WEBVTT 00:00:02.609 --> 00:00:07.610 6.30, we'll call our meeting to order, Dale and Lowreheads. 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:11.050 Certainly, certainly. 00:00:11.050 --> 00:00:16.050 Lowreheads, Heavenly Father, we come today to thank you 00:00:16.730 --> 00:00:18.449 for bringing us all together 00:00:18.449 --> 00:00:22.010 and thank you for blessing our lives, 00:00:22.010 --> 00:00:25.269 help us do what's right for the County. 00:00:25.269 --> 00:00:30.269 And we have a friendly and productive conversations 00:00:30.269 --> 00:00:34.270 Conversations, and this will be asked in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:00:36.869 --> 00:00:40.070 All right, 3.0, Google of the agenda. 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:40.990 Samuel? 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:41.750 Second. 00:00:41.750 --> 00:00:45.950 Is there any additions or anything to it? 00:00:45.950 --> 00:00:47.630 I'm going to add something to the, 00:00:47.630 --> 00:00:49.149 I think it's the new businesses. 00:00:49.149 --> 00:00:53.590 I want to talk about the trail agreement, 00:00:53.590 --> 00:00:54.710 intergovernmental agreement. 00:00:54.710 --> 00:00:57.750 I think that would be under new business. 00:00:57.750 --> 00:00:58.590 Okay. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:18.159 Anything else? All those in favor of the agenda as added. Are you opposed? Motion carries. 00:01:18.159 --> 00:01:27.439 We have approval of the meeting minutes from May 11th. Motion to approve. Any questions on those? 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:35.439 Hearing none, all those in favor sing in front by saying aye. Any opposed? Motion carries as well. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:43.680 We have claims this evening trolling $860.33. 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:49.680 Motion and a second. Bush and Brandt seconded by Baker. 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:53.680 All those in favor say aye. Aye. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:59.680 Any opposed? There is. Thank you for the signature. 00:01:59.680 --> 00:02:02.680 At this time we have public comment. 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:29.800 Excuse my shaky voice, my name is Mark Curtis. I live in 1990 Candlewick Lane in Freeport, Illinois, Mark and Cindy Curtis. 00:02:29.800 --> 00:02:45.039 I'm involved in the area with the quarry and I just wanted to mention everybody just bringing 00:02:45.039 --> 00:02:53.000 this up but my concerns and thoughts about that and some of what it boils down to is 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:59.360 I'm concerned about the groundwater contamination of when he gets into doing other things in 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.000 and Corey and getting into the concrete and the asphalt 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:06.919 and things like that with crushing and recycling 00:03:06.919 --> 00:03:10.740 that oppose risk to the groundwater. 00:03:11.740 --> 00:03:15.159 My issues are also traffic and safety 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:18.060 of the increased truck volume for residents, 00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:22.240 school buses and other users and conditions of the road 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.680 and just wear and tear. 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:29.460 the noise and the hours of operation. 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:31.879 I think it's six in the morning until six in the evening 00:03:31.879 --> 00:03:33.460 or something like that. 00:03:33.460 --> 00:03:38.460 So, and just the air quality and I moved out there 2015. 00:03:40.960 --> 00:03:42.800 It's close enough to be a city, 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:46.039 but far enough to be peaceful and tranquil. 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:51.039 And I believe that this is going to inhibit that. 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.639 And so this is, I mean, there is businesses, 00:03:54.639 --> 00:03:57.759 but I just wanted to state my concerns. 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:58.759 And I think I'm the only one 00:03:58.759 --> 00:04:00.560 in this closet that beats three minutes. 00:04:04.280 --> 00:04:06.240 Please give me, thank you for your time 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:09.800 and your consideration and if you don't mind, 00:04:09.800 --> 00:04:12.280 I wanted to be first because I have a sick wife. 00:04:12.280 --> 00:04:14.439 So I'm going to go home and tend to her. 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:19.439 And hopefully that won't be in the minutes, thank you. 00:04:19.439 --> 00:04:35.199 Thank you. 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:38.879 Chair and members, all except one county board member 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:42.959 voted a new fence ordinance in that last month's board meeting. 00:04:42.959 --> 00:04:45.480 Are you aware of the fencing project that has started 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:50.480 since that meeting at the 40 located at 466 West Fairview Road? 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:53.240 I'll speak of the activities the owners at Jeffery 00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.199 has been doing for the past three weeks 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:57.759 along the property line between us. 00:04:57.759 --> 00:05:01.680 He has graded up and cut out trees and shrubbery on his side. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:05.120 In doing so, he has knocked portions of his existing 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:08.279 steel coast and barbed wire fencing 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:11.040 and still rutted shrubbery onto my property. 00:05:11.040 --> 00:05:14.199 He has shoved piles of dirt under the fence line 00:05:14.199 --> 00:05:15.680 and onto my property. 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:18.079 Last summer, he and I spoke of working together 00:05:18.079 --> 00:05:20.399 to clean up the property line. 00:05:20.399 --> 00:05:23.439 This no longer appears to be his intent. 00:05:23.439 --> 00:05:26.959 Last week, a family member called me at approximately 7 p.m. 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.160 and said he wasn't able to drive up my lane 00:05:30.160 --> 00:05:32.439 as landscaping waste shrubs and brush 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:35.819 had been thrown over the fence onto my lane. 00:05:35.819 --> 00:05:39.720 My family member had to throw the best back over the fence 00:05:39.720 --> 00:05:42.740 as Zach had already left the quarry for the day. 00:05:42.740 --> 00:05:46.000 I don't believe when you folks approve the ordinance, 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.240 you expected these issues for neighbors 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:50.279 to have to deal with. 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.920 I ask that you consider amending and revising 00:05:53.920 --> 00:05:56.379 your ordinance to correct and alleviate these 00:05:56.379 --> 00:05:59.519 and other issues for people who live next door 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:03.560 and aren't just zoned residential, but also zoned ag. 00:06:03.560 --> 00:06:08.160 This morning zoning director Williams told me Mr. Jeffery 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:11.600 will be allowed to use any old rusty thrown away nasty 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:15.600 loafing or scrap materials he chooses for his fencing. 00:06:15.600 --> 00:06:18.240 This is also an issue that shouldn't be inflicted 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:19.420 upon neighbors. 00:06:20.579 --> 00:06:23.060 Mr. Jeffery's actions for over a year now 00:06:23.060 --> 00:06:26.519 have been in constant county and state violation. 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:29.939 Why has this been and continues to be allowed? 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.120 Georgia, are you running the camera? 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:36.600 Would you please zoom in on this video? 00:06:36.600 --> 00:06:39.480 It's voice activated, I can't control it. 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:41.160 Is it looking at my phone? 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:42.000 Yep. 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:43.079 Thank you. 00:06:43.079 --> 00:06:47.920 This video was taken since your last PND development meeting. 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.540 This is a small dump trailer, 00:06:49.540 --> 00:06:52.120 but you can clearly see in part what our neighborhood 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:54.680 has been exposed to and expected to endure 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:56.500 for over the past year. 00:06:56.500 --> 00:07:00.259 multiply the intensity of the health issues 00:07:00.259 --> 00:07:02.939 with the semi-trailer dumpings. 00:07:02.939 --> 00:07:05.740 As always, I invite all of you to come out personally, 00:07:05.740 --> 00:07:07.540 see what I speak of. 00:07:07.540 --> 00:07:09.620 Please call and I'll let you up my lane. 00:07:09.620 --> 00:07:11.860 You don't see much from the road. 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:14.620 For the official record, I request my remarks tonight 00:07:14.620 --> 00:07:17.939 and this video will be placed into the meeting minutes. 