All right, it is Monday, August seventeenth, twenty twenty six.
All the commissioners are here and Christy.
And we'll go ahead and call the meeting in order and we're looking over the agenda right now.
Uh I would make a motion to approve the agenda.
I'll say it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Next up are claims.
Yeah, and she's got 'em done.
She's captain's uh um or journal vouchers.
Yeah, and yeah, and all those
Sutter stuff, so um the live one stack got so much stuff on Christy
Yes.
When you find it, if you hand it to me, I'll give it to the chief.
There.
There here.
General Bouchard here.
Treasury security is here.
Oh god, I'm gonna drop the thing on the board because why not?
It's already been that day.
I almost knocked my tea over all of the budget stuff from that.
Yeah, exactly.
That was
Just the white you're scaring me a little and I'm like, oh sorry.
Oh it's Judge Chabalski's one rule.
Don't bring open coffee into the courtroom.
He uh you you probably heard the story about the clerk that was there in this murder trial and she knocked her coffee over.
everything.
They were drawing the jury pool.
So we're gonna need to wow.
Yeah he goes just don't do that and everything's fine.
You're not gonna kill anybody here
Well mine has a lid on it, but it's the other one.
I almost overfill so yeah, I was pouring tea into the one with the ice and it almost overfilled.
Over
Overflow, there we go.
That is the one
I don't know the that I never called because it's kind of problem.
So the only thing that I can think of is probably good
This is it for dream about this.
Well, that's all I've seen so far.
Okay.
Two?
Yeah.
Could you I didn't add them up.
Did they make an air or something all of a sudden?
No.
Okay.
If something's made an error, you know we're in trouble.
What is A10151313?
Do you remember?
That the journal vouchers for they or me this should have been they put it into this one and it should have been this one and that's the A one oh one that I'm correcting.
Okay.
I don't know whether it was me or their template pops up with the 2300 and we didn't catch it.
So I thought I'd fix it so the end of the year was right.
Then I would make a motion to approve the journal vouchers.
Okay.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye
Okay
Well although the buttons we all try to figure out what is
Okay,
Yeah, we are easy to go.
And it was dirty with seven thirty.
Well you're just
Why don't you do that?
Oh I don't know what this is.
Um here's great
That's gonna go.
Did you guys read Logan's new I yeah, I'm going through it right now.
Did you read it?
I see it was on my computer, do you think?
It was interesting there was two of them.
Did you see that?
There was one that came out right away on Monday and then another one that came out on Friday.
Oh yes, I didn't pay attention.
Well, the um PSC agreement.
And I I
ran the numbers and got salaries and overtime for the sheriff's office and last year for dispatch we spent
51,000, almost 51.
5 in overtime.
And in sheriff's office, we spent almost 17,000
in overtime and um so that's a total of seventy thousand dollars in overtime so
My reason for doing that was uh part of this PSC agreement would then address that expense because
You know, it the city's deciding what it's going to pay without top food to us and the sheriff's deciding what their
gonna buy without talking to us.
There's some disconnect there.
So we just need to show them listen, you're you're spending this much.
This is what's coming out of our budget.
Where's that money coming from?
Because it's not
We're not just going to pay what you say.
You know, either the city has to cop up more or they have to spend less.
One of the two
Don't you agree?
Well I think we were talking wasn't the city short if they figured it if he figured it out.
If we had the two full time, yes, they would be.
Um and then them taking out that extra 10 that they were paying and saying, oh that's included in the 140.
So I don't know.
Would you guys do a motion on the treasurer's securities?
I make a motion to approve the treasurer's securities
What do you like?
All in favor?
We have 30 score and G.
Future amount of
Well it's like June disappears in my life for a while and then July's just gone and then July moves by so fast.
Boy it did.
And I don't know where I mean we're in the middle of August already
And I don't even remember July Hartley.
Right.
We don't have to die and that's fun.
Were we?
Oh, I think he was
And when we do the accounting, we're still working on June stuff into August and September trying to get that balanced and everything.
So those two months just kind of slide back.
It's like, oh yeah, they happened
Okay, correspondence.
The Indian Health Service for what is posted here for transaction what's that for whether it's Indian Health Services.
Do they pay taxes for somebody?
I'm not sure what you're looking at.
It's just on this C uh C R you know 3C.
Um it's just the recorder though.
You know what it is is this um I wonder did the health department get something from Indian Health Services?
It's not a large amount of money, it just kind of sits out here
I've mc six hundred and ninety-four dollars.
Oh, I wonder if it's oh huh, don't worry.
Indian help that has to be for something they did, right?
It could be received off they received the money, so
It could be somebody's insurance paying for an ambulance, maybe.
That way the happening
Are you no free new or not?
Um that wouldn't be a fire fighting thing.
I don't know.
Indian health
Oh Hint oh no I guess B I B I B I A.
B I yeah.
Yeah, well in uh
Here, come look at it.
You might it might ring into your head.
I'm confusing her even more so now she if she's like me you have to go with that talk about it.
I don't I just didn't never remember seeing it.
So well I uh what I'm thinking it is off top of my head is we get this stuff from the state and it's all for the schools and it's split out and there's Indians whatever in that
So where are you guys looking at, do you know?
It's uh bottom of of like the third or fourth page.
It's like the very bottom line of one of those pages.
Senior citizens.
Thinking it's on the right hand page.
on one of them.
But it's right at the very bottom.
It's for $6.
94.
Oh, so it's a separate one altogether.
Okay, then that's not what I'm thinking of because
What I'm thinking of would be what comp Ohice of note.
Ambulance bill being paid
Oh, is that the one that Lee was talking?
Yeah, oh yeah, I betcha anything that's what it is.
Yeah.
I just haven't seen it before.
Yeah, it did finally get paid.
But it is on the bottom of one of the pages.
You'll see it as soon as it's plain as Dave.
Plain as Dave?
But it's I don't remember which page it is.
Is it though?
Page five.
Maybe it's further along than where your thumb is there, too.
But yeah, I bet you that's what it is.
Because they did pay on that one.
So Okay.
Yeah.
When you said it was all by itself, that's the one that inspection.
Okay, Humana Medicaid, Humana Zealous.
Yeah, I'm not seeing what you're looking at.
Didn't see it?
Sure I didn't see things.
Right here, okay.
Page page 18.
That's almost one of the questions.
Yeah, and I believe it was on that side of the other.
Um but yeah, that's no ambulance there, so that wasn't good.
Yeah, the first couple of pages.
Okay, thanks guys.
Got a new thing.
Oh, we get a new book.
Got a new book
Well that's for the State Transportation improvement program.
You gotta take a look for that.
I think this one is the same, but it might be different.
Yeah, I don't know why they sent me.
Well I think we got this when we went to the name.
brings it out another virtual pipeline thing for you guys to read.
For correspondence we have a letter from the Department of Environmental Quality Water Planning Bureau.
They have adopted changes to the administrative rules of Montana for House Bill 685 and they refer to four different
um rules.
Doesn't really say much about what it was.
It was just there was a comment period.
Gives you links to read and then um this affidavit of publication, Chris, do you want me to read that too?
Um I'll summon size it.
Okay, because we don't have any place to do our affidavits anymore and we decided to do them on the website under the publications tab, Bridger Pipeline called and asked if they could
put their publication that they need to with it on ours.
And Logan said he didn't see a problem with it beans it's um county related
So that's what I gave you guys to look at.
So and this one just states they've made the three different route options.
The first one would include us, the next two does not.
So Dan S County would be included in Route 1, that routes 2 and 3 date would pop
Good morning.
Good morning.
Well let's hope it's not drops two and three.
I know.
There's one for each of you also.
Um
Mike Thorne brought that in.
He said somebody wanted to see it.
I just thought we should see it.
Okay.
That's fine.
Besides that I don't know
They come to me and I'm like, I'm not even really on that board, so I think somebody else should notify.
No, I think it's copy the same thing.
Oh I think.
More copies of it, evidently
Oh, I thought he well maybe he gave one to me.
Maybe I didn't pay attention.
So
Why do you have that written down from what we used to work?
Why do I have one?
Oh, okay.
Lots of cheese like that can be.
Oh, here we go.
Oh, so I'm going to have a game.
We can look at it.
Which one are you working on now?
The new one?
The $19,000 one?
Yeah.
