00:00:05,470	Good morning everybody.

00:00:10,630	We’ll go ahead and call the April order. Kelsey can you call roll, please. Here Manager Reep. He.

00:00:25,300	have a quorum and we will continue with the meeting this morning. Uh, item number 2 there, approval of last month’s meeting minutes. Any changes or? Oh A chance to review that. A second. OK, got a motion by Manager Jones. In a second by Manager Reep. To approve last month’s meeting minutes.

00:00:49,770	All those in favor say aye. All right. Oppose The I have it, Minutes are approved. Moving on to the approval of this month’s. All right, this meeting’s agenda.

00:01:07,470	Any changes or Let’s add D in there, the uh proposed capital improvement plan. That uh Dave and Dave can come up and explain to us here this morning. And walk us through that a little bit. They did hand it out here before the meeting, and it will be emailed out and made part of the minutes.

00:01:22,000	But Dave come up and kind of walk us through that. I move that we approve the agenda with the proposed amendment. Second. OK.

00:01:37,830	And a motion by that as amended this morning. All those in favor say aye. I suppose I have it. Agenda is approved. OK, moving on to comments from members of the public, not associated with a meeting this morning. Not with a with a project, not seeing anything, uh.

00:02:00,230	Dennis just was telling us this morning that there is a bill going through the legislature that’s gonna cause basically require us to do more of this where you. Allow more public comment at at these meetings, so, and so it’s something that we’ll have to look at maybe part of our policy and just kind of have some.

00:02:16,300	Or some direct rules and things of that nature, how we allow that. I think what’s interesting about that, Mr. Chair, is you’ve already been doing it. Yeah, it, it’s, it’s standard practice.

00:02:29,570	It’s on your agenda and I understand that maybe Dennis got a different impression, but as I understand it, you’re doing everything that that would require, yeah, so dentist at a good point. He thought maybe having some rules, just, you know, a time limits or, you know, things of that nature. Yeah, I mean, I think they suggest in the language of the bill that you develop a policy. And so we probably don’t have one written down.

00:02:44,270	That’s the only thing I would say we, we need to do. OK. Thanks. OK. All right, we can then move on to McDowell Dan this morning. Michael, any updates besides the easements or anything regarding the water supply? Nothing specific.

00:03:05,370	I’ll have some stuff for your executive session to go through, so, OK? OK. Um, how about on the bank stabilization is there on that one, we did connect with the Corps of Engineers. They’re going to be issuing a nationwide permit, so we’ll be doing the solicitations for contractors shortly. OK.

00:03:21,030	So, I was kind of surprised because last couple times we’ve done it because of the length and the added length of the total projects out there they wanted to go to an IP, um, we thought we’d try to get the permit resolved before we ask for quotes, but, uh, got a note from the core that they said they’re going to issue a nationwide, so.

00:03:37,100	It simplifies that process. What, what’s the uh approximate dollar amount we’re looking at. Do you have 7, was it 6, between 65 and $75,000. OK. And I imagine load restrictions are gonna be coming off here in the next few weeks. We’ll we’ll see. Yeah.. Yeah. Yeah, when it warms up and it’s not raining.

00:03:59,770	Well, isn’t that yesterday? No, just kidding. You know. OK. Uh, and then if we’re still looking to plan an emergency action exercise, right? Yeah, we were talking to Mary about that, and we’ll probably put something together this summer. I mean OK. Perfect.

00:04:18,300	All right, we can move on to item D then this morning, Dave. Good morning. Thanks. Good morning. uh, better late than never, I guess. Uh, I was hoping to get this to, to the board a couple months ago, but uh Kind of busy time of the year, so I got a little delayed in getting that to you. I apologize. um.

00:04:47,900	did hand that hand out a proposed capital improvement plan for McDowell Dam. We’ve been talking about this for a while and trying to identify improvement projects, general. general improvement projects, some equipment replacements and upgrades, and then, excuse me.

00:05:09,370	Addressing the um the items that are identified in the access audit, which is now what we call in the Park district our transition plan is the actions that we’re taking from the access audit, um, those three main items, uh, we identified the major components, um, um, sitting with with David Robinson and Michael Sullivan, uh, at the Park District and going through and identifying the major items that we’d like to make improvements on in the property as well as some

00:05:32,000	upgrades. Excuse me, got a frog in my throat this morning. And then took a stab at Breaking it out into years of improvements. What I’m presented to you this morning is a 4 year plan.

00:05:50,370	Um, I don’t know the appetite of the board as far as a dollar amount each year, so yesterday I, I, as I was printing this out, I kind of stopped for a second and thought, well, what would it look like if we said, OK, there’s, we can’t do this amount per year, it’s less.

00:06:05,400	How many years out does it push it? Um, and we can, we can discuss that, you know, I, I think what I did was I tried to divide this up into a smaller dollar amount each year, somewhere in the 15,000 to 2000. 00 $0 a year and it pushed it out to 6 or 8 years.

00:06:21,470	Um, but these were the major components in in this uh proposed um. Capital improvement plan that were identified by staff to make some substantial improvements to the property and probably uh in our eyes make it a lot more enticing and inviting for people to come out and use the property and enjoy the property

00:06:40,870	and have it there for many years to come. There are additional things that as we go through the years, things will come off and we’ll want to add things. So I think it’s gonna be more of a rolling plan that we want to.

00:06:53,000	take things off and and add them as we go, um, some things as I’m standing here talking to you, um, the docks, they aren’t on this list. They will need to be refreshed, replaced, that kind of thing, um.

00:07:15,100	The capital improvement or the uh The the transition plan in the access audit, I counted them up the um the consultant that I that did the study for us for the Access audit identified 79 items out at McDowell Dam. Some of them very, very, very, very minor. Um And then when I, I, I looked at the two major components in the access audit, which was the shower building and the, the restroom.

00:07:35,630	And those are the two things that you can see in here that we talked about that we had um Eel design do that study for us to identify how we address those. There were roughly. 30, 29 or 30 of those items were directly from those two buildings, so you’re taking care of.

00:07:55,300	A good chunk of them with those two buildings being updated or or replaced, which is a good thing. Um, the other items are, um, things that we, we identified in our transition plan, which would be addressed. At a later date because it’s a major redesign.

00:08:17,170	Some, some of the um Parking stalls do not meet code, so those would be addressed when the parking lot gets resurfaced, those, those kind of things because it requires some regrading, some things like that, that’s those are, those are the uh the acceptable processes that we have identified for addressing some of those issues. So again, um, just wanted to present this.

00:08:34,230	We have been thinking long and hard about how we try and Address most of this as soon as possible, but some of them take time, um, we’re not going to. Redo an entire parking lot in the first year when the parking lot’s in good shape, you know, to, to address the issue.

00:08:54,630	It’s it’s it’s acceptable to address the issue identified as a parking lot problem. When the parking lot needs to be replaced. So then you’re regrading the whole thing, not just taking out a chunk. Good. Yeah. Good. questions Dave, is there, um, is there a requirement or a timeline to to address access items. No, there is not.