00:07:17.939 --> 00:07:19.620 Mrs. Williams told me this morning 00:07:19.620 --> 00:07:21.879 that this type of request is only honored 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.459 at ZBA and county board meetings, 00:07:24.459 --> 00:07:26.420 not counting subcommittee meetings. 00:07:26.420 --> 00:07:27.500 Is that correct? 00:07:27.500 --> 00:07:29.060 Please let me know. 00:07:29.060 --> 00:07:31.139 Thank you for your attention. 00:07:31.139 --> 00:07:36.139 I don't know if you guys, is it Kenya and that's, 00:07:36.779 --> 00:07:43.300 oh, all right, okay. 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:48.300 Can I please leave this with you then for the thank you. 00:07:48.300 --> 00:08:06.370 Thank you. Anyone else? Now we will move on with reports to the committee. 00:08:06.370 --> 00:08:13.370 Thank you. Good evening. How are you all? Good. Great. 00:08:13.370 --> 00:08:22.250 Passed around are an extrapolation of I know on 7.8 within the agenda is the Illinois Department, 00:08:22.250 --> 00:08:31.610 IPPS's Monthly Digest of Unemployment Numbers. The chart there is references the labor force 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:36.090 employment and participation rate in relationship to the job posting data. 00:08:36.090 --> 00:08:43.789 and Jeff. So as you can see, we continue to have more jobs posted than we do people unemployed 00:08:43.789 --> 00:08:52.370 and looking for work. Consistently, same companies seem to be at the top of the list. They just 00:08:52.370 --> 00:09:00.370 rotate kind of which position they're at. GPAC as well as K&A recruiting and AMN health 00:09:00.370 --> 00:09:03.309 are all healthcare recruiters. 00:09:04.190 --> 00:09:07.669 The one, I would say kind of more significant thing 00:09:07.669 --> 00:09:11.389 that stuck out to me, unemployment rate has dropped 00:09:12.529 --> 00:09:17.529 from 5.2 to 4.0, which is pretty substantial in one month. 00:09:17.809 --> 00:09:21.889 And the median salary has decreased significantly 00:09:21.889 --> 00:09:23.009 for the last several months. 00:09:23.009 --> 00:09:27.250 It had been a little over $30 an hour. 00:09:27.250 --> 00:09:32.250 is at $26.54 per hour at the median salary. 00:09:32.450 --> 00:09:35.809 So just some things to make you aware of. 00:09:35.809 --> 00:09:38.029 At the bottom of the page, I won't go through the list, 00:09:38.029 --> 00:09:40.009 but our upcoming events, 00:09:40.009 --> 00:09:43.370 you're all welcome to participate in those. 00:09:43.370 --> 00:09:45.730 Moving on to some other economic development activities 00:09:45.730 --> 00:09:47.009 in the past month, 00:09:47.009 --> 00:09:49.370 we continue to work with the site selector 00:09:49.370 --> 00:09:53.289 for another healthcare organization entering into our market. 00:09:53.289 --> 00:09:55.970 There will be exciting news and an announcement 00:09:55.970 --> 00:09:58.649 in the coming weeks for a new retailer 00:09:58.649 --> 00:10:00.250 who will be locating at the forum. 00:10:00.250 --> 00:10:02.279 Taylor, who will be locating at the former Joann's location. 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:07.399 We continue our work with Jeff Modica in Alberta's airport 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:11.360 and helping him craft five-year economic development. 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:17.440 Enterprise zone applications are in earnest, hard at work here. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:20.399 We have submitted an application for the Department of Ag Review 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:23.519 for both AutoSmart and LENA. 00:10:23.519 --> 00:10:26.360 Again, we're expanding this enterprise zone 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.360 to encompass development and expansion at AutoSmart. 00:10:30.360 --> 00:10:32.279 That's a former visitor center 00:10:32.279 --> 00:10:34.840 and we're encompassing some areas of Lena 00:10:34.840 --> 00:10:38.100 within the village proper for residential development. 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:42.399 Per the process for enterprise zone boundary expansion, 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.919 we need to get an ad review for each application. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:48.639 A public hearing will also be held 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:52.639 for on June 17th at nine and nine 30 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:53.899 back to back public hearings 00:10:53.899 --> 00:10:56.259 that will be at the greater Freeport partnership office 00:10:56.259 --> 00:10:58.779 Public hearing notices have been published 00:10:58.779 --> 00:11:00.840 and we're in the Village Voices and Journal Standard 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:01.820 last week. 00:11:01.820 --> 00:11:04.360 I am busy drafting ordinance and resolution 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.180 for our six units of government. 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:10.379 In the last month, we met with Sevencia's team 00:11:10.379 --> 00:11:13.220 and representatives from the DCEO 00:11:13.220 --> 00:11:16.120 talking about their next stage of investment. 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:17.940 As you know, about a year ago, 00:11:17.940 --> 00:11:20.180 they put an addition on to their facility 00:11:20.180 --> 00:11:22.879 to facilitate a new line of cheese product. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:27.879 that is going well and orders have increased. 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:31.519 So now their next problem is how to deal 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:33.399 with their waste strength. 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.480 So there will be an investment of some sort 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.759 in helping to expand capacity 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:41.299 in their wastewater treatment. 00:11:41.299 --> 00:11:44.440 They are also investigating a feasibility study 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:49.159 partnering with Purpose Energy to look at a biodigester. 00:11:49.159 --> 00:11:52.600 So part of that process would be taking their waste stream, 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.960 seeing how they could capture methane gas 00:11:55.960 --> 00:12:00.360 in the process of that waste being broken down. 00:12:00.360 --> 00:12:02.240 Purpose Energy is a separate company 00:12:02.240 --> 00:12:05.580 that they're partnering with to do this study. 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:11.919 Civencia has a corporate location in Pennsylvania 00:12:12.100 --> 00:12:16.440 where they're already sort of building a biodigester 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.480 adjacent to a plant. 00:12:18.480 --> 00:12:23.080 So part of the understanding is what other assets 00:12:23.080 --> 00:12:26.159 or what other waste streams are in the area 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:27.580 from other manufacturers 00:12:27.580 --> 00:12:30.000 and would they be also willing to partner in this? 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:34.080 So we've conducted kind of introductory conversations 00:12:34.080 --> 00:12:38.200 and contacts with all the players that you can think of, 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:42.600 Berner, Poor Valley Farms, Chortleston Cheese, 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:43.899 et cetera, et cetera. 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:45.879 So more to come. 00:12:45.879 --> 00:13:00.879 Leslie is hard at work with putting together an incubator, a business incubator program and in the process of writing for the USDA Rural Business Development Grant to help fund a revolving loan program. 00:13:00.879 --> 00:13:12.879 Oh, I skipped over. We are also in process with City of Freeport to do another boundary expansion of the enterprise zone, again, also to help expand residential development. 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:16.819 had a beginning conversation with the Village of Stockton 00:13:16.819 --> 00:13:21.000 and a value add manufacturer that's located there 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:23.440 looking to expand the enterprise element 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:25.899 to the Village of Stockton to help facilitate 00:13:25.899 --> 00:13:29.840 some development that they believe will be to come, 00:13:29.840 --> 00:13:31.980 as well as talking to our friends in Kent. 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:36.399 They are also interested, an investment is planned, 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:39.680 timeline is a little bit to be determined, 00:13:39.680 --> 00:13:42.279 but I want to have conversations earlier rather than later 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.480 because it really is about a six month lead time 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:46.200 in terms of expanding the enterprise 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:48.440 out to help with their development. 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:52.039 Workforce development continues to be a strong priority. 00:13:52.039 --> 00:13:55.759 Our Midland CEO program, we were able to hire 00:13:55.759 --> 00:14:00.559 and just a facilitator for the fall semester 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:02.000 start that program. 