00:00:07,230	We called the February board meeting, the Burley Ky Water Resource District to order. Wendy you take a roll call, please Here Mic. Here. Manage Reef. Here. Andre Smith. Here. Chair Landenberger. Here, we have a quorum. We will continue with the agenda this morning.

00:00:29,100	I think first item up here like to uh introduce our newest board member, EBrian. Welcome aboard. Do you want to maybe introduce yourself and maybe provide a little background. Thank you. Yes, uh, my name is Brian Mager. Uh, I moved to Bismarck back in 2013, graduated from uh college at UND, uh, masters in the, uh, water resource engineering, undergrad, civil engineering, uh, got my PE in 2017.

00:00:50,470	and uh I’ve worked private side and uh public side I worked for Department of, uh, water or water resources was then the Wacom Commission and then uh now worked for NRCS. So, uh, wife and I have a little girl and another one on the way and we are no plans on leaving Burleigh County, so here I am.

00:01:10,170	Yeah. Congrats on that. Thank you. Yeah, welcome aboard. Uh, certainly you may be overqualified just kind of listening to you, not on the, not at the table here. Yeah, no, glad to have you, Brian. I think you have a lot to contribute, so thank you. Good.

00:01:22,530	OK, we can now move on to item 2 this morning, the reorged. If you have, uh, the packet in front of you there, the on page 3 starting is the listing of portfolios for the board and various leads and alternates there obviously with uh Man Jones and now we have manager Maer coming on.

00:01:41,730	Um, we need to assign Brian some portfolios and they move a couple of others around, I guess. Uh, any thoughts this morning? I know Chuck, you mentioned maybe Burt Creek. You’d be Yup, absolutely interested in that one? Yep. OK. Maybe, uh, maybe we’ll put Bryan as the alternate. Yep. OK.

00:02:00,330	We’ll get that one. Wendy has Chuck as the lead for Burt Creek and Bryan as the alternate. And then McDowell ***, I think Chuck, we talked about maybe you moving up to Le. Yep. Yep. I will take that one as well. And I can, I can, and I’ll stay on as alternate for that one. I think Chuck.

00:02:21,270	Yeah. And then and certainly there’s others in here in this list that you guys wanna, you know, switch around just let me know, we can discuss, um, landowner complaints. We talked with Brian this morning. You’d be good with taking the lead on that one? Yes. And we have Roger and Chuck as alternates still for those.

00:02:46,800	Did you catch that one, Wendy Got it OK And let’s see. the next page on page 4 Absolutely. The Ash Cooley alternate. On Brian, you’d have a problem with that one, right? And then Brookfield Estate’s flood control project lead. Would that be OK with that one too? OK.

00:03:09,270	And then the last couple at the bottom there kind of these projects don’t have a lot really going on at this point, you know, every once when we get a call where there’s some things that we have to do, but it’s, it’s pretty minor, but Country Creek 3rd, we can put you list you as the alternate,

00:03:24,230	and then Hog Island has the lead. OK. OK. I look good for everybody. Anything else on the list? OK, when did you capture all those? OK. We’ll probably need a motion to accept the I don’t know what we’re calling this, the member portfolios.

00:03:54,800	as presented this morning T I moved to approve the, uh, remember 2026 member portfolios as amended this morning. OK. I’ll second. You got a motion by Man Reep and a seconded by Manager Smith to prove the member of portfolios for 2026 as presented this morning. All those in favor say aye. Oppose? I have it. Motion passes.

00:04:16,270	Hey, move on to this morning, the approval of last month’s meeting minutes. One thing I did notice Wendy too maybe next month we get that, we have that special board meeting. Is that. Yeah, you’ll get them next month. Next month. OK, that’s what I thought. OK, thank you. OK. Any changes Yeah I moved to approve on a second. OK, got to motion my manager Smith and.

00:04:40,000	and the seconded by Man Mitchell to approve last month’s meeting minutes. All those in favor say aye, oppose. I have it. It’s our fruit Move it onto the agenda this morning. Any updates or changes to the agenda. I, well, Mr.

00:05:04,000	Chair, just, just, uh, as our agenda’s printed, we did have one bill that got added in, OK. So OK. We can add it now or I can just add it in the bills you’re OK. So, you’ll adjust that during the. OK. Or, yeah, you can tell us now if you want, uh, uh, additional bill is $1,575. um, brings the total bills to 52,000 708101 0.01.

00:05:27,530	OK All right Thank you And I do have one item to add under new business for an item D. uh, some 404 permits, just been talking with Ksey, with Burleigh County, bought a couple of boat ramps in Burleigh County that we’re, we’re going to probably assist the Burley County West.

00:05:45,100	So you, Katey can come up and discuss those and and, uh, determined to kind of next steps, so. OK, with that, I’ll look for an uh motion to approve the agenda as amended. So moved got a motion by Mad Smith and the second by Mads Mitchell to approve the agenda as amended this morning. All those in favor say aye, aye. oppose Isabit agenda is approved.

00:06:10,330	Moving on to item 5 this morning. Comments from members of the public. not on the agenda, but still under the business of Burleigh County Water Resource District. Not seeing any this morning. We can move on to McDowell Dan, I know, David, is there anything you wanna update the board this morning. Good morning.

00:06:30,000	Good morning. Uh, just a quick update, um the uh consultant is working on the shower building renovation that we had discussed. Uh, they were last out there a couple of weeks, I think 2 weeks ago, 1 week and a half ago to do some, some measurements and to get things ready for the baseline for that, um, so.

00:06:50,800	hopefully by the time we talk next, it’s plans are wrapped up and maybe I’ll forbid, fingers crossed, OK. Knock on wood, um and then, uh, last time we talked, we had mentioned since we were so favorable in the bid for the tractor that we were going to see if we could uh

00:07:08,500	come up with a list of some accessories to get and still stay within that budget if we had originally budgeted 120,000. We’re just about just under $96,000 for the actual bid on the tractor.

00:07:26,730	Um we have come up with just some basic items that we thought would be really helpful in the near future, um, uh, standard bucket, we, we, uh, the tractor comes with a bucket with a grapple on it so we can pick up trees and stuff like that as we remove trees, but just not a standard bucket.

