00:00:06,300	Well, good morning everybody. Go ahead and call the Board meeting the March board meeting of the Burleigh County Water Resource District to order.

00:00:25,200	Wendy take roll call, I’m here. Chairman Landenberger. Here we have a coronary will continue, uh, moving on to item 2 this morning. Approval of last month’s meeting minutes.

00:00:43,230	Let me get a chance to review got a motion by Manager Jones and a second by Manager Smith to approve last month’s meeting minutes. All those in favor say aye. Motion passes. Minutes are approved. We went on to item 3. Any changes or additions to the agenda this morning? Hearing none. Hum-um. motion Um, to approve. Yeah. Thank you.

00:01:11,670	And a motion by Manager Jones and a second by Manager Smith to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor say aye. I have it, motion passes. Agenda is approved. Moving on to item 4. Comments from members of the public, not associated with the project, not seeing any this morning.

00:01:32,100	We move on to item 5 McDowell Dam. Uh, so, uh, essentially at this point we are looking at sending the letters I believe Michael and David. Uh, work through the finalization, right, David, of those letters. That’s correct. And, uh, we’ll, we’ll have our executive session this after this meeting to discuss those letters and when they’ll go out and what’s uh.

00:01:53,730	What’s being stated in those. Um When Michael gets here, maybe we’ll have him, we’ll jump back to McDowell Dam and he can give, uh, maybe an update on that, anything that he’s got on that memo for the water simulation. Now he’s been on vacation for a couple of weeks, so.

00:02:10,400	And then regarding kind of the bank stabilization and trail project I know Dave did they bring any rock out there? OK. I think the load restrictions are going on now, so. Probably something we’ll have to wait then or. You can discuss with Michael maybe when he gets here, but. OK. David, anything this morning you wanna? Yeah, come on up.

00:02:31,100	Morning, Dave. Good morning. Uh, just wanted to give an update. I promised to provide you with the numbers, uh, I didn’t get them to you in time to include in your in your information in the packet, but I just wanted to share that.

00:02:53,000	February was light as we typically historically have seen, and you might expect out there with the weather that we have, but vehicle counts were 1873, and trail counts were 89. So, um, but that happens. I looked back at the the data from last year and the year before, and that’s typical, you know, June, July, August, we’re looking at somewhere between.

00:03:17,570	10 to 13,000 for vehicles in around 2000 for trail users somewhere in that neighborhood, typically, so it obviously ramps up as the weather gets nicer, um, you know, once we get through our false spring and, and back into winter and then into real spring, maybe we’ll see the numbers come back up, but, uh,

00:03:34,030	yeah, uh, the only other thing is we did quote out the sand. For the, the beach, um, as we had budgeted. I severely underestimated the the volume or the, the amount for the sand, so we had to cut that short, so I’ll have to do a little bit

00:03:51,170	more next year. So I stayed within budget. But we’ll still need to do some more, some more sand. We’re trying to get the sand, and I mentioned the fact that load restrictions were coming on.

00:04:06,630	We tried to get the sand delivered before the load restrictions came, came on, but I think we just missed it because of the warm spell that we had that came on, I believe, on Monday, so. Uh, we’re trying to get it, we awarded the sand probably about maybe 1.

00:04:19,470	5 to 2 weeks ago and we tried to get it just slipped in there in time and I don’t think it was gonna to line out, so, um, but so they’ll have to. Excuse me. We’ll have to wait until load restrictions come off to to do that, otherwise they end up severely Lowering the amount of sand that they put in their vehicles and then it’s more truckloads and then we pay more for for a load and we get less

00:04:37,730	sand, so I said no, let’s just, let’s keep the the volume right and we’ll just wait. It’s not, you know. Eminent that we have it right away. So Makes sense. Otherwise, the other things that we had in the budget for 25. Were the uh the two pedal boats, um, we’ve been looking at quotes.

00:04:59,030	It’s kind of interesting last year when we did this, when we quoted out and got um got some new uh. New pedal boats, they delivered them right away and we didn’t want them delivered until April, May, and they came in February when everything was still frozen and so we didn’t really have room for them, so we’re

00:05:14,030	kind of slow playing the the quotes, the, the, I think the suppliers want to get them out of their inventory, but we don’t want them yet, but we want to get a good price, so it’s a little bit of a a timing situation. Uh, the other project that we had planned was adding the um.

00:05:32,100	the playground, um, out in the, the park and uh we had submitted that uh James is aware of this, but uh we had submitted that grant application received the letter back, and there are presentations on the 26th with the garrison diversion Conservancy District for, and that’s usually a 25% match.

00:05:53,630	I think that. Just trying to remember in my head where where they are with the numbers. It’s a they usually try to do 25% and sometimes they cap it depending on how many applicants they try to spread the money out, so. Um, so I’ll be, uh, heading up there for that presentation.

00:06:09,370	I’m, I’m going out for a park district one as well, so it’s not, not a big deal for, for us to do that. Good. That’s all I had unless you have any questions. Any questions this morning? OK, all right. Thank you. Hey, morning, Michael. Good morning. Welcome back. Yeah, I’m here, nice and tan.

00:06:41,770	Yeah, well, toasted, side morning, any of the items? Nothing in particular other than, I think you got the executive session, yeah. I’ll, everything I got is in there, so, OK, sounds good. Yeah. All right, uh, nothing else in McDonald Dan, we can move on to item 6, the financial reports this morning, Dennis.

00:06:58,570	Uh, good morning, Chair and board members, um, pages 6 through 8 are your balance sheet and um. Reserve fund. Balances and and special assessment balances. So just going through the previous month. Start out with the balance and checking of $1,291,445.11. We paid bills in the amount of $62,774.80.. 1 note on that particular item is that.

00:07:31,730	Last month’s bills showed an amount of $1,825 payment for the Apple Creek bond. Um, loan payment, um, that was actually an error on their part and so they um tore up that check and we reissued one for $25 less, so 1800, so, um, that, that this number I just told you reflects that change, uh, we had income in the amount of

00:07:57,830	$388,703.58. Most of that was real estate tax, 292,000 or 293,000. Um, we’re actually tracking a little slow on real estate compared to previous years, 40% of what our budget is, so. I’m usually it’s a little higher.

00:08:18,030	A small amount of state aid, about 6000, a little bit of interest, um, reimbursements of uh almost 90,000. Um, that is essentially rebalancing of our special assessments and O&M accounts as we talked previously, um, I think we still have maybe a little more.

