00:00:07,700	Go ahead and call the Burleigh County Water Resource District. July board meeting to order. Wendy could you take roll call. Please enter Binegar present. Manager Mischel here. Manager Reep here. Manager Smith here. Chairman Landenberger here. We have a quorum. We will continue moving on to item two this morning. Approval of last month’s meeting minutes.

00:00:27,670	I get a chance to review those if any changes. Move to approve. Second. I got a motion by Manager Smith and a second by manager Mager to approve the minutes from last month’s meeting. All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Minutes are approved.

00:00:47,770	Uh, moving on to the approval of the agenda. Any additions to the agenda this morning or changes I would like to add under item eight. Um, the drainage permits, complaints and issues.

00:01:07,970	Uh, there’s been some activity out at Hog Island we’d like to discuss this morning as a board and kind of maybe determine some next steps and how what our involvement is going to be. So, Travis, you’ll probably have some updates for us and maybe Michael as well. And, David, we’ve been talking. So we’ll add that under item E under item eight there. So. Anything else this morning. To approve as amended.

00:01:30,470	Second got a motion by Manager Smith and the second by Manager Mischel to approve the agenda as amended. All those in favor say aye. Aye, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. The agenda is approved, as amended. Moving on to item four this morning.

00:01:50,830	Comments from members of the public for items that are not on the agenda, but still associated with the Burleigh County Water Resource District, not seeing any this morning so we can move on to McDowell dam. Uh, first item up, supplemental water supply on Travis. Any updates regarding kind of the last few weeks here as far as the supplemental water supply? Um, morning, Travis.

00:02:11,000	Yeah. Good morning. Uh, working on moving forward with, uh, general plans on that, uh, getting the cost share request in place and submitted and all that finalized.

00:02:30,370	So then we can get the contract going, getting some of the budgetary things updated, and then and then working to coordinate with the electrical sub consultant to begin the design on that. So right now, pulling the pieces together to start rolling into final design on that system. So that’s about it for now.

00:02:49,430	Now that we’ve gotten the, uh, kind of the, the cost share stuff, and obviously all the easements have been wrapped up and, and so right now we’re just transitioning into final design on that and kind of get that rolling full speed here pretty soon. Travis, quick question that that final easement that we were looking at is that that officially recorded, though. Uh, you mean, uh, well, the easement, the, uh, for the last landowner. Correct. Okay. Yeah.

00:03:06,730	Because we’re also looking at putting together drawing up needs. But that’s on the, uh, McDowell Dam property. It’s technically it’s owned by the water resource district, but having that recorded in case for some reason down the road, that property changes hands that way, that is actually, uh, on the record and, and, uh, recorded for the final, uh,

00:03:23,770	treatment, uh, pond and outfall structure and that last bit of pipeline that goes across the actual park property. So we have that easement to draw up too. So that’s why I just wanted to make sure I think of the same one that you were thinking of. So but the other one did. Get close. Okay. All right.

00:03:39,600	Very good. And then I, manager major and I were talking before the meeting, just kind of wondering what kind of timeline are we looking at for finalizing the design? Um, looking at, uh, rolling through the final design here this summer and into this fall and then, uh, getting the plans

00:03:54,630	finalized and advertised for bid sometime this winter, you know, for, uh, you know, late winter, early spring bid opening and then trying to coordinate, you know, get contractors so that they can start getting things in order and, and rolling into construction in the spring of 27. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Thank you.

00:04:12,770	Any questions for Travis on that. Okay. He kind of covered item B as well this morning with the grant submittal. Uh we can move on to item C this morning. The aerator Mischel. Yeah, yeah.

00:04:35,170	When I talked to you after Chair Landenberger after our meeting last month, uh, as to who to contact and start bringing in to this, uh, my first call was to Paul Bailey from the North Dakota game and fish and just wanted to figure out what his role was in this and what they do out there. And mainly it is to stock fish and, and control the low water draw down out there.

00:04:50,630	Um, he could see the benefit of the aerators, and he sent me, uh, the results from last year, which I have right here, uh, from 72825 and one meter for dissolved oxygen, by the way, and one meter down, 14.3 parts per million, which is pretty good. Two meters was about 8.7 after that point, 2.

00:05:14,200	1 everything. So it was just it was it was bad. So he could really see the, um, some benefit from that as far as that goes. Um. That was end of July. You said, uh, yeah, July 28th of last year. And when they did it.

00:05:32,830	So, uh, second call or or meet up or talk talk was with Tina and Deb with and Dourif. And right away they were starting to ask for product descriptions, serial numbers and stuff. And I said we were nowhere near that phase yet. And then we’ll just. And they just said, okay, we’ll just put it on the back burner for now.

00:05:45,630	And, and then revisit it. Then they also gave me the name of Nils Eberhart, I believe, as our insurance rep for Burleigh County Water Resource District and talked to Nils.

00:06:03,030	And that was a really good conversation with him and came up with the same type of decision, you know, making it closer to the finishing stages of the project. When we do, you know, decide to get it done here. Uh, I did get the contract from Wayne, from Sun Flow for the the lawyers side of things here, and I sent it to Attorney Dave.

00:06:23,870	David Bliss here to look over and had a good discussion with David regarding that as well. And we also determined that we’ll just kind of wait for that to kind of go by if we need to make any adjustments or anything on the fly with that. When we get towards the end of it.

00:06:40,630	Um, and uh, he and Wayne also sent me the dissolved oxygen testing results from last month. Uh, and I think I emailed them to everybody. If everybody had a chance to look at them, they were it was very significant. I mean, it was it was big.

00:06:56,170	And and I said an email there, you know, like a lot lot of those, uh, testing sites were, you know, a couple hundred feet from, from the circulators or the aerators there. So which and which is pretty much throughout the whole excuse me, throughout the whole lake. So, uh, so that was good news.

00:07:14,300	Um, then, uh, a couple weeks later, I met with David Robinson, the manager of McDowell dam, and we just kind of went around and went out to the outlet outlet structure of the dam and just wanted to get his opinion on everything because he’s there. You know, it’s always good to get somebody that’s got eyes on everything all the time.

00:07:29,730	So, uh, and that went very good to, um, I did contact, uh, Exxon Water care for another quote. And you and that is in pages, I believe, 17 to 23 with sun flows proposal on the next few pages after that, uh, the only thing I had with the XOM quote was they had five, um, aerators

00:07:50,030	in the system. And with the numbers that Wayne is showing me with three aerators in the system and Harmon Lake, I just felt like like that was a lot. So I’m working with a gentleman by the name of, uh, Brice Hill on that.

00:08:08,200	And he did ask to speak next month at, uh, at our meeting here if, uh, you know, if the board so chooses. Some excellent. From Exxon. Yep, yep. And what I’m going to try to do is work with him later on this week and early next week to get some to do something similar as a quote wise or, or, um, you know,

00:08:24,700	material wise and stuff for each, uh, from each company here. Uh, and then, uh, let’s see. And hopefully he will he said he would be more than happy to. And that’s really about what I have for now. So I’ll open it up for any questions or discussions or anything like that.

00:08:44,930	Thanks. Uh, manager uh, Mischel did any questions for Chuck? Chuck, I know one thing we were going to maybe do is reach out and talk to somebody at Harmon Lake, too. Did you? I talked to Jamie for a little bit and everything, and and and he said, everything’s been going really good over there.

00:09:01,870	And he has a sun flow system. Yeah, he’s got three of them in there. But they’re. Harmon Lake is a little bit bigger, uh, than McDowell dam is. I think by 20 some acres, I believe. I think they’re in the 70s and we’re like around 50, 56 or something like that. Okay.

00:09:18,630	So and they were seeing results with that. And I, you know, I don’t know why we wouldn’t see results with, with two in there. And, and if those results were, if we didn’t see what we were expecting or wanted to, I think we could always add another one if we need to. Yeah. So.

