? 00:31:20.510 --> 00:31:21.510 All right. 00:31:21.510 --> 00:31:24.730 Those for letting it over to next month. 00:31:25.530 --> 00:31:27.850 Thank you for letting me have been. 00:31:28.830 --> 00:31:32.210 And the other part of this is supplemental requests. 00:31:32.410 --> 00:31:35.950 There aren't any from your department, but there is from I, I'm not ready. 00:31:36.150 --> 00:31:39.510 There are, but I guess I didn't include that. 00:31:39.690 --> 00:31:40.610 I totally spaced it. 00:31:40.650 --> 00:31:41.710 I didn't include it in here. 00:31:42.370 --> 00:31:43.270 Or do you guys? 00:31:43.650 --> 00:31:46.250 Well, I think the link is odd. 00:31:47.150 --> 00:31:48.770 It hasn't changed from last month. 00:31:48.770 --> 00:31:51.270 We've got the roads and you have the chipper. 00:31:51.510 --> 00:31:54.270 Yeah, correct. Okay. Correct. Yeah. 00:31:54.670 --> 00:31:57.550 Can you give us your background on that chip word that we're... 00:31:57.550 --> 00:32:01.730 The chip spreader, again, oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. I forget you're here. 00:32:04.670 --> 00:32:06.410 You know a lot about that. 00:32:08.410 --> 00:32:13.690 The chip spreader we have needs a fair amount of work. 00:32:13.690 --> 00:32:43.690 I've been holding off on that work anticipating that it needs to be replaced it's got a lot of hours on it there are certain items on it that will not parts not available anymore like main mainframe parts like differentials axles stuff like that and their new machines and the new 00:32:43.690 --> 00:33:13.690 the axles they get for their new machines do not interchange they change the frame so they don't you can't mount them that way if one of the axles went down we're probably screwed with it because you probably have to hire a crane to come in and lift it off set it off the road and there was a county I think that tried to get some 00:33:13.690 --> 00:33:35.630 parts machined for it, got it done, put them in, happened again, within a week, so those are things that concern me, I mean, there are a lot of wearable parts on it that I have not done anything with that need to be done if we're not going to replace it. 00:33:35.630 --> 00:34:04.460 There are, we did, so, the chipper has a fuel tank that's mounted between the frame rails. It's part of the frame. They now have a replacement kit that you put in, but you have to cut the top of the frame out to drop this in. It's pretty labor intensive. 00:34:04.460 --> 00:34:32.020 we put a temporary tank on the side to get by this year because we had fuel leaking when we were sitting so we mounted something temporary we can get by with that for the rest of this year but it's just a frame mounted on the side it's kind of in the way but it works. So Larry, is this the only one you have? Chipper? 00:34:32.020 --> 00:35:04.640 the ticker. Well, we have an antique one sitting in the shed that needs to be sold. This is the only one you have? Yeah, this is the only one we have. Okay. This is the only one we have. Another one that was good or this is? Yeah, this is what we'll use. Yeah, and we only have one. Okay. Yep. I'm trying to think what else I wrote down. There was possibly, I don't know if that's even a thing anymore. There was actually a county up in Minnesota looking 00:35:04.640 --> 00:35:25.200 or something. But at the time, I couldn't get rid of, we couldn't get rid of ours because I needed it to finish the year. So I think they would have been willing to pay like $50,000 to $60,000 for the way it sounded, but that doesn't, it's not peaceful. 00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:48.540 So, given some of the troubles we've had, if this was approved, got ordered, you have a guess as to when it would be ready for our use, six months, okay, they're actually, yeah, I think like right now, if I had it ordered, right now, I think March. 00:35:48.540 --> 00:35:49.020 Okay 00:35:49.020 --> 00:35:57.440 So we still have time to get one in the queue for next season 00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:59.340 They're actually 00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:06.380 Yeah, no, they actually have caught up kind of, they've done pretty well on catching up on chip spreaders 00:36:06.380 --> 00:36:06.620 Okay 00:36:06.620 --> 00:36:10.300 So yeah, it's feasible to get it for next year 00:36:10.300 --> 00:36:19.280 As far as trading it into Etnair, they basically said they want nothing to do with it because of that axle deal 00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:27.720 They don't want to have to deal with selling, try to sell to somebody and tell them, yeah, it's going to be good for a while, but we don't know 00:36:27.720 --> 00:36:33.860 And I'm not saying the axles will go out next year or the year after, I don't know 00:36:33.860 --> 00:36:37.340 It could last for five years, it could last for five days 00:36:37.340 --> 00:36:40.200 To your point, if it goes, it's gone 00:36:40.200 --> 00:36:44.720 Yeah, and then we have a, I don't even know how to deal with that problem 00:36:44.720 --> 00:37:05.340 I think, actually, I think the county that was looking to buy ours was actually looking to buy it for parts and use the axles from ours and theirs or vice versa. So that was the type of deal they were going to do to get themselves back in business. 