00:00:00,000	I’m not moving though. I have to print an agenda. Do you want me to pack it? I’ll just grab it. Yeah. There you go. All right. I’d like to call to order Burleigh County Commission meeting for this Thursday evening in the Tom Baker room. Uh. First up, invocation and pledge of allegiance. Chaplain.

00:00:26,970	Stand as we pray. Heavenly father, we thank you for today. We thank you for this moment. Thank you for times like this. We can just come together. We pray that, uh, this night will be productive. And, uh, we we also pray that you’ll guide us. Thank you for these, uh, servants, these commissioners.

00:00:46,200	I pray God, you will just, uh, uh, be in all the conversation and, uh, do this all in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Our father. Our. You can finish that if you’d like. We’re perfect. It’s perfectly fine. To the flag. Of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands.

00:01:09,730	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We’ll do. We’ll do that next time. All right. Sounds good. Fair enough. Uh, next item up is. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab Commissioner Woodcox here. Commissioner Munson here. Uh, chairman Bitner. Vice chairman. Bakken present. Uh, next item up. Approval of the agenda.

00:01:37,430	Mr. Vice Chair. Um, we’re under a little scheduling conflict, so I’d like to pull 14 a. Pull it completely. Yep. Pull it completely. Item 14 A is pulled. Anything else? Move to approve the amended agenda. Second motion and second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson.

00:02:05,430	Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Vice chair. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Next item up. Consideration of August 17th, 2026. Meeting minutes and bills. Mr. chairman, I had an opportunity to look at the bills and I pulled out one for further discussion. But we’ll be going over that next, uh, at the end of the meeting.

00:02:23,400	And, uh, uh, I’ve learned a lot since then, so I will be approving it anyway, but I’m not going to include it. I still want to discuss it after the regular meetings. At the end of the regular meeting. Uh, other than that, I would move. We approve the remaining bills and the minutes.

00:02:38,300	Second motion and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Munson. Yes. Commissioner. Schwab. Yes, Commissioner. Woodcox. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Uh, next item up. Commissioner Woodcox.

00:03:02,930	What is the bill you pulled? Pardon me? What did you poll that you wanted to discuss? It is a bill from, uh, concerning our patent lawsuit with the, uh, four entities. And it was a payment that was supposed to be scheduled to be paid to Venture Architects, which is the architect for the jail. And I disputed it and wanted to have it reviewed by the sheriff, which I did have.

00:03:23,730	He reviewed it today, and he had visited with our state’s attorney to get approval there, and she approved it, said it should be paid. So I didn’t, uh, I just followed it up. And now I would like to make a motion to approve that separately. Okay. Is there a second? Second motion and second. Any further discussion? All right. Is that.

00:03:43,430	Will we fighting them over this paint? Yes. Why are we paying them, then? Good question. Uh, Sheriff is already on his way up here. Come on up, Kelly. To explain. Mr.. How much was it? 12,000. Something. Some odd number. Mr. chairman. Commissioner.

00:04:07,630	So basically, um, kind of bring you up to speed where we’re at, and we are going to have a special commission meeting before the next commission meeting on, I believe, September 21st. We’re going to have to have a joint commission meeting with Burleigh and Martin County.

00:04:24,600	So to bring you up to speed from where we were at, we were waiting to hear on our appeal to the Supreme Court. As you remember, Comstock. Uh, the paint company and the paint applicator all settled. Uh, we had our lawsuit continuing against venture architects. Uh, the district court in Burleigh County ruled against us.

00:04:52,330	Uh, we appealed to the Supreme Court and ultimately, the Supreme Court upheld the dismissal by the Burleigh County District Court as part of that order, out of the district court was the order that we pay the cost and fees of venture architects.

00:05:18,530	So basically what we had to pay is the costs for, like, their defense of the lawsuit against them, like the depositions and stuff like that, when they had to bring their experts in. Um, so as I explained to Commissioner Woodcox, on the advice of our attorney at the time, we delayed paying that judgment until the appeal was heard at the Supreme Court.

00:05:40,870	Once we lost that appeal, the attorney had told us, you now have to pay this. I confirmed that with State’s Attorney lawyer. Uh, the one thing that Attorney King did for us was the original amount was. And I don’t remember the exact amounts, but in a judgment, um, from the court. Interest starts once the judgment is entered.