00:07:41,630	Uh, Stan bucket, a um set of forks for it so we can move things around, pallets and things like that, and then um uh PTO Auger all totaled those three items are less than $7000 so, um we’re planning on, uh, adding those to the list and it’ll still, it’ll still stay obviously underneath the original budgeted amount, so, um, and then we’ll, and I can’t remember, I didn’t get a chance

00:08:03,470	to look before I came here in our CIP if the budgeted item for tractor accessories was in 27 or 28. but we’ll reevaluate that and see if that number comes down. OK. Because we’re purchasing some things now, so or if that gets eliminated completely.

00:08:22,630	Um, so I just wanted to keep you updated on that. Uh, we should be receiving that tractor in the next week or so. So. OK Just getting things ready on that and we’ll have that ready to go Sounds good. Dave, what was your question on the CIP, uh I couldn’t remember if we, yeah, I think we had a budget item in there for tractor accessories.

00:08:45,000	That’s in 28. 28. See, I knew it was, yeah, I didn’t think, 27 didn’t ring a bell for me. So between now and then we’ll reevaluate what kind of things we might need, so that number will more than likely come down. Yep, good. It was listed as 40. Yeah.

00:08:58,370	Yeah, I couldn’t remember again on that one if it was 30 or 40, so yeah good. Sounds good All right. Anything else or day this morning All right. Sounds good. Thank you. Thanks, Dave. Thank you. OK, uh, we can move on to, uh, easement negotiations at this point.

00:09:20,500	We, we do have an executive session at the, um, end of our agenda today that we’ll jump into with our legal counsel to discuss kind of where tho those easements sit this morning. We’re still working on the, the one remaining. Uh, at this point, I don’t know Michael anything else to discuss regarding the project or um just a couple things, Mr.

00:09:36,370	Chair. Um, first of all, the, uh, DWRs requested planning forms for the various projects in the water resource districts and what you might be asking Ker funding for, uh, I had Travis prepare one for obviously from McDowdown for the design side, um, as well as the, um, if you wanna call it

00:09:55,730	the annual one for the Missouri River Section 32 stabilization work. There’s one that’s kind of constantly in there, and then we created a separate one for the chiter Jones project, which will be ongoing and that’s the one that Travis is working on getting the um actual web grants application completed

00:10:13,270	for, and I think it’s pretty well done. You’re just gonna need your, you to go in and, and authorize that submittal. OK. So, So are we doing one for the actual project for Mal Dawn too, with the water use plant Yeah, there’s one in there for the, um, diversion plan.

00:10:29,800	That’s, that’s been in there all the time. We’re just updating it for the, that one’s for the current year. It’s, it’s not a new one, yeah, so you’re just updating the Apple Creek refreshing yeah, just updating that form based on the current pricing and the current uh current water needs or the current funding needs.

00:10:45,700	OK now we will buy that one, and I’ll work with Travis on this one, update that, uh, for the funding needs based on the outdoor Heritage Fund grant moneys not being there, so the numbers will change relative to that. OK Good. Thanks, Michael. Any questions on that? OK.

00:11:03,800	we can then move on to the Aero Club lease. I don’t know if Dave or Chuck any updates this morning on those items. I, I think Dave would. Oh, well, yeah, Mr. Chair, the Earl, uh, club leases, uh, is finalized.

00:11:21,530	I don’t know where the paperwork is from the, uh, the president, but I’m sure he’ll sign it and return it, email it back to us. OK. With regard to C civil air patrol, I checked in with the civil air patrol people. It’ll be February 15th before they can sign the CAP lease.

00:11:39,370	but they, they’re in agreement with it Uh, we waived the $500 maintenance fee and remove the indemnity language, but we kept the insurance language, so we, we have the same insurance levels. You, you thought like February 15th? Yes, February 15th. So, we should have that by that time. And that, remind me again, that said, how long, uh, of a lease these are now? These are 10 year, 1010 year leases, OK. All right.

00:11:58,270	OK Thank you, Dave. Any questions on that? OK, now we can move on to item 7 this morning, Fan reports. Mr Reep, yeah, Mr. Chair, um, board members, as, as you’ve discussed, uh this early in the month doesn’t allow for a turnaround time of the finalization of the prior

00:12:18,100	months, um, financials, and so, uh, won’t offer a full report on that this month. We’ll offer one at the next meeting in March for January and also then for February at that March meeting.

00:12:36,800	Uh, one item I just wanted to bring to your attention, uh, we’ve been, um, with our Bravera wealth money market fund. It has dropped another 900s of a point in this last month and so it’s currently at 3. 66 % um uh, which is 3.41% effective. when you subtract off the management fee of 0.25%.

00:13:01,870	So just awareness, um, again, it’s kind of paralleling the, the CD rates, so I don’t know that CD would offer us any significant better, uh, options, so this still gives us a lot of flexibility, you know, with the, you know, move money if we have to. Sure.

00:13:18,500	Yeah, and for Brian’s um, we have a, um, money market fund with a lot of our cash reserves into fund future projects and and emergencies as they arise. So I’m trying to just maximize the earnings on those funds. OK. Any questions for Dennis this morning? If not, we can move on to drainage permits and complaints this morning.

00:13:43,000	I don’t know, Michael, if there’s any updates regarding Keelboat this morning or, um, no, nothing at this point. And how about the hack tree hawk tree we’re waiting on the uh engineering analysis that’s going in the new stormwater management plan in the middle. OK. Once that’s, once that’s done, we’ll look it over and see what they come up with. OK. And then dismiss it at that point. OK.

00:13:58,430	And certainly, Brian will probably get you maybe to have a discussion with Merkel and Travis, kind of get updated on those and just see you’re kind of aware of it. OK. Thank you. Yep. OK, we can move on to projects this morning.

00:14:15,000	um uh, Michael, I think you probably have an update on Hog Island too, more than possibly. Yeah, really, at this point in time on Hogue Island, we’re continuing to monitor the, um, movement, if any, out there, it’s been fairly stable, but, uh um, we did do some topographic work and provided that to Braun.

00:14:34,170	I’m still waiting on their analysis as far as their boring out there and what they recommendations might be. OK. So, So, that’s for both so, that’s for Brian so there’s, there’s two locations north of, is it north of Hove Island a little bit? Both of them? Right.

00:14:52,970	One’s on the north end of Ho Ellen and the other is just north of that, um, from a background scenario, the Burley County Water Resource District and state Water Commission back then have a 50/50 cost share agreement on modification or O&M for Section 32 projects.

00:15:17,630	As it turns out, the agreement states that the state Water Commission will do this and then the district participates in 50%, but given staffing, timing and everything else, they basically requested, said to the Water Resource just so you guys just lead the effort, take it, and basically go through the Web grants program and we’ll provide the 50% cost share for your engineering admin and everything else. So it’s still a 50/50 cauter. It’s just being done locally because it’s more efficient. OK.