00:37:05.340 --> 00:37:06.500 So 00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:11.320 It does seem worth 00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:13.800 pointing out what's written on there 00:37:13.800 --> 00:37:17.220 this specific machine is vital to 00:37:17.220 --> 00:37:20.020 our future preservation plants 00:37:20.020 --> 00:37:23.720 and so again thinking about 00:37:23.720 --> 00:37:26.260 protecting ourselves in the future 00:37:26.260 --> 00:37:29.200 this seems pretty important to that 00:37:29.200 --> 00:37:30.820 Yeah, I mean 00:37:30.820 --> 00:37:38.860 I'm pretty happy with what we've done over the past years, a few years with Dale and where we've gotten. 00:37:38.860 --> 00:37:49.480 I mean, yeah, there's a lot more work to be done, but I feel like that we've preserved the roads, kept things moving forward and not falling backward. 00:37:51.160 --> 00:38:00.060 Well, we could keep the program, but it'd be packed, the work that we, like, on a nearly basis because you'd have to hire it out or. 00:38:00.060 --> 00:38:07.280 Yeah, if you hired all the seal code out, I think you'd probably do half, maybe half the miles that we're going out. 00:38:08.800 --> 00:38:16.140 Just because, not that our labor's free, but we're working it in and we're working the roads. 00:38:16.420 --> 00:38:22.540 We're doing some things, I think, that wouldn't get done if we had to hire them. 00:38:26.220 --> 00:38:27.900 Any other questions you've got? 00:38:29.860 --> 00:38:30.620 Chip's there. 00:38:30.620 --> 00:38:39.000 All right, well, we have on our agenda to approve the supplemental requests to move that forward 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.440 to finance, so I will entertain a motion to do so. 00:38:44.500 --> 00:38:45.560 I'll just move the rule. 00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:47.940 Who would I want? 00:38:48.020 --> 00:38:48.720 A pair of all of them. 00:38:49.380 --> 00:38:50.860 There's not enough money for all of them. 00:38:55.330 --> 00:38:55.690 Okay. 00:38:58.090 --> 00:38:58.630 Will you? 00:38:58.630 --> 00:38:59.710 This one. 00:38:59.930 --> 00:39:00.490 This one. 00:39:01.370 --> 00:39:03.870 The 400, that's what I was referring to. 00:39:03.870 --> 00:39:05.970 Yeah, just that 00:39:05.970 --> 00:39:08.010 So I didn't even 00:39:08.010 --> 00:39:10.170 Yeah, you want to just talk about 00:39:10.170 --> 00:39:11.870 that other, I mean, we didn't even 00:39:11.870 --> 00:39:13.790 So we've got all your thoughts 00:39:13.790 --> 00:39:16.230 Yeah, because the other highway 00:39:16.230 --> 00:39:17.110 request 00:39:17.110 --> 00:39:20.150 Let's see what we have there 00:39:20.150 --> 00:39:21.330 Is there any of that 00:39:21.330 --> 00:39:23.930 that, in my goodness 00:39:23.930 --> 00:39:24.790 we may 00:39:24.790 --> 00:39:28.010 I think it would be a little 00:39:28.010 --> 00:39:30.170 great for the finance director to talk about 00:39:30.170 --> 00:39:31.730 the amount that's available 00:39:31.730 --> 00:39:37.810 what's already occurred in other committees, which is not necessarily relevant to what you're 00:39:37.810 --> 00:39:47.070 doing. It'll all get fleshed out in finance. Sure. So we have, you can see the total of all 00:39:47.070 --> 00:39:53.990 the requests at the bottom of the sheet. Currently, we have $708,000 available. 00:39:53.990 --> 00:40:18.350 $108,000 available in the capital fund for these capital improvements. I'm not really sure what is going to happen as far as the gym memberships, but in public property and safety, that committee agreed to possibly pay for half of the benches, half of the cost of the benches for courtrooms one and four. 00:40:18.350 --> 00:40:26.410 that there might be some more funding coming to fruition with those. 00:40:26.410 --> 00:40:30.410 So it might be half of the $67,000. 00:40:30.510 --> 00:40:33.130 It might be none of the $67,000. 00:40:34.110 --> 00:40:41.070 As far as the squad cars, the committee suggested two squad cars, but all five are going to be in front of finance. 00:40:42.110 --> 00:40:46.410 And the sheriff agreed that he could deal with two squad car purchases. 00:40:46.410 --> 00:40:50.380 So that is where we stand 00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:54.920 Or 00:40:54.920 --> 00:41:01.570 I'm just going back to 00:41:01.570 --> 00:41:05.370 You can see the capital fund is where that money comes from and there's 00:41:05.370 --> 00:41:06.670 $70,000 00:41:06.670 --> 00:41:09.110 So 00:41:09.110 --> 00:41:39.780 we're entertaining 00:41:39.780 --> 00:41:41.780 the motion for the $400,000 00:41:41.780 --> 00:41:45.760 that's where the amendment is that where your motion is 00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:47.780 not on the $1 million that's 00:41:47.780 --> 00:42:17.780 that's what I thought we were talking about but if we just want to clarify yeah okay okay I didn't know what that was um but since there are others that I didn't see immediately um would it be best if I track that so we can talk about some of the others just to have them all in conversation well all you're really doing is prioritizing the two though all just like Adrian said for the public safety 00:42:17.780 --> 00:42:23.500 All five squads are going to go into finance with a recommendation from the oversight of two. 00:42:24.420 --> 00:42:29.900 It wouldn't be any different from you if you're recommending that you do do the chip spreader for $400,000. 00:42:30.140 --> 00:42:32.860 That's what will go to finance with the full request. 00:42:33.860 --> 00:42:35.820 We don't want to overcomplicate them soon. 00:42:36.500 --> 00:42:41.440 Yeah, so I'll maintain the motion specifically to include the chip spreader at $400,000. 00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:43.520 You still okay with that? 00:42:44.180 --> 00:42:46.320 I've already got a couple of questions. 00:42:46.700 --> 00:42:47.040 Please. 