00:00:08,430	Go ahead and call the November board meeting of the Burley County Water Resource District. order. When do you take Rool, please? Manger Mitchell. Here. Manager Re. Here. Manager Jones. Here. Manager Smith. I’m here. Chair Landenberger.

00:00:34,600	Here we have a corner we will continue, uh, moving on to item 2 this morning, approval of last month’s meeting minutes. Any changes or additions? Moved to approve. One second. OK? I’m going to motion my manager Jones and the second by manager Reep to approve the minutes from last month’s meeting as submitted. All those in favor say aye. All right. Oppose I have it. I mean, it’s our approved.

00:00:54,870	Moving on to item 3 this morning in the changes to the agenda. Any additions I don’t believe so. OK. Moved to approve as presented. Second. OK. Got a motion by Man Reep and a second by Manager Jones to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor say aye. Oppose I just have it, agenda is approved.

00:01:24,730	Comments from members of the public, not associated with the item on the agenda, but still under business at the Burleigh Coy Water Resource District, not seeing any this morning. We can move on to item 5, McDowell Dam. Uh, first item up there, the supplemental water supply.

00:01:48,870	So at this point, we are still continuing to work with one particular landowner or the last landowner that we have, uh, remaining as far as an easement goes, um, we’ve been, we did meet with him individually at, uh, Houston’s office about a month ago. Uh, walked through some items that he had.

00:02:04,270	uh, some concerns with with in some of the easement language and kind of some of the easement exhibits. So we’re kind of working through that right now. At this point, I believe we’re in the process. I’m Travis of providing that information to uh, Mr. Anderson, but I believe he’s out of the state.

00:02:23,070	Yes, I contacted him and, and got a hold of him to the discuss delivery of those materials, and he indicated that he was out of town until the end of the month. And so how it’s going to, uh, defer to what your decision is whether we attempt to send those to him where he is now or wait for him to return. Yeah, that’s a good question.

00:02:37,530	Uh, Dave, you got any thoughts on that? I mean, he, have we done that before where we’ll send it to where they’re non-residents. I don’t, I don’t know if that’s a. Yeah, wherever the address is, if he, uh, Trump, did he give you an address? No, he didn’t.

00:02:52,970	I was going to have that as the next step that I call him and try to uh find out what his current address is down there, or also find out whether his mail is being forwarded to that address since he’s out of town for an extended period.

00:03:09,530	I’m curious, Travis, if he’d be interested in maybe at least reviewing it electronically, so if that’s something we could email him and at least uh PDS of the documents and just see if, if he has any interest in that way we could know you know, where he sits with the documents themselves.

00:03:26,000	Yeah, I can reach out to him and see if he’d be interested in, uh, I do have his email address I can check to see whether it’s, it appears to be more of a work address for him, so I don’t know if he is checking that where he is now. I can uh see if, if he would be able to access that or if he’d be interested in taking a look at those.

00:03:39,370	documents. OK Yeah, it, it, I would, I would think if he got to the point where he could review those electronically and was comfortable with the documents, then maybe we could visit with him about if he’d be open to us sending. Um-hum. The to where he, where he’s currently located.

00:03:59,170	um I’d hate to lose another month but Related question is, when is the uh Outdoor Heritage Fund. decision and presentation, I guess that’s probably. part of the critical path here, right Uh, I don’t know that there’s a set date for that.

00:04:21,730	Usually they take, uh, a few weeks to review everything, but I would think that they would probably start calling for interviews sometime in early December. based on uh previous cases. When you visited with Mr. Anderson on the phone that you actually talked to him? Yes, I did.

00:04:42,600	Did he did he make comment something about the fact that he wanted to wait until he got back or was he willing to continue to the, the discussion even though he’s I guess he didn’t say that specifically, but he, I guess, didn’t seem to excited to, to look at things and kind of, uh, I guess his general tone is that he didn’t really want to be bothered, but, uh, I think we may have to uh. at least make that attempt. OK. All right.

00:05:03,100	Yeah, thanks, any of your thoughts or? OK. Uh, yeah, two dentniss point the on page 7 of your packet there, we did submit the grant application to the Outdoor Heritage Fund, um, but believed it was due by, was it November 1st, Travis? Yeah, that was, it was due November 1st.

00:05:24,630	We got it in just a couple of days ahead of that. So we’ll see what, uh what transpires after that if they have us, you know, invited us to a, a meeting for them to do a presentation. We can do that here maybe in late November, early December. Uh, EAP exercise, so that was completed, if I’m not sure if there’s a.

00:05:44,370	date on that in your packet. 28th or something. Um. October twenty-eighth, something like that. Yeah, so Mary Singer. um, emergency manager, she called around, I think on the, on the information that she had. I think Kathleen Jones was listed as the primary contact and Chuck is the backup. Um she did contact you correctly? Yes she did. OK.

00:06:08,800	Um, there’s a few items, I think in their Tras that maybe need some updating. I think you’re gonna maybe work with Mary to kind of get those items updated.

00:06:23,270	Yeah, I’ve gone through and I’ve updated the references for the, uh, Con Water Resource District members who are listed in there as contacts and there’s a couple of others in there that I just want to call out and see if the person indicated in there is still the person in that position.

00:06:40,100	for some of those local emergency contacts, like for, uh, county and DOT and Railroad representatives and such who are, you know, in case of anything catastrophic out there, but I just like to follow up on a couple of those contexts, but I’ve done, uh, the, the updates for the Wao District references in there and I just want to do one more, uh, careful proofread through everything just to make sure all of the references are still current on all of those, uh, pieces of contact

00:06:56,900	information. And then there’s also, uh, a resources list in there that lists contractors who are available to do certain types of work, whether it would be uh dirt work or concrete work construction, etc.

00:07:12,530	I could also, if you guys wanted, I could reach out to them to see if they would still be, uh, interested in doing work if called to do so, to respond to any kind of emergency situation out there. And if they’re still the valid uh contact personnel and numbers for those particular contractors. OK.

00:07:32,230	Um so the NCS, uh, contact has changed, uh, I know, I do know that, so you’ll have to get that name changed and I don’t know who the name is, but is there, you know, lessons learned out of this is, I, I was contacted as well and, and, you know, answered the questions the best I could.

00:07:50,870	If um, I know, you know, there’s maybe some restrictions and on who gets the emergency action plan, who has them because they’re um, you know, somewhat, um. confidential nature to in certain aspects, you know, from a dam safety and overall safety perspective, but um bottom line is if, if those responsible had access to that ready access to it that we probably would have done better on that exercise, right? Um-hum.

00:08:12,730	Um, so I don’t know if there’s any any action out of that that is um doable or necessary, but just uh maybe a discussion point. Yeah, good point status, and certainly, yeah, there were some good things that came out of this just so we can, you know, kind of clean up some of these contact information

00:08:29,500	things and is there an electronic version of that? emergency action plan I believe so. It’s a PDF. I actually happen to have, or, or, uh, yeah, the EAP is, uh, is a PDF. I’m sorry, this is what I pulled out. It was just the report of the exercise.

