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	OK, Marie, you're up.	00:00:01
	The joke in our office was that if you.	00:00:08
	Switch the meeting date. Cindy's not available, but I said it was great for me because I have to go to my national conference next	00:00:11
	week and Patty's at hers this week, so.	00:00:15
	But I wanted to share a little bit because October is national 4H week month.	00:00:20
	And so the October 5th to 11th we celebrated National 4H Week. One of the things that I did was.	00:00:25
	Go talk to Wally.	00:00:32
	On daily Dodge or hometown today for he gave me both halves.	00:00:34
	So I was there from like 9:00 until.	00:00:40
	1050 or 950 talking to him.	00:00:43
	But one of the exciting things that happened this year that I have not seen in Wisconsin is that.	00:00:45
	Governor Evers proclaimed National 4H Week in the state and so that was really exciting that he recognized that.	00:00:50
	National level.	00:00:58
	But a couple of the things that I just wanted to share with you because I haven't, I don't always have a chance to talk about.	00:01:00
	4H and what our program looks like.	00:01:06
	So last year, we're still in the middle of enrollment right now. So I only have about 300.	00:01:09
	But last year we had 630 young people in the 4H program.	00:01:14
	And one of the questions that one of the clubs got when they were doing.	00:01:18
	Promotions in the school during National 4H week was.	00:01:24
	About.	00:01:28
	Backgrounds of people.	00:01:29
	Because they're like, I thought you had to live in a farm. And so we shared some of that in the news releases that we sent out.	00:01:31
	46% of our.	00:01:37
	Youth are females and 53% are males, so we're pretty evenly split in the program.	00:01:40
	But if you look at the community baked.	00:01:47
	Breakdowns. 53% live in towns under 10,000, which that's pretty much everywhere but Beaver Dam.	00:01:49
	33% live in towns or cities between 10 and 50,000.	00:01:57
	And.	00:02:02
	13 Oh no and 13% live over 50,000 so I'm guessing that is the Beaver Dam population.	00:02:03
	So really letting people know that you can live in a rural area and be involved in the 4H program without having to live on a farm	00:02:10
	is kind of the myth that.	00:02:14
	We were trying to take away with some of the community server or the things that were going out that this year during National 4H	00:02:18
	Week.	00:02:21
	And two other pieces of kind of researchy things, but I don't often share them with you.	00:02:25
	But we sent them out with part of the news release as well is.	00:02:31
	The focus from the national 4H was called Beyond Ready. So it's really making young people ready for the community that they're	00:02:36
	going to move into.	00:02:40
	Being ready to be leaders in their community. We have officer training tonight, so yeah, getting ready for all of those different	00:02:44
	roles that they take on.	00:02:48
	And.	00:02:52
	A few years ago we had a preliminary study from Tufts Research and then they followed up and finished their research.	00:02:54
	And what their research has proven about 4H because they compared 4H.	00:03:01
	Young people and people that were not in the 4H program.	00:03:07
	In that study of positive youth development.	00:03:10
	It said that nearly three times.	00:03:13
	Our youth are used are nearly three times more likely to participate in community service, which is probably not a surprise to	00:03:16
	many of you. You've seen roadsides.	00:03:20
	Youth do roadside cleanups and one club actually participated in the statewide community service effort during 4H week and	00:03:25
	collected food for the food pantry. I'm guessing in Beaver Dam because that's where the club is.	00:03:31
	They're also two times more likely to have the goal of being a leader, and they're two times more likely to report living.	00:03:39
	Life with intentionality and purpose. And so that's really exciting to know that those are really focuses of young people.	00:03:47
	But then to bring it even closer to home, we do that annual thrive.	00:03:54
	Youth study every year and so in order for me to get data from Dodge County, I have to have over 20% of the young people that are	00:03:59
	between 13 and 19 in Dodge County.	00:04:05
	Complete the survey.	00:04:10
	And so that's really exciting because what those young people here in Dodge County said is that 85% of them said they're	00:04:12
	passionate about things they do in 4H.	00:04:17
	92% agreed that 4H gives them the opportunity to explore something they really care about.	00:04:22
	90% said they.	00:04:28
	Reporting feeling safe and supported in their 4H programs.	00:04:30
	88% said that they feel like they matter.	00:04:34
	On Hometown today, but I wanted to share a little bit of of that data and.	00:05:06
	I think we're pretty on track. We have about 75 leaders that have already registered in. Last year we had 125 of them.	00:05:11
	And so we have.	00:05:17
	Kids getting re enrolled and 22 clubs around the county.	00:05:19
	And hopefully I did not. I was not successful in finding an AmeriCorps member.	00:05:23
	That's one of my challenges here in Dodge County for the whole school year.	00:05:29
	Because, you know, I look at most of them are usually college students and they have to be available for 20 some hours a week.	00:05:34
	And so if they're off in college, they can't usually do that, but I'm optimistic that we're going to get a young person.	00:05:41
	That's interested from she goes to UW Madison but lives in Wapan and Patty and I did the county health fair last week and just to	00:05:48
	kind of remind the rest of the department, the rest of the county that extension is available and doing programs and what we have	00:05:54
	available and.	00:06:00
	I ironically talked to a mom who said.	00:06:06
	My daughter we live in Wapan. My daughter comes home every week, every weekend and stays through Monday so.	00:06:08
	She's checking out the AmeriCorps program, so hopefully that will be up and running in January and then we can.	00:06:14
	Maybe do some after school programs because Horicon is still my.	00:06:20
	One area that we don't have a 4H club though.	00:06:24
	Members drive, so that's not a problem to come to Juneau or to go.	00:06:27
	To, you know, show or wherever it may be so.	00:06:31
	So that's what I have for you unless you have questions.	00:06:35
	Comment Beaver Damages had a neat project with FFA.	00:06:39
	The Rockaroo Coalition funded.	00:06:43
	Three cleaning stations. Oh, then Gansky's Beaver Dam FFA class built them.	00:06:45
	Then the district installed them.	00:06:52
	So you had the FFA in the middle there and they came out very nice.	00:06:53
	And.	00:06:57
	Things like 25 kids were involved.	00:06:59
	Wow that's really exciting because it Gans keys are in 4H but they're in the Fox live Frocks Lake club rather than the Beaver Dam	00:07:01
	club so.	00:07:05
	All right. Thank you, Marie. Thank you. Have a great day.	00:07:12
	We'll see you next month.	00:07:16
	Hopefully.	00:07:17
	And with some 4H ERS later this year, I have a couple of key award. Yeah, when is that? In February?	00:07:19
	No, we tried to do December or January. I'm still having conversations with county clerk and.	00:07:24
	Dave to find out which.	00:07:31
	When works and they're like, well, what works for the kids because one of the boys is at Iowa State.	00:07:33
	So if it's.	00:07:39
	If these on break.	00:07:40
	In December, I think we'll be doing that, but otherwise, January, no, I think that's our time to shine to the county board and I,	00:07:42
	I, you know, I think this, I think if you get some visuals showing and how many kids are involved in this yet?	00:07:47
	Before the person, give yourself 30 seconds to at least show the 630 kids you don't, you know, I mean, because I don't know if the	00:07:53
	county board realizes there's that many.	00:07:57
	People.	00:08:01
	When you're showing the.	00:08:02
	You know the key, of course our winner, of course we want to present them, but I just that's your time to shine exactly every year	00:08:03
	so.	00:08:06
	Well, and it'll be exciting because.	00:08:10
	The one.	00:08:12
	The one young person is currently serving as a state FFA officer this year. And I invited him if he could come tonight and he's	00:08:13
	going to help teach the presidents and.	00:08:17
	Do kind of a get a kind of an opening event for the club.	00:08:23
	Officers tonight, so that'll be good too.	00:08:27
	All right. Thank you. See then.	00:08:30
	OK.	00:08:31
	Agency. OK. So the agencies, are they laid off, do you know, or they're still on furlough or whatever you want to call it? OK.	00:08:34
	OK. So the two guys are not going to be here today?	00:08:42
	Move to wildlife crop.	00:08:47
	Damage.	00:08:48
	Whoops. Well, I'm sorry.	00:08:49
	Yeah, you didn't know that's what Mike's here for. Oh, Mike is OK, Mike.	00:08:51
	I guess the first two.	00:09:00
	Pages are next year's budget.	00:09:01
	They look a little bit different, but one is basically the federal.	00:09:04
	Breakdown and one is state breakdown.	00:09:07
	The the number we're actually approving today is the $60,958.33 that includes $10,000 for deer donation processing.	00:09:10
	And $1000 to the county for county admin costs.	00:09:20
	Federal cost share.	00:09:24
	We'd put 8181 and dollars and $0.69.	00:09:26
	Towards that budget.	00:09:30
	Is there any?	00:09:32
	Any questions? Anybody see anything that?	00:09:34
	This is all passed through money for Wildlife Damage abatement and Claims program comes from the DNR and.	00:09:37
	Gets paid straight to the crop growers.	00:09:43
	Kind of tie the deer donation the third page in with the budget just because it is a line item on the budget.	00:09:57
	But you have to sign that as well.	00:10:05
	John, is this, is this number in the budget exactly like this or?	00:10:09
	No, it's not. It's not the exact amount because.	00:10:14
	I have to guesstimate what it is.	00:10:17
	But it's flow through money, so it really doesn't matter.	00:10:19
	I can always adjust it after the fact.	00:10:24
	OK.	00:10:26
	And we accept the.	00:10:27
	County budget for the wildlife damage.	00:10:29
	Reimbursement program.	00:10:32
	OK, I'll second, second by then first by.	00:10:35
	Supervisor.	00:10:40
	Is there any discussion?	00:10:41
	Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying aye.	00:10:43
	Aye, those opposed.	00:10:46
	OK, Thank you. Using me to quick sign this then Yep, I guess there's one more page, the last page there, that's our crop price	00:10:48
	proposal for 2025 and that's what.	00:10:52
	The farmers would get paid.	00:10:57
	For this year's crop damage.	00:11:00
	This is a year long average basically from September last year to September this year.	00:11:01
	Then essentially a starting point. If you guys want to move them, you're more than welcome to.	00:11:05
	If you want to go with.	00:11:10
	Look them averages and you can do that as well but.	00:11:11
	It's totally up to you.	00:11:14
	I don't have a feel for this, John. What is it?	00:11:16
	To look like to you, it's fair.	00:11:18