Because we got initially we got the lights working so they had so they were legal to drive it.
We just didn't have enough time to get up all the way through the bottom of this too.
And of course it goes through that gate, you know, so there's the wiring constantly getting just bound in there.
It uh clipped on solid nowhere, huh?
No, it's inside it's inside like steel framework
Oh so you don't see any wires on the outside?
Okay.
It's all covered up.
So it's a pain in the career to figure out if there's an issue.
Okay.
So that would give her the just not.
It's not the little station here.
And I would have put it for the camera.
Okay, so and I'm original that you bag.
You looking forward to school starting, slowing things up a bit in the library?
No one picks up.
Really?
We have our own after school program that kicks up.
We have a few weeks that we're not starting till after Labor Day.
Kids last year we didn't have much for activities.
Kids are too busy outside yet, so yeah, let the kids play.
Yeah.
Story hours will be better after school starts.
We have older kids that come with their younger siblings.
It throws the whole dynamics off with the older kids in that sea
They tend to take over.
I don't know if you're probably burns or like that car.
We all have to come to have the house.
At least they're not expensive items that they're requesting.
I haven't even gotten a therefore.
Well, I'm sure it's not very good either.
Oh yeah.
We'll talk about it later against on that.
Alrighty.
These are July's cleared warrants.
Yeah.
It's July's report.
Gotcha.
It's like all of our reports we give you are the month.
Yeah.
That's where I said it starts to get confusing when you're skipping a month and you're like, oh crap, what are we in four years?
I'm with you now.
Alright, it's 9 30.
Harlene Cately from the library is here to give us some great news.
Or not so great news.
You're gonna love this guy.
So we're good.
love it when you wait so long.
Just dry over here when it was over there.
So we encountered leaky drain lines from our rooftop air conditioners.
It soaked three of our ceiling piles.
Two of our ceiling piles, which we had three in stock, so those were replaced in.
no cost.
Um this is the bill that Max charged us for replacing the lines, the ones that were broken.
This is what was left in the ceiling.
That was draining the water out.
So apparently these are not the right grade of pipe to put in this panel.
No, that's the wrong schedule pipe.
Yeah.
What we replaced it with is this.
schedule forty.
Mm-hmm.
So the rest of the building is still have these pipes in it.
The bid that he gave us there's three copies there.
Um
is to replace the other for the other units before anything happens.
So that's what we're asking if we get that done.
We do have about a seven or a four.
I don't know, I just copied what he wrote.
Okay.
Um
We do have a big section of inner insulation missing that was soaked in the ceiling that he pulled out about a 15-foot long section from the outside ball back to where it was leaking that was ruined
And we would want to get that replaced before wintertime or we're gonna have ice issues on the roof.
And that won't be good either because there's no insulation between that and the top of the building.
So and
I didn't measure it before they ripped it out because it was all dripping water, but it was all this so and that's what took a lot of the water before we saw it.
Yeah, I'm afraid so.
So reliable is the one that installed those units.
I'm guessing.
Hello?
I'm sure they are.
Yeah.
Um, so it was when Val's there.
Because there was no air conditioning in the slider prior to that.
How long have you been there?
Two plus.
Yeah.
So they yeah four or five years ago at least.
Yeah, probably a little bit longer, but yeah, they're the ones that did it when they put those.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
You you're needing to bring this to your board too though.
They've already seen it.
Okay.
Yep.
And they wanted to do get it done.
Th well they want we don't want any more damage because of it, yeah.
The air conditioner probably won't run much more this year.
But it's still gonna drain.
It's still gonna drain and we're still gonna need that insulation replaced.
I think Christy has a really good point though.
I mean if they put in the wrong scheduled pipe, they should fix that
Unless they just went into something that was already there too.
You don't know that.
There wasn't air conditioners before.
So there shouldn't have been any water lines everything in the ceiling.
Well they'll be for heat if there's a if there's a heater on top too.
We have all electric heat.
Wonder if you shouldn't make a call to 'em.
I have an invoice for them from two years ago when they came.
to look at the air conditioners and they've yet to respond to that.
I've emailed it twice and mailed it to them twice and they've never signed it and returned it for payment.
I don't know if they're gonna show back up
But that might be a good idea.
Maybe they decided we can say the ones that installed it they didn't need to charge us again for something that they did
Um, that's possible, but they should have re returned it.
Anyway, um I can contact them.
I don't think their work is all that reliable.
And I I
No pun intended.
No.
No, they've done some work at my house.
They did a great job at my house.
So I don't know.
They told me that my gas line coming into the house
was too small at three quarter inch and I should go up to an inch for my gas line coming into my heater.
They said the hospital doesn't even have that big of a supply line.
So that's not necessary.
So I don't know.
So
Throw that at you guys, see if we can get I don't know, is it do I need to get a contractor to replace that insulation on the ceiling or these guys can he'll do it easily for me just roll a roll out back up in there and
Face or not faced insulation.
I think it was faced.
Paper on one side?
Brown on one side.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, then that's face.
Okay.
I would say you better get it done.
Winter is coming.
Yeah, at least the insulation part, so
Do I have your okay to go ahead and get that?
Yeah, they're gonna f yeah I I would get it before they put the insulation back up, get the schedule forty put in there
Can you try to have all of them today?
Max are reliable.
I'll try
Let us know when you find out.
Okay.
Alrighty.
Maybe we'll always cover the
Alrighty, I'll take care of that then.
Right, um I don't know if I kept the copy of that for me.
Thank you.
Sorry
Alright, that's all I need for you guys today.
Have a great day.
Alright.
See ya
Oh and Christy, I'm glad I didn't take the UPS.
They got you packed up in the hallway and in the room.
We're in the hallway now?
Yeah.
In the entryway.
Oh, people just don't bring them all the way in as the bathroom.
I don't have room for that many boxes.
Yeah, no.
See uh
Well you can open 'em.
They haven't I don't think picked them up since Wednesday or maybe Thursday morning, but those have been sitting there since they forgot on Friday.
We usually move the ones out of the hallway.
And we are not sure.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So we try to five down.
And over 5,000 would be 9104.
But apparently they changed all of that and
So we have it for
That's this one.
So that's um that's the
I'll make a motion pay appeals.
I would second that.
All in favor?
Aye.
Now, with this particular decoration
So this particular decoration is actually for the windstorms and the straight line winds from December 17th and the 18th.
Primarily the way that these decorations happen
is that we come out, do a damage assessment.
We're not FEMA.
We're separate of FEMA.
This particular one we are attached to FEMA.
So I want to make sure
As far as commission the county is aware of that.
Okay, that we're two different entities.
FEMA.
You can look at FEMA comes in when there's physical damage
And they're like the band-aid, but we're the ones that come into the surgery.
We are the long-term disaster recovery relief.
the number one provider of that type of relief in the United States.
We are actually funded by the Department of Treasury, not by Congress.
So when we come out, it's to make sure to be able to assess the situation, be able to make these presentations, and do a warm pass-off.
In addition to that, to make sure that you guys are aware that the Small Business Administration actually has a totally
Different departments.
So no, we're not here to help people start businesses.
At least I'm not.
And if you see me that that that doesn't necessarily mean it's good to With this particular decoration, the primary physical damage occurred in f uh
Fort Peck, basically the the reservation.
Of course, with that part there are parts of different counties that are
overlapping and then there are what we call continuous whichever is closest.
Your particular county falls into the contiguous
So let me start there.
Okay.
With contiguous counties, the type of assistance that is available is economic injury disaster loans.
These are because just because the physical damage happened one place does not mean that it didn't happen, that it did not affect businesses downline.
basically logistically looking at if someone's doing business with an affected area, that affected area is no longer able to gain resources and fulfill contracts with others
Then that means that everybody down the line has been affected.
The economic injury disaster homes, these are up to $2 million
This includes everything from operational costs for leases, rents, even equipment.
uh as far as operational costs and also not only that but also includes um salaries and as far as making sure that the employees can be played as well can be paid as well.
The reason for this is
Just as I did mention, just because one place got impacted, you may have employees that were impacted and are unable to come to work.
So you're able to the these businesses are able to stay afloat.
Our whole concern is making sure that money stays in the community and keeps turning because
Small businesses are what makes things happen.
In addition to that, the economic injury disaster loans are also available to be able to utilized by nonprofits
And also from faith-based organizations.