00:09:17,200	The transition plan, so part of the steps to make sure that we’re, we first of all, we identified the issues, right? We know that there’s a problem with the access audit. The next is to create a transition plan and through that transition plan we identify what is acceptable, um.

00:09:35,570	Palatable to we’re still making steps forward, making progress forward with um meeting and addressing the issues that were identified, but we also need to, we create a timeline. It could be 10 years, it could be 15 years, it could be 20 years, but some of those things would be taken care of as we progress.

00:09:53,870	At the Park District level, we have gone through in that transition plan and identified some of those things. Um, for example, uh, Shelters, you know, in the access audit, he identifies that this shelter is not does not have an accessible table at the shelter he essentially he looks at every piece individually.

00:10:16,300	But recognize that as a park. Only a portion of it needs to be accessible, not every single thing. If they’re all like items. On one of them or 2 of them. At, at, uh, Bismarck Parks, we identified that our goal is at least 30%. Of things.

00:10:39,200	So if it’s a park with 10 shelters, 3 of them would be accessible. Um, for the example that I give in the park district is at Sertoma Park. We’ve got 11 shelters there. Um I selected 4 or we selected 4 shelters with varying different attributes to them to make them completely accessible, so we we address that same principle to McDowell Dam in the fact that

00:11:00,500	we would probably want to take two of the shelters and make sure that they’re 100% compliant. If they’re different, unique items near them, we would select. them a little bit further apart, not just. Two similar ones. So we, we do take a larger in-depth look at at those kind of things. The OK.

00:11:21,370	So currently, We have. Handicap accessible Do now. successful picnic table. Yes, yep, we, we have not, so, so part of the accessibility element with the shelters is that there needs to be an accessible table and we do not have any accessible tables out there at this time.

00:11:48,030	So those would be some things to to address, um. There is a percentage That you want to get. If there’s 10 tables, you want to have a, I believe it’s by code. I think it’s 2. But we look at it as. At a minimum Of one.

00:12:11,530	I don’t and I shouldn’t say code by uh by principle, um, So we’re, we’re, we’re inching towards that. We’re working towards it, um, I think what we’ll do is identify, you know, as we uh Purchase additional accessible tables. We’ll make sure we, we add some to the list from McDowell Dam out some of the older, older tables.

00:12:31,830	Some of the shelters have sidewalks to them. Some of them don’t, you know, accessibility there meeting those requirements. Sure, just, just a, uh, for information for the board last two budget cycles as we do our budget calculations and preparing our budget requests, we’ve had 150,000 in there for capital improvements on McDow Dam each year.

00:12:54,800	You know, as a sausage gets made, that kind of gets washed out, but um. The other thing I’ll just note is that. In our reserve funds we have a $60,000 balance identified from McDowell Dam Capital Improvement. 60,000 60,000. 60, 60. In addition to the 150.

00:13:16,730	Well, the 150 just kind of goes into the request that goes into the county commission and, you know, they approve what they approve and, and so, but that was identified and we, you know, consistently done that knowing that this is, this is in the works, so I mean, I look at this, I see. You know, 250,000 and 26, you know, 260,000.

00:13:36,400	Um, you know, I, I don’t have any concerns about it as this is laid out, but this is good information to have as we prepare that budget request and and we can point to this and say, OK, the County Commission, this is one of the things that we need to be responsible for, so. Yeah, good. If I could ask one question.

00:13:57,830	Would it be, I guess, acceptable for us to consider moving forward with the items that are identified in 206 for the budget for 26, or should I maybe dial dial it back, exclude one of those items, um.

00:14:18,630	You know, do we, do we push the park security to the next year just so we’re not up on that dollar amount to the limit and the reason I picked that one is I, I look at the the new equipment with the tractors would be really beneficial out there to have a new piece of equipment that, uh, what, uh, David is running out there is.

00:14:37,270	A really antiquated tractor that is getting harder and harder to find parts from Russia for this tractor, uh, and uh the other tractor that’s out there is is much smaller and it doesn’t really. Give us the flexibility and then I I say that item because the other one on there is the shower building.

00:14:53,470	I would really like to see that one addressed so that we are, you know, working towards that accessibility, and it does need the updates. Yeah. Oh, yeah, we, we could take a look at it.

00:15:05,770	Maybe d Dennis and just see what, yeah, my first impression, Dave, is, is, and this is just one board member saying this is I, I wouldn’t have any, I don’t see any issue with it, you know, that is part of the planning process for you we do have some reserves and you know we, we have had some additional. You know, interest coming in from these CDs too, so I, I, I think we can.

00:15:20,630	To do everything for 26, and this is uh is this a kind of vetted through your organization. This is a good priority for you, we have reviewed it, um, I reviewed it with, um, our executive director and he seemed all right with it, um, so we’re. Quick question, um In the city parks that you manage.

00:15:41,370	Do you have any security systems? We do have some camera systems in the Park District, yes. Yes they’re, they’re fed to my office. So this particular one. He said to David’s house. Not sure exactly which location the hard drive or the monitoring system would be identified, I mean.

00:16:09,270	The way that the systems work. Right now is they I could look them up on my phone if I needed to. So it’s, yes, yep, it’s not, it’s not physically a hard line there, they’re accessible on the internet, but they’re secured. Yeah.

00:16:28,900	Just so we can Try to keep an eye on 24 hours because we have had some issues out there in the past. Yes. Thank you. One suggestion on your 27, uh, Uh, plan on the UTV, I would, I would increase that, having purchased a UTV in the last, A year and a half or so, uh, Uh, and, and I would suggest that you particularly if you’re If your goal is access during all winters, then

00:16:54,200	you’d want to include a set of tracks, and that’s 6500 just for the tracks. And, uh, so you’re, I would I would up that number some. Yeah, well, yes, definitely we’ll take that into consideration and realistically, the, the UTV that David has identified as just a smaller two seater side by side that’s

00:17:15,470	not. You know, if we can get back in there during the winter, that’d be great, but it would not be the biggest priority like a cab and heat and, uh, yeah, yeah. But uh. Still, they, they’re surprisingly high. Yes, yes, they are. Yes, they are.

00:17:36,370	Do we keep the ultrasound during the winter months? We do keep those on, and I. Apologize I didn’t get those numbers for you this morning. OK. But they’re considerably lower than they are in the, Yes, considerably lower, I think, I think I gave Michael um some information that he was looking for.

00:17:55,870	I think during During the winter months, we’re probably down into the low 100s, 400, possibly during the, during the winter months and then when we get up into the busy season, July, June, July, August were. Couple, you know, we’re probably Jeez, I, I’d probably say we’re probably closer to 5, 6000. Yeah. I’m sure you are. OK, just curious. OK.

00:18:19,300	Any other questions? Um, just for, for Chuck. So Chuck, we, we went through a process with I remember with. Uh man vinegar that 2 years ago we kind of went out, we did kind of a full assessment of, of the park and and all the facilities and he

00:18:35,130	was out there with Dave and Dave and that’s kind of how we put this list together. It’s just kind of identifying what we felt were was a priority listing of, you know, some major, you know, other than just kind of some regular maintenance items that we have to do from time to time and

00:18:49,230	then part of that too was as Dave was mentioning was uh accessibility audit that we had to do for our facilities that you know for handicap accessibility, those things.