00:14:03.840 --> 00:14:06.840 The offer of employment was just accepted today. 00:14:06.840 --> 00:14:09.279 Again, the partnership is not the employer of record. 00:14:09.279 --> 00:14:10.960 That will be for the Freeport School District 00:14:10.960 --> 00:14:14.319 helping facilitate that CEO board. 00:14:14.319 --> 00:14:18.420 We held a manufacturing round table last Friday morning. 00:14:18.420 --> 00:14:21.879 We had representatives from CoreFX, Verner, StarForge, 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:24.720 Danfoss, TriStar, Highland, CareerTech, 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:28.000 Freeport High School, DCEO, the Workforce Connections. 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.120 Two main topics were apprenticeship programs, 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:34.399 internship programs, developing both of those, 00:14:34.399 --> 00:14:39.019 as well as DCEO has a new program called AIM. 00:14:39.019 --> 00:14:40.819 it's geared towards manufacturers 00:14:40.819 --> 00:14:42.620 and it's to help them with investment 00:14:42.620 --> 00:14:45.980 that isn't necessarily going to create a lot of jobs, 00:14:45.980 --> 00:14:48.899 but there's significant investment maybe in automation 00:14:49.819 --> 00:14:51.720 or other equipment. 00:14:51.720 --> 00:14:54.379 So there's some thresholds that the manufacturers need to meet. 00:14:54.379 --> 00:14:57.200 Again, the state has announced this program. 00:14:57.200 --> 00:15:01.319 They have some guidelines, if you will, and guard rails, 00:15:01.319 --> 00:15:03.620 but there is no application ready 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:05.539 for a business to apply quite yet. 00:15:05.539 --> 00:15:07.379 They're expecting that to be later this summer 00:15:07.379 --> 00:15:08.500 or early fall. 00:15:09.019 --> 00:15:17.019 We continue to partner with Mercy Health to provide community tours to their physicians that they're looking to recruit to this area. 00:15:17.019 --> 00:15:22.019 And we are holding our next workforce alignment meeting this Thursday morning at 730. 00:15:22.019 --> 00:15:32.019 From the initial meetings we had a couple months ago, we have sent out a workforce survey asking for data from HR departments. 00:15:32.019 --> 00:15:37.019 We have had a fairly significant response from companies. 00:15:37.019 --> 00:15:40.700 we are looking to aggregate that data and create a dashboard 00:15:40.700 --> 00:15:42.379 to get more real-time data. 00:15:42.379 --> 00:15:44.579 The information from IDES is great, 00:15:44.579 --> 00:15:47.420 but we're also looking to understand recruitment. 00:15:47.420 --> 00:15:50.339 How successful are local recruiters, 00:15:50.339 --> 00:15:53.660 local companies able to recruit talent and hire here? 00:15:53.660 --> 00:15:57.059 And how else can we get more strategic, 00:15:57.059 --> 00:15:59.420 maybe surgical strategic, if you will, 00:15:59.420 --> 00:16:01.660 in our recruitment efforts? 00:16:02.700 --> 00:16:06.259 We continue to work on housing in two facets, 00:16:06.259 --> 00:16:18.259 again, expanding the enterprise zone, as well as the team continues to work with building owners in downtown Freeport who are looking to renovate upper floors for residential units. 00:16:18.899 --> 00:16:31.180 And last but not least, we held our first music on Chicago Friday. We were lucky enough for the weather to hold off. It was a wonderful evening. And Saturday morning was a free bike ride, the free aquanose cycle. 00:16:31.180 --> 00:16:44.180 So that was the first time that we have ever kind of helped co-host this special partnership also with the Department of Natural Resources and Lake Liaquanah. 00:16:44.180 --> 00:17:00.180 They had about 35 bike riders registered. They started off here in Tuddy's Crossing and continued all the way out to Lake Liaquanah and then turned around and some of them stopped at Lena Bruin Company for a little refreshment. 00:17:00.180 --> 00:17:04.339 So, happy to answer any questions you might have on anything I've mentioned. 00:17:04.339 --> 00:17:05.380 What was the name of that lake? 00:17:07.380 --> 00:17:08.259 It's the one by Lena. 00:17:11.299 --> 00:17:12.579 Maybe you've been there before? 00:17:14.019 --> 00:17:14.980 Yeah, it's that one. 00:17:16.019 --> 00:17:17.299 Sure, I might have a couple questions. 00:17:17.299 --> 00:17:17.799 Sure. 00:17:19.460 --> 00:17:25.299 You didn't really touch on the hotel motel situation, but are all the rooms at the, what is it? 00:17:25.299 --> 00:17:26.099 Any one? 00:17:26.099 --> 00:17:28.740 Yeah, the big hotel downtown, what is it? 00:17:28.740 --> 00:17:29.619 Oh, the Hampton. 00:17:29.619 --> 00:17:30.019 Hampton. 00:17:30.019 --> 00:17:37.460 yes is that all those all those rooms available here are they to my understanding yes it has been 00:17:37.460 --> 00:17:45.779 the Faymont which will later on in June will be rebranded um and it will become i'm going to 00:17:45.779 --> 00:17:51.860 blank on the name but it's going to change from a Wyndham chain to a Marriott chain and there have 00:17:51.860 --> 00:17:56.500 been a number of rooms each week that have been pulled off the inventory because they've been 00:17:56.500 --> 00:18:03.460 Remodeled. So I think Nicole has accounted for that when she gets her occupancy data every 00:18:03.460 --> 00:18:09.380 every week from the hotels. But to my understanding, all the rooms are at the Hampton are available. 00:18:09.380 --> 00:18:15.299 I've never been in one. You know what? I, being the fact that I live here, I have had many family 00:18:15.299 --> 00:18:21.380 members stay there, but I myself have never been in there either. Yes. And just, I'm sure you can't, 00:18:21.380 --> 00:18:27.860 I'm sure you don't have any concrete answer for this one, but has there been any interest in the 00:18:27.860 --> 00:18:38.019 old Holiday Inn plot of land? I've heard lots of stories of what's going to go there. We have 00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:45.619 suggested that site to many different players. To my knowledge, there has been no one who is moving 00:18:45.619 --> 00:18:51.619 forward at this time with purchase. Okay. All right. Yeah. It's a pretty good chunk of land. 00:18:51.619 --> 00:19:03.059 It's about five and a half acres or so. Yeah. That's it. Thanks. Sure. Anyone else? Okay. Moving 00:19:03.059 --> 00:19:11.299 on. Thank you. You're welcome. Yes. Thanks, Andrea. Sure. How's that? All right. Deposit for the month 00:19:11.299 --> 00:19:16.299 for the month of May totaled $11,369.36. 00:19:16.860 --> 00:19:21.220 Total deposits to date for the general fund are 162,715.10. 00:19:21.220 --> 00:19:24.960 That's over our projected, as I always say every month now. 00:19:26.059 --> 00:19:28.820 Building permits have been going good. 00:19:30.220 --> 00:19:32.659 We issued 11 code enforcement violations 00:19:32.659 --> 00:19:33.900 for the month of May. 00:19:33.900 --> 00:19:36.740 Four violations were sent to our new inspector, 00:19:36.740 --> 00:19:40.539 three for overgrown grass that weeds and other vegetation, 00:19:40.539 --> 00:19:43.179 two grand operable vehicle violations, 00:19:43.179 --> 00:19:45.099 one no permit special use 00:19:45.099 --> 00:19:50.099 and one for excessive vehicles on the property. 00:19:50.220 --> 00:19:52.820 That's a special use that was only allowed 40. 00:19:52.820 --> 00:19:54.860 We closed two cases, one is pending 00:19:54.860 --> 00:19:57.420 and stator eight are still open. 00:19:57.420 --> 00:19:58.259 We met with 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:00.740 We met with Doug Rominsky, our new building inspector 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:03.559 to discuss the process of his inspections. 00:20:03.559 --> 00:20:06.039 I emailed him last week with the information 00:20:06.039 --> 00:20:08.319 on four homes that are considered to be dangerous buildings, 00:20:08.319 --> 00:20:10.440 nuisances that needed inspections. 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:13.240 He said he will get on these right away. 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:16.559 Nicole performed 16 inspections 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:18.339 and I performed 14 for the month. 00:20:18.339 --> 00:20:20.680 We had our monthly meeting with the representative 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:22.599 from IBEW. 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:25.000 Nicole and I attended a team's meeting 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:30.799 with Andy Shaw, Dan Payette, and Abel Gale, Abel Herr, I'm so sorry if I butchered that name, 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:33.920 with Blackhawk Hills to discuss the potential of the BRIC grant, 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:37.440 Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities application. 00:20:37.440 --> 00:20:39.640 We'll discuss that in a little while. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:43.920 This grant will let us update the zoning code in its entirety. 00:20:43.920 --> 00:20:47.640 Nine single-family dwellings have been permitted this year so far, 00:20:47.640 --> 00:20:50.480 and in 2025, we permitted 11, 00:20:50.480 --> 00:20:54.559 so things are looking good for single-family dwellings. 00:20:54.559 --> 00:20:57.430 and that's all I have. 00:20:57.430 --> 00:20:58.269 Questions? 00:20:59.309 --> 00:21:00.589 I would just make one comment 00:21:00.589 --> 00:21:01.789 and I'm sure you're aware of this. 00:21:01.789 --> 00:21:03.430 That house on 26 North, 00:21:03.430 --> 00:21:06.509 I drove by there a couple times this week. 00:21:06.509 --> 00:21:08.910 That is just a shame. 