You guys are very resilient.
I live in Texas, so I understand about the resiliency.
But there's also another thing of suffering and silence and people robbing Peter to pay Paul.
So I always say, hey, if you're gonna rob Peter to pay Paul, call, give us a call.
Our economic injury disaster loans, or primarily our funds, actually end up going to those that are underinsured.
uninsured and cannot get credit any place else.
So let's say a farmer.
They're up to the tilt, they can't do anything.
They can't go to the USDA to get a loan.
They can't, you know, they're they're leveraged out.
They can still contact us and we will look at a way in which being able to assist them.
I've seen loans as low as $34
I mean every situation's different.
But it's I've seen loans as low as $34.
Our entire goal is to make sure that we get people back to hold to be able to survive whatever just occurred.
Now with economic injury disaster loans, it is 0% interest, 0 payments, no prepayment penalty for the first 12 months.
So it allows them to get through an entire cycle and be able to utilize it.
Once again, I keep coming back to farmers
They need to buy a new seed.
Or what for whatever occurred, let's just say seed.
Well, that's part of operational costs and expenses as far as what they're going through.
And so if they have been been impacted
And they're unable to make sure that they can move forward, and it's within this time period of our assistance, then they can apply and be able to receive assistance in that way as well
So unfortunately, I hate to say it, but I know that there's gonna be more because I know there's been droughts out here as well.
So the main thing is for us to get in front of you
Yeah, physically in front of you to let you know that SBA is here, Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience, to be able to assist in any way that we possibly can in rural communities.
So anybody with questions on it, they can just reach out to you.
They can and the easiest thing is to reach out to me and then then I can get an idea of where exactly
And so I will be here, okay, so they told me I'll be here until the 9th of September in the area.
Okay.
Um I just we're I just recently came from uh I got the floor here from Lewiston, Idaho
So thank God all you guys are I'm just gonna say no no fires and all the streets are straight.
Coming around a bed like it's at 70 and be like, wait a minute, what's going on on the other side?
But I mean if you have any questions, the main thing with us is I believe you I'm I come from a family that used to have a homestead, you know, my grandparents used to have a couple acres
you know, in rural Washington and so I understand, you know, it's like, hey, well I don't need any help or I don't you uh you as the uh
elected officials, you hear it more than we would ever hear it.
Because sometimes it's tongue deaf and it's just like
Oh, they're FEMA.
We're not FEMA.
We are not FEMA.
But we're here to make sure that, you know, that this is the crutch that's needed.
Yes let's get you off the crutch and at least put a you know put a uh get you off the crutches and at least put a uh
Put you in a swing or at least in a in a cast so that you can still get out there and be able to move around and work.
So you guys have any questions for me
Mm, not right now, I guess.
Good to know though.
And it's not just this, and that's the reason why I did when I did uh email
Who did I email?
Are you going to be able to do it?
No, you emailed us.
She's emailed.
Okay.
So what I sent her, I sent her a whole bunch of documents.
Yeah, I gave them
That's the commissioners will so I handle it to them.
So as you're taking your time and looking through that, uh when you're downtime when you're really bored.
as the Secretary of Agriculture to kind of explain what those particular loans are about.
That's going to be primarily going to be things that are issue.
You won't see us come physically come out
But those are going to be things that whenever you hear, um whenever you hear about the droughts, uh the rain
If there's not a lot of physical damage, but it's affecting subsistence in farmers, then you'll get a Secretary of Agriculture declaration.
So it still falls under the same everything that I'm but that I've sent and that what I've presented thus far
Can I get a card as well, please?
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you.
You're very welcome.
Okay, so now this is just off the cuff.
How close is Kevin?
Are you serious?
I can't go 'cause I got the government uh uh phone with me.
I just just just a second, just to say that I've been into c you know went to another country today.
Um like I said, if you guys have any any issues or any any uh questions, I just got here
Tuesday so I could get briefed.
We're working out of uh Wolf Point.
There is an actual center there that's set up by FEMA
If any of your constituents want to be able to come in and physically talk to someone, they are physically there.
They will be there until August 31st as well.
I just got told about this commissioner meeting on Friday.
So that's where Ami stopped.
And so I'm here.
Yes ma'am.
Yes ma'am.
Ami was uh nearer Huntsville.
So what I will be doing is making another trip out here.
To be able to visit the post office and some of the businesses around here to let them know that there are opportunities available to them.
Um, I'm one of those guys that go to the end of the line and work my way back.
So, not saying you guys are in the line, but you know what I mean.
So uh that way I'm able to hit and be more effective uh with my outreach as opposed to
Just go and go.
So it was a pleasure to meet you guys.
Now I guess at the front desk I can get everybody's card.
Um, I don't have a card.
You don't have a card?
No.
I've not opened up the other card yet.
We got one for our office, but not included in the other card.
You do what I have a part of.
Thank you, ma'am.
No, I'm just the traveler.
You're just the traveler?
Yeah.
I got you.
I got you.
I guess uh the agenda I can get from a copy of the agenda.
You want a copy of this?
Yes.
So like I said, if you guys have any questions, uh any concerns, anything.
I don't care you please don't take this the wrong way.
But the dumb question is the question I'd ask.
So if it's anything, just call me man, you know, so I was talking to such and such cause there's a lot of ear hustling that goes on.
Ear hustling.
So I might have to steal that one.
You know, where people are not just forthcoming about what they're going through until you're like, What happened to your business?
or what you know, what happened to like oh well I had this, I tried to do this, I tried to do that.
Well why didn't you
come to us.
That's why we're here.
That's why you elected us.
That type of thing.
So now I guess I'll hit that.
Alright.
Thanks for stopping.
We say make sure that uh I'm not going 85 on the way back when I wave at the truth.
We waved everyone through the car, he was like
But nobody had the time, so I slowed down.
I was like, you were sitting right there.
He looked at it's like wait my way I wait kind of with an apprehensive like wait
I know I saw you specul.
Exactly, exactly.
He was too slow to go.
It's too slow.
Alright, well you guys have a blessed day.
Yeah.
Um when I do come back I will be stopping and say, hey, if anybody's here, just to let 'em know I'm in the air.
Thank you.
Thank you.
She doesn't request that.
Travel carefully.
Thank you, Matt.
Oh, you're not going to be able to do that.
Yes.
Come on in.
Hello.
Hello.
Hi, I'm Shelly.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
And how does he know you?
Now I know.
Yes.
This is Rich's name.
Yeah.
He's kinda on me.
Yeah, I know that.
He's getting raked over the coal.
Yeah.
And just this is my resume just so you have an idea.
I probably took some of those distance education classes.
Oh, did you?
As she would look now on, it wasn't hard.
But there was something
Your last name makes things confusing sometimes.
Like your weight consultant, I'm like, yeah, no.
Yeah.
Not even for how much you weigh.
Yeah.
Anyway, uh so I go to the um
Oh goodness.
Yeah, you don't have to.
You've been a busy person.
Yeah.
So we'll say that's what I probably talked about for everyone.
That's where we say actually.
Uh okay, very nice.
Okay.
Um that's the fire or
Major questions.
You well, not necessarily about the job, but
Did we post this online?
We did.
Okay, good.
Perfect.
Good.
Yeah.
Did you see it on our website?
I didn't go into the website.
No, but I knew that it was posted.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
And no one else is applied, I'm necessarily nobody's even called us.
I don't know if anybody even reads I think people do.
As much as
They should.
Or they're gonna have to start.
Yeah.
Unfortunately.
Yeah.
You mean the website?
Yeah, 'cause there's no paper to post anything in anymore.
So What if I don't want to be informed so much?
Then you don't need to.
There you go.
Right.
Uh-huh.
And so we're not quite sure how to
structure it I guess as as much?
Do you have ideas about how like compensation and well what I what I usually charge is I
I I work with schools and other nonprofits and everything, and I usually put a contract together with them.
I estimate how long it'll take me to write that grant.
So they have a baseline idea what that'll cost.
And I I go with $50 an hour, but if they don't get the grant or we don't get the grant, then it's $25.
I cut it in half.
But that's because I'm usually working with agencies that don't have a lot of money and so and plus that Well here we are.
Yeah, right.
Yeah.
Plus that puts them
at ease knowing I'm doing my very best job because if I don't get it then I get half of the money too.