	It looks higher than what the market is now, but it's fair.	00:11:20
	Many other can you look at it? The numbers look OK.	00:11:25
	I don't have a feel for it. I just want you guys to check it. Lisa, do you have anything on that?	00:11:27
	It's an average.	00:11:32
	Actual payments, so I would go with that.	00:11:34
	OK, All right. I need a motion to approve these council move. OK, John.	00:11:36
	Second, Ken. Second, any further discussion?	00:11:41
	Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying aye, aye those opposed.	00:11:44
	Thank you.	00:11:49
	Sign these for you? Is that me? Do I sign both of these?	00:11:51
	There is two more. Yeah, Yep.	00:11:54
	Who?	00:11:58
	Who made the motion on the first one? John? First one was for Lisa. Lisa.	00:12:00
	Lisa made the motion who seconded that. Thank you.	00:12:05
	No, no, no, no.	00:12:09
	Thank you.	00:12:13
	Thank you.	00:12:16
	OK, thanks.	00:12:19
	All right, Senior sign right where it says county, Yes, right, OK.	00:12:21
	I'm sorry, Mike, I don't. We don't work with you too often, so.	00:12:28
	I saw you had a couple things on here.	00:12:33
	25.	00:12:38
	And Mike, after you get the other signatures, can you send me a copy please?	00:12:39
	5 here and then.	00:12:48
	This one OK.	00:12:51
	20.	00:13:00
	By.	00:13:01
	OK. We are all set. Thank you so much. Thank you.	00:13:09
	Thanks, Mike.	00:13:12
	OK, fire land.	00:13:18
	Preservation updates. We have two non compliance.	00:13:22
	Yeah, we have two notices and non compliance. These are both voluntarily. They want to get out of the program.	00:13:24
	Totals.	00:13:31
	I had somewhere.	00:13:34
	About 158 acres total.	00:13:36
	So Gordon E.	00:13:39
	And Tory Straus.	00:13:41
	From.	00:13:43
	Waterloo.	00:13:44
	That's where they're from, but we're Old Portland.	00:13:45
	So they just.	00:13:48
	Don't think the money's good enough to do nutrient management? Well, one of them, the gentleman, is in a home.	00:13:50
	And the kids don't want anything to do with the other one, the renter.	00:13:58
	Just want to.	00:14:01
	Follow through with the Nutrient Management plan.	00:14:03
	How many? How many acres Ballpark here is between the two of them, It's about 158 acres.	00:14:09
	OK, do we need to make a motion for each one?	00:14:17
	You can do it together as one.	00:14:20
	OK, OK, I need a motion to.	00:14:21
	Issue these two notices of non compliance.	00:14:27
	You have a motion.	00:14:31
	Do you guys want to see these? Do you want more details? Do you want to see him?	00:14:32
	Do you? Are you getting our approval for the to send another notice? I thought you said two notices already.	00:14:36
	There's two individuals.	00:14:41
	OK so I'm asking for your approval to approve the notices and non compliance.	00:14:43
	Set sent a notice? If not, I thought you sent. No, this is voluntary.	00:14:50
	Yeah. So these two came to the county and said we don't want to be in it.	00:14:55
	It's it's it's confusing because it's the same form that goes whether we're kicking them out or they want to get out. Got it.	00:14:58
	We're not kicking them out. These guys came to the county and said we don't want to be in it anymore, but they still have to get a	00:15:03
	notice, correct. Did you guys want to?	00:15:07
	See the details, I can pass it around.	00:15:12
	No the folders. I don't think it's necessary but.	00:15:14
	OK, I need a motion then to I'll make a motion.	00:15:18
	OK, can we has a motion to approve these No2 notices of non compliance and if I don't the motion needs put the two names?	00:15:21
	I Cheryl, you could put the two names in just to make sure we're.	00:15:29
	OK, do we have a second?	00:15:33
	John, Lisa. OK, Lisa, you're up first. OK, so.	00:15:36
	Lisa was second. Any further discussion on these notices? Voluntary notices?	00:15:40
	And those in favor signify by saying aye.	00:15:46
	Aye, those opposed.	00:15:48
	OK. And then these I just I can sign after right? Yep.	00:15:50
	And then Cheryl, I also need the minutes I didn't get. They were not in here.	00:15:53
	For John and I to sign OK after the meeting. Yeah, he's getting notes be so don't leave.	00:15:57
	Until we click sign them.	00:16:02
	OK. All right.	00:16:03
	Approved membership for National Association of Conservation Districts. Isn't it in our budget?	00:16:07
	It's in our budget, but their renewal comes this time of the year instead of the beginning of the year like our other memberships	00:16:12
	are.	00:16:16
	OK, so.	00:16:19
	Basically.	00:16:22
	We can.	00:16:23
	Be a member and donate whatever we want.	00:16:24
	The amount and they have brackets in here, Contributor, bronze, platinum all the way up there.	00:16:27
	We've been giving them $100 the last two years.	00:16:33
	You can.	00:16:37
	Give them 3000 if you want to do that because they they say you can.	00:16:38
	This is our national organization.	00:16:44
	National National Association of Conservation Districts.	00:16:46
	Wisconsin is unique and different from the other states because all the other states have what they call conservation districts,	00:16:51
	which cover.	00:16:55
	4568.	00:16:59
	Township. Our counties.	00:17:02
	Wisconsin's the only one that has a land conservation department in each individual county.	00:17:04
	OK, so.	00:17:10
	Wisconsin is also the lowest.	00:17:12
	State.	00:17:15
	Membership to.	00:17:16
	So all right. But we've given them $100 the last couple years prior to that.	00:17:17
	We have not been a member with them for.	00:17:24
	1215 years.	00:17:29
	So I think we should be members.	00:17:31
	We before we went in on this.	00:17:32
	Initially we went on this because.	00:17:35
	It's not like $100 is going to make their budget, but that they can add as many of their membership they as you know, that gives	00:17:39
	them greater lobbying power and all of that lobbying on a federal level clearly helps us, whatever they get.	00:17:47
	So agree.	00:17:55
	And we have it. We have the money in our budget. Yeah, I budgeted 100. Yeah, So let's.	00:17:56
	All right.	00:18:02
	We have a motion. Do we need a motion or we have to do anything? Yeah.	00:18:04
	I would I would give you a motion for it.	00:18:08
	Also move OK.	00:18:10
	John, first we have a second.	00:18:12
	I'll second it. OK, Ben, second.	00:18:14
	Any further discussion?	00:18:16
	All those in favor, see just 400 bucks, right? Yeah.	00:18:18
	OK, all those in favor signify by saying aye aye.	00:18:21
	Those opposed.	00:18:24
	OK.	00:18:26
	Wildlife.	00:18:29
	Damage program, Yeah, what what Mike was just here our third quarter wildlife damage program bill came in, it's a $6964.14, so.	00:18:32
	Just need your approval to request reimbursement on that.	00:18:44
	Yep. Work plan. Annual work plan.	00:18:47
	I need your approval on. I need #10 first.	00:18:51
	I'll move that we approve the third quarter reimbursement request for wildlife damage program.	00:18:55
	OK.	00:19:00
	We have a second.	00:19:02
	I'll second.	00:19:03
	Hey, Ken. Second, those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed.	00:19:05
	OK.	00:19:10
	All right, update on the annual work plan.	00:19:16
	OK. I presented that to you last year last month.	00:19:20
	And.	00:19:23
	Lisa had requested that.	00:19:25
	We revise it to show percentages.	00:19:27
	To match what our land and water plan says.	00:19:30
	But our land and water plan actually has acres.	00:19:33
	Because I looked in there and those no, no, it's not percents.	00:19:37
	It's, it's flat acres because that that's it's where I got my numbers from my land from the annual work plan from.	00:19:41
	When you look in there for.	00:19:48
	So you must have picked a number of acres that was equal to 10% because that's what we agreed on.	00:19:56
	Well, I'll give you an example. Goal one, protect and improve quality of Dodge County's groundwater resources.	00:20:06
	Item 2 is promote farmer adoption, implement 16,500 new acres of nutrient management plans, 5000 new acres of cover crops and 3000	00:20:13
	new acres of reduced tillage annually.	00:20:19
	So.	00:20:25
	I mean, it's, it's all acres in here. It's not.	00:20:27
	Percent. So that's where the annual work plan comes from.	00:20:30
	So that's from the 10 year plan.	00:20:34
	Yep. All right. Well, that must have been the 10% then because we talked about the 10:20.	00:20:36
	Whatever. Then we went back to 10.	00:20:42
	So.	00:20:44
	My question is.	00:20:45
	That was.	00:20:48
	What was it 15,000 new acres or 15116 thousand 516,000?	00:20:50
	So.	00:20:57
	How many acres are in the program?	00:20:58
	160,000.	00:21:01
	Yeah, somewhere there, maybe a little less. That's 10%.	00:21:05
	16116 thousand that's where you OK? Well.	00:21:09
	If it is but this this does, that's fine. So did you put the increase of?	00:21:13
	So you just in that last thing you put the number in, right?	00:21:18
	Yeah, so.	00:21:21
	Can you at least tell us?	00:21:23
	You know, because I'm not going to be here for five more years, right? So when they do their 10 year plan.	00:21:25
	Right, you could.	00:21:31
	Just take.	00:21:34
	You see what I'm saying?	00:21:35
	They're going to see anchors ago. Did that meet our plan?	00:21:37
	I guess it did because they can just look at the total.	00:21:42
	They should just look at whether the 16,000 I do and I do have a follow up I do. I do an annual report to them every year. Let's	00:21:46
	them know where we where we are with stuff.	00:21:52
	And then there's a five year.	00:21:59
	Review.	00:22:01
	Which the date has already been set for.	00:22:03
	It's 2027 February 2027.	00:22:06
	Where we have to go through OK.	00:22:11
	What's our plan, say, what have we done for the last five years and we have to actually go to the Land and Water Board and present	00:22:14
	it to them?	00:22:17
	So so.	00:22:21
	Your annual plan is already done.	00:22:22
	For 25.	00:22:25
	Right. I gave you 25 so you guys could all see what we're doing while we're talking about it, the one for 26 won't be due until.	00:22:26
	It's the same same date as the annual plan. It's either February or March.	00:22:36
	Well, I'd like to talk about this along with 14 when we get down to there just for a second, if that'd be OK with you. OK.	00:22:41
	When you give us our update to our thoughts on going forward.	00:22:48
	Yes, sure.	00:22:51
	OK.	00:22:53
	Any other questions on the update?	00:22:55
	Of the plan, this is a follow up.	00:22:57
	OK, update committee and process for up.	00:23:00
	Updating the manure storage, we talked about that last month.	00:23:03
	About that cup coming for next year or is that you said it's a process, right? It's a yeah, I process.	00:23:06
	Lisa Trumbull.	00:23:12
	Was the lady that used to work with this and then she retired?	00:23:14
	So there's a Jennifer that's.	00:23:18
	Filled her position now, so I did talk with her and I did go through and look at.	00:23:20
	The process that we updated in 2007.	00:23:27
	It's a little different, or it can be or it can be the same, a little different than our land and water plan.	00:23:33