00:42:47.040 --> 00:42:53.600 Before we go, I have, so, obviously, this is a new one, is there such a thing as a 00:42:53.600 --> 00:42:56.080 gently used? 00:42:57.340 --> 00:42:58.760 I already asked that question. 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:00.520 Okay, I didn't know what was out there. 00:43:00.700 --> 00:43:02.440 You could end up with something worse than you have. 00:43:03.340 --> 00:43:07.180 You don't know, I mean, well, actually, there's nothing available because 00:43:07.180 --> 00:43:12.180 Even a year-old one or two-year-old one or something, nothing out there, huh? 00:43:12.500 --> 00:43:13.940 Okay, well, that's what I was saying. 00:43:13.940 --> 00:43:24.480 I asked the salesman because I thought the same thing. He said most of the time when they get them in, they are about where we're at. 00:43:25.240 --> 00:43:34.560 So, you know, they end up with putting a lot of money into a used machine. Actually, he said right now there's absolutely nothing available. 00:43:34.560 --> 00:43:34.920 Okay. 00:43:35.460 --> 00:43:35.660 So. 00:43:37.020 --> 00:43:37.460 Got it. 00:43:37.760 --> 00:43:38.080 Yeah. 00:43:38.080 --> 00:43:54.680 I'll be okay to send it to finance while we're getting the tires on everything, I think, so 00:43:54.680 --> 00:44:05.480 All right, we've motioned, and I have motioned a second to send the $400,000 for the ship for 00:44:05.480 --> 00:44:32.280 in the finance, all in favor again, aye, aye, any one of those, that's our recognition, thank you, Dan, that takes us into our next discussion, so just so the supplemental for the million, like there's nothing, like that's not even like a reduction, I just, you want to be able to tell Dale, talk about it, make, 00:44:32.280 --> 00:44:36.900 If you guys want to make a separate motion to send it, I just think that 00:44:36.900 --> 00:44:40.720 well, you know what, I don't think you think, just tell me what we want to do 00:44:40.720 --> 00:44:46.740 I feel like we should talk about it so that we can make an informed recommendation, even if that is 00:44:46.740 --> 00:44:53.140 nothing. Okay. Do you want to kind of talk about some of the things 00:44:53.140 --> 00:44:54.920 that are in that second one just so 00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:58.600 Yeah, I was just, I didn't want to step on your toes 00:44:58.600 --> 00:45:03.160 I just want to make sure I'm telling Dale the right thing 00:45:03.160 --> 00:45:31.500 and stuff. And I just, this was back when Jerry Clay was on the board. We went 20 years with basically a stagnant funding that the highway department was going through every year. And I think what he was saying was every year other departments were getting increased in funding. And I don't know the reasoning behind that, but I think that was where this million dollars came from, from the years. 00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:36.960 and that was kind of to be made whole after so many years. 00:45:38.120 --> 00:45:47.980 That's just kind of, and then we've done Baileyville, we've finished off McConnell Road, we're going 00:45:47.980 --> 00:45:54.020 to be finishing Cedarville from Lena to Cedarville and this is all from the additional funds. 00:45:54.920 --> 00:46:01.480 This year we're working on Dakota Road just like from 75 to the school and then the plan 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:31.460 was if we got more funding each year just to finish slowly finish Dakota Road as and that just kind of shows you where the funding is going so that's where you're thinking if we had the money this will be correct yeah it would just it would go directly to the Dakota Road um finish off from like the school road where where you go right to that there we're right there this year continue and then just continue to rock road 00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:58.440 Okay, so, and I know, and I know what you're trying to do, but as we are looking at what we have worked with, it just, this is me, it doesn't seem like it's realistic for us to put a billion out there when it's less than 700,000 to work with a key event. 00:46:58.440 --> 00:47:26.640 So, what we brought forward, that doesn't mean that somebody could bring it up in finance or in the board of our meetings, should somebody appear that we are not, you know, we're not filing for it. But right now, the most realistic things, I think, I would be, I think, willing to entertain 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:35.220 a portion of that, but I know that once you start cutting it down, it's not a one-to-one dollar 00:47:35.220 --> 00:47:39.440 batch per mile or whatever. Well, I was just thinking, last year we asked for a million dollars 00:47:39.440 --> 00:47:45.800 and you bumped it down like $286,000. So that's what I was just kind of, yeah, yeah, like again, 00:47:45.860 --> 00:47:53.220 I didn't, no, no, no, no, yeah, no, you got to ask, you're going to expect anything. That's 00:47:53.220 --> 00:48:03.020 The problem, to your point, Sam, was we know how much we'll probably be looking at even cutting this down or bumping right up against that number just from my right. 00:48:06.520 --> 00:48:11.260 So my first thought was, yeah, let's look at that 286 number. 00:48:11.980 --> 00:48:14.700 But even that puts us the silver bear. 00:48:15.500 --> 00:48:17.520 And I think she said 700. 00:48:18.120 --> 00:48:18.480 Right. 