Call to order.
First of all, the business is the approval of each of that.
New approval.
Seconded.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed.
Next order is a review and approval of the minutes from March 12th.
All in ten motion.
Second.
All in roll seconds.
It's been moved and seconded.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
All in favor say aye.
Flames.
We have flames.
For you.
Manual checks of $143.15.
We have cash requirements of $188,720 at 79 cent for a total of $188.63.
94.
We're sure of pleasure.
I move to approve the bills.
Because it's William's move to approve them.
That's for sure.
30 Seconds.
Didn't anybody else last?
All in favor?
Aye.
Well, we have that behind us.
We'll go into our departmental reports.
First one is animal control.
I'm sorry, public comment.
No, that's fine.
I'm sorry.
No, you're good.
Okay.
Um, in March, we took seven cats in.
Three were surrenders.
Three were city strays.
One was returned.
It was adopted previous month.
Month.
Um, five were transferred to rescue, or sorry, three were transferred to rescues, four were, um, are still adoptable.
Our dog intake was nine dogs to surrender, seven, uh, county strays.
Um, five of those dogs are adoptable, two were reclaimed and two went to rescue.
Our current, um, animal inventory is 14 adoptable cats, two are on hold, on hold.
Dogs, we have 21 adaptable, one foster and three on hold.
Two of those are Jessica's Jones' court date dogs.
Today we went to court.
She is claiming that the Great Dane, the one that we were mainly charging her, was not her dog.
There is no way we can prove it was her dog.
So I asked if we could just have her at least sign the Chihuahua over.
And since she's not claiming the Great Dane, then we've had it for July of 24.
Nobody's reclaimed the dog.
So he's ours then if she's claiming it's not hers.
So she did sign the Chihuahua over.
So both dogs are ours now to go ahead, adopt them out, neuter them, rescue, whatever we feel fit.
It's not the outcome I would have liked, but these dogs have been with us long enough.
We're not going to prolong it any longer.
Andrew crisis cases were also today.
He did get a continuance on them.
I don't know the date of that.
I believe it it was June for an hour bench trial.
Mary Manke, which is the Cocker case.
She somehow did not do something.
I believe it might been the mental health part of the case.
So that's back in court 512.
She's been paying and I don't think she has more than two dogs.
So that's the only thing I can think of that was part of her order was the mental health.
Other things, unfortunately I was in an accident with the work van.
We're still waiting on insurance.
However, Bakker Auto Group donated a 2007 uplander van with 94,000 miles on it.
It was originally owned by an older couple, very well maintained.
I think we'll have many, many years on it.
I've driven it about a week now, I think it's been licensed.
It's running good, perfect.
It's basically the same as the old van, a little longer front end I got to get used to, but no, it's running really good.
I'm very thankful for Delbert and his group for doing that.
Otherwise, in the front of your pack, this truck came in yesterday.
Um I had Stephanie look into it because of the amount and it's a legit tracking number and so that went in the bank yesterday we're gonna give it a 30-day grace to make sure it's all legit.
Where's it from?
I don't think you've got I don't know if I sent you a copy of it or not yeah so we did some research um there is an 80 year old woman with that name in Pecatonica and I think that's probably where it came from.
I'm going to send her a letter to thank her.
Hopefully it's, I mean, if it's not her, she'll obviously say it's not her, but just because there's no way else to thank her.
And I'd like to thank her for that donation.
That was very generous and will 14,890.
So a whole bunch of things are going to get made.
Yes.
I'm like, let's see.
And she could have a whole room.
I'm thinking a bench outside.
If I figure out, yes, I'm going to ask her what she would like.
Yeah, seriously.
Yeah.
Cause I like maybe the isolation room could have a nice whatever.
She wants to dedicate it to one of her past animals.
That's a good thing.
So I really want to find her and hopefully that's her impact.
I'm thinking it is because that name is in this area.
So I mean, I don't know.
That's it for that.
Things were the usual and an oil change on the old man.
Is it total?
Oh, oh yeah.
I've had 234,000.
So yeah, I didn't use it.
We haven't got any official word, but I don't think that Johnson's been out to it, but it's rest in pieces.