	There you get SIS and advisory committees where I I try to get lake people, business people, farmers, cash, green dairy.	00:23:40
	And we sit down, we have several meetings and go through and revise the land and water plan.	00:23:48
	We also did a survey that we sent out to the public.	00:23:52
	To get their input, the townships and that.	00:23:56
	A nurse storage ordinance. You can do it that way, but you're not required to do it that way.	00:24:00
	The last time.	00:24:04
	When we revised it in 2007.	00:24:06
	Basically, from what I could see, there were three committee members.	00:24:09
	Mark and myself that that did the revision. Mark went to the committee and said this is what our current plan says. I think we	00:24:14
	should update this and this.	00:24:19
	And we had a few meetings and.	00:24:24
	That that's the process that we took then.	00:24:26
	We can do it the same way this time around.	00:24:30
	We can get the citizen advisory committee.	00:24:33
	She did look.	00:24:37
	Look through our plan.	00:24:38
	And gave me a couple recommendations that you know you're you're kind of lacking here. You could update this. Is it necessary? No.	00:24:40
	It's 11 caution she made is to make sure whatever you update.	00:24:49
	That your staff.	00:24:55
	Can handle that type of workload.	00:24:57
	And if you look at.	00:25:01
	Ordinances from different counties there there.	00:25:03
	Really extreme.	00:25:06
	To even a little more lacks than we are.	00:25:07
	So I mean, they're, they're all over the board.	00:25:10
	We're not out of, are we out of compliance? It's not compliance, no, it's just to update. It's our ordinance where the legislative	00:25:14
	body, right. So we haven't updated.	00:25:19
	Almost 20 years. And John's been saying for years, like we do need to do updates. He's been saying that over and over. Senate	00:25:24
	process takes months to do this. Yeah. Yeah, it'll take a few months. All right. Could we then?	00:25:30
	Also bring that up when we get to 14.	00:25:37
	Sure.	00:25:40
	OK. All right. Any other questions on that?	00:25:41
	Well, if the statutes change for manure storage.	00:25:45
	In 20 years.	00:25:49
	Probably the standards the that you design it around have changed.	00:25:51
	But our ordinance has.	00:25:56
	The NRCS Standard 313 is the Manure Storage Structure Ordinance.	00:25:59
	But our is the standard, the specs.	00:26:04
	Our ordinance says.	00:26:08
	References 313.	00:26:09
	And any future updates? So basically we're covered on that.	00:26:11
	And so.	00:26:16
	Otherwise.	00:26:18
	You might be updating this like, every six months because there's multiple standards that fit in there and they're always being	00:26:19
	looked at and revised. Yeah.	00:26:23
	And if somebody looks back to see if they're in compliance, right, they got to do legislative research to go and find what the	00:26:28
	updates are, which is why you update to the most recent standard.	00:26:32
	Which is why John said we do need to update. Agrees. I don't do. I don't know. I don't disagree. I agree. Yeah.	00:26:37
	I agree.	00:26:42
	So we do have to reference the more current.	00:26:43
	Standards, right? Because if you read it, if you even got it and looked at it right, and you'd say, oh.	00:26:46
	313 and then you went there, you're like, what the hell that's.	00:26:51
	Not even this anymore. And how are you going to find update like?	00:26:54
	It's not fair to who's ever.	00:26:58
	Subject to this.	00:27:00
	Or whatever engineer.	00:27:01
	They hireright.	00:27:03
	They got to go do research to see what standard it is.	00:27:06
	So.	00:27:10
	No, it makes sense.	00:27:11
	I think that's a direction we're headed I think for now and then we'll.	00:27:19
	Talk about that again at 14 so.	00:27:25
	Any other we'll talk about. I think the committee agrees we want to do that and it's how we're going to get there next year, I	00:27:27
	think, or starting as soon as we can.	00:27:32
	I I think that's the thought here is that unless there's any.	00:27:36
	Difference from the committee. I think that's the direction we want to go. We want to get this done.	00:27:39
	Let's go to Vehicle Update.	00:27:44
	OK.	00:27:46
	I put in the.	00:27:49
	The budget for a new vehicle.	00:27:50
	So I thought I'd.	00:27:53
	Give you an update. We put new tires on our.	00:27:54
	Ford Explorer. That's the police squad.	00:27:57
	And had them put in and then.	00:28:00
	I took it into getting alignment done.	00:28:03
	And they said they couldn't do the alignment because the lower ball joints were bad. It was making noise when we drove it the the	00:28:06
	inner.	00:28:10
	Inner bearing of one of the half shafts.	00:28:15
	Is bad the rear?	00:28:19
	Shocks were bad.	00:28:21
	So with the tires and well.	00:28:22
	The extra work was 13125 dollars.	00:28:26
	Plus the tires. So total we spent $2071 on that thing in the last.	00:28:30
	Month.	00:28:35
	We couldn't even align it.	00:28:36
	Yeah, we have a good reason. The reason I asked John to bring it up is that obviously we have our budget.	00:28:38
	Next.	00:28:43
	Couple months and we have in there the.	00:28:44
	The dollar amount for.	00:28:46
	The new vehicle.	00:28:48
	While we were unable to get a vehicle this year, Is that correct?	00:28:50
	Yep, I just wanted.	00:28:53
	I think it'd be more prudent for our county. I think the committee.	00:28:54
	Obviously it already passed our budget, but.	00:28:57
	We thought it'd be 41,000 but I think you put in like 46 right?	00:29:00
	We got 3.	00:29:04
	Bids. The lowest one was 40,000, the highest one was 5758 thousand.	00:29:06
	I put in, I think it was 56,000 in the budget.	00:29:13
	We're still we'll look if we get 6 grand for the other one.	00:29:18
	Yeah. That we're gonna sell. OK, got it. Yep. Yeah, so I think.	00:29:21
	I just.	00:29:26
	What might happen has happened. Other times is the day of the budget.	00:29:27
	Someone will try to take the vehicle out and I want to be prepared to argue. And if you're you'll be there that day.	00:29:31
	That we have to reference you, That we're not really saving money.	00:29:36
	By getting a vehicle that is 150,000 miles.	00:29:40
	Yeah, it's it's not saving our county money.	00:29:44
	As a Pope, we and plus we have to spoke.	00:29:47
	Do an inner.	00:29:49
	Inter county transfer of $8000 right?	00:29:50
	Yeah, do that correct.	00:29:52
	So.	00:29:54
	Buying a new truck at 41,000 that'll last at least 10 years is an incredible deal.	00:29:55
	I think for our county plus.	00:30:01
	Plus, as we know, when we go places doesn't look like.	00:30:03
	Garbage employees aren't driving garbage.	00:30:06
	So I I just want you to be prepared.	00:30:10
	For those arguments should that.	00:30:13
	Happen so I want to talk about it for a second. So well, you could just make a note to.	00:30:15
	You know that we just dropped 3000 on maintenance. They couldn't even align it because the ball bearings are bad.	00:30:20
	And and and and we and we were unable to get a vehicle that.	00:30:25
	We were promised.	00:30:30
	Yeah, and that was further 24.	00:30:32
	It doesn't save money, doesn't save money.	00:30:35
	Yeah. So, OK.	00:30:38
	OK.	00:30:39
	Any other questions on vehicle update?	00:30:41
	All right, staffing update. Go ahead, John.	00:30:44
	OK.	00:30:46
	I had talked to Cameron last week, he was going to have a meeting with HR Tanya up in HR.	00:30:49
	And then they were going to get together to discuss the process of.	00:30:56
	Filling my position in.	00:31:01
	I've talked about before, but I did turn in my official notice as all you all know.	00:31:03
	I turned it in so December 10th is my last day.	00:31:07
	So only have one more committee meeting with them.	00:31:10
	Oh my God, yeah.	00:31:12
	That's why I wanted to talk about those other two things he did. It's another check mark. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Life goal.	00:31:14
	Get off the I know. So still so, yeah. So I did call Tonya and HR this morning.	00:31:20
	They did meet. They did talk.	00:31:28
	Camera needs to fill out a requisition form and then she can post it out there.	00:31:30
	However, I believe you're all also aware that Brian Fields turned in his retirement, and since he is.	00:31:36
	Going to be gone in a couple weeks. That is taking priority right now as it should.	00:31:42
	That is a huge position over there.	00:31:46
	So.	00:31:49
	They they are working on it.	00:31:51
	Once. Once everything is done, I.	00:31:53
	I'll provide.	00:31:57
	I'm gonna send Tanya the e-mail for.	00:31:58
	The land and water.	00:32:00
	So she can also post it statewide through all my.	00:32:02
	Other counterpart offices and that stuff so.	00:32:05
	Yeah, and I did talk to Cameron be right before the meeting and we're on track and they're going to get it posted. He figures	00:32:08
	it'll take a month to get applications approx. It's a process, not going to go overnight.	00:32:13
	The only thing I didn't ask them is if the what does temporary plans are so hopefully by the next committee meeting, you know,	00:32:17
	like.	00:32:20
	How we can operate when you're gone, right?	00:32:24
	Now I know initially he had said that he wanted to fill the position before I left, so there's some crossover.	00:32:26
	But then at last month's management Council meeting, Tanya also said that.	00:32:35
	Because of Thanksgiving holiday being a Thursday and Friday, that would be their first.	00:32:41
	Start date and nobody's here to onboard them so.	00:32:46
	Their first two days of work would be a paid holidays.	00:32:51
	So I don't know how that's going to work.	00:32:54
	But that that was Cameron's intent, was to have somebody on board here.	00:32:56
	A couple weeks, but I am also.	00:33:01
	Going to Florida.	00:33:04
	The first week of December, so.	00:33:06
	Them two weeks I would be gone, one of them two weeks anyway so.	00:33:08
	OK, so I'd like to reference back to item.	00:33:13
	Sorry, go ahead.	00:33:17
	Do you know for sure if it's going to be the first week and then you're going to come back and work, or is it just going to be the	00:33:18
	second week?	00:33:21
	When I'm, when I'm on vacation, yeah.	00:33:24
	I know it's the first week of December, so like the 1st through the 7th and then you're going to be back for a couple.	00:33:26
	Wednesday, yeah, because things got to line up with pay periods. Now it's not.	00:33:35
	A random start.	00:33:40
	Stop. So it's through November.	00:33:42
	And then a week. And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Yep.	00:33:44
	OK, so next month we'll.	00:33:47
	To be sure to talk.	00:33:50
	Base of the camera and what what his plan is.	00:33:51
	Because we can have something.	00:33:53
	Also so.	00:33:58
	Back just for a minute, back to those other two things. We're talking about the annual work plan.	00:34:00
	And the update on the manure storage, So I would like to get, I know you're not going to be doing those, but I would.	00:34:05
	I would like to when we hire somebody new.	00:34:11
	I think it would be.	00:34:14
	Prudent for us to maybe.	00:34:15
	In the first after we hired them in the first few months, maybe go over our 10 year plan just at the meeting just to like go over	00:34:17