00:09:36,200	Was give me is us with two systems. Yep. To the. Yeah absolutely. Yeah. Do we know uh at what dissolved oxygen level. We wouldn’t have blue green algae.

00:09:57,830	Is there a correlation there? Well I think I think with that, Roger, I think what happens is now that what um, with Harmon Lake now to even over the wintertime, that that dissolved oxygen level has stayed stable farther down in the, in the water. So yeah. So then all of a sudden they you start up next spring, you’re getting a head start on everything in, in a, in a sense. And you know, and taking care of it.

00:10:16,470	And I thought initially that, that maybe this blue green algae out of McDowell was centered in certain areas and spots. But talking to David Robinson, he said it’s very random out there. Like last year, it was out at the dock, right around the dock, the boat dock or something. So we’ll we’ll just we’ll see.

00:10:32,630	And I just think once, once stuff gets rolling, you know, beginning of next year, spring and next year, I think it’ll just it’ll just keep continuing to be a, you know, the progress will just continue to, to grow. So. Uh, check one thing we talked about too was with Nixon.

00:10:49,070	They have a unique program that they might be able to. Oh, yeah, date is with next month. But yeah, they’re they’re. Just talking to Bryce. They’re just in the very, very infancy stages of this.

00:11:07,570	They do have like a rental slash lease program where we could rent that equipment and or lease that equipment and basically absolves us from a lot of responsibility regarding it. It would be on them for, you know, placing it in there, taking care of it and everything like that. Uh, removing it however long the contracts would be designed for. And, uh, next.

00:11:29,200	And when I, uh, I’ll let Bryce know this afternoon that he can, that he will be able to present, uh, next, next month, and then he’ll be able to expand on that, I think, a little bit more. Yeah. So because. Right. Yeah.

00:11:45,070	Right now he said it’s just something we’re just looking into and possibilities, which would be a really good would be a good thing out there in a lot of different areas. Even the, the legal, legal side of, of stuff, you know, responsibility, liability, uh, through and or everything like that.

00:12:03,300	So we talked about we could maybe look at it potentially like, uh, April through September or October, kind of a time frame and just maybe lease these for six months a year. And they, they come back and take them out and maintenance and put them back in the next year. Yep.

00:12:18,570	And I know, I know that, Wayne, I think what he did with, with Harmon Lake this year two or last year two was had him pay half upfront and then, then then then 365 days later make the the initial the rest of the full payment of it, which is, you know, is a pretty good deal too in the in the long run. So yeah, we got options. Yeah. It looks like this someone is a solar power too.

00:12:39,400	Or is that what most of them are? Yeah, it’s it’s solar powered. Uh, it’s a little it’s a little, um, it’s not as tall, I don’t think. Okay. Uh, about 12ft in diameter. It three floats around it, and then the, uh, solar panel.

00:12:58,800	And I do believe it does have a, like, a beacon or a blinking light on top of it. Um, and Bryce says there’s really no way that anybody can really, unless they have physically do damage to it, that they can get, you know, any harm from it. So, yeah. Well, Harmon Lake, they run it 12 months. They run it all. No. They pull them out. Oh they do.

00:13:18,030	They pull them, they pull them into the bays and. pull them into the. Yeah. Into the bait. Okay. Yep. But still operating in or just. They’re just sitting there. They just they just shut them off. Roger. All right. And uh, with with ours too then.

00:13:32,030	And just like Harmon Lake now, they’re running 24 over seven right now. Right. You know, so and with, uh, Harmon, Harmon Lake with the sunflower ones right now, there are about 850 gallons a minute.

00:13:52,170	And I’ve heard other I’ve heard other numbers with the Exxon ones that are I still have to try to figure it out and prove it, but, uh, you know, 850 gallons a minute to two systems going, that’s almost a million gallons a day that it’s turning over. So that’s not terrible. Yeah. We’ll just find an interesting one. XM has shows, five recommends, five locations, whereas sunflower. Has two. That was their initial one.

00:14:13,530	I wonder, you know, if there’s a any rationale or reasoning that was shared because why what the currency is. Or Dennis. Dennis I think that came from when, uh, Brice sent me a questionnaire in regards to how big the lake is.

00:14:33,330	How where’s the how, what’s the deepest depth? What’s the average depth? You know, how many gallons does it hold and all that stuff. And I think they based it off on those numbers. And then just hit entered probably in it popped these out. So. So we can visit with them next month.

00:14:47,130	Yeah I’m going to actually I’m going to call him this afternoon. I, I, I mentioned it to him yesterday but he was he didn’t get back to me. So we’ll, we’ll uh I’ll continue to talk to him about it so we can kind of bring, bring that real wrinkle, you know, reel it in a little bit to kind of

00:14:59,830	compare apples to apples, so to speak. So. And we can go from there. So. Okay. Good. Any other questions or thoughts. Both of these seem to be turbine mixing. Is there. Whatever is I’m guessing it’s less efficiency with, uh, the sprayers or like an actual air stone aerator.

00:15:24,870	Yeah, this will just draw it up through the tube and just set it out, you know. Pour it onto the surface. Yep yep yep. And it’ll just sit there and cycle. And this and the numbers that I that from the email they sent yesterday, those numbers were less than a month from them.

00:15:42,130	From them restarting them up in Harmon Lake. Oh. Which I mean that is significant. Just kind of a follow up to Roger’s question, you know, you know, what? Is there a threshold where blue green algae, it benefits? And maybe just a more general question right now, we’re listening. We’re, you know, hearing from vendors.

00:16:01,770	Is there anybody at the. I don’t know, Game of Fish Department of Environmental Quality that no knowledge is basically that can say, yeah, you need this versus yeah, it’s nice to have it. I mean, it’s a lot of money. Um, and it’s definitely a great recreational area, no doubt about that.

00:16:20,970	But if it’s just kind of a nicety, you know, that becomes a little bit different discussion, whether it’s really beneficial. And so I was just wondering if there’s I, I’m thinking of I mean, I can’t I forget his name, but he used to be at the health department. Michael. Knoll just. like salad. Yes. Mike Sauer. Yeah. Who is it? Well, he’s since retired, but.

00:16:40,270	Yeah. Oh, okay. I can I can look into that for you. Dennis. I don’t know, I would, I would be interested to hear that opinion. And I would excuse me. I think there would be an answer from the environmentalist, uh, or water quality people. They would have one answer.

00:16:58,670	Then the fisheries would probably have another answer. So if you’re, uh, if one of the higher recreational goals was an increased fishery, well, that may play into that. If fishing is still just a byproduct, then yeah, that would probably play into the decision to I think.

00:17:22,830	Yeah, I think aesthetically to Roger and everything to it’s, you know, the people at Harmon Lake are telling Jamie that it looks way better, a lot clearer. You can see farther down in your thing as well. Sure. So, you know, and I just think that just kind of snowballs into just, you know, getting better and better and better.

00:17:36,000	So. And I think they have fishing prioritized a little more on McDowell than I mean. On Hardy. Yeah. Yep yep yep. Yeah. I’m guessing that was a function of McDowell’s availability of species. Was the water quality.

00:17:57,000	So if water quality changed, game of fish might change some of their actions too, right? Yeah. Because right now I think they stop trout and salmon and some. Bluegill. If I’m not mistaken. You know. Okay. Well good discussion. Any other questions this morning? Um, Dave, do you want to is there any updates from. Parks and Rec this morning? Good morning. Good morning, chair Landenberger and managers.

00:18:25,300	Uh, just on your topic, I may have a name. I don’t want to mention it. Um, but I can get it to you. It might be a person of contact that could help you out with that water quality question. Okay, okay.