I thought maybe, you know, and you just scraped something.
No, no, tickets issue, but tickets issue.
Yes, I got a ticket.
So what was it that you were checking it for?
Failure to reduce speed or avoid an accident, something like that.
It was my fault.
I had a coughing fit and by the time I realized they were stopped ahead of me, there was not enough time to stop.
Stop.
I, I tried, I floored the brakes.
I meant there was no time.
I was crushed.
I got out of the van, hobbled to the lady and she was fine, but no, no.
I had airbag related.
I went to, Urgent Care, Georgia told me to go there just, you know, close to Expo.
Yeah.
And I, you know, learned from the airbags, but otherwise sore, obviously.
But, and I called the lady that was in the accident with me and she was fine.
And I called her like, I think two days later and she was doing fine.
And so unfortunately, trust me, that's the last thing I want to happen.
I'm sure.
My record was beautiful.
Um, anyways, yeah.
So I met, we got a man, um, got it licensed, went to Mary's and got it licensed and it's insured and everything's good on it.
Um, tires looked good.
Um, this is a question, I guess.
Okay.
We pulled the seats out.
Can we dispose of the seats or do we need to keep the seats?
We're never going to use the seats.
So what we did right now is we put the seeds in the old vans because that's going to get totaled and taken away.
So why not?
But I didn't know it was donated.
Don't ask, don't tell.
Okay.
It was who's going to ever use them?
It's your new bench.
Yeah, thank you.
No, that's all right.
I was thinking somebody had mentioned one of the bars bobbers uses old seats.
I'm like, I said, we just go away.
Anyways, the weekly intakes.
Like I said, the pickups, we really haven't been getting.
I've been picking up dogs.
They just haven't We've been getting very blamed, unfortunately.
We've had a lot of dumb thoughts.
He's had a lot of dogs.
I think the one day, end of the month, I picked up three dogs one day.
One cat for bite order and nobody's coming to get these dogs.
They're just, I don't know, springtime we usually pick up on pickups, but they also get picked up by their owner.
So I don't, people are just in a rough spot that they just can't afford them anymore.
So you've got about 35 animals right now, 14 cats, 21 dogs?
Yeah, as of this report, it's gone down.
So what capacity do you have?
I mean, at what point do you no longer take animal?
We're no longer taking dogs right now, other than stray, our strays, our county strays.
So what's your total capacity right now?
We're at it right now with the, I would say 25 dogs.
Yeah.
25 Dogs, 14 cats, 15 cats.
We could do more cats, but 25 dogs is the highest we can double.
So how many cats did you take if you can not take more than 25 dogs?
How many cats did you take?
Probably about the same.
So 50 animals, give or take?
Probably.
Thank you.
But, um, on the cats we have, we have, I think there's actually not even 14 cats right now.
Um, we have four kittens, four kittens, an adult cat born at Anderson Humane Society on Saturday, and I think three cats born to Iowa County Humane Sadie on Saturday.
So we just, the cats, we can move out dogs.
We're just, everybody's so full that for some reason the cats are moving right now and the dogs are just sitting everywhere.
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I had somebody call me yesterday wanting to sign a nine month old dog over.
I'm like, I can't, what, what am I supposed to do?
I'm like, I don't know.
We can't take any more in.
I, and if we don't have room, we can't take them.
I.
And where are you taking the other ends?
Um, Iowa County, which is Dodgeville, Wisconsin is taking three cats.
And then Anderson Cummine is in Elgin.
And they're coming to get them?
Um, there's transports going that way from other shelters.
Okay.
So it's coming, picking them up and taking them, not delivering.
No.
Any questions on the weekly?
And then Medals Drive really didn't change a whole lot.
I did have LA Taxes do a $250 check for, it's a cat condo price but she says whatever, she doesn't really care, she just did the $250 so she can, she doesn't care what it goes to.
Any other questions, guys? Is there anyone else?
It's good.
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
All right, we're going to go ahead and do our highway reports.
Thank you.
Oh, that's got to go first.
See you.
On the last month, I guess it started out, I think, after our last meeting, we ended up falling, I think, for three days.
I mean, that's most of them after that next week.