00:06:06,170	And so the entire time our appeal was pending, uh, we could have incurred interest costs. Uh, but Attorney King worked with, uh, venture architects, attorneys, and they waived the interest. But we did have to pay the judgment. Did that? Did venture or architect screw up? Mr. chairman, commissioners.

00:06:36,400	Liable for some of this problem out there? Uh, according to the court, um, we don’t know, because basically what came down is that, uh, according to the court, we didn’t meet the statute of limitations. That became the issue. So that’s what we’re going to be meeting. I will brief you on, you know, what the Supreme Court said.

00:07:00,630	And then, uh, at the joint Commission meeting, more than likely we will enter executive session to determine next steps, if any. So I don’t want to get the cart ahead of the horse. Um, but I can assure you that we are on the hook for that payment at this point. Any other discussion? Kelly. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab. No.

00:07:28,230	Commissioner Woodcox. Yes. Commissioner Munson. Yes. Chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Uh, next item up. Public comment restricted to Burleigh County residents and landowners. Anyone wishing to speak for public comment, please come forward. Second call for public comment. Third and final call for public comment. Public comment is now closed.

00:07:51,200	Moving on to item number six. Consent agenda with abatements. Check replacement. Second approach permit paving, waiver requests and second quarter 2026 budget report. What are the wishes of the Commission? Move to approve. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. Second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Here’s your Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson.

00:08:16,970	Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Next item up. University of Mary. Intergovernmental agreement. And who’s carrying that? Come on up. All right. Thank you, Mister Chairman. And members of the commission. My name is Kevin de Como. Bruce Mark, regional president for Riviera Bank. I also have Jerome Richter, executive vice president at university. Mary. Uh, purpose.

00:08:47,730	And thank you for allowing us on the agenda today. Uh, purpose, you may recall, in July, July 20th meeting, we were here to request the adoption of a resolution as well as an intergovernmental agreement for the, tranche one issuance of Mida bonds for several projects related to construction at the University of Mary.

00:09:13,930	Uh, so we split this into two tranches. That one was, uh, 34 million and included uh, bonds issued by Burleigh County, city of Braddock, City of Linton, and the city of Wilton. Um, as we indicated, that was 34 million of the total, uh, $60 million bonds that are being issued for the projects.

00:09:31,430	Uh, as we indicated then we told you we’d be back in, uh, later this fall for our second tranche, uh, approval. So in your packets, uh, pages 26 through 32 are similar or replicated documents from what was executed in a July meeting.

00:09:52,100	Uh, so the difference is this is tranche two of the financing, which is a total of $26 million in bonds that are going to be issued, uh, between the city of Hague, City of Briarwood and Emmons County. Um, so our request today is to approve the intergovernmental agreement as the host county, since these projects are being, completed. The bonds are financing a project in Burleigh County.

00:10:13,730	Burleigh County ends up being the host county for the projects. So we’re asking, um, for the approval of the bond resolution ahead of you or before you. And also the intergovernmental agreement as the host county.

00:10:33,470	Uh, and and as a reminder, I’ll just say, uh, public hearings have been held at all the various municipalities that are issuing the bonds. Uh, those have all been completed. Uh, Burleigh County consents to the issuance of the bonds by these municipalities to finance the improvements at the University of Mary campus in Burleigh County. There’s no liability to Burleigh County in any way or any of the municipalities at issuing the bonds, and they do not.

00:10:52,870	The bonds do not constitute a debt or liability of the public subdivisions. So, um, and there is indemnification for all political subdivisions is included in these documents. So I would open it up to any questions or public comment as this is a public comment. Um. Any questions? Commissioner Schwab. There is a glaring, uh, thing that sticks out to me.

00:11:20,230	How can the city of Bismarck is on this list? Uh, I don’t believe they had availability because of other bonding issuances that they had already committed to this year. Uh, each for clarification. Each municipality’s political subdivision has $10 million of bonding available, either for their own purpose or for a purpose of non-profits.

00:11:47,170	And so Bismarck, uh, had other commitments for this year. And so we we approached several others that are in the area that have connections to the University of Mary via students, uh, faculty, staff, other connections there at Jerome. I don’t know if you had anything else to add, but but good question.