00:08:38,000	work to do on the reserve funds and and tidy up that whole uh conglomeration of funds into a more realistic approach going forward. Um, so we’ll, um, Wendy and I think and James and I are tasked to do that at some point, so we’ll have to get together and do that. Uh, ending balance of $1,617,400.89 in the checking account, reserve fund balance didn’t change from the previous month of $700,390.88.

00:09:00,830	So, um, everything seems to adds up with that, um, I’d move for approval of the balance sheet as presented in your packet. OK.

00:09:12,470	this month’s balance sheet. Any discussion? If not when. Well, I’m, I’m kind of thinking we got a little too much to checking. Um, and maybe we should. Consider moving some of it into a CD or.

00:09:37,230	Yeah, what are your thoughts, Dennis? Um, yeah, I don’t know that we have any significant expenditures on the horizon, uh, the Bravera wealth account which we have utilized recently is um liquid. And so, uh, it does earn, um, obviously more money than our checking account does and so not a bad idea. Yeah, I haven’t given any thought about any amount, um. So we have Um, you revisit that number.

00:10:04,770	General checking at 1.36 million. Right, how much do we have in the, uh, reserve or the, the other fund right now, do you recall the reserve funds or no, for the, uh, we, we’re getting interest on that wealth. Yeah, the wealth. Yeah. Yeah, that is, It on our list, Wendy. very well fund is 142,000.

00:10:33,200	So You got thoughts, Kathleen, what maybe we should think about there as far as. I’m trying to think of the projects. The biggest problem we have is. Yeah I, I would say. I, I’d take at least 3, if not 500. And move it over. Uh I like the idea of three.

00:10:59,870	Yeah, I, you know, somewhere in that vicinity, I see where Apple Creek is gonna cost us a bit more. We do have some Cost you on that. I mean. Not a great deal. It, it, uh, Dennis’s point, it is liquid, so you can still move it back.

00:11:15,000	I’d, I’d do half of it. Yeah, maybe even half of it. Yeah. Around in half. Would you say it was 1.1? 1.3. 1.3? Yeah. Yeah. 600,000. Dennis, what are your thoughts? Yeah, no, it’s, uh, uh, you know, I say it’s totally liquid, I, you know, I haven’t, we haven’t done that yet, we haven’t, I assume it’s just a

00:11:37,770	phone call and it’s transferred automatically and so or immediately and so, yeah, I don’t have any. Um I could go um. Yeah, I’m, I’m supportive of H half or, you know, somewhere in that ballpark. Yeah. Yeah, I think, I think that would be a good idea.

00:11:58,670	Would you like a motion to that I we have. our checking bills into The fund. So before we go to that motion, do you want to, we had a motion out there to prove the balance, the balance sheet 10, OK, OK, OK OK, sorry. No, no, you’re good. You’re good. When you.

00:12:24,170	Yes You have a second on that? Yes, yeah. Manager Jones. OK, now, the next one. Wait, you’re not there yet. You’re not done yet. Yes. Yeah. Manager Smith. Uh, yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. OK, now we can. OK, the next one is. Let’s take half of our checking account. move into our.

00:12:49,830	You want to have or maybe just a round number, approximately, yeah. Maybe do 600,000, 600,000. OK. Hal would be 680,000 roughly 60,000. OK. 680,000. I’ll say it. Into the Bravera wealth fund.

00:13:19,170	In the We Right? Got a motion by Manager Jones in the second by Manager Smith to look at moving uh half of our uh checking account in the amount of $680,000 into the Bavera wealth fund to gain additional interest.

00:13:42,370	When, any thoughts on that, questions? do that as soon as I’m able next day or so. Uh, one quick question. What kind of interest are we giving in I did ask that question here about a week ago. It’s, it’s the low 4%. I think 4.1 sticks in my head. OK. Um, minus 0.25% administrative fee.

00:14:03,000	Yeah, it’s still pretty good. Yeah OK. Thank you, good idea, thank you. You’re welcome. OK, you can move on to item B there, Dennis. Yeah, profit and loss statement on page 9 and 10 of your packet, um, everything appears to be in order, um, as I mentioned, the real estate tax for whatever reason, seems

00:14:20,730	a little bit low at this time of year. Yeah. 40% of what we budgeted, but. Um, that can change. I, I suspect. Um, as new numbers come in, so I’m sure we’ll catch up. But um I’d move for approve as presented, Mr. Chair.

00:14:39,300	You’re gonna motion by Manager Reep and second by Manager Jones to approve this month’s profit and loss statement. Any questions? Discussion, hearing none, Wendy take roll call vote, please.

00:15:01,170	continuing on, you get some pledged securities in the pack just for informational purposes. OK. Yep. All right. Any questions for Dennis on the financial reports? You’re doing a good job. I appreciate you. Good. OK, we can move on to item 7 this morning. Yeah, update on the river Road on the Kathleen, Michael Casey combination of three.

00:15:27,300	Probably Casey. I’ve driven by it. We’ve got some work to do up there. I would, uh, I believe that highway department could Probably take care of it, Casey. Born, uh, Casey with uh Burleigh County Highway Department.

00:15:54,500	This February when everything went from 40 to 60 degrees, all the snow melted off on River Road and where this box culvert is, is located. It, there is a natural spring that’s underneath it. It does tend to ice in. We know we have to jet it out and steam it every year.

00:16:14,230	Also, what’s been happening is downstream of it, there’s just been natural sediment deposit that has happened over the years. And it’s just getting to the point we’re, I looked at it last year. We surveyed it and we’re looking at, OK, it’s almost getting to the invert elevation of the downstream part of the culvert is we really need to start looking at, let’s just do just general maintenance.

00:16:32,170	We don’t wanna wreck the world. It’s just, let’s just get the sediment out so it can just continue to. stream continue downstream as it has in the past.

00:16:52,870	And the culvert, uh, we are looking at potential replacement of that, but that’s more of a long term plan with the, with the county and roadway department, but with the spring, uh, that’s just not gonna magically go away, that’s more of our long term solution, so we know. Short term, we’re still gonna have to deal with those portions. We’ve just seen it hit faster and it went up and over River Road.

00:17:09,230	We had to close River Road down for thankfully it was only a small amount of time because there were just wasn’t a lot of snow this year. And with the fast warm up like that, that’s where we run into the problem where it goes up and over the road, if it’s a slow warm up.

00:17:23,900	It, we generally have enough time, we’re able to get everything cleaned out and everything goes through, through just fine. So because this area downstream of the culvert.

00:17:42,030	Is actually outside of the right of way, the highway department, we actually have no authority to go out there and even do a project if the if the downstream landowner is willing to work with us. So we would need to come to a board such as yourselves to seek any type of permission if it’s OK with you to be able to do that, and we’re not looking for any reimbursement.