And then since then we've been cleaning curb and gutters in some of the smaller towns where we maintain them, working on shoulders, patching potholes, started sweeping intersections this week and we did do some cutting brush with the boom mower, cleaned up some downed trees from high winds and started maintenance on the, or taking piles off, painting the front of them to get the trucks ready for some work.
Any other information?
All right.
You got the department updates in front of you.
I've highlighted our construction work that has changed since the last meeting.
I'm still waiting for a letting date for the Cedarville and Dakota Road projects.
We executed a joint agreement on February 19th, it's down in Springfield, then on our desk, waiting for them to fully execute it so we can let the project, and I've been on the district, and they're waiting to sign a flexible, so I don't know what that means.
So as soon as they sign the agreement, then we can go to letting on the city bill, and I'm packaging the Dakota Road with it.
That's totally local funding, but I want to do them both together because they're both filled up reclamation jobs.
So we'll get better bids if we get them both at the same time.
The West Point Bridge was let earlier this week, and then we got a second one.
Uh, the preliminary plans were submitted and we're going to have another, uh, leg spring, uh, lending for that project.
So I can't let them at the same time because they're in the same road.
We have to open up the one before we can let the open up the other one.
Otherwise we'll landlock somebody.
So, um, monthly or yearly overweight permits, uh, right now, the only permit process we have is per use permit.
And it hasn't been a problem to date until we got a phone call this week from St. Place about somebody who's an overweight hauler hauling raw milk products to a kid.
Two trips a day, six days a week, he's hauling $110 to $120 a bottle.
You want to share a little bit?
He just called.
The state cop had stopped in earlier late last year at one point, which is kind of curious on a permit process because he stopped a trucker, a milk hauler, and said that they're hauling two times a day, six days a week, and when they're loaded, they're about $120,000.
And up until this time, they said which contractor it was, and we had never gotten a permit from and so it had gone basically through October and I didn't know, I can't contact, he didn't have any information on who the contractor was or anything like that and then he came in earlier and brought in like the permit that they get from the state which is a thousand dollars a year per truck Rock, and it's supposed to be only on the highway or state roads, not local roads.
So I contacted, I went off the permit, so I contacted that, it's TIA Trucking.
So I contacted them and his first response was they have basically have a permit for state roads.
And I was like well that's the state roads that doesn't include the local roads and he's like so then he replied to that he's like after more looking into it you're I was incorrect so it does it's not included in the the price because he thought it was if you're delivering within so far of a state road it's included on the permit.
It's in full type on the state permit says this does does not include local roads.
You have to contact local authorities.
And they just, a lot of them, they just ignore it, say, oh, they think it's good.
Yeah.
Yeah, so I guess the question is, do we want it?
Do we want to go through trying to set up a monthly or yearly permit process?
Or do we just say, he has to follow the same procedure as everybody else?
And because we have local contractors that, like Fisher, for example, they do quite a few each year and if we're, I guess if we're going to do this for a non-local contractor, do we do it for local contractors and so on and that size of a load is $300 a program and realistically that doesn't cover the damage that it's probably doing to the road.
And you're saying three sounds a year?
No, no, for years, for two a day.
And he's been, I mean, he's got, and the state cap basically said when he was talking to this trucker, there was another one that was coming through and they were going on 20.
And I'm assuming they go 20 to Kent.
And this one was coming off of 73, going on Dublin.
So this company is just doing it twice a day, six days a week.
What's that?
What was that?
Contractor Tifton.
No, I don't.
He was not.
I think that's $300, $600 a week.
But how did they know how they were being employed?
Because the officer spoke with them, like talked to them.
Like he pulled them over and just gave them a warning.
So he gave them that information voluntarily.
He didn't have to wait until after.
Yeah, I mean, like the permit that was sent that they had.
I was sent that they had said it was like 110,000 pounds or whatever, but the officer told me that the guy basically said it was around 104 to 110,000 pounds.
So it's like three truckloads instead of him doing it twice, they need to be like having a truck.
And realistically, I mean, like, the top, Dublin and Cannes, I mean, those are 80,000 pounds, but or 73,280.73,280.