00:19:01,900	And so that’s kind of what we’re trying to merge together now as kind of this plan, so I appreciate you guys taking the time to put this together. It’s been very helpful, I think to Dennis’s point, the understanding kind of where we’re at with the budget wise, maybe it’s not 250, but maybe it’s 200 that we kind of plan for maybe bump this out a year or two, but we can kind of keep talking and looking at this.

00:19:16,030	I do think that 1st 2026 is very doable, um, planning for that rest and replacements probably makes sense for that 2027. So I think what you have wind out here makes a lot of sense to me.

00:19:31,470	Um, I remember through that process we kind of talked about the The rental building is needing a lot of work and needing something that’s a bigger item that we’re kind of pushing out a few years so we can maybe build up some reserves for that. So I like how you put that in there and then, you know, like the, the both of the improvements.

00:19:42,630	I mean, there’s a, there’s a lot of really neat features out there that I think if we upgrade and improve on that, we’ll get other visitors out there, you know, visiting the park for, for various reasons.

00:19:54,030	So, so I do like, you know, the fact we’ve got a, you know, a 5 year plan here, maybe push that out to 6 or 7, but. get it figured out, so. Good. OK, and I could, I could, um.

00:20:09,130	Send you a a copy of uh what it would look like if we spread it out to um yeah I think maybe we took, took a look at two items a year instead of 3 items a year or something like that that 2 to 250 as opposed to 250 to 300 kind of thing. Yeah. Also the, the, to point out the, the rental shack, um. We don’t know what that’s gonna cost.. 11 thing I didn’t put in here in uh maybe I should is is uh.

00:20:25,900	plans for having A consultant, an architectural consultant to do a study on it for us and maybe that happens a couple of years prior to when that project happened and then adding a dollar amount in there for that for that study, um, just to kind of plan ahead. Yep. Well, that makes sense. OK.

00:20:43,470	Good job. Yeah, as you plan this out, is, I assume there’s maybe a, a few of these items that might be eligible for some type of grant, um, outdoor heritage fund garrison diversion, absolutely, and thank you for reminding me, uh, just an update on that is we did uh submit the playground

00:21:00,500	project that we’re constructing this year for the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District. I went up. To Carrington to present that in the end of March, and we found out that we were successful in that. So there’s 25% match for that playground project, um, through them that will be received.

00:21:20,370	So there are many projects in this list that would be eligible for that grant. In particular. Yeah, that’s a good point, Dennis. Um-hum. Yeah OK? Any other questions for Dave this morning? Right. Thank you Dave. Yeah, good job. OK, we can move on then to the next item.

00:21:44,470	There’s nothing else on McDowell Dam, we can move on to financial reports this morning, Dennis, yeah, Mr. Chair, board members, as noted in your, in your agenda, we uh did not get the, the review of March um activity prepared for this meeting, one of the reasons is that we didn’t get information as far as what would the distribution

00:22:03,370	from Burleigh County was what it represented state aid versus real estate taxes, and so, and then I think Wendy just had some other issues going on and um so we’ll do that retroactively. that report at next month’s meeting with your, with your permission, um, and so won’t go over that, um.

00:22:23,370	Consensus on that. OK. Good. Uh, OK, thank you. Um, the, uh, on page six is the ender you’ll notice, and we talked about this a little bit, but, um, We are getting a refund from EE. I, we have no idea what that means. It could be $1000.

00:22:38,530	I, I don’t know, you know, it could be $20 but um there is an annual meeting there. I think they’re looking for RSVP. I don’t know if anybody intends to go, but if you intend to go, maybe there’s a. There’s a form to fill out a form to fill out. Interested, I guess that’s, that’s over a new business.

00:22:54,830	My, I’m getting ahead of myself. Um, anyway, and then, um, Item C Um, we do have CDs coming due April 12th, um, 2 of them in the amount of 500,000 each.

00:23:15,170	I did email out um where we are at with um our CDs currently we have, those are the, we have 1.3 million in CDs, roughly um these a million of those are coming due on April 12th. Another one’s coming due in June 12th. Um, the Bravera wealth money market that we also have money in. is pretty competitive as you compare it to CD rates and it’s, it’s, you know, perfectly liquid, so.

00:23:36,530	I guess Um Barring We, we can talk about it. I let me go over what. Uh, I did have quotes from Bravera Bank as what they could offer for CDs. Uh, internally they could offer 5 months at 4.1%, which is all this 4.15 annual percentage yield. 11 months at 4.01%, 15 months at 3.51%.

00:24:09,230	In 36 months at 2.75%. And then um See Sorry, I’m trying to get to. The other um option where they could sell on the street. Did open that up.

00:24:45,900	Do you have that caffeine? Did I give you that sheet to you? get back that And then Um Other ones they offered 3 months is basically a 4.1 to 4.3%. 6 months, 3.95 to 4.15%. And then it kind of slowly, um that goes downward on as you get longer durations. Um, I guess my thoughts are, um, is that we would But these CDs expire and transfer over to the.

00:25:14,770	a wealth Account since that rate currently is about as good as you’re getting on any CDs anyway, and that’s liquid. OK. Here thoughts or questions on that? I mean, to me, I agree, Dennis, if we’re getting currently 4.

00:25:37,170	3 and that’s was about the higher end of any of the CD amounts, why wouldn’t we? And just to, just to refresh, you know, keep in mind it’s got a 0.25% monthly fee associated with that so effectively it’s about a 4.07% right now, so that one’s not tied, tied to a term. Right. It’s fluctuating. Monthly. The only reason, and I’m not advocating for it, but the only reason I think about getting tied in is if we thought, and nobody knows.

00:25:55,900	The interest rates are going to go down considerably. Yeah. You’d maybe want to tie in for 11 months, and, you know, so, just throwing that out there. I’m not advocating for it, but, but we don’t, if I, if we knew what was going to go on would probably not be sitting here.

00:26:14,530	And they, these rates on the wealth count update the 1st and the 15th of each month, so they semimonthly. Right. Um. They’ve been pretty consistent since we’ve started using it. It’s dropped a little. But if we start to see that dropping, we could then. Yeah.

00:26:32,770	Quickly pivot and we could, you know, with the theory that it’s monitored closely, it’s not necessarily monitored all that closely, but yeah. Yeah. At least some monthly basis we’re kind of seeing it, right? As he’s become mature here now in the next few months.

00:26:53,000	OK, so But I have to have uh a motion then to look to as, as he’s mature, these two CDs mature that we move them into the well. OK. OK. OK. We got a motion by Manager Jones and a second by Man Smith. To, uh, as these two CDs that are coming up due April 12th.

00:27:10,100	Mature that we move them into the Bavaria Wealth money market that we currently have the other funds in. Um-hum. We take roll call vote, please. Anon B. Mitchell? Yes. And did Re? Yes. Manage your drawings? Yes.