00:17:58,500	We just, it’s whatever the absolute minimum legal amount is if it’s a penny or a dollar or what we’re fine. We don’t need to get full reimbursement. It’s just a maintenance item that really needs to get taken care of.

00:18:15,030	We just want to make sure that we’re covered under the law cause I, we try to take a Pretty liberal interpretation of the law and fixing problems, but, uh, especially when it’s downstream water problems, but my uh excavator can’t reach that far while sitting within the right of way, so I, I got to be able to operate with the, with it legally to be able to go through. Uh, and are there any questions.

00:18:37,100	Is that property changed ownership? No. Not that I’m aware of. I believe the Ward family still owns it. Uh, we’ve had just preliminary contact with them saying they there may be something coming up, but we didn’t want to get too far ahead of ourselves because if say we don’t receive any permission to do that,

00:18:55,000	there’s no point just calling them and bothering them and asking them a bunch of questions. Mr. Chair, just a couple of quick comments. Um, we’ve gone out and taken a look at it. Nick has looked at it. Um, yeah, we agree with the clean out that the highway.

00:19:10,100	departments looking at, um, so no problem doing that, uh, full disclosure we do represent the word family on some other properties that they own, so if it’s OK with Casey depending upon the amount of, uh, documentation, uh, he would like to have, if it’s OK, you can just approve it in the minutes and we will be in

00:19:27,000	contact with the owner to let them know that this board has approved it and also recommending that they allow the clean out to occur. But like I said, Casey, I don’t know how much documentation you want to uh.

00:19:42,830	For that permission, whether you want a separate email or a letter or something for the files. I, I would say we’re probably open to what the board wants, if there’s a resolution that’s passed by the board, we can reference that back that we have authorization, uh, if you feel there needs to be just a documentation letter that we’re fine with that too.

00:20:01,730	I think at this point, as long as we have something in the minutes that we can discuss as a board that we place in there. I mean, it is part of our, you know. Jurisdiction here to go out and, you know, clean out, you know, watercourses in Burleigh County and have those make sure they’re maintained to maintain the infrastructure so

00:20:15,500	like. At this point, I don’t know if there has to be any, any monetary, Dave, I mean, exchange at this point, I think

00:20:26,230	to assist in that clean out. That’s correct. That’s what I would do. I think we’re good there, so I think if we do a motion and have that in a minute, I think that’ll be.

00:20:42,370	You know for us and then Michael can maybe contact the landowners and just make their, I, I’m not sure if they have to approve that. Um, well, because it’s work on their property, yeah, they’d have to approve it we need a formal easement from them? No, just authorization you can go in and do the clean out. OK. And I think there’s been some preliminary contacts already.

00:20:56,370	I just need to get back with Nick on the formality of this board’s approvals. Yeah, we, we’ve spoken with Nick and there was, uh, he just Nick let them know this might be coming up and who we’re supposed to contact if it goes forward and if we take the material out, we make sure we reseed it, get everything re-established because we don’t want it

00:21:17,000	eroding out either. Yeah, won’t want to work with them and be, be good neighbors. Did you have to do some, uh, emergency clean out earlier or it just, it naturally went down as. it opened up.

00:21:36,830	So we, we went out there and we had the jet steamer and we just jet steamed the culvert, able to cut through the ice, then once the water started flowing, it just start cutting the ice down, but it, you could see it was spreading out in the field more and we’re kind of OK, I, I think we’re really getting to the point we got to address the, just the natural sedimentation that’s happened over time.

00:21:53,470	It’s based on those photos you can see the silt. Downstream. Excavation or upstream. It’s downstream It’d be downstream. The upstreams going up the hill on River Road and I don’t want to touch that unstable slope if I don’t absolutely have to. Yeah. Which play where the sediment’s coming from. Yeah. You mentioned in the future.

00:22:15,830	Something about the culvert, tell me about that. So the culvert, we would look at, it’s just getting older and it’s just a part of our maintenance plan. Sometimes we just have to replace older culverts going through there, that’s part of the long-term plan of looking at it and getting all that planned in.

00:22:34,530	And then once that’s done, we would look at digging out and just admit the springs there. Let’s have Rock, let’s try and divert it to the sides and give it a path to goal that’s not just coming up through the culvert and then try and get everything stabilized so it doesn’t, uh, Sync with a massive bump there

00:22:51,170	we I took Marcus through it and uh we we drove it at the speed limit and that that was a fun bump to hit at that speed limit. That’s that’s for sure.

00:23:06,100	That, that is, I don’t think we’ll ever get the bump out, but instead of having it in 20 ft, let’s try and spread it out over 120 ft so you don’t, don’t notice it as much, yeah would be acceptable. So Mr. Chair, um, Casey on the clean out, you’d, you’d clean out the uh the non-cropped area in in in graded out to the cropped area and I I presume that’s what you do, right? Yeah, that’s correct.

00:23:26,170	And then um just plan B, what if the what if the family says no, we really don’t want you to do that. I mean, we, I mean, we should have. We can decide it right now that yes, we do want to do it and.

00:23:42,400	Yes Yeah, I don’t see that they’re going to have any issues from the preliminary discussions property it’s right, yeah. The main thing is like Casey said, do you know, clean it out and reseed it so it’s stable, that, that’s all that would matter because it’s not in crop land the parts can be it just becomes stagnant water.

00:23:57,900	It doesn’t flow down the road ditch because of the sediment. Correct. It, it sits in it generally infiltrates is what’s happening. Got you. OK. All right, is there a motion then to make the motion that we see in the. Burleigh County Highway, Burleigh County Highway. Um And then spread the. West side of it so it’s not cool. OK.

00:24:24,370	You want to add the Michael would contact the landowner. Yeah. And do the. Yeah, we will. We’ll have to come. We’ll be contacting landowner and let them know. OK. I hear that. Can you OK, we’re gonna clean out the culvert. River Road. Uh, to the appropriate specs that Casey has pointed out.

00:24:45,230	So it does not fall on the west side. And contact the landowner. My contact. To receive the appropriate. Permissions to do this. Um Question really a highway department to do the work. Yes I just think of you as one of us. Mhm You got it. Part of it.

00:25:21,470	The big thing is just the the requests of really going highway department. To complete the work. I’m cleaning it out and then contacting the landowner. Yeah. Uh, not recently, no. Well, you might want to, OK, you get here, Wendy? Give him a heads up. Oh, and this clean up? OK. OK, we can do that. All right.

00:25:45,570	Is there a second? I I need I’ll 2nd 2nd, so we got a motion by Manager Jones and a second by Manager Smith. To uh request B B on the highway department to clean out the river road coverage as discussed and have Houston Engineering reach out to the landowner to Received the appropriate permissions. OK.