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:10.609 The only thing we can do is send her back 00:21:10.609 --> 00:21:13.190 to the hearing officer after I do the letters. 00:21:13.190 --> 00:21:16.069 And then if we wanted it taken care of, 00:21:16.069 --> 00:21:18.549 we could have someone in the county take care of it, 00:21:18.549 --> 00:21:21.089 hire it out and then be paid off that way. 00:21:21.089 --> 00:21:25.589 But I need to reach out to our attorney, 00:21:25.589 --> 00:21:28.470 Warneman, he is on paternity leave right now. 00:21:28.789 --> 00:21:31.309 So it's kind of hard getting answers back out of them, which I don't 00:21:31.309 --> 00:21:32.150 expect right away. 00:21:32.150 --> 00:21:33.990 So that is one question. 00:21:33.990 --> 00:21:37.829 What we can do know next, because he did state at one point in time, we 00:21:37.829 --> 00:21:44.109 could, don't 100% take my word that we could possibly foreclose on the home. 00:21:44.269 --> 00:21:46.950 So I want to see what that process entails too. 00:21:47.910 --> 00:21:48.109 Yeah. 00:21:48.109 --> 00:21:50.309 That one looks worse than yesterday. 00:21:50.309 --> 00:21:51.549 It's, it's bad. 00:21:52.269 --> 00:21:52.670 Okay. 00:21:52.670 --> 00:22:00.509 to relatively years. Not that I can determine. She's got three homes. I kind of wish she was a 00:22:00.509 --> 00:22:07.869 relative just given to me. A lot of things didn't, right? It is. It is. I've asked several of my 00:22:07.869 --> 00:22:13.869 relatives then to claim that it's part of a different clan. Different branch. 00:22:13.869 --> 00:22:30.910 I have a question, Beth, can you tell me what the goal of meeting with the IBEW is? 00:22:30.910 --> 00:22:31.910 Sure. 00:22:31.910 --> 00:22:37.230 They'd like to see if we have any potential big builds coming up so they can get their 00:22:37.230 --> 00:22:38.990 name in for bids and such. 00:22:38.990 --> 00:22:43.589 and a lot of the solar, they like to get local. 00:22:43.589 --> 00:22:45.950 So they go out and then, you know, 00:22:45.950 --> 00:22:48.110 if it's one that I think that's going to have 00:22:48.110 --> 00:22:50.630 project coming up to be permitted, 00:22:50.630 --> 00:22:53.789 I'll let them know and they try to get their name out there. 00:22:53.789 --> 00:22:58.750 So they hire in our area, Rockford Freeport area, 00:22:58.750 --> 00:23:01.069 because some of them they're from out in California 00:23:01.069 --> 00:23:03.230 being from installation companies. 00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:05.269 So that's great. 00:23:05.269 --> 00:23:13.230 Mr. Chairman, I thought about one more question, Chair, somebody asked me if it would be possible 00:23:13.230 --> 00:23:22.710 to rent the old landfill, the grass, grassy hill, out to like a beef farmer or a milk 00:23:22.710 --> 00:23:23.710 farmer. 00:23:23.710 --> 00:23:25.349 It had the cows grazed on it. 00:23:25.349 --> 00:23:30.029 I said, okay, I thought it was the city of Fricke, yep, no, I wouldn't know anything 00:23:30.029 --> 00:23:31.029 about that. 00:23:31.029 --> 00:23:32.029 I didn't know anything about it either. 00:23:32.029 --> 00:24:01.950 Well, the only problem I would have is that right now with the price of beef, people might mistake them for other animals and they'd hang them in their garage and turn them into steak. 00:24:02.029 --> 00:24:05.869 That's been happening out in the country a couple different places. 00:24:05.869 --> 00:24:10.430 Is that right? Yeah, really? I guess I don't buy enough beefy 00:24:10.430 --> 00:24:16.190 to even know what the prices are. I've heard that's getting a bit ridiculous. 00:24:17.389 --> 00:24:23.309 Yeah, yes and no. Exactly. That's fine by yourself. 00:24:23.309 --> 00:24:50.670 Anyone else? I do not have anything to report from Soil and Water. I did not go. I don't go every month. I did not go there other than to say that Mr. Helms asked about trees last month. And I got a whole bunch of those trees and they're doing really good. Other than that, I don't have anything. Dale? Recreation and trails? 00:24:50.670 --> 00:24:55.630 There's a pretty good sized bridge repair coming up 00:24:55.630 --> 00:24:58.430 that will close part of the trail up towards, 00:24:58.430 --> 00:25:01.509 well, further up towards Orangeville. 00:25:01.509 --> 00:25:03.869 They'll put some signs up recommending 00:25:03.869 --> 00:25:06.650 different alternative routes. 00:25:06.650 --> 00:25:09.950 And there's a grant that's going to pay most of that. 00:25:09.950 --> 00:25:14.950 And Mr. Zimmer has the bike rentals started. 00:25:16.029 --> 00:25:20.349 If you go to the surgeon out on Facebook, 00:25:20.349 --> 00:25:24.829 He's going to be in different locations, Teddy Crossing and then, uh, the one in 00:25:24.829 --> 00:25:30.309 Orangeville, I think, and, uh, one by the, uh, one I always go to, what's that 00:25:30.309 --> 00:25:32.750 called, the one just towards to the hotel. 00:25:33.549 --> 00:25:35.029 It's West Black. 00:25:35.029 --> 00:25:36.190 I don't know why I can't remember that. 00:25:36.829 --> 00:25:41.630 Sometimes he's going to be there too with his van and bikes and none of the 00:25:41.630 --> 00:25:46.150 bikes were over 20 miles an hour, which is, uh, I don't know if it's a law or 00:25:46.150 --> 00:25:49.289 we decided that at the trail, but we didn't want anybody getting killed on a 00:25:49.289 --> 00:25:55.170 Bicycle. But I think it's about $25 an hour, depending on which model. I haven't tried 00:25:55.170 --> 00:25:59.210 it yet, but I'm planning on doing that soon. It'll be interesting. Other than that, that's 00:25:59.210 --> 00:26:07.289 all I got. Questions for Dan? All right. Blackhawk Hills. I have not heard anything from Blackhawk 00:26:07.289 --> 00:26:11.970 Hills. Now, Georgia, if you could reach out to Dan tomorrow. We haven't heard from him 00:26:11.970 --> 00:26:17.769 quite a while. He used to have a monthly meeting with me. We haven't. I think I've been six 00:26:17.769 --> 00:26:24.369 It's been a number of months because I think there might be one coming up in July if they're 00:26:24.369 --> 00:26:25.369 annual meeting. 00:26:25.369 --> 00:26:27.369 Can you get me within a little bit? 00:26:27.369 --> 00:26:28.369 Yes. 00:26:28.369 --> 00:26:29.369 I'll reach out. 00:26:29.369 --> 00:26:31.369 Yeah, it would be nice to get an update. 00:26:31.369 --> 00:26:34.369 We're contributing about $11,000 a year to Blackhawk Hills. 00:26:34.369 --> 00:26:35.369 I'm not sure what... 00:26:35.369 --> 00:26:37.369 You don't have anybody on there? 00:26:37.369 --> 00:26:38.369 Sam Newton? 00:26:38.369 --> 00:26:39.369 Okay. 00:26:39.369 --> 00:26:46.970 I'm not sure what we're getting for our investment at this point, so it'd be nice to have it 00:26:46.970 --> 00:27:00.410 I don't have a report, but I do have some questions and I'm not trying to pick on anybody. 00:27:02.730 --> 00:27:03.930 Sometimes I like to do that. 00:27:06.889 --> 00:27:13.610 Well, what as we look at all these issues that we keep getting here and now we're going to get it 00:27:13.610 --> 00:27:18.410 is getting larger and larger. Is there anything that the county can do? 00:27:18.410 --> 00:27:27.089 as far as, I mean, I know like, okay, the fence was supposed to be built. It's starting 00:27:27.089 --> 00:27:33.750 to get built. I'm glad to see that. I've been out there. He has a right to do those things 00:27:33.750 --> 00:27:42.490 that he wants to do. And I'm behind that 100%. And I also know that he's, we have questions 00:27:42.490 --> 00:27:49.849 about fence rules, there's a law about fences, and part of that fence, whether you built 00:27:49.849 --> 00:27:56.490 it or not, is still half of that fence is yours along the property line. 00:27:56.490 --> 00:28:01.849 If it's not holding up, you could be held responsible if you were keeping cattle out 00:28:01.849 --> 00:28:02.849 or something like that. 00:28:02.849 --> 00:28:11.329 A landowner can be, at least we can in the country, in real world things. 00:28:11.329 --> 00:28:16.369 I just would like to know if there's nothing we can do, then we need to say, this is how 00:28:16.369 --> 00:28:19.410 it is, this is what it is, and we're going to move on. 00:28:19.410 --> 00:28:22.970 I have over and over until I'm blue in the face. 00:28:22.970 --> 00:28:24.470 There's nothing we can do. 00:28:24.470 --> 00:28:27.250 I had to give him ample time to get the fence installed. 00:28:27.250 --> 00:28:29.490 I had to give him ample time for the trees. 00:28:29.490 --> 00:28:33.049 He has until August 2nd to get the trees and the fence done. 00:28:33.049 --> 00:28:39.329 Like I told Mr. Rivers this morning, on August 2nd at 4 p.m. when I'm off of work, I'll go 00:28:39.329 --> 00:28:43.009 out there and look, if it's not done, I'll go back out in the morning because technically 00:28:43.009 --> 00:28:44.009 has until midnight. 00:28:44.009 --> 00:28:46.049 I'll go back out there in the morning. 00:28:46.049 --> 00:28:50.369 If August 3rd rolls around and they are not finished, then we start the proceedings for 00:28:50.369 --> 00:28:53.289 the revocation of the special use. 00:28:53.289 --> 00:29:01.570 The land issues of him pushing over a fence or putting dirt on her property or the brush, 00:29:01.570 --> 00:29:03.570 that's not zoning. 00:29:03.570 --> 00:29:06.529 That's a civil matter. 00:29:06.529 --> 00:29:10.970 It's not, my neighbor dropped a tree on my lawn and left it lay there. 00:29:10.970 --> 00:29:15.409 I couldn't call the zoning department and say, Hey, my neighbor dropped a tree. 00:29:15.409 --> 00:29:16.730 You need to do something about it. 00:29:16.730 --> 00:29:18.210 It's not a zoning issue. 00:29:18.210 --> 00:29:19.210 It's civil. 