00:18:36,900	Um, I just don’t want to say it in case I’m wrong. So then people are calling him constantly, and it’s not the right person. So, uh. But I’ll get you that information. Uh, as far as the, uh, the Reservoir and recreation aspects, uh, pretty busy last weekend, as you might guess.

00:18:55,970	Uh, in fact, we probably covered rentals for the entire month of June in two days, in July for the 4th of July. Pretty darn close. Uh, June wasn’t the greatest. As you might remember. Uh, as far as recreational activities.

00:19:08,100	So if it was nice out, it was way too windy to be out on the wander out there or or it was raining or cloudy or cold. So, uh, June wasn’t that great, but, uh, we’re hoping July rebounds and, uh, we have a good, good month of July and August and the rest of the year, so but otherwise things have been going well out there. Um, the, uh.

00:19:26,270	What? Speaking of water quality, there was no blue green algae for the, uh, the triathlon. So. Good. That’s a good thing. Yeah. Um, the frequent rains in June that kind of keeps that water quality good. Uh, so we’re good there. Good. Yeah.

00:19:44,770	Do you want to discuss the budget items at all that were we talked about? If if you’d. Like to. Yeah. Yeah, let’s do that. Um, so if you remember our discussion earlier this year, um, Park district sets our budget really early.

00:20:04,770	Uh, and we had preliminary planned for aside from the general management of the property, the two improvement projects that we had preliminarily put in our budget was that parking lot one, which is the boat ramp area and the maintenance area of that parking lot, as well as the replacement of the bathroom. Um, the north bathroom area. Um, so I know as we discussed, we can always start high and if it doesn’t work, we can cut one out.

00:20:22,770	I waiting to hear back from you, um, to see how your discussions went with, uh, Burleigh County Commission to see if those stayed in or if we have to remove one. Or are we still okay with where we’re at? Yeah. And as we talked, we did put in both of those items into our 2027 budget request. Um, I have not heard anything.

00:20:44,100	Um, and maybe I’ll look at Commissioner Woodcox, but we did not participate in the hearings. We weren’t requested to. I have not heard anything which I typically take as good news. And, uh, you. Know, good news. Our budget, you know, our, our total budget went in less than what we requested last year.

00:21:01,230	So I think that’s probably would be viewed favorably. So I don’t anticipate it being cut. Okay. All right. We’ll continue with it in our budget then. Unless we hear I mean if if it if it can’t be done, then we’ll, we’ll uh we’ll have to adjust. So. Okay.

00:21:18,000	But and then, uh, manager Mischel and I were visiting yesterday a little bit to about maybe making sure we get back to that CIP and just kind of plan out what, maybe like 28 and 29 are kind of looking like and see what kind of prioritize a little bit.

00:21:31,370	I can assuming that we’re, we’re, we’re going forward with what we have planned for 27. I know we can talk about that next month if you’d like. Okay. Yeah. Good. Not a problem. Cool. All right. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Um, I think we’re wrapping up with McDowell Dam this morning. Thanks, everybody.

00:21:49,430	We can move on to item six this morning. The South Bismarck flood control project. So we got a couple of special guests here this morning. So they’ve introduced themselves, and I. Good morning, chair Landenberger members or managers. Thank you for having us. My name is Gabe Schell. I’m the city engineer for the city of Bismarck.

00:22:07,900	And with me is Scott Schneider, our consulting firm with Apex Engineering. We’re here to talk about our South Bismarck flood control project. Scott will be doing most of the talking. I’ll be smiling in the background and nodding and or shaking my head if I disagree with anything, Scott says.

00:22:21,730	But I don’t think that’ll happen. Um, our main goal here is to inform you on the project what we’re attempting to do, the benefits that it provides, but then ultimately looking for a letter of support from the Water Resource District, which will aid us in our water development permit that we’re applying for

00:22:35,630	through the state. So I guess, without further ado, I’ll turn it over to Scott here and he’ll walk us through the project. There we go. Can you see that? Okay. Yep. Yes. All right. Thanks, Gabe. Um, Miss Gabe said my name is Scott Schneider. Um, it’s good to be with you.

00:23:02,430	Um, chairman Landenberger and water managers. As Gabe said on the project manager for our for our team on the South Bismarck flood control project. And we’re here to talk about the project, give you an overview, and then ultimately talk about a letter of support from this board for our permitting process through the Department of Water Resources.

00:23:17,500	Construction permitting. So I’m just going to step through some slides here today. And, uh, this isn’t. Going to. Work great. I there we go. All right.

00:23:35,430	So a little background on the project, uh, why this project was developed and started was the change in the floodplain map back in 2024? The area in red is what changed in South Bismarck. Um, Bismarck knew that this was coming. So the city was proactive and started looking into alternatives to possibly mitigate this change and risk on the floodplain map.

00:23:53,630	Um, so we were we were engaged by the city to start looking at alternatives and ultimately submit for FEMA, brick and FMA grants. And in that process, we developed several alternatives. The alternative you see on the screen here was was focused primarily on a detention pond on the airport property, along with, um, controlling that backwater through South Washington Street.

00:24:14,670	As you guys all know, that’s where the area of concern is at. So we had a control structure, pump station at South Washington Street. Um, on the screen there. And then then the detention pond over on the airport property and a diversion channel, um, piping system to get the water there and, and the detention pond focus was to reduce the size of

00:24:31,700	the pumping station, uh, from a water resources perspective, um, that that grant application actually led to a successful, um, FEMA grant to the city in $50 million with reduced flood risk as the primary goal. Um, we had a federal benefit cost ratio very high. I’d had a lot of positives for this area.

00:24:53,100	So that’s primarily the reason it was selected. So that kind of launched us into further development of alternatives. And as part of that process, though, we in the grant application always showed this as our pre project versus post with those yellow structures on the left being removed from the post project on the right.

00:25:10,070	There’s about 900 structures here impacted by this floodplain change in this area. So a significant change. Um, and then a, you know, post project overseeing a large benefit on the proposed floodplain map change in this area.

00:25:27,800	So as we further develop the project, though, started meeting with the airport, some land use concerns ultimately, um, mainly with bird strikes led us to a pivot on on using that airport property to the to the alternative known as the Bismarck Expressway alternative. There was a new flood diversion piping system to a new outlet into the river.

00:25:46,300	And that, of course, had had the same control structure, pump station down in South Washington Street. But now we had a new one into our new outfall into the Missouri River, along expressway. And it also had that detention pond concept to reduce pumping.

00:26:04,970	As part of that analysis, we worked with Parks and Rec in the Clem Kelly Complex, user groups and some, you know, some challenges there. So we we pivoted and reduced the pump station or reduced, eliminated the pond, increased pumping, increased pipe sizes to try and mitigate those concerns.

00:26:20,130	And Clem Kelly, there, um, some other concerns on this alternative though were right of way impacts along Kirkwood Mall and and I-84. We were trying to move out of the expressway with this large diversion piping system that was going to have significant right of way or traffic impacts and expressway. Um, so we had some challenges there.

00:26:37,030	But our our biggest challenge, probably in the expressway alternative was the cost. There was some cost share challenges at the Department of Water Resources related to flood control. And what we were trying to do with the project.

00:26:54,300	Um, so we pivoted again and we, we our focus now just on the ditch system down in this area with the same control structure concept at South Washington Street. But our detention pond now is using all of the space available to the city of Bismarck along the drainage ditch.

00:27:08,830	So we’re expanding that drainage ditch or widening it out is basically as much as we can with maintaining the recreational feature of the trail on the north side. Just moving that as north as far as we can. And then the same control structure concept, um, at South Washington Street, we also have two new crossings at South Third Street and East Walker Avenue to cross that.

00:27:28,830	That new detention pond area that limits the stages, um, on that channel that help that help us in the reflecting of the floodplain map upstream within this area that cost in our 30% design that we’ve advanced and submitted back in March, is just under 100 million total for the project.