00:27:24,000	And Thank you. OK. Anything else, Dennis, financial wise? No? No. OK. We can then move on to drainage permits and complaints this morning. Um, River Road, any updates this morning. I think at this point we’ve to bring us up to date on that. Yeah, I think at this point, we made a request last month and.

00:27:44,230	So it’s. And it’s getting worse. It’s getting worse? It’s getting worse. It the thaw goes out. About me. Morning, Casey. Good morning. Uh, once the area dries out more, once the, the snow didn’t really help because if we go in right now, we just tear everything up on that, but once it dries out more, our

00:28:03,530	plan is to go in there, get it cleaned up, get everything. Smoothed out again, reseed it, make sure it looks nice. We just want to be able to work with them. Right. I, I think we have everything set up.

00:28:17,900	It’s just waiting for it to dry out at this point. And that’s a 36 inch? Um, I’d have to double check. I thought it was a little bit larger, but I, I, I can double check on that on there just so we put the same size. Back in there.

00:28:44,500	Uh, that’s, that’s a longer term part than than what the downstream sedimentation is the upstream on that, that, that’s just looking at. It’s a longer range plan on that part at this point we’re just kind of looking at cleaning out some sediment and yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and we’re not saying that color doesn’t need to be uh worked on. It does.

00:29:04,300	It’s just all the stuff you have to do underneath to stabilize it. That’s more the longer reaching part OK. Yep. OK. Yep. Uh, Kit Park, I don’t know Michael there’s any update this morning. Yeah, a couple things on that. There’s been some correspondence going back and forth in emails, um.

00:29:25,730	In short, the, uh, if you wanna call it the developer and the change in plants down there in the development, uh they were talking about doing some improvements to the bank stabilization down there, which is a Section 32 project which is under the Purview of the uh state Water Commission, DWR along with the financial obligation of the water resourceur district at 50% for maintenance in taking a look at

00:29:45,730	that, we want to make sure that all the easements were number one shown in the GIS um platform that you. have adequately and the fact which easements actually apply to that particular site.

00:30:02,400	So we did the research, look back at that, um, in looking at the research, we noted a number of things relative to the municipal 6th latte. And that the easements were not shown properly on that plant, and there’s, there’s a couple of things with the easements, the one easement because when the city of Bismarck acquired that, there’s a century code where the uh the easements disappear, um, I

00:30:16,900	guess I was somewhat familiar with that, but the. Bottom line of that access still needs to be provided to that structure pursuant to the original O&M agreement with the DWR.

00:30:35,000	So we’re kind of working through that, um, I talked to, um, Uh, Gabe Shell City engineer, and they were gonna modify and adjust the municipal 6 plat for that particular easement issue, um, and then there’s the discussion of the western boundary of that platte being potentially affecting sovereign lands, and you can’t plot sovereign lands, so, uh, this afternoon there’s a meeting at the um DWR to discuss that as

00:30:52,400	to what was done and how, you know, to step forward on that. So I will attend that, um, invited Roger and Dennis and everybody’s busy, so yeah, it’s, I don’t think it’s a. Critical component, but just go step through and find out where the district’s obligations may play in that.

00:31:07,900	So, um, it’s a good exercise to go back and look at things we did find out a couple of things relative to the easements that were corrected in the GIS also found out that, uh, as we decided to change the GIS application and we couldn’t use it anymore, so we ended up

00:31:20,470	having to redo that, um, and get that back up and running again and it is, and the new link has been uh put on the website, so everything’s good to go. OK. Right? Any questions on that? If not, thanks, Michael. OK. Uh, we can move on to item item 8, nothing that’s been closed recently. Mr.

00:31:41,930	Chair, one item that I just emailed out, there was an email complaint, if you will, that was filed uh by uh Mr. Dan Hogue roadway up around Baldwin. I had a couple of conversations with him as well as uh. Um So we went through that, uh, Casey and I talked about that a little bit this morning.

00:32:05,230	Um, we need to get Don to finish out the form after the form is actually completed, then we can step through and uh and actually complete a memorandum.

00:32:20,730	I think there’s a lot of information out there that’s already there it’s just a matter of if this board has a complaint to actually document what that is and, and make a decision. Sounds as though it’s a low maintenance roadway, and I don’t know if it ends up being an obstruction, that’s kind of the question that’s out there relative to the culverts that’s in place.

00:32:34,100	So as soon as uh, Don Hall gets that Casey, I don’t know if you want to touch on that at all, but as soon as we get the complaint formally from Dan, uh, then we can proceed, I guess, uh, we’d be looking at the board consensus of that form is actually submitted that we could start the process rather than wait for your next meeting. OK. Yeah. Born again.

00:32:55,470	Uh, so, 201 for the first mile west of US 83 is a township road, and that’s under maintenance going west of there, it is no maintenance road. It’s not a minimum maintenance. It’s, there’s no maintenance. It’s not even, it’s not even considered a road. Now, where that culvert was placed at Don is talking about.

00:33:14,270	We met with Glenview Township yesterday, and Glenview Township is going to take the lead in addressing where that culvert is. We, we did go out and look at it. The culvert is east of where the low area is on there, I, I, no one’s disputing that it affects the upstream landowner.

00:33:33,900	We and talking with Glenview, it was, it needs to be moved to the low area, maybe do a little bit of touch up on the ditch. is, get everything to flow a little bit smoother and be able to do that. Now, who installed it? Great question.

00:33:46,730	I, I don’t know off the top of our head, somebody went in, they put in a plastic culvert which, uh, if it’s a actual maintenance role, we don’t allow plastic underneath. They’re always, but since it’s not a road, it doesn’t exist, somebody just went out and kind of kind of did this. Then there’s another area that’s further west of there.

00:34:07,030	That years and years ago had some maintenance done. It has been off of maintenance for a long time, and it kind of Goes off the sex line, it’s very steep ravine difficult area and water does flow down that erodes off and goes downstream.

00:34:30,000	Uh, in speaking with Glenview Township yesterday we talked to him about us uh placing signs for them and it’s basically advisory signs saying, you know, it is a sex line, but this is a this isn’t a road, it’s hazardous. We recommend you actually don’t even go down it. And we’re talking.

00:34:48,030	to him about placing it on the east side of the uh where it’s no maintenance road and on the west side, so it both directions, no, and be able to go from there. So I, Don probably just didn’t know Glenview Township was talking to us.

00:35:07,470	I know Dan had contacted Glenview and he’s contacted us about it and we it speedy government, it is being addressed just maybe not as fast as Don would appreciate. Yeah. Yeah, it’s kind of like thanks case, that’s kind of what I gathered from the email too, Michael this is more of a. Road and access issue that it is a water resource issue.

00:35:22,670	I clearly that, you know, we can’t prevent landowners from putting in a small culvert across the section line and you know that they’re trying to gain some access, that’s. As long as they’re not impeding the flow, which says that that’s the issue, it’s the issue more of the road becoming.

00:35:38,300	You know, non-drivable or not even a road I should even say it’s a road, it’s more of a session line trail, but the scenario that comes in obviously is, you know, is this section La road as it currently sets an obstruction, was it an obstruction created by somebody, or is it just because people have been driving down on non-maintenance area.