00:29:19.210 --> 00:29:25.170 So the issues that they're having with the brush here, the fence there, he's doing what 00:29:25.170 --> 00:29:27.889 he's supposed to. 00:29:27.889 --> 00:29:30.409 I hate saying my hands are tight, but my hands are tight. 00:29:30.409 --> 00:29:32.409 there's only so much we can do. 00:29:32.409 --> 00:29:36.650 And they think that I can do something about it. 00:29:36.650 --> 00:29:38.349 And if I say, I can't do anything about it. 00:29:38.349 --> 00:29:40.889 Oh, you're just giving him the red carpet. 00:29:40.889 --> 00:29:42.090 I don't know Zach, anything. 00:29:42.090 --> 00:29:44.329 I don't know anybody, anything in this County. 00:29:44.329 --> 00:29:45.210 I'm impartial. 00:29:45.210 --> 00:29:46.750 I don't care who you are. 00:29:46.750 --> 00:29:48.610 The rules pertain to everyone. 00:29:48.610 --> 00:29:50.070 He's getting a fence permit. 00:29:50.070 --> 00:29:52.230 He's got, he got a fence permit. 00:29:52.230 --> 00:29:55.190 He is planting the trees. 00:29:55.190 --> 00:29:56.490 And if he gets that done. 00:29:56.490 --> 00:29:56.859 And if he gets that done by the second, 00:29:56.859 --> 00:29:58.859 then he's allowed to do what he's doing. 00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:02.859 He told me he has the EPA permits. 00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:06.099 I asked him if I can see him sometime 00:30:06.099 --> 00:30:08.359 when I go out there and he'll show them to me. 00:30:09.819 --> 00:30:11.259 I don't need to keep them in office 00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:14.640 because that's not something we have a requirement for. 00:30:15.660 --> 00:30:16.819 But. 00:30:16.819 --> 00:30:18.539 Well, I know that a lot of what goes on 00:30:18.539 --> 00:30:22.420 with this whole issue is if he said, she said, 00:30:22.420 --> 00:30:26.259 and personally, I'm getting tired of it too. 00:30:26.259 --> 00:30:28.779 And I'm not saying that there's something 00:30:28.779 --> 00:30:30.180 that you need to do differently. 00:30:30.180 --> 00:30:33.259 I just, I wanna know if there's nothing that we can do 00:30:33.259 --> 00:30:36.859 to stop the issue and he's doing everything 00:30:36.859 --> 00:30:41.700 within his rights, they're actually probably doing more 00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:46.140 against him than he's doing them at this point 00:30:46.140 --> 00:30:50.980 when it comes to that quarry and whatever people 00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:54.980 want to complain about, he still has the right to do that. 00:30:54.980 --> 00:30:55.819 Right. 00:30:55.819 --> 00:30:57.940 Same thing comes with the solar facility 00:30:57.940 --> 00:30:59.140 that they complain about. 00:31:00.420 --> 00:31:03.019 That's that company's solar facility. 00:31:03.019 --> 00:31:05.299 If they don't want it to generate electricity, 00:31:05.299 --> 00:31:06.740 that's their problem. 00:31:06.740 --> 00:31:09.380 Right, and they cannot understand that. 00:31:09.380 --> 00:31:11.900 You know, it's frustrating to me. 00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:14.980 I was in the office by myself today, Nicole was off, 00:31:14.980 --> 00:31:17.619 observers came in, I'm gracious to talk to anyone. 00:31:17.619 --> 00:31:19.220 It was 45 minutes almost, 00:31:19.220 --> 00:31:21.019 and the phone's ringing and ringing and ringing. 00:31:21.019 --> 00:31:24.180 And I just reiterate the same thing every time we talk. 00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:29.619 And it's inhibiting me to do my job with other things. 00:31:29.619 --> 00:31:34.619 I don't know what else I can say without, you know, 00:31:34.660 --> 00:31:35.740 just saying, I'm done. 00:31:35.740 --> 00:31:36.579 I can't talk to you. 00:31:36.579 --> 00:31:37.400 Our door's closed. 00:31:37.400 --> 00:31:38.460 We're not, you know, I don't know what else. 00:31:38.460 --> 00:31:39.299 I honestly don't. 00:31:39.299 --> 00:31:41.400 If somebody has a good suggestion, 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:44.819 but it just doesn't seem to get through anyone's heads 00:31:44.819 --> 00:31:47.819 that there's nothing we can do. 00:31:47.819 --> 00:31:50.420 You know, I talked to Zach. 00:31:50.420 --> 00:31:52.539 I said, I've been told you're hauling in landscape waste. 00:31:52.539 --> 00:31:55.299 He goes, I have not hauled in any landscape waste. 00:31:55.299 --> 00:31:56.460 I said, I'll take your word for it. 00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:57.460 I take her word for it. 00:31:57.460 --> 00:32:00.619 I said, but I just, I don't know. 00:32:00.619 --> 00:32:02.339 There's other people two miles down the road 00:32:02.339 --> 00:32:04.579 that are hauling in landscape waste and burning it as well. 00:32:04.579 --> 00:32:06.940 I said, that's not here nor there. 00:32:06.940 --> 00:32:08.819 We're focused on the quarry and that's it, 00:32:08.819 --> 00:32:11.940 but there's nothing I can do. 00:32:11.940 --> 00:32:13.380 I think one of the things we need to do 00:32:13.380 --> 00:32:15.099 is change our language. 00:32:15.099 --> 00:32:15.940 Oh, definitely. 00:32:15.940 --> 00:32:24.940 it's, it's, we need to, there's nothing we can do is it's to the point now where we've done what we were supposed to do and we're going to go from there. 00:32:24.980 --> 00:32:28.019 So I've told them it's civil. 00:32:29.860 --> 00:32:34.099 They have contracted with an attorney of homeowners out there. 00:32:34.180 --> 00:32:38.700 So they are contemplating legal action against, what's his name? 00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:39.539 Zach Jackson. 00:32:39.539 --> 00:32:39.900 Zach. 00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:41.299 Oh, I told this morning they didn't. 00:32:41.700 --> 00:32:43.139 But that's not us. 00:32:43.139 --> 00:32:53.139 Well, regardless, if they did name us in the soup, the only thing we have control over is the specialties from them. They want it shut down. That's not us. 00:32:53.139 --> 00:33:09.119 Right. I just want to make sure that as a group here, we're all on that page. And Beth put up with a lot and been accused of a lot of things that that's not what should be happening. 00:33:09.119 --> 00:33:13.740 If somehow we're going to have to somehow, then it needs to go there. 00:33:13.740 --> 00:33:20.819 And we just say, you guys hired an attorney, you talk to the attorney and let it go. 00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:24.079 And we were not going to talk about it. 00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:26.660 Honestly, what I'm hopeful I told Ms. Rivers this morning. 00:33:26.660 --> 00:33:28.660 I said this, you know, contact an attorney. 00:33:29.039 --> 00:33:30.099 I don't have that kind of money. 00:33:30.099 --> 00:33:31.160 I can't afford an attorney. 00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:38.619 So I just want you to know, we're, I'm not trying to accuse you of anything. 00:33:38.619 --> 00:33:44.059 I don't want you to think that I just would like to see this over with. 00:33:44.059 --> 00:33:47.660 Oh, we all would. Definitely. Yes. And Georgia. Okay. 00:33:49.259 --> 00:33:52.139 We have a facilities maintenance report. I didn't see anything. 00:33:53.180 --> 00:34:00.700 I did talk to Wally. He has wiped this bill the end of last week, but I know the trees have been 00:34:00.700 --> 00:34:07.180 the one that was getting taken out. They've been removed down to the stump. The stump he 00:34:07.180 --> 00:34:13.340 does not plan to have removed until after the event because of the amount of mulch that I'll have to get hauled out. 00:34:14.699 --> 00:34:18.139 And have we communicated that to Pearl City? 00:34:18.139 --> 00:34:23.739 I will follow up on that. I know he was going, he had been talking with them, so, but I'll follow up. 00:34:23.739 --> 00:34:27.739 Well, they had talked to, I know we don't really want to see that, but they would have helped too, 00:34:27.739 --> 00:34:32.220 if they could get some of it going, if they're just so obsessive. 00:34:33.179 --> 00:34:36.139 I think he was worried that the amount of dirt that would have to be hauled, 00:34:36.139 --> 00:34:54.220 Okay, we've had a little conversation already on 7.8, the Illinois Department of Employment Security 00:34:55.179 --> 00:34:58.539 report for April 26. Anything additional? 00:34:58.539 --> 00:35:01.739 and I hope it's good information I have. 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:07.579 All right, with that, we'll move on to new business 00:35:07.579 --> 00:35:11.420 with the approval of the zoning department's application 00:35:11.420 --> 00:35:15.059 for the resilience grant. 00:35:15.900 --> 00:35:19.220 Yes, you received in your packet a brief synopsis 00:35:19.220 --> 00:35:21.220 of what it would be about. 00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:23.659 I know it states to fund and develop 00:35:23.659 --> 00:35:26.940 and fund to develop and adapt building code, 00:35:26.940 --> 00:35:31.320 we can't right now adopt a building code. 00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:35.880 We do not have the funds nor the employees to do that. 00:35:35.880 --> 00:35:38.699 So I spoke with Dan Payette and Abby, 00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:42.000 and he stated we could approve it 00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:44.420 as it would be a phased approach, 00:35:44.420 --> 00:35:46.980 stronger enforcement efforts in higher risk areas 00:35:46.980 --> 00:35:49.820 and gradually expanding the enforcement over the years. 