00:27:45,900	And we still have that that benefit cost at the federal at the federal level. Um, so I mentioned the pump station at South Washington Street. This was the concept that was in the 30%, um, in the 30% design level. We’re just pumping it around the control structure there at South Washington Street.

00:28:06,170	Um, but as part of this process, though, we’re still focused on the main goal of the project pre versus post. This was out of the 30% we changed the color to blue for the for the original inundation and then red for post project inundation. Within the floodplain area there, within the area of concern. So that’s still being met with the change to alternative.

00:28:24,830	Um, but as we’ve as, as we progressed from 30 now to 60% and then on to 90 this fall, um, we’re starting to work on the permitting process of this project. And one of those permits is the construction permit from the state, from the North Dakota Department of Water Resources and their new their new guidelines or their new permitting process, allows allows water boards, a 45 day,

00:28:44,570	um, review period. And if we can come into the come to the permit application with a letter of support from this board, then we can eliminate that 45 days and it helps streamline our permitting process. So that’s what we’re here today is to present the project we’ve met with.

00:29:00,030	We met with Mr. Gunsch already and talked about this with him. And then his suggestion was to come to the board, give the same presentation, and then ask for that letter of support. And then if there’s more technical questions that he has to be involved in, we definitely can answer those as well.

00:29:15,570	But, um, that’s what we’re here today to talk about. Um, we have looked at this from two two permitting perspectives. We did ask DWR how they were going to permit this. There. Look at this is mainly from the Missouri River because we’re, we’re we’re talking about Missouri River. That’s they’re permitting authority.

00:29:33,170	And so we wrote a memo. We’ve already done that in our 30% where we’re just looking at the Missouri River. So we’re we’re basically what is does this flood control project or pump station and closure structure have any impact on the Missouri River floodplain? And the answer is no, because we’re pumping 200 cfs against a floodplain of

00:29:52,030	well over 100,000 cfs. So we’ve written a memo on that. So that kind of answers that question that there’s really no impact to the Missouri River. The other, oh, I’m going the wrong way. How does that happen? But we did take a look at this, though from a local perspective.

00:30:12,170	Um, knowing that Burleigh County has Tevis Road flood control structure, that’s the flood annex plan for the county. The city is also involved in that plan. And from a flood, flood protection perspective. So we looked so how do we we step back and like how do we how do we analyze this apples to apples.

00:30:30,900	We’ve got a control structure up there. We’ve got all this backwater area that’s most of the time not being impacted by the project. But we’re still improving the channel. This out of impacts. We did a coincident frequency analysis of the two project locations.

00:30:48,800	Our project versus the backwater area of Davis Road, and we broke all of the all of the Missouri River stages into a percentage of time exceedance graph there on the right, and broke those into different basically intervals or buckets to compare to.

00:31:07,800	Or we’re comparing an open water project to to various stages of coincident frequency, as well as when the when Tevis Road is being operated. What is our project due to that and the results results on the screen here that matter are these three in the bottom here. So the 1% difference is about 0.24ft. The 4% is about point just under 0.2.

00:31:27,700	And then the 1% or the 10% is just under a 10th of impact. And so what does that mean? We on the graph or on a map, we actually did inundation mapping. And what that means in this backwater area. It’s pretty hard to see at the large scale.

00:31:39,330	Um, we have a couple of graphs I can zoom in on here a little bit, but this is the the red is the change condition. Um, this would be the this would be the 4%, and the 1% is basically the same. You just really can’t see a lot of impact back in the area. Zooming in though down, like on the Mills Avenue crossing.

00:31:58,600	Um, on the left there, a little bit of red there shows up. And then down at Davis Road. This is the one. These are the 1% graphs. So these are in our 30% design report. In our drainage analysis memo in more detail.

00:32:14,400	If you if this board would like to review that or have a direct Mr.. Gunsch to do that, but very minimal impact. Um, so yeah, I guess that’s that’s what I want to present today in seeking that letter of support for the city. Bismarck’s project. Um, and and happy to try to answer any questions for you folks today. Yeah. Thanks, Scott.

00:32:35,830	Any questions for Scott or Gabe? One question I have or go ahead. Dennis. No. Go ahead. I was going to you regarding this letter of support. Um, yeah, we’ll definitely look at writing that. If we have comments or questions, we include that in that same letter. Or should that be independent or separate? I think those could be independent. Okay, Mr.

00:32:51,000	Chairman, we could address those um, with with you or the board and then hopefully those will be addressed in your letter or before you write your letter of support. Okay.

00:33:06,370	And I guess quick time from I didn’t mention time frame where we’re in the 60% design right now, hoping to submit for permits in August and going into the fall. So that’s our timeline. So that’s why we’re here. Yep. Yeah. Sure. There’s going to be one of my questions. The in our packet. It’s suggested it might be at 30% design level. But you’re beyond that.

00:33:20,930	And maybe just a added comment is that the state typically likes to see pretty 90% plus. Yeah, we’ve had that conversation. So um, they’ve uh, have told us that that we’re at risk. You know, if we change between between 90 and 100.

00:33:42,100	So we know that definitely know that, um, manager Reep, um, we are up against a little bit of a time crunch on, on the FEMA money. Those FEMA grants have a three year, three year, um, uh, time limit.

00:33:58,230	And so that that first three years ends next to middle of next summer, we had to phase we had two phases of the funding when we when we applied. Phase one is the design phase and and the permitting phase here. And then phase two is actually construction. So that’s really our our process to try and move this forward. Um, it’s, you know, in a timely manner to, to start this process. Yeah. I feel your pain. If you’re having any.

00:34:17,730	I’ll get back to that one. One other question, you know, is there I don’t I don’t know perception, reality. You’re not going to have a wider channel. Probably. It’s more storage in that channel. Um, any any discussions on mosquito control, that type of stuff yet or.

00:34:38,030	Um, uh, manager Reep, you know, we haven’t talked about that, I guess, from a, from a local perspective, unless you’ve heard anything. But, you know, the channel cross section, I guess I should have presented that the channel cross section is going to maintain the bottom is going to be the same right now. And then we’re building a bench up and over.

00:34:52,100	So, you know, normal operation, normal times of the year when it’s not raining, it’s going to be the same bottom width. And we really did that for the FAA perspective. So we’re not changing wetlands. We’re not changing the bottom of the channel. We’re building a bench in there.

00:35:04,770	So um rain events it’s going to be wider, but then it goes away. Thanks. Sounds. So basically go to the north. It’ll go to the north, but the south line will hold. That’s correct. The south line is going to hold. Yeah. Except that the structure is where we just have to do some widening there to get get through there. Yeah.

00:35:22,330	Regarding Tavis Road, I don’t know. Have you interacted with, I assume engage with Casey and Dan kind of regarding that whole process? We did. Mr. Chairman, I failed to mention we met with Mr. Gunsch. We also had really county there. Casey and Dan were both there and, um, didn’t have any concerns at that meeting. So. Okay. Good.

00:35:43,130	Okay. Any other questions? Mr. Chairman? I guess I just comment. I would, I would say certainly wholeheartedly support a letter of support for this and, and sometimes project sponsors will draft language for the board to adopt and, and finalize. So I don’t know if that’s an option. Yeah, sure.

00:36:04,800	I think that’s definitely something we can work with Gabon and and help with. Yeah okay. Yeah that’d be great. I guess as a consensus of the board. Okay. At the current board okay. Absolutely. I wouldn’t mind seeing this presentation if you’re able to share it. I don’t think that we need to review it.

00:36:19,770	I guess I would recommend we don’t have to review it, but I would certainly appreciate seeing the presentation. Yeah, absolutely. I think I did provide to Mr. Gunsch, but I’ll, I’ll.. Yeah, it’s um, some of the slides are in the packet, but not all of them. Okay. Maybe maybe. I’ll get it. Yeah okay. Yep. Not a problem.