00:35:54,470	So with that aspect, I, I do have Don’s email address. I do have his phone number. I can rotate them back and basically say, hey, it looks like this is.

00:36:06,630	Actually moving somewhere for lack of better way of saying it, and if he wants to file the form he can if he just wants to wait for the process to kind of play out, he can do that as well, and then we’d only react if in fact you it formalizes the complaint that’s what the complaint would be. Yeah, I think there’s two separate issues Don’s talked about.

00:36:21,730	One’s the culvert which is holding some water back on the, on the north side. That, that does need to get shifted and moved to the right location in Glenview Township’s taking the lead on getting that, that done. The others further down than no maintenance and, uh, it, that’s a whole different issue.

00:36:42,000	We’ve tried to address that in the past and You know, we got to be able to Obtain easements and if people don’t want to grant us easements, there’s not a whole lot we can do about it at that point. OK. Good. Thanks, Casey. Any questions for Mr.

00:37:01,570	Chair, before he leaves, uh, I’ve talked to Don several times on this, and so is Michael, but he, I think his complaint is two different. I think you mentioned two different.

00:37:15,570	Will this complaint letter take care of both of those? Are we going to address the road and the road I think should be the highway department, but the water problem is ours, I think. Is that correct? I, so the first complaint is with the call. I, I think that’ll address what he emailed about. The second part, it’s actually Glenview Township’s wrote.

00:37:32,770	They, they decide, and they’ve said this is a no maintenance road, it’s not, they don’t consider it a road. I, I’m not saying it’s not a. Gravel and it’s not gravel, a dirt path that someone can try and go down. We’ve gone down it before.

00:37:46,470	I would recommend not even trying to drive unless it’s been dry for a month, and even then the ravines in it are severe. The ruts in it are really bad. I, I wouldn’t recommend going down there, and that’s part of what we talked about Glenview Township. Let’s let’s just put in adviser, let’s put advisory signs up that it’s very hazardous, we recommend you do not go down it at all.

00:38:06,230	Yes sorry if I missed this. Is it, is it abandoned section line embankment, I mean, is it, is it an embankment? It’s not, it’s not abandoned. It was never built to any roadway standard, but it is an embankment at one it’s a ravine, so you got uh 60-foot drop on the south side.

00:38:27,500	Uh, really rutted out dirt path, then it drops another 60. Some feed going down. It it’s very heavy terrain and it was kind of a past someone might have gotten through once upon a time, and I, I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t recommend trying to drive down and is it, it’s not section line, is it? Yeah.

00:38:49,370	It, it is a section line, but part of it goes off of section line cause they were trying to follow. The terrain a little bit, but that’s why it’s also considered a no maintenance road. Where if it’s by law, if it’s minimal maintenance and uh, and it’s a bus route, you then have to build it to Rho standards.

00:39:09,730	That’s why it’s not a minimum maintenance. That’s why it’s a no maintenance road that so to us, you’re kind of getting in the weeds a little technical, but that’s why we try to be very clear on what that road is.

00:39:23,830	And just try to say it’s not a road. Mr. Chair Mr. Chair Casey Mr. Chair Mr. Chair Casey, is there signage? On that anywhere along that axis. Currently, On the east west of 201. No, and that’s why we were talking about Glenview Township.

00:39:50,730	Let’s put the signage up that advises it’s a hazardous route and that they shouldn’t, we recommend not going down, but we can’t do regulatory sign. Uh it’s an advisory sign, so the yellow signage and we have that in different areas throughout the county.

00:40:08,570	We just have to have the permission of the townships since they’re the roadway authority of do they want to have the road under maintenance or do they want a minimum maintenance road or? to no maintenance area and since they’ve declared it no maintenance, and it has been for a while. They were just, let’s just make sure we’re clear on it. Let’s put the signs up and then everybody knows. Thank you then, Mr.

00:40:24,030	Chair, to kind of close this out, um, I will send, well call on, let him know that Glenvie Township is working with the Burle County Highway Department to address the issues that are out there, and then I will follow that up with an email and said if those issues are not addressed, um, and you

00:40:39,470	still wish to file a complaint, here’s the form to fill out. Yeah. Very good. That way we’re not doing anything we don’t need to do, and it sounds like there’s a lot of things being done in the background, uh, presumably that resolves the issue. It may not, but. Um We’ll let that play out first.

00:40:55,370	OK, good. Sounds good. Thanks, Casey. Thanks, Michael. OK, we can then move on to item 9 this morning, projects, any updatesi on Hoge Island at this point? No, we’re just going to let that, uh, go by the wayside.

00:41:16,170	I will be talking to, uh, DWR relative to the bank stabilization permits and easements, so I’ll probably have a brief discussion with them as to what’s being planned at Hoge Island because they’ll have all the players in the room, so, OK. OK. Thank you. And we can move on to item B, the Apple Creek, U Mary slide. You guys had a meeting on Monday. We did.

00:41:34,370	I’m gonna let uh Michael rehearse, uh, the, uh, Summary of the meeting and what we’re going to do going forward. OK. Thank you, Roger. Um, I did do a handout that you see uh from the process.

00:41:53,030	We had a really good meeting with the stakeholders, um, basically, uh, the water resourceur District, University of Mary, and DES and uh DWR was there as well, um, discussing what was out there and the current plan set, um.

00:42:14,470	Russell sheets from Bar Engineering was there kind of explained what they’re seeing as far as the um status of the slide area, um, there is a lot of surface impacts associated with um water coming out of the lignite seam up above erosion on the slope, uh, primarily that’s a visual. It doesn’t look good, but it doesn’t affect the stability of the slope itself.

00:42:32,270	So they will be working to do some regrading of the small scarps that appeared, um, after the uh process was originally stabilized and that’ll be taken care of this spring. They are putting in additional monitoring wells, uh, don’t quote me on the number, but I think they’ve got, uh. 3 borings and 3 soil borings to analyze what’s out there today as well as 3 inclinometers. The inclinometers are used to determine slow movement.

00:42:50,730	So they’re putting those in um. So that’s where the University of Mary’s going. They, that process is underway. Uh, they agreed to share all of their information with the water Resour district and the review of the lower slope, um, we had the, uh, geo uh Geotech consultants online as well, so

00:43:08,930	they were watching the discussion, trying to make sure that when we collaborate and coordinate that we’re not putting anything out there that is already being put out there by you Mary. OK.

00:43:22,800	Uh, because we, the plan is to put several inclinometers out there to find out what’s happening with the lower slope. general discussion, I think everybody’s got kind of a, an idea as to what may be happening, or shall I say that everything’s probably stable now that it’s, it’s shifted, um, that’s to be determined, uh, but from a grant perspective, uh, DES was there and I gave you a summary of the discussion

00:43:43,030	with DES if the district approves or uh concurs with uh The short email or presentation I put together, uh, DES would submit that grant application to FEMA. Uh, and then probably within a month or so, the funds would be authorized.