00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:54.699 Since we have in our code flood development 00:35:54.699 --> 00:35:56.179 and flood hazard area, 00:35:56.179 --> 00:35:59.739 this is why we would be allowed to apply for this grant 00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:02.480 since it's through FEMA. 00:36:02.480 --> 00:36:06.500 They want to see more enforcement through your code 00:36:06.500 --> 00:36:09.599 with the flooding issues in the county and area-wide. 00:36:11.019 --> 00:36:12.500 So that's that. 00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:14.860 And the match would come out of the trust fund 00:36:14.860 --> 00:36:17.000 and not any county funds. 00:36:17.000 --> 00:36:17.840 $100,000? 00:36:19.380 --> 00:36:20.659 It would dwindle me down, 00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:23.340 but that's the only way I can get my code written. 00:36:23.340 --> 00:36:25.739 We reached out like three years ago, 00:36:25.739 --> 00:36:31.559 I have, we signed with Hinshaw and Culbertson for $20,000 and I've not seen anything. 00:36:31.619 --> 00:36:34.460 Anytime I talk to them, it's like, well, we need to sit down and we have me to 00:36:34.460 --> 00:36:37.440 have a conversation on which sections you want changed. 00:36:37.940 --> 00:36:42.340 We need the whole thing, just in whole rehab to the whole zoning code. 00:36:42.679 --> 00:36:47.019 So this would do the entire zoning code for us. 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:53.329 But if I read, I don't know, do you need a motion in the second 00:36:53.329 --> 00:36:54.789 first, before we discuss this? 00:36:54.789 --> 00:37:09.429 It has to be turned into FEMA by the 26th of this month. 00:37:09.429 --> 00:37:20.800 Technically, you should have a motion to approve the application processes or second. 00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:30.449 I'll second it just for the discussion, as well as for discussion. 00:37:32.449 --> 00:37:43.449 So I'll start with the first thing that stood out to me that concerns me is that this seems to me like all of a sudden now we're going to hire another consultant. 00:37:43.449 --> 00:37:46.510 and when does that consultant go away 00:37:46.510 --> 00:37:48.210 in order to make this happen? 00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:53.210 Because in the application it says right in there 00:37:53.849 --> 00:37:57.889 that we have to hire an approved consultant. 00:37:57.889 --> 00:37:58.730 Correct. 00:37:59.929 --> 00:38:00.769 Right. 00:38:00.769 --> 00:38:03.329 And is that just for this grant process 00:38:03.329 --> 00:38:05.090 or is that once we're done, 00:38:05.090 --> 00:38:08.050 they're consulting us on what's completed? 00:38:08.050 --> 00:38:08.889 On the code. 00:38:08.889 --> 00:38:13.170 They will be the consultation people for individuals 00:38:13.170 --> 00:38:16.269 for the revising of the code. 00:38:16.269 --> 00:38:17.309 And then that's that. 00:38:17.309 --> 00:38:20.150 Once the code's revised, that is it. 00:38:20.150 --> 00:38:22.889 I just want to make sure of that because we do these things 00:38:22.889 --> 00:38:25.529 and then we hire somebody and now we're responsible 00:38:25.529 --> 00:38:26.369 for another person. 00:38:26.369 --> 00:38:27.210 Right. 00:38:27.210 --> 00:38:28.050 No, no, no. 00:38:28.050 --> 00:38:29.769 No, it's just to rewrite the code. 00:38:29.769 --> 00:38:30.610 Okay. 00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:32.090 Yeah. 00:38:32.090 --> 00:38:37.090 And we can do all of that stuff by July 26th? 00:38:37.090 --> 00:38:40.949 No, this would be for the grant, to write the grant. 00:38:40.949 --> 00:38:43.710 Black Hawk Hills would be writing the grant for us. 00:38:43.710 --> 00:38:45.630 But that all has to be done by the 26th. 00:38:45.630 --> 00:38:49.349 Yes, the grant application has to be done by the 26th. 00:38:49.349 --> 00:38:50.510 But there's a whole lot of things 00:38:50.510 --> 00:38:51.909 that have to be gathered by then. 00:38:51.909 --> 00:38:52.909 They'll work on it. 00:38:52.909 --> 00:38:56.500 They're working on it now. 00:38:56.500 --> 00:38:59.139 I told them I had to present to this committee before 00:38:59.139 --> 00:39:01.739 and finance and County Board for final approval 00:39:01.739 --> 00:39:04.019 before we can even, and they understood that. 00:39:04.019 --> 00:39:07.460 If we didn't get approval, then their work was for nothing, 00:39:07.460 --> 00:39:08.699 but they understand that. 00:39:08.699 --> 00:39:25.699 My concern is how much control do we lose over our own ordinances by hiring somebody to start writing code for us? 00:39:25.699 --> 00:39:28.699 I mean, do we have to follow their... 00:39:28.699 --> 00:39:31.699 There can be revisions throughout the process. 00:39:31.699 --> 00:39:32.539 throughout the process. 00:39:32.539 --> 00:39:35.539 So once the code is in its entirety, 00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:37.500 it has to sit for a number of days 00:39:37.500 --> 00:39:39.860 and it has to go to public hearing as well. 00:39:39.860 --> 00:39:43.179 So it has to be visible to anybody in the county. 00:39:43.179 --> 00:39:44.179 They can look at it. 00:39:44.179 --> 00:39:46.099 They can come to the public hearing, suggest, 00:39:46.099 --> 00:39:48.119 well, this is this, this is that. 00:39:48.119 --> 00:39:50.460 The county board can make suggestions as well. 00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:54.220 That's how it would be if Hinshaw were writing. 00:39:54.220 --> 00:39:55.360 would be if Hinshaw were writing it for us. 00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:00.119 It's, to me, code revision has gotten a lot harder 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:01.800 throughout the years that I've been here 00:40:01.800 --> 00:40:05.960 because when I started, it was less is better. 00:40:06.900 --> 00:40:08.820 And you can see that in some of our codes, 00:40:08.820 --> 00:40:12.119 like, you know, it doesn't define things 00:40:12.119 --> 00:40:13.119 and things like that. 00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.360 And so with the newer codes, 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:18.360 as you see that we present every now and then, 00:40:18.360 --> 00:40:19.559 they're more lengthy. 00:40:19.559 --> 00:40:21.840 Before they were half a page. 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:23.159 and a quarter of a page. 00:40:23.159 --> 00:40:25.519 So now we need to get into the nitty gritty 00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:28.119 so we have definitions we can, you know, 00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:31.519 there's no gray area. 00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:35.199 And we're just a small rural, you know, county 00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:38.800 and you start getting a whole bunch of rules 00:40:38.800 --> 00:40:43.039 and regulations that don't necessarily, you know, 00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:46.880 relate with the farmers or, you know, small businesses. 00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:50.039 That's my concern is how much control do we actually lose 00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:54.440 over what we want to control and not control. 00:40:58.480 --> 00:41:02.860 If I may, this is through FEMA. 00:41:02.860 --> 00:41:03.699 Correct. 00:41:03.699 --> 00:41:08.239 So am I wrong in assuming that it's primarily geared 00:41:08.239 --> 00:41:10.519 towards flood prone areas? 00:41:11.860 --> 00:41:13.500 What you're saying about the phone revision? 00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:15.440 No, they're allowing us to apply 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:18.340 because we have the hazard mitigation plan for the county. 00:41:18.340 --> 00:41:22.079 and I have flood development, hazard development in our code. 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:24.940 If we didn't have any of that in the County, 00:41:24.940 --> 00:41:29.880 we wouldn't even be allowed to apply for this grant. 00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:31.639 You said repeatedly, Ashley, 00:41:31.639 --> 00:41:34.900 that you want to revise the code and update to come. 00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.440 Can you give me a couple of examples 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:40.480 where the code has failed in El Paso? 00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:44.860 Fences for one, that's one that we just did. 00:41:44.860 --> 00:41:47.400 Inoperable vehicles that we just did, 00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:49.639 that's why we revised that. 00:41:49.639 --> 00:41:51.280 We didn't have campgrounds in there. 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:53.880 I think our campground code needs to be more strict. 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:58.599 So if I may, what's wrong with updating them 00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:00.159 as we get to them? 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:02.960 How is the consultant going to see all this? 00:42:04.239 --> 00:42:05.840 They read our entire code. 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:08.519 And then they reach out to us in the zoning office 00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:10.960 and discuss it with Nicole and I. 00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:13.199 I mean, there's words in there like haberdashery. 00:42:13.199 --> 00:42:15.360 There are so many definitions of things 00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:19.599 that we don't even use anymore today. 