00:26:03,900	When do you take roll call vote, please? And your initial. Yes. And. Yes. And. Yes. And yeah. Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, moving on to Keelboat Park.

00:26:30,270	We did get a request from through uh the developer and their engineer regarding some work they’re looking at doing down at the, uh, Kilber Park on, uh. Uh, Missouri River there at that boat ramp and um yeah, Mr. Chair, maybe I can clarify a couple of things.

00:26:52,300	They are by request, um, email request anyway, um, looking at making some minor improvements to the existing bank stabilization down there, um, as it turns out, uh, Bismarck Partran Re did some improvements after 2011. A few other things they’ve done down there, so maintenance is kind of ongoing, um, but the maintenance was done in that case by Park and Rec. It, but it is the city of Bismarck. property.

00:27:06,870	Uh, the city of Bismarck is in the process of transferring ownership of that property, uh, to the riverfront development owner, which is the, uh Um Abraham Lincoln Foundation to my knowledge that transfer has yet to occur from a couple of things perspective, the inquiry was this is a um I believe it’s a Garrison Owahi project.

00:27:29,630	So from that perspective, the easement that was provided. By the county in that case, not necessarily the Water Resource district by the county, um. There’s a 100% maintenance requirement by the county of that easement or of the the stabilization facilities.

00:27:51,570	I need to verify that because obviously I’ve been out the scenario that’s out there though would always is concerning, and I’ve expressed this concern to the developer, uh, their engineer that that easement is for the purposes of access to maintaining that.

00:28:07,100	So anything that they do within that easement regardless as to the size of these men, whether it’s 50 ft 100 ft, or it goes all the way back to the river road, um, is under the purview of the. County because they’re the ones that provided that easement. So that goes back to the standpoint, whatever they’re doing out there, not just the stabilization. Could potentially impact that access. So any work done within that easement area requires approval by the county. To make sure that that access is maintained.

00:28:26,270	It’s no different than you’re encroaching upon some sort of easement. What is that encroachment? Is that encroachment impede the easement? Um, I think it’s very straightforward. It’s just the fact of going through the protocols, and that’s what I’ve expressed.

00:28:43,400	I’ve offered a meeting with the developers, engineered to, hey, let’s just sit, sit down and talk about this and what you’re doing, um, as far as the section 408, I do not believe the Corps of Engineers is going to have an issue with maintaining that facility. They haven’t in the past, so, um, the question is, do you have to go through this whole section 408 process.

00:28:59,300	I believe that they can avoid that with what they’re doing and requesting, and that’s the primary intent. But I just don’t want to let the other stuff get ahead of itself. So we’ve made that offer, they were going to be providing some additional information. We have not seen that yet.

00:29:14,270	OK Thanks, Michael. So maybe from the standpoint of uh protocol and timing, uh, as long as, um, And there’s, there’s two aspects to it. There’s the development piece and Section 408. The 408’s been the request, um.

00:29:34,730	If this board wanted to authorize the, the Chair and myself or whoever I can’t remember the Missouri River portfolio, I think that’s Roger, that, that, you know, a notice on the 408 that this board doesn’t have any issue with the 408 site. You could probably get that moving forward, but the rest of the work in the easement would be separate. So just looking at timing for them.

00:29:50,100	Yeah, I can, I’ve already been getting the, the emails, Roger, so I could just continue to work with Michael. I’m just thinking, you know, simplicity side we’re coming into spring if this board would authorize the notice that that there’s no issues with the 408 as far as they’re concerned, though, um,

00:30:04,100	uh. Comm Woodcock is not here this morning. I want to verify that it’s their easement and may need to actually go before them. To give you the authorization to to do that and this board has done that previously where something’s been going on within their easements and they just say,

00:30:20,470	hey, water resourceur district, just take care of it for us. Well we may need to be on their. Agenda, if you will, to authorize this board to act on their behalf. I should qualify that. Makes sense. Thanks. Consensus. Any other questions on that? OK, move your back. OK, thanks, Michael. Thank you.

00:30:42,370	All right, if no other uh items under drainage permits and complaints. Not right now. Nothing else regarding anything clothes recently, so we can move on to projects this morning.

00:30:58,830	And he updates Michael on the Hoge Island, I assume we’re, we’re working on it that the spring and allows haven’t done anything on that at this point, so. We can move on to the Apple Creek New Mary slide this morning, Michael. We submitted the reapplication of the HMGP grant based on the conversations with DES.

00:31:15,130	I did get an email from, uh, Justin while I was gone that they were in the process of reviewing that documentation. So it’s about as much as I can tell you, OK, but it, it matches the information we provided last month relative to the cost changes, etc. so. OK. OK.

00:31:32,570	Then we did talk about trying to schedule maybe at some point when we kind of have more information, kind of more of a gathering of the stakeholders again. Yeah, I think that, um, I haven’t had a chance to talk to Mary before I left, but I’m thinking we’ll do that right after the grant review.

00:31:46,530	If they’re in the process and the grants moving on and everybody needs to have a confab and say, OK, here’s, here’s who’s doing what. We kind of know, but it’s nice to get everybody together and, and step through that. Yeah. It’s curious, Casey, you guys still monitoring that location, I assume and met, you know, now that spring runoff is beginning. It’s gonna be a pretty Hopefully quick and painless spring runoff this year, but.

00:32:08,870	Yeah, we’re still monitoring everything going through it and Just try to share the info as we get it. OK. All right. Thanks. OK, you know, questions on that. We can move on to other old business this morning. I don’t think I saw Mitch come in if there’s any updates on the CRS this morning, Mitch. Morning. Morning, uh, Chair Landenberger.

00:32:36,130	Um, the, our scheduled meetings on the 7th, uh, 6th and 7th of May. Uh, they blocked out two full day or a day and a half for that, uh, Tom Bernie and and uh.

00:32:53,770	um Can’t think of the first name Boehmer from the Tyler Spoehmer from State Department of Water Resources is going to be there. So we’re going to go over through the CAb visit and get through all, all the documents that we’ve collected and we’re uploading stuff onto the uh uh website from uh Houston Engineering.

00:33:14,500	We are in contact with the owner in Apple Creek Township, um, I contacted the township to go and talk to them about seeing seeing what they can do and uh. Not sure if we’re going to get any progress there. um, but we are ready to send him a letter to the state’s attorney has drafted a letter.

00:33:29,000	So just wait until we can see if we can talk to this fellow and. See if he agrees to move it. There is, there is room on his lot to move this parcel to get it out of the floodplain.

