February 17th, 2026 Meeting

All right, it's Tuesday, February 17th, 2026, Gary and Mike and Kristy are here.

Tammy is gone today.

So we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order.

I'll make a motion to approve the agenda.

All right, I'll second that.

My favor.

Aye.

Aye.

And we'll work on claims next.

And to approve the journals,

the

Securities,

and all the other.

The Treasurer's report.

Treasurer's report.

All right.

I'll second that.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

So I need you to initial the bottom of that one.

I thought we didn't have to.

That's the one you have to for sure.

Why didn't you tell me when it was in my hands?

All right.

You can read that way.

You ain't got nothing to say about me missing it?

Nope.

All right.

Okay, so.

I know I got you.

Did that, did that, did that.

Going back at me.

This came at me today.

I didn't know about it.

So they didn't get it to me.

Employees resignation.

For the tobacco program.

Just so you know that.

We also have another dispatch.

Make a motion to approve their resignation.

Okay.

Look at this.

Look at this tonight.

All right.

That's tobacco.

Can I use order?

I'll second that.

All in favor.

Aye.

All in favor.

Aye.

All in favor.

All in favor.

Aye.

We also have another dispatch.

Hayley Davis turned in hers also.

Did what?

Hayley Davis, the one we just hired, turned in her resignation.

All right.

I know.

I know, I know.

All right.

Okay.

Then the 930.

Oh, should I miss the year-end option?

I need to.

Oops.

Sorry about that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, are we up to 930 now?

I believe we are.

So John Bach sent this letter over for the historic grant that we need to approve sign

this letter stating that we agree to pay the $54,400 in that change.

And how much do we get?

200 and stop.

Yeah, it's like a couple hundred grand a month.

But if we can't get anybody to do any work, I guess we don't need it doing that.

Well Gordy looked at the basement and he didn't really think it would be too bad to take on

and do.

Yeah.

Oh.

Him and I went down and looked at it.

Oh.

But he hasn't, you know, officially sent us anything because.

Make a motion to approve it.

Approve the matching grant funds for the courthouse.

Courthouse.

I'll second that.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Carries.

Thank you.

We moved the shredder out of the back third way back that we used to have in the department

of revenue.

Oh, way, way back.

We moved it up to this one.

So we didn't have to keep unlocking it every time we needed it.

We do have a spare shredder now.

The one that Logan left there.

Oh.

So I didn't know if I could offer it to like the library needed it or if somebody, because

Logan obviously didn't take it with him.

I don't see why not.

As long as they keep track of where it's at somehow.

Yeah.

You know, just in case.

Or maybe they need it upstairs.

Maybe Dottie wants it upstairs like being idle instead of having to come down here when

they shred.

Sure.

I don't know.

Can we put that one in here?

Yeah.

You can wheel it in here too.

Oh, is it a little one?

No, it's not like this.

Ah, it's too big.

Everybody say why should you have to walk over there and shred my stuff?

Oh.

But no, that's fine.

We, um, well, anytime we wanted to go shred, we had to lock the door, go in and do it.

And then in the wintertime, it's freaking cold in that room.

So I thought, you know what, we'll just move it up there again.

You should just shred the summer one, sir.

Yeah.

I see.

All right.

It, uh, 10 o'clock hour, we have Morden-Lekfold and Perry Wolf in to discuss sirens, I guess.

Well, that's, I'm just doing an update from Kate.

The last time that we discussed them, and I, Christy, did I bring you coffees or those?

The invoices have had Morden's name on them.

You showed them to me, but you didn't give me a coffee.

I put them somewhere between last year and yesterday.

It's in a good spot, and I couldn't find it.

Yeah.

Anyway, the bottom line was, did you deliver them to me or did you saw them here?

I gave them to you when you came to the meeting.

Oh, okay.

The paperwork and the sirens.

We discussed it, and nobody said anything except you handed me this paperwork.

It has Warner Harrison's name on, you know, the majority of it.

There are invoices and client blanks and stuff like that.

And the message was that, you know, it was the county thing.

Warner was the DES director back then, at least part of the time when he was the sheriff.

And so my assumption is that's why, you know, his name was on there.

But bottom line, the message was that, you know, it's not the cities.

You know, here's the paperwork that shows Warner Harrison's name was on it.

Whether they got grant money, you know, through something because it was not a single cycle.

The whistle like the one where the new fire hall sits, I don't know if you remember,

there's a city hall sat there on the corner right behind that,

sat a tower with the sirens on it.

And when that addition was made, then the sirens make move to the back.

And so I guess the message that I got was that, you know, it's the counties.

You guys take care of it.

And so, you know, Oregon County, if it's any different with bottom line,

my message was what I was getting the county needs to take the lead,

get somebody to pluck that off the top of that pole.

You know, because I guess if we went over there today, it's windy enough,

it's probably twisted in the wind.

And so we just need to get a tent care of the pole can stand there and with that thing off the top

and the tree man can cut it in pieces and get it down or whatever type of thing.

Because we're going to fix it to that other tower, correct?

The new one?

Not tower pole.

Yeah, won't put anything on that cell tower.

Okay.

Yeah, there's another.

So it's going on that pole in between there?

Yeah, and we got to figure out the property situation there,

because that pole is on Neiman property, you know,

a little no man's land area between the City Fire Hall and that Neiman CO building.

Okay.

So, yeah, so, yeah, I guess other than when Perry added the siren to the insurance policy,

we're not talking about the one on the water tower, just this yellow one here.

When Ron, my debt wasn't there.

You know, I don't know.

Before that, we can't find where the city ever insured it from new.

Perry, I think was out in 2009.

That's scheduled insurance you have showed us.

2003?

This one says 2003.

Okay, yep, that's the one.

But I can go back and get the others.

So, we wrote it, the sirens were always insured.

Okay, yeah.

So, we, right now, we don't have that siren insured because it's not on our property

and we don't have any proof we paid for it.

Yep, I think Perry's right.

It was probably grant money.

I brought the copies that Donnie Hammer a few years ago had brought a folder of just stuff.

Not really in any order, but it had some original paperwork here and this is just copies of that.

Everything was sent to the county.

The city wasn't referenced on there anywhere.

So, really, the only thing that even spurred this was I think it was a joke made a meeting or two ago

and it said, well, if that thing blows over, we'll just file a claim against the city.

Well, you know, I guess I didn't listen to the meeting.

Someone had brought it to my attention.

Well, then Sonia had dug this folder up because she knew, I think she assumed Donnie Hammer left a copy with both the city and county.

But, nevertheless, we have this folder of stuff for this yellow siren.

So, I guess without being said, I don't know who owns it.

I don't know who wants to go through, but I am going to ask if the county would be interested in removing it.

And I ask because it's the city that took the lead on getting to two new sirens.

Mary and I use did a personal donation.

She also did a grant which is pushed out until, I think, February 27th.