	it our goals and what we're.	00:34:20
	What are we would go over? You mean? Yeah, when we have our new person come on board? I'm just thinking in my head because you	00:34:24
	talked about following up with the work plan here, I think.	00:34:28
	I think that's a great idea. But that's like, really big, big, big picture. Yeah. I think what they really need is like, here's	00:34:32
	how to do my job.	00:34:36
	Right, because it's not related to the in your plan and.	00:34:40
	You you do a lot of different things. Like have you ever written up your own job description?	00:34:43
	Because if you read your job description.	00:34:49
	It's probably less than what you do. Have you looked at it? Yeah, I helped write it when when I got.	00:34:51
	On board because I was interned for almost a year because of Mark being sick, right?	00:34:57
	So yeah, I helped. I helped him write it so.	00:35:02
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I just, I was just thinking as I thought about this. I thought, you	00:35:35
	know.	00:35:38
	We because what you were saying about the acres, well, your point was well taken. Well, there's a lot of other things.	00:35:41
	Let's talk. Let's have a little conversation about.	00:35:46
	The plan and the things we're looking for and then yes detail two of the work, but I was just thinking in my head out loud like	00:35:48
	you were saying about the acre percentage because I know what you were going back to goals. Well, let's.	00:35:53
	We look at that, that you know, and that's what that's all I was saying and then the manure storage and we want to obviously get	00:35:58
	that. I don't know if you can get that started now.	00:36:02
	I mean, he can, we might and then that's a big thing. That's but we need to go through a process and probably have the persons,	00:36:06
	but those are things I'm that's why we're gonna go ahead.	00:36:11
	It's gonna be a big involvement, Port Council, because they're the ones who are actually revising the statue. But I didn't want	00:36:15
	you to guys, to think that we were not addressing those issues. We will, but the timing.	00:36:20
	So that may take that process from the newer storage may take six months or something, right, It could.	00:36:27
	So your your annual work plan is basically based off of your land and water plan.	00:36:31
	So that's pretty simple. I mean straightforward. I mean, to be honest, the last couple years I copied and pasted most of it.	00:36:37
	OK.	00:36:44
	Your manure storage ordinance. I would highly recommend you wait until the new person gets on board OK, because depending on who	00:36:46
	they are, where they come from.	00:36:51
	They may have.	00:36:56
	A different.	00:36:57
	Perspective.	00:36:59
	Different.	00:37:01
	Vision.	00:37:03
	Than what I have.	00:37:04
	So if I started writing something in there now.	00:37:05
	They may say that was a waste of time.	00:37:09
	So I would recommend that that part at least be be put off until the new person's on board.	00:37:13
	I think, yeah, that's fine. Yep. What I plan to do is I'm I've been slowly working through, I've been going through files, I've	00:37:18
	been going through my computer. They don't need this still that **** out.	00:37:24
	I've been doing that.	00:37:30
	I do plan on also going through everything that I do like, like the Swarm grant.	00:37:33
	Just.	00:37:38
	Right up a little thing. When's it do? How do you, how do you write it, you know, and how do you get the reimbursement?	00:37:39
	What's all involved with it?	00:37:45
	Do the same thing with land and water plan with the.	00:37:47
	Wildlife damage with the farmer LED group. Cheryl's been taking a lot of stuff over with the farmer LED group. She's been taking	00:37:52
	stuff over on our tree sale program.	00:37:56
	So so can I ask?	00:38:01
	That's what I was asking when I said your.	00:38:03
	Description.	00:38:07
	I'm asking you could almost do it because you type it up all the time, but I'm asking for the description.	00:38:11
	Beyond the job description, it's basic workload.	00:38:18
	No, but the specifics right apply for swarm grant wildlife damage.	00:38:21
	Tree sales, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Might be good to have a calendar to like is to flow. Yep, I do have a flow calendar	00:38:26
	already put up Mark stars something a while back and I've kind of advanced it. And so in January, you do this and this and this,	00:38:32
	right? February you do this. So I do already have that. I I want to break it down.	00:38:38
	In more detail that would be great. That's.	00:38:45
	What the new person needs, because that's not in the job description.	00:38:47
	In the chart, Cheryl know where things are.	00:38:51
	And and like I said, I'm I'm not moving away from the area until problem marks. So I'm around if they need something then they	00:38:55
	I'll give them a phone number. I don't care. We'll take our calls.	00:39:00
	Not yours, not mine, he's saying. Now he says he'll take their glass extension. Guys won't take my calls. I asked the question.	00:39:06
	Jeff.	00:39:15
	Won't take my call. I had a quick question. Hoffman, that was our.	00:39:17
	We'll take my call.	00:39:21
	Retirement. Yeah, yeah, I know. But.	00:39:25
	Come on, we're we're also.	00:39:29
	Friends. I mean, we work together, we know each other. He's like, not close enough.	00:39:31
	I thought he was. It's like, it's like heart to heart talks. I'll always be there for you.	00:39:38
	No, I'm sorry.	00:39:44
	Sorry, it did. Kind of.	00:39:46
	I'm just kidding.	00:39:49
	No, but he gave me some heart to heart talks. It's like really whatever, OK, I'm just asking where something was and how we did	00:39:50
	something and because.	00:39:54
	Anyway.	00:39:59
	OK. But we appreciate that if you mean this well, you'll answer our call.	00:40:01
	I'm like he's going to be in like whatever. Some we're going to be splitting wood up northern. I don't remember. I don't get cell	00:40:07
	phone.	00:40:11
	No cell phone.	00:40:18
	And I and I actually don't.	00:40:19
	I have to walk up onto the road to get my cell phone reception.	00:40:21
	That's so funny.	00:40:29
	All right. Tonight in front of your job, you don't have staff support on where you may do it independently?	00:40:32
	So you're the only person touching that document, or?	00:40:41
	Which one?	00:40:44
	Well, I mean, wildlife damage. I do that by myself, the swarm grant. I do that by myself. This staff is aware of it, Yeah.	00:40:47
	No, no, not really. I let them do their work outside.	00:40:55
	Do you have access?	00:40:59
	See what I mean? Like.	00:41:01
	You're not on the cloud, right?	00:41:03
	Well, let's say, OK, I mean is the county storage, I thought the county storage moved to the cloud.	00:41:05
	No, I'm on here.	00:41:10
	I know. But what is that doesn't go to the cloud, that goes to the well, whatever the county does, I don't know. It goes wherever	00:41:12
	there.	00:41:15
	And if she has the password, she doesn't need your computer. It's not on your drive.	00:41:20
	What happened when? When?	00:41:25
	Mark got sick and I became the interim.	00:41:27
	They they gave me access to his emails and all his files.	00:41:31
	So I was able to go in there and figure stuff out.	00:41:36
	And I've also got a list.	00:41:39
	A full page sheet of phone numbers hanging on my wall.	00:41:41
	Of people that's.	00:41:45
	Dat cap, whoever that I call for questions. So that's there. And I tell you what, I spent a lot of time on the phone.	00:41:47
	Talking to.	00:41:55
	County Cons in Columbia County, Kirk was on speed dial.	00:41:56
	Of Green Lake County was on speed, Dale Fond du Lac and then all the dad cat personnel.	00:42:01
	They're more than willing to to help you in any way they can.	00:42:06
	Finance and HR helped me out a lot when I.	00:42:10
	Come on, because I didn't know none of that stuff.	00:42:13
	OK, but.	00:42:19
	But will she have access to your files? Some somebody will I mean if if I am not.	00:42:20
	If I'm not replaced before I leave, somebody will have access to it. If I'm replaced before I leave, that person will have access	00:42:26
	to it. OK.	00:42:30
	So yes, it'll be available for somebody.	00:42:34
	Kurt from Columbia County is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.	00:42:38
	And so I'm sure he'd be.	00:42:42
	A huge help. Oh yeah, to a new person because he's very generous.	00:42:44
	Yeah.	00:42:48
	OK.	00:42:51
	Any other on conservation staffing? I do want to talk about extension staffing. It says staffing on here, just I didn't do it when	00:42:52
	Marie was here because she was doing the way our the way our agenda was. I got the notice of resignation from Pat Malone.	00:42:59
	On in her last day will be November 7th. She's our educator for the community development and her.	00:43:07
	Position was eliminated at the end of the year, so it really won't affect us. So it'll be about.	00:43:11
	Seven weeks earlier than we had thought.	00:43:16
	So that won't affect us that much, but I just wanted you to be aware of that.	00:43:19
	The other the other updates in extension are.	00:43:23
	Cindy is retiring. She she could make it today.	00:43:27
	Umm, she's in another county, another meeting cow.	00:43:31
	That's a lot. So she she is long time planning to retire.	00:43:34
	Last month.	00:43:39
	At convention September I met with Jeremy, her boss and and I will meet him next week, actually the W.	00:43:40
	See a extension committee meets next week in person, so I will.	00:43:48
	Talked to him in person.	00:43:52
	They they when I first talked to him about.	00:43:53
	When Cindy told me this, like in August, it was planned with her planned retirement for a long time, I said that they plan and.	00:43:56
	Replace the position and then with all the funding and flux, he didn't know if they were going to do that, they were going to	00:44:02
	maybe combine more together or something.	00:44:05
	But umm.	00:44:09
	As of last month.	00:44:09
	Dean Martin, I believe, is going to replace the position.	00:44:11
	Without, with, with only like 4 counties instead of like 8 counties or, you know, whatever they're going to do, I don't know. But	00:44:16
	anyway.	00:44:19
	I don't, so we may be without one of those too.	00:44:22
	Next week I'll get a update from Jeremy.	00:44:26
	But according to Jeremy, last month when I talked to him, he said.	00:44:29
	That they were going to fund the position.	00:44:32
	That's awesome. I'm very happy that you are following up. So I am doing with extension. That's great because they you know, we get	00:44:35
	all this info and they're doing such a great job and now they're just like.	00:44:40
	Yeah. And we'll, we'll.	00:44:47
	Well, kind of like we did with this, we'll next year when we get the new person we'll probably have to go through.	00:44:50
	Plan also there left explore. We'll alternate the meeting so that we're not just planning the whole meetings. That'll be too much.	00:44:56
	But we will probably have to do the same thing again with that. But we are, yeah, we're starting with no, nobody.	00:45:02