00:33:43,900	It’s a really close area, but I said if you wanted to move it there, we’d have to have a lot exhibit to determine where that uh floodway is so they can stay out of that and, you know, build it to the uh. Uh For this would be an agricultural building. He uses it, he doesn’t, it’s not, it’s unheated, no electricity. He keeps, uh, tree service equipment in there and stuff.

00:34:01,630	So OK. Uh, let’s hope for the listens to reason. Um Don’t know the path he wants to take, I think it, it could either go to court or get it to move it. OK.

00:34:24,000	And that’s that’s the big thing in front of us right now for, for me, if Um, you know, we’d have basically a year to get it out of there. So Is there a concrete pad in that building? Hum-um, no, it’s dirt floor. It’s a pole barn, 35 by 340 by 75 ft. Easily moved. I mean, you’d have to get a loll or.

00:34:43,270	Uh, some, some type of lift to get it out of there, but it’s a pole barn. Be curious, yeah, thanks, Mitch. Uh, any updates regarding legislation. I know that there was maybe some bills that we’re looking to kind of help.

00:35:05,000	Your situation and age 20 HB 2027 is for the townships to sign on for the NFIP regulations they have if they want to be a part of that insurance group, they have to be, they have to enforce the floodplain management ordinance. That passed the house. It did. It’s, it’s in the Senate right now, but it passed unanimously that should move forward. OK. Good. Any questions for Mitch? Mhm. Thank you. OK, thanks.

00:35:24,470	Thank you, Mitch. OK, speaking of the legislative session, Dennis, you want to do an update this morning on, bills that might be of interest for us, you know, they just had crossover, so not a lot of terrible amount of activity in the interims and so that got together but just to uh House

00:35:44,730	Bill 1020 is the Department of Water Resources funding bill appropriations bill along with appropriations for uh major water products and, and general water projects as well, um.

00:36:06,770	One of the things that they’ve, um, incorporated into this is the ability for the State Water Commission board to access a $200 million line of credit through the Bank of North Dakota. Um, basically what they call it an overdraft privilege, so if they run out of money in one of their buckets that they could appropriate, uh, or as cash flow becomes, you know, potential issue, uh, similar to what happened in 2020 where there was no oil money coming in, they would have the ability

00:36:25,170	to, you know, exceed their existing um cash reserves by up to 200 million through that line of credit at Bank of North Dakota. So everything um along with this bill, it seems like it’s going forward without too much. too many hiccups. Um, one other Discussion item though is.

00:36:49,730	Um, one of the senators is Talking about reducing the uh resources trust fund allocation. To water projects from 20. I think it’s 21% down to 15%. Um, I don’t know if that’ll get legs or not, but if it does, I mean it’ll have a significant impact on money available for water projects in North Dakota.

00:37:11,100	Um But like that that seems to be moving forward without too many hiccups, that whole, uh, bill. Um House built 1218 is economic analysis for conveyance projects if you recall Sibley Island, um, we had to do an economic analysis and it gets to be a little bit of spendy and also, you know, costs some time, so we’ll see

00:37:29,230	how that goes. They, they, the bill put a threshold for any that any projects under $5 million would not have to go through that an economic analysis.

00:37:50,870	The committee passed it, but they amended it down to that threshold of 750,000, so now it’s over at the uh center of Energy and Natural Resources Committee. And what was that threshold? Was there a threshold at all before? Well, the intent was a million dollars when it was first enacted 23 sessions ago, but the, you know, state Water Commission board.

00:38:13,500	Um Amended their policy down to 200,000 and so they, they supposedly got permission through the water over topics over topics committee, um, but there was nothing ever in statute that said they have the. True authority to do that, but they, they did so, so Mr. Chair and Dennis, this one would actually mandate the 750 so they can’t amend it again by policy.

00:38:30,630	Is that understanding that that’s the other part of the bill is that it would be a much more directly worded statute. I think that’s the important part to clarify that when the, you know, DWR, the commission itself went down to 200 by policy. That’s kind of what set everybody back because it was a million they were happy with that.

00:38:46,570	So yeah, if they mandate it to the 750, that’s a step forward. for the, for the Water Resour districts. So now it’s in the Senate. I mean, if the Senate passes as amended, then it’ll It’ll go to the governor for signature, but um I guess the hope at least from our perspective, is that there’s some amendments that come

00:39:02,000	through and it goes back to conference committee. Um Couple other ones, 22 Senate Bill 2210 watershed boundary study that passed the Senate by a significant margin that would look at.

00:39:24,470	You know, we’ve heard about joint board pressures to everybody has to join a joint board in the major, um, watersheds, um. This bill would authorize a study to look at how that could be best administered rather than just pass it directly through legislation, let’s, let’s study and see how it. Could be best um put together. Mr.

00:39:43,170	Chair, question for Dennis I’ve been a little bit out of the loop on that one, followed it. Have they set up how that study is actually going to be done who’s responsible for it, or is it just kind of open-ended with whoever somebody wants to decide to participate, participates, if you know where I’m going.

00:39:59,900	Yeah, I, I, I’m sure it would run through legislative management um. And they would be the Director of it, I, I presume they would engage all parties, but I think it would be their study, I believe that’s that’s what I was just wondering is how they established that so thank you. Yeah. See, just a couple more.

00:40:30,230	Is there one on Kermits? Um Not drainage permits. There were two that failed. OK. No. Yeah, I’m trying to think what those were those were. There was one that was gonna change it from 80 acres down to 0, that one failed, um, as far as the drainage. Yeah.

00:40:45,800	I was, I think a good thing, but. OK When it just came on my radar um last night. Who was there’s a Senate Bill 2379, it’s, it’s uh titled eminent domain survey, it would require written consent from landowners before any surveying um occurs. Or written permission or a court order.

00:41:11,470	So, um, Which is Here comes Casey to talk about it, um, I guess it wasn’t, uh. So on my radar, Water Resour districts association water users is gonna close it, um, Garrison diversions. Obviously affects them probably as much as anybody. Um, they’re opposing it, so. Come on up please.

00:41:33,270	Ohh, I think shocks me every time it’s gonna kill me someday. Um, yeah, I actually have to give a testimony tomorrow on that bill counties, I’m part of the legislative committee for the North Dakota Association County Engineers, and we are testifying in opposition, but some of it’s some clarification questions also, uh, there’s a couple of interesting things in there with that 30 day.

00:42:01,900	Notice before you can survey, if, if you’re starting in the spring, that’s great, but one example project we’re gonna give them in testimony is last year we had a developer come in and say, hey, we want to do a gas station and the traffic operations reports that turn lanes are needed.