00:44:02,470	Uh, the other aspect of it is, is that once they submit it to FEMA, they, uh, are in essence approving preliminary work, uh, University of Marys agreed to share all of the um geotechnical and design data with, with our geotechnical team so that we can start that process before the formal grant approval. You can get dollars and those would still be eligible funds.

00:44:24,200	The other one in the total process from a budgetary perspective is that um the emergency action plan funds, which were $10,000 in SA 30 are not eligible for the grant because they’re not a physical feature. So that would be uh a board expense.

00:44:40,730	The other thing is, given the cost increases that uh were projected at your last meeting, uh, they have a cap on these at $275,000. The scenario with that cap is if other funds are available after other projects are completed and they don’t need them all, uh, there is the opportunity for additional funds to be um. Allocated above the 275, but, uh, that’s yet to be determined.

00:45:02,270	So in essence, bottom line, when you take a look at it. The obligation of the board if everything were to play out exactly as perspective as projected would be about $74,000.

00:45:22,370	Um, we talked a little bit about the, the what if’s on the lower portion of what might need to be done, if anything, um, obviously we don’t know the details on that yet, but the, um, once the grant is completed, there would be a, if you wanna call it a project plan as to what might need to be done on that lower slope to uh to stabilize it.

00:45:35,300	I would speculate, and I did during the meeting, that if the upper slope is in fact just shifted and it’s now engaged and stable. In other words, it’s not moving like is intended under their BR grant that the Lower slope improvements might just be a simple regrading and shaping of what’s down there.

00:45:51,370	To, uh Basically stabilize and get rid of the fault cracks that are there. What that entails as far as cost, don’t really know at this point. So again, in short, if the district concurs with this number, uh, DES will submit the grant application as submitted.

00:46:10,000	Uh, we do have a couple more documents we need to get to them, but, um, the approval of that would occur in me. May or June, he said, depending upon timeline. Um, obviously the background scenarios, everybody’s probably heard the um FEMA has now stopped the brick grant program, so there’s a number of grants that have now fallen by the wayside, but, um, that’s an ongoing thing. It does not affect the funding here.

00:46:29,670	I think that’s the important point to understand. OK. OK. Thank, thanks. Question for Michael on that? So like uh help us out, there’s actually like 3 separate areas of slide that are happening out there, right? And so is, is this gonna help us in, in looking at all three of those, the, this is

00:46:54,170	primarily based on the major slide area. There is one the farthest one downstream. Well, actually there’s one further south of this, if I recall, but none of them present a significant risk to the public. Except this one.

00:47:12,470	We did look at the upper one if that one were to fail, um, it doesn’t create any major backwater issues because of where it’s at in the in the system, the one downstream is the same way.

00:47:25,800	I mean, there’s a place for the water to go around it and not have an adverse significant adverse impact to other areas, though the scenario with the emergency action plan, the emergency action plan can be in place for all three. Yeah, because the process, you know, will, will work for all three. So that’s the, that’s the value of completing that, but, uh, there is, it really isn’t any analysis to go fix those other ones.

00:47:42,230	Cause I don’t see at, at least in my impression and opinion, there’s really no dollar value associated with really doing those repairs. You just kind of monitor them and address the. Um Address the failure when and if it occurs. Go. OK, thanks, Michael.

00:48:02,270	I don’t Marys or anything you wanna add or anything this morning? Just not putting you in a spot, but I know you were at these meetings, but any concerns or thoughts or moving forward. Discussions with DES or no, um, this, this grant is not affected by the FEMA, uh, brick grant cancellation and even that grant, there’s other avenues that they might be able to work toward if it’s a.

00:48:24,900	Congressional appropriation, but the HMGP grants we’re talking about are not part of that, so. OK. So we’re good so far. We’re just in it for the ride. OK, thanks, Mary. OK, I don’t think we need any action at this point.

00:48:42,230	I think we’re just waiting for the additional comments from DES before we submit. Yeah, I guess the action from this board would just be concurrence with the, uh, revised budget numbers. Yeah, basically as long as there’s concurrence there and um we probably should have that concurrence in the record for the minutes and then we’ll just move forward, OK? Concurs concerns. OK.

00:49:03,630	Like, Mike, I or anybody I’ve not looked at these photos for a while. Has it, has it been any additional movement since it was at first started, um, the last time we looked at it. Here’s Last fall. Here, here’s my take going through each one, in case he can probably address it too, um.

00:49:23,230	Since the first movement and after the rock were put in, uh, the only movement that appears to have occurred is the, if you want to call it the surface erosion that’s happening, um. Barr has looked at the minor shifts that occurred during that period as far as the total soil mass.

00:49:40,630	And the other changes that have occurred have been the block slides or the material that’s falling off on the east side of the bank that’s basically eroding down and going into the Missouri River. So you’ll notice the channel was narrowed.

00:49:54,830	The rock was put in and now the channel’s starting to widen itself back out again because it’s eroding off the material that’s fallen in. In short, I mean, that’s, that’s what I’m seeing. It doesn’t appear a whole lot wider now than it probably was last fall. I mean, maybe Casey can kind of touch on that. Uh, no, it doesn’t appear a whole lot of changes. You just see.

00:50:17,630	Some of it, what was done, taking on the load, where the block cracks have widened a little bit, but some of that is drainage, and they still got a, some parts they need to finish up on their. The end of their project anyways. The only part we’ve really seen is more.

00:50:36,270	The Downhill area where they installed everything to help stabilize their parts, but, uh, like Mike said it, you’ll see little shifts, the We have the rocks, so we have the, the tougher side now, and it’s just gonna erode, erode the material on the other side a little bit. It’s kind of working as planned a little bit.

00:50:56,570	Yeah, yeah, you can see downstream of where we have the Rockets, probably chewed into the bank a little bit, but that’s on private property. That gentleman has called us, asked what we can do, and it, it was as a highway department. I, I’m confined to the roadway.

00:51:14,130	I can’t do private property, but it, it was, you know, if you wanna start the process, work with the core as a private individual, you certainly can, um, I, uh, the cost, I’m sure is a major concern for the landowner on that, but, but it’s, we try to help where we can and let them know the limitations that we have to excuse me. I will add dentists, those last.

00:51:32,830	that got sent out from Michael, that is that slide that’s happening further upstream. Yeah. I mean, it’s not the one that we’ve been kind of monitoring more closely. It’s, yeah, strom. OK. Yeah. So it looks different, that’s kind of, some of them are, some are, some, some are, are where we were. Yeah.

00:51:51,500	The, the, the, the farther zoom back pictures kind of shows the whole. Slider. A couple other things, Mr. Chair, real quick, um, from the standpoint of the activities that are out there. There was a lot of good discussion and collaboration.

00:52:08,170	Uh, there’s a wetland area that is impacted where the project at University of Mary is doing would have to remove that material, but it’s also the access road, should we do anything or should we need to get equipment in, so, um, there’s um discussions of the, what the contractor may be able to finish and holding the contract open from the University of Mary side so that

00:52:24,100	We can get in and with the equipment to actually do the borings and monitoring and then there’s also a small portion of the access roadway that they’re uh DES is now considering to be paved.