00:48:18.620 --> 00:48:21.500 Yeah, we're already 400 out of that. 00:48:21.500 --> 00:48:50.760 I can't speak for our chairman, but I don't think that we realistically can find it, and I'm looking at my finances, and so I'm sure that we'll be informed if somehow or another that we miraculously made a mistake on what we have to spend for supplementals, 00:48:50.760 --> 00:49:12.160 but unless there's a reason that's why you really want to put it forward. I don't see how we're gonna these roads need to be looked at. Yeah, but the chip spreader seems like a more emergent need. I think that's probably pretty. That's still a hefty thing to pass forward. 00:49:12.160 --> 00:49:28.160 I mean, it could go to finance with a recommendation of an amount or willing to accept this amount, a reduction. 00:49:29.280 --> 00:49:36.820 There are some other avenues that are at our disposal that we will discuss in a little bit. 00:49:36.820 --> 00:49:46.280 So I don't know if you want to kind of look at everything and then make a decision after that or 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:51.000 Yeah, I just didn't want that to be like off the table and then like 00:49:51.000 --> 00:50:19.120 table and then like magically a money tree comes up somewhere that that's not part of it so I didn't but yeah I that's the that was my only question and concern I will get the entirety of the requests goes on what is going to be going to finance recommendation Sam yes Brian Grant you talk about the recommendation if you're committed the entire file to be there 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:49.980 So with that understanding and clarification, I think we've still done what we need to do, you know, be there. So they don't know, everyone knows now. So unless you guys want to make a recommendation just on that million, just for them to consider, if it were to come available, then that's certainly something that we can 00:50:49.980 --> 00:50:52.500 It gives you 10 notes for us to know. 00:50:55.240 --> 00:51:01.920 That 286, let's say that could be swung and that passed through for next year. 00:51:02.720 --> 00:51:04.320 What can be done with that matter? 00:51:04.460 --> 00:51:06.340 I know that's a fall part. 00:51:06.340 --> 00:51:15.580 From 75, from what we're doing this year, that came in, I think, like $349,000. 00:51:15.580 --> 00:51:24.140 So a low, probably less, less than what the length that, and what we did was about a month, close to a mile, right? 00:51:25.180 --> 00:51:30.420 Now, I mean, maybe three quarters, somewhere between two thirds to three fourths of a mile. 00:51:30.420 --> 00:51:32.340 So you're looking at probably maybe a half a mile. 00:51:33.560 --> 00:51:35.480 And depending on what the oil is. 00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:35.800 For sure. 00:51:35.800 --> 00:51:46.500 I mean, anything the highway gets, you'll be able to see the improvement on Dakota, that Dakota 00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:48.780 Road is the project that it's going towards. 00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:56.110 Do you currently have any grants or anything that we're working on? 00:51:56.110 --> 00:51:58.670 We're working on that. 00:51:58.830 --> 00:52:04.730 We're currently, I mean, not Dakota Road, not, and Dale always, we always keep our eyes looking 00:52:04.730 --> 00:52:08.230 for any unfunded roads or anything like that, but. 00:52:09.030 --> 00:52:13.690 We'll continue to try to get grants as much as much as possible. 00:52:14.310 --> 00:52:22.970 Is that something I'd say asking, is that real high on our list of priorities when the road to roads that are being listed for road improvement? 00:52:23.290 --> 00:52:23.770 Grants? 00:52:24.210 --> 00:52:25.750 The road condition. 00:52:26.270 --> 00:52:31.410 Oh, yeah, Dakota Road is the top of the unfunded roads. 00:52:31.670 --> 00:52:32.850 That's one of the first ones. 00:52:32.850 --> 00:52:36.450 I mean, Cedarville was, McConnell was, Baileyville. 00:52:36.450 --> 00:52:44.410 And yeah, usually when we get the funding from the general fund goes to the worst one 00:52:44.410 --> 00:52:57.040 It did meet with Darren LaHood today for a while, went over $13.1 million in needed funds, plus the bridges 00:52:57.040 --> 00:53:05.520 There won't be anything available in 2026, but they opened up federal grants in the first quarter of 27 00:53:05.520 --> 00:53:35.500 He wasn't super excited about $13.1 million, but he didn't talk about Winnebago County getting a bridge on Winnebago Road replaced through this grant, and that was several million dollars, so that was a very rural section of Winnebago County, I gave it, I felt encouraged, but it's also an election year, 00:53:35.520 --> 00:53:39.800 He's probably going to tell me whatever I'm going to hear, but he could have told me $13.1 million 00:53:39.800 --> 00:53:41.300 is realistic and he didn't not. 00:53:42.200 --> 00:53:47.240 So I'm also working with Jody Miller to get in front of Eric Sorens. 00:53:47.540 --> 00:53:49.780 He's been very kind to Freeport. 00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:52.360 So we'll see what we can do. 00:53:52.740 --> 00:53:59.660 And we have applied for a grant in years past for the bridge improvement to the PIP grant 00:53:59.660 --> 00:54:04.360 that we've tried to get in years past that we didn't get it. 00:54:04.360 --> 00:54:34.320 but hopefully they'll do that again and we're teed up and ready to apply for that grant again so that's a big one because we have a lot of bridges even bridges that aren't 20 feet that they don't normally inspect and stuff like that and these pulverts and stuff that starts to add up so if we could get that grant or kind of fix them before they're totally gone we'll save a lot of money but 00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:42.260 So, well, yeah, definitely, I know Bill's been great with applying for grants and stuff like that, so we'll definitely keep on doing that. 00:54:42.920 --> 00:54:58.360 Yeah, I don't know about, I don't know where it would come down on a specific recommendation, but I think those numbers about how much even just half a mile would cost, I think that's valuable for that conversation when finance is looking at this general request. 