00:08:43,070	I brought a copy of that with, but yeah, the, the uh EAP, we’ve got that all as a PDF and then, uh, there are physical books that have been created for keeping on the shelf in in key locations and in certain offices, but uh yeah, we do do have that in in electronic format, and I can make sure that all those updates get

00:09:00,100	applied and then PDF and that can be provided to the managers for, for their, uh, use and uh the big thing that came out of this exercise is just simply reviewing that EPA, becoming familiar with it, with the various classification, hazard classifications, and then, uh, the response actions necessary for each of those respective classes, and so I

00:09:18,370	think it’s uh good to just make sure that Chuck and, and Kathleen have a copy of that plan and then, uh, do a read through it and just kind of practice or mentally go through it and, and understand what is needed for that in the event that there’s anything happens.

00:09:33,870	So that’s the big thing is they’re looking just to make sure that people are familiar with people who are on there are familiar with what needs to be done if they get called to do so. So that way you can respond a little bit more uh quickly if, uh, if needed without having to, you know.

00:09:47,170	pour over the book so, so much, but uh just be familiar with the contents of that plan. Good. Yeah, I think I honestly, uh, probably all board members, I think it’d be good if we all had copies of that because I think she did make her way, I think through the almost the

00:10:01,870	entire. Yeah, it’s, it’s significant. I think the whole EAP is something like 37, 38 pages. But in all reality, it’s not that daunting. Once you start looking at it and understanding what’s in it.

00:10:18,170	There’s only 2 or 3 pages in there that basically give you all of the key information that you need to get familiar with to, to know what to do on some of those uh response activities, so you just know which page to flip to and, and then you just respond accordingly.

00:10:34,630	So it’s, it’s really not that difficult that we, uh, like I said, I’ve, I’m somewhat familiar with and I’ve been working on updates to this EAP for several years now, and so, uh, it’s, it’s actually pretty straightforward. OK. Thanks, Travis. Uh, Dave and Dave, did you, do you guys, were you contacted at all in this exercise? OK, is that something you think? I mean, I don’t know. See like That’s kind of what I’m thinking. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

00:10:55,530	Yep So, I think maybe we’ll talk to Mary and see if we can get that Travis And then do you guys have a copy of that? OK, we’ll make sure you get, you get a copy as well. I think that’d be good.

00:11:11,070	Yeah, there’s a, a contact list in there, there’s a, I should say, a distribution list on there of, you know, key personnel who, who should have a copy of this EAP. So, I’ll make sure that. Yeah. They’re on that park district, especially Dave Robinson is on that list in the event that there’s anything, uh, that hers out there.

00:11:23,900	So that way they’re in the loop and they have that handy. do that, make sure that gets added. OK, thank you. OK. Well, that’s why you do the exercises, right? kind of work through this. Good. All right, uh, next item, the, uh, our land lease renewals, I don’t know Chuck or Dave, if you got some updates this morning.

00:11:47,800	for me? Oh. Yeah. Uh, yeah, we, uh, we got the, uh, previous, uh, lease documents from, uh, from Wendy. She was nice enough to send those to both, uh, David and I, and from there we, uh, tried contacting, um, uh Zach, I believe, for the, uh, Aero Club. Um-hum.

00:12:08,630	And then I believe Dave tried contacting Evin, the gentleman that is, uh, haying the land and stuff like that, so we are just in that process right now. Of discussing that with them and trying to make contact with them and told them that I, anything that they need questions answered or anything that uh either of us are, are available for that. OK.

00:12:26,230	Anything else, yes, uh, Mister Chair, Chuck and I are working together on this, and I since I’m familiar with those, I’ve been making the initial contacts, emails, and, and letters saying Manager Mitchell is taking over the, the, the portfolio, he’ll be contacting you, contact me.

00:12:43,000	So, we should have, um, all three of these issues ready for the board next month. Next month, OK. Are we looking at any, uh, increases or anything on the lease rates or? That’s a good question. I, I, I suspect so. Um, I’m waiting to hear from the, the lessee. OK.

00:13:00,100	Uh, once we get, uh, him on board to see whether he wants to continue or what, then we can negotiate those dollars. OK. And we do it by the same procedure. We know that there are, uh, the county rents that are established by NDSU. uh, statistics, uh, that’s something the board can use to renegotiate that. OK.

00:13:16,970	But what that kind of that price per acre that we can Yeah. And then I, I was gonna ask maybe Dave and Dave too regarding kind of the Aeromod.

00:13:33,500	I know we’re doing some maintenance things out there for him where I continued mowing, things of that nature and that everything seems to be going pretty well with them. OK, good. OK. All right, get some updates next month then. Uh, yes. Uh, Mr. Chair, I could, Dave, uh, did the Civil Air Patrol do any drone exercises out there? OK. Not that you’re aware of anyway? OK.

00:13:54,370	I know they reached out to us a couple of years ago asking if that was a possibility and we said basically as long as they’re kind of letting you guys know and uh not getting in your way and disrupting the. And we, we built that into the, to the Aero Club lease as to sharing and timelines and so forth.

00:14:10,000	So, Chuck knows that and Chuck’s going to be following up with those guys as well. OK. See where we go. Uh, Mr. Chair, if I could just return to the easement issues. Um, you, the board may want to put on the, on the calendar, um, executive session for next month. OK.

00:14:30,270	These, uh, you know, repeated delays, uh, in delivery, it just pushing things back, and I think the board needs to make a decision as to how, how it wants to proceed. OK. All right. Wendy, let’s make sure we get that on there next month. Thank you. Good idea, De.

00:14:54,630	Thank you OK Anything else on McDonald Dan this morning? Not hearing any. We can move on to item 6 this morning, financial reports, Andre Reep. Chair and board members, page 49 is balance sheet, um, I’ll go through some of the details of the activity in the month. We started the month with a balance of $1,879,754.

00:15:15,470	3 cents in our checking and savings account. We paid bills and on 159 $196.25. We had income in the amount of $8,848.94 which included uh real estate tax and state aid as the primary sources of that. Um, ending balance of 1 million,729,737 dollars 8 cents.

00:15:45,470	Uh, Bevera Wealth, uh, we have, uh, currently have $2,467,210.79 which includes um about $8000 in interest over the past month. after minus the uh the administration fees. Um. you’ll notice new align item, uh, taxes receivable is uh, is listed on there. That’s, uh, one of the adjustments we made as part of the audit.

00:16:08,630	to report that um, so that shows up on our balance sheet So, um, with that, uh, we have total current assets of 4,910,000. $269.05. um I would, um move for approval as presented. OK. Got to motion my manager Reep and a second by Manger Jones to approve this much, this month’s balance sheet. When you take roll call vote, please. And your Mitel. Yes. Manager rate. Yes.

00:16:41,530	Manager Johnson. Yes Manager Smith Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. One auxiliary item accorded associated with that agenda item is the interest rates at Bevero Wealth. They have dropped slightly um as of November 1, there are 4.07%. um minus 0.25% management fee so effective at 3.82.

00:17:10,900	Um, that’s about 0.25 off the peak when we first started this in the middle of the summer, um, correspondingly, CD rates have also gone down and so I don’t think there’s any advantage to pursue CDs um separate of this. account as we have it now. So I don’t know if there’s any discussion on that.

00:17:29,500	Any thoughts on that? occurrence, continue with that. OK. Are you moving on, Mr. Chair, uh, item B there, Poffin last statement is on pages 52 of pages 5253 of the agenda book. I went through those. I’d moved for approval as presented. Good, so moved.

00:17:48,800	The second got a motion by Man Reep and a second by Manager Jones to approve this month’s profit and loss statement. We he did roll call vote, please. Mand Mitchell. Yes. Manager. Yes. Manager Jones. Yes. Manager Smith. Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. Mr. Chair.