00:12:06,400	Um, but that’s the reason why Bismarck is not one of the issuers. But what’s that? That’s the. Reason that Bismarck wasn’t one of the issuers, is they did not have the availability. Was thinking maybe they were broke. In their own. I don’t know. Yet. Mister chair moved to approve. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none.

00:12:29,330	Call the roll, please. Commissioner Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Commissioner. Woodcox. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Gentlemen. Thank you. Thank you. Next item up. Taft Township supervisor Kip Rath, a request, uh, the merger of Taft and Thelma townships. Mr. chairman and. the board of the county. Commissioners. Uh, I’m Kip Rath.

00:13:01,470	and Thelma Township is very small. They have about 11. Members over. 18 years old. So it’s just. And Taft has we. Have about 26. So just to run. the townships, keep them run better. Uh, we thought we’d like to combine and merge them. I have the signatures.

00:13:31,800	Uh, it says the procedure is 25% of qualified electors. So we have the signatures over 25%. So if you have any questions that I could answer. So are you just going to combine the boards or what’s that going to look like as far. As there’s been a few townships that have combined in the last. Well, there’s a couple that combined 20 years ago.

00:13:54,170	And yeah, you just, uh, combined the two boards have we’re looking at two members from each township and then one at large member and then a clerk. Any question? Commissioner Schwab. Uh, maybe my agenda is missing the item, but I have no documentation of what you say. You have.

00:14:15,030	Uh, that was emailed. Huh? That was emailed. I got that email. Yep. Yeah. I chose to not put them in the packet because it included all their their mailing address. Residential. Yeah. Information. So I emailed that out to all the commissioners. So.

00:14:35,900	And, um, when I was reading through that, uh, that constitute a majority of the township. Yep. Okay. Yep. Uh, any other questions? Commissioner Kim, but I want to confirm with Julie, state’s attorney and highway Department how this all works. Any. Julie, do you see any issues? With the merger of the townships? Yeah. So I wasn’t asked to look into that.

00:15:04,400	And that’s not something that’s in my memory bank, so I can’t answer that right now. I apologize. Dan, any questions or concerns on the highway department? What is the name of this township, new township going to be? We’ll just call it Thelma Taft or Taft. Thelma. We haven’t. That might be a big fight on one.

00:15:23,300	Whoever’s got the most members might win. That one. We conceded and we said, we’ll call it Thelma Taft. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Good evening. Mr. Vice Chair. Commissioners. We have a couple of different, uh, townships that are already doing the same scenario. Harriet Lane is one of them, as an example.

00:15:43,300	Um, we just bill it out, and I believe they even combined finances at that point and then just run it under one. Um, over overseer of, of, uh, township board. So no complications from, uh. Not from. Our paperwork perspective. No. Okay. Uh, any other questions? Uh, hearing none entertain a motion to approve. Second motion and second.

00:16:12,400	Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab. Yes. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Good luck. Thanks. Uh, next item up. Uh, County Engineer Schriock. You get very far. No, I didn’t sit very far away. So, uh, Mr.

00:16:38,370	Vice Chairman, uh, commissioners, we have two items under the highway department tonight. The first item is, uh, the creation of the account technician position for the highway department. Uh, just a little bit of background on this particular item.

00:16:53,470	Uh, during the past few months, the highway department and the human resource department have been working on creating a highway department account technician position. Uh, it was we have reviewed the department’s needs, and we we found that the best determined that the best way to fill this position would be to promote our current admin assistant to the newly created account technician position.

00:17:14,400	Um, we did interview this person, and this change does fit within the current highway department’s salary and fringe benefit budget. This new position won’t actually be a new FTE. It would be the conversion of an engineering technician position that has sat vacant for several years, and we, um, we would advertise to fill the vacant admin assistant to position once this promotion takes place, there is a proposed resolution I would stand for.

00:17:34,830	Any questions. Any questions for Nan.. Move to approve. Second motion and second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Call the roll please. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes. Mr.. Munson yes. Mr.. Schwab. Yes. Chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Next item up. Uh, sale of used assets. Yep.

00:17:53,870	The Highway department has a list attached to your packet of sale of used assets that we have no longer needs for, or they have been replaced. Um, there is a proposed resolution, and I would stand for any questions. Any questions? Mr. chairman, did we get our ones that we ordered from Texas? And did they come up? Did we get those? Yes. We received all of our trucks.