I think that original government shutdown, yeah, they extended the grant until February 27th before they...

Are you talking 2027?

No, I think it's February 27th.

This year?

I have two weeks.

I hope so.

I have two weeks.

I mean, you can't keep these grant things that out for that long.

And then the city's paying for the rest.

No county obligation.

We work with Nemon.

We're going to do the agreement to get the new poll.

So the city will own the...

From the new ones forward, the city owns them?

I believe so, unless the county wants them.

But yeah, we're going to pay for them and go from there.

But I'm asking if the county could take responsibility for the yellow one.

If that would be fair.

If you guys would think that would be fair.

I don't know why it wouldn't be fair.

What?

Wouldn't it be fair to get that yellow one to take care of it now?

Yeah.

The crux of the problem, there was not a joke.

It was serious, because the assumption was the other one was 100 feet away from behind

the old city, all along the city.

This one moved over there.

Soon there was a city, it was all the time that we wrote the city insurance.

I can go back and get every single one of these.

Sure.

And so soon there was the cities.

It doesn't make any difference, other than it sits there twisting and doesn't work anyway.

But if it falls off, it's going to fall through the roof of the county building.

And that's what the discussion was.

We need to get somebody on the ball to get on this and different ones that talk to the

city.

We were the dot, dot, dot, dot, that kind of thing, and nothing was happening.

So it was quite the day to tell the county that the county needs to take the lead,

based on the information.

Well, you can attach it to that, though.

How high is that, approximately?

You know, I'm going to guess here, because I know we've talked about it.

Is it 40 feet?

I was thinking it was higher than that.

Really?

Okay.

Well, maybe I'm way out of line.

I was going to say 80, but I could be dead wrong on that.

That's the number that comes to mind.

I just know it's been discussed.

I mean, I can't even count the number of times it's been discussed by the fire department.

So, okay.

I was told, um, librarians have, they, they can't get it down.

They have the right equipment to get it down.

Um, they're, you know, they're man lift or whatever.

I don't know what all they have, but I think they're the only ones in town.

I don't think any of the bucket trucks in town go that high.

Mimons or the cities, which is an old Mimons one.

Um, Alex Jewel has that one that goes a little bit taller, but I don't think it goes higher.

And you would probably have the resources to reach it as well.

They would, but we, the fire department had, wasn't having any luck.

Oh, really?

Visiting, yeah, I, but, you know, maybe situations change some.

This was when they were talking about taking the, taking it off, um, cut in 10 feet off the pole,

and then putting it back on there.

Well, now it's just completely inoperable.

Okay.

So the other thing is too, is, you know, the city has always, I believe,

powered this one, you know, to go back, not to keep an argument going here,

but, you know, I think it's always been, the electricity has always been paid by the city

because the control box is now made right at the inside there.

Right.

Yeah, on that west wall.

The new one has multiple cycles, and so the DES is going to belong to the city,

but the DES can use it for tornado cyber.

As far as I know, it checks all the boxes.

And then it's all Wi-Fi or land site or whatever, um, for sending signal.

Um, obviously you got to be powered to it, so.

But anyway, yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

So I can let the fire department know that if they have any ideas, they can maybe come to you,

but that the county is going to try to get it down before it does, you know, fall.

I would imagine.

I know, we all questioned that poll for years.

For at least five years, I can know.

We'll go out and watch that thing, you know, torque, when the siren itself spins.

I mean, that thing, that poll doesn't quarter turn, it's freaking wild.

How much that poll moves.

And of course, in gale horse winds like this, you know, that thing's really swaying,

but numerous people talk to Chip and he said, it's fine.

Nothing to worry about.

But, you know, he knows more than we do about polls, typically.

So, you know, we've always trusted his judgment.

You know, I think we're fortunate to have the MDU guy we have, because I think he's very good at it.

So, it gets talked about and kicked to the curb.

Now, or must be to the talk about part again.

After the firewall toppled everything's on high alert.

I looked out the other day at the north side of the elite or the Masonic Hall building.

And there's a chimney that's eight, ten feet high that fit goes.

It's going to be on Brandon's lap down by the cash register and Tandy's type thing.

And so, we talked that over.

That's a number one priority, because it's abandoned and it's not used any longer.

So, Beacon's going to get that taken down type thing.

It's like, you know, anything that can be done that potentially could cause a problem.

Let's do it before it does cause a problem, hurt somebody or damage to somebody's property.

Well, look what happened out of Richland, essentially, with the fertilizer plant.

And that does some tremendous damage.

So, if we can avoid that, that'd be better.

If you happen to have been using the facility at the time, if you weren't done, you'd have been.

I agree.

Oh, just so you know what we're talking about.

Well, that's the same base or copy.

It's the exact same thing I gave you.

It's just copies.

Yeah, you can file 13 it or you can leave it on the back of the toilet.

You guys are talking about how tall the pool is?

Well, how tall do they make pools?

I mean, are they 40-foot pools?

Well, they make 100 feet.

I know they make 80-foot.

Oh, do they really?

Oh.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Past that, I'm sure they make laminated ones that go as high as you want.

And I don't know how tall, like, the football field lights are.

Those are all wooden pools.

I would say those are probably 60-footers.

That's six stories.

That's a ways out there.

And that's about what they look like to me.

Yeah, I have no idea.

That was a non-Safi when they went through that fundraiser.

Yeah, that was on private, wasn't it?

Primarily.

Yeah, a group of dads got together and then they brought Safi in once they got serious about it.

I don't even remember what they did.

Fundraisers for that.

Money was raised pretty quick.

Yeah, it was just basically word-of-mouth.

A couple of raffles and some word-of-mouth.

Pretty much word-of-mouth is whoever honored to donate.

And then that sparked the next one with the concessions and bathrooms.

Were those lights there when Jared was still a year after or two years after?

I know it was Casey Hand, E. Kevin Nelson.

They were kind of a couple of those guys.

Yeah.

Mr. Barry Hill.

And then they took it around, made a plan, and then got the Safi involved.

Yeah, the reason it never took off prior to that was the refs were never available for Friday Night Football to us.

Up here.

They were everywhere else working night games.

I know that was a point of making it all work is to get the refs for Friday Night along with everybody else getting the refs for Friday Night.

Yeah, so.

Where Saturday afternoon worked pretty good because it was a pretty easy slot with a few other games.

Yeah.

Okay, do you guys have any questions on any of that?

I guess.

Not right now.

We'll see what we can muster up.

Okay.

Fine.

Sounds good.

It is insured though, correct?

No.

Oh, so there's-

It's never-

So when-

I don't know when the city went to MMIA.

It must be after oh, nine, or oh, three.

Well, after oh, three.

Oh, whenever they went.

And it's never been with MMIA.

Okay.

So if something happened, it would fall upon the person basically-

Oh.

Deciding what they're going to do if they fell in a car or whatever.

Yeah.

Either to take-

Based on what he just handed you, everything that you can see there.