00:15:35,630	And the other thing, any questions or for Michael on the Vogue Island Michael on that, um, have we talked about, I mean, they, they have a policy about retroactive payments.

00:15:54,970	That’s been the retroactivelar in the 2nd 32 project, it’s by agreement, so it’s actually separate so they won’t, they don’t, yeah, there’s not an issue with that one. I know that came up and I think I answered it independently on the email, but yeah. OK. Anything else hearing none, we can move on to Apple Creek, the U Mary Slide.

00:16:16,270	I don’t know, Roger, Mike Colter’s updates this morning on that. Yeah, the quickest way to do that, I do not have what I was hoping to have this morning partially just timeline. Um, we had a meeting with DES and University of Mary. Unfortunately Barr was not on the phone. Um, couldn’t be there for a number of reasons. Um, we are monitoring the inclinometers that we have.

00:16:36,500	the inclinometers that we put in are showing movement, uh, not a lot, but there is movement, um, the inclinometers that were put in by bar with basically one was in a similar location.

00:16:55,100	One is actually uphill or actually two that are uphill, and at the conclusion of their report, uh, they were still showing some movement so what we’re talking to DES about, uh, given the status out there’s, there’s no reason to fix the lower slope if the upper slope’s still moving. That being said, what the request was to DES is say, hey, we want to continue to expand the work that the board is doing.

00:17:13,370	to continue monitoring. In other words, we do a takeover of bars equipment to move that forward and monitor that equipment through the end of our grant period, which is essentially August. Um, and at that point in time you can make recommendations as to what’s going on, um, Barr’s been very cooperative, uh, Kate from, uh.

00:17:33,100	Ron has contacted him. He’s basically handing over all the information so that we can go out and actually measure it the same way they’re measuring so that we’re actually measuring the same thing and don’t get an anomaly because of the, the, the two different measuring aspects, so, uh, the only thing

00:17:48,800	we do not have at this point, uh, there’ll be a change in SA 30 with special authorization for us to do the work on this project.

00:18:03,530	Um, DES does not have any more grant money available? They were going to look into it, but they don’t, so be 100% board cost, um, but it’d be basically the taking over of that monitoring a little bit of our oversight, but I don’t know what that number is at this point.

00:18:17,900	The concern, and I’m James and I talked about this too, is if we get to the end and it’s still moving, then we have a whole another conversation that has to occur. Now one can hope that it’s consolidated and it’s actually stopped on the upper slope, then we just deal with the lower slope, which can’t fix the lower slope of the upper slope’s moving.

00:18:33,000	So a lot of conversations after the fact, the real critical point is that we continue that monitoring and the inclinometers to see if there’s any movement going between now and whatever. Um, the inclinometers interestingly enough, I think some of this stuff is in your packet.

00:18:53,070	Um, it shows where the, the bank is at, the movement is still occurring at the same level as the original movement even after they put the piles in, um, and, uh, I know Dennis, you had an email relative to what some of those numbers meant. The, uh, the basically the inclinometer numbers.

00:19:10,370	and then there’s a depth measurement on there, and that’s not the depth of the inclinometer because they go all the way down to like 60 or 70 ft to get below the slide area, so I’ve got to go back and ask the question as to what that one number means to your point. Yeah. OK.

00:19:26,730	Mike, what do you mean when you say, uh maybe our we’re not, we’re measuring differently than what they’re measuring. Well, the scenario is, is that when whoever sets up the measuring and the next person comes out, are they on the top of the pipe? Are they somewhere down the pipe? Which piece of equipment are they using to put down the hole to measure, you know, different things, unless you’re doing it

00:19:43,530	the exact same way, you could come up with different results. It might show something that’s not there. So same, same. Yeah. Measuring system. Right. It just placement, Right. It’s a, it’s a placement.

00:19:59,800	What we found out on one of them is that they’ve been measuring and then they had something happen to the top of the pile and they had to cut, you know, 6 inches off the top of the pile. Well then, now they’re, you know, the depth of measurement and depth of movement all changed and that’s all been recorded internally, so they’re passing that information on to us, um.

00:20:16,530	the one monitoring, uh, location, uh, we talked about going in and doing a um BGC has a term for it, basically, it’s like hooking up a cellphone and you got daily monitoring.

00:20:34,700	but that’s obviously more expensive than going out and doing a periodic monitoring, so they’re kind of toying with the idea of, you know, which one’s least expensive, which is most efficient. Ultimately there may be a permanent one put in, so we got daily monitoring because I look at it this way, this is the, this is the uh uh fire alarm it’s moving, moving a little bit, moving a little bit, it rains, it moves a little bit more, but if all of a sudden we

00:20:50,730	get a significant movement then it’s kind of like, hey, we need to be prepared to um enact the emergency action plan at that point in time. or at least be aware of something, so, uh, I think long term regardless, there will be a need to put uh permanent measuring equipment out there.

00:21:06,070	which you could put in the inclinometers that you have in place today, it’s just a matter of the equipment that go ties to it and how it’s, uh. how it’s managed. Should. should we go some period of time with no movement, that does not necessarily mean. that there wouldn’t be movement in the future. Correct. Um-hum.

00:21:24,470	And what, what we noted in the, in the last bar measurements on the inclinometers by the peers that were put in is they did reach that point of no movement, but it’s one point. so I always say, you know, one point does not make a trend.

00:21:45,100	Is there any acceptable movement like down to the millimeter per year or. There is a scale, um, what they call it, um, well, actually no movement and then slow and then moderate and whatever, um, and there’s a um.

00:22:02,730	if you wanna call it a grading scale, and if you’re on the lower end of the scale and it’s really, really slow, then you continue to monitor, but it’s probably not a significant movement to words of concern. once it gets the movement we’ve had, does it fall into that category? Um, the movements up until the last ones, yeah, they felt in the area that they were very similar to what was happening prior to the stabilization.

00:22:20,800	by record, but again, it’s a short record, short period of time. Are we concluding that the, uh, mod physical modifications they’ve done out there is not not. been totally successful then? At this point, I would say there’s a concern but we don’t have definitive data at this point to do that.

00:22:41,630	Um, we had talked about, you know, engineers, pardon the expression, we like to do things, um, you could actually dig up a pier or two and find out where they’re at and say, are they where they were placed? And then you could actually do a density test and say that,

00:22:56,530	you know, the pile is 120 ft long, and you could test it and that tester would tell you by density, well, it’s now it’s only 100 ft long, so in other words, something happened to the bottom 20 ft.