00:18:12,030	For. Okay. Yep. Every one of them move. We approve.. Second motion and second. Any further discussion? Uh, Dan, where is this posted for people? Is this a bid process or is this just. So this would be a government auction site and we do advertise in the Tribune. And then we also post it on our website.

00:18:31,770	Perfect. Just so people can hear. Um, we have a motion a second. No further discussion. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Uh, next item up is County planning and Zoning director Flanagan. Good evening, commissioners.

00:18:56,870	Mr. chair, first up, we have four plots here. First up is the. Um. Apple Creek Ridge, third subdivision. This is a short plat lot combination where they combine both of their., um. Lots. Then existing subdivision. Uh, the combined lots are 3.11 acres.

00:19:25,730	Stormwater management plan was not required because it’s previously platted, and the paving waiver was not required because it’s already paved. At the August meeting, it was approved by 8 to 0. I stand for any question. Any questions for Mitch? Move to approve. Uh, okay. Next one up is the, uh, Olive tree subdivision final. Uh.

00:19:46,530	Do you want to take a vote on that? No. We can take them all together. Oh, sorry. Do you have a preference? Do you want to take them all together, or do you want to do it individually? I think a separate would be better later. We have a motion. Is there a second? Sorry. Okay. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab? Yes.

00:20:00,500	Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Item B. Oh, item B, next is Olive tree. Second subdivision. It’s located at 5501 Dietrich Place in Hay Creek Township. Uh, the. This is a lot size of 25 acres. Uh, combined. Um, the stormwater management was approved on June 6th, and the paving waiver was approved.

00:20:29,930	It wasn’t, uh, it was not required. Um, lot size, 25 acres. And the Planning Commission approved 8 to 0. Which of the commission. Move to. Approve? Second, with a question. Motion and a second for discussion. Mr.

00:20:52,170	chairman, does this have two accesses to it? Is that one of our requirements? No, this is a just a single lot, basically. No, it’s not a it’s not a multiple. They’re not going to split this up and divide it all. And no, they wanted to combine it for just to have a lot of accessory buildings and. Just their own usage. Yeah. Thank you. Any other discussion? Call the roll please.

00:21:13,000	Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Karen. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Item C. Uh, next up is Arcadia Lights Estate subdivision. Uh, this is in Burnt Creek Township. This is a combination of five lots from, uh, each each lot being 16.5 acres.

00:21:37,830	Um, it will be a combined total of 80.1 acres for four lots have X shared access points on the east side of the parcel off the 26th. Uh, the lot five will have access from 123rd Avenue in the south. The stormwater management plan was approved on June 6th. Paving waiver was approved in October. The Planning Commission approved 8 to 0 um.

00:22:01,130	This plat was originally initially submitted back in March 20th, with uh ten revisions to get there. So which is the commission. Move to approve. Second motion and second for the discussion? Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Munson. Yes. Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Commissioner. Woodcox. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried.

00:22:25,330	Next item up is item D, Misty waters, third re plat. Third re plat. Correct. It’s. This is located at 6301 Dream Circle. It was a combination of two parcels in the existing subdivision. The combination will be a total of 1.45 acres. Storm management plan was not required to. Paving way was not required and the Planning Commission approved 8 to 0. Any questions for Mitch.

00:22:52,300	To approve motion? Is there a second? Second motion and second. Any further discussion? Call the roll, please. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Uh. Chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Commissioner. Thanks, Mitch. Uh, next item up, Sheriff Lebon. Mr. chairman. Commissioners, uh, the item.

00:23:22,230	I have before you is a request for a salary variance. Um, and then also leave request. So basically, to bring you up to speed. Uh, we are back once again trying to hire a nurse. Um, this again is the medication assisted treatment nurse. Uh, I thought several meetings ago I briefed you.

00:23:45,730	I thought we had that position hired. Um, all good plans go awry sometimes. So here we are again. Um, so we ended up advertising, uh, what happened before was the nurse we had internally, uh, that was going to take the position, uh, decided not to take it and is going back to schooling.

00:24:08,770	And, um, so we had to reopen the nurse. We were pretty comfortable opening this position because even though we’ve struggled to get other nurses, uh, we felt very confident we would have a good, uh, pool of applicants for this position, which we did.