00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:10.880 So I don't, again, I don't know how YouTube feel, but I think if nothing else, passing on that information, this is what roughly half a mile is going to cost, and that's why the numbers are what they are 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:13.800 Yeah, it's very expensive 00:55:13.800 --> 00:55:39.100 Well, you know, more actually, sometimes there is money to come available after election, when people are more comfortable with talking about money they can release, but this is more like a shovel-ready project. 00:55:39.100 --> 00:55:43.200 We know what we got to do. If the money came available, we can move on to the first day. 00:55:43.200 --> 00:56:14.980 So your thoughts about doing something you were speaking about, is there something you would like to, or there, is there anything you think you'd like to see us, you know, share with the full financed media, they made decisions, they said something. 00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:38.020 for the purpose of having a specific request that we want to say 300,000, knowing it'll be, you know, cut down, but just to have a voice in there, or is that not even worth doing, do you think? 00:56:38.020 --> 00:56:43.960 Make a motion. 00:56:44.960 --> 00:56:56.820 We move this on with a recommendation of that is $300,000 as a kind of a floor of just for feasibility 00:56:56.820 --> 00:56:59.400 of make it worth the time. 00:57:00.580 --> 00:57:01.340 Yeah. 00:57:02.860 --> 00:57:03.880 I'll second it. 00:57:04.660 --> 00:57:05.120 All right. 00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:14.760 moved and seconded to move the project that's being presented here for the $300,000 record. 00:57:16.560 --> 00:57:17.420 What do you say? 00:57:18.940 --> 00:57:20.380 All of you say aye. 00:57:21.560 --> 00:57:22.200 Any votes? 00:57:23.140 --> 00:57:23.580 Thank you. 00:57:23.700 --> 00:57:25.140 So then that's what we have. 00:57:25.360 --> 00:57:29.560 And we do have a finance community person on the board, so you can take that. 00:57:31.060 --> 00:57:32.060 Those are expensive. 00:57:32.060 --> 00:57:33.180 up to help you out there. 00:57:34.540 --> 00:57:35.420 Double duty. 00:57:36.420 --> 00:57:38.660 We'll have to do double duty in finance. 00:57:38.960 --> 00:57:39.980 Mr. Brandt won't be here. 00:57:40.100 --> 00:57:40.900 Sam won't be here. 00:57:40.980 --> 00:57:45.700 So we'll be representing the public works along with the administration. 00:57:47.300 --> 00:57:47.960 Just like Wayne. 00:57:47.960 --> 00:57:48.960 I can do it. 00:57:49.140 --> 00:57:49.560 Hold on. 00:57:49.680 --> 00:57:53.440 No pressure. 00:57:53.860 --> 00:57:55.220 Brian's going to make it worth checking. 00:57:55.460 --> 00:57:55.980 I don't know. 00:57:59.420 --> 00:58:00.620 Moving right along. 00:58:00.620 --> 00:58:18.180 So we're new business then. 8.1 says discuss manual check for balance or final balance of the eight funds that you can spend. Hang on, hang on. It's going to be the highway budget. Oh, I'm sorry. 00:58:24.140 --> 00:58:27.110 On the old business. 00:58:27.110 --> 00:58:41.430 and I'm sorry, I did, thought we passed that last month, but I guess you did, you didn't pass Highway 00:58:41.430 --> 00:58:42.090 that last month. 00:58:42.090 --> 00:58:43.430 Oh, I'm sorry. 00:58:45.010 --> 00:58:46.190 You can take this. 00:58:46.210 --> 00:58:47.010 Yeah, you go ahead. 00:58:50.690 --> 00:58:56.690 So real estate taxes that you can see here that they have, the Highway Department has 00:58:56.690 --> 00:59:00.570 asked to increase real estate tax allocation. 00:59:00.970 --> 00:59:04.930 So I kind of wanted to go through and explain that a little bit. 00:59:07.410 --> 00:59:12.030 And this kind of gives you a breakdown of what she's going to go over to. 00:59:12.350 --> 00:59:15.810 Like for the highway fund, sorry. 00:59:16.230 --> 00:59:16.790 Oh, go ahead. 00:59:18.790 --> 00:59:25.090 For the highway fund, if it goes to the 5% to the 3.7% or 0%, 00:59:25.090 --> 00:59:41.490 and it gives you what the fund would be if we raised that fund and then the county bridge is similar if we kept it as it is, this is the money that we have to put. I should say play with, but it's that. 00:59:43.490 --> 00:59:44.090 Sorry. 00:59:44.090 --> 00:59:49.990 Okay, so the county umbrella, so we're allowed to 00:59:49.990 --> 00:59:57.360 So we're allowed to ask for up to 5% over our previous year's final extension amount. 00:59:58.360 --> 01:00:00.760 So that 5% is the magic number. 01:00:00.860 --> 01:00:05.280 If we go over that 5%, then we have to have a truth in taxation hearing. 01:00:06.700 --> 01:00:17.440 Just because we ask for the 5% and we are a capped county under PTAL, it doesn't always mean that we will receive that full 5% increase. 01:00:18.000 --> 01:00:40.000 Okay, so if you take the final extension, this is what we received. And so we use that number and multiply that times 5%. And so the $530,521.70 is what we're allowed to increase our levy. That's the dollar amount. 