There was a Warner's name, whether there was any cost sharing done at the time.

You know, in the city paid part of it.

You know.

Who knows.

But everything that they show there indicates that they came through the-

The county, and so, you know, should have been put on the counties at the time, but it was-

When we had it, they were on the cities, and they never-

And as far as-

They could have been based on fun to look back, and you could find it-

Yeah.

Looking.

And as far as I know, if the other ones insured it's mounted on the water tower, you know,

that there's no question on that one.

It's city property.

Mm-hmm.

But in the event I get my wish and we get rid of that water tower, then we'd have to either put a pole there for another one,

or just change locations.

Got a couple neighbors there that would really want to see that water tower go somewhere else.

Wow.

That's part of the choice of where you live, too.

Yep.

But there's something-

Yeah, I didn't get you.

Yeah.

Everybody built around it.

And actually, there was nothing built there at the time it was put up.

So.

And I wonder if there shouldn't have been able to build that close to something like that.

I don't know.

Maybe there weren't many rules.

Beth and Gary was my age.

He was in part of it longer than he used to.

Okay.

Yeah, so.

Well, we'll see what we can accomplish and find out, figure out, or do whatever.

Okay.

Get it kind of handled.

Is power disconnected to it now?

No, I don't think so.

I guess I don't know.

That would be a Neal-

Yeah.

Yeah.

Neal Hole and Wyatt Wilder question.

I think that if nothing else, a breaker or something.

I know there's a, you know, quick disconnect there.

At least I think there is.

I'm thinking of the right thing.

Because yeah, there's no sense in keeping that power when it was fried.

So.

No.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

All right.

Thank you, gentlemen.

All right.

We're at the 1030 meeting with Arlene, the library director.

And she has some stuff she wants to discuss for this.

Okay.

The first thing was, we got our electric were looked at in the library.

It was much more expensive than we figured.

So I made copies of the bill so you guys could see it.

It came over our $500, whatever, spending limit.

So I wanted to let you guys know.

Oh, but this, this is for that thermostat.

Yes.

Essentially issue.

Yes.

And it is much better, but it is not completely fixed.

But the electrician came back, spent almost two hours there trying to make it do it while

he was there.

And it wouldn't happen.

So we're wondering if we can contact MDU to see if the power coming in.

Has some fluctuations.

That's causing our problems because it is so sporadic.

I think they'll do that for free.

Okay.

I mean, we have heat, so we can't whine about it.

And the noise is considerably less and a lot less often, but it's an older system.

If it needs tweaking, then we want to get it tweaked before we lose our whole system.

Replacing it would be a lot of more money than that.

Well, it costs, it costs money to get people up here.

Yeah, it does.

Who's Ryan?

Pardon?

Sand electric.

Sand electric.

Sand electric.

Yeah.

They did work on my house and they did really good.

And came and did the work and got it done and built me correctly and I just trusted

them.

Sure.

This is our third person now, right?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yes, this is the third.

They're the only ones that replace the $640 guy.

It's crazy.

But it's better.

People aren't jumping out of their chairs like they were before, so that's good.

We have a new board member.

Just wanted to let you guys know.

Ben Foslands stepped up.

He's going to be on our board.

Replace Stephanie McGowan.

That left to be a part-time employee.

Don't we need to appoint him?

What's that?

Don't the commissioners do a letter?

The staff may just be on the library board.

She was hired in the library.

I don't remember.

Oh, I see.

Okay.

Okay.

Whatever it needs.

Okay.

Great.

And because Mr. Fosland's schedule will be moving our board meetings to Tuesdays instead

of Wednesdays because he's in all the point till later and they never get out early there

for a clock board meeting.

And we'll make sure that that's publicized so everybody knows.

Yeah, I think they actually do a letter.

Do a letter?

Does it like give permission or does it just?

No, I was just saying you've been appointed to the library board for a term commencing

immediately and ending on this day.

Okay.

So, yeah.

Okay.

Great.

Yeah.

We will not have a board meeting next month because I'll be out of town on vacation

and legally we only have to have one six times a year.

So we're skipping.

Okay.

Okay.

That's all I have for you.

Do you have anything for me?

I don't think so.

We're good.

No more Lego shows.

What's that?

No more Lego shows.

We still do Legos twice a month.

Okay.

Yeah.

We did it last week.

Which one did I get?

That was last summer, I think, last spring.

It's been a long time.

It was a year ago, almost, because you came back from Wolf Point for your district meeting

and then you guys went there.

Yeah.

We still have judging once a month.

We do Legos twice a month.

Now, the second one, we don't have judges because...

The weather's so busy.

Gosh.

It's tough.

It is.

We need imaginations.

Speaking of imaginations, so we're starting a program to get back our overdue library books.

The many, many, many that are out there that we can't account for.

So, we're going to give away prizes for returned books in a certain time frame.

So, maybe you'd like to donate a prize.

We're going to be weird ones.

You know, like a chip repair or a quart of oil or something like that that they can draw for.

Before we go switch over to Montana's shared library, like as many of our books back before we start inventorying and relabeling everything.

So, the labels will be on the back cover now, not on the front or inside.

So, you got to switch all of those out?

They'll all be relabelled because theirs are much different than ours.

And then, with them on the back cover in the upper corner, when we do inventory, I can just tip books out and go down and scan them.

Instead of picking up the last 14,000 books by hand and scanning them.

And I'm not done yet.

So, send Samantha back.

What she's done, doing everything else she's doing.

Send her back. We'll put her to work.

Chapter books in the juvenile fiction art.

Chapter books in the juvenile fiction art.

Chapter books in the juvenile fiction art.

Then she got busy after that.

And they delivered a bunch of Legos to us.

Her and her and her friend.

Yeah, Camilla and her.

There's three big totes of free Legos.

And the kids noticed them right off as soon as they came in.

You can't do Legos.

It's funny because, yeah, Camilla was like, Oh, I want to do all these and Samantha's like I do.

And the kids were just so excited.

Half a dinosaur is like better than none.

You ready?

So, all right.

If you guys don't have anything for me, y'all.

Not right now.

Is there something pending?

Oh, so you could.

You'll never know.

Do you have a lot of overdue books?

I've got 562 books out.

That are overdue?

275 are overdue.

That's not counting.

Like you'll buy a lot or just a few a week or so?

A prominent citizen would be unnamed, returned a book to us when they moved out of town.

It was two years and three months overdue.

And we have some that are missing from the library that are not checked out.

So, the inventory will show us which ones those are.

And just you go looking for a book and it's nowhere to be found.

Okay.

So now you need a thing on your door that beeps when people walk out with a book?

I don't know.

Maybe those Montana shared catalog labels will do that.

Maybe.

I don't want to have to think about that.

Do you need to say, readers do things like that?

I think they just get involved in books and they're looking at it and then they just don't think.

Or we scan it and we're in the wrong window.

And it beeps because it doesn't go in there.