00:36:38,130	Very good. Well, thanks for the presentation. You’re welcome. Thank you for your time this morning. Yep. Okay. Yeah. We’ll look at getting that written and submitted. So and then, Mr. Chairman. Oh yeah. Go ahead. Comment Michael go ahead. Yeah.

00:36:57,970	Uh one discussion we had during the meeting with the county, um, we have been in the process of developing and almost had it ready for this meeting, but didn’t quite get there was the issue of the changing BFE with future mapping due to the delta formation.

00:37:17,170	So there will be a slight change in the BFE could go up as much as a foot in some areas over the next 15 to 20 years. It’s kind of a projection based on the, um, um, if you want to call it the recovery of the scour, the scour is going to disappear. The new mapping with the new hydrology actually lowered the BFE in some cases, and that is going to return.

00:37:36,400	Um, I’ve discussed this with Apex and Gabe as well. Um, the numbers we can provide those separately as a technical memo to them. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be part of the letter. Also understand talking from the design perspective that they’ve already accommodated an increase, um, associated with the pump system. And their free boards.

00:37:57,730	So I believe it’s already covered. It’s just a matter of having that documentation in hand in case there’s questions down. The road. Okay. But we can we can send that independently as a memo to them and probably have it to them within the next couple of weeks. Okay. That sounds good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

00:38:13,130	Mr. Chairman. Just a quick follow up question. It’s maybe in here, but when do you anticipate submitting to the state roughly. Um, in August was our goal for for permitting application. Yep. Okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We can move on to item seven this morning. Uh, financial reports, manager Reep.

00:38:37,270	Mr. chairman, board members on page starts on it starting on page 58 is the, um, balance sheet. Um, I’ll just go through some of the details from the month of June as usual. Um, our checking, uh, savings account, we started out our checking account. We started out with, uh, $2,188,845.29.

00:38:59,830	We paid bills in the amount of $47,910.11 per action. At the June meeting. We did transfer 1.5 million from our checking account into our wealth.

00:39:24,330	Um, so and we did have income, uh, of just slightly under $8,000, which is made up of real estate tax and state aid and a very small special assessment collection and a small interest amount. Um, so ultimately, we ended the balance in checking with $656,662.58, or Bavaria Wealth. Um, balances $4,026,871.65. Total current assets are 5,000,397, $220.70. Um we did we did see an increase in our interest in wealth.

00:40:00,200	That was a net interest of about $9,300 for the month of June. So and that will go up a little bit since we’ll have a full month of July. Um, based on that current interest rate, which is, by the way, it did go up slightly this last cycle, it’s at 3.62, um, gross in 3.37 effective.

00:40:18,200	So, um, with that, I guess I would move for approval of the balance sheet as presented in your agenda book. I’ll move to approve or I’ll second second. Okay. Got a motion by Manager Reep and a second by Manager Smith to approve this month’s balance sheet. Any questions? Wendy? Dick. Roll call, please. Manager Mager. Yes. Manager. Mischel. Yes. Manager. Reep.

00:40:43,700	Yes. Manager. Smith. Yes. Chairman. Landenberger. Yes. Motion passes. Moving on to, um. Page uh, starting on page 61, is the profit and loss, um, sheets. And so, um, everything looks to be in order. I guess just one note is that we’ve our real estate tax is actually is.

00:41:03,430	I don’t know if it’s, uh, out of the normal, but it’s about 86% for the year. I would suggest that usually we’re our last month in, um, collection of real estate tax was pretty small. Um, so I’m not sure if we’re going to hit 100% of our real estate, real estate tax collections for the year.

00:41:19,630	We’re currently at about 86%. Um. But why that would happen, Dennis, that’s just because we just kind of guess what that is or is it? I think it’s just, um, overall collections in the county level, we’re allocated a certain amount of, uh, I think based on Mill mills.

00:41:38,200	And if they don’t collect as much as they anticipate, we don’t collect as much as we anticipate. That would be my thought process here. But with that, everything looks in order. I would move for approval of the profit loss statement as presented. Okay. Second. Got a motion by manager Reep and a second by Manager Mischel to approve this month’s profit and loss statement.

00:42:03,330	Any questions? Hearing none. Wendy Teague, roll call, please. Manager Mager. Yes. Manager. Mischel. Yes. Manager Reep Yes. Manager. Smith. Yes. Chairman. Landenberger. Yes. Motion passes. Yeah. I was kind of looking at that, Dennis.

00:42:23,500	Kind of comparing, you know, things were about halfway through the year now uh, kind of to budget and it seems like we’re under on quite a few items. So it’s. We are under on on income, but also on expenses too. So um, but um, yeah. Okay. All right. Any other questions or comments regarding the financial reports? Okay. Thank you. We can move on to item eight this morning. Drainage permits and complaints and issues.

00:42:49,770	Uh, first one up keelboat park. I don’t know. Michael or Travis. Any updates on that one? Um, I don’t have anything myself, but I would defer to Michael to see if he’s able to give any input on that one. For the keelboat park one to start off with. Yeah, I don’t have any update at this point.

00:43:10,130	Um, there’s still a document that I’m trying to find, and as soon as I find out, I can get back to EWR on that issue. So. Okay, uh, how about, uh, hawk tree? Oh, here comes. , um, yeah. For me, that would be the same. I don’t have anything for for hawk Tree. Okay. Morning, Cassie.

00:43:30,800	Morning. Uh, for Hawk Tree, they have all the comments. The consultant for the HOA. They’re still working on it. Uh, we’re just waiting for them to resubmit. Once they’ve addressed the comments, then we’ll review it again and go from there. All right. Thank you. Okay, moving on to, number C or letter C there. Long Lake Refuge update.

00:43:56,530	Yeah. Mr. chairman, a couple things on that one. Um, obviously the Burleigh County has sent their letter to Jared. Um, he was very grateful and appreciative that that was sent. Um, I’ve had some conversation or email traffic back and forth with the, uh, Carter County folks.

00:44:18,930	Um, Jared responded to that, and he said he’s working with them independently on their letter, but he has received direction from headquarters to go ahead and start looking into the issues. So that’s a that’s a positive sign from that process. Okay.

00:44:36,500	I have not not been involved with what Carter County is asking or what their, uh, scenario is, but I’m hoping that, uh, there’ll be some more coordination as the mitigation process is undertaken. So. Okay. So, Michael, moving forward, are you planning just kind of staying in touch with Mr. Newton? Yes. At this point in time, um, he’s starting to look into things. I told him that we’re available to for suggestions.

00:44:56,930	I think Roger and I had a number of ideas that, you know, he could potentially implement, but, uh, they need to have their discussion internally first. And then as soon as they’re willing to discuss again, we can set up another meeting. Okay. All right. Any questions regarding Long Lake this morning? Okay. Thanks, Michael. You bet.

00:45:25,070	Um, yeah, I guess I had added Hog Island activity, but I see that’s in here now, under this Ponderosa riverside village. I was thinking that was something separate, but that is the same. So, um. Yeah, we can move on to item D here.

00:45:44,600	So yeah, apparently there was some activity at a property, kind of if you guys know where that, that, uh, that smaller boat ramp is near Hog Island. I think they call it the whole valley boat ramp, don’t they? And, uh, get somebody was kind of playing in the sandbox there with some equipment, and it has garnered a lot of attention

00:45:58,770	here in the last couple of weeks. Um, so there’s been some emails, some information that’s being shared, photographs, drone photos. Travis, I think you visited the site. Um, definitely. It seems like there could potentially be some violations there going on being it’s the Missouri River.