So can you um
Have you I guess how much do you think a government um type grant would differ from nonprofit much sure as far as the time to do it?
That and just the
complexity of it?
Well the government agencies are usually uh it depends on what you're going for.
You know, I mean there'll be
Let's say um community development grants and things like that can only be written by governmental agencies.
And so there'll be schools that'll say we want a new roof.
Well it's hard to find funding for education facilities.
But sometimes it's easy, easier for governmental agencies depending on what they're putting the roof on.
If they're putting it on a firehouse or a police department or something like that, there's some funding that's just
for that specifically, just for fire departments or just for your wildline wildland fire management or something like that
So if we want a new new front for our coathouse, that wouldn't be much of a problem to look for one
Well, it wouldn't be easy, but that's what I usually do.
I meet with the agency.
What are you looking for?
What are your expectations?
Do you have joint
any kind of matching funding because sometimes they want to match.
Sometimes it's anywhere from 10% to 50%.
It just depends.
So if
If they say we only have 10% match, then when I'm looking for grants, I can't do anything with a 50-50.
Although sometimes you can
Stretch that with in kind so I can use the wages of your employees as an in-kind match a lot of times if they do some of the work.
So are you like is there like
Yes, yeah.
Um in fact I have one with the federal government, so I have those, but
Even though it's a subscription, what it is is it's a password to get in there, and then it is 100 pages of grants that you go through.
And but you can narrow it down, you know, like this is for education.
This is for infrastructure and start narrowing it down that way.
The I will let you know that federal grants
take a lot more um writing and your oversight of those federal that do you have a grant
So in this position, then is the writer also responsible for managing the grant?
Because that's a big piece of it too.
Would be nice for you, wouldn't it, to have somebody help do that?
What do you mean by manage?
All the reporting.
You have to send them reporting and they will have so
What I have done with some agencies is I will do the reporting, but let's say this the city of Foresight, for example, I work with the city director
And she manages the money and everything in there but and gives me that report, but I put it into the report that goes plus all the wordy word what happened and who completed what
So you can just do that.
Yeah, I'd like to hit that.
I would think that would be um really nice plus to
Yeah.
So then that would be part of the contracted hours too, then would be management and oversight.
And then a lot of times, so there was like for example one agency at tourism
grant that was written and um I was going to be responsible for getting all uh working with fish, wildlife and parks and all the agencies getting the
Uh easements and things.
They were doing walking trails and stuff and so Wow, that's a big job.
It was.
They didn't get that grant.
So because Yeah.
Well, and one of the reasons they did
that they said was um we didn't prove that enough jobs were going to be created.
They wanted job creation.
Well we couldn't say how many people were gonna use it and what jobs would be tied to that so it was
Yeah, you have to watch.
And a lot of times the hard thing with grant writing is they won't give you the criteria of how they're going to score it until after they score it.
But that's more state.
Uh federal always gives you the list.
of what their scoring criteria is.
So that's very helpful because then I write to that criteria.
And there's a lot of times I've worked with agencies and said, okay, they are going to require
that you do this, this, and this, and they'll just say we don't have the personnel to do that, so we can't do that grant.
And so that's good to know.
So what are you expecting from from us should we decide to go forward?
Does that sound like a good interview question?
Yeah.
Um well
One of the things that um Mike had said, and I didn't I should have looked on the website, but he said that benefits might be a part of the package and if the benefit
packages that would make me even more yeah, it would make me an employee.
And so then the expectations from you is that I would need to know how often do you need me here
a at the office and meeting with you all and you know, I don't know about you guys, but I would think it'd be remote and
here as needed just to kind of follow up or give us I mean even then you could do zoom and don't you think well yeah we can zoom ninety percent of the time
Thank I mean on address unless you're doing research for the grant or whatever.
That's the way we decide to go.
I think that then Most of it's gonna be informational anyway and not.
But then it becomes how do we structure the pay
Any ideas?
I just think personally in my opinion we don't have enough business that we should make this an employee job.
It should be a contracted out situation.
If if she com if we have a project that we need working on, then we contact her and and go forth because to keep her quote as an employee with benefits it's gonna take at least
halftime or more.
I don't know what kind of benefit she was thinking that she would be getting.
Is it the health insurance that you're wanting?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that would require you to be a full-time employee.
Yeah
Yeah.
And then what are we gonna have her do?
I mean technically we can't we can't keep her busy full time.
And that was the question, do you get grants sent to to you?
Like these are available to counties?
Every once in a while, a rare one.
Um most times you gotta seek seeking you know like I can't remember who sent us some recently.
But um like I just did one for the ambulance and I would have much rather have given it to you.
Um but it came from the Montana Department of Transportation emails, right?
And um doubt we'll get it.
We're too small, but um I'd try.
Um but um maybe it's something that
we take on a contract basis to start with and is if at some point it grows.
Yeah.
Or maybe the city wants to join in on it or you know something like that.
But yeah, I I think
the insurance to us is about it's over eighteen hundred dollars a month costs.
So even if you were half time that that's a chunk of payroll right to pay your half.
Right.
So
Yeah.
I mean people have done it before.
Well we do it right now for other people.
Right, and we do it just if they can afford it.
Well I can understand that.
I mean if you don't have a list of of grants and everything that Well we haven't had a grant writer so we
Yeah, and and honestly we don't even have a uh what do they call it capital improvement plan.
Oh right.
So we don't even know what we don't know.
Right.
Right.
Um and um trying to get a grant for that's been impossible.
So
I decided to try to try to tackle it.
Um and you know, I don't know.
Yeah.
And then
There's people through the Department of Commerce that'll help refine it and then from there it might be very clear what we need and right, right.
Yeah.
Well and with the grants sometimes things that come with that uh since you don't have a plan
is surveys and other things you have to do because a lot of times you have to have public input and everything and so
If I'm hired to do that, that might be my responsibility to come and get the survey, you know, hold a meeting or whatever, get the information that you need to write the grant.
What do you think they're chief?
Something new again
Well part of part of it is we haven't had a grant writer, so we're all new to this as well.
It's not saying that we don't need them and no, I I think
It's like everything else if you have somebody looking daily something is gonna turn up that will be beneficial to us
I could send you a list of things that we talked about.
Um that are like big picture plans.
Uh-huh.
And then
Maybe kind of from there we can move forward, I guess.
Yeah.
Well, and that's if so if we go with the contracting, which is fine
Um, that's all you have to do is tell me like we want a new front for the courthouse or Yeah, I mean things come up
We discuss things that need to be done.
How do we go about it?
Yeah.
I mean and so then what I would do is I'd start the search
for possibilities I'd send you this grant is a potential, this grant is a potential, it would cost about this much to do this one, this much to do that one, and then you all would decide
Is it worth it?
Should we?
Should we not?
Talk about equipment, you know I mean we're sitting looking at a garbage truck down the road
Mm-hmm.
Is there anything like that out there about?
I mean w I don't know about that because no one has ever asked me to look for that.
I know that like I said
Fire trucks and police cruisers.
I know there's different money pockets for that, but I don't know about garbage trucks.
I mean there might be.
I mean for some reason there's so much regulation on moving garbage.
I know.
We've really been struggling with that in this county.
Yeah
And that I mean we get a we had a garbage truck go down and you don't know what we hear about.
Right, right, yeah, yeah.
Our landfills are so full out and Peerless and Flaxville and
Yeah.
So I was just curious if we could everybody says we need a brand new one.
Yeah, well we can I can just wonder something like that
Yeah, I could look and see if there's anything.
Do we need the actual garbage garbage truck or the actual hook truck to hook the whole thing?
I mean if if if that stuff's available, I mean it wouldn't
Well and sometimes uh I'll ask so for example, Jordan wanted a new roof on one of the buildings in their school.
And of course there was nothing
Just for that, but I asked would you be interested in putting solar panels on it because if they would switch some to solar energy
They decided not to do it.
They didn't want to do it that way and went for a loan instead.
But sometimes you have that like maybe you need an a a hybrid garbage truck that's going to save the
environment so then you can get funding for that.
Well that's something that I guess we can learn.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
We're but if you're gonna I mean if you're gonna spend
20-30 hours a week at some times.
That's dangerous full time anyway.
At times, but
I just don't know, we haven't been down this road.
Well, maybe like someone said, you start contracting.