00:23:13,100	but obviously that has a significant expense associated with it and we don’t want to step into that realm until um there’s actually data that would dictate that’s, that’s another next step. So, Michael, how many springs have we gone through now, seasons with the project completed, the, the upper slope. And that’s in essence, 22. We had one where it actually failed. and the second one where they came out and cleaned it up.

00:23:34,530	OK, so this spring could be very telling. Yes. Yeah. And that’s one of the things that I’ve stressed is that we need that additional monitoring to you know, you know, hey, is it, is it still going? Is it moving? Uh, I had noticed and I’ll just point this out, I sent out, uh,

00:23:49,070	Greg did the aerial flights Uh, he sent out the information and side by side comparison aerial photos, same location, um, I did notice, I’ll call it the the mini glacier. There’s water coming out of the north side of the slope.

00:24:07,270	that’s going down the hill Um, I would have presumed that that water would have been captured by their underdrain system, but again, I, I don’t know and it’s a visual and aerial, so you got to go out and look and see what’s boots on the ground to see what’s going on.

00:24:21,530	And as far as our project with, you know, Houston and our and the and the soils consultant and their recommendations that be wrapping up here in the in the next couple months. The scenario with that is that it was gonna be monitoring into spring and then the final report and stuff relative to mitigation would be summer and August. Yeah, OK.

00:24:41,730	Now, again, um, we’ve had that discussion that could change based on what we find. um, do you do a project to mitigate the lower slope? If the lower slopes just, you know, again, depending upon the level of movement at the lower slope’s moving, but it doesn’t present the high risk of the whole, you know, the catastrophic collapse, if you wanna call it that.

00:24:58,870	Um, then there’d be a different approach to it than uh a physical mitigation project, but again, that’s the reason we’re studying and monitoring. Yeah, a real risk is, is a catastrophic failure, right? And so at some point, I mean, is there, are we able to say, OK, the risk of catastrophic failure is, you know, essentially nil.

00:25:19,170	and a little movement each, you know, couple 3 inches here and there is OK, because it just basically erodes away through the channel flows and and we’re not you know, causing any artificial rise of the Apple Creek and and so uh is there is there a thought process of that.

00:25:38,900	analysis going forward. Yes, we’ve had discussions, and I think that’s um the complication is when the upper slope’s still moving. Um-hum. Or if the upper slope’s still moving or the upper slope is moving to where there’s a risk associated with it.

00:25:55,100	If it’s just the lower slope, the recommendation could go anywhere from going out and doing a whole bunch of dirt work and additional piles to stabilize the lower slope and or as your point, just continue to monitor it and um. see what the status is and react accordingly.

00:26:11,600	Because he had a piece of this too, which we’ve done now is trying to determine, you know, you know, down, what, what happens with the creek if there is a catastrophic failure and who was affected and then working with Mary to understand how do we get information out to to the public in a in a more efficient way, right? I think that a lot of those steps have

00:26:29,370	been taken care of, right? I mean, it. We have looked at the emergency action plan. I’ve got probably an 80% draft. We’d have to step back with Mary because at one point in time we’re saying, hey, if it’s stable, you know, let’s, we don’t need to finish that, but we probably are gonna have to

00:26:42,470	step through and, and clean that up for the, if you want to call it the notification of issues. OK. I will say though, um, and we did check in, uh, Casey’s aware of this as well. We do have inclinometers on the other side, on, on Silly Drive, and there’s no movement over there. That’s stable.

00:26:58,900	That’s good. Which is, you know, a positive. Sa Casey, um regarding kind of continued monitoring from the county, I guess. I just wonder. you know you guys are flying that with a drone fairly often. I don’t know what kind of. you know.

00:27:18,870	plans you guys have in place to continue to do that and then I don’t know, just morning. Morning, yep, uh, we planned for at least once a month that we’re seeing something occurring, we might go to every two weeks, but otherwise, uh, it’s still just once a month to be able to fly that and there’s other slides we monitor every month and Greg goes out and and that way we have

00:27:40,070	visual documentation so we can see like the River Road landslide, we could see there was breaks starting to happen on the top. You just never know when it’s going to let loose, but that way we can kind of try to prepare as much as possible.

00:27:57,230	OK, so from, from that standpoint, that, that’s the plan moving forward for a while that you guys be on, on maybe a monthly basis be flying that with a drone again to kind of monitor. Oh, probably for the next 5 to 10 years easily. That’s, that’s good to know though. At least we got some eyes on it. Yep.

00:28:11,530	Yeah, that’s I don’t know who set that program up, but they, they all kind of compare several months, you know, so you can kind of see you know past and.greg office sets that up. That’s pretty nice to see the same angle, kind of same. you know position.

00:28:28,170	The, the flights are taken and basically the photos are taken essentially in the same location so you can compare them and you can go back and actually compare from the very beginning of this, so you can pick a date and do the comparison even back before everything was restored and now after it’s restored, um, I find

00:28:42,530	the most telling is that if I look at them and I know what the prior month was, and I go to this month and I said, do I see any differences? And this one I noticed the, I, I call it the glacier coming out of the hill.

00:28:53,230	Well, it’s the spring, it’s just the water coming out and as that water comes out, it freezes. You can see the, the line down the hill of the of the ice, we’ve seen that water during the summer, you see it, it just evaporates faster, so they’re what we’ve always said at least

00:29:07,270	the water’s coming out because if it’s not, then it’s we’re getting a real problem then. It’s better to come out and go down the slope than it is to go into the slope and into the soil so. Thanks, Casey. Um, the other thing I think is maybe continuing to think about visiting with the University of Mary.

00:29:24,730	and just kind of what, you know, obviously this is their property. Down to some point, you know, near the creek there, so I just, you need to understand what, what their take’s gonna be on this, what their approach is gonna be moving forward, so yeah and I can tell you with

00:29:38,600	the uh DS, DS is done 3 extensions on the University, Murray’s Grant and their thought process right now is to close that out for various internal reasons and, and the grant application.

00:29:55,900	Uh, University of Mary does not have bar under contract to do any additional work at this point in time. I think once we get to a point to where the data has an indication, you know, left or right, so to speak, which way we’re going, then the conversation with universal needs to take place. because I believe that conversation should take place before the report’s finished. Yeah.