00:42:22.000 --> 00:42:24.239 I just think it's harder and harder, 00:42:24.239 --> 00:42:25.639 like I said, to revise the code. 00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:29.800 I reach out to Hinshaw and they revise the codes 00:42:29.800 --> 00:42:34.559 for me more or less now if I can't get them done myself. 00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:35.400 So. 00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:40.019 Have we tried to reach out to you CCI about this? 00:42:40.019 --> 00:42:42.900 No, I had no idea that they would be able to. 00:42:42.900 --> 00:42:46.539 I had no idea you were doing this with Hinshaw. 00:42:46.539 --> 00:42:52.840 I guess my point is I think there's other options if we're doing it piecemeal. 00:42:52.840 --> 00:43:03.539 I'm sorry to cut you off. Can I finish or not? Since I've already kicked the door open, I guess. 00:43:03.539 --> 00:43:12.039 Is this something Dan Paya reached out to you about or did you reach out to him about this and he started telling you what he was working on? 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.199 similar, somewhat the same. 00:43:15.199 --> 00:43:17.960 We have a quarterly meeting down in Oco County 00:43:17.960 --> 00:43:22.880 with Black Hawk Hills, with Oco County, Whiteside County, 00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.440 Lee County, Boone County, Carroll County, Joe Davies County, 00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:31.320 sometimes Winnebago, and Lee County had used this grant 00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:33.760 a few years ago to revise their code. 00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:36.440 So we were discussing and I said, 00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:37.940 that'd be something great, you know, 00:43:37.940 --> 00:43:40.260 we could use something like that. 00:43:40.260 --> 00:43:43.579 and so he reached out to me about this. 00:43:43.579 --> 00:43:45.179 Not too long ago. 00:43:45.179 --> 00:43:48.619 So I guess, and this goes back to the fact that 00:43:48.619 --> 00:43:50.980 there hasn't been a County Board Chairman meeting 00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:54.179 with Blackhawk Hills in a number of months. 00:43:54.179 --> 00:43:56.539 This is something he should have brought to me. 00:43:57.619 --> 00:43:59.980 This could be something he's budgeted for. 00:43:59.980 --> 00:44:02.659 That said, you do have funds available. 00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:05.139 You're probably the only department in the county 00:44:05.139 --> 00:44:09.500 that collects access revenue in that regard. 00:44:10.260 --> 00:44:15.220 but I agree, I think there's other avenues 00:44:15.220 --> 00:44:17.099 that we could possibly look at 00:44:17.099 --> 00:44:19.460 before we would go down this road. 00:44:19.460 --> 00:44:20.659 That's my opinion. 00:44:23.220 --> 00:44:26.380 Frankly, I'm not very happy that Dan didn't reach out to me 00:44:26.380 --> 00:44:28.059 and talk to me about this. 00:44:28.059 --> 00:44:30.460 Not that he can't talk to you about it, 00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:32.659 but it's not the correct way to handle it. 00:44:35.420 --> 00:44:38.739 But I think UCCI could be a resource. 00:44:38.739 --> 00:44:42.480 There's lots of counties that have been updating codes. 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:43.920 I'm not going to sit here and tell you 00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:46.320 that they're the answer necessarily. 00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:48.380 Maybe they're using consultants too, 00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.980 but this is an 18 month project, 00:44:52.980 --> 00:44:54.220 if I looked at it correctly, 00:44:54.220 --> 00:44:57.239 and I'm not sure what the finished product is, 00:44:57.239 --> 00:44:59.139 that you referenced. 00:44:59.139 --> 00:45:02.340 I'm not sure what we're going to do with it once we have it. 00:45:02.340 --> 00:45:04.940 Enforcement's an issue, just like you had said, I believe, 00:45:04.940 --> 00:45:07.480 as far as do we have the manpower to... 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.480 That's if we adapt building code, and there's no way we can adapt building code. 00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:19.720 I agree with you a hundred percent it needs to be done in some way, shape or form, 00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:25.679 but this is something he should have been talking to us about months ago. 00:45:26.279 --> 00:45:29.320 If this is something that we're under a deadline already for them to get, 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:31.920 when is the deadline to apply? 26th. 00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:38.679 I'm sure they've known about this for at least a month or two, haven't they? 00:45:38.679 --> 00:45:40.679 That I do not know. 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:42.679 It's a leash how he started to utilize it. 00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:46.679 So I'll be quiet now. 00:45:46.679 --> 00:45:56.679 So if we had kind of followed, you know, we have another source and we could do it one at a time instead of redoing it. 00:45:56.679 --> 00:46:02.679 That's, you know, that would alleviate my concerns about losing control over the whole situation. 00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:07.679 situation, so I think I would vote to not do this. 00:46:09.220 --> 00:46:10.420 I would vote against this. 00:46:16.970 --> 00:46:23.029 Emails? 00:46:23.029 --> 00:46:28.029 With that, I guess we have a motion and a second 00:46:28.789 --> 00:46:32.869 and it asks then that all those that are in favor 00:46:32.869 --> 00:46:35.750 of the County Zoning Office applying 00:46:35.750 --> 00:46:40.190 for this building resilience grant, 00:46:40.190 --> 00:46:45.440 signified by Satan High. 00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:47.699 All those opposed, please, same sign. 00:46:47.699 --> 00:46:48.539 All right. 00:46:49.679 --> 00:46:51.039 That motion fails. 00:46:52.380 --> 00:46:54.980 So at this point, we may not do that. 00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.380 Dale had another item that he asked to have on the agenda 00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:03.260 or just to talk about it tonight. 00:47:03.260 --> 00:47:06.599 Well, yeah, just to get it on the agenda for next time. 00:47:06.599 --> 00:47:09.519 The funding of the Jane Addams Trail, 00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:12.800 the continued funding, we don't have a contract 00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.400 or an intergovernmental remit anymore. 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:18.679 And they're on the impression 00:47:18.679 --> 00:47:23.679 that we're just going to continue on as it has been. 00:47:25.079 --> 00:47:28.079 And when they raised it from 16.5 to 20,000, 00:47:28.079 --> 00:47:32.840 the other governmental agencies agreed to that. 00:47:32.840 --> 00:47:37.079 We didn't, because we didn't have an extra $5,000 00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:38.519 they didn't think was cool. 00:47:39.639 --> 00:47:42.440 So we need to revisit the intergovernmental remit. 00:47:42.440 --> 00:47:47.239 and we need to decide if we're going to continue to support the trail. 00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:51.639 It's a very nice trail. 00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:53.159 You know, it's well maintained. 00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:57.639 In my personal opinion, it's way underutilized. 00:47:57.639 --> 00:48:01.599 I don't believe any of the numbers that they give from the usage. 00:48:01.599 --> 00:48:03.000 There's trail cameras out there. 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:04.840 You've probably seen the numbers. 00:48:04.840 --> 00:48:07.480 A thousand people a month on that trail. 00:48:07.480 --> 00:48:12.279 I think it's something like a 12,000, 13,000 annual. 00:48:12.279 --> 00:48:14.279 Yeah, I mean, you can look that information out. 00:48:14.279 --> 00:48:14.779 Yeah. 00:48:14.779 --> 00:48:17.279 I just like better cameras now. 00:48:17.279 --> 00:48:18.639 They're more sophisticated. 00:48:18.639 --> 00:48:21.000 These things would read anything in Wi-Fi, 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:23.519 you know, whether you went like this, you know, 00:48:23.519 --> 00:48:24.599 count 100 or whatever. 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:26.720 People should go on the service. 00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:29.239 No, I'm actually not. 00:48:29.239 --> 00:48:33.360 So anyway, you know, that's a big, big concern of mine 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:35.639 is that you, Scott, do you walk on the tram? 00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:36.519 I do. 00:48:36.519 --> 00:48:38.519 Do you run into? 00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:39.960 Occasionally. 00:48:39.960 --> 00:48:44.699 It depends on the day, during the week. 00:48:44.699 --> 00:48:46.720 I'll be lucky if I see two or three people. 00:48:46.720 --> 00:48:50.119 If it's on the weekend, I might see five, six. 00:48:50.279 --> 00:48:52.279 I see more in the winter time than I do in the summer. 00:48:53.320 --> 00:48:57.480 I mean, that's how, when I was running out there a lot, a lot of times I'd run, 00:48:58.599 --> 00:49:04.199 you know, 10 miles and seven miles and not see anybody, maybe two people. 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:07.840 Usually a biker more than a fire or water. 