00:24:30,600	Uh, the, uh, ultimately, the candidate that I have before you, uh, is a very qualified candidate has worked in public health. Um, over across the river and Morton County. Um, so we’re very happy with her. She will be responsible for getting our medication assisted assisted treatment program up and running.

00:24:55,600	On the induction side, meaning we will be able to take inmates that coming off the street, put them on medication to hopefully fight their fentanyl addiction. Uh, this is a huge step for the jail. Um, it’s something that we’ve been working a long time to get done, and I think this is a good applicant. The problem for a program like this is you’re not looking for a brand new nurse right out of school.

00:25:11,730	You’re looking for somebody that has the experience and qualifications. This. I think we’re very happy with the one we got. Uh, the problem is, is you have to negotiate to get them. So, um, we’re actually doing a very good. We in the past have gotten salary variances at a much higher step for a nurse.

00:25:33,000	This is only I’m asking for a step eight. And as you’re aware, um, I can only authorize a step five without commission approval. The other caveat, and I think this is something we’re going to see more of last legislative session, the state implemented where they can negotiate salary or, excuse me,

00:25:51,270	a vacation. Uh, and I think we can all attest when we’re recruiting seasoned employees, sometimes vacation is more important than the salary. Um, so this, uh, applicant coming from a political subdivision is earning ten hours a month, and that’s what they asked. We thought that was a very reasonable request.

00:26:16,400	Uh, considering the salary and the leave request together. I did speak with HR. They’re in agreement. So that’s my request. Is authorization to move forward with the variance and hire this applicant. Any questions for Kelly? Well, we approve. Second motion. And second, further discussion. Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab. Yes. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes. Chair. Bakken. Yes.

00:26:43,970	Motion. Thank you. Kelly. Uh, next item up. Human relations director binder. With lots of stuff. Good evening, chairman Bakken commissioners. I brought forth two policies for you to approve tonight. Um, the real difference in the policies there. They were combined, and we pulled them apart.

00:27:16,070	Um, we specifically detailed our process for recruitment and selection, um, and the and selection policy. So we, uh, there’s certain departments like law enforcement that can do pre-screened, and there are certain departments that cannot do pre screens. So we had to spell all that out.

00:27:32,770	What they can do, what they can do, what kind of background inquiries do we do for different positions. Um driver’s license drug screening. We do those for certain positions and not others. So we basically laid out what we do in that recruitment and selection process, in the recruitment and selection policy.

00:27:54,730	We also put together a form we, as in human resources, um, mainly to try and pull the jobs into job requisitions because we have so many. I mean, so far this year we’ve had 76 jobs that we have posted.

00:28:09,600	Um, that we are we need to put job requisition numbers on them so we can tell them apart and go back for reference. So that’s what this form does. The rest of the form is a working form. It’s meant to kind of, um, do an exercise for the department heads on.

00:28:26,730	Do they need the position? Will the position change? Will the technology and the position change just to get them thinking before they fill a position? So it’s not? Well, I have this in my budget. I need to fill it. Do you really need to fill it? And you may, but you may not to. So that form is new. And that’s that front part of the form.

00:28:40,930	The back part of the form is helping us do a recruitment plan. Um, how long do you want to recruit or how long do you want to post? Where do you want to post? Do you have any specific agencies? I know that for the deputy finance director, we went to the CFO, which is specific to them. Um, state’s attorney. We do some of the law.

00:28:59,700	Uh, articles and the legal secretaries Association or legal Paralegal Association for paralegal. So it’s just those different areas. So I’m asking for approval on the recruitment and selection plan revision. Any questions for Pam? Mr. chairman, did you review this with your portfolio holder? I assume you did. Or did you look at it.

00:29:23,130	? I have reviewed it with department heads and the county administrator. Thank you. Okay. Approve second. Motion and second for the discussion. Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Munson. Yes. Commissioner. Schwab. Yes. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes. Chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Pam.

00:29:45,900	And the other policy is the employment policy, which is the other part of that. And that is where you have all the acts and the laws, so that one being separated out, I need approval for that one as well. Move to approve. Second motion and second for the discussion. Hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Schwab.. Yes. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes. Commissioner. Munson. Yes. The chairman. Bakken.