00:46:19,570	There’s a lot of, you know, agencies involved in thinking about the state and the feds and kind of the county and, you know, even Mitch’s role in this and then us. Um, so one suggestion that was thrown out there by, uh, our attorney bliss, was maybe trying to organize a meeting with a with a lot of the entities involved.

00:46:37,730	And, uh, so we’ll be looking to do that here in the, in the coming weeks just to kind of get folks in the same room and kind of discuss what the what the next steps are.

00:46:51,630	I do know DWR is talking about, uh, a cease and desist letter and, uh, so just trying to figure out what our role could be in this. And, um, so certainly it’s, um, you know, like I said, a lot, a lot of different players involved, a lot of different folks, a lot of different agencies.

00:47:06,030	So, um, I don’t know, Travis or Michael, if there’s some more specifics you want to get as far as kind of what you’re seeing or what you’re maybe, but. I’ll touch base on a number of things. Obviously, the work that was done. Um, has violated it. Put it this way, the work that’s been done has not been permitted.

00:47:22,800	And there’s a number of regulatory violations. Uh, first of all, the work that was done was done on sovereign land. So therefore DWR is involved. Uh, they’re looking at their cease and desist. I don’t know if they’ve formally sent that yet, but the excavation was done in sovereign land, and it was also done within the regulatory floodway.

00:47:43,370	Um, Mitch has already sent out his, um, notice that, uh, something needs to be done relative to permitting and evaluating the work that was done to see if it had, you know, violated the, uh, either the BFE and or the floodway requirements.

00:48:01,970	Uh, on the other side of the equation with the Earth and levee that is north of that, which is just on the south side of the Burnt Creek outfall to the Missouri. Um, the section 408 applies where, uh, from a Corps of Engineers standpoint, um, have they impacted that structure? To what extent do they impacted that structure? And, uh, whether or not there’s a risk

00:48:21,500	associated with that, from what I’ve seen initially, I’d say the possibility is there don’t know the specifics, which is kind of the meeting or the purpose for the meeting to get everybody and have a one on one discussion. I think the most important part is the oversight of who’s doing what.

00:48:39,300	Because you get three entities that have potential jurisdictions that, um, from a compliance perspective, uh, we’ve um, attorney Bliss and I’ve talked about the water resource districts. Step in this. Number one, you’re 50% responsible for the maintenance of that jetty. Uh, if there’s risk to that jetty, then you have risks.

00:49:00,170	Obviously. Um, the easement that exists out there for access to that jetty, uh, it does not appear as though there was a lot of work done within that easement.

00:49:17,770	Um, it’s not a matter of necessarily work within that easement, but the district is responsible for that easement to make sure you have maintenance or access to maintain the structure itself. So, uh, um, in short, it basically was somebody going out there with a blatant violation and doing anything they wanted to, apparently without permits.

00:49:37,030	It is a very sizable area, in our opinion, based on the aerial views that are, um, DWR is presented. So I think that meeting is prudent. We should set up and call that and get everybody into, uh, in the office and discuss, you know, who’s actually doing what and where. So it’s a coordinated effort rather than, uh, three agencies doing things independent of one another, given the extent of the violation.

00:49:59,530	Oh, yeah. Based on kind of what I’m seeing, it’s most of it just excavation of sand in that area. And depositing it in various areas. So you can imagine the violations that could be happening there. So, um, we didn’t see anything as far as adding additional rock or anything of that nature at this point. So, yeah.

00:50:19,200	Mister Chair, yeah. The we did send out notices. The difficulty is they don’t live here. They’re in Scottsdale. And so we did send two notices by registration by registered mail. I haven’t heard anything back. So I’m going to go out and post a stop work on site. And hopefully we’ll get some response.

00:50:39,670	We haven’t heard anything from anybody. Yet. So okay. Is the equipment. Still there or. Yeah. Yeah. What’s the what was their purpose. Yeah I’m guessing dredging for access. Yeah. It’s kind of what it seemed like maybe. Yeah. You know they there’s a little bay kind of in there if you, if you’re familiar.

00:50:57,830	Wish we had some photos, but yeah, you know, it’s a pretty sizable structure that we have there that Redmann that comes off of that, that channel. Yeah. Probably one of the larger ones. We have honestly. Looked like to me like he was pushing dirt out to that jetty. Yeah.

00:51:10,830	And he was just trying to open that up, I think to get some access maybe to his property. But yeah. Yeah. Or the contractor was, you know, he wasn’t there I don’t think personally, but. Yeah, I actually drove by that site this morning.

00:51:26,730	And uh, right now he has installed his dock and he has his pontoon boat, okay, in the water and a couple of jet skis as well next to that. So he was he excavating the sediment that is accumulated behind that jetty so that he can have access to the river and put his dock in as what he was doing, by the looks of it. And so now I didn’t see any equipment there. Maybe it was all around the corner over the hill.

00:51:41,130	I couldn’t quite see it because I didn’t walk out there, but just what I could see from the road. I didn’t see any any equipment over there. There wasn’t any current activity. But, uh, now his dock has been installed along with his boat and a couple of watercraft.

00:51:54,300	And, uh, that that appears to be what his intent was so that he could place those in the water. Yeah. And if you go back, one of the things I’ll add from a historic perspective, if you go back to the older aerial photos, that area that he excavated has not been open or, you know, quite a

00:52:13,230	period of time. So it’s actually excavation of an older existing sandbar. Um, and obviously with the Corps of Engineers and other things, there’s a number of rulebook violations. I’m not sure, on the, um, enforcement options that exist for them. Uh, I guess that’s one of the things that would have to be discussed.

00:52:35,370	Well, Mr. Chairman, it certainly seems like we’re kind of the little brother here in in the big process. Right? So we don’t have a lot of teeth in our abilities to enforce or regulate, but we certainly can be a interested observer to the Corps and state process. Yep. That’s correct.

00:52:58,330	And then, Roger, you’re Missouri River, right. As far as your the. I think so yeah. So then maybe we’ll have you included as well because it’s your portfolio. And then probably see if we can set that meeting up here in the next week or two. Okay I will, I will, I will send out a request.

00:53:17,200	I’ve already sent emails and included everybody about a potential meeting. But now I’ll actually request that meeting of the agencies to, uh, safely put that together next week. Okay. Thank you. Michael. Yep. Okay. Any other questions on that? Okay. Hearing any we can move on to projects this morning. Item ten.

00:53:43,970	Um, or as a whole, Gladwin stabilization. I don’t know, Travis or Michael, if there’s any updates regarding where we’re at with some of those projects. Uh, uh, James and, uh, um, managers here, I have been in contact with Braun regarding that.

00:54:03,100	And now that, uh, Kate is back in the office so she can get going on the analysis of that site. And right now, Braun has been reviewing that. I believe they’ve done some they’ve done some, uh, soils borings on there. I believe we have additional ones that have occurred there.

00:54:18,630	I haven’t seen it or haven’t looked up there myself in the last couple of weeks, but, uh, they are doing an evaluation of the soils underneath there, you know, with, uh, sampling and, and soil typing and then also reviewing the topographic information that we’ve collected along with the bathymetry out in the water.

00:54:34,970	And we’ve stitched that together to create a complete surface for that whole upper bank area, and then also below and under the water to see what the shape is and try to evaluate, uh, what might be happening there. And so, uh, currently that is still being evaluated by Braun, and we’re looking for them to provide us with a report and a recommendation for how to remedy that. So so that is in process at the moment.

00:54:53,700	Okay. Any questions for Travis? That’s on the, uh, the charter. Correct. That’s Dave Schrader property. What have you been out to the site lately? Have you seen any change? I guess since, um.

00:55:10,770	I think the last time I was out there at this point, that’s probably been about 2 or 3 weeks ago now, but, uh, uh, nothing major, nothing dramatic. Uh, maybe just a little bit of additional settlement. Uh, it’s hard to gauge because previously, when we first went out there, the grass was waist high almost, and it was just a lot of vegetative growth kind of covering up.