00:42:16,900	Well, that was in October. Well, this year, if we had to give 30 days’ notice to all the adjacent residents, it wouldn’t have been an issue. We could have went out and done the survey because it was a nice winter. We didn’t have a lot of snow this winter isn’t our typical winter.

00:42:30,300	So if we had to do that in October, do a 3 day notice and you’re talking mid November, we probably couldn’t have done the survey until snow melt happened, so we were just, it’s unintended project delays that can happen quite massively and it, it was also, it didn’t seem very clear.

00:42:52,470	In the proposed amendment that, that’s being talked about. Was it seems like there’s always an Item that’s missed in the surveying, you have to go back out and get it.

00:43:07,170	Well, do we have to give a new 30 day notice to go back out and do that, or is it covered under, you have 90 days to get this done before you have to renotify and And it’s survey notice for eminent domain. Every project we have, we don’t know if we’re gonna get into eminent domain or not.

00:43:26,930	Our goal is to never have eminent domain, but sometimes just by design requirements or law requirements we’re we’re into somebody else’s property and we need to work through. Those types of things and and eminent means are last resort. I, I don’t think anybody really wants to have to do that on a governmental side.

00:43:46,630	Uh, and so we’re, we would have to do that every time, no matter what happens on any project because we just don’t know where the project’s going to go, uh, upfront. One other thing we had in there that we, it said whoever the person in charge is of the project has to include their residential address. And our question was by residential address, do you mean the person in charge’s home address.

00:44:06,470	Cause I was gonna just say I’m not going to do that. We’ll just go to the penalty phase on that one cause. I do enough public input meetings, public hearings, and other things. I’ve had. Enough threatening phone calls to my family. I’ve I’ve had enough people come to my house and make threats.

00:44:25,500	I’m not, I’m not helping them find out, uh, uh, I’m sure they can find it easy enough if they really want to, but, but we’re, I and it was, I have no problem if you want to say it, business address that’s located in in North Dakota cause I agree there are some companies that, oh, we have a PO box that’s

00:44:41,300	good enough and it’s no, I, I, I don’t want to say that’s accurate or or good enough it’s if you want to come to our place of business and have a discussion about that. how you don’t like a project, no problem. I will do that every time.

00:44:55,500	That’s part of the job, but it’s coming to the residential home with family members, that’s where we felt that’s getting out of bounds on that and And we recognize they’re trying to hit a delicate balance and trying to see what is a good protection for the public versus how do you serve that and it’s a, it’s a tough decision, but how it

00:45:12,630	was currently written, it just felt it needed some clarification and some of the items in it, we just were we’re, if we’re gonna do this, let’s just know what we’re getting into and that it can create project delays, which then increase cost and how it affects some of the items on

00:45:30,270	there. Good. I think this is a, this is a regurgitation of a bill that’s been out in front of the past 3 or 4 sessions and it’s been killed each time, and I don’t know.

00:45:45,370	I, I was talking to for some comparison version last night and they, they said, well, we’d really like to just get this resolved rather than see at each session and then, and so hopefully there’s a happy medium. For for everybody can, that can. Yeah, yeah, trying to find that. Balances, it’s the real trick and we, we understand where they’re coming from. Um, Mr.

00:46:08,130	Chair Board, there was um a legislative um social last night I attended, um, unfortunately, the North Dakota Petroleum Council also held the social last night and so, um, maybe a little fancier than the water one, I don’t know, but, uh, we didn’t maybe get as many as we had hoped, but there is, there is still a

00:46:26,770	good representation of legislative people and. Department of Water Resources people, so. The That’s all I got. OK. Any questions? We, uh Tracking Dennis or anything regarding some of the property tax bills or anything like that.

00:46:51,470	You know, that whole reduction in for water funding for the Resources Trust Fund is an offshoot of that property tax, but, um, discussion because they, you know, funding for relief would have to come from somewhere and. But other than that, I no, not to my knowledge, really. Good. All right. Thanks, Dennis. Uh, move on to the next item there, the permit in your packet there. Uh, the reapplication it was terminated.

00:47:16,930	Yeah. OK. And you just, uh, background information on those. Anytime you start a project, a lot of times you’ll have to have the NDPS, uh, erosion control permit, uh, typically those are applied for by contractors and realistically it should be the contractor that closes those out, however, because you are the applicant, you end up with a.

00:47:37,300	The paperwork in the end. It’s it’s not complicated. You just mark it, check it and submit it, so, uh, that’s been taken care of, you kind of close the whole Yeah, close it out. Yeah.

00:47:51,170	OK? And then we also on on mic if you want to continue on with that one regarding the uh.

00:48:03,530	The beneficiary use forms that we submitted to the Department of Water Resources regarding our uh, the permit individual and then of course, I was referred to the hydrologist, just who’s up there, um, the McDowell Dam permit has reached its extension limit and their comment now was, hey, all you need to do is basically reapply for the permit and we’ll give you an extension, but their

00:48:20,500	choice on the extension, whether it’s 1 year, 2 years, or whatever. is going to be based on an evaluation of the watershed. In other words, are there other applicants out there who are waiting in line? Are there other uses that are potential out there.

00:48:35,100	So in other words, does yours still stay at the top of the list because you haven’t done anything as of late, um, so we put together some documentation and says, you know, hey, here’s what the waterour district is doing.

00:48:50,900	You’re in the process of securing easements, uh, you evaluated things in the past, um, I did tell them that we will have the updated uh evaluation memo which we’ll talk. Caught after a little bit of the analysis, the hydraulic side, um, they did were unaware of any other demands on the system for Apple Creek.

00:49:08,500	Uh, so as soon as they get the, uh, the memorandum back, they’ll do their own internal evaluation on uh what period of extension to do that. And there was a letter submitted on behalf of the board for that extension as well, so. Yeah, and then I even filled out a like an online electronic. The us yesterday too. OK. So, we’re, we should be in there for sure. So. for a Extension in the Um.

00:49:29,400	There’s not an approval of the extension unless the water Commission submitted something. No, it was basically just our application to do that or. Our information, so. There’s notification they gave us back in February that we had 10 number of days to. Sumit. Do it.

00:49:49,170	And the water use report was also submitted to, which is. Effectively 0, that’s an annual report that’s been submitted. OK. Thanks, Michael. Any questions on that? If not, uh, I don’t know, Mike, if you want to give an update, but yeah, Houston wanna. An award through the.

00:50:17,900	Or to go to NSPE through NDSPE each year, um, the local society professional engineers request applications for projects for awards project of the year, uh, Hogue Island won that this year for, uh, the Hoge Island Bank stabilization work, which I appreciate all the efforts of the board, um, that was one of the, I think the award came from the standpoint, it was an extremely interesting project,

00:50:36,670	complicated in a number of different factors, but, uh, that award will now be submitted to the states. Society of Professional Engineers for consideration for the state award too, so. Yeah, I just did the whole packet, you know, it’s kind of nice, kind of summery and. Yeah.