00:30:12,730	It should be based on the data and direction as to where it’s going. OK. Any thoughts or questions this morning? OK, thanks, Michael. yep OK, we can move on to item 11 this morning. Old business. I don’t see Mitch here this morning, so I don’t know if there’s been an update.

00:30:33,900	Have you heard anything, Michael, on the CRS or any? Only thing on the CRS is I know that they’re, uh, letters coming out as far as the violations and the corrective action. Yeah. So and there will be need for corrective action in a number of different areas, so that’ll have to be, um, discussed and addressed, um.

00:30:52,730	I can tell you, uh, Mitch called me yesterday, I might as well just share this, um, there’s been an interest in purchasing the property that the Water Resource District purchased up on Hogue Island.

00:31:10,100	and somebody was looking at, you know, hey, can we build on that? And obviously, the answer is no because when the district purchased that property, they put a restriction that there would be no structures. So he will relay that to the individual who expressed interest. OK Uh, item B there, I don’t know, Michael, if there’s anything I haven’t really heard. I, I believe the petition was sent in to Garrison.

00:31:30,170	from Burleigh County, but yeah, I have not heard on the, um, timing of any public hearing on it was on the Coy Commission’s agenda last Monday night, whenever it was. Oh, OK. I don’t, I didn’t watch it though. Yeah, I didn’t hear of any additional discussion. OK.

00:31:49,370	But I think it’s in Garrison’s hands because they, they’ll be the ones that are setting up the hearing and that hearing, is my understanding, will be in Bismarck. So anybody from Burleigh County can come and participate and present at that time.

00:32:06,470	So next day, so they had the hearing and then Garrison decides as a board whether or not they want that they say no, then that’s where the the potential next steps legalize could really what I’m onto is if, as the curing information is gathered and of course, obviously they’re not probably going to make a decision at the hearing, but they’ll gather the information, they’ll get advice internally, and then they’ll bring it up before the board and then they’ll take action

00:32:22,330	and then, uh, Burleigh County has the option to take that to district court if they choose. So one thing I was gonna mention this morning is that Comm Woodcoox did ask me if, if we’re going to be present at that hearing and provide some testimony.

00:32:38,500	So I don’t know if he’s got any thoughts this morning on what what that should be, but obviously, we, we, you know, been involved with Gerri and we’ve, we’ve applied for funding through Garrison, um, I think as a board we’ve discussed what we feel is.

00:32:57,230	there’s definite benefits to, you know, being involved with Gerrison to, you know, having a seat at the table, having a voice, having understanding what’s going on and here’s a lot of I don’t think economic return to Burleigh County, that’s just not as tangible as getting grant funding, but, you know, you just realize the contractors and vendors and engineering companies and everybody else that works on products across the state that’s funded through Garrison Conservancy District.

00:33:18,070	Some of those tax dollars are coming back to Burleigh County in other ways, um. so I think we’ve got a record of supporting that they stay in. you know, the Garrison Conservancy District.

00:33:33,530	I don’t know if we need to be at that hearing again on Dennis if you’ve got any thoughts too this morning, but I think we’ve made our points already, um, but certainly I I don’t know if the Missouri River joint board, uh, Roger, if you guys have had any further discussions, I know they they came out in support as well. Right. uh, I don’t know if if we did we plans on being at that.

00:33:54,330	I would venture to say based on the um Missouri River issues and the funding that’s provided, um, I don’t know that it’s gonna be a detailed statement of, hey, here’s the benefits to Burleigh County, but, um, I would suspect that there would be a statement relative to support of Burleigh County remaining

00:34:12,000	with the CD right. Yeah. So not the, not the best testimony when they’re not in. Yeah, well, I should say that. Morin County’s not in Morin’s not right.

00:34:31,800	So, it, and I, I can’t even remember in the 80s when, you know, it was on the ballot and you know, I remember voting for it. Um-hum, um-hum Um-hum Um-hum, um-hum Um-hum. So Burleigh County citizens voted for it. How so Burleigh County Commissioners, uh, you know, are electing to get out of it.

00:34:53,100	Is there not any kind of requirement then that the citizens may be this public hearing is their opportunity, but it was voted in by the public, so that confuses me a bit that the commissioners are able to just say we don’t want to do it anymore, because it’s not really Burley County money, it’s the citizens’ money they voted to say, yeah, some very small percentage of my tax base is going to go toward Gerrison diversion, membership.

00:35:10,230	So. Yeah. How does all that work? I mean, It’s a good question. I, I was going to ask Dave, um, a question on the legal proceedings. It’s always a black box to me. So, um, this hearing that would be held by a garrison diversion.

00:35:25,630	It would be, it’s, it’s outside of the court system if my, if I’m understanding correct, but, um, is, is testimony and information gathered in that hearing held by a garrison diversion, that does that ultimately, if it goes to a district court setting does that ultimately get to be part of the record, or is it wiped clean in in district court starts over anew.

00:35:45,370	That’s a good question. Uh I, it depends on what the, uh, what the parties want to do, uh, any information or testimony given, one would think could be a part of the record, and I would say it would be part of the record if it ultimately it’s, it’s litigated, so yes, I think testimony given, uh, uh,

00:36:04,870	one could assume that that would end up in uh, in litigation in a very peripheral way. It isn’t, uh, it, it, I think both parties would take a look at it to see which testimony supports theirs, but as a matter of public record, yes, I think it would be a part of the

00:36:21,730	public record, and the court record. It’s going to take the parties to initiate that and put it into the going to put it in right away. Depends on what the parties want to do.

00:36:38,730	The district, the county uh, they’re going to present their case as best they can, and that might be uh pulling some testimony that was given on one side or the other. OK. And just and I ask because I think we can all maybe see where the garrison diversion’s going to end up on that, you know, it’s going to be denied and, and in the Burleigh County cares to carry it forward, it’ll go into a court system.

00:36:54,800	That’s that’s why I asked, you know, is it worth our time even to be there because I think we can again. I can read the tea leaves. I don’t know if we have a E will agree with me, but I think it’s going to be a no.

00:37:08,630	Mr. Chair, and Dennis, I just to follow up on that, as, as the Chair has said, the board is already created and passed a resolution in favor of the district, so it was deliberated by this board. It was acted upon and a resolution was passed, so I think the board’s position is fairly clear.

00:37:26,330	If the board wants to have somebody at the hearing and testify, great, if you don’t, I think, uh, there’s no ambiguity as to where the board is on this. So it’s a discretionary act on the, on the part of a board member if you want to show up. Yes sir.