So they're not designed to handle 110,120,000 pounds.
And you're permitting local companies know that they have to get permits.
Yeah.
So when Fishery asks for a permit, we give them for use permit.
So every time he hauls, he gets a permit.
So but this is a kind of an unusual situation where he he's reached 12 permits per week and wow he hasn't he's got one permit and he hasn't gotten anything else he's got his load down was that the other day he's going to cut his load down yeah that's the other option is just don't go overweight and how do you monitor this yeah you're sticking with the road saying okay That comes down to an enforcement.
That's the Sheriff's Office.
Okay.
Now we have the scales.
Yeah, we have the scale for it.
So let me ask, do you anticipate that there are many other companies that are doing the same thing and you need a new department?
I have no idea.
There might be other what happens when they get a state permit?
I'll get like, not these yearly ones.
I don't get notification for this, but if they, if somebody gets a state permit and it's going on a township road or a county road, I'll get like an email from the state, like showing me the permit.
And then if I notice that they don't, if I have time and notice that they haven't gotten a local permit, I'll send an email to the county.
Contact on the, the permit three times out of 10, maybe they'll get a permit.
But realistically, we have no, I can't, we can't enforce it.
So you can't drive this road without giving a permit.
But until they get caught, and even then, I, oh, sorry.
If they'll give up ticket, if they get caught, I mean, this contractor got caught and still hasn't twice and he still hasn't gotten tickets.
So you say the sheriff of Miami Stanley can enforce this.
So does the sheriff write overweight tickets?
Sheriff can write them, the state police can write them.
They can write them, but didn't write this guy wrong.
They did, but they have in the past.
Two separate issues though, right?
It is, right.
So we definitely do not want overweight trucks on our roads, and roads are bad enough as they are, severely underfunded to repair.
My personal opinion is absolutely there needs to be permits because you're trying to get people to not do what they're doing.
The other side of it, that's public property and safety.
That's talking to the sheriff who's an elected official and asking them to be looking for this type of thing.
There are two separate issues.
Well, so am I understanding correctly, we already have a policy in place, but it's been kind of used as needed, point by point, because this would be such a continuous use, that's what makes the situation unique?
Correct.
I mean, in reality, he'd have to get 12 permits per week at $300 a pop, so $3,600.
It would be.
So, he won't do it because his state permit is $1,000, so he'll just have to haul $80,000.
Which is really gross.
Right.
At the end of the day, we don't want to make money off of this.
I'm inclined to keep the policy as it is, but I just wonder, I want to see your feelings on what to do with that.
Leaving it alone, can I just say, is leaving it alone seems to be more of a hardest work to make a new right.
If we can then talk to our public safety about doing a few checks to make, to put some pressure on.
That's not putting any pressure on by making it yearly but we can talk to our other department about doing a few currency checks that might help them to put that other truck in play like you said because they need to be having another loan to try to enforce this or something so from the cheese factory that would do it about 100 percent yep and actually even the Stapleys have been very cooperative ones.
If we let them know that somebody's run or overloaded, they'll get out there and check it.
They'll need a couple of tickets.
Yeah, it's not going to take much.
You could probably send a letter to the cheesetap and say, listen, we're going to start checking in here.
Got to help up here.
They don't get anything much.
I think the driver's going to get tickets.
It's going to have the trucker's license and his insurance for the tickets.
So that's their livelihood.
There was a super load that went through I got township and sheriff stated please slow them over and I got a phone call from the turkey company the next day asking if there's anything I can do about his $30,000 ticket because he was running $190,000.
I think it was like 250 like was it yeah I think it was like two arcs and I think there's a couple yeah I think there was one that had already gone through the This one actually got stuck.
So there was multiple.
It wasn't just that one.
These guys know what they're doing.
They do.
They try to pull their.
Say, oh, I didn't know it.
They both print.
They know.
We can bring it up to.
That'll help us to know what we can do here.
I think the policy probably checks out.
Ben Tabbs, I think you've got them in your packet.
We had a lighting for the first west point Boundstep bridge.
We have one, two, three, five bidders.
Low bid was 655,430, which which is about 3% over the engineer's estimate.