00:50:51,570	You write up of the entire project. Right. And so, yeah, it’s, it’s nice to have that too, so congrats, Mike. Yeah, is there a ceremony or uh is it already occurred? Well, the chapter meeting happened real quick, um, it was actually while I was gone, so I was gonna try and notify everybody and get the

00:51:06,630	bank with. It didn’t. Didn’t happen, but. I believe I will double check that we were looking at, uh, getting a plaque for the board as well. A duplication on you really don’t have a place to hang it, but one of the board members can take it with him, so we should probably uh notify Randy too.

00:51:27,370	Actually, I think I did, but I was in contact with Randy while I was. Indisposed, but I will get back to him and let him know for sure. So OK. All right.

00:51:42,030	Actually, I think that was the email that was supposed to go out, but email down there is kind of. Interesting. So, put it that way. OK. Thanks, Michael. Uh, moving on to the uh low-key contract.

00:52:03,770	I don’t know, Kathleen or Michael, this is regarding, you know, the maintenance assistance through with Travis Johnson, his Chair real quick and Kathleen, I did not have a chance to really review the contract, though I did see what Travis was basically saying is, you know, here’s the contract, here’s the document, here’s my numbers, which the board can, you know, maybe consider but that he was still waiting for his insurance certificate. So that’s what’s kind of on hold at this point.

00:52:18,730	And I did try to get a hold of him yesterday. Apparently it was terribly busy because I did not get a call back. Um To see what the real hold up on the insurance is. OK. Because I’ve insurance is only available. So OK.

00:52:38,470	It was like, I think he did update this labor and equipment rate sheet too as well that’s in your packet there on page 882, so you can just get a sense of what you’d be looking at. Well, and his lump sums are pretty much what he’s been. Yep, good. OK.

00:52:51,730	The other one that, uh, Travis had in his email and this, um, given the light runoff that we have. Yeah. Um, I’m not overly concerned about, you know, the immediate nature of the OM reviews in, in the spring, uh, because we’re not in any flood threat, so, um, but I do think that would be a.

00:53:09,300	appropriate to do as soon as the conditions permit and the insurance is in place. OK. Agree. All right. No other questions on that. We can move on to the next item, the state bonding, so I know there’s some emails going back and forth.

00:53:29,100	I think we got init one from Sean Fredericks regarding kind of individual insurance or for board members or then also what we have coverage for the board itself. Yes, uh, correct, Mr. Chair. There, there are 22 different things going on in terms of insurance for the board. One of the individual board members coverage, which is handled by Nauru.

00:53:45,370	The other one is for the board as an entity. And that is at no charge through EDE, but there’s an application that needs to be filled out. We fill it out every 2 years, and, uh, and I’ve talked to Wendy.

00:54:03,770	Wendy’s got the application, so she’ll, she can speak to that, but I’m assuming she’ll provide that filled out application of the board that we simply send the send the application in and that will ensure the board as an entity. OK.

00:54:25,170	Sound good? Consensus, I, yeah, we do this every couple of years, so is there a deadline to get that submitted? Do you know? What? Is there a deadline um that to submit that or not? I think we missed the deadline. Last fall, I think, or something. So Because we did have the coverage and then. missed the deadline and it expired, and that’s why we have to do it. Got you. Yeah. Good. Consensus then when Wendy and then if I have to sign that a dentist. OK. Right. Thank you.

00:54:52,300	OK, as always, and you get additional information, uh, if you regarding any latte stormwater management permits from Wendy, we got one in there for, uh. Yeah. Uh, mmit Point. Um I don’t know, Casey maybe have him come back up again and maybe just give us a quick update kind of where that one.

00:55:09,470	Sis, I know it was A lot of information going back and forth a few months ago, but more case again. Morning. Uh, this one’s Summit Point 2nd subdivision. It’s within the existing summit point first subdivision, they’re just combining two lots into one lot.

00:55:30,870	So it’s really no net change, uh, they’ll just have one approach culvert instead of two unless they put in for a second approach permit. Uh, going through there, so this, this one’s. Very straightforward.

00:55:48,570	We just asked them, I just write a very short one page, one paragraph just documenting that there’s no no change from anything. The other parts we talked to him about was we’re looking at summit Point, 3rd subdivision, and some at point 4th subdivision. Their little add-ons to what they already did.

00:56:07,300	Part of the First subdivision Man plan covers parts of, of each, but where you just have to In your new stormwater matching plan, you just have to reference the old one for the other parts, but you still have to prove that there’s no negative effects downstream landowners going through that, I think they’re hoping they could just reference this from our management plan and that was it and it was gnawed.

00:56:23,630	Once you plant in a new area, it triggers the full platting requirements and stormwater management plan requirements at that point, so. OK. Yeah. Any updates on the DOT permit for Summit. Sure, um, I talked with the Department of Water Resources. And they’re very good to work with on there.

00:56:52,000	They said because it’s sheet flow and it’s more than 80 acres that they uh drain permit has to be applied for, and I was, well, my, my understanding is from the central code, it’s you’re draining uh pond like wetland something on that side. And it, it does say or sheet flow and they interpret it as or sheet flow means it applies because sheep flu. happens in this area.

00:57:13,830	And that uh we don’t, and their policy is you have to have a drain permit for anything like that, that if you’re not within a city or a municipality with a storm water management plan. I informed them we are, I agree I’m not in the city. Thank goodness I don’t have to deal with that.

00:57:30,100	But we do have a stormwater ordinance that applies in the county and we’ve had that for some time. And he was, well, it still goes back to the water resourceur district.

00:57:46,630	Now I understand your guys’s opinion on that is how our county board has chosen to do it is, why do they want the water resourceur district to hire a consultant to review and go through all these things when we already have engineers on staff that can do this, and I told him we’re more than willing to sign the permit that we went through everything and I took them through what our ordinance was.

00:58:01,370	Took him through our process of how we go through everything, how we go through the appliance, make sure everything matches, then we actually verify everything in the field and make sure it matches all the way through, and we do all of that before we even allow them to record the plat before they can even start selling lots that has to be built out 100%.

00:58:14,170	It seemed like there was a lot of new information for them and they were, and he was, well, I think I need to go talk to fewer people, see how that goes. Well, they, they had a good conversation.