00:37:42,270	OK. And Mr. Chair, and to Dennis’s point, um, I’ve had a number of discussions, obviously in the background. Um, it’s my understanding the Barnes County case, when they went to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court or the district court or however it went, um, specifically looked at the testimony that was provided at the hearing to

00:38:01,000	formulate their decision. Oh, they did. Yes. So I think that’s a, it’s a critical component of the of the factual basis to of the conservancy district’s decision that would be reviewed at the upper level and again, to Dennis’s point, this board has taken its position.

00:38:21,800	Um, it’s not like it, you have to go into factual details and have to have a debate of it. That’ll happen at the hearing between the parties, so. Another legal question to this day, so if we already have that resolution, K Garrison submit that at the hearing as hey, we, we’ve received a resolution a couple months ago from Burleigh County Water Resource District.

00:38:38,870	you know, supporting that Burleigh County State in Oh, I don’t, I, that could be. I don’t know whether it’s a matter of the conservancy district, uh, presenting that, I think it would, it would gather information from every source in its decision making.

00:38:59,630	uh, you know, and again, both parties would use as much of any positive argument they can coming from whatever source. So again, it would be a part of that record, I’m sure. OK. Any other questions OK If there are any updates, we’ll, uh, let the board know. OK, um, move on to new business this morning.

00:39:24,800	Uh, we kind of already discussed these, but on your packet on page 26 through 30 are these uh submittals that we talked about this morning on the water use survey and then the uh state water plans submit those so there’s additional information there and kind of what Travis and Michael have been working on and submitting. Uh, item C there.

00:39:41,330	um, Michael, maybe you wanna just kind of update kind of what you have. and what you’re maybe looking to do with some of these very simply, way back when the board was making the decision to empty its record or scan its records. You had agenda books from basically um I forget the dates now.

00:40:02,630	Help me, Wendy. through 2013. Right, actually from 2014 on, they were in this back room back here and they needed the back room for voting equipment or whatever, so all those records were taken out and they were scanned. and they were, they’re online, you can check them.

00:40:22,470	um, obviously I’ve been around for a while, so in cleaning my records at the office, moving towards another stage and uh career. I, I located the agenda books from 2008 to 2013, so what I’m doing is I’ll provide those to Wendy. Wendy can have them scanned, and then you can put them in the record and you have stuff.

00:40:41,070	I do have stuff prior to 2008, but it’s all paper records, there were no agenda books at that point in time, um, so I’m assuming that those records, whatever may or may not already be with the uh. um with the board files.

00:40:56,000	The other ones that were back here, uh, because somebody said, well, we’re gonna throw those out, and of course being the pack rat that I am, I said, no, you’re not. There are actually 1950 aerial photos, and they’re the 12 by 12 actual prints. um, I no longer need them.

00:41:16,370	I’ve not really done anything to them since I’ve gotten them, but, um, the discussion of the are um historic obviously by age and the board has the authority to pass them off to the State Historical Society, um, what they do with them, whether they scan them and put them on record. Uh, DWR already has many, many years of scanned records and aerial photos.

00:41:32,000	I don’t know that the 195 ones from Burleigh County are in there, but in this case, if they were scanned, they could be. So those records will just be provided to Wendy.

00:41:49,100	Wendy will take him to this historical society and I’ll be polite they’ll be out of my office you know, uh, those 1950 are they like the the old SES photos that used to get scanned. No, they’re the actual, well, they were probably SCS photos, but they were actual prints. They’re full scale prints, but OK, so I’m wondering if the archives already has a set of these, but I’m not sure how many of those sets they would print back in the day.

00:42:05,530	but um, I think the scenario if you hand it to them and they have them, they’ll, they’ll, it’s records disposal basically if you want to look at it that way.

00:42:20,600	Any thoughts of that this morning I’m wondering, Wendy, do you have a contact or a phone number that we can call and just find out if they would want these and if they already have a set, then do we just. I can see if I can find it. OK. Yeah you got the. You’re talking the aerial prints? Yeah, yeah.

00:42:35,600	I actually went back and I’m, I don’t know if I can see if, if I can find it. I was talking to somebody at the, uh, archives about um oh, when we were looking at Grass Lake and the decision process, so I’ve got a contact up there for those records. DWR has passed on records, obviously, and you can request those records and they’ll give you access to them with a link.

00:42:57,730	So I think if I contact that person, they probably have an idea what, uh, process these aerial photos are, they cover the entire county. Yes, and so, yeah, I, I, as I’m thinking about this, I know in Ward County, the same thing, they had 1938 photos at the Department of Water Resources

00:43:16,070	scanned in for a board member up there and so I gotta believe they have these. as well, you know, but again, we could, I think Wendy, I think it would be the Department of Water Resources. that would be the, the potential holder there. I don’t know Brian, if you ever saw that when you were up there.

00:43:33,730	I know there was a scanning effort underway, um I don’t know exactly where they’re at and what they have. Um. But I know it’s online. I can take a look and see what they have posted for Burleigh County. Yeah, they might have them online, you know, that’s right. Right.

00:43:51,700	Yeah, they’ve got their you can look at any particular location. They’ve got multi map service and they’ve got multiple different aerials over the years as far as like the 2008 through 2013 records, I’m all for it too. I’m a pack rat as well.

00:44:08,000	I think they’re, you know, can be valuable to look back at and say, OK, this was decided back then, you know, here are the minutes and I think it’s valuable. I think so too. So we mentioned flash printing as an option? Have you worked with them before on something like this, Wendy before? No, I think we’ve done all our stuff. OK, so are you comfortable that if we I’ll have.

00:44:22,270	Might be a lot in there. Yeah. I mean, anything that’s like a regular page we can scan. Yeah, most of them are just the standard agenda books, you know, 8.5 by 11. So wouldn’t be a problem. Is it like a couple of boxes of 4 boxes. Isn’t one of those boxes, the pictures though? No.

00:44:41,430	Well, they’re actually, they’re the smaller boxes, because they didn’t put them in a regular paper box, um, I forget what they are, but there, there’s 3 smaller boxes, one larger, and then the big photo box. OK I mean the other thing that when we first did the scan, we use record keepers for a while there.

00:45:00,600	Hm. Yeah. I think you’re right. And so that’s another, I mean, that’s what they specialize in. I, my concern is that you get these paper copies, I’m like, I don’t know if they’re stapled that really gets to be a pain, you know, no, they’re, they’re the spiral boun, not the spiral bone, but the Three ring binder.