01:00:40.000 --> 01:01:11.790 So the BAC, and I kind of want to backtrack here. So the general fund, IMRF, liability, social security, those are the funds that I kind of manipulate if needed. Those are the budgets that I present that I'm kind of in control of, so to speak. 01:01:11.790 --> 01:01:41.770 so if any other department like the BAC will come to us and and submit a request if they need more money they did that last year they're doing it again this year health department the same way they are in charge of health and tuberculosis nursing center if they you know I do believe a few years back they tried to increase their levy request it was it did not pass out of committee mental health the 708 board 01:01:41.790 --> 01:01:50.830 Board presents a request to our office, and they did so this year and asked for a $5,000 increase. 01:01:50.830 --> 01:02:06.050 So we have to take all these components under consideration. So if we do not approve asking for more money, the levies can be switched around. 01:02:06.050 --> 01:02:34.490 One can be deducted. Another one can get that money. So that's what happened last year. So IMRF is a very, very healthy fund. There's a large balance will be good for a number of years to come. So that money was shifted out of the IMRF tax levy and put into mental health and the general fund. 01:02:34.490 --> 01:03:04.340 so they can be redistributed. As it stands right now, I don't see where $530,000 can be taken from one fund and put into the highway fund. So there is a way to do that. If you take that money away from the general fund, then all of the departments in the general fund will have to sacrifice and reduce their expenditures. 01:03:06.220 --> 01:03:10.640 So there's many moving pieces we can manipulate in order to make this happen 01:03:10.640 --> 01:03:22.100 So all of the amounts in blue are what we would get if the amount was 5% 01:03:22.100 --> 01:03:27.340 And then I just, I mean, it can be any percentage from 0 to 5% 01:03:27.340 --> 01:03:33.880 So I took the CPI, which is 2.7%, and I reworked the numbers with that percentage 01:03:33.880 --> 01:04:08.500 does everybody does anybody have any questions on the levy itself and how that works and okay so I just wanted to sorry so um choice was up on the CPI I think so the CPI uh they came about that number how and if that number can go we can accept it or not exactly so that's kind of what it was always presented that way and it's really not we can 01:04:08.500 --> 01:04:17.320 do anything between zero and five percent. So a lot of times county boards would say, well, the CPI is 2.7 or 01:04:17.320 --> 01:04:24.900 whatever it was that year. So let's increase it that much. So I think that's where that idea came of 01:04:24.900 --> 01:04:33.120 taking the CPI or not taking it. The CPI percentage is already kind of baked into the calculation for the 01:04:33.120 --> 01:04:40.280 tax rates for the county. Does it mean that your individual taxes will go up 2.7%? No. 01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:47.780 It's part of a very complicated formula to get to the tax rate. 01:04:47.780 --> 01:04:51.500 Okay. Got you. I have a question. 01:04:52.500 --> 01:05:01.880 So, if I was hearing it right, I mean, you don't say it, but you said that MRF is very well, doing very well. 01:05:02.080 --> 01:05:02.340 Yes. 01:05:03.120 --> 01:05:09.060 So, potentially, some of that could be moved into the general funds? 01:05:09.220 --> 01:05:10.160 We did that last year. 01:05:10.380 --> 01:05:15.060 So, you can see that the IMRF tax levy is only $100,000. 01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:21.280 That was around a million. 01:05:21.520 --> 01:05:22.900 We moved to a million last year? 01:05:23.340 --> 01:05:25.340 Or how much did we move last year? 01:05:25.340 --> 01:05:31.600 I believe it was $877,000, if I remember correctly. 01:05:33.120 --> 01:05:42.130 So we gave the BAC $75,000 out of our $240,000 request. 01:05:42.950 --> 01:05:49.820 There was a, I want to say it was $10,000 to $15,000 to mental health. 01:05:50.140 --> 01:05:56.640 And then we did need to allocate the rest of those funds to the general fund to cover expenses. 01:05:57.640 --> 01:06:00.460 Could it be an accurate idea of something else? 01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:01.860 Out of? 01:06:02.080 --> 01:06:03.160 That's a supplemental. 01:06:03.160 --> 01:06:09.140 to iron grafts in general as a supplemental. 01:06:10.660 --> 01:06:14.160 So I'm just currently only at $100,000. 01:06:14.640 --> 01:06:17.060 So I don't know if we could take it. 01:06:18.740 --> 01:06:21.500 I suppose we could take it to zero for this. 01:06:21.500 --> 01:06:25.740 Not that I want to, but I was just curious. 01:06:26.120 --> 01:06:26.320 Yeah. 01:06:26.980 --> 01:06:27.720 Look at your face. 01:06:28.600 --> 01:06:32.140 Take it to zero? 01:06:32.140 --> 01:06:44.640 for a year and see where you can because the county's contribution only needs for the stock market to go backwards. 01:06:44.640 --> 01:07:00.420 Oh, I do it. So I know. Yeah. So our preliminary IMRF rate went from 3.15 to 0.8. So that's our contribution for our employees. So that is why saving us a lot of money. 01:07:00.420 --> 01:07:05.840 I don't think it's yours, but I know you're really talking about that on the house. 01:07:06.040 --> 01:07:06.240 Yes. 01:07:06.240 --> 01:07:18.700 So in 2019, yeah, so in 2019, 2018, 2019, I think it was kind of down to the wire. 01:07:18.700 --> 01:07:25.840 I was not in the position I am now back then, but I think everybody was made to take a hit. 01:07:26.600 --> 01:07:28.820 I don't remember what the reduction was. 01:07:28.820 --> 01:07:31.120 You remember it was 10%? 