00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:37.840 I believe that intergovernmental agreement, if I saw that correctly, you'd get married at 23, something like that, yeah, but you know, it is a great trail, but years ago when I was on the county board, I took a poll at one of the county board meetings and asked how many members had ever been on the trail, and I don't remember anybody raising their hand. It must have been before you started walking. I don't know, I've been on that trail for a long time. 00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:43.440 I don't know but maybe you were the only one that raised their hand but anyway that's but that's 00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:48.400 those are the things we need to discuss do we want to continue to fund and how much funding do we want 00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:53.840 to just because the city wants to give them twenty thousand dollars I don't 00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:54.440 I don't know why, you know, that makes us 00:49:54.440 --> 00:49:55.840 that long been $20,000. 00:49:57.440 --> 00:49:58.880 So, and we can put it on that. 00:49:58.880 --> 00:49:59.719 And I appreciate that. 00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:01.199 So that it gets on the agenda. 00:50:01.199 --> 00:50:03.760 First on the description and Steve Elbeck 00:50:03.760 --> 00:50:05.599 can't make it next month, 00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:07.559 but he will be up here the following month. 00:50:07.559 --> 00:50:09.320 If we put that, put that on, 00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:11.199 yes, now we don't really need to put it on the agenda, 00:50:11.199 --> 00:50:14.639 but he'll come out and, you know, 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:17.320 try and promote the trail and talk about the finances. 00:50:17.320 --> 00:50:24.920 and. Is he sending you any financial information yet? No, you should be getting some as I asked 00:50:24.920 --> 00:50:32.519 that at the last meeting that they would send it to you and then you pass it on to us. Okay. 00:50:37.420 --> 00:50:46.219 Anything else for the comments? Mr. Chairman, I guess real quick. I became aware of the condition 00:50:46.219 --> 00:50:50.019 of the, I'm just going to call it what it says on the plaque, 00:50:50.019 --> 00:50:53.820 the Poor Farm Cemetery out by Menards. 00:50:53.820 --> 00:50:56.179 It's in really poor shape. 00:50:56.179 --> 00:50:58.500 So I've asked Wally to look into, 00:50:59.579 --> 00:51:01.340 I don't even know what the word would be, 00:51:01.340 --> 00:51:04.019 rehabbing it, I guess, for lack of a better word, 00:51:04.019 --> 00:51:05.619 restoring it. 00:51:05.619 --> 00:51:07.460 Yeah, it's in bad shape. 00:51:07.460 --> 00:51:09.820 There are tombstones that are missing. 00:51:09.820 --> 00:51:12.380 There's tombstones broken. 00:51:12.380 --> 00:51:15.460 Several of them are leaning, falling over. 00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:19.739 I found one perched up against a tree that is probably 50 feet 00:51:19.739 --> 00:51:22.579 away from the cemetery itself. 00:51:25.500 --> 00:51:27.460 I didn't even, I didn't know we maintained that. 00:51:30.659 --> 00:51:35.260 The disturbing part to me is there's a nice monument out there. 00:51:35.260 --> 00:51:38.860 And the last sentence of it says, you will not be forgotten. 00:51:40.340 --> 00:51:42.699 And we have not done a good job remembering. 00:51:42.699 --> 00:51:45.699 So I've asked Wally to look into it. 00:51:45.699 --> 00:51:47.900 We do have to have the permits to do anything out there. 00:51:47.900 --> 00:51:49.699 And I think it's through the DNR. 00:51:49.699 --> 00:51:51.460 Is that something, right, ladies? 00:51:51.460 --> 00:51:52.460 Public health. 00:51:52.460 --> 00:51:53.460 Not public health. 00:51:53.460 --> 00:51:54.460 I think it was DNR. 00:51:54.460 --> 00:51:55.460 Was it DNR? 00:51:55.460 --> 00:51:56.460 Do you think so? 00:51:56.460 --> 00:51:57.460 Yes. 00:51:57.460 --> 00:51:58.460 Did we mow it? 00:51:58.460 --> 00:52:08.340 Yes, Wally knows what he can because headstones are laying down and leaning. 00:52:08.340 --> 00:52:11.420 I could pull them out of the ground if I wanted to. 00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:16.500 The problem with a lot of those headstones, though, is that they are very, very old and 00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:18.739 I don't think you can just replace them. 00:52:18.739 --> 00:52:20.539 You have to replace them with light material. 00:52:20.539 --> 00:52:24.699 You don't know if we know who's buried in all of those plots. 00:52:24.699 --> 00:52:27.380 Some of the headstones are still legible. 00:52:27.380 --> 00:52:29.059 Some are just completely smooth. 00:52:29.059 --> 00:52:31.659 It gets worn off. 00:52:31.659 --> 00:52:39.780 But we have a responsibility, I feel, to do better than what I've done with that. 00:52:39.780 --> 00:52:46.059 So hopefully looking into some grants, trying to get the headstones restored, repaired, 00:52:46.059 --> 00:52:47.059 straightened. 00:52:47.059 --> 00:52:51.820 While they did all the straightening of the headstones out of the Kent monument, did a 00:52:51.820 --> 00:52:57.699 great job, but this is four or five times the number of sites that were out of the Kent 00:52:57.699 --> 00:52:58.699 monument. 00:52:58.699 --> 00:53:03.099 So I don't know that we can expect him to do something like that, plus keep up with 00:53:03.099 --> 00:53:04.460 his other duties. 00:53:04.460 --> 00:53:16.460 It's possible I may be coming back and asking for dollars in the 2027 budget for getting it back to where it needs to be and then making sure we maintain it. 00:53:16.460 --> 00:53:20.460 I've never walked that cemetery. 00:53:20.460 --> 00:53:27.460 I don't know if you'll have the same reaction I did, but it made me almost physically sick to look at it. 00:53:27.460 --> 00:53:29.460 Yeah, it's not good. 00:53:29.460 --> 00:53:36.460 We have definitely derelict in our duties when it comes to that cemetery. 00:53:36.460 --> 00:53:43.460 But you're around the city cemetery a lot, and it's kind of, some of the areas are kind of the same, actually. 00:53:43.460 --> 00:53:47.460 I don't know what they have for money either. It's kind of cheap to get that stuff we have. 00:53:47.460 --> 00:53:49.460 Is that the only cemetery we have? 00:53:49.460 --> 00:53:51.460 It's the only one I'm aware of. 00:53:53.460 --> 00:53:54.460 Yeah, it's the only one I'm aware of. 00:53:54.460 --> 00:53:58.460 Last person that was buried out there I think was in the 50s. 00:53:58.460 --> 00:54:03.460 in the 50s, but it goes back to the late 1800s. 00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:10.400 So I've got them determined that we're going to make it right. 00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:11.239 Good, good. 00:54:12.599 --> 00:54:13.539 Thank you. 00:54:13.539 --> 00:54:14.940 Thank you. 00:54:14.940 --> 00:54:17.279 Question, is there a way we can schedule 00:54:17.279 --> 00:54:22.279 a board work day to straightening what laws is? 00:54:25.019 --> 00:54:26.380 You have to have a permit. 00:54:26.380 --> 00:54:27.480 We have to have a permit. 00:54:27.480 --> 00:54:32.480 and there's requirements of how you manage a cemetery. 00:54:32.800 --> 00:54:35.519 So it's possible that they don't know 00:54:35.519 --> 00:54:37.480 what the permit looks like. 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:40.480 They don't know what the requirements are. 00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:42.840 I don't think I want to try and move a 150-year-old 00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:44.880 by the horse, that's the problem. 00:54:44.880 --> 00:54:47.519 Well, the part that, the straightening 00:54:47.519 --> 00:54:49.279 will probably be the easiest of all of it. 00:54:49.279 --> 00:54:50.119 Yeah. 00:54:50.119 --> 00:54:52.079 I mean, you can literally pull them out of the ground now, 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:53.380 the ones that are leaning. 00:54:54.920 --> 00:54:57.279 It's a matter of getting dirt shoveled 00:54:57.279 --> 00:55:03.599 filling a hole in and creating a new one. I don't know how to do it. I guess I could Google it and 00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:12.960 find out. Sounds like an awesome Eagle Scout project. I just want to make sure we're doing 00:55:12.960 --> 00:55:21.679 it the right way. There's missing headstones. I don't know what we do about that. There's one 00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:26.480 that's broken off maybe three inches above the ground. 00:55:27.279 --> 00:55:29.119 and that other piece is not there. 00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:33.239 There's one headstone that they literally have to lift up, 00:55:33.239 --> 00:55:35.559 mow over, and then they just lay it back down. 00:55:36.880 --> 00:55:38.159 I mean, we can't do that. 00:55:40.320 --> 00:55:41.400 You know, it's... 00:55:42.840 --> 00:55:44.800 Yeah, that's just disturbing. 00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:47.880 So, but we're going to make it right. 00:55:47.880 --> 00:55:48.720 Good. 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:52.720 Motion to adjourn? 00:55:53.760 --> 00:55:55.000 Second. 00:55:55.000 --> 00:55:55.840 Second. 00:55:55.840 --> 00:56:04.159 Thank you Clayton for coming on board here. 00:56:04.159 --> 00:56:10.159 Thank you. Don't be afraid to ask questions. 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:29.739 Adam, I haven't seen you in a long time, I haven't seen you in a long time.