00:18:17,170	Item C is, uh, in your packet page 54 and 55 um from Bevero Wealth, uh, they are looking for a release of securities, and so I guess I would move to approve the signature on that. document to release Social Securities. Second, right, I got a motion by Mad Ja Reep and a second by Manager Jones to release or the signatures. for the release of the pledged securities.

00:18:35,700	When do you take roll call vote, please? Memential. Yes Mandate. Yes. Manager Jones. Yes. Mander Smith Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. And then Mr. Chair, Borner’s last item is the um audit.

00:19:01,870	um we, as you know, we were part of the overall Burleigh Counties audit, and so they were, I think, two main findings associated with the water resource district. One is a repeat, basically due to our limitations in number of staff. There may be work around, um, to do that. I, but I think we, Wendy’s got a check for some software options to do that and basically they’re looking for a a a separate check of journal entries into the accounting process.

00:19:23,170	Um, so, um, we’ll work through that. The, the audit um was responded to in in the middle of October by us, by the way, so. um, and the other one, I think has already been implemented. There was just reporting, and that’s probably evidence that we saw on our balance sheet this month. Is that right, Wendy? That’s correct.

00:19:44,530	There’s no action we need to take with that or anything? No. OK. I mean, as far as the board is approving the auditor, just, yeah, just that we reviewed it and we’re just if anybody had anything we needed to get back to hoping to finalize it today. OK. Good. All right. Thanks, Dennis.

00:20:04,270	Any questions for Dennis? No? Thank you. Moving on to item 7 this morning. Drainage permits and complaints. Uh, I don’t, just in case you, no, no update on the river Road. Helvert, or maybe there is this morning Good morning. Morning.

00:20:32,330	So, in theory, we start tomorrow on it, uh, barring any interesting phone calls we get today, that’s all. I, the plan’s tomorrow. Uh, it’ll probably take a few days, probably finish up next week, try to get everything cleaned out and OK. Get, uh, everything seated and erosion control in and. hopefully it’s done and ready for winter.

00:20:51,500	OK, so at this point there’s no structural it’s just basically clean out at this point. Um. Yeah, it’s just the sediment downstream because that’s what backs everything up then ices everything in. So the COvert itself is fine. It’s. Yeah. OK. Just sediment over time. Good, good. Thank you. Thanks. Uh, I don’t think Travis any updates on Keelboat Park.

00:21:12,230	Uh, no, I haven’t heard anything new since the last meeting. OK. How about the hocktree, HOA E Chuck, you were maybe kind of in tabs as well with some of those, I did, I did talk to Michael about it, yes, uh, last week, uh, to some extent, and they are, um, pretty much in the phase of, uh, the Homeowner Association and I believe the

00:21:30,900	builder or whoever was owning the land are going to be the final say in all of this and everything else had panned out, checked out, so. OK. In case he’s got something to add to. That’s right. Man, that is gonna take my finger off someday.

00:21:55,370	Um, sorry, uh, we were contacted by one of the homeowners association’s engineers, and they’re getting some additional background information. Sounds like they’re getting together a stormwater management plan, Amendment, uh, to be able to go forward, get everything final. So they’re looking at trying to get all the paperwork done over the winter, so they’re ready to go in the spring to get everything installed. Good.

00:22:14,000	All right. So we got to a good resolution then. Uh, hope so. Yeah, hopefully everything goes smooth. OK. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. OK. Um, Mike Cook, only at this point, I think Michael was still looking into some things.

00:22:36,470	on that one as well, so he will have an update next month and then the Grenz complaint um I don’t know if there’s if there’s a resolution from Burley kind Highway Department on that one too, but I’m not sure where exactly that one sits, but sorry, sorry he’s getting getting your steps in this morning? Yeah. Don’t touch the microphone this time. That’s for sure.

00:23:02,730	Uh, I cooks uh there, there’s just a lot of history behind that. I think we’re as a highway department, we’re stuck to the right of way going into private property, uh, we can’t do that with, obviously without easement, permission. on their, um, and I think Mr.

00:23:22,700	Cook has been very open to working with us on that, unfortunately, as the highway department, we just don’t have the money to be able to do what we could have done those years ago, so now it’s just trying to go through the process and hopefully we can get that resolved. OK. Uh, on the Grenz one though, any updates on the.

00:23:38,500	Right, oh, yeah, rens. Um, so we went up there on and we shoveled out part of the ditch. I don’t think it was as much as the, um, uh, landowners had wished, but we’re all, we tried to start small instead of just rip everything apart, tear the whole thing, tear the whole

00:23:59,270	thing apart. And so we shoveled it out, put a little bit of a V-ditch through the area of sediment and then hopefully it flows and goes through. If it doesn’t, we’ll go back up. We’ll just keep monitoring it and we got to uh make it a little bit more, we will. OK.

00:24:16,430	They, they seem pretty content with. Um, see where it goes. I, I don’t know about Content. I think they wanted us to basically start over and rip the whole thing out and it was, yeah, we, that’s more of the final part, let’s, let’s start in small increments instead of completely tearing everything about.

00:24:36,630	She did call you? She called me. And she was not pleased with the depth of it, and I explained to her that we’ve got to start somewhere. and see what happens. If we need, we can go back. Yeah. Yeah. And the landowner that’s where the area was at wasn’t real excited about it.

00:24:58,070	Either we’re just, well, we’re trying to do it in small, small parts and not just completely tear everything apart. OK. Yeah. All right. Thanks, Casey. Yeah. So, we have a recommendation here on the, on our packet to dismiss. Is that what we want to do this morning? I don’t believe so. Well. We would hang on to it.

00:25:19,270	To the spring Keep it open for now on maybe in April and see how things are going. I’m sure I’ll hear from them at the first saw.

00:25:36,470	The only thing I’d say to that is there’s a statutory timelines to respond to it and so I forgot that I forgot what that is, 120 days. I yeah. I think it’s a 120 days. Oh, wow. So, three months, 4 months. I call and we’ll start over again. Since it’s in the public right away, we’ll be dealing with it anyways. That, that, that’s part of, that’s part of just what we do everyday.

00:26:02,100	So it’s a non-jurisdictional item for us cause it’s dedicated right away to Burleigh County. So it’s in our area that we can deal with so we can dismiss it. We can dismiss dismiss it, yeah. All right. Is that a motion? Kathleen? Yes. OK. OK. OK. Can I motion by Man Jones.

00:26:23,370	seconded by Man Reep to dismiss the Grens complaint on grounds of jurisdiction following two Burley Colia Highway Department. Correct. OK. Wend do you take a roll call vote, please? Manager Mitchell. Yes. Manager Rells. Yes Manager Jones. Yes. Manager Smith. Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes. OK. That’s. Dismissed. Uh, any other items under that? 7 and who wants to visit today about.

00:26:49,170	If not, we can move on to item 8. which is essentially just in in your packet is the uh the final uhal permit application for the Dewitt’s property. Um, so we basically went through the process and, and verified the ownership and in the process two travels there were a few things some when we were calling them again, but it basically was some.

00:27:09,800	additions to the permit application that we wanted to make sure that they were aware of and took care of, right? Yeah, I mean, literally just a couple of extra boxes to check is all. Yeah, really, but, uh, I think we got those taken care of, so we’re should be clear. OK.