01:07:31.120 --> 01:07:31.820 10% 01:07:31.820 --> 01:07:32.520 I don't know 01:07:32.520 --> 01:07:36.300 What year? 01:07:36.600 --> 01:07:37.240 2019 01:07:37.240 --> 01:07:39.100 We basically hit a wall 01:07:39.100 --> 01:07:39.880 Yeah, that's right 01:07:39.880 --> 01:07:44.780 We hit a wall right before COVID 01:07:44.780 --> 01:07:45.680 Right, yes 01:07:45.680 --> 01:07:48.440 And had COVID not happened 01:07:48.440 --> 01:07:50.900 All those ARPA funding 01:07:50.900 --> 01:07:52.180 We got 01:07:52.180 --> 01:07:53.360 Oh, I know 01:07:53.360 --> 01:07:57.080 I mean, all we did is kick the can down the road for six or seven years 01:07:57.080 --> 01:07:57.440 Yeah 01:07:57.440 --> 01:08:04.680 at, well, we're paying for the inflation now, so, and what we are, grandkids, well, yeah. 01:08:04.680 --> 01:08:12.420 I do want to point out that there, the treasurer has done a fabulous job with investing our ARPA dollars. 01:08:13.320 --> 01:08:18.700 All of the money remaining outside of what the highway is going to spend with that manual check 01:08:18.700 --> 01:08:25.040 is all interest. It is, we are free to do whatever we want with those dollars. 01:08:25.040 --> 01:08:41.320 My recommendation would be to hang on to it because the mill race TIF is going to expire in 2029 and we are still going to be paying that until 2031. 01:08:44.160 --> 01:08:53.720 So that money is available. I don't recommend using that. I think we should let that money grow and plan for the future. 01:08:53.720 --> 01:09:29.900 where I just don't want to be in a situation like other municipalities are in where we have a deficit and we don't have anywhere to take it from. The only other option that I'm kind of thinking is I don't think we have liability insurance numbers quite yet. There might be some money available with not having the nursing center for a full year. We still have the building. We don't have the liability of the employees. 01:09:30.060 --> 01:09:38.320 So that could be, we'll find out more information at the finance meeting, but I don't have those 01:09:38.320 --> 01:09:47.910 numbers yet. So that's another place that we could kind of potentially look, depending on what 01:09:47.910 --> 01:09:49.180 depending on what the wishes of the duty are. 01:09:56.570 --> 01:10:06.650 So there's a lot of pieces in the highway funds that really keep the address. 01:10:07.070 --> 01:10:15.670 Health insurance, we do not have numbers, and that's paid out of 005 and 009. 01:10:16.470 --> 01:10:18.770 So a lot of highway and county motor fuel. 01:10:18.770 --> 01:10:29.270 So I would say anything that has to do with health insurance or a tax levy, just do have to layover. 01:10:31.270 --> 01:10:34.770 I don't know if Brian wants to go through everything again. 01:10:35.030 --> 01:10:36.430 Yeah, whatever he does. 01:10:37.270 --> 01:10:39.470 I'll make a motion to layover until that's going to. 01:10:41.190 --> 01:10:43.690 Oh, sorry, I didn't want to get those numbers in for anything. 01:10:44.090 --> 01:10:45.310 I'd do have a question. 01:10:45.610 --> 01:10:48.190 I'd be honest, there's a truck in there, pickup truck. 01:10:48.770 --> 01:10:57.050 Oh, for where, like in the budget? 01:10:57.710 --> 01:10:57.870 Yeah. 01:10:59.310 --> 01:11:01.570 It'll last your deal, talks about it, isn't it? 01:11:01.690 --> 01:11:02.390 Oh, yeah. 01:11:02.570 --> 01:11:04.690 For the engineer, that's what this is. 01:11:04.690 --> 01:11:10.850 It's for his truck or Caden's truck, his block. 01:11:11.090 --> 01:11:13.210 I mean, we're going to just pass on the truck. 01:11:13.430 --> 01:11:15.190 Like, we're not getting rid of a truck. 01:11:15.190 --> 01:11:18.790 He needs a new truck to run, basically. 01:11:19.150 --> 01:11:21.970 It still runs, but there's been issues and stuff like that. 01:11:22.090 --> 01:11:22.590 Dale's truck? 01:11:23.050 --> 01:11:23.570 Yeah, correct. 01:11:23.810 --> 01:11:24.110 Second. 01:11:24.110 --> 01:11:33.470 And then we would just take Dale's old truck, pass it down to Caden, who's the civil engineer, or give it to the shop. 01:11:34.990 --> 01:11:35.350 But I don't know. 01:11:37.010 --> 01:11:37.970 50%. 01:11:37.970 --> 01:11:43.790 I'm assuming it's construction equipment at Capitol. 01:11:43.790 --> 01:11:51.090 It was probably the one, it could have been part of the five-year plan to replace the flag. 01:11:51.090 --> 01:11:56.690 I think it was in the, it was in that, yeah, that capital, that equipment replacement. 01:11:56.690 --> 01:11:58.530 Five-year plan to replace the flag. 01:11:58.850 --> 01:12:00.030 I remember talking about that. 01:12:00.110 --> 01:12:01.050 He talked about that. 01:12:01.310 --> 01:12:01.730 Yeah. 01:12:03.010 --> 01:12:03.530 Yeah. 01:12:07.980 --> 01:12:14.160 We're going to kick it down the road, I think. 01:12:14.480 --> 01:12:14.760 So, okay. 01:12:14.900 --> 01:12:15.560 We'll shut up. 01:12:16.220 --> 01:12:18.080 Is there anything else, Mr. 01:12:18.940 --> 01:12:20.440 No, sir. 01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:21.080 All right. 01:12:21.500 --> 01:12:23.640 So you brought up, so we'll have a look at it. 01:12:23.740 --> 01:12:24.240 Look at that. 01:12:24.780 --> 01:12:32.200 I know the five-year replacement plan, I think, I didn't bring that, but I think it's like $343,000. 01:12:32.700 --> 01:12:33.200 That's right. 01:12:33.200 --> 01:12:34.780 So it's the truck. 01:12:35.000 --> 01:12:40.200 I mean, even if we took out the truck, it's still, we're still short on that five-year replacement. 01:12:40.540 --> 01:12:40.740 Fun. 01:12:40.980 --> 01:12:41.360 Just in. 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:42.240 Gotcha. 