And then if it gets to be where I'm having to come up here a lot or I'm spending a lot of hours, then we could renegotiate after that.
Find yourself a grant to pay yourself.
Yeah.
We had some success.
We'd would like to see it a little more intense.
Okay.
So if you
So our structure evaluation that we had done, is that something that would be a good thing to like have her look
Yeah, absolutely.
And so this is a National Historic Building as well.
So that will open some doors for you.
Yes.
Yes.
I'll send that structural evaluation to you.
Um what they basically said is lift um this corner of the basement and replace the
balcony out front, which really is kind of the whole porch really.
And you know, might as well go for roof and windows.
Well we need it.
We need it.
We're not too far away from needing a road.
Well actually we need weatherization.
Um so yeah, I can send that to you.
It's on my list.
I've got a few things on here.
It'll at least give you some
things to look for.
And I'll send you I think I can get into that grant they just sent us for two three pieces of equipment for our ambulance.
Okay.
And uh holy cow is that expensive stuff.
Mm-hmm
Yeah.
So um I'll send you that as well.
Okay.
Um because I would think ambulance equipment would be something that is probably a little easier to find.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah
Yeah, I'm excited.
This is great.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Um really appreciate you even being willing to do this.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Well I know the cities mentioned they would like somebody too.
Whether we can make this
Not overbearing for Yeah coming.
Well I would make a motion to um approve
Michelle Wright Waite as a I was writer uh uh grant writer on contract for now with consideration of um employment at a later date
So we'll have to get a don't mean interrupt your motion, but we're gonna have to get an MOU and then uh
Well she go all the time.
I would do a contract each time.
I do the contract, yeah.
I'll special back.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Yay.
Okay.
Well perfect.
And you have my email there, so just send me your information and then
I'll send back what I find and contracts.
First I do an informal email.
This is what I found.
And then if you say yes, go for it, then I send a contract.
Okay.
Perfect.
All right.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Yes.
It was nice meeting all of you.
I hope you have something fun before you have to h take off.
Oh no.
Well actually I did the fun before.
We went to the theater with
Mike gun Saturday, so yeah.
Alright, we'll see you later.
Do you have the DocuSign thing for Logan?
Or do I Docu sign?
Yeah, for this student loan.
Oh I don't.
Okay.
know if I have access to that email.
The old one.
I moved it to mine.
Oh did you?
Yeah, perfect.
Good, I'm glad.
I'm glad somebody had yeah, because somebody was asking about it and I'm like
I don't have it.
So then I found it in the old one.
Yeah.
Need to update records to it.
Okay, yeah.
So what are you doing?
Did you see yes?
I didn't hear you.
I have to say.
Why?
Relative.
Can we ask her?
Well, yeah, whether she believes it or not.
Yeah, she's over that.
I was wondering about that.
It's like the great candy.
So this is the this is the uh public service loan forgiveness uh docnet um logan
Olsen has requested us to sign for his student loan, saying that he is a full-time county employee.
And asking us to once again prove that.
I would make a motion to approve.
I'll second it.
All in favor.
Aye.
Make more money and we gotta continue helping.
That's what we're all about.
Well if you read it it isn't as bad I mean it it he still has to pay it for 20 years.
Yeah and then after that so it's not like he's not paying at all on it
Cause I had to check it out one day too.
Okay, so that's take care of the next was back to the middle lane short
No kidding.
I am going to start calling you George.
I woman.
George!
How's named after my spot in here for the colour?
My wife's brother George Michael.
Hey, sounds good.
No questions.
Oh my gosh, you're hilarious.
Am I that far off on my clock or you guys just haven't got a little bit of a little bit of a little bit more?
No, it's a couple minutes.
We gotta take care of her though.
Great.
Thank you guys.
And uh I'll be back next year for it.
Okay.
Wait, it feels like it happens every six months
Yeah, it does kinda yeah.
Well it's already uh we had a horrible time the last go around, remember the government was shut down and it wasn't taking it and we had to keep doing it like it's not getting any better.
They keep messing with all of the student loan stuff.
Uh and uh any
time I the website is down 70% of the time I try and access it.
Um you can never get a person on the phone.
It's just it's just a nightmare.
And I did get a person and then they
robbing me somewhere else and I didn't.
Yeah, that was a nightmare the last one.
Send your payment, make sure it's right, but you have to guess that it's right, just like your taxes.
And then we'll tell you if you're when you're And then if you're wrong, we won't just tell you you're wrong and get in trouble for being wrong with that.
There's a code that just got sent to that older email.
That's what it did on my end too.
Then we can maybe um get into this easier.
All right, so originally
He he's got an amendment here, and the first amendment is part three about the budget, and his initial one says
City and County have made an equitable payment agreement to provide law enforcement services through the Department of Public Safety
For fiscal year twenty seven, city shall pay one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
Money paid by city to county for the PSC shall be used solely and exclusively by the PSC and dispatch as the director deems fit and the director's decision.
Sheriff, remember, and upon the approval of the county, the county shall contribute that amount requested and approved by the director through the regular budgetary process of the county.
Any public safety mill levy funds shall be used solely and exclusively
exclusively for the benefit of the PSC and dispatch upon recommendation of the Director and final approval of the Commissioners.
The parties agree that the city and county will meet as necessary to discuss
And propose budgets which will effectively and equitably support the Department of Public Safety for future years
I bet you're waiting on me or just that I don't need timeout.
What is that?
Five two eight seven six seven.
Eight seven what?
Six seven.
See if we got lucky password for that, yeah.
We have a password for that?
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Okay, so what I wrote instead because I had a problem with the county shall provide
I wrote, I changed the for fiscal year 2027, city has budgeted to pay the 140.
And then I crossed out the county shall contribute that amount requested and approved by the director, because it feels like we have no choice.
And I wrote through the budgeting process, the director will agree to follow the budgeted amount.
Afforded as calculated through the Commissioner's Office.
The reasonable and prudent purchasing decisions shall be the directors within the amount available and within confines of the funds available to include overtime expenses, new hire training expenses.
expenses, payroll, equipment for dis dispatches, etc.
You good with that?
Yeah.
And then where it said that um we'll meet with the city and county as necessary, I put at least annually to discuss the proposed budget.
So that's Which is about all we've done anyway.
Which we haven't really actually met with the city on it, really.
Well, he he was in here when we asked him this last time.
Yeah, and he told us what I know.
And at the end of um that I added the sources of income include the city's contribution, some portion of the nine one one fund
General funds and the mill levy fund.
And that's fund twenty three hundred, is that correct, Christy?
And then the sources of the income is the mill levy one, right?
Yeah.
Yes.
For the sh uh sheriff's office.
So then the next one talks about termination, um part five
And it says that the Public Safety Commission um will have the power to perform duties conferred.
Okay.
The public safety commission shall have jurisdiction to here try and decide cases involving discharge or termination of employment and hiring decisions shall be made by
the county based on the recommendation of the sheriff.
I added to that termination proceedings shall have the oversight of the county attorney to mitigate liability.
I think so.
Unless you got any questions.
Part nine said.
Nope.
That's something we already talked about.
we'll meet from time to time to take in recommendations and I said at least annually.
Then there's part twelve said the um sheriff or his designee shall make good faith effort to meet
And I crossed that out and I just wrote, shall meet with the county commissioners.
And that's all I have.
You good with that?
I'm gonna Yeah, I
Initially I'm good with it, sure.
Do you want me to print it out?
And and I think this is just uh you want to use?
Yep.
It's basically a negotiation of that's the word plan.
Oh, that's different.
Is that what he is what he's coming up with?
No, this is um
This I'll print it out so you can see it.
We're gonna print out a better
I do better work plan.
Oh, I don't know about the work plan.
I've never seen that.
We discussed the other day.
He was gonna make a a better work plan, so
Something more with a conflict?
That was nothing getting accomplished.
No.
And he's gonna make a better work plan in fact.
But really they aren't following this work plan.
No, that's so true.
That was what our problem with the whole thing was, is it's just nobody's living up with it.
No, I don't know.
I yeah, it's expectations of what's right.
So why would you hear ML?
I took that off.
Perfect.
That'll be in that mess somewhere.
And I have to scratch off this.
Because virtually.
So this is what she I did.
Just waste them.
Agreement.
Really?
Reprinter.
Yeah.
That's what she's doing.
Yeah.