00:27:24,900	So, that should be approved and closed at this point. OK. All right. Thank you OK, we can move on to item 9 then, and this morning projects, first one up, uh, Hogue Island. Uh, I don’t think there’s any updates this morning. Mike’s out, but, um, I think they’re continuing to kind of look at uh the chitter property as well.

00:27:44,000	and uh hopefully maybe next month, Mike will be back and give us an update unless you drive us, you got a updates this morning on that one. for the, uh, for Dave Scheider, uh, it sounds like the, uh, settlement is continuing to progress a little bit on that and, and they’ve been keeping an eye on that.

00:28:00,100	Dave has not heard anything back from either the Core or the state on that. I actually took the initiative, reached out to Amy at the state regarding that for as far as the sovereign land stuff is concerned, and, uh, you know, she was kind of waiting on some stuff too, so I suggested her

00:28:18,270	maybe get in touch with Dave Scheider and just let him know where the state sits on that and, you know, if they’re waiting on something, maybe give him a, a nudge to let them, let him know what they’re waiting on so that he can get that to them and help

00:28:31,100	try to facilitate some of those communications to keep the process moving forward. So, uh, that way everyone isn’t just sitting around waiting for somebody else to do something and, and try to be a little bit more proactive on these things and, and so she took that and she was gonna reach out to Dave

00:28:44,330	and, and try to help coach this along so that uh we can get something moving on that particular item. OK. Yeah. Thank you, Travis OK, uh, we can move on to Project B there, the Apple Creek Hu Mary slide.

00:29:04,630	I don’t know, Roger, any updates with more on that one? We’ve been talking with Michael at all I, I have not talked to Michael, so I do not have any. updates. OK In your packet on page 74 through 80 is just the uh the quarterly report that was, uh, submitted. um I believe that we’ve been also working with them as far as some payments.

00:29:26,900	or, uh. There’s a higher Um, yeah, I think that was submitted Last one? Yeah. OK. I think when you submit the quarterly report, it’s a convenient time to submit the reimbursement requests as well, right? And so I, we should be getting some money through the DES, I would say here. shortly.

00:29:48,870	OK And I think there were also some bills this month. There’s one bill on that. In there. For Bron, yep. Um-hum. OK. All right Any questions on that No, we can move on to item 10 this morning on your old business. We do have the CRS in here, Mitch.

00:30:08,600	I don’t know if he got any updates this morning for us or not, certainly I know last month we talked about this and kind of the ETA maybe even have an update for us on the ETA this morning, but. Um, not, not to speak of. Uh, there’s, it’s going to be uh brought to the meeting on Thursday at the Planning Commission. OK. Uh, Bismarck, uh, planning Commission.

00:30:27,800	which I think they’re going to finalize their agreement. which will go back to the Coycom Commission. OK. Um, that’s kind of the process then is they they they’ll approve for the city and then. Yeah. And look to get the county approval. Yeah, they’re, they’re looking at March 1st as the, uh, of the day to, uh, effective date.

00:30:50,800	OK. OK So, at this point then, where does that put us with the CRS? Are we still kind of waiting to after these approvals and then if they, everything gets approved as is then Yeah, we, I haven’t heard from FEMA yet. Um OK.

00:31:11,170	There is, there is a concern, uh, about the area in the ETA, uh, underneath in the floodplains area because the city is not enforce the 500 or the or the X zone, shaded X. They, they, you can do what you want there. Um you have to elevate in, in the AE uh zones. but we, we enforce that to be a two-foot freeboard in most.

00:31:30,970	So now everybody in the ETA is going to have to raise the buildings. in the, in the AE zone or the uhX zones. So, um, consideration is whether we continue that our ordinance as is or um change that, keep that area where the city had it at, uh, no, no, uh, elevation required. OK.

00:31:55,900	Si Chair just the people that were in the ETA zone that would not be in under the new map. That’s the ones that would affect, is that correct? Did I understand? do I understand ones, yeah, the ones that are being transferred to our jurisdiction, yeah, outside the EATA, yeah, OK. Yeah. Got you.

00:32:10,500	M Mitch What have we has this ever occurred before, and what have we done? Transfer of the ETA areas. Yes. We once, we did the, uh, summit point. That’s right. Uh, that was in 2024, 23. Yeah. And that’s the only one that I’m aware of And that went smoothly, if I recall correctly. Yeah.

00:32:33,900	It was, uh, the, the jurisdiction would have been the subdivision would have been split in half. Yeah. Uh, and so they decided, they, you know, they, they, they removed their ETA in the, in that subdivision. So, but this is considerably more area that we’re doing with this around, yeah. 95% of the people.

00:32:55,730	Yeah That live in the ETA It’s Chair It’s. Do you, Mitch, do you think the, um, FEMA would wait until the effective date of a new ETA map before they start the process on this uh reinitiate the CRS process. They will wait until after March.

00:33:16,270	Yeah, Comm Landenberger, uh, Comm, the, the, uh, cab visit and did not involve any of the ETA area when they were here in August. So what we submitted was only properties that were in Burleigh County. Yeah. So, now we’re in 14, 1500 additional parcels that are in the uh blood zones So yeah, we, I, I believe we’ll have to start over.

00:33:37,370	So along with that, we had contributed towards that and and emergency management had I expect that you’re not going to do it gratis. Well, I, I, I just do my job.

00:33:56,600	I’m not sure where the money comes from, but it’s, uh, you know, it’s I, I, I, I’m pretty fairly certain that they would want to start over. Sure, yeah, that makes sense, right? Yeah, makes sense. Yeah. So there might be another Yeah, that’s kind of what I’m thinking too, to kind of see where the budget’s at and see what was spent and. Yeah, we, we’ll be doubling our responsibilities in the foam. Um-hum. Floodplain management. easily.

00:34:16,370	What does that mean for your department? Well, well, additional work. Yeah So, additional people Well, yeah, and we, yeah, we, we plan on hiring, uh, possibly two people. OK. Thank you. Thanks, Mitch. Yep. More to come OK All right, we can move on to new business this morning.

00:34:44,870	uh, first item up there is he’s been discussion and at the Burleigh County Commission level regarding uh the garrison Conservancy District. I know Jerry, if you want to update the board kind of what transpired here recently and. Thank you.

00:35:09,430	Um, it was on the agenda for last meeting two weeks or a week ago, Monday, and we decided to postpone it, waiting for more input. That’s one thing I mentioned during that discussion was we need more input from the water. And any other people that are involved, I have a question on that.

00:35:28,370	Is McDonaldam receiving any money from that no water where the water project. I mean, not currently, but we have some. Well, in the last two or three weeks. No. No, we have not received any money. In the last 2 or 3 weeks. Well, Monday night, it’s on the agenda for our, for this board to present reasons why we should not.

00:35:45,000	Maybe we do whatever, uh, I think we’ve decided we want to stay with it, right? Or we can, or we can opt to go out and they, or to quit, and that’s on the agenda for Monday night.

00:36:03,700	So I don’t know where anybody stands as far as Keep it going the way it’s going, or? Missioner, I get woodcocks. Are you asking the, the Burley Coy and Water Resource District Board to come to the Burleig County Commission meeting next week, you said. I think it’s a very good idea if you don’t show up, they’re not, they’re not going to, OK. Listen to what you want to hear. Some should be there. OK.