00:45:17,630	Yeah OK. Anyway, that’s another option. You know, the other aspect that that I, I would recommend is when they scan them, they should scan them with uh um OCR so that they’re searchable.

00:45:38,000	Yeah, I actually ran into that scenario where I was posting in another water resource district on their website and the document that I sent and was a standard PDF. and the IT person because of the um accessibility for handicap, etc. had to go back in and change them to scan and then there were certain photos that they had to revise or edit in order to be uh.

00:45:58,370	usable by the uh to put on the website for handicap, so it’s kind of have to look into having somebody do. Yeah. Yeah, Re keepers, like I said, is what we used before. So. would you want to tackle that? next month and then.

00:46:14,870	report back and then, but, so, where, where are the documents now? Do you have them or do you? No, they’re in our office. Sean hasn’t delivered them yet. OK, so I assume they’re fine there for another. Oh, yeah. Month or two until we get this figured out with. They’ve got to. they’ve been there, they’ve been with me for, since 2008, so OK yeah.

00:46:29,870	And then Brian, you’ll look into the photos and just see if if they already have them. I, I guess I, they already have a scan set, I just, I hate destroying things like that, but it’s just we could maybe call state archives to see if they have an interest in keeping something like that or, you know, one of the things that uh we’ve run

00:46:43,870	through, and I think you actually have, and I know the county has a disposal record, anything that’s of sets in such an age gets passed on and or disposed of and I think in this case you pass it to the national or the state archives and they do with them what they want.

00:46:59,430	Again, you know, it’s kind of like giving it to somebody else if somebody else throws them away, you didn’t, you know, so. yeah. OK All right, good. Thank you. Yep. Thank you. Good discussion.

00:47:19,370	OK, uh, next item we added, uh, under new business is the uh the 404 permits for a couple of boat ramps, uh, in, in Burleigh County, so I’m gonna have Casey come up and just kind of give us a summary of what we’re looking at doing here and kind of the whys a little bit, but morning Cason. Morning, uh, forgot to introduce myself last time. Casey with the Burley County Highway Department.

00:47:36,530	Uh, so I don’t know how much it’s been followed, but um our county board has decided to not contract with the City of Bismarck Parks and Rec anymore and formed their own parks and wreck bowl and department have their own person doing that.

00:47:55,730	They’re currently still in the process of hiring somebody to run that area. So there’s still day to day stuff that has to be done. One of those day to day items is just the dredging of general maintenance at Kimball and Nael bolt rams. on there and uh a 404 permit has to be prepared for it.

00:48:17,070	So as the highway department that gets outside of our actual highway area. We said, Well, really the water resource district does a lot of that type of stuff.

00:48:33,070	They’re very, very familiar with all of the same requirements that we’re familiar with, and we can ask the water water resource district if they’re willing just for this year, be able to get those permits ready. So in April or May when it’s everything’s kind of opens up They’re able to go out there, get the dredging done, get that completed.

00:48:53,330	So it’s kind of a short term solution until they can get somebody in place, then that person will continue to do that in the foreseeable future going from there. Yeah. So, at this point, it’s just to kind of cover the gap here for maybe this year, maybe next year, because depending on where things sit, do they have a timeline where they’re hoping to get kind of a county.

00:49:11,000	park board going again? Uh, the Park District, the Park District, uh, they already have that portion formed. It’s just hiring the, the person who’s gonna do the day to day. Got you. And I know they’re getting the job description ready to advertise this year. They want to get them in place hopefully sooner than later.

00:49:28,730	It’s just the it’s just the interim part of, we just got to get these things ready. And, uh, Bismarck Parks and Rec was very nice, sent over their permits from previous and it has all the drawings in there, the expected quantity, so it probably wouldn’t take too terribly long to get those ready. OK. OK.

00:49:44,530	So busy with Casey about this earlier, I, I, you know, at this point we’d probably look at, you know, doing this for them for this year and I would guess we would look at Iron Houston to look into those. I’m sure they fill these out on a fairly regular basis.

00:49:59,630	There’s not a lot of effort there, you know, I’ve filled these out before too, so it’s, yeah, Mr. Chair, we’ve done a number of um well, both for the a lot of the public ramps that we’ve done in the various areas. So yeah, my point, Casey, I was gonna ask if they provided the prior records.

00:50:14,700	A lot of times the drawings is just a matter of updating the permit and putting it out and saying, you know, it’s a similar um maintenance that was done prior to, but you still have to get your LOP letter of permission from M Corta to do that on a regular basis. So, yeah, we could very easily take that on. um.

00:50:29,470	if the board wants and just pass the information over, and we’ll start on that right away because it’s nice to have them in place before the season starts.

00:50:45,900	We would have to probably do a one check for um after ice out before actually submitting in case there’s a um site revision, but we can get them prepared and ready to go. Yeah, and, and if it’s OK with the board, I have a copy of those emails I can forward it to Mike, then he has the, the records from the past on that Canada has all the drawings and everything included.

00:51:03,000	OK. So we’ll probably need a motion just cause they’ll be. expending some funds that probably weren’t on the original budget, but so, uh like in a motion to take this on and, and work with Houston to get those 404 permits.

00:51:19,730	And with the funds, if they’re tracked, I, it sounded like Comm Munsen didn’t have an issue of parks and Reck then reimbursing the water resource district to be able to do that. Keep track of that separately, independently. Yeah, that was one of the things.

00:51:33,630	Wendy you and I’ll probably have to talk about when you create a new project number if there’s a separate one we want to create for this, for that task, OK And then we, like I said, we can invoice accordingly and then if it comes back to Park District, the roll it back through so it’s totally independent of other projects.

00:51:48,970	Yeah, I mean at that point if it’s only a few thou I’m not sure what that that’ll take, Michael, but. you have more effort on the back end trying to figure all that out and just still tax dollars. Yeah. You know, go to a water resource. It’s only an hour of Mike’s time, buddy. Yeah, yeah. OK, so but yeah, biting the motion for that this morning. also moved.

00:52:07,730	OK OK. Got a motion by Man Reep and a seconded by Manager Smith to, uh, assist the Burleigh County in the uh, application process for 404 permits for two boat ramps in Burig County and the hiring of uh Houston Engineering to assist in that process.

00:52:28,470	OK? When do you take roll call vote, please? After. All right Andrew Mitchell. Yes Andre Re. Yes Senator Smith. Yes. Chair Landerberger. Yes, motion passes. Thank you, yep, thank you Casey. Casey, then you’d mentioned, uh, this other item too we can certainly discuss more, uh.