So I sent an email to Chad Seeley.
He's the guy who does our testing, asking him about doing everybody else.
Sure.
He sent some sample um not to adopt a policy and all that.
So he sent the sample policy.
Then I did ask him also if um
Everybody would have to be tested to start off this procedure?
He said no.
Okay.
He said I um would suggest you do not do that, but anyone you hire, he would test.
Okay.
So we have to make an amendment to our written policy for the case.
Right, right.
But I mean if we decide to Yeah, basically what happened is we had um elected to not include the elected officials.
in our policy manual and when I went to Mako they said no you have to include everyone or just the CDLs.
So if you want everyone to be included it has to be the elected officials as well.
Well, I think new hires and CDLs is all about all we need, isn't it?
Well we don't we don't have
a choice.
I I mean you it's everybody or just the CBOs.
So that's what this is.
Why not everybody?
Yeah, I don't know.
So basically from what I'm understanding if we adopt a policy, all of our names
We're not going to get drug tested, but all of our names will go into the pool to be randomly.
And then the new people as they come on board will do the will do the pre-employment drug test.
And then they'll name will get thrown in there also.
So I guess I I mean, is this gonna be for all sixty people in the sub you know, including our summertime people or the forty eight that we just do for the regular people?
Or are we just gonna what are we gonna do there?
Well I think we should just do it for regular people, the regular full time employees.
I think it has to be everybody, according to what Mako said.
It's everybody or just CDL people?
I mean, part-time or not.
I mean, because a part-time person, even if they only worked for an hour and drove a truck into the ditch.
get or drove you know drove a lot more over somebody's foot you know they still need to be drug tested hopefully we're not irony
I guess there's probably people who Well and then of course if people you know if you find out, hey, okay, we're going to start randomly draw or gonna start doing randoms or do the pre deployment, there may be people
that would be like I'm not going to apply because I do pot on the weekends or I whatever at night or whatever, you know.
At lunchtime.
Yeah breakfast.
But they're sort of game when they come to work, right?
Well that's what I'm saying.
I mean that's it.
But it'll still show up in their system.
Yeah.
So I I could I could Well you don't even have to do it.
You just have if you're around it, it's gonna get absorbed onto your stand.
Oh really?
And that shows up, huh?
So um if you know a record
operational user and I and I do it on the weekend, which I do not do.
Right?
I do not do pointing the finger at you.
No, no, I just want to make sure there's a talking about Sally Sue.
Yeah.
Sally Sue does it on the weekend and then she gets randomly tested on Wednesday or Tuesday, it's gonna show up under drug test.
But So that's where now with the marijuana we're running into a little bit more the average employee would be fine.
The CDLs, boy, then you're in trouble.
Don't you discuss this or not?
I mean is it just if you're if you're tested positive, do you visit that case with right here?
So yeah.
What if the protocol's talked about right there, right?
They I haven't read them, so I honestly don't know.
Your CDLs, you're in big trouble if you test.
But the average person wouldn't be
I don't think.
But what I'm getting at is I mean I'm I guess I'm just learning.
You can not use it
And then be tested for it?
But but it's not like you're gonna automatically lose your job if that's the case.
They're gonna go.
Right.
I mean so
Why not test everyone?
But I'm not so sure.
Or you were around it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean that's there's just those weird circumstances.
The legalized marijuana.
Which makes you things interesting.
How you hang around.
Yeah, you're out on the tractor and you're smoking or eating a car.
No, no.
Can I explain?
No.
No, you can't.
Dirty doll you're doing.
Yes, you can explain.
It says Well that's what I'm getting at, so why not have everyone tested?
It says here you just need to have a
Reasonable medical explanation.
Oh, medical?
Well, you don't even need medical, so that'll have to be re-evaluated.
So let's read this: a normal person does not fail a drug test just by being in the same room as people smoking weed.
Second-hand smoke, rare.
cause it a positive result unless you sit in a tiny closed room with heavy smoke for hours.
I don't believe that 'cause it gets in your hair.
All it has to do is get on your hair follicles and it'll test positive.
But they don't take test tiers.
Well I don't know, they might.
They don't think they're just P test, but I think it is just a P test.
Yeah.
I think there just has to be something in any policy that we choose to adopt that has to address the fact that And I bet it's in there.
Not if you're you know if you're well the medical thing, but that's not even the thing anymore.
Because now it's legal forever.
Yeah, the passing test negative.
One in which no impermissible levels of alcohol are
And or controlled substances have been detached or yeah, detached or one in which the MRO has found a reasonable medical explanation of the detection of it or of alcohol or
I guess you should go in when you go to test and you could say, well, I need to write on here that I had a party this weekend and I smoked some weed or something
I don't know.
I don't mean.
That's a hard one with that one.
We're finding that in the banking system too.
It's illegal.
But yet every place that has policies say it's not legal.
So really who is who's really whose rights are right and whose are not right
It's questionable.
Right.
Yes.
I think during work time.
I see the L no matter what.
That's clear across
Every every spectrum.
If you get caught in any CDL situation, you're probably gonna lose it.
No matter what.
I mean, so in other words
Always can't go to the bar if you like you gotta see the elevations.
You go to the bar and that's all or well, I guess you don't smoke in the world.
But you can sm a lot of people smoke right on your way in.
You have to walk through it.
No just weird things can happen.
So this talks about whether you're currently impaired or if it was just a present in your test, right?
So especially because it's legal.
So you can legal
smoke it, but if you're not impaired currently, it's not an issue, right?
And I think that's the call that we would have to make some how do you make that call though?
I mean I honestly
It's gotta be in there.
It better be it's been a long time since I've been around I think that there's people like locally is when a truck got tipped over, then he was tested again.
needed yeah and then boom it was done.
And there there's reasonable suspicion too that they train train county supervisors and local law enforcement which I'm sure the the law is to spot active
Physical signs of impairment on the job.
Yes, and that was all in our handbook.
Um I'm assuming it still is in this one.
Um I guess my concern is we're worried about on the job driving our V.
Vehicles.
Well that's mainly what we're after is making sure nobody's got to be able to do that.
But but you might need a you know, I think it's a parent I think it would be beneficial in
in some positions that hire um executive level decisions and it says money.
Yeah and um yeah like maybe court cases or you know we make sure everybody
It literally covers every position we have in the county when you read what it can be used for.
Because like financial, okay, that's Julie and I every day, Jessica every day.
I mean
Maybe Tara not so much because she's not really but she does balance our books and stuff at night, so she would be covered
So that takes care of our office, you know.
Julie's office would be covered.
Anyone who handles money for any reason.
Even upstairs in the court's office when they're doing certified copies for people and stuff.
So I think we're all pretty much county.
Yeah.
Um sure?
Plus they're dealing with federal money and state money and
Just about it must be bells ringing.
Well that must be curious.
Oh boulder, what's it boulder?
You won't know if you say that because I got arm springs.
I don't boil nobody aims boulder.
So
The city does it.
Yeah.
Yeah, they elected to do that.
So maybe I could get Sonia to send me up for policy on that.
See how you know screen.
But I'm pretty sure it's like you said, I think it's everybody there.
Right.
Is
susceptible to a task.
Well we'd be I guess safe to have everybody wouldn't you?
I
There are cases that I think strongly that we need it.
There has been historical cases where
drivers of vehicles have been impaired and I'm talking about Yeah, you can be alcohol impaired too.
Just don't but historically it was not alcohol.
And um yeah, I think
Hopefully we never have to have it, right?
But I think we've shown that yes, alcohol can be a problem and even prescription payments, you know.
A prescription.
There you go.
That's where you would need the medical acknowledgement or doctor's note or whatever saying, yeah, it was prescribed.
You know, and then it's probably a decision on our part what you want to do.
Or if you can do that.
Well here's my problem.
I do take any of them.
Yeah.
Oh I was I remember I'm already doing it, so the only thing I can't do is get D D two fourteen's that are recorded here from the courthouse.
Oh okay.
Okay.
Did uh personal gotta be the county appointed person.
Oh then you could.
Then I can, yep.
That's the only reason why it came up at all.
Like I Oh, I wonder if they got mixed in.
I don't know how many.
you know, I probably have thirty or more like doing the the headstones and whatnot.
We need the two fourteen to get to your government headstone.