00:36:22,370	So, I guess in your discussions it they feel there’s a there’s a direct tie between garrison, Conservancy District, and, and this board. I guess I’m not understanding. I mean, I see as a separate entities that receive funding equally from the Burleig County Commission.

00:36:43,270	um so I’m not quite sure I’m following, obviously we, we know what garrison diversion does for the state, and we know what it probably does as far as impact to Burleyig County. Um, we have received funds.

00:37:01,870	I know there’s different, you know, water resource or like South Central Regional Water has received funding in the past in Burig County, but um, so I guess, yeah, we can certainly show up to the meeting next week and provide some input, but I yeah, go ahead, Mr. Chair. Um the, the Hogue Island one is completely done. Am I correct? Um, is that project done? Yeah. OK. OK. Yep. I have nothing, really. We budget went through fine and no, no troubles there, so. OK. We’re doing OK OK.

00:37:28,000	I think some of the garrison diversion discussion is if the water resource district board would want the county to stay in it, or if they’re OK with the county saying we want out of it.

00:37:48,370	The current that was tabled was to ask to be removed from the garrison diversion, and that we would no longer as a county no longer contribute a mill towards it, you know, that’s where the board wants to do, that’s fine. It doesn’t affect the highway department, just, it’s just if I, I think it was did you guys want to say anything or not? It’s your call. OK.

00:38:08,630	Well, my big question is, why would we want out of it? We receive a great deal of benefits. from the diversion So what was part of what was presented, um, and, and I, I haven’t looked at the numbers. I just was at the meeting when they’re listening.

00:38:24,800	is that in the last since, uh, I think it was sometime before the 90s, Burley County by the mill, they’ve contributed somewhere around $9 million and the next 10 years, we look at contributing another 9 million and what we’ve received in grants and everything’s, I think was less than a million

00:38:46,600	dollars, so they felt that we are not getting the investment back that we have put into it and they were recommending the request to be taken out of the garrison diversion.

00:39:06,270	Now we all know that the Garrison diversion and say no, we’re not gonna let you out then it basically goes to a lawsuit to be removed at that point, but that’s that’s way beyond everything. They’ve already been there. Who? They made a lawsuit Barnes County was, yeah. and they lost. They won. Excuse me, they won. Um and I I guess I don’t see why all of a sudden this is an issue. We have been doing this since the mid-sixties.

00:39:34,470	We have been subsidizing and considering it costs about $3 billion a little over 3 billion annually to operate it. um I guess I have a real problem with it because the federal government and so far as of Friday has not cut funding to the dam. Yeah, I, I don’t know so much about the dam.

00:39:58,230	Uh, just from what was discussed at the table and, and this is just what I remember off the top of my head. is the diversion was supposed to help with the irrigation, and there are some Burley County residents that have benefited from it.

00:40:19,500	They just think for the amount of dollars invested and any grants that have been for, uh, like Garrison diversion gets into trails, different stuff. They feel some of those grants have gone off their original purpose into something else. It sounded like some commissioners felt they were trying to rewrite their rules to make them still valid, uh, and I’d. I’m a highway department, so I, uh, I’m not involved either way.

00:40:36,530	Wow. It, it’s just trying to communicate it and uh they just felt with the current budget, it’s so hard for them to try and meet everything every year that 1 mil going to something they feel Burley County residents aren’t really benefiting from.

00:40:56,800	They felt there was no, they just didn’t want to continue that anymore, and they were, well, if, if we’re only out of the last 40 years if we’ve only gotten a million dollars worth out of 9 million, we’re going to contribute $9 million in the next 10 years. What, and do we think we’re even going to get a million in the next 10.

00:41:12,270	So that was their concern and that’s, but they wanted to make sure people had a chance to discuss it, and that’s why it was tabled last week to come up this next Monday and if people want to speak for it or against it, I, I’m sure the county commission will hear it and

00:41:28,730	make their decision and go from there Well, two comments Number one, it should be tabled even by this board. Number 2 we need to do a better job. at informing the county Comm as to the benefits we do receive. granted War Burley County. but it’s not just Burleigh County that’s involved.

00:41:54,900	There’s about 5 states that are using Missouri River water. and the total benefit and considering what we give them, um I just I don’t get it Yeah, and if you’re, if you as a board wanna present that on Monday, I’m sure they’ll listen to it.

00:42:19,170	I think we should Are your thoughts? Oh, Dave, any thoughts from your end? I mean, as far as. legal wise or kind of where they we’re at in this process. I know there’s multiple steps here that where we’re at with this at this point, I think there’s a resolution that’s been tabled.

00:42:35,470	I don’t know, um I don’t know, Dave, if you got any thoughts on yeah, and I’ve got, uh, Comm was the resolution tabled, did you say or? Yes. So, uh. It was tabled, but it, it’s on the agenda to come back on this coming Monday. I see.

00:42:52,100	Well, it seems to me, Mister Chair, I, uh, as I understand the process, uh, first there needs to be a resolution by statute which the county has done, maybe has withdrawn for a while. but the, the, the, it sounds like the meat of it is the petition, which has to be created by the Commission and then presented, I’m assuming to the conservancy district.

00:43:09,170	Um, it seems to me that until this board receives that petition, the actual complaint, if you will. It, it’s kind of hard for the board to respond in terms of knowing what the commission is actually asking the, the conservancy district to do. We know that it’s a, it’s for exemption, but how that’s designed and how it’s constructed.

00:43:30,530	It, it, it’s kind of hard for me to advise at all what the board should do until we actually see that petition. OK. Uh, in the agenda packet that comes out today, I think the, I think they’ll include the resolution in the Agenda packet if you want to see, see it because

00:43:48,630	they didn’t have it in the previous Agenda packet, that’s part of that’s the main reason why they tabled it to extend that so people had time to read it more and, and be able to respond.

00:44:03,270	So, Comm Woodox gave it to the board and it said, I I think it’s in the agenda, so the, the board has seen that resolution. Yeah. My point is that there’s not a petition Petition is really the guts of it that runs it. So um, that would be my comment Thanks, thanks Mr. Chair.

00:44:25,500	Comm Woodcock, the garrison diversion was uh presented at a meeting about almost a year ago, probably. Have they been asked back? to present again You’re asking me, have they been? Yeah, or have they been back? Well, I think the, the, the 700,000 of Comm Jones was concerned about why, where, how that came about, uh, we, we were in way

00:44:46,370	back when one meal, and that meal is over 700,000, and the but then the county Comm is looking to save money in that 7000 a year. And, and they’re concerned that they’re not getting the bang, any bang for our $700,000.

00:45:07,170	So I think on Monday night, we’d be ready to explain what we have done and I know one thing that’s not on this letter of the of the withdrawal. There’s nothing about Burig waters. creation of Burle County Water District because they put a ton in at that time. Uh, it was, it was in the millions, I think.

00:45:26,900	But that’s beyond, they only listed in, in the packet, they only list the last 3 or 4 years, and that’s not really. I’m not tracking, you said garrison diversion put a ton of money into what? Bernie County Water Resources, Bernie County water plant. Oh, the, the Up on, up on South Central, Central OK. South Central. You used to be B Burley County water user. OK.

00:45:43,730	But they’re, they’re looking for every, well, I’m looking too for everything that could contribute to what we get out of that 700,000. I mean, we, well, go ahead. Well, I asked Mr. Bachmeyer here. because he’s been involved with this for many, many years to speak to the benefits. that we all receive.