00:52:41,230	They didn’t consider it or allow it the first time, but it’s eroded and washed out 3 times, so, um, so there’s background stuff, but the, uh, I just want to say the collaboration’s been really good to, uh, to deal with both sides so that we’re not duplicating things out there and uh not causing issues for DES as well. Oh, the other one, and I know Dennis has been talking about this one too.

00:52:57,170	Now that we’ve got this in place, we can put it in front of the DWR for discussion as far as eligibility. Um And uh I suspect that’s more of a an office staff discussion, but they won’t do it until they have the web grants application in place, so we’ll have to deal with you, James, as far as the

00:53:12,730	sign off on that when we get there, so. All right. Any other questions? OK, now we can Move on to other old business this morning. I don’t see Mitch here this morning. I don’t know if there’s any updates on this year. Oh, he is here. Oh, he was behind the. Good morning, Mitch. Sorry. He knows what. No.

00:53:35,000	Born in board members, um, the, uh, in response to the President’s executive order on March 18th, the FEMA has restricted travel to uh some of it’s uh. A region, so the cab visit for May 7th and 6th and 7th has been, uh, delayed. OK. Uh, they have.

00:54:01,000	In the order they have 248 days to respond to that. Um Change in their management process and so the, they haven’t given me another alternate date. They just said that it’s on hold. OK. We’re still working on it. We’re still, you know, submitting documents and creating Folders for some of the information that needs to be submitted.

00:54:22,100	But, uh, you know, it’s still, we’re still moving forward with it, I think, you know, it could be up until November before we get an answer, but it could be next month. We don’t know. OK. OK. Any updates on the legislation that was maybe getting pushed through to help with. For.

00:54:40,630	With, with the townships versus, you know. That was approved. That was approved 2027 HP 2027 was approved. Yeah, so that’s, we’ll go to. Beginning of the year. OK. And so it’s. Yeah, I am, I have talked to two townships about it.

00:55:04,530	They are they have the mapped the female mapped areas and they’re, they haven’t told me what they want to do, but you know, it’s, we’ve offered our services. I gave them a blank copy of our ordinance and So that’s In their works. OK, right. Any questions for Mitch? Thank you. OK, we can move on to new business this morning, uh, in the packet on pages 9 through 17 is the.

00:55:29,500	Latest uh legislative update. I don’t know Dennis, is there any particular bills we wanna. Let me summarize this morning uh maybe a few House Bill 1020 is the primary appropriations bill for the Department of Water Resources and then general funding for water and.

00:55:46,470	as you maybe you’re aware, it came out of the house in really good condition and you got over the Senate and they had to reforecast of the uh Of oil prices and revenue income from based off of those and so um the Senate, of course, took a harder look at it and Basically cut out about 250 million out of that accumulated

00:56:07,230	appropriation. Um, of course, that, you know, they’ll go back to conference committee, but um, much of the, much of the reduction came from some of the major project water supply, um, Southwest Pipeline, Western Area Water supply, um, Mouse River, those are the ones that got a lot of their, you know,

00:56:30,270	house version appropriations reduced. Um, and then it might affect some of the full-time employees at the department had requested, they requested 7, I think the Senate version may reduce it down to 5 or 6. I see the South Bismarck too was removed out of the Bismarck was removed out of it, yeah.

00:56:53,170	Um House Bill 1218 economic analysis, if you recalli Island went through an economic analysis, um, the bill original version had set a threshold of anything under $5 million a project under $5 million would not be subject to economic analysis, um, through negotiations, that number was reduced down to 750,000.

00:57:17,230	Currently the policy from the State Water Commission is 200,000. Um, our project still would have had to go through it at that threshold. But, um, as kind of a compromise, I think they’re, they’re looking at doing some more study in the interim through the, until the next session, but nor flood control projects.

00:57:37,630	Um, will be required to do economic analysis in the 25 to 27 biennium, so kind of a partial. Um, I guess maybe improvement from our perspective at least. And on that front, um, 2210, um.

00:58:04,870	Watershed boundary study basically will look at, you know, how to, how can water resource districts and watersheds be better managed, um, from a, a, a watershed perspective and so an interim study is, is, um, has been passed, I think that will sail through, maybe it has already sort of I don’t know that, but um. So that’ll happen um Senate Bill 2276 joint boards, if you recall last um and we’ve seen it in the Missouri River Joint Board.

00:58:27,100	You know, the requirement that all county water resource districts become part of those major um joint boards. 2276 took that even further and identified some of the more less major watersheds. Um And what they’re really trying to address is we’re neighboring counties get in conflicts over assessment district projects.

00:58:52,630	There’s, there’s basically 33 situations across the state, all of them in the eastern part. And so, um, As it was written, the water resource districts, um, you know, opposed it. Um, they, they’ve offered an amendment to the actual the bill sponsor.

00:59:15,170	Um, agrees with that amendment, so hopefully that will pass and basically it’ll take away that requirement and just um require put in some parameters for neighboring counties as they’re trying to manage assessment digit project assessment district projects or other projects where there’s joint funding.

00:59:36,230	Set some parameters and how they can manage those and so um that’s being heard this week and we’ll come out of the house committee this week and so hopefully that amendment takes hold. Um Talked about 2027 that Um I think that was it, except for 2180 we talked about briefly and I think Um, we’re required to have public comment. We already do it.

01:00:06,200	I think we just need to develop some policy and so maybe Um, and, you know, it’ll become effective July of this year. Mhm. So at some point before July we should have a policy in place. OK. Any questions? Any thoughts on the Hum-um. OK. So, I, yeah, I did have one question. So on the joint board, what changed.

01:00:31,000	is there Still a requirement that every water resource board be part of the joint board I mean so that. That did not change. The, I mean, the laws that were passed in the past session are still in effect, of course, um. Let’s see So 2276 would just basically as it was originally written, would have just expanded that to more situations, you know, so.

01:00:52,930	Make River watershed. I, I don’t know if that one was identified, but you know some of those smaller. Watersheds would have that same those same type of parameters that you must be a member, if I understand it correctly. And again, they’re just trying to address those situations where there’s disagreements between Counties on projects, right.

01:01:13,300	Um So if it’s amended, I think Like the requirement for Missouri River Joint Board, don’t quote me on this, I think that requirement would actually go away. Yeah. Um-hum. I think, but, Yeah. I’m not totally certain on that. So it’s still in uh It, it’s still being decided.

01:01:37,730	Or has it been has it passed? It’s being heard, being OK. Like, I think today and tomorrow. OK. I think it’s got to come out on the House committee. The deadline is tomorrow to get them out of the committee. So then we’ll go back.

01:01:54,530	To the Senate, you know, some concurrent committees to um So at the main meeting, do we need to establish a written policy. I mean, we’ve already kind of have a policy, but it, to my knowledge, it’s not in writing. Yeah, I think, uh, you know, by the time the law is effective, I think we’d be good, which would be July 1. Yeah.

01:02:09,800	And so, I think it would be July 1, right? Do we have a policy manual? We have, we have a policy manual. There’s some things it’s not been formalized, it’s not been adopted, but there’s a lot of elements in your, I’m thinking from this, Mr.