Maybe.

So that happens.

Yeah.

With new people.

I can't believe that that much.

Seems like a lot.

Maybe about half of them are overdue.

Well, it's almost over a third of the city.

As far as population goes.

Maybe we need to not be a free library.

If you look at the fees that we should have charged, we're in the thousands.

Yeah, sure.

I'm sure.

That changes our whole atmosphere in there.

Yeah.

Most of them get their books back.

Abuse in the library.

I can't believe it.

You stop and think about it.

It is.

We have all kinds of free books in the hallway.

But trees.

I don't use the library so you can't blame me for stealing books.

I should run your name just in case.

You go ahead.

You probably can't find my name in a lot of overdue bail bill papers.

Well, that was part of it.

We're going to add in the paper about bringing the books back and drawing for prizes on those.

As our first step in recouping our lost books and the second step,

we may just list names of overdue patrons in the paper.

And hopefully that'll put a little further.

Retract your books.

That should get somebody.

We can't do that.

We can list the overdue books.

Not the people.

We can list initials and let people just guess.

It's just to make our job worth it.

So we can have a clean slate when we switch over.

Right.

It's kind of quiet in here without Tammy.

I'd say that.

You guys should be pretty mellow, huh?

We're pretty mellow.

That's good.

We really want to get along with people that can't even see us.

Well, yeah.

You just sit here like people at a craft show and nobody's coming to your table.

Put some free stuff out there.

I see they upped our stove totals.

Oh, did they?

Really?

Last time I looked it was five to seven now.

And wind.

God, I'm going to get Casey to get my tractor out to me.

Today's the day.

Casey called me once.

He asked me and him to drive it out.

You guys have a great day.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's 11 o'clock hour.

We have Michael B. Lund from the Public Safety Commission Board.

We're going to update us on what's going on.

Okay.

Here's your cheat sheet.

All right.

Here is the agenda from our last meeting.

Would you like a copy?

Do you need it?

Sure.

But I'll give it to you later because I'll need to reference it.

Here is the minutes of our last regular meeting.

And here is the minutes of the special meeting that we had here.

Okay.

Our agenda meeting minutes.

Here's the sheriff's report.

And he seems to be, the deputies used to have their own.

But is that, should that be required?

Because he's adding, he's put their names in here and he's keeping track of it.

So this one you can keep.

All right.

And on our agenda then, sheriff and committee reports.

You've got the sheriff's report in front of you.

Cost to replace Daniels County Sheriff's Office firearms.

Here is a memo that County Attorney wrote out.

And we haven't seen anything on a proposal.

He kind of stated that he wanted to put that on hold a little bit and save on the cash for the money.

So that we can get these radios up and functioning first.

And I don't know that it's that critical at this time.

The second bullet.

Potential trading option on old vehicle radios through red tail or sale to other County entity.

I've got a piece of paper here.

That did the commission approve the purchase of those three radios.

Other vehicles.

Yes.

I think so.

But they wanted me to double check.

So I guess I'm asking if that's an improved.

Remember, did he say what he was up here asking for?

No.

So.

It's been where I'm supposed to be reporting to the county commissioners.

The first bullet says status on request for three new vehicle radios.

And I got a note here that says the old radios question mark, you know, can we do something with those?

Or would we if there's a chance that they could be upgraded to some degree and could be used to either fire or somebody else.

But if they can't be upgraded, then they might just be kind of worthless.

Did he say if they got a quote on how much it would be replaced all those radios?

Well, I thought we had that once.

Didn't we talk about that in the.

I'm trying to remember because I get that confused with all the computer stuff too.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you're saying.

You mean that way back?

Like last fall?

Yeah.

I think so.

And it seems like.

Where's who's got the minutes of that big meeting, the spatial meeting, it was brought up in that, I believe, at that meeting.

I think that's talking about the quantar.

That's the quantar.

Okay.

Yes, because they're 70,000 three new vehicle radios.

Total approximate cost 25,000.

Yeah, there's $7,000, $8,000 a piece.

And so.

If it's been approved, then my next question would be where does it come from the funds and you know.

Well, I'm assuming it goes out at 9-1-1.

2300 radios.

We can come out of that 23.

The 9-1-1.

I think.

Or is that the.

That's that one.

Me 1111.

Had a note at that media that said they could be purchased through 9-1-1.

That's what I thought she said too.

But maybe she's got something different now too after she's.

Yeah.

And I would.

Prefer.

Not to use that.

2300.

Yeah, whatever the.

Because we've got those payments coming out of there and there should be some left.

But you know, if we could use something else.

We're hoping that the interest we save in the third year would be able to help with stuff like this.

By paying that off in the first two.

Yeah, but we can't wait three years.

No, I didn't.

Yeah.

So.

No, but don't.

But would we be getting some more of this?

Don't we get this every year?

That won't.

No, it's broke out into the.

Yeah, it's it was.

Yeah.

And it and it may come.

In equal installment said.

Question for Christie.

If that comes in.

I believe that's the way it was set up.

Yeah.

And that we just because payments out of that and then would read major was there for you guys to.

Yeah.

Big buyer.

Because, you know, you pass a levy, it's a four year levy.

And you've got to take so much out of the taxes each year to cover this levy.

I don't.

Right.

It's not there.

It comes there.

Yeah.

I think.

And.

Put that away.

I think I got to read some of this.

Oh, crap.

I wish I hadn't thrown mine.

Well, if I remember right, that, that wasn't very long ago that we approved those three years.

I want to say the first of the year.

Is a face down to face up face down.

Oh, my God.

It's face up.

Right.

Right.

I thought it was face down.

Well, I only asked for three copies and it kept spitting out paper.

Oh, right.

The other way then.

Yeah.

We just got back here very short.

I know.

We just got back here very short.

Oh, my God.

Nope.

I'm not really finding anything for that.

The only thing I found regarding radios was for the 2019 one that we got from Helena,

that the board approved the radar gun, the wrap and the radio to be put into that vehicle.

That was in September of last year.

That was prior to you guys, I think.

But I don't see anything after that.

We approved a bunch of the stuff for the printers and everything.

Yeah, I have that.

For the tickets and all that.

I have that too.

Yeah.

I got that.

That's the only other thing I found, so I don't know.

I know I have this Motorola Solutions Police Radios Grant Assistance Program.

We approved a radio for the 2019 back in September.

For the Explorer.

Yeah, for the one we got from Helena.

So they were approved to buy those things for that.

Oh.

For the newer vehicles.

Oh, okay.

The used one that we got.

Yeah.

Okay.

But I couldn't find anything for the other ones they have in service right now.

So, unless it was before that one, even though we replaced those.

Okay.

Well, I guess I'm asking permission.

But do they need two or three?

Now that, I mean, I don't know if they ever did this one or not for the 2019.

It says three.

Status on request for three new vehicle radios for Daniels County Sheriff's Office.

Okay.