	Was up front with us when she started that. It was going to be a very short term.	00:45:09
	And she's like super great.	00:45:13
	But alright, so that's the that's all the updates I have on on that.	00:45:15
	OK, OK, I guess that's it. Committee reports.	00:45:22
	I'm LSID.	00:45:26
	Our meeting last week it kind of interesting. We're doing a bunch of projects what we're finally doing next year.	00:45:29
	Tonight, we didn't think of this, the committee didn't think of this. We're going to have a lot of dollars flowing through for our	00:45:35
	shoreline.	00:45:38
	We're doing mapping and then we're getting the bids for the dredging project.	00:45:42
	But those are a lot of dollars, just those items, a couple $100,000, well the insurance.	00:45:46
	Our insurance is going to increase.	00:45:51
	For our little municipality like.	00:45:53
	Like 700 bucks because of that.	00:45:56
	Because of what again?	00:45:58
	Because we're increasing the volume of dollars our budget, because we're doing a couple $100,000 of like we, we waited years and	00:45:59
	years and years and then now we're pulling the trigger.	00:46:05
	For the shoreline mapping, it's like 80 grand or 100 grand. And then we're doing the dredging projects at 100, so our budgets like	00:46:10
	200 grand more or something.	00:46:14
	So then all of a sudden we get a renewal for our liability. It's like 700 more than because it's based on volume of dollars. It's	00:46:18
	like, oh crap, So we missed that. So just.	00:46:23
	I don't think there's anything we can do with this. I just thought I'd tell you that it's something to think about if you ever	00:46:28
	doing a big project that your insurance goes up. I didn't think, we didn't think of it. We made our budget up.	00:46:32
	OK, like improvements, updating, working on two things are surface water grant, we're applying for a grant to help us with that	00:46:39
	for next year, $20,000 from the DNR, they're working with us.	00:46:45
	Arthur comes to our meeting every time, so it's working really well. The dredging study, that's the big one.	00:46:52
	That's to help us get bids for the dredging up.	00:46:59
	By Oxbow Marine and that that is currently under review.	00:47:02
	By the vendor and by our consultant Ron French.	00:47:07
	And so that those those are the projects that are coming together.	00:47:10
	Far as the fish stocking, I thought Bill you'd like to know this. We had, we did it, our fish stocking, we finished it up. We did	00:47:14
	370. We we added game fish this year, so we added 300, we did 370 large mouth.	00:47:20
	Bass we did 1100 small mouth.	00:47:26
	We did 2700 bluegill. Normally we did a lot more bluegill.	00:47:28
	But this year we.	00:47:32
	We cut that down. The bluegill are reproducing too, we found. We found some other ones, so they are reproducing.	00:47:34
	1800 perch and then earlier like a couple months ago we did 750 northern. So we're trying to get more game fish. So that and that	00:47:40
	we did with rock.	00:47:44
	Coalition with Rock River Rescue. Normally we did 8000 year and this year we did $13,000.	00:47:49
	With some partners, people donated from LSID and so that's kind of cool. And then we got a better deal because we partnered with	00:47:55
	Rock River Rescue out of Janesville.	00:47:59
	So, umm.	00:48:03
	Anyway, that's the update there. Umm.	00:48:04
	And then Sandy Jones from village of Hucesford came and.	00:48:08
	There are a liaison person communicating with us and they will be looking.	00:48:11
	For money to replace a couple of peers, one at Nighter Park and the other one in downtown Houston, story they want to update the	00:48:15
	Piers.	00:48:19
	They wanted to know if we could help them. I I don't think we have any money for that, but we'll help them.	00:48:24
	When their fundraising efforts through LSI and probably not LSID, probably the LSA folks more so, but we are obviously.	00:48:28
	In favor of improving our launches and that kind of thing. So that's all I have.	00:48:36
	14th.	00:48:41
	My meeting was on the 14th.	00:48:42
	Yes.	00:48:44
	The left side of this page is the DNR summary of.	00:48:46
	Fish activity.	00:48:49
	Where they were.	00:48:51
	Managing Trussell Bay Our managing Trussell Bay.	00:48:53
	Thank you.	00:48:59
	And that is the second year they've been.	00:49:03
	Working at Trussville Bay, you'll see their 2024.	00:49:05
	Completely. The number is 712 lbs per acre.	00:49:10
	So this year it's increased to £752 per acre.	00:49:14
	Which is not the desired effect.	00:49:21
	On the right side is a graph that shows in the black numbers.	00:49:24
	The US.	00:49:28
	Fish and Wildlife.	00:49:29
	Different points where £89 per acre is the target.	00:49:31
	And you reached £268, you have a concern where the official.	00:49:36
	Damage to habitat.	00:49:40
	And you'll see in 2014 the first red number.	00:49:41
	That is the biomass for Beaver Dam Lake.	00:49:46
	Back in 2014, three 3/5.	00:49:49
	So the 2024 and 2025.	00:49:52
	She has increased substantially.	00:49:58
	And then when you take the.	00:50:02
	Carb plus Buffalo fish.	00:50:04
	You have £1198 per acre.	00:50:07
	So we'll be looking at that again next year.	00:50:14
	We're also starting the first phase at Rakes Bay.	00:50:17
	And we had the exceptional support from Corey in the town of Westford.	00:50:21
	We needed access to get the test boat out there and they provided a lot of great service.	00:50:26
	Helped us out exceptionally well. What are you doing there in Rakes?	00:50:32
	We're going to put electrode DNR, it's going to launch their boat.	00:50:36
	And there's no other place, so we had to create a ramp to get in there.	00:50:39
	And the DNR sweat testing.	00:50:44
	There'll be electoral fishing to get a number of fish.	00:50:46
	Per acre.	00:50:49
	As we did in trestle back.	00:50:50
	So if we continue to see this increase.	00:50:54
	And we see rates pay increase. We're going to have to ask DNR to reconsider the plan.	00:50:57
	So you're getting this data to go back to them, right? Is this data available for the other lakes to Lake Fox Lake, Mountain Lake,	00:51:04
	Innocent. No, no. This is their work on the lake over the past two years.	00:51:09
	I think they are planning to do significantly next year.	00:51:15
	OK for a mass fish population study.	00:51:19
	Obviously, our Lake Nation plan calls for increasing and changing the lake for more recreation. So we're obviously in line with	00:51:23
	this. So if anything.	00:51:27
	Anything we can do, please let me know.	00:51:31
	I and then Chris is gone, but Shane.	00:51:33
	Shane, I introduced you to him that one meeting if there's something critical.	00:51:36
	Maybe e-mail me and him It's also I can follow up with him because he I want him to be present.	00:51:41
	That may be useful for the attend one of the next meetings.	00:51:46
	To understand what their program is.	00:51:50
	Could you e-mail me information when the next Butler next meeting then I'll I'll forward it to Shane to make to follow up with him	00:51:53
	because I want him to connect otherwise.	00:51:57
	He's a really, really.	00:52:01
	Busy guy and I want to make sure that he knows.	00:52:02
	Thank you.	00:52:05
	Sure.	00:52:06
	Second page is a interesting project.	00:52:07
	Working with Bill on Deck and Jason Roy.	00:52:10
	We're looking at Dirty Park on the West side of Beaver Dam Lake.	00:52:13
	And we're going to be adding native plantings to the shoreline there.	00:52:17
	And then looking at a Prairie.	00:52:21
	The program up in the northeast corner of.	00:52:24
	Georgie Park.	00:52:29
	So on the right side, it's what we hope to see.	00:52:30
	Along the shoreline there.	00:52:32
	Right now it's pretty much rubble and weeds.	00:52:34
	So this would be a nice nicer place for people to recreate.	00:52:37
	To use it as an example of how other people on the lake.	00:52:41
	Can bring native plants to the shoreline.	00:52:45
	So we made our first walkthrough out there. We measured up the different areas.	00:52:47
	So now we're looking at different.	00:52:52
	There in rabbit resistant species that put out there.	00:52:54
	To have a better probability of success.	00:52:57
	And that's all for today. Do you guys do your water sampling through the winter months when there's ice on the lake?	00:53:04
	No, we stopped on the lake last month.	00:53:09
	And then we'll have one more in the rivers this month.	00:53:13
	Mill Creek and Beaver Creek will have one more.	00:53:16
	Start up in April.	00:53:19
	Yes.	00:53:21
	For the rivers and they also go to.	00:53:22
	Does that go to swims?	00:53:24
	OK.	00:53:25
	What do you do with that data, I can ask.	00:53:28
	Actually just went through it and I compared the upland area.	00:53:30
	To the mouth of the creeks.	00:53:34
	Then look at that compared to the in lake water.	00:53:36
	The DNR art said that they would they need that data, but we've never done anything with it, so I asked them about that.	00:53:39
	And you said they we have to have it for our grants, he said. But it's a good comparison to see where your inputs are coming from.	00:53:45
	OK, good point. So then if there's a.	00:53:50
	And I don't know.	00:53:54
	And our goal or work plan for next year.	00:53:56
	You know, I'd like to target certain like if we see one stream as too high a nutrients and do we target the farm for something	00:53:58
	there for.	00:54:02
	You know, cover crops or you know what I mean. I would like to go to the source. We found that on our, you know.	00:54:06
	Beaver.	00:54:12
	You're buffering all the way up to Hwy. 73.	00:54:13
	Mill Creek, we have one area that's right at the mouth.	00:54:17
	That we're looking at.	00:54:20
	The past, the trestle, all the way up to Fox Lake. It's buffered.	00:54:21
	And then on the shorelines of the lake, we're finding that the producers.	00:54:25
	Doing a very good job of.	00:54:29
	Controlling what's going into the Creek and in the lake.	00:54:30
	OK, so we backtracked to find out where the source may be.	00:54:34
	And we're finding some good results.	00:54:38
	That's good. Thank you.	00:54:43
	OK. And yeah, we'll update us next month on his.	00:54:46
	OK. I guess that's it for today by.	00:54:49
	Completion of the agenda. I call the meeting. We have preacher agenda items. Oh, I'm sorry. You get two other things. There's	00:54:52
	Southern.	00:54:55
	All right. I'm sorry, a few more things. November 24th. Is that OK?	00:54:59
	Once. Once. When's Thanksgiving is that close? That's the following Thursday.	00:55:03
	Is that there?	00:55:07
	Following Thursday? No, it's the same week. We have a meeting, committee meeting on Monday and then Thursdays Thanksgiving.	00:55:09
	I'm going to find.	00:55:15
	Calendar. So you going with you. I will be here.	00:55:16
	All right.	00:55:20
	Sorry guys.	00:55:23
	OK, so wake up Thanksgiving.	00:55:24
	Yep, House.	00:55:26
	The following week I'm gone so.	00:55:28
	Works for me. Anyone. Is everyone OK with that? Just give me a second, sorry.	00:55:30
	OK.	00:55:34
	November.	00:55:37
	24th that week.	00:55:39
	So I have the land and water meeting.	00:55:41
	And then?	00:55:44