00:52:50,470	Down the road, but maybe just maybe give a quick update on that one too, just if you can. Yeah. Uh, we had another request for the annual maintenance program that comes into the, I think it was or I think it was niel Bull ramp, and it’s a requirement from the core that says, oh we hear the cores you’re transferring basically from Parson Reck doing it on an everyday basis to the new department.

00:53:15,530	So they wanna be able to do an update. They want that requirement by March 31st of this year. That’s going to be before somebody’s in place. and there’s a quite the checklist that comes with that.

00:53:36,970	It has uh expenditures, revenues, ADA certification, they’re um they’re, there’s quite a few items like water, sanitary, sewer, um, your CIP program, uh for the year, going through that. I did talk with Dave Mayor and asked, Can I get a copy from the previous year of what you submitted on that because I don’t think it’s gonna change a a whole lot. Right.

00:53:54,430	On those parts that is also really outside the highway department area that that we work on and we’re just currently looking at options we didn’t know if the water resource districts since you’re more familiar with that, it, it’s kind of the temporary fill in for a, a short time or, uh, we’re also looking at

00:54:15,330	contacting uh other parks and recs, departments and see if we could just hire them maybe on a short term basis. Here’s the previous information go through there.

00:54:33,000	I know talking with Dave, they already did the ADA, uh, review last year and they had their expert consultant come in, laid out all the different areas, and because I thought that’d be a pretty heavy lift, and he thought that’d be not as much because that was done last year on there and I was, oh, that’s a good point.

00:54:48,330	And really what you’re looking at is your, you’re certifying, signing it off, and he said there’s he said there’s just not a lot of facilities in that area, so that, that kind of helps you out on, on that part. It all, it’s just for your consideration, going from there, we’re just trying to help get that lined up. OK.

00:55:03,600	But I assume what, what are you guys’ thoughts, but I was assuming we could probably help assist with that process as well. If it’s a kind of a one time gap coverage. Until that gets set up for next year.

00:55:20,500	When you say we, who do you mean? The Burley and Water Resource District board members or, or, well, I, I think we could probably look at maybe having Houston review those documents again and, and look at that. Yeah. I, I don’t know that. I know what they look like, so I’m, I’m not sure what we’re talking about, but, um.

00:55:35,370	Yeah, we received the blank forms and it just said it was one page that said expenditures and revenues and we’re well, do we have to get, pull all this from the auditor’s office and train get all that information. That’s why we’re talking with Dave to see the past report that will help inform better uh going through there.

00:55:53,170	We can wait and see what, what we get from Dave and then discuss again next month. Yeah. Yeah, it, uh, we don’t need a decision right now. It was just Yeah. Just consideration. It was all in, we’re contacting others also just to see what’s possible, that’s all. OK. Let’s do that. And I think Mr.

00:56:13,430	Chair, too, on the ADA stuff and the compliance, it’s, it’s very similar or I shouldn’t say similar, um, it’s the same type of reporting that you had from McDellam. Here’s the things you have that are deficient. Here’s the things that have to be, you know, improved. I would suspect from the Burleigh County Park scenario, that list is rather light.

00:56:28,430	and a lot of this stuff has probably already been addressed or is in process of being addressed, so it was, uh, talking with Dave, that’s part of their review last year. So you’re really just recertifying it is what he had said, but that’s, we found out yesterday, so we’ve been trying to play a lot of catch up and get try and help get it figured out

00:56:46,100	here real quick. and, and we just had the directive, uh, we’re very busy with roads. We need to focus on that, not, not the other portions, so. there’s a lot of structures out at these facilities. It’s, it’s not like the shower facility in the dull dam that has to be done there.

00:57:05,870	There’s probably some implementation things that were in that program. but I don’t suspect there’re, there’s not major, yeah. OK, so I’ll, I’ll work with KC when we get these documents from Bismarck Parson Reck, and then we can kind of bring you to the board next month. have a further discussion. Yeah, and if a different part uh.

00:57:22,170	entity from another government entity does it, then it really just kind of goes away at that point. So. OK. All right. Thank you. Yep. OK that’s it for new business this morning. We can move on to additional information on item 13.

00:57:46,170	You got uh information available upon request for a couple, uh, replats and plats and subdivisions in Burleigh County if you wanna look into those, you certainly can. Wendy would have those that information for you. um we do have one temporary water permit application for Knife River on page 32 of your packet, pretty straightforward. I don’t do anything really to discuss or comment on that one.

00:58:04,800	So he all the discussion, we could move on to approval of bills. Uh, Mr. Chair, board members, uh, I mentioned the additional $1,575 bill for um it’s an SRF payment uh for Valley. Apple Valley, thank you. Um, for checking on that.

00:58:29,330	So, um, the, uh, summary bills are listed on page 33 of your packet, um pretty short list again due to the early uh the early part of the month meeting that we’re having today.

00:58:50,230	um, one thing I’ll note is Parks and Rec is um fairly large compared to their normal and that, but that includes um $14,000 in roof repair from that hailson event last summer, so um that artificial she raised that one, we do take note that we are paying our dues to the Missouri River Joint Board and the amount of $2000 with that, I guess, um, unless there are any questions, I’d move for approval of payment of bills in the amount of 52,0708.

00:59:07,870	dollars 1 cent OK. One second. Got a motion my manager Reep and seconded by Manger Smith to approve this month’s bills. Any discussion or questions this morning. Hearing none, Wendy you take a roll call vote, please? And drinker. Yes. Manager Mit. Yes. Manager. Yes. Manager Smith. Yes. Chair Landenberger. Yes, motion passes.

00:59:30,800	Bills are approved OK, uh, moving on to the additional information in your packet there is this gonna be the follow up for the bills and additional information for those. um, I think at this point.

00:59:49,600	in the agenda, we will now move into our executive sessions, so we’re gonna close our monthly board meeting, and I will entertain a motion to hold an executive session pursuant to the North Dakota Century Code 44-4-19.2 to discuss negotiation strategy with our attorney. related to easement acquisitions in McDowell Dam project. The board has provided notice of this executive meeting in its agenda for this month.

01:00:11,900	So I would not entertain that motion to Adjourn this month’s regular meeting and move into executive session. So move. Second, OK, got a motion by Mador Smith and the second by Manager Maer to move into her uh close this month’s meeting. Regular meeting and move into executive session. All those in favor say aye. Oppose?