So did they forget this one then?

I don't know.

That's a question that I need to ask and find out.

The last thing I got here was, this is from 10-2 or 11-1.

Sales quote for the thermal printers, docking stations, pedestals for the Explorer Suburban.

2021 or 2011, 2011.

Yeah.

Basically for vehicles we have, just the printer part of it is all I have.

That's the last.

Okay.

Well, is it, do they need two or do they need three?

That's a good question.

It's your question, right?

I'm assuming they need three since there's three of them.

But in September we approved them.

You approved one.

Getting a radio, radar guns and all of that for the vehicle we got from Helena.

Right, for that one.

Right.

So then.

We need two more.

Yeah, I'm sure it was approved for that.

I don't remember who talked about this stuff so many times, but.

I don't know if it was for the.

But I'm pretty sure we approved it for the new car.

Yeah, we did.

I found that in September for all.

But I don't have a period.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, he was then asking where it would likely come out of which budget.

Isn't that what you guys tell us where to take it out of?

And that's what we do.

Yeah, but I'm kind of asking for suggestions.

It's here.

I got them right here.

You got the reports.

Yeah.

And I think there's enough in the 911 because you may have the question at this joint meeting

that yeah, we could take it out of 911.

Well, that was basically more or less if the fire and the ambulance could be their radios

could come out.

Okay.

We have been talking to fire or ambulance about new radios as well.

Right.

And I know Todd had asked about 911 pain form also.

So that's where we're kind of sitting too.

I would say you need to get together with possibly those other two agencies and find out what

the needs are and then decide how many or who gets.

They're here again that I think thought was that if they got these three, they would be

truncable and because I'm not sure that the radios they have are truncable and they were

just thinking that maybe fire should have one truncable just in case.

But if these can't be upgraded to truncable, they would still hand them off to fire.

And obviously, I don't know if ambulance would, you know, be interested in.

I don't think Todd said at the last meeting, did Todd say they didn't need them to be?

I thought he said they did not need to be truncable.

Correct.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Because they didn't need to reach across the state.

Right.

But I think the sheriff made a comment that if they were, one of them should go to the

command vehicle in the fire department if that's necessary.

Three radios or two.

That's a big question.

Mine is not sure why they would need that in the fire command vehicle.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

I printed you up the agenda so you can maybe kind of follow along.

Yeah.

The firearms, switching up firearms, he said radios first, communications is more important.

Okay.

Talking about trading in radios to red tail, there was a comment made, and I think this

came from Kurt, that Stone Garden Grant, there was a possibility that we could maybe get

some radios through a Stone Garden Grant.

And I said, well, look into it.

You know, you've got all the information for Stone Garden.

I think that pretty much covers what was in the sheriff's report, unless you have some

other questions or have questions.

I'll move on to the tack officers report on the agenda.

And number one there was the cost comparison for new administrative position versus current

expenditures.

And they obviously did some work, and they said, we can't make it fly, if we added an

administrative position.

Almost 200,198.

And they toyed with the fact that if they were given, even had some raises to dispatch,

they could still do less total budget.

That's what I wrote down.

That's what I was told.

So I think that this is off the table, the administrative, starting up an administrative

position.

Okay.

What is account 342010?

3420, I think it's sheriff's services.

I have to go for sure.

Okay.

You guys might not have that.

Yeah.

Oh.

It'd be an income, right?

Yeah, it's a revenue.

That's the public safety fund.

That's the public safety.

The 2300 fund number is 2300.

That's the public safety.

That's that mill, everyone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

I'll wait for her to come back in.

You know, if you want good, honest answers, you got to refer.

Eat them better.

Okay.

I could probably ask about this.

I wanted to make sure that this was approved.

And it's been presented to us in April of last year.

And it's moving the radio from the Flaksville water tower to the

tower northwest of right across from the senators.

Yeah.

And this thing's been sitting, they're waiting for red tail or

something to come and do this.

And if you look at the quote thing there, there is a, they would

maybe the next page or something that red tail said when they come

up to do something else, they could get this accomplished.

In one trip.

In one trip.

They just wanted to double check.

They figured they thought this had been approved by the commission.

And it was approved.

A year ago, almost.

Right.

Because that's when the sheriff wanted it done.

Yeah.

414-25.

So you think they're just going to move it just north of Flaksville.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Now, there may be an increase because we've been sitting on this

quote for almost.

342010.

342010.

342010.

Yeah.

That's the revenue where his service, where his payments go.

Okay.

So, Tami was, well, here's the agreement.

Tami was pretty adamant about that he'd do this because you can hold

up the wages and then got all these things.

He turned around and handed me this one.

And look at the green line down in the bottom.

So all those funds that he can collect from, except for when he does

get permits to move livestock, that goes to the Denny's County

Livestock Association.

And is there another one that goes somewhere else?

What is this?

It's what it costs to move it to Flaksville.

Oh, we have a public safety levy now, right?

Right.

And that's where it gets put into.

Okay.

And I told him, I said, I think that's probably the account that it's

going into.

Yeah, it goes into the 2300.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's been doing that since Bob's second month, the account, after we

realized that's where it had to go.

Okay.

So you're on top of it.

Yeah.

Number five, the top of that page.

That's basically what we talked about.

Yeah.

And it's just, that line was not in any of the copies he had.

So then I brought this down to him and they took photo copies of it.

And Shauna says, whoa, Morgan has assigned this.

I said, this is the quanta, right?

No.

What is this?

Or maybe it is 41,000.

Yes.

So this is the moving to Flaksville.

Yeah.

The first page.

The first page.

Moving it out to the tower.

Yeah.

We did that like a year ago, almost, I believe.

Yeah.

April 25.

You are correct.

Yeah.

And now there's something about this quanta.

And they're calling it, instead of quanta.

The repeater radio or something?

It's the GTR 8000 base.

Here is an upgraded quote.

Okay.

It was 41,000.

They didn't need this duplexer.

So that took 6,680 off of it.

But the 20,000 for that radio is now actually 20,436.

So this has been shuffled a little bit.

We can, from this quote for the quanta of 41,235, we can reduce it by 6,680 and add

to it 436.

And I didn't do the math, whatever that ends up showing up.

But this was approved basically at this group meeting also.

Sure.

Okay.

Then these action items, if you look at the agenda there.

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

You're sitting down.

What was that?

You're sitting down.

Disposition of the stone garden pickup.

I'm going to turn it into a corners pickup.

Why?

Is this you?

Yeah, it is.

I thought the agreement was as Sean does a great job without the expense of having to

retrofit that pickup again.

I don't think that's a very wise move.

Did you talk about the one that skip had?

Yeah.

What's the back?

Bobby Joel and somebody else thought that it would make an adequate corners pickup.

Just reporting.

Well, I do know that the road department is down one vehicle, almost two vehicles that

we're going to have to deal with.

And we just thought this would be a better way to accommodate them.