	Can everybody else come that day?	00:55:47
	I can too.	00:55:50
	I'm gonna have company, but they can live.	00:55:51
	No, OK.	00:55:54
	24.	00:55:57
	24th.	00:55:58
	24th at 8:30.	00:55:59
	Yep, that'll be John's last meeting.	00:56:01
	Upcoming events you have Southern Areas Association meeting.	00:56:03
	Are you going to be able to attend that?	00:56:06
	That's Monday next week.	00:56:09
	I wanted to ask you last time we went there, it was kind of a morning meeting.	00:56:10
	Yeah, this is an all day. It's two things we can talk offline is all day.	00:56:14
	Yeah, I thought it was just a morning meeting. We can talk offline about this. Bye.	00:56:17
	Move to adjourn. Sorry, OK.	00:56:22
	Well, future agenda items.	00:56:25
	Many of you, I think we kind of incorporated them.	00:56:27
	Yeah.	00:56:29
	OK. All right.	00:56:31
	Did we cover those then the future what we.	00:56:32
	Well, like John's going to be telling us some a couple things about his leaving and then.	00:56:35
	We're not going to really be starting.	00:56:41
	You have the plans.	00:56:44
	The next meeting.	00:56:46
	So the only the big thing will be the update.	00:56:48
	Right. That's really, but you don't as far as conservation, is there any big thing happening?	00:56:51
	I'll go through and see. You know, I can give you an update to what's been going on this. The only other thing I can think of is	00:56:56
	if this if this federal shutdown goes extended.	00:57:01
	Yeah. How does that affect our relationship with?	00:57:05
	FSA and.	00:57:10
	You know, it's just dormant.	00:57:12
	It just but, but I mean, I mean like when it comes back, are we gonna have to?	00:57:14
	No.	00:57:18
	What? What's affecting us now?	00:57:20
	Is all the standards and specs we use.	00:57:23
	Or on a government website.	00:57:26
	That website shut down.	00:57:28
	So we can't go on, check the website down, they shut it down. They're not maintaining it. Yes, there's nobody there.	00:57:30
	So we've been able to go to the decap engineers and get our information from them.	00:57:36
	But right now, that's.	00:57:43
	The biggest thing that affects our offices?	00:57:44
	Is the website that we used to use all time is shut down?	00:57:48
	All of our economic.	00:57:51
	Nationwide data is coming out, except for the labor report. That's the only thing coming out.	00:57:53
	Is a labor report right that sets interest rates like?	00:57:57
	All over the world. So like, you know.	00:57:59
	It's not just affecting.	00:58:02
	US so it's a great workaround.	00:58:03
	Next job.	00:58:07
	It might be a short meeting next month then.	00:58:08
	So.	00:58:11
	All right, I call the meeting adjourned by finishing them.	00:58:12
	Completing the agenda. Thank you. I'll quick sign Cheryl, we give me the minutes.	00:58:15
	Before you go.	00:58:20
	No quick sign this.	00:58:22

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	OK, Marie, you're up.	00:00:01
	The joke in our office was that if you.	00:00:08
	Switch the meeting date. Cindy's not available, but I said it was great for me because I have to go to my national conference next	00:00:11
	week and Patty's at hers this week, so.	00:00:15
	But I wanted to share a little bit because October is national 4H week month.	00:00:20
	And so the October 5th to 11th we celebrated National 4H Week. One of the things that I did was.	00:00:25
	Go talk to Wally.	00:00:32
	On daily Dodge or hometown today for he gave me both halves.	00:00:34
	So I was there from like 9:00 until.	00:00:40
	1050 or 950 talking to him.	00:00:43
	But one of the exciting things that happened this year that I have not seen in Wisconsin is that.	00:00:45
	Governor Evers proclaimed National 4H Week in the state and so that was really exciting that he recognized that.	00:00:50
	National level.	00:00:58
	But a couple of the things that I just wanted to share with you because I haven't, I don't always have a chance to talk about.	00:01:00
	4H and what our program looks like.	00:01:06
	So last year, we're still in the middle of enrollment right now. So I only have about 300.	00:01:09
	But last year we had 630 young people in the 4H program.	00:01:14
	And one of the questions that one of the clubs got when they were doing.	00:01:18
	Promotions in the school during National 4H week was.	00:01:24
	About.	00:01:28
	Backgrounds of people.	00:01:29
	Because they're like, I thought you had to live in a farm. And so we shared some of that in the news releases that we sent out.	00:01:31
	46% of our.	00:01:37
	Youth are females and 53% are males, so we're pretty evenly split in the program.	00:01:40
	But if you look at the community baked.	00:01:47
	Breakdowns. 53% live in towns under 10,000, which that's pretty much everywhere but Beaver Dam.	00:01:49
	33% live in towns or cities between 10 and 50,000.	00:01:57
	And.	00:02:02
	13 Oh no and 13% live over 50,000 so I'm guessing that is the Beaver Dam population.	00:02:03
	So really letting people know that you can live in a rural area and be involved in the 4H program without having to live on a farm	00:02:10
	is kind of the myth that.	00:02:14
	We were trying to take away with some of the community server or the things that were going out that this year during National 4H	00:02:18
	Week.	00:02:21
	And two other pieces of kind of researchy things, but I don't often share them with you.	00:02:25
	But we sent them out with part of the news release as well is.	00:02:31
	The focus from the national 4H was called Beyond Ready. So it's really making young people ready for the community that they're	00:02:36
	going to move into.	00:02:40
	Being ready to be leaders in their community. We have officer training tonight, so yeah, getting ready for all of those different	00:02:44
	roles that they take on.	00:02:48
	And.	00:02:52
	A few years ago we had a preliminary study from Tufts Research and then they followed up and finished their research.	00:02:54
	And what their research has proven about 4H because they compared 4H.	00:03:01
	Young people and people that were not in the 4H program.	00:03:07
	In that study of positive youth development.	00:03:10
	It said that nearly three times.	00:03:13
	Our youth are used are nearly three times more likely to participate in community service, which is probably not a surprise to	00:03:16
	many of you. You've seen roadsides.	00:03:20
	Youth do roadside cleanups and one club actually participated in the statewide community service effort during 4H week and	00:03:25
	collected food for the food pantry. I'm guessing in Beaver Dam because that's where the club is.	00:03:31
	They're also two times more likely to have the goal of being a leader, and they're two times more likely to report living.	00:03:39
	Life with intentionality and purpose. And so that's really exciting to know that those are really focuses of young people.	00:03:47
	But then to bring it even closer to home, we do that annual thrive.	00:03:54
	Youth study every year and so in order for me to get data from Dodge County, I have to have over 20% of the young people that are	00:03:59
	between 13 and 19 in Dodge County.	00:04:05
	Complete the survey.	00:04:10
	And so that's really exciting because what those young people here in Dodge County said is that 85% of them said they're	00:04:12
	passionate about things they do in 4H.	00:04:17
	92% agreed that 4H gives them the opportunity to explore something they really care about.	00:04:22
	90% said they.	00:04:28
	Reporting feeling safe and supported in their 4H programs.	00:04:30
	88% said that they feel like they matter.	00:04:34
	On Hometown today, but I wanted to share a little bit of of that data and.	00:05:06
	I think we're pretty on track. We have about 75 leaders that have already registered in. Last year we had 125 of them.	00:05:11
	And so we have.	00:05:17
	Kids getting re enrolled and 22 clubs around the county.	00:05:19
	And hopefully I did not. I was not successful in finding an AmeriCorps member.	00:05:23
	That's one of my challenges here in Dodge County for the whole school year.	00:05:29
	Because, you know, I look at most of them are usually college students and they have to be available for 20 some hours a week.	00:05:34
	And so if they're off in college, they can't usually do that, but I'm optimistic that we're going to get a young person.	00:05:41
	That's interested from she goes to UW Madison but lives in Wapan and Patty and I did the county health fair last week and just to	00:05:48
	kind of remind the rest of the department, the rest of the county that extension is available and doing programs and what we have	00:05:54
	available and.	00:06:00
	I ironically talked to a mom who said.	00:06:06
	My daughter we live in Wapan. My daughter comes home every week, every weekend and stays through Monday so.	00:06:08
	She's checking out the AmeriCorps program, so hopefully that will be up and running in January and then we can.	00:06:14
	Maybe do some after school programs because Horicon is still my.	00:06:20
	One area that we don't have a 4H club though.	00:06:24
	Members drive, so that's not a problem to come to Juneau or to go.	00:06:27
	To, you know, show or wherever it may be so.	00:06:31
	So that's what I have for you unless you have questions.	00:06:35
	Comment Beaver Damages had a neat project with FFA.	00:06:39
	The Rockaroo Coalition funded.	00:06:43
	Three cleaning stations. Oh, then Gansky's Beaver Dam FFA class built them.	00:06:45
	Then the district installed them.	00:06:52
	So you had the FFA in the middle there and they came out very nice.	00:06:53
	And.	00:06:57
	Things like 25 kids were involved.	00:06:59
	Wow that's really exciting because it Gans keys are in 4H but they're in the Fox live Frocks Lake club rather than the Beaver Dam	00:07:01
	club so.	00:07:05
	All right. Thank you, Marie. Thank you. Have a great day.	00:07:12
	We'll see you next month.	00:07:16
	Hopefully.	00:07:17
	And with some 4H ERS later this year, I have a couple of key award. Yeah, when is that? In February?	00:07:19
	No, we tried to do December or January. I'm still having conversations with county clerk and.	00:07:24
	Dave to find out which.	00:07:31
	When works and they're like, well, what works for the kids because one of the boys is at Iowa State.	00:07:33
	So if it's.	00:07:39
	If these on break.	00:07:40
	In December, I think we'll be doing that, but otherwise, January, no, I think that's our time to shine to the county board and I,	00:07:42
	I, you know, I think this, I think if you get some visuals showing and how many kids are involved in this yet?	00:07:47
	Before the person, give yourself 30 seconds to at least show the 630 kids you don't, you know, I mean, because I don't know if the	00:07:53
	county board realizes there's that many.	00:07:57
	People.	00:08:01
	When you're showing the.	00:08:02
	You know the key, of course our winner, of course we want to present them, but I just that's your time to shine exactly every year	00:08:03
	so.	00:08:06
	Well, and it'll be exciting because.	00:08:10
	The one.	00:08:12
	The one young person is currently serving as a state FFA officer this year. And I invited him if he could come tonight and he's	00:08:13