00:46:05,900	uh, not just Burleigh County, but several counties. I forget how many that are involved in this. So perhaps we should give him the opportunity of giving us some education. Yeah, I, I don’t remember, I don’t think the county made a formal request to garrison diversion in the last year.

00:46:26,100	to present that I remember, but I’m sure that they’re very good at listening if people want to present on it and. I know Mr. uh Cashin, I believe, is still the garrisons. You know, the Burley County garrison, you know, um. what do you call that, the Director. Director for.

00:46:44,600	You know, I don’t know if he’s came to a Burig Coty Commission meeting recently. I would think, you know, Larry would certainly have some input as far as what is you know, the benefit standpoint. There should be a lot of discussion on a Monday night because I don’t know everybody sits.

00:47:02,000	I’m, I’m surprised. I don’t know where everybody is. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I don’t know anybody else, and it’s kind of a mystery sometimes as to where they’re coming from, so. OK.

00:47:16,900	But they should, we should, this resource of this has got to get up there on Monday night and speak your your speech about what they we have received for that 700,000. Well, you know, and, so from the Burleigh County Water Board perspective, I mean, we, we have not directly received a lot of money or I don’t know any money from the garrison diversion.

00:47:34,530	But you know, we’re, we’re not necessarily in that field. I mean, you can look at the ledger of 900,000 we’ve gotten over the life of our membership there Burleigh County versus Zimmo we contributed, but it’s more than a ledger. I mean, there’s a lot of indirect benefits that are probably not quantifiable on an accounting book.

00:47:53,470	Um but you know, as far as the water board, you know, I guess on face value, yeah, it’s great that we’re a member of Garrison Diversion. Um you know, can we get up there and, and absolutely justify it from an accounting perspective.

00:48:06,970	I don’t know that we can, cause I don’t know that we have the data. I think the Garrison diversion has the data. If they, they, they would be the one that has all the evidence to justify that. I don’t think we are invited for Monday night. I don’t know whether they’ll show up or not, but they were invited.

00:48:21,000	But I, I think, I mean, I think they should be requested to be there to provide input. We can we as a board or individuals, individual citizens that are on the board can get up there and and speak a piece, but I don’t know that it’s. um, the, the right avenue. I, I don’t necessarily believe so. I don’t think so either.

00:48:40,170	That’s Comm Woodcfs, that’s, that’s kind of where I come, you know, we’re a separate entity, you know, um, we receive funds from Burleigh County Commission just like garrison diversion does and so for us to stand up there and say whether or not we feel they really kind of commissions should continue to, you know, fund the Garrison Coner

00:48:57,900	directed and become or maintain their membership. I’m not sure that’s our call, you know, we, we certainly see benefit, you know, there’s value there. to Dennis’s point, I don’t know if you can see it direct dollar for dollar return.

00:49:18,270	but when you think about all the contractors, engineers, suppliers, you know, vendors that are located in Burleig County and, and reside in Burleigh County and pay taxes in Burle County that are working on garrison diversion projects. That’s the data, I think that Dennis is getting to that we have. Burley county Water Resource Diy doesn’t have access to that information and data and certainly not by Monday, I mean.

00:49:31,900	so I mean if you were to ask us if, if we think Bur Burig County should stay in, I think we’d all we, we, we see the value there. But at the end of the day, it’s, it’s a Burley County Commission decision.

00:49:46,000	It’s a fiscal decision, and we could certainly show up at the meeting on Monday and provide, you know, if you guys ask us, I, I don’t think we’ll be prepared to, to say how much money exactly we’ve received. We have received. I, I do know we did receive some grants for McDe Dam.

00:50:00,800	directly from Garrison diversion years ago for some that’s like and that’s not on there, the complaint. In fact, I got, I got several of these, uh, uh, resolutions. If anybody wants them I printed out 4 or 5. Yeah. Um, it’s fairly straightforward as far as that they’re following the law.

00:50:18,430	They have to vote again, they have to vote on Monday night that it goes to, uh, the board of directors of Carridiversion, and they get to say whether they let us out or not. And so that’s another place we should be represented. Yeah. Uh, uh, I think this group should make it rere. It doesn’t cost anything. Make a resolution that we support Bernie County. It doesn’t have to be a Ber county. No.

00:50:39,730	I don’t think it’d be hard to do, but I think it’d be. they might ignore it, but I think I’ll try and make a point as to discussing it, so. But it’s I just make sure I heard the question that you’re asking.

00:51:00,600	You’re suggesting the water board make a make a motion to wasn’t hurt anything, that’s for sure. And even unanimous may be even better, so, but, um, I don’t know where you sit I wish it was the board.

00:51:23,530	Any thoughts on that? I would be opposed To to making resolution Comm Wilcox, do you think it would make any difference at the at the county Commission? level I can’t really predict what they’re going to be doing, but I think this board should make a resolution that they favored Garrison diversion.

00:51:44,530	Even maybe you don’t want to go on record, that’s your choice, but at least somebody’s going to say, well, what about the water resources, where do they stand and, and if nobody’s there to answer that question, it’s going to be kind of foolish Uh, what, uh what are you scared of a simple resolution. There’s no, no downside, no penalties, no nothing. It’s just a support of Garrison diversion. Mhm This is Roger. I’m, uh, I could support a re resolution like that. I, I think, uh.

00:52:13,730	I think that if you know, like Dennis said uh there’s a lot of those benefits are more statewide. Bhurleig County being one of them. larger, more influential counties, particularly the largest in this part of the state.

00:52:40,430	and you know we also have some responsibility uh they’re there’s other counties that are contributing that that uh would probably not get benefits anyway or the similar uh analysis would show that their benefits and it might create. a little bit of a cascade of uh uh rebellion I guess against Garrison aversion. of uh Missouri River Joint Board, uh. received some, uh, grants, uh, for the EAE program.

00:53:10,800	uh, that would potentially be negatively impacted or uh to maintain the same level of support we would probably be asked to contribute more so it would have an impact, uh, to us. from that perspective that’s all I have OK, so Roger, were you making a motion with that or just I didn’t make the motion.

00:53:33,370	I said I could support it, you, uh, but I can make the motion. and uh uh I I’ll, I’ll do that. So, uh, I moved that we uh submit a resolution to the county Burleigh County Commissioners. uh, stating our support for continued membership in Garrison diversion. I would support the district, what’s the right term? Garrison Conservancy District. I will second.

00:54:02,630	OK We have a motion by Manager Smith. and second by Man Jones. to have a resolution for this board to support, uh, maintaining our membership with Garrison Conservancy District. Did I get that right? Yeah. OK.

00:54:28,900	Any discussion? on this additional discussion, Comm Whitlow, uh, one thing that Burr under the saddle is Morton County right across. They got the river all the way along, and they’re not a member. So I don’t know how that ever happened back when, but they, I don’t think they’ve ever been a member. And I think it was by invitation. Burley County asked to be on the, on the water is.

00:54:43,870	They, they didn’t come to Verdie County. We went to them and said we want to be involved. And whether that involvement is, is enough to uh keep that bill, I keep that membership alive. I, I can’t predict. Mr. Brownberger, shall we have Mr. Only if he wants to, yeah.

00:55:12,000	You want to speak? Yeah Yeah Thank you Yeah Morning. Good morning Chair Landber Landenberger’s members of the commission. My name is Wade Bachmeyer. I am the chair of the Missouri River Joint Water Board.