00:55:28,070	But there are definite cracks in the ground and you can see, and it’s hard to judge whether those cracks have widened since they were first noticed and evaluated. But it does appear that things that might still be kind of settling very slowly. But, uh, like I said, there has not been any any dramatic movements on there or any major failures occurring there just yet.

00:55:45,970	And, uh, it’s just seems to be a very slow, uh, settlement and some signs there might be some signs or some material migrating out underneath that and, and working its way out through the riprap, the riprap, the belt on the riverside is still intact and all still doing its job there.

00:56:02,700	So yeah, we haven’t had anything open up on that Riverside. No, like I said, no major failures or anything. So just keeping an eye on that. I’ve tried to keep in touch with Dave Schneider as well. Uh, keep him up to date on the process as we work through this.

00:56:15,370	And I, he just called me here a few days ago asking about status, and I told him the same thing as that. Braun is currently evaluating that and and doing a pretty thorough investigation, I guess. And, and, uh, analysis of what could be occurring there to try to come up with the best recommendation.

00:56:32,270	And we’ve discussed a couple of options internally, just somewhat loosely, but we’ll, we’ll defer to the, uh, the, the geotechnical guys for that. Okay. Any questions for Travis on that one? Okay. How about the other property.

00:56:50,800	Is there any updates on that one? Uh, the, uh, the Roger Jonas property? I have been out there. I met with him on site here again a couple of weeks ago, and I took a look at it, took some additional photos, and also looked at a, uh, one spot just a little bit downstream from his place to where there is a current, um, revetment there that, uh, appears to have maybe a little

00:57:08,270	bit of, uh, erosion happening on the upstream end of it. And I think that’s something that we want to look at, uh, potentially addressing so that we don’t have any erosion. Get behind that. That rock, uh, armoring on the bank there, uh, and compromise that because if it starts eroding behind that.

00:57:25,470	So again, nothing dramatic happening there. But it’s it’s definitely, uh, degrading. So it’s something we want to keep an eye on and look at potentially doing something.

00:57:43,100	Or if we make a project at the the Shredder property, then this would be a good tie into to kind of work on both of those jointly as uh, as kind of a combined project. That way we can utilize the mobilization and such to get the contract to hit both both sides at the same time. When we’re when we do make a project go. Yeah, that makes sense.

00:57:58,530	So and I’ve, I’ve taken like I said, I’ve taken some photos on those. If anybody is interested in seeing those, I can I can show you those as well. And then you can, uh, we can take a look at potentially, you know, doing some rough estimates of, of some quantities on some stuff there.

00:58:12,900	And then we’re going to have to look into the permitting, uh, that would be needed for those as well. The question for Travis and Michael. So when we’re talking about submitting for a DWR grant for rehab, for that property, is that because we we split these costs 50/50 with DWR, right? Yeah. That that is correct.

00:58:35,170	The DWR working with clay, we already have a cost share request in for charters. Yeah. And they would want a second submittal for the Jonas property okay. So so once once we get the cost together for Jonas and decide to what’s Happening at Chittor. We can come. We have to file for a second grant request for Jonas.

00:58:55,000	But we would combine them from a construction standpoint. Okay, so they still consider it a cost share request, even though, like, their 50% kind of owners in this. So it it seems kind of like an odd process or step to me. But that’s fine. That’s what they. Yeah.

00:59:11,670	Um, we we debated that back and forth because quite honestly, it’s by agreement. But they wanted to go through their web grants process so they can record it. Okay. Yeah. It’s still the last ones approved or they’re approved directly by the director. In other words, they don’t have to go through the commission. Right. But they want it in the web grants process. So they got everything recorded.

00:59:28,500	Okay. That does ring a bell. No. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Okay. All right. Any other questions regarding those projects okay. We can move on to Apple Creek slide this morning on a. Michael, you got some updates in your packet on page 80.

00:59:48,900	Is the quarterly report that is being submitted for the grant. Any kind of in there you’ll see some dates, some numbers as far as what the project costs are at and kind of where we’re at at dollar wise for the year. We’re at about 62%. Um, total funds expended about 215,000.

01:00:09,830	And then, um, they got kind of an anticipated completion date of around August 31st of this year. Correct. So we got a couple months left. So I don’t know, Mike, we want to give any other updates regarding where we’re at with that project and what the next. Round of the ongoing the ongoing efforts. And, uh, Mr.

01:00:25,230	Chairman, you requested a summary of the cost and provided that that’s in your packet. Yep. We are on track and within the original estimate or as a as amended, based on the additional monitoring. BGC is now in the process of looking at, um, the alternatives.

01:00:44,430	And it appears as though the alternatives may require something on the upper bank, which is actually outside of the anticipated grant or in the anticipated project. But that’s just kind of what we, um, what’s going to come up with. So once we get to that point, there’ll be decisions after the recommendations come through as to what the alternatives might be. Yeah.

01:01:03,070	So okay. Thanks. Yeah. On page 84 of your packet, you’ll see kind of that breakdown. And I just asked Michael to kind of put this together so we could kind of see a clear summary of as we’re tracking some of these invoices from Brown and BGC and then from Houston, as we’re working towards that final

01:01:19,100	product here, hopefully in August. So once we get that, as Michael said, that’ll give us some direction to kind of what our next steps can be. Um, just thinking long term to, you know, we do have some monitoring sites out there.

01:01:34,830	Michael, I know we talked about at some point getting some updated numbers from Braun as far as what it would take to continue to monitor those sites. Right? A couple things on that. They will be providing that additional monitoring costs as part of their recommendations in the in their final summary report.

01:01:57,500	Um, interesting background, the University of Mary has another area of slide that’s independent from this one, uh, where they’re currently monitoring what’s going on over there. So I think ultimately that monitoring costs may be recommendation to go back to the university. Mary, depending upon what the mitigation alternative is. But we will have those, uh, dollar amounts as part of the overall recommendations for the end of the HMP grant.

01:02:19,500	The other one that’s out there is the Emergency Action Plan. Um, Travis had updated that put some things together, send it off to the county administrator, Mary Sanger. Um, I looked at it again and I thought about some additional items.

01:02:35,230	Um, I’ve gotten those back to her, so we should be pretty close to getting that wrapped up here. You know, in the next month or so. Okay. And just a reminder of the board. We kind of had two things we were looking at with this project, right? We kind of want to get an understanding of what is going on.

01:02:47,770	And if there is some movement on that lower portion of that, and to see, you know, if we could get ahead of if there was something major potentially happening, which we’re kind of getting to that point now, that study will be wrapping up here in the next month or two, and we’ll get some, you know, some direction

01:03:01,100	from, from that study. And then the second part of that was this emergency action plan. So if something did happen, do we have something in place that we could notify landowners of a potential, you know, blockage of that of Apple Creek and potential flooding? So I do think we were moving right

01:03:16,570	along as far as what we wanted to accomplish on this. So I think at this point, we’ll see what the next month has from from Braun and BGC and in Houston, and we’ll go from there. So any questions? Okay, Michael. Anything else. No. That’s all I got on that one okay.

01:03:36,270	Thank you. Okay. Uh that’s it for projects this morning. We can move on to other old business. Um, I don’t know, Mitch, if there’s any sort of update this morning on CRS, you probably been focused on a couple other things these last few weeks, but.

01:03:53,430	Yeah, Mr. Chair, yeah, we have a visit on the 21st and 22nd of this month. Oh, okay. All right. So maybe next month might have some. I don’t know. We’ll see. I have no idea what FEMA is going to say. So it’s uh, many questions. Yeah.