Is that a stone garden vehicle?

Yeah.

Yeah, we're working towards our annual plan.

And here again, we meet once a month and nothing happens in between.

We're going to have to sit down and have some special times.

We're going to have to schedule some times to really sit down and work on some of this

stuff.

I want to do the same with the budget.

It should be up to us to be putting this budget together because the sheriff has requests or

thinks of needs or something.

We have to fill that in.

The only other thing that we ended up talking about, and this was Tammy, she's in the mental

health position, the avail that notebook program.

And when I was finishing up there, I brought a pamphlet back and I gave it to the sheriff

and said, this is a pretty good deal.

And so I asked Tammy, I said, why didn't she text me about this?

I said, so what do we, you know, has anything transpired?

And she says, well, I think the issue was that you needed to have Wi-Fi to make it work

or something.

And I don't even recall, but the sheriff says, well, we've got these new tablets now.

And I said, no, no, you don't understand the way I understand it is that they're having,

somebody's having a mental issue or, you know, anxiety issue or something.

And you don't know what to do with them or how to deal with them.

You hand them this notebook and they connect up with a professional health person who can

talk them through it.

And I do recall that the reason they like this is because then the person's not looking

at a sheriff in his uniform, an authority figure, you know, it's dealing with someone

who is in a health situation, who knows probably a little bit more than, you know,

the regular law enforcement.

You would need cell on your tower, cell service, like a cell phone, not Wi-Fi,

because you could be out in the middle of where there's no Wi-Fi available.

Well, that's what Tammy told me was Wi-Fi or something.

You'd have to have it hooked to, like, V-Mont cellular service or whatever.

Right.

Because, like, you can buy tablets with either Wi-Fi or cell service available.

So, yeah, you'd have to do cell service.

And so, you know, it was, everybody was getting up and adjourning.

And we never really discussed it.

And I just said, well, this is what Tammy had asked about.

I asked about it when I was a commissioner one time.

And nothing ever transpired from it, I guess.

So, yeah, corner.

That's a whole new...

You and Jeremy got your work cut out next four months by yourselves, huh?

Well, Kurt, he was the first one to respond to this email this morning,

so he's still connected.

And I'm assuming that when we have a meeting,

he might be able to be there with Zoom or something.

We did have a couple of people re-hinkly in.

Michael Bloomquist came to our meeting.

And I'm going to suggest that we meet up here

if we're going to start having more people show up,

Logan had to run and get chairs and bring into his conference room and...

Well, that's what this is for.

Yeah, yeah.

And Lee Hinkley, he just stood the whole time, you know.

And then he left earlier.

He left anyway, so...

I think I've covered everything.

Have you ever considered being a dispatcher?

You know, I suggested it to Nancy.

And she said, well, yeah, you know,

but not at a 12-hour shift.

She said, I could see an 8-hour shift.

And then she's one that, you know, weekends?

No, she wouldn't want to work weekends.

Night, she needs your man.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we got her weekend planned and...

That's why you left me.

Yeah, that's right.

That's why you want your damn weekends.

That's right.

Oh, my gosh.

And now we're not only into wrestling this weekend,

there's two softball games,

a couple of different softball games

in my city coming up on weekends.

They had four games this weekend.

You just take them all.

I just want to make coffee.

All right.

Little adjourn for dinner.

All right, we're back after lunch.

Christy, myself and Gary are here.

And we are done going over claims.

I'll make a motion to pay him.

I'll second that.

All in favor?

All right.

All right.

I'll do your job.

Thank you.

Okay, so we put the discussion on the park board

is because they're running out of money.

Okay.

They've never had money.

Well, they're running out for this year again.

I contacted Dakota and he said he thought

that everybody that has horses down there has paid.

I don't know if that's correct or not,

but I just reached out to him to make sure

that dues were paid.

I'll have to check that with Jess.

I'll be back here shortly, but yeah.

But she's the one who, she was paying the bills

and she said they're running out of money.

So anyway, that's why that's on there.

Okay.

Speaking of the devil.

Well, just the ones that have horses aren't going to have,

that's not enough to carry him through anyway.

It has to be all of the members that have those stalls

at least.

Yeah.

No letters go out today.

Well, they used to.

But that's up to the board.

Yeah.

The park board used to send them out.

I think when Ed did it, I think he sent letters out and stuff.

He's still involved with it, but.

Yeah, but I think he was the secretary at the time.

Yeah.

And I believe now Dakota's wife is the secretary.

Yeah.

She's not even actually on the board, but.

I don't know if they've had any election of officers.

I know they haven't had a meeting.

Not a.

Instructive meeting.

All right.

It's going to use more than it used to.

Yeah.

Well, it's cleaned up and it's better down there.

I think.

Just with a little bit of stuff we did.

Yeah.

But that's why you put that on there.

So.

Okay.

We will find out how short it is and I can relay the message to him that.

Pretty critical that he gets at least.

At least the membership or stall.

Money in.

Yeah.

Help pay for things.

Okay.

You're by yourself or somebody joining you.

I might be by myself and probably.

Yeah.

I know David's out of town Toby dependent on whether he was going to be around or

I got to see him in a truck this morning.

Maybe not.

Yeah.

Well, we'll get go ahead and get going.

Your camera ask is here on behalf of the fair board.

Handle update.

Overall, we actually came out pretty well.

Not sure we were expecting that.

That's better than the previous years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um.

And you're not having the NRA.

Yeah.

We are cutting that.

I mean, even with the county kicking in for the stock, we were still putting in.

Last year, we actually cut the premium we put in from 8006, but you still got to pay

for the judges and timers, bullfighters and all that.

And I can't really separate out what our nightly tickets are because we sell them in

bunches.

But we've just seen the crowd dwindling at that.

I'm not saying it's...

Well, I don't think it's isolated to here.

No.

And that's...

I think it's kind of in general going through, isn't it?

Corey talked to Paul Eicher, who's the stock contractor and he said they're seeing the same

thing everywhere.

And it's just that was, you know, the big deal way back, but there's fewer and fewer

people connected to agriculture in general.

So it's just not the draw that it used to be.

And I guess the big difference between that and the Rancher Audio is Dakota goes out and

gets his sponsors for the Rancher Audio and we don't spend any more than he brings in.

Which is probably...

Yeah, so there's not really any expense there other than a little bit of advertising and

I'm sure the ticket sales for that probably covered.

The Derby, I know it looks like it lost a little money, but they also went out and bought...

Where's that on here?

They went out and they bought two or three cars to use for their raffle for future.

Yeah.

So those are included in the expenses and, you know, they're not really at this year's expense.

The other thing is, Casey went out and brought in that big Cooley band after the Derby last

year that wasn't really planned on, so they agreed to pay for it.

Well, this year we'll include that in part of our stuff.

Who was the concert last year?

Last year we had that arena rock show.

Oh, okay.

Oh yeah, the arena rock show.