00:55:36,900	Um the Missouri River Joint Water Board, of course, is made up of member uh Coy water resource districts that border the river from Montana state line all the way down to the South Dakota state line. The joint board was formed some 20 years ago and Burleigh County Water Resource District was extremely instrumental in the formation of that board.

00:55:55,370	In fact, our Roger mentioned uh EAE program and that program is currently being administered by Ken Royce, who was a member of this board and was a chair of this board, so Burleigh County has always been a major supporter and a major influence. on the water development, especially in the uh central part of the state, if not statewide.

00:56:18,470	Burleigh County Water Resource District has always been looked upon as,, as, as a leader. So I would reiterate Manager Reep’s comments about whether it’s a dollar for dollar benefit. because I wouldn’t know that either. There are a lot of benefits that garrison diversion Conservancy District. um, creates statewide. How much of that actually gets to Burleigh County again, I’m, I’m not sure of those numbers.

00:56:49,230	So the main reason I was here today or I’m here today is to let the Burleigh County Water Resource District KO. that because of your past and continued involvement in the joint board that that the joint board is here to support whatever action or decision or position you take. OK.

00:57:12,630	Thank you. Any questions for weight? Thank you, Wade. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thanks. OK. Any other discussion this morning? Chuck, you think? No OK, Dennis. Um go to about, yeah, uh, uh, just before we vote, I, I, I’ll vote for that.

00:57:34,600	Um, I just, you know, just to reiterate, I don’t know that we have the data or nor the position to to, um, you know, justify it on an in an accounting book and so so everybody understands that we see the value of it. There’s, there’s lots of indirect benefits that aren’t computed. um but uh, in, in, as a general sense, I’ll I’ll support that motion.

00:57:55,500	Just an FYI, I have talked to the water commission and I have talked to the water Commission, and they are putting a list of benefits together. Unfortunately, it could be done as quickly as I would have liked.

00:58:18,870	Um, so I would support the motion and perhaps the benefits will be ready for the next meeting and we can discuss it at that point again. OK. Good All right, we have a motion in a second for the resolution. When you take roll call vote, please. Manager Mitel. Yes. Manager Reap. Yes Manager Jones. Yes. Manager Smith Yes. Chair Landerberger. Yes, motion passes. Work on that language and get that over to you.

00:58:48,730	Commissionish Woodcock before Monday’s meeting. Yep. That’d be fine. Yeah. Just turn into the uh to our auditor. OK. Make sure they get it. I guess, you know, uh, I almost, uh, just to clarify, my vision was the motion was going to be the resolution essentially, right? It’s seems to be pretty straightforward as a sentence.

00:59:10,070	sentences and yeah If I may, Mr. Chair. So when this when the Burleigh County Commission, uh, was talking about this. Ken Royce did put together a couple of letters, I believe they’re in your packet or I believe you’ve seen them.

00:59:34,630	at this point, the joint board would respectfully request direction from, from the Burle County Water Resource District and whether you want us to go ahead and send those letters to the commissioners or whether you want us to just hold him. These letters are coming directly from the Missouri River Joint Board. They could. K Ken prepared the letters, but we’ve not yet approved it on a joint board level.

00:59:56,530	I mean, like, once again, I, I don’t know what, have you talked to your board about some members, but we have not at this point we’ve not made any decisions because we wanted to see what the Burle County Water Resource District. decided to do in terms of a position.

01:00:15,730	The joint board is here to support Burleigh County Water Resource District, but not to do anything that could potentially be contrary to the Burle County Water Resource District. Would you be calling a special meeting for the joint board to approve this? We would need to, yes.

01:00:41,100	Wade, this is Roger, uh, point of clarification and so you’re just uh uh you’re just asking, uh. the uh Bhurley County Water research board if the joint board should send those letters. out and but we’re not a signatory to those letters, right? You by by we you mean a joint board, Roger? No, but we’d be Burley County Water Resources. Correct. That’s correct. Yes, sir.

01:01:13,900	If the joint board approves it, it would come from the joint board. not from Burleigh County, but Burleigh County is a member of the joint board, so. Ro Rogers are, yeah, designee, yep. Uh, Mr. Chair, I would have no problem in the joint board calling a special meeting and getting the letters out.

01:01:34,330	Yeah, certainly I don’t as quickly as possible. OK. I don’t think you get any pushback from this board at all. OK. Very good. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you OK. Logistics for Monday night. Right Question mark, yeah. um yeah, I assume that during the meetings here at 5 o’clock on Monday. Yep. OK.

01:02:02,600	Yeah, we can use. The agenda is out, comes out today at noon, so, but I have not gotten one yet, so. OK. And where are you, where are you at on the agenda? But I keep entering, keep entering, the more people we got there saying they might be saying the

01:02:17,630	same thing, but you got to establish value or it, it’ll go down, they’ll, they’ll prove it. Right Once again, I think the dentist’s earlier point, it, it’s gonna be awfully difficult for us to have lots of numbers ready by Monday. I mean, we can maybe do some quick research to see.

01:02:37,500	I, I, I do know we, we have received some funds directly from Garrison Diversion in the past, but you know I, whether or not we’ll have all that information ready by Monday. Jerry might be, we’ll see what we can do.

01:02:55,630	I know, I know what, maybe, probably a year ago, that the, uh, some garrison diversion representative was there and gave a program on what they’ve done for Veric County and numbers along with it. I don’t know whether we can find that. that meeting, we talk the author probably can he.

01:03:14,630	with this computer, but yeah, I saw it, I think, I, I think they did prepare a document and it’s probably where that 900,000 number came from that I’ve seen floating around, um, it’s probably the same information I I’m guessing, but yeah. um But I have, Mr. Chair, I have 4, I think 4, resolution cop they copied it off. If anybody wants one, it’s not, not that long, but they, they explain why they’re doing this. So. OK.

01:03:40,800	The more, the more interest we have, the better off we are. OK. Uh, I guess from this board, um, who plans to maybe attend. You’ll be there, I could probably be there on Dennis if you’ve got Roger, are you planning to are you gonna be back in yeah, I will be back. I can be there, yes. OK.

01:04:04,800	if we’re gonna have more than, you know, 3 or more, we’ll have to post. It’s a public me already. Well, it’s already posted. they automatically put it on the agenda. OK.

01:04:23,630	I talked to our auditor yesterday and he said that they had already pulled it, because they, they tabled the motion two weeks ago. Now they’re going back for the final, and that’s when we got our chance. Uh, the auditor might be able to dig that up.

01:04:40,100	What date that meeting was, and when the, uh, garrison division was here to make a presentation because he had a lot of numbers on the benefits to Bernie County. So I don’t know whether we can, how we can find that Minutes of that meeting Mr. Chair, it, um, yeah, make sure that you do post it as a meeting if more than 2 of you are going to be at the county commission meeting.

01:04:57,730	Yes, we don’t get graced just because Berley County Commission posts it, right? Right. That’s kind of how I was thinking. So we had a poster on those. OK. Yeah. So we can do that OK. All righty Anything else Question for Mr. Wickcock. Can show Wickcos.

01:05:24,330	Is there any possibility that the county commission would uh, postpone this subject matter until their next meeting And because you’re asking for figures and, uh, and that would give us time to put OK. Something realistic together. I’ll, I’ll try it. OK. See if we can get it. So you can get a tabled again and go from there.