01:04:12,630	We’ve doubled more than doubled our floodplain management areas in size. And so we didn’t review any of that last time. So I don’t know what’s going to say. Hopefully we’ll get some answers though. Okay. Thanks, Mitch. Yeah. Any questions for Mitch? Okay. Good. Thank you. Okay. Move on to item B. I don’t know.

01:04:37,700	Um, Commissioner Woodcox any updates regarding the Garrison Conservancy District and. The. Appeal that we made to. I shouldn’t say we, but the commission made to, uh, pull this permit to get out of garrison. There it is in the court. In the courts right now. We were waiting on a judge’s decision that has not happened.

01:04:56,430	Uh, apparently on Monday, we had a, I think one of the other commissioners scheduled a meeting of almost like a public hearing. And I objected to what do we need a public hearing for? It’s in the courts. They’re making the decision. Uh, we have no no say in it anymore.

01:05:13,600	Unless we get a negative decision, we might appeal to the Supreme Court. But that that’s down the road. And we’re still waiting on that judge’s opinion. Now, that meeting was moved from the sixth to the 20th. And I don’t know why that was.

01:05:29,970	Um, I think local politics has a lot to do with it. I think the one commissioner that put this on the board is running for re-election, and I think he wants to keep this as a boiling pot, so to speak. And I think decision is out of our hands. I mean, we’re waiting for the court and we’re going to go from there.

01:05:45,700	So there’s no real update on it. We’ll make the the 20th meeting is rescheduled, but I don’t know. I asked our chairman on Monday night. I said, what’s this all about? And he didn’t know anything about it. So it’s kind of a one man political battle. So we’ll see. We’ll see how it works out. Okay.

01:06:04,730	Thank you Commissioner. Any questions for Commissioner Woodcox okay. Thank you. You bet. Okay. Moving on to new business this morning. Um, item 12. There we had in your in your packet there on pages 85 and 86 is a temporary water permit. Uh, pretty straightforward.

01:06:26,700	Uh, if in review of that, you have any thoughts or comments? Certainly. Pass those along. And then, uh, we can move on to item 13. So digital information can be made available. If so. If you want to review that. As for there’s two, uh, plots and stormwater management plans, one for Highland Park Estates, the second subdivision, and also the ridge at Hawk Tree.

01:06:46,900	Uh, replant. So I don’t know, probably. Casey, any comments or updates on either of those projects? I don’t know if there’s anything there significant or not, but we’ll see if he’s got anything for us this morning. Uh, both of those are pretty straightforward.

01:07:08,300	Sibley Highland Estates is two lots being combined into one lot for just looking at a larger accessory dwelling unit. Uh, Hawk Tree is looking at just cleaning up some of their plat. They have land that’s around it. That’s not in the original plat. And they want to sell some of it off to the other side. So it’s just really a cleanup.

01:07:25,370	They’re not doing anything. It’s just making the land sale cleaner’s. All. Gotcha. Yep. So, Casey. But whatever happened to the one on off of River road? You know, it’s kind of. a big, uh, discussion on with this board last summer, but. I thought was that subdivision called that? We we did a pretty extensive review. We had Houston come in.

01:07:45,570	And. Oh. Uh, 1804 some in summit. Point. Seven point. Yeah, yeah. Up there. Uh, yeah. They’re in process. They’ve been selling lots. Uh, they did contact us. They’re getting close to the 30. So they’re looking at doing a turn lane, which was part of the agreement at that point.

01:08:05,900	They had some additional erosion coming down Everest Drive in this. Not last night storm event, but the one before. Okay. And they were well, can we put in another, something to slow it down. And they thought a an approach would help and we were while you you already designed all of it. So yeah you put it in.

01:08:27,400	But even under the full design with all the approaches and you’re still eight and a half, nine feet per second down that ditch. And we said, this is going to be a major issue this entire time, and you might need to line it with rock the whole way. So okay, they haven’t gotten to that point.

01:08:43,330	They do have rock check dams going down through it to help slow everything down. Uh, after I wrote it, they did go out. They did repair the ditch and get everything reestablished. So they’re doing what they’re supposed to do. Okay. They were part of that process was, I think, a dot permit under the under the highway there. So that was all gotten through and approved.

01:08:58,370	Nope. Well. It didn’t know. Oh, that is still in process. DWR is looking at it. And they said it’s a high risk dam, which we had brought up because they had shrunk down, uh, a culvert size that’s in an existing upstream area. Okay.

01:09:14,770	And we said you may create a high risk dam out of this. So they’re still working through that. So the dot still hasn’t approved their part. So they’re they asked if they could reopen Everest Drive and raise Everest Drive. And or you will reopen the entire stormwater management plan. Doing that. So it’s they’re looking at options currently.

01:09:35,530	All right. Any questions for Casey. Thank you. Yep. You bet. Okay. We can move on to item 14 this morning. Approval of bills. Mr. Chairman. Board members, I was thinking a new business. There’s one thing I maybe didn’t get on the agenda. Just, um. And it’s new business. Old business. Next week is the summer meeting. So. Yeah.

01:09:55,400	Thank you. Next Wednesday and Thursday up in Washington City. Um, along with that, there are public comment periods open at the state Department of Water Resources. One is, um, related to the cost share program. Um, and, you know, the water Resource Districts Association has been developing comments and I think represent our interests well.

01:10:18,300	And so just maybe take that of note that those are open until I want to say July 29th to July 29th. Okay. And then, um, there is a public hearing next Tuesday morning at the state on, uh, navigability of the and included in that is Missouri River.

01:10:42,370	Again, I don’t know that anything will be of significance out of that discussion from our perspective. But just to take note. So yeah, on that note about this check, are you going next week? I am. And then Dennis you’ll be there. Anybody else going okay. So at this point we don’t we don’t need to post it. Then I’m going to join the Missouri River Joint Board meeting.

01:10:58,870	Oh virtually. Okay. What’s that? Wendy. We don’t need two. For be. Okay. No. We’re good. Done. Okay. Yeah. One question, Mr. Chairman. Yeah. The Missouri River Joint Board meeting is on Thursday morning. Uh, 8 a.m. to nine. Obviously, mountain time. And, uh, Dennis, on that public meeting for the navigability.

01:11:20,800	Uh, is that published? And where is that going to be held? Yeah, it’s, um, it is on the website. I just noticed it. It’s, um, it’ll be held at the Bank of North Dakota at DWR offices, 9:00 in the morning, July 14th. So next Tuesday. Okay. Yep. Okay.

01:11:42,100	Um, so sorry for hijacking the agenda there, but I forgot they had those, um, uh, item 14 approval bills on page 87 is a summary of the bills. Um, and then the details follow on are on the following pages. Um, you should have gotten email this morning from Wendy.

01:12:03,100	There is a the Parks and Rec, uh, got their bills in, uh, to us. And so I would say we should consider including that in this month’s approval. Um, as you have listed, the total bills are $74,493.52. The addition of the Parks and Rec bill is $32,209.74, which will bring the total to $106,703.26. Uh, the math adds up.

01:12:33,130	I guess I would move for approval of the payment of bills in that $106,703.26 amount. Okay. I’ll second. Can you get a motion by Manager Reep and a second by Manager Smith to approve and pay this month’s bills in the amended amount as Mr. Reep presented any discussion, hearing none. Wendy, take roll call. Vote, please. Manager Mager. Yes. Manager. Mischel.

01:12:56,870	Yes. Manager. Yes. Manager. Smith. Yes. Chairman. Landenberger. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Anything else on that? Dennis. Okay. Uh, any remaining parts of your packet there from 88 to 113 is just some more details on the billing for this month. Uh, our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 12th at 8 a.m.. In this room.

01:13:21,600	Everybody can make that meeting. Yes. Okay, so we’ll plan for that. And, uh, that’s all we have on the agenda. So there’s no other business before the