And then
Then to request funeral honors you need a two fourteen and then you need a two fourteen to bring to the post office to get the flag for the for the burial.
So and a lot of those through the post office?
Yep.
Yep.
Usually Sean will just do it.
Um but if he's busy and if I have a copy of two fourteen, which we usually get, usually the spouse or surviving child or whatever will bring
one down.
But a lot of the older generation recorded them here.
I don't you guys probably haven't recorded a 214 in 20 years, I would say.
Oh yeah.
Have you really?
Is it mostly from people still like
Older than me.
Is there younger people starting to do it?
Um I'm trying to think of who how old are you?
Forty six.
Gonna be forty six.
Yeah?
Almost Yeah, forgetting.
Holy gravity.
We're trying to remember who our last ones were.
But yeah, maybe.
I know it's been more than twenty years or sooner than twenty.
Do I lose track of age?
But yeah, I've done it.
Yeah, well it's just I don't think anybody thinks about it.
Like and they don't nobody's telling like when these guys are getting out of the army or
whatever when they out process it's not they don't tell 'em, okay now take your D D two fourteen and go record it at your local courthouse so geez they should though.
Yeah because if nothing else
get the original back it comes back to them but this way it's here there's been oh man in the last s five years of it ten times where I've tried to help people there's a
website you can go to like a family member can request historical military documents and sometimes we have good luck and then there's been a handful of times where i they won't process the the application.
So in fact
kinda working with Armin's situation right now.
That's been one that's just been a bar.
Yeah.
So but there's been a couple similar to that where we just can't can't seem to have to go look.
So is there one currently appointed right now?
Like is it or was it Lawrence?
I don't think we ever.
Well we took him the manual.
Yeah, and he was well he came about the manual, he was gonna look through it and see if he wanted to do it.
Oh you never got the manual back either.
No, never got the manual she said she'd
look for it down there but she said he had taken all of his stuff money.
So yeah.
Where's this at that she's looking now?
Oh when she moved down to the chamber building.
Chamber building down there.
Yeah, but she said that he had packed up all his stuff, so she's setting she doesn't know what she's doing.
I haven't seen that guy.
Physically for twelve months.
Is he around?
I'd like to go talk to him.
Possibly I can get it from him.
As far as I know he's still living Yeah, right, yeah.
South uh Floxville there.
Yeah but he's not there all the time.
No.
Yeah.
I think he's there and gone.
Or he goes ahead.
So what kind of protocol do we need to do?
Does he have to fill out like an oath of office like everybody?
Or does he I don't have any idea how this works.
I would guess you would.
Yeah.
It was Steve Sprague forever, you know, before before he moved away.
Yeah.
Let me look at that.
And then Steve basically
Oh, except the one man.
Said, here you go.
So and I think all he did was order heads.
stones and whatnot, but like what me and Matt have is like if there's someone that actually needs VA assistance or something, you know, we have the the contacts.
We know where to send them now.
You do?
That guy in Miles City is is really good.
Some people may not like him because he's he's brash, but I mean he's really good at his job.
All I do is get phone calls from
Washington and D C and all that and I don't understand them so I just hang up.
It's probably the president trend to call you.
Well I keep telling people when I see the US on my phone that
Yeah, they won't take that either, the Democrats.
They take that for home too.
Ah, that's uh free money.
But if they're not involved, that's a difference.
Why cannot we make a motion to appoint him?
We can.
A some move?
Well wait here.
Well yeah I don't want to but y but yeah.
But I don't know why you're gonna make a big thing out of Well because we're given them authority to get person
information on We do by appointing him I don't we?
Yeah.
Then he can't quit.
That's one thing about appointments.
You don't quit them jobs.
Do you?
Yeah.
You either move or die.
And even then you're still on for about two years.
Unfinished business still.
I knew Steve was ahead of that, but never didn't know what the hell he was doing.
Yeah.
Well now that the VA has all these I don't even know what their title is, but this Earl from Mile City.
Whatever his title like he'll help you get like your VA disability or
Like you're if you were in the service and you need uh hearing aids, basically you fill out some paperwork and go see the right guy and get your free hearing aids and stuff like that.
So see I'm I'm not
I was gonna have him get me on uh veterans uh what uh whatever it is.
Yep.
Never did hear a thing from the back.
No.
I can give you the number to to hurl the call.
He got a guy, Ron Hathaway from Miles City.
Um he just died here but about two years ago, maybe three, um
This Earl was able to get him a hundred percent VA disability, which meant he he got another like thirty eight hundred dollars tax free a month coming in because of this VA stuff.
So something he should be.
Should have had back when he got out of the Navy in the seventies or whatever, but there was nobody around to help problem back then.
We had problems back then.
The only thing I got back from the government was VA money first college.
Oh okay.
I went on the GI and I flunked.
You flunked or you party and didn't go?
No, I didn't
No I could I couldn't get my English psychology course couldn't get none of them.
I could get my mechanics and all this stuff.
farm kid doing taking those classes.
They made me do that, not a lot of mechanics.
Can you believe that?
Where'd you go?
Haver?
Haver, yeah.
That's all I miss if I go back.
Oh yeah.
It ain't too late.
The hell it is.
I'm not gonna study English more.
I ask him why in the hell do I have to take a psychology course all to deal with the farmers and stuff that you work for?
Made sense.
I steal forward too.
Here, Tammy, write these numbers down.
Um
Okay, twenty twenty-four the the the fiscal year twenty four to twenty-five.
Okay.
Um the city paid
102,637 for deputy wages.
Hold on just a second.
Okay.
Plus 10,000 for vehicle for total 112.
Okay.
And then fiscal year uh twenty-five twenty-six, we paid ninety-eight thousand seven seventy-eight plus ten thousand.
For a total of one oh eight seven seventy eight.
Okay.
And you're actually getting a sound.
Got it.
Thanks.
Yes.
Yes.
I think there's just a big disconnect about the amount of money and the amount of
Census available.
Thank you very much for those.
Um I just think that she will have to put her on to my code.
The animals do uh
Well you can think on that.
We just like you said we just went over this one.
Okay.
Did you did you guys make a motion?
Okay.
And you to do what?
This payer hourly?
Contractor.
Contract.
Okay.
With her hourly.
Okay.
Start there and then.
Yep.
You know, if they're if if there's time.
Yeah.
Well so and this we budgeted money for one already um for for twenty six twenty seven.
So you know if if she
find something or if we have her investigate something for the city, I mean we could pay her the same way.
And I think this is probably the best way to start is to find someone who wants to work hourly like
This and maybe it morphs into a full time position.
But well it could, you know it could.
Yeah.
Because these are all long drawn out application process.
Yep.
Yeah, so when you came in her on my stuff that I could replace that problem.
My thing is that you know if she's gonna work twenty hours, thirty hours a week.
Yeah, and that then I just will turn into full time.
It's three hours here and four hours there.
Yeah.
That's not the idea.
Yeah.
Well and it's not like you submit an application and then you're done.
Um there's all the free stuff you application.
and then there's seems like they're always needing something in the middle and then all the stuff at the end.
And then you basically gotta work directly with the clerk because all the final budget numbers and whatever.
Is this a new speaker?
Yeah, it's a microphone.
Or yeah, microphone.
Speaker.
Does it work pretty good?
I don't know.
Get right up into it.
I'll say what I'm saying.
Is it on right now?
Yes.
Okay.
So I can't call Gary a bad name.
We're really on.
A lot of people do.
Gary, you're old.
The system uh Thank you.
The system bleeps it out.
It bleeps customers out.
Does it really?
So you guys bought a program of some sort.
Is it an AI generated?
I don't know what Jessica uses, it's a new program.
Okay.
Yeah, and it bleeps it and it even puts
So did it bleep out mine a couple meetings ago?
No, it she kept it.
Yeah, that was that was very emotional.
That was very professional and emotional.
Well inappropriate.
Shut up.
Super professional.
Shut it off.
Give a break.
I'd make a motion to approve the nomination of Morgan Lekvold for the uh the appointment of
Veteran Service Officer.
Oh second doubt.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
I Congratulations Morgan.
Alright.
You're in the army.
Another another job that pays.
That is swampy.
Okay, I'll run upstairs and have Dottie do her thing and all.
Anne-Marie.
What's that?
It'll probably be Anne Marie.
Oh, sure.
Okay.