	going to help teach the presidents and.	00:08:17
	Do kind of a get a kind of an opening event for the club.	00:08:23
	Officers tonight, so that'll be good too.	00:08:27
	All right. Thank you. See then.	00:08:30
	OK.	00:08:31
	Agency. OK. So the agencies, are they laid off, do you know, or they're still on furlough or whatever you want to call it? OK.	00:08:34
	OK. So the two guys are not going to be here today?	00:08:42
	Move to wildlife crop.	00:08:47
	Damage.	00:08:48
	Whoops. Well, I'm sorry.	00:08:49
	Yeah, you didn't know that's what Mike's here for. Oh, Mike is OK, Mike.	00:08:51
	I guess the first two.	00:09:00
	Pages are next year's budget.	00:09:01
	They look a little bit different, but one is basically the federal.	00:09:04
	Breakdown and one is state breakdown.	00:09:07
	The the number we're actually approving today is the $60,958.33 that includes $10,000 for deer donation processing.	00:09:10
	And $1000 to the county for county admin costs.	00:09:20
	Federal cost share.	00:09:24
	We'd put 8181 and dollars and $0.69.	00:09:26
	Towards that budget.	00:09:30
	Is there any?	00:09:32
	Any questions? Anybody see anything that?	00:09:34
	This is all passed through money for Wildlife Damage abatement and Claims program comes from the DNR and.	00:09:37
	Gets paid straight to the crop growers.	00:09:43
	Kind of tie the deer donation the third page in with the budget just because it is a line item on the budget.	00:09:57
	But you have to sign that as well.	00:10:05
	John, is this, is this number in the budget exactly like this or?	00:10:09
	No, it's not. It's not the exact amount because.	00:10:14
	I have to guesstimate what it is.	00:10:17
	But it's flow through money, so it really doesn't matter.	00:10:19
	I can always adjust it after the fact.	00:10:24
	OK.	00:10:26
	And we accept the.	00:10:27
	County budget for the wildlife damage.	00:10:29
	Reimbursement program.	00:10:32
	OK, I'll second, second by then first by.	00:10:35
	Supervisor.	00:10:40
	Is there any discussion?	00:10:41
	Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying aye.	00:10:43
	Aye, those opposed.	00:10:46
	OK, Thank you. Using me to quick sign this then Yep, I guess there's one more page, the last page there, that's our crop price	00:10:48
	proposal for 2025 and that's what.	00:10:52
	The farmers would get paid.	00:10:57
	For this year's crop damage.	00:11:00
	This is a year long average basically from September last year to September this year.	00:11:01
	Then essentially a starting point. If you guys want to move them, you're more than welcome to.	00:11:05
	If you want to go with.	00:11:10
	Look them averages and you can do that as well but.	00:11:11
	It's totally up to you.	00:11:14
	I don't have a feel for this, John. What is it?	00:11:16
	To look like to you, it's fair.	00:11:18
	It looks higher than what the market is now, but it's fair.	00:11:20
	Many other can you look at it? The numbers look OK.	00:11:25
	I don't have a feel for it. I just want you guys to check it. Lisa, do you have anything on that?	00:11:27
	It's an average.	00:11:32
	Actual payments, so I would go with that.	00:11:34
	OK, All right. I need a motion to approve these council move. OK, John.	00:11:36
	Second, Ken. Second, any further discussion?	00:11:41
	Hearing none, those in favor signify by saying aye, aye those opposed.	00:11:44
	Thank you.	00:11:49
	Sign these for you? Is that me? Do I sign both of these?	00:11:51
	There is two more. Yeah, Yep.	00:11:54
	Who?	00:11:58
	Who made the motion on the first one? John? First one was for Lisa. Lisa.	00:12:00
	Lisa made the motion who seconded that. Thank you.	00:12:05
	No, no, no, no.	00:12:09
	Thank you.	00:12:13
	Thank you.	00:12:16
	OK, thanks.	00:12:19
	All right, Senior sign right where it says county, Yes, right, OK.	00:12:21
	I'm sorry, Mike, I don't. We don't work with you too often, so.	00:12:28
	I saw you had a couple things on here.	00:12:33
	25.	00:12:38
	And Mike, after you get the other signatures, can you send me a copy please?	00:12:39
	5 here and then.	00:12:48
	This one OK.	00:12:51
	20.	00:13:00
	By.	00:13:01
	OK. We are all set. Thank you so much. Thank you.	00:13:09
	Thanks, Mike.	00:13:12
	OK, fire land.	00:13:18
	Preservation updates. We have two non compliance.	00:13:22
	Yeah, we have two notices and non compliance. These are both voluntarily. They want to get out of the program.	00:13:24
	Totals.	00:13:31
	I had somewhere.	00:13:34
	About 158 acres total.	00:13:36
	So Gordon E.	00:13:39
	And Tory Straus.	00:13:41
	From.	00:13:43
	Waterloo.	00:13:44
	That's where they're from, but we're Old Portland.	00:13:45
	So they just.	00:13:48
	Don't think the money's good enough to do nutrient management? Well, one of them, the gentleman, is in a home.	00:13:50
	And the kids don't want anything to do with the other one, the renter.	00:13:58
	Just want to.	00:14:01
	Follow through with the Nutrient Management plan.	00:14:03
	How many? How many acres Ballpark here is between the two of them, It's about 158 acres.	00:14:09
	OK, do we need to make a motion for each one?	00:14:17
	You can do it together as one.	00:14:20
	OK, OK, I need a motion to.	00:14:21
	Issue these two notices of non compliance.	00:14:27
	You have a motion.	00:14:31
	Do you guys want to see these? Do you want more details? Do you want to see him?	00:14:32
	Do you? Are you getting our approval for the to send another notice? I thought you said two notices already.	00:14:36
	There's two individuals.	00:14:41
	OK so I'm asking for your approval to approve the notices and non compliance.	00:14:43
	Set sent a notice? If not, I thought you sent. No, this is voluntary.	00:14:50
	Yeah. So these two came to the county and said we don't want to be in it.	00:14:55
	It's it's it's confusing because it's the same form that goes whether we're kicking them out or they want to get out. Got it.	00:14:58
	We're not kicking them out. These guys came to the county and said we don't want to be in it anymore, but they still have to get a	00:15:03
	notice, correct. Did you guys want to?	00:15:07
	See the details, I can pass it around.	00:15:12
	No the folders. I don't think it's necessary but.	00:15:14
	OK, I need a motion then to I'll make a motion.	00:15:18
	OK, can we has a motion to approve these No2 notices of non compliance and if I don't the motion needs put the two names?	00:15:21
	I Cheryl, you could put the two names in just to make sure we're.	00:15:29
	OK, do we have a second?	00:15:33
	John, Lisa. OK, Lisa, you're up first. OK, so.	00:15:36
	Lisa was second. Any further discussion on these notices? Voluntary notices?	00:15:40
	And those in favor signify by saying aye.	00:15:46
	Aye, those opposed.	00:15:48
	OK. And then these I just I can sign after right? Yep.	00:15:50
	And then Cheryl, I also need the minutes I didn't get. They were not in here.	00:15:53
	For John and I to sign OK after the meeting. Yeah, he's getting notes be so don't leave.	00:15:57
	Until we click sign them.	00:16:02
	OK. All right.	00:16:03
	Approved membership for National Association of Conservation Districts. Isn't it in our budget?	00:16:07
	It's in our budget, but their renewal comes this time of the year instead of the beginning of the year like our other memberships	00:16:12
	are.	00:16:16
	OK, so.	00:16:19
	Basically.	00:16:22
	We can.	00:16:23
	Be a member and donate whatever we want.	00:16:24
	The amount and they have brackets in here, Contributor, bronze, platinum all the way up there.	00:16:27
	We've been giving them $100 the last two years.	00:16:33
	You can.	00:16:37
	Give them 3000 if you want to do that because they they say you can.	00:16:38
	This is our national organization.	00:16:44
	National National Association of Conservation Districts.	00:16:46
	Wisconsin is unique and different from the other states because all the other states have what they call conservation districts,	00:16:51
	which cover.	00:16:55
	4568.	00:16:59
	Township. Our counties.	00:17:02
	Wisconsin's the only one that has a land conservation department in each individual county.	00:17:04
	OK, so.	00:17:10
	Wisconsin is also the lowest.	00:17:12
	State.	00:17:15
	Membership to.	00:17:16
	So all right. But we've given them $100 the last couple years prior to that.	00:17:17
	We have not been a member with them for.	00:17:24
	1215 years.	00:17:29
	So I think we should be members.	00:17:31
	We before we went in on this.	00:17:32
	Initially we went on this because.	00:17:35
	It's not like $100 is going to make their budget, but that they can add as many of their membership they as you know, that gives	00:17:39
	them greater lobbying power and all of that lobbying on a federal level clearly helps us, whatever they get.	00:17:47
	So agree.	00:17:55
	And we have it. We have the money in our budget. Yeah, I budgeted 100. Yeah, So let's.	00:17:56
	All right.	00:18:02
	We have a motion. Do we need a motion or we have to do anything? Yeah.	00:18:04
	I would I would give you a motion for it.	00:18:08
	Also move OK.	00:18:10
	John, first we have a second.	00:18:12
	I'll second it. OK, Ben, second.	00:18:14
	Any further discussion?	00:18:16
	All those in favor, see just 400 bucks, right? Yeah.	00:18:18
	OK, all those in favor signify by saying aye aye.	00:18:21
	Those opposed.	00:18:24
	OK.	00:18:26
	Wildlife.	00:18:29
	Damage program, Yeah, what what Mike was just here our third quarter wildlife damage program bill came in, it's a $6964.14, so.	00:18:32
	Just need your approval to request reimbursement on that.	00:18:44
	Yep. Work plan. Annual work plan.	00:18:47
	I need your approval on. I need #10 first.	00:18:51
	I'll move that we approve the third quarter reimbursement request for wildlife damage program.	00:18:55
	OK.	00:19:00
	We have a second.	00:19:02
	I'll second.	00:19:03
	Hey, Ken. Second, those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed.	00:19:05
	OK.	00:19:10
	All right, update on the annual work plan.	00:19:16
	OK. I presented that to you last year last month.	00:19:20
	And.	00:19:23
	Lisa had requested that.	00:19:25
	We revise it to show percentages.	00:19:27
	To match what our land and water plan says.	00:19:30
	But our land and water plan actually has acres.	00:19:33
	Because I looked in there and those no, no, it's not percents.	00:19:37
	It's, it's flat acres because that that's it's where I got my numbers from my land from the annual work plan from.	00:19:41
	When you look in there for.	00:19:48
	So you must have picked a number of acres that was equal to 10% because that's what we agreed on.	00:19:56
	Well, I'll give you an example. Goal one, protect and improve quality of Dodge County's groundwater resources.	00:20:06
	Item 2 is promote farmer adoption, implement 16,500 new acres of nutrient management plans, 5000 new acres of cover crops and 3000	00:20:13
	new acres of reduced tillage annually.	00:20:19
	So.	00:20:25
	I mean, it's, it's all acres in here. It's not.	00:20:27
	Percent. So that's where the annual work plan comes from.	00:20:30
	So that's from the 10 year plan.	00:20:34