01:02:27,400	Chair, that basically a, a brief statement that Dave and I can probably work on one paragraph to cover it. I mean, it’s not complicated and you just adopt it in your minutes and then it’s policy, uh, whether it’s in a policy manual and actually published.

01:02:40,370	I mean that’s another element, but I think all you need to do is just pass a general policy, conclude it in your minutes to be covered. Is that reasonable, Dave? Yeah, Mr. Chair, you, uh, you’re basically confirming what you’re already doing. And, uh, we can do that and stick it in the manual. I think that’s fine. OK.

01:02:56,730	I mean, some of the topics, you know, the law says you should develop a policy, but you know, you say you may limit the time per speaker in total time. for that particular topic, you know, the comments. Got to be pertinent to your board. You can’t come in here and talk about. You know, highways and, and you know what’s wrong with the highway department, that kind of stuff, you know, so. Um Anyway, OK.

01:03:19,230	Uh, Mr. Chair, Dennis, what’s the, uh, what’s the number of the management of multiple water districts, um, There’s 2276. That’s a part of that. 2276. Yeah. OK, thanks. And then 2210 is the study, the interim study that I think it’s already approved. Or will be approved. Uh, on the joint board. Yeah.

01:03:43,830	Yeah. Kind of the same topic, two different legislations, but yes. Good. Any other questions? discussion OK, we can move on to other items of uh new business this morning, um, I don’t need any update. We, we submit those updates to those that are, uh, water permit last month. Um-hum.

01:04:14,170	Um, I didn’t see, I think there were some emails back and forth from coming from Travis and with the low key contract regarding his insurance. Where we can help provide some maintenance on a few of our projects he’ll have insurance by the end of the month. By the end of April. OK.

01:04:31,470	So, I’m, Still not had a good answer for you. OK. next month then? And then items uh the next item D there, the multi-hazard mitigation plan. So in your packet on pages 19, it’s in correspondence. Uh, regarding. These action plans for MRCC and Fox Island, um, so basically they, they just been updated.

01:04:53,200	There were some name changes with some of the. I think some of the streets and they updated the aerial photo and then Mary’s just looking for any kind of. Any changes by April 11th, and so I I think at this point we don’t or just Mary want to discuss, yeah. Good Morning again. Different plan. That’s the flood annex.

01:05:10,770	Um, we are also updating the county’s multi-hazard mitigation plan. This undergoes a thorough review by FEMA every 5 years, um, the approval of this plan makes us eligible for the HMGP grants like we’re doing with University of Mary.

01:05:34,370	So I’m looking for um projects from the board that help lessen or completely remove, um, issues, um, really what I’m looking for is a member of the board and Michael. because Michael has a lot of history to work in a subgroup to help update the, the flood information history, landslide, um, so if there’s a member that would like to participate in

01:05:52,830	that, we’d love to have you. The volunteers. I can do it. Roger, OK. That’ll work. All right. Thanks, Roger. Very So, um, When does that update happening? Is it is the process just starting or are you in the middle, we have been doing some updates, but we, we’re mainly looking for projects, the

01:06:21,230	history stuff I can work on and go back and forth with Mike on that too, but projects you’ve worked on, completed, costs, future projects, um. Just things that the board’s looking. Are you doing that in-house? Are you? Yes, yes.

01:06:39,470	I am one of the few county emergency managers that does not contract that out. OK. Any questions for Mary? Thanks, Mary. Thanks. Thanks for clarifying that. OK. And then additionally in your packet there you’ll see those changes to some of those documents too as far as the action plans there. OK.

01:07:06,100	Uh, next item, item E EERF is the annual meeting as, as Dennis kind of mentioned earlier, there’s a Their annual meeting coming up on I think it’s May 8th. Um, so if anybody’s interested in attending, I don’t think we’ve ever sent anybody in the past, but certainly this is. What you enjoy to do, you could fill out the.

01:07:23,200	Yeah, there’s a RSVP form to fill out and they want that by no later than the May 7th, so. But it is in the packet on page 24. If you’re interested in attending. OK. Nothing else on that. The next couple of items in your packet there are just, uh, some temporary water permits. I’ve been, uh, providing your packet.

01:07:42,470	Any questions on those? OK, you’re in none. Additional correspondence regarding kind of Platts, Stormwater management plans can be available upon request. There’s one in there listed as uh. Subdivision Uh, plat there for Summit Point for their 2nd subdivision.

01:08:05,370	I don’t know in case you want, is there any updates regarding kind of where they’re heading with some of this. Good morning again. Morning. Uh, Summit Point 2nd Subdivision, that’s just taking two lots and making them into one lot, so it, it, there’s really no impact on that. OK, thanks. All right. Kate, can move on to item 13 this morning, approval of this month’s bills.

01:08:33,100	Mr. Chair board members on page 33 is the summary of the bills. You’ll notice it’s quite a large number, um, couple of reasons for that. There’s 3 bond payments that are in the amount of um, you know, 100 and almost 130,000, probably. Yeah, 130,000 by themselves on er Creek MRCC and Fox Island.

01:08:55,470	Um, the other thing of note is that um Houston Engineering hadn’t submitted, wasn’t able to submit bills and last month, so there’s basically 2 months’ worth of invoices from Houston Engineering, so those are a little bit larger than they normally would be.

01:09:13,670	Um, and then our, our board payments are in there as well, so, um we do have one item to add, um, with, with board’s consideration to this as the secretary treasurer, I, I have a need of Excel and Microsoft Word for my tasks here and so there’s a monthly payment, it comes due annually, uh, it came to April 3rd, it comes directly out of my.

01:09:38,730	Uh, credit card account and so that was been paid and so I submitted that to Wendy and, and she has the check ready for me if the board approves it, so it’s in the amount of $106.92. For the entire year, upcoming year. Um, so, uh, that would raise the total amount on, on here to $173,000332.08. 32.

01:10:06,000	In 6th sense you said 88. OK. That’s not bad. For 2 months. Yeah, it’s like I didnn said it’s the bond payments I can do. Yeah. So, OK. With that, Mr. Chair, I move for approval of payment of bills in the amount of $173,332.08. OK. OK.

01:10:32,100	Got a motion by Man Reep and the second by Man Jones. To prove this month’s bills as adjusted. Any discussion? If not, you take rool both ways. OK. And then I, Yes. Yes. Jones. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes, bills will be paid. OK, thank you, Dennis.

01:11:02,800	Uh, moving on, the additional information regarding, you know, the detail on the bills in your packet. And I think that does it for our regular agenda. So at this point we are going to. Close our monthly board meeting to entertain a motion to hold an executive session pursuant to North Dakota Century Code 44-4-19.

01:11:26,030	2 to discuss negotiation strategy with our attorney related to easement acquisitions on the McDowell Dam project. The board has provided notice of this executive meeting in its agenda for this month. So I would not entertain that motion to Adjourn this monthly meeting and move into our executive session. Get a motion by Man Jones. Oh, seconded by Manager Smith to Adjourn this meeting and move into our executive