00:30:06,970	Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Thank you, Pam, for all the work. Uh, next item up. Auditor Splonskowski. Concerning the 2027 meeting calendar. Good evening. Commissioners. So, uh, you may have noticed that I’m coming at you pretty early for this calendar for 2027.

00:30:33,070	However, with what we were finding last year in this room getting booked very, very quickly, uh, we thought that we should probably come at, come at this sooner than later. Uh, if you want to review the calendar here most all the, the, uh, different, um, meetings we have scheduled on a Tuesday.

00:30:49,600	However, any that are different are marked, uh, there’s, uh, two different Tuesdays and one Wednesday in there. And then the first meeting of September, that one is a couple different dates I put on there, September 1st or September 9th. Uh, if you guys prefer one date or the other, I believe that they’re both available at 5:00 here in this room.

00:31:07,670	Uh, but they’re not on the normal days. So, uh, if you want, you can approve everything. But that first Miss September, and then I can try and nail that down for approval at a later date. So what was the, uh, the first or the ninth difference? Is that because of Labor Day? Yeah, Labor Day Monday.

00:31:26,600	So either the Wednesday before or the Thursday after. So. Anybody have preferences? Because I’d like to get them all. Done Wednesday. The first would be if it’s available. So you go to the ninth. You only got 11 days in in between. Meetings with that too. So, um, any other input? Okay. We’ll go with the September 1st then.

00:31:48,430	Okay. I’ll verify it. I believe that it’s still available, but I’ll go ahead and lock it down. If it’s not, I’ll let you know. Perfect. Any other questions on the agenda? I would entertain a motion to approve. Move to approve. Second motion and second to any discussion. Hearing none. Call the roll, please.

00:32:05,970	Commissioner Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. Yes, Commissioner. Woodcox. Yes, chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Thank you. Mark. Thank you. Uh, next item up, Commissioner Munson County park. County park board discussion.

00:32:27,900	Uh, I in front of you, you have the resolution, uh, for approval, uh, to adjust the current makeup of the Burleigh County Park Board. I want to give Commissioner Schwab a little, um. Attaboy. He was correct. Uh, Julie Loyer had confirmed that the only thing we can call this group is a park board by Century code. So I appreciate that, Steve. Um. Was that correct on that? You were correct. Yes. You’re correct on mowing them weeds. No.

00:32:48,100	Abstain, abstain. Well. So in front of you is the resolution for our approval. Um, the document has been adjusted by city attorney lawyer to have all of the other terms that I was calling it within the document. It is all now Burleigh County Park Board. With that, I would move approval. Second.

00:33:14,300	We have a motion. And second, any further discussion hearing none. Call the roll, please. Commissioner Woodcox. Yes, Commissioner. Munson. Yes, Commissioner. Schwab. No. Chairman. Bakken. Yes. Motion carried. Uh, next item up. Uh, County administrator. Singer. Uh, I do have one question. Commissioner. Munson. So as far as implementation dates.

00:33:36,700	That’s my next step. Okay, I will I will bring that back. The goal is by January 1st. Okay. To have it all implemented. Um, and then effects on budget. Yes. That I have budgeted accordingly. Assuming this would pass. Okay. So that is in our budget. Perfect. Thank you for all the work. Yeah. Thank you. Uh, administrator singer.

00:34:03,500	Commissioners, before you item 15, you have a BCD. We can go through those individually or, um, go into executive session and discuss all of them. Mr. chair, if we would, let’s put other business out first, then go to executive session. Okay.

00:34:27,430	Uh, is there any other business for the good of Burleigh County? If you would report on your last trip? Oh, um, actually, I did not put it on this agenda. Okay. Uh, just for the simple fact that, uh, we have a very comprehensive report, um, with the MPO that’s going to be here.

00:34:45,100	And because of the length of this agenda, I figured it’d be more thorough if we had it on the next commission meeting. So we’ll we’ll run through that. It was very, uh, very eye opening. And some North Dakota’s got some work to do. Okay. So, um, with that, uh, I would entertain a motion to go into executive session. Move to move into executive session pursuant NCC 44-0419.1..

00:35:12,270	Second motion a second. Uh, with that, I would ask that the room be cleared and, uh, we will take all of the items on