00:58:29,630	He said kind of the short version of a very long conversation was, you still need to apply for the drain permit. They’re going, and I, I had sent them copies of our storm ordinance, and they said that that was new to them and they’re looking at changing their policy not to have just storm our ordinance in the municipality, but if a county has one also, they sit for.

00:58:46,170	This project that they can’t get that policy change done in time. And speaking with them, it was for the drain permit, it was OK, include the approved stormwater management plan. Include the approved plans that were submitted and everything that’s gone through. And they’ll start the process.

00:59:04,570	They said they don’t know for sure until they get into it, but it’ll probably start their 30 day comment period, which I, I would expect it would. And they’ll go through that. They will then work with the Water Resour district because they’ll want you guys to sign off.

00:59:20,830	That’s approved and I said, uh, there might be an agreement to disagree on that interpretation, and once again the highway department were more because we do go through it in such detail and go through the entire process, we’re more than willing to sign the permit. It just seems like. This is your DWR policy versus a county policy, and I think we can.

00:59:36,470	To me, I think we can find something that works to be able to move forward on that, but they’re, I communicated that to the developer that they need to apply for that and get that in on Friday. We went through a lot of that.

00:59:56,030	I, I don’t know if they, I haven’t seen anything where they’ve actually submitted it yet. I think they’re just trying to make sure they have everything together, fill out the permit, get that submitted. And then, uh, well, Sort the process that DWR goes through for their permitting and we just go from there. And Mr.

01:00:14,770	Chair and and I’m pretty sure Dennis is aware of this. The, uh, drain, there’s been issues up in Ward County as well with the city of Minott and even drainage within the city relative to the permit need, um, the permit need basically it’ll either be a statewide or in our district significance or not, this one won’t be because there’s no

01:00:31,470	statewide and there’s no interdistrict scenario, so it’s just a simple drainage permit, which you’ve dealt with in the past, but very infrequently, um, the. Permit and information will come back to you and you’ll just authorize the drainage permit or not in this particular case with all the evaluation that Burlee County has already done on behalf of

01:00:50,100	the county, um, I’m pretty sure this would just be an approval of the permit when it gets here. I wouldn’t call it a full formality, but it’s just procedural that’s in nature that would have to go through, so, um, I don’t see any issues at, at our end for on your behalf relative to this one,

01:01:04,470	but it is going to come back to you and you will have to approve it, but um it’s, it’s different than the DOT thing.

01:01:15,870	So Yeah, we should get that and, and, and I don’t know if we need to, we can probably just deal with it at our next meeting, I would say. Is that fair? because um like I agree we won’t. Need to go through it in detail. They’ve already done that. And so. Uh, Mr. Chair, I, you know, in some ways, um, This has made far more complex than it needs to be.

01:01:39,730	And whether or not the board authorizes it, which has its own meaning legally. We’ll just have to see as of yet, if Casey’s been handling all of this. I’ve heard nothing from any DOT or anybody. So at some point, if they wish to contact the board as to what they want to do, that’s fine. But until then, the board has already made its decision.

01:01:55,730	It checked the right box. It’s really simple. The county has the authority to do it. Um, Casey knows more than he ever would want to know about this particular project. It’s a done deal.

01:02:12,770	We’ll see what they come up with next, but if this is uh to be an authorization, we’ll look at what the word authorization means. We’ll look at the boxes that we checked, and then we’ll have a response to them. The interesting thing about this one is this is not the DOT permit. This is a separate drainage permit. So there are two independent items.

01:02:27,200	You’re right, Dave, on the other one, I don’t know where DOT is gonna go on that one in particular, but uh. I think actually the DWR is. Probably having conversations on that particular authorization as well, but this is a separate drainage permit. This one’s pretty straightforward. that road crossing permit.

01:02:43,800	Where does that one sit, do you know? It’s to the right to drain within to the right away permit and they want to wait for the DWR drain permit before they go forward because they’re well, that’s required, they want to weigh that and then they’ll say that had to go waterour District.

01:03:04,030	You guys need to authorize it because that’s their policy as they’ve decided to move forward, so it just seems like there’s some competing policies and everybody’s trying to Go, yeah, government’s fun. We, we’ll figure it out and deal with it. It’s it’s always interesting when there’s two left hands and 2 right hands. So anyway, sorry. Yeah, I, I don’t, I haven’t seen them.

01:03:27,470	Being anything negative, uh, DOT has looked through it. They signed off too, which just finishing the. Paperwork side and all the drain permit portions so. OK. Any other questions for Casey? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Casey.

01:03:54,870	OK, we can then move on to the next item, the, the bills this month, Dennis, and I’m staring at a pretty short list this month, um. 11 bill, it’s a Parks and Rec is the majority of the total bill, but um. Went through they all add up. I would move for approval of payment of the bills in the amount of $23,078.72. 2nd.

01:04:15,670	And, we’ll wait for Wendy to get back and we’ll go ahead and move through that motion when she gets back here, but. Michael, I assume next month we’ll have, yeah, double. Yeah, we’ll have a catch up. There’s, there wasn’t an awful lot out there other than the monthly pills, so, OK. OK.

01:04:38,030	But yeah, we won’t forget you. Like, no. OK. Well, uh, yeah, since when he gets back, we’ll move through the bills and then we can look, move to Adjourn and get into our executive session.

01:05:00,500	Um Yeah, there’s a question to ask what the, the interest rate was on Bravera wealth and I went back and looked at the email, I think it was 4.34% as of. A week ago. So minus the 0.25, we’re still above 4. So, which some of the CDs that we were getting there for a while were upper fours, so. 5, so that’s still pretty good might be advisable. In the future This weekend. I Yeah.

01:05:30,900	That’s very good Pain Yeah, if there is such a thing, yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. OK, welcome back, but, so we did have a motion to approve the bills by manager Reap in a second, I believe it was by Man Jones to prove this month’s.

01:05:52,570	Bills And when do you, when you get that caught up, you want to go ahead and take roll call vote on that, please. And. Yes. Injury? Yes. And Smith. Yes. Andrew Jones. Yes. Chain. Yes, motion passes. OK. Remaining items in your packet there, just some uh detailed information, mostly from the Bismarck Parks and Rec for their billing for the month. Yeah. If there’s no other questions at this point.

01:06:20,000	We can Add Jon or and move into our executive session to consult with our legal counsel. Our engineer on McDowell Dam, so we will now close our monthly board meeting to entertain emotion. To hold an executive session pursuant to North Dakota Century Code of 44-04-19.

01:06:40,830	2 to discuss negotiation strategy with our attorney related to easement acquisitions in the McDowell Dam project, so moved.

01:06:52,570	Hey, got aye. Motion passes. We are Adjourned from our regular meeting and we’re now moving into the executive session.