So it's, thumbs are within 5% or it's, it's a little close.
And so we had some good vids for that bridge.
And then we had, on the same day, we had our material letting for our pavement preservation project on Orangeville Road.
And we had good vids for that and they're under the engineer's estimate.
So that material will be as a wordable.
Last thing was the good news for the county.
We received a rural and tribal assistance grant for $523,915.
That was for preliminary engineering for the roundabout at Cedarville Road and Toledo Road.
The grant is only for preliminary engineering work.
It was one of 50 projects awarded in the country, and there were two of your favorite ones.
Boone County got one for some brick bundling project, and we got ours for a roundabout.
And it's 100% funding, so it'll cover all of the phase one and phase two for the design of the new roundabout.
So then, and this is a federal fund, so that takes about two years.
So for FY 2028, we'll pursue the safety funds for the construction of it.
HSIP loves, the federal safety funds love roundabouts, so I don't want to have a good shot at it.
The estimate, I think it's inflated, but the preliminary engineering, the estimate was for the exact amount for construction of the roundabout, 3.4 million.
So I think it will come in a little bit less than that, but I've got an engineer's estimate for the construction.
So somewhere around 2028, we'll try to get funds to build it.
So everything's moving pretty good along for that.
So I would say I would follow the stage.
No, it's a leader road and a senior road.
Senior road, yeah.
It's a kind of a skewed intersection.
And we run into wetland.
So it looks like roundabout is the most feasible alternative for that because you have to try to stay away from the solar farm, the railroad tracks, the wetlands, the storage place right there.
And there's a tall power pole right there too.
I think that's it, any questions for Dale to add to our budget report?
Everything is looking good, we haven't gotten into the construction season yet.
Also, everything's online with that so far.
So, I'll see if anybody else sees anything that they've noticed that construction season hasn't really started yet, so we're all.
I should.
All right.
Thank you.
We're all business.
So, we'll move to 8.0, new business, and 8.1 is HD2646 available.
Yeah, this is at West Point Township Bridge.
It's a township, it's a TPP project.
And so that's 80-20 funding and now it's 100%.
Now 100%, yeah, so.
Engineering is 80-10-10.
What construction is?
Construction is 100%, so 655,000 is low bidder.
Current construction is the contractor and they've done work for it before and they do a good job.
So I recommend awarding it.
Make a motion to approve.
Motion by Larry, second by Moderow.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Right.
Good.
Sound it over.
Thank you Dr. White.
Thank you.
Do you have additional information?
I'm good.
Good night.
Thank you.
It's supposed to be a point or two.
Probe all the bids for the kennels and that's all.
It's a big deal.
Information.
Kennels.
Oops, sorry.
You got it.
Good luck.
So we only got one mid that came in and actually I compared it to the company I was originally looking at and they are actually under that company by the fact that the amount they quoted was with shipping and the amount that I was looking at the other place was 16,000 without shipping.
So I had three companies contact me, only one sent the vet though.
And this company actually works with government animal controls.
So they know, you know what the panels need to be.
Um they have everything that the other kennels were going to have in it including like the bulls that swivel in that way you don't have to you can feed without actually going into the kennels um the special anti-fight design so the dogs aren't fence fighting um yeah so I did send them a diagram to all three companies that reached out of the kennels we were kind of looking at and so they had kind of an idea of what we were looking for.
They're based out of Texas.
The only thing I have to change, they think they're shipping them to the Lamb Road, which I'll get that fixed before we're beginning so they understand they're not shipping We have one proposal that we have for this evening.
I have a motion to approve Williams motions.
Is there a second?
They know we don't pay sales tax, right?
I believe so.
Please make sure.
And does this increase your capacity, or is it still going to be?
No, it will be the same.
Thank you.
I'll give him the text itself.
Yeah, I got that.
Anybody else on the committee have some questions?
All right, well, if no all in favor say aye.
All in favor say aye.
Accepted, or it brings us to the end of our meeting.
Any comments from committee members at this time?
I'll make a motion for adjournment.
I'll make a second time adjourn.
It's been moved and seconded.
Do we want Good evening.
Yes, thank you.
And both of you.