You can tell I don't go anywhere.

I haven't been to anything at night.

We go down to the fair, but not usually to anything after that.

You know, anytime you make a profit, it's good.

Yeah.

You just need to figure out some of the ways to change the others to make it better, but

if you can, you can.

If you can't, you can't.

Yeah, I mean, overall, as long as we break even, we're doing pretty good.

It's nice to make profit because that's where you can...

Well, then we can start building.

Build things and make things improve upon.

And that, I guess, yeah, so the big plans this year, obviously, we're cutting the NRA

rodeo, which is going to shorten it by a day.

We're going to move everything up a night, so it'll be Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and

we'll just be done on Sunday.

Which is fine.

Yeah.

Well, with divisional swim going on, that hopefully will kind of help us all out and

that we're only going to be fighting for volunteers on one day instead of two.

Yeah.

Because I know times in the past, we really struggled.

Not so much the fair association, but I know the Legion Club and the Lions Club had a hard

time finding enough people to fill their needs.

Obviously, we've signed Ham Tillis.

We're spending more than we ever have on a concert with the hopes that Swim Team helps

cover it.

We've heard a lot of positive feedback so far on that.

I do have the open-sage guy lined up and hired, so we've got somebody coming for that.

We're going to meet Thursday night and figure out what we're doing as far as the carnival.

Those guys have been in touch with me.

They actually have bought several, they're mini carnival rides, so they're not full-sized,

but it's an option.

Yeah.

I don't know, the Derby guys are trying to figure out what class they're running and

how they can do their own thing and just let us know when they get it figured out.

I guess having the Swim Meet has created a little bit of a conflict because they like

to use all four sets of those bleachers and we need to have at least two of them.

We can move them back and forth between 4-H and the arena.

I have signed a rental agreement.

Sheridan County has four sets of smaller ones and it's going to cost us $200 to rent them

all over that weekend.

Yeah, run over and grab them and bring them back afterwards.

Does Flaxle have some?

Somebody mentioned that, I guess I didn't check it.

If you look down there and find one, I'm sure there will be.

I think they have a couple.

Sure.

If nothing else, they'd let you use them.

That's what I'm saying.

I'd call Richard up.

Well, no, see, it's not Richard no more.

Be Corey Nelson, maybe?

There you go.

I think they kind of took over.

Richard could lead you the right way.

I helped put these ones in Sheridan County together when I was still over there in their three row

talking with some of the swim team folks.

The thought is we'll give at least two, if not all four of them, to the swim people.

They thought they could actually put those inside of the swimming pool.

Well, that's a part of Flaxle.

Instead of outside.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, no, it'll be interesting to see how you do.

Yeah.

Well, if you guys don't need anything else from me, I'm going to be going.

No, this is great.

No, I've seen any of this.

You bet.

Hopefully you have a successful year.

Yeah.

Like I said, I won't pull it.

Well, I think you started with entertainment.

Yeah.

Casey claims that by having the Derby on Saturday, we should get 10 more cars.

Sunday is a tough time.

People have to travel.

Because you're not getting out of here until 10 o'clock.

Yeah, he gets a lot of guys and tell them they won't come because they got to work the next day.

So I think that's a good deal.

Entertainment is just expensive no matter how you do it.

Yeah.

So what night is the entertainment?

Friday night.

So it'll be the roundtrodio entertainment Derby?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is that the way Plumwood does it as well?

I mean, are there three nights?

No, do or are they still four?

No, they're down to two.

Well, yeah, they're basically at two.

They do a rodeo.

Well, they used to do two rodeos.

And then the concert.

And then they switched from PRCA to NRA on the rodeo.

And I think they're now down to one night, Friday night, and then the concert Saturday.

I see.

They don't have a Derby.

They do their mump and run and mud run.

And those are earlier on Saturday.

Nice.

They tried doing a Derby here.

It's probably three, four years ago.

They did it for about two years.

I don't know.

Steve Davis and a few others were putting it on.

I don't know if they couldn't get along or if they just got tired of doing all the work.

It kind of went away.

I see.

Wasn't that about the run more popular locally?

I don't know because when I was talking with their fair, one and I went to convention back in November.

We were talking to their folks and they're trying to figure out what to do there.

Because I guess they're struggling to get people to theirs.

Whether they do it during an evening or find something else to do.

It is the sun of the times.

And change is inevitable.

You got to figure out a way to maneuver through it.

And find something that is entertaining to the people to get them there.

And I've never been to their mump and run because it's two o'clock on Saturday.

Well, the 4-H sale is also two o'clock on Saturday.

I wouldn't mind to go to one once.

I guess if I'd really want to go more than that.

Their fair is the same time ours is?

It's the weekend before.

I would be willing to go to a bump and run more than...

I know they do their mud races at the same time.

I don't know if mud races...

Bump and run is a circuit just like road use though.

And it costs money to travel and it costs money to put your cars together.

I don't know.

Me personally, I can see that's more entertaining than two guys driving through a mud puddle.

Maybe not.

Well, I did.

Now that I'm older and I own the vehicle a little bit.

But it just seemed like there's more people doing this locally.

And it was a little bigger thing.

You've got to rely on people coming in and you don't know them.

Well, that's...

I'll give Casey a lot of credit because he's gotten guys from Crosby and Glasgow.

And that one year, three guys from Baker came up here for the derby.

So, you know, he's drawn guys.

And that's been the thing with the rodeo.

We were paying out more than half her.

And we still weren't getting guys to come.

You know, for the most part, our contestants went as far west as Malta and as far south as Glendive.

You know, we'd pick up two or three guys outside of that because they were roping with somebody.

I had a college roommate who was a saddle rock rider and he specifically did it...

In an area close to home as he could.

And he hit all he could within that area.

Instead of traveling.

Because he said traveling, you lose money.

And I talked to the girls down at the NRA office and she said, you know, we're doing what we can if they...

You know, there's usually two to three rodeos every weekend.

And if you set your days right, they should start, you know, on this side of the state, Thursday, Friday,

middle of the state Saturday and west side Sunday.

And she goes, we'll do everything we can to make sure that if they want to enter in all three, they'll get into all of them.

But we just still don't see anyone that's that terribly far away getting into it.

And some of it, we're talking with Dakota about trying to bring back like ranch brunk riding just so we have a rough stock part of the ranch rodeo.

And we can do barrels and if we want to do the mutton busting, we can fit all that into the ranch rodeo anyways.

So...

I'm going to experiment a little bit here and there and see if it works for you.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, what you guys get back after?

Yeah.

This is it.

Is this it?

Well, then you can have the rest of your day.

You know, we deserve some of these slow days too, you know.

We might have a need for a letter of recommendation or support, actually.

We're trying to get a grant for the courthouse to fix the foundation about any roof.

And we've got everything in place, but the more letters of support for this historical building would be great if that's something we could do.

I think she might print a copy off for you if you need it.

Criteria?

Yeah.