They are right next to the uh Judge Niescan.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
Thank you for taking it on.
Yeah, no, I'm I'm already doing the work anyway.
I might as well just make it official.
Yeah, what's your name left?
Dog got it, Carrack.
Put it in the paper.
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Good recorder with the already nose.
Oh.
Oh sh
Shana or the one from Wall Point?
Oh.
I guess I still haven't subscribed to that.
I don't even know how to.
What?
Shauna's newsletter paper thing.
I don't know if there's a Facebook thing, I guess I've been kind of oblivious to it.
Uh I think there was a stack a stack of the papers on the farmer union or Fox.
I can't get degree.
I am guaranteeing you that if you go down to Chrome Home's convenience, it'll be a stack.
Oh sure.
With all the info you need.
How's the building coming along?
Ha It's coming.
The rafters are in.
Not all of them.
Don't you gotta go up another level?
Going up another level.
Really?
No.
A little bit of drama going on with it, but Absolutely, that's what all building projects have.
Yeah.
Well, there's a there's a city ordinance from nineteen thirty.
says you shouldn't be building that there.
So that was it.
Yeah.
Well you're on the corner.
How come?
It's a wood structure.
Yeah.
Everything else on Main Street is burn proof.
concrete block or something.
Is that it?
Well yeah.
No.
So long but now building materials have changed significantly since nineteen thirteen.
Well it was not necessarily for you, it was for your neighbor.
Yep.
So but there's ways to to fire proof the outside of it and that's that's all through the state.
Fire code through the state.
So it's a bit of a solid worst.
Should we talk about chickens too?
We don't have time.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
That turned out
Yeah, the chickens.
Let's do that.
Gary Nice favorite subject because we don't have to deal with that.
We have more paperwork for the airport, for the PAPI and miscellaneous electrical.
things.
Oh, does Morgan need to sign that one too?
Maybe he needs to sign that.
Um or is it just us?
Let me see here.
Just county.
Okay.
And the bitter.
Okay.
Yeah, so where's that
So uh maybe it's cut out a word that we had to modify.
Yeah, it's just in the team and per se.
Oh okay.
They just keep sending us papers.
I would make emotions to prove uh noticeable word and happy for unless we're going to be able to do that.
I'll second it.
All in favor?
Aye.
Aye.
Aye aye.
I think your back and not in the sound.
So I'm where the dots are is where you want me to sign?
I don't know.
That's what I would say.
You think, yeah.
The camera.
We have not yet.
We should.
We'll have time though.
Three hours ago.
Eight what is the seventeen?
Yep, it's all nice, even if it rains.
I wonder if everything goes on.
I forgot if we have a camera out there to see this.
I don't know.
I just signed where the little dot was.
Well it says bye, yeah.
Oh weird.
We kill a lot of trees for the airport projects.
What's that?
So we kill a lot of trees for the airport.
projects.
It's kind of crazy.
Okay.
Oh, we should have done this.
Oh, don't have this one here.
Oh
I did once.
What was that for?
Well this is our tax order for the fair, but I don't know why that's not on the agenda.
I do not have it there.
Can we put it in place of the two o'clock?
'Culie's not got her clean.
I don't know, we didn't make a motion, did we?
Well, it's and I think I remember why I don't have it on there because I was waiting for him to change
He had Gary Linder as the chairman.
And I said either you can change it or we can cross it off, and then he never got back to me until today.
So if you guys wanna do it today.
Because it is my bad.
You want to do the camera first so we can get that?
I didn't know.
I just yeah, backup camera for a truck or
Is there one?
Is there three?
I'll make a motion to purchase
The 1080 PHD wireless backup camera.
For how much?
$109.
99.
Oh, it's second thought.
$199.
$109.
I just got lost in the nines.
That's a book title.
It's the one that's good for low temperatures and high temperatures, more so than the rest.
What is this gonna be put on?
The international truck.
The garbage truck, this the one we just got, the the backup garbage truck?
The international 2004 I believe is what it was.
The IH
Almost gotcha.
Did we do all the things that Absolutely
Could I add a little note if the second or agree with me?
To put it on the truck and use it?
Yeah.
Oh, all right.
Well, um that makes it anything.
Anyone?
Um I got a question on this though.
Has this been approved to be an expenditure through the fair board?
Oh as far as the task order for the is there even money we have to come on yes for the what
Yeah, it could go between five thousand and seventy five hundred dollars.
He told us that when he was here, that they're typically about that.
But I don't know if the fair boards ever met for the approval on that.
Paul was here.
He's on Fair Association?
He's on one of them.
Yeah, he's on the Association.
Yeah, but the Association doesn't pay the bills.
Yeah, he's on one of them.
Association.
I think he's on actually the fair board.
But other than that, it's got the I mean
But I'm not here to take her streets.
Hello.
Well she had keys for the back door up there.
Did she just leave them there?
Because they used uh
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't remember if she even signed up and he is on the fair board.
I didn't get up too much yet.
Stopping the road and boy.
Right, but I'm gonna put the what it was.
I will get up that one.
Well, this is money that should have been blocked with some of the
I don't know if there's people.
Well, if we have two now, but
No, I've got that.
What are you looking for?
Hey, what are you looking for?
Just who's on those boards I think basically same as what's Do you have your copy of a new one?
Not a new one.
Let's get us a new ones.
Um Shelly, is she concerned about the health insurance?
I just think I'm just thinking we need to do something like that to secure.
I don't think she's gonna be I mean Shelly is
Shell, she'll do the Jacob, but I think she would go above and beyond with a little bit of bush.
That's all I'm saying.
I think between the city and the county there's a full composition.
Do you think that we could make an agreement like that?
I'm for it.
I don't see why you can't.
And I don't think I could ask her, but I don't think she'd have a problem with that either.
She just hasn't hasn't met with them anymore.
And the other thing is a lot of times those grants look really favorably on um grants when there is cooperation between the entities.
But then there's Gary, you know.
That was a bird she put in.
Yeah, what was it?
Things to consider
Things to consider.
Yeah.
Do not get on the ballot again.
Now if you take that paper clip off, you can have a nice great paper clip property somehow.
Got it.
It's the budget and from last year
Okay, well 100% guaranteed uh these are I mean these are what I have in my computer.
Oh okay.
But whether they're all a hundred percent correct, I don't know.
And then we're going to
That staple hand?
Yeah, that one's out of staples.
Thank you.
Wow.
That's thick.
Oh, got a lot of boards.
Here Gary Linder.
I wanna thank you very much.
Mike Stephen's pot.
Yeah.
Get a lot of paper outside.
Like you said, kill a lot of trees.
So I don't know.
Oh, if we want to check with the other people if they know about this or what we should do there.
Did um that Great Northern Mike, you're taking that over from Geary, is that right?
Yep.
Well it's gonna be a new version of the newspaper.
The fact page tells me
Look at your back page.
Well years.
Oh.
Yeah.
That's gotta be a new version.
Your copy's right there.
That's like Snoopy Joel.
Snoopy, yeah.
Before you look at it, it's gonna get old.
Well it's already.
It is because Yeah.
Now she would
Oh, the um Lee Humberts on here too.
Given all the tension work, that's you too, might as well.
Partboard Commission, Geoeterson still on attack.
Well when did you start as commissioner?
A long time ago.
Two years ago in July.
July?
2024?
There's where it boy if I'd have had a drug test that day, I think I might have walked into it.
Oh my god.
I don't come up with some weird crop.
Jesus, look at the first one on the list.
Yeah, on five oh nine.
Now that's old.
I wonder what board this is for.
It just has the oh city county planning.
If the title's down here.
Yeah, this could this needs a complete overhaul.
All the names and everything just hardly any of them are right.
Well I knew it in my version was
Hi Mary, how are you?
Doing good.
You here just because you wanted some entertainment?
Huh?
You here just cause you wanted some entertainment?
Apparently.
Didn't get enough entertainment last week.
Doing well.
Oh, I spent uh three and a half days with a high school slash college buddy.
So big trouble?
No.
Not in jail, lots of good things.
Marie A jail?
I'm not so sure I would make it yeah, I don't know.
Maybe now that we're old, but some of my hype from my college buddies were pretty sketchy.
No, uh she was she was uh salutatorian of our high school and she graduated with honors from college.
So now you ask me how I was
So you asked me how close I came to meeting your grades and then you know we were very