01:12:42.500 --> 01:12:42.900 That's why. 01:12:43.980 --> 01:12:46.620 Maybe Dale decided to stay if you get new trucks. 01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:48.580 I'm still trying to push them. 01:12:48.940 --> 01:13:09.380 We already have a motion, a second to a motion by Tom Rowe, is that right? 01:13:09.380 --> 01:13:09.940 Thank you. 01:13:09.940 --> 01:13:14.240 All in favor to say aye. 01:13:14.340 --> 01:13:14.480 Aye. 01:13:14.920 --> 01:13:15.900 Any opposed? 01:13:16.620 --> 01:13:18.340 We'll look at it again next one. 01:13:18.940 --> 01:13:32.980 Thank you, thank you, Mrs. Anthony, I'm going to see what I saw, Steve, all right, it's a public video. 01:13:32.980 --> 01:13:41.140 8.1, the manual check, balance of ARPA funds. 01:13:41.140 --> 01:13:48.440 I should have known this, but ARPA funds that we've had, 01:13:48.940 --> 01:14:12.940 I guess the highway department needed to use them by, it needed to be spent by September 30th and so that's what this claim is for. This is for the Dakota Road, the project going on right now. So we were able to create the claim and this will be paid out for this month and we'll be able to use the 47,000 by September 30th. 01:14:12.940 --> 01:14:14.820 You said $47,000. 01:14:14.820 --> 01:14:17.620 Oh, did I say $47,000? 01:14:17.620 --> 01:14:26.880 It's for more than that, and the other funds are from the capital funds that we already have. 01:14:27.540 --> 01:14:31.580 But the $47,000 needed to be coming out of this claim. 01:14:32.960 --> 01:14:36.870 Motion to approve the main chest. 01:14:36.870 --> 01:14:41.570 I have a second by Larry 01:14:41.570 --> 01:14:45.170 I don't need to go in here 01:14:45.170 --> 01:14:47.550 I don't need to go in here 01:14:47.550 --> 01:14:51.010 All there can say aye 01:14:51.010 --> 01:14:54.010 Any opposed, thank you 01:14:54.010 --> 01:14:55.670 So we can move it on to the 01:14:55.670 --> 01:15:04.150 8.2 HD 26-18 01:15:04.150 --> 01:15:11.470 in the discussion and approval of the 2026 Route 26 and McConnell Intersection Reconstruction. 01:15:11.470 --> 01:15:22.370 This is for the bed, letting, and for the intersection at McConnell and 26, just to be able to use the funds. 01:15:22.630 --> 01:15:33.110 This is also a grant that we received, so it's no cost of the county, and it was for $1,087,192 01:15:33.110 --> 01:15:34.690 with dollars and 19 cents. 01:15:37.610 --> 01:15:41.010 I'll make a motion. 01:15:41.390 --> 01:15:41.710 Second. 01:15:42.710 --> 01:15:44.990 Motion by Larry and second. 01:15:45.370 --> 01:15:47.430 All in favor say aye. 01:15:47.590 --> 01:15:47.910 Aye. 01:15:48.470 --> 01:15:49.350 Opposed? 01:15:50.830 --> 01:15:53.590 Yeah, we got five copies. 01:15:55.030 --> 01:15:55.430 Just 01:15:55.430 --> 01:16:10.020 just 01:16:10.020 --> 01:16:11.680 the whole thing. 01:16:15.080 --> 01:17:39.160 I should have signed a second line, but it's from the community, I'm sure, I should have signed 01:17:39.160 --> 01:17:39.620 for that. 01:17:42.980 --> 01:17:53.920 Can I say one thing, I had an opportunity in our public safety meeting to just really talk 01:17:53.920 --> 01:17:59.820 about, you know, what did it look like if we were able to work for that one, set the tax 01:17:59.820 --> 01:18:05.920 again, because he would add a number of dollars to our budget. 01:18:08.780 --> 01:18:15.120 Without getting to death, I just think the timing probably is better enough for us than it's ever been. 01:18:15.120 --> 01:18:17.080 And we have a number of things. 01:18:17.260 --> 01:18:28.240 We're not out of the woods with finance, as I know, but this certainly could free us up to get a lot of things done if we had an extra $3 million in our general fund. 01:18:28.240 --> 01:18:57.840 so I'm not going to go into depth with that but it obviously would mostly be for public safety but if you could take three million dollars worth of salaries and other things out of our general fund I just think it would free our general fund to do a bunch of other projects that might that the board might come up with that need like that road project I don't know we could pay the whole million but I could see a day where we could have funded a whole role where we might not have been able to do that 01:18:58.240 --> 01:19:04.080 because we didn't have the money and we don't have the money in our general fund to do that at this point. 01:19:04.080 --> 01:19:10.640 But if we did, wouldn't that be nice if we could have done an extra project? 01:19:10.740 --> 01:19:16.140 Because there was a time when we had more money in our highway and we had to pull that out years ago. 01:19:17.260 --> 01:19:21.680 So anyway, long and short, look for a day when we'll have a little more money. 01:19:22.760 --> 01:19:27.220 But we'll all have to be on the same page and it cannot be political. 01:19:27.220 --> 01:19:46.000 We're just asking me if we could do better our county with finances and that money, we have to have a good plan to make sure we do the right things. I'm sure we would. We've done a good job. Thank you, Mr. Helms and everybody that is a part of the board. 01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:47.560 that is a part of the board of people that have settled there. 01:19:47.560 --> 01:19:48.940 So that's all I have. 01:19:49.220 --> 01:19:49.940 Motion to adjourn? 01:19:52.320 --> 01:19:52.600 Sure. 01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:53.220 Second. 01:19:53.980 --> 01:19:55.380 Don't fight over it, gentlemen. 01:19:57.020 --> 01:19:57.860 All in favor say aye. 01:19:58.020 --> 01:19:58.260 Aye. 01:19:58.360 --> 01:19:59.260 Everyone have a good evening. 01:19:59.460 --> 01:20:00.220 Thank you.