You bet.

I guess I can run it for a little bit too.

You sure it's up or down?

You're going to find out.

It's hard to get this.

You told the last person you're wrong, you know.

I know.

That's Michael B.

You're lucky to start.

I thought Michael B. was wrong just to watch it.

He had 330 copies going before he shut it down.

Yeah, not one of them was, they were all blinded.

He kept pushing the three until he got the goodness.

Did you guys get your entertainment figured out for the...

Yeah, we're going to do...

They're out of Canada, and it's a Bon Jovi tribute band.

Cool.

So they're supposed to be the number one Bon Jovi tribute band in the world.

So you'll see, they sound excellent.

Yeah.

So we'll see what happens.

Just a rock entertainer from the 80s, basically.

So I won't know a song.

I'll sing it.

I'll sing it.

I'll sing it.

You really won't know any songs.

You'll start singing, name that tune.

Yeah.

I'm not supposed to know this, but Plentywood, for their fair, is getting that snake oil group.

Yeah.

That's what we were told, actually.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, we've found that unless you go to an older entertainer,

they're willing to travel because they can.

But if you want somebody that's up and coming,

it's awful hard because unless it fits into their pattern of travel,

they don't like to do it.

Well, that's kind of what we ended up with here, because I looked it up.

She's, I think, 74.

Yeah.

It'll be fine, though.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, we had some.

And we'll try again for them next year.

It's great entertainment for the young people, but we've got to be able to land them.

Yeah.

So if you start a little later,

then they put you off a while until they know for sure some of the other bigger stuff takes place.

Yeah.

And then they discard you.

So you're sitting there waiting and waiting and waiting, and you can't get an answer.

Yeah.

So we're going to start a little earlier, I think, and see if we can get on their list ahead of time,

rather than trying to get in the middle of it somewhere.

I haven't been here before.

Not as far as I know.

And I heard that name.

She was in Forsyth, I know.

I mean, pretty positive she was.

If not there, Baker, too, I think.

When she was hot.

Yeah, back in the 80s.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't suppose her dad come along.

I don't think you'd want him to come along.

Not anymore.

You'd need that.

You'd need that.

I'll fit the county's one.

You said it.

You're on record now.

Just so we didn't forget.

Oh, okay.

Okay.

No, what is this?

I've seen it.

This is something.

This is what I'm here to explain to you.

So you get an idea of what's happening here.

Some explaining to do.

Oh, goodness.

You're on.

Oh, okay.

We didn't want to miss out.

Okay.

It's 2.30 and the treasurer's here.

And we're going to talk about the security counts.

I'm Katie.

Oh, I'm Katie, sorry.

So we received a letter from Independence Bank.

Wanting us, asking us to release our stated securities,

which that's the old, that's the old one.

This is the new one that you already signed this morning.

But off of those, their balance is what I was doing as I went through.

And the ones that they were wanting to release amounted to $2,744,867.30 to release,

leaving us only with $1,038,176,97 to cover our balances.

So I called.

Joanna wasn't there, but I talked to Lacey, Lacey Farmer,

and she was talking to me.

She says, well, what happens is, is they watch our accounts

and the minute we need more money than that million, then they add more to it.

However, I said, well, I don't know that I feel that comfortable.

I said, because we're anywhere from three to six, seven, eight million,

sometimes depending on what time of year it is.

And she said, well, I know, I get it with treasurer's accounts, especially.

They said that they watch this daily.

The thing she was stating is if we release it, then they can use it for other things,

but that they would still have availability when we needed it.

And I said, well, and she said, well, we don't have to release them.

I said, already we're, even with what we have is 3,754,000, whatever.

And that, we're sitting at that most of the time, you know, right around there.

So when we release it, they want us, they'll invest it then, is that what they do?

They would use it for other securities, for other people.

Other agencies?

Other, yeah.

But she said that they would, the funny thing she said is,

we can really, we can add them to your accounts at any time,

but we cannot release them without your signature.

So they have to have our signature to release.

And I said, well, I'm not really all that comfortable with it,

but I would talk to you guys.

And she said, well, we can just leave it as is.

That's not a problem either.

It's not like, because we did release some, was it two years ago when we did the 2 million to STIP?

And I got that.

I understood that because we did kind of take that and invested it over there.

But this is something that we use every day.

I, yeah, I would say if you don't feel like you need to do it, I wouldn't do it.

Yeah.

I just, so I just, Christy kind of mentioned.

So why do they want to take our money?

They're not our money, our security pledged.

So what we're talking about is, you know, anytime you're over the $250,000 in account,

you have to have, so all those CDs listed on the right-hand side there,

those are being pledged as collateral for our accounts that we have in all of our County,

Daniels County.

So every amount that we're over the $250,000 on the left-hand side of that chart.

So what do you got?

Probably eight or nine.

Two million, whatever, over there, right there.

So that's how much money the county has at Independence Banks at that particular time.

So we have to have these pledged securities from other CDs or whatever to cover anything

over the $250,000 because if they went defunct and whatever, those CDs would be cashed in

to cover our accounts so that we did not, we're not at risk.

Why would they go defunct?

Well, banks go under all the time.

Yeah.

Okay.

So.

It's just so they can use that money for other people.

Well, that's what I'm getting at.

Why do they want to use our money for other people?

Well, it's technically not ours.

It's not our money.

You know, I'm all right, okay.

It's just a pledge.

It's a backup.

It's just a backup.

Here's our money.

Here's what they use to cover it if they want to.

Yeah.

So just since she was fine with it, she said, well, we can just leave it.

I said, because, you know, April and May, I'm going to be going back up because we're going

to be collecting taxes again.

She said, well, I was fine.

So I just wanted to update you guys on that so you were aware of it so that I, somebody

says something to you.

To me, I would just leave it as is.

That's what we did.

That's what you're comfortable with.

Yeah.

So these here, I'm just going to file these away because she had them all filled out and

ready to go.

Just need, and I'm like, you know, no, that's.

So they can't do nothing unless you sign.

Unless we sign, they cannot release any, but they can always add more at any given time.

If we go over whatever their pledge security amount.

So say we go because it was like the other day we deposited a $500,000 check.

If we would have went over that amount because of that, then they would have had to add another

thing on here.

So we would have more again.

So anyway, that was.

That was just the update.

You know, we're sending you all that new information.

Hey, it's all banking.

It's all dollars and cents.

I know.

We're just trying to keep you in the loop.

A lot of it.

They'll make sense to me.

Yeah.

Deal with it.

Numbers.

I'm finding my phone.

Oh, anyway.

Okay.

So does anybody else call?

It's very cold in my house.

We're freezing.

Our chairs are on all day.

Well, every time they open the door.

I got to warm up my hands first.

There you go.

There you go.

Warm heart, cold hands.

That's usually for the women, but okay.

Oh, no, it's scary.

It's scary.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It is five o'clock and we are done for the month of February.