01:05:44,270	But that won’t happen until the meeting itself, right? And so we still need to be there and yeah OK. OK, Mr. Chair, I could, I’ll go to the auditor and say, hey they got a lot of conflicts of Monday night thing can be postponed in another two weeks, and, uh, it’s not critical timeline, there’s no grants involved that there’s a dead,

01:06:05,000	dead day where you have to use it or lose it. So, the more the merrier on Monday night. OK. Thank you. And, and be willing to stand up and make your position more, more, uh, more accurate. Thank you very much I appreciate it.

01:06:26,530	So that’d be the, is that the first of December? Is that the, the next scheduled meeting? No, it’s 17. The next one is Monday, this coming Monday. But the next one would be. And the next one would be, uh, in December 1st, first one in December December 1st? Would that date be the one? I don’t have a calendar in front of me. I don’t, it’s the first Monday of the month.

01:06:41,530	December 1st, then, OK. Is that the first? Yeah. OK. That wouldn’t be that. I wouldn’t be at that one. OK. So, uh, Chair Landen Berger, uh, maybe. maybe, uh, the easiest thing to do is you decide who, who maybe ought to be there and then if it’s only 2, you don’t have to go through the.

01:07:00,530	the uh process of help. making it affordable meeting so I’ll just refer to you if you. and, and who you think should be there.

01:07:18,700	Yeah, I I, I think we all, if we can plan to be there, I think that would be good to show some support and if there’s questions that, that are asked, uh, it’s not that difficult to post the meeting, we just need to post it on our website and yeah. Very good. OK, thanks, Roder.

01:07:44,800	OK anything else on that topic? All right, we can move on to item B there, the water users convention coming up in December, um I’m already signed up by some dentists, you’re probably there, Kathleen, you said you’re there. I’m a Roger Chuck if you’re punted too. Yep. OK. Roger, are you planning to attend the Wald, OK. Yes. Good OK. And that Wednesday morning is the manager’s training that they have. I believe it’s from like 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

01:08:04,070	So that’s, that’s the required training you have to have once a year, but board members, so. We are not required to post that, are we? No, we just kind of a, I think. Because it’s. It’s a conference. It’s, yeah, there’s. Yeah. That’s what I was thinking, OK. Yeah. As long as we’re not discussing business, yeah. yep.

01:08:24,270	OK, Mr. Chair. Yes. Did, did you, did we do, uh, did you do a thing with the, uh, uh, whether we want to be on the be there or not, and it’s hard to explain, but I think you’re going to be there. Somebody better be there.

01:08:38,730	Yeah, I think at this point, we might have multiple members of our board there. If there’s three, then you’ve got to call a. Yep. Of course, it’s a public meeting to begin with, so I don’t know that. Yep. And it’s on the agenda. OK. Yep. All right.

01:08:55,270	Item C, I’m not sure, uh, there the question on here about the North Dakota Water magazine is, is everyone receiving a copy. I don’t know I received a notice that, of who to contact if anybody wants a copy of receiving one. OK. I. I put it on there to make sure everybody was getting a copy.

01:09:08,000	OK. I get a copy of the Uh, did we. kidding? I used to. Do you want coffee? Sure. I’ll get you on there. I know he switched Roger, are you getting a copy? I, I do get a copy. OK. We switched over to electronic versions of that, yes, both, yeah, I give.

01:09:31,500	That’s what you’re referring to? Um, I don’t know if it’s electronic or not, but. Cause, I mean, part of the purpose of going electronic is not to get paper ones. Well, I got the paperwork. I get both. But I’ve never gotten an electronic one.

01:09:47,070	And so, to save money, if you don’t need a paper one, we shouldn’t get one. That’s the whole purpose of going to electronic to save on printing costs. So is that what they’re asking too, is to see if you are getting paper to say, you no longer need the paper version or? the printed version? What am I going to read in that. It is a digital copy of it says.

01:10:09,970	printed copies can be mailed for $25 a year. Oh, OK. OK. Yeah, I’m fine with that. I’ll take the Electronital. Yeah. OK. And even I have caffeleen and Chuck to the, the. Yes. Yes. Thank you. And you, just so, uh, just so you know, even at that $25 I think we’re still losing money on that.

01:10:29,700	It’s just so you know. I mean, it’s expensive. Yeah Am I digital? I think I have put me on digital if find out, yeah, you’re getting added to? Yes. OK, good. OK. I might just give them everybody’s just to make sure. Yeah, well, yeah, I think that’d be good.

01:10:46,270	OK. We can move on to, unless there’s any other new business, anybody wants to bring up this morning, but if not, we can move on to item 12, um, in your packets or and also by request from Wendy you can get some additional information on any plats stormwater management plans as listed there.

01:11:03,370	Um, there is a, the temporary water permit there on pages 87, 88 in your packet. so desire to review that. No questions on those items, we can move on to item 13 this morning, approval of this month’s bills. Mrs board members, um, yeah, just, uh, I went through everything adds up the uh total amount is $136,226.71.

01:11:31,630	and so um, big one there is the Apple Creek Braun Intertech pavement. That’s right. And then there’s a, a Hog Island bond payment that actually I think is already been processed to it as ACH but um it shows up on this month’s ledger, so.

01:11:49,970	So, uh, with that, I’d move for approval of payment of the bills as presented. OK, got a motion by Man Reep and a second by Manager Jones to approve this month’s bills, the amount of $136,226.71. When do you take roll call vote please? Man, you’re going to show. Yes. Manager. Yes. Manager Jones. Yes. And who’s your Smith? Yes. Chair Laenberger. Yes, motion passes.

01:12:14,870	Mr. Chair, um, when that meeting comes Monday night we need to get some garrison diversion input from them? How do we do that? Contact their, my, my thoughts, uh, Comm, would be to reach out to, you know, Larry Cashin is the, you know, the, the Burleigh County, uh, director, um, if he’s no longer in this,

01:12:37,070	would he be able to meet Lee phone in or call in, um, if not, then I also would reach out to Duanne Dure. with Garrison Conservancy District, and I’m sure they’d be willing to send some money to that meeting, the more the merrier, yes. Well, you might just call Dune.

01:12:53,870	Decree. I’ve spoken with him a couple of times in the last. Good. Month then. Yeah, I, he’s, he’s, he’s aware of this. What, he’s with, where on water you re users or what? He’s with the joint board. No, Dere’s the director of the he’s a director of Garrison Conservancy District. OK. Yeah.

01:13:11,470	That’s right. And it’s Decree Yep, Deanne Dure. OK. I don’t have my, his number on me, Jerry, but I’ve got it at home. Yeah, I probably got it I think Dennis probably had it Dennis, have you got the number I should.

01:13:34,900	Are you ready, Jerry He’s got, he’s got his number if you want to write it down. I, I can just give it to you afterwards. I’ll give it to you afterwards. I’ll go ahead. Yeah, I won’t, yeah, we’re not I won’t broadcast it across though. OK.

01:13:51,630	All right, uh, moving on, then I, in your packet there on pages 90 through 180 is some more detail on the this month’s bills. Our next regularly scheduled board meeting is next is Tuesday, December 9th, so remember removing it from Wednesday to Tuesday because of the water user conference, so it’ll be at 8 a.m. in this room on Tuesday, December 9th. and we may be posting next Monday as well.

01:14:11,530	That’s a meeting or we will be posting that, so. OK Anything else this morning Not hearing anything? OK. Nothing else before the board?