	Yep. All right. Well, that must have been the 10% then because we talked about the 10:20.	00:20:36
	Whatever. Then we went back to 10.	00:20:42
	So.	00:20:44
	My question is.	00:20:45
	That was.	00:20:48
	What was it 15,000 new acres or 15116 thousand 516,000?	00:20:50
	So.	00:20:57
	How many acres are in the program?	00:20:58
	160,000.	00:21:01
	Yeah, somewhere there, maybe a little less. That's 10%.	00:21:05
	16116 thousand that's where you OK? Well.	00:21:09
	If it is but this this does, that's fine. So did you put the increase of?	00:21:13
	So you just in that last thing you put the number in, right?	00:21:18
	Yeah, so.	00:21:21
	Can you at least tell us?	00:21:23
	You know, because I'm not going to be here for five more years, right? So when they do their 10 year plan.	00:21:25
	Right, you could.	00:21:31
	Just take.	00:21:34
	You see what I'm saying?	00:21:35
	They're going to see anchors ago. Did that meet our plan?	00:21:37
	I guess it did because they can just look at the total.	00:21:42
	They should just look at whether the 16,000 I do and I do have a follow up I do. I do an annual report to them every year. Let's	00:21:46
	them know where we where we are with stuff.	00:21:52
	And then there's a five year.	00:21:59
	Review.	00:22:01
	Which the date has already been set for.	00:22:03
	It's 2027 February 2027.	00:22:06
	Where we have to go through OK.	00:22:11
	What's our plan, say, what have we done for the last five years and we have to actually go to the Land and Water Board and present	00:22:14
	it to them?	00:22:17
	So so.	00:22:21
	Your annual plan is already done.	00:22:22
	For 25.	00:22:25
	Right. I gave you 25 so you guys could all see what we're doing while we're talking about it, the one for 26 won't be due until.	00:22:26
	It's the same same date as the annual plan. It's either February or March.	00:22:36
	Well, I'd like to talk about this along with 14 when we get down to there just for a second, if that'd be OK with you. OK.	00:22:41
	When you give us our update to our thoughts on going forward.	00:22:48
	Yes, sure.	00:22:51
	OK.	00:22:53
	Any other questions on the update?	00:22:55
	Of the plan, this is a follow up.	00:22:57
	OK, update committee and process for up.	00:23:00
	Updating the manure storage, we talked about that last month.	00:23:03
	About that cup coming for next year or is that you said it's a process, right? It's a yeah, I process.	00:23:06
	Lisa Trumbull.	00:23:12
	Was the lady that used to work with this and then she retired?	00:23:14
	So there's a Jennifer that's.	00:23:18
	Filled her position now, so I did talk with her and I did go through and look at.	00:23:20
	The process that we updated in 2007.	00:23:27
	It's a little different, or it can be or it can be the same, a little different than our land and water plan.	00:23:33
	There you get SIS and advisory committees where I I try to get lake people, business people, farmers, cash, green dairy.	00:23:40
	And we sit down, we have several meetings and go through and revise the land and water plan.	00:23:48
	We also did a survey that we sent out to the public.	00:23:52
	To get their input, the townships and that.	00:23:56
	A nurse storage ordinance. You can do it that way, but you're not required to do it that way.	00:24:00
	The last time.	00:24:04
	When we revised it in 2007.	00:24:06
	Basically, from what I could see, there were three committee members.	00:24:09
	Mark and myself that that did the revision. Mark went to the committee and said this is what our current plan says. I think we	00:24:14
	should update this and this.	00:24:19
	And we had a few meetings and.	00:24:24
	That that's the process that we took then.	00:24:26
	We can do it the same way this time around.	00:24:30
	We can get the citizen advisory committee.	00:24:33
	She did look.	00:24:37
	Look through our plan.	00:24:38
	And gave me a couple recommendations that you know you're you're kind of lacking here. You could update this. Is it necessary? No.	00:24:40
	It's 11 caution she made is to make sure whatever you update.	00:24:49
	That your staff.	00:24:55
	Can handle that type of workload.	00:24:57
	And if you look at.	00:25:01
	Ordinances from different counties there there.	00:25:03
	Really extreme.	00:25:06
	To even a little more lacks than we are.	00:25:07
	So I mean, they're, they're all over the board.	00:25:10
	We're not out of, are we out of compliance? It's not compliance, no, it's just to update. It's our ordinance where the legislative	00:25:14
	body, right. So we haven't updated.	00:25:19
	Almost 20 years. And John's been saying for years, like we do need to do updates. He's been saying that over and over. Senate	00:25:24
	process takes months to do this. Yeah. Yeah, it'll take a few months. All right. Could we then?	00:25:30
	Also bring that up when we get to 14.	00:25:37
	Sure.	00:25:40
	OK. All right. Any other questions on that?	00:25:41
	Well, if the statutes change for manure storage.	00:25:45
	In 20 years.	00:25:49
	Probably the standards the that you design it around have changed.	00:25:51
	But our ordinance has.	00:25:56
	The NRCS Standard 313 is the Manure Storage Structure Ordinance.	00:25:59
	But our is the standard, the specs.	00:26:04
	Our ordinance says.	00:26:08
	References 313.	00:26:09
	And any future updates? So basically we're covered on that.	00:26:11
	And so.	00:26:16
	Otherwise.	00:26:18
	You might be updating this like, every six months because there's multiple standards that fit in there and they're always being	00:26:19
	looked at and revised. Yeah.	00:26:23
	And if somebody looks back to see if they're in compliance, right, they got to do legislative research to go and find what the	00:26:28
	updates are, which is why you update to the most recent standard.	00:26:32
	Which is why John said we do need to update. Agrees. I don't do. I don't know. I don't disagree. I agree. Yeah.	00:26:37
	I agree.	00:26:42
	So we do have to reference the more current.	00:26:43
	Standards, right? Because if you read it, if you even got it and looked at it right, and you'd say, oh.	00:26:46
	313 and then you went there, you're like, what the hell that's.	00:26:51
	Not even this anymore. And how are you going to find update like?	00:26:54
	It's not fair to who's ever.	00:26:58
	Subject to this.	00:27:00
	Or whatever engineer.	00:27:01
	They hireright.	00:27:03
	They got to go do research to see what standard it is.	00:27:06
	So.	00:27:10
	No, it makes sense.	00:27:11
	I think that's a direction we're headed I think for now and then we'll.	00:27:19
	Talk about that again at 14 so.	00:27:25
	Any other we'll talk about. I think the committee agrees we want to do that and it's how we're going to get there next year, I	00:27:27
	think, or starting as soon as we can.	00:27:32
	I I think that's the thought here is that unless there's any.	00:27:36
	Difference from the committee. I think that's the direction we want to go. We want to get this done.	00:27:39
	Let's go to Vehicle Update.	00:27:44
	OK.	00:27:46
	I put in the.	00:27:49
	The budget for a new vehicle.	00:27:50
	So I thought I'd.	00:27:53
	Give you an update. We put new tires on our.	00:27:54
	Ford Explorer. That's the police squad.	00:27:57
	And had them put in and then.	00:28:00
	I took it into getting alignment done.	00:28:03
	And they said they couldn't do the alignment because the lower ball joints were bad. It was making noise when we drove it the the	00:28:06
	inner.	00:28:10
	Inner bearing of one of the half shafts.	00:28:15
	Is bad the rear?	00:28:19
	Shocks were bad.	00:28:21
	So with the tires and well.	00:28:22
	The extra work was 13125 dollars.	00:28:26
	Plus the tires. So total we spent $2071 on that thing in the last.	00:28:30
	Month.	00:28:35
	We couldn't even align it.	00:28:36
	Yeah, we have a good reason. The reason I asked John to bring it up is that obviously we have our budget.	00:28:38
	Next.	00:28:43
	Couple months and we have in there the.	00:28:44
	The dollar amount for.	00:28:46
	The new vehicle.	00:28:48
	While we were unable to get a vehicle this year, Is that correct?	00:28:50
	Yep, I just wanted.	00:28:53
	I think it'd be more prudent for our county. I think the committee.	00:28:54
	Obviously it already passed our budget, but.	00:28:57
	We thought it'd be 41,000 but I think you put in like 46 right?	00:29:00
	We got 3.	00:29:04
	Bids. The lowest one was 40,000, the highest one was 5758 thousand.	00:29:06
	I put in, I think it was 56,000 in the budget.	00:29:13
	We're still we'll look if we get 6 grand for the other one.	00:29:18
	Yeah. That we're gonna sell. OK, got it. Yep. Yeah, so I think.	00:29:21
	I just.	00:29:26
	What might happen has happened. Other times is the day of the budget.	00:29:27
	Someone will try to take the vehicle out and I want to be prepared to argue. And if you're you'll be there that day.	00:29:31
	That we have to reference you, That we're not really saving money.	00:29:36
	By getting a vehicle that is 150,000 miles.	00:29:40
	Yeah, it's it's not saving our county money.	00:29:44
	As a Pope, we and plus we have to spoke.	00:29:47
	Do an inner.	00:29:49
	Inter county transfer of $8000 right?	00:29:50
	Yeah, do that correct.	00:29:52
	So.	00:29:54
	Buying a new truck at 41,000 that'll last at least 10 years is an incredible deal.	00:29:55
	I think for our county plus.	00:30:01
	Plus, as we know, when we go places doesn't look like.	00:30:03
	Garbage employees aren't driving garbage.	00:30:06
	So I I just want you to be prepared.	00:30:10
	For those arguments should that.	00:30:13
	Happen so I want to talk about it for a second. So well, you could just make a note to.	00:30:15
	You know that we just dropped 3000 on maintenance. They couldn't even align it because the ball bearings are bad.	00:30:20
	And and and and we and we were unable to get a vehicle that.	00:30:25
	We were promised.	00:30:30
	Yeah, and that was further 24.	00:30:32
	It doesn't save money, doesn't save money.	00:30:35
	Yeah. So, OK.	00:30:38
	OK.	00:30:39
	Any other questions on vehicle update?	00:30:41
	All right, staffing update. Go ahead, John.	00:30:44
	OK.	00:30:46
	I had talked to Cameron last week, he was going to have a meeting with HR Tanya up in HR.	00:30:49
	And then they were going to get together to discuss the process of.	00:30:56
	Filling my position in.	00:31:01
	I've talked about before, but I did turn in my official notice as all you all know.	00:31:03
	I turned it in so December 10th is my last day.	00:31:07
	So only have one more committee meeting with them.	00:31:10
	Oh my God, yeah.	00:31:12
	That's why I wanted to talk about those other two things he did. It's another check mark. Yeah, I know, I know, I know. Life goal.	00:31:14
	Get off the I know. So still so, yeah. So I did call Tonya and HR this morning.	00:31:20
	They did meet. They did talk.	00:31:28
	Camera needs to fill out a requisition form and then she can post it out there.	00:31:30
	However, I believe you're all also aware that Brian Fields turned in his retirement, and since he is.	00:31:36
	Going to be gone in a couple weeks. That is taking priority right now as it should.	00:31:42
	That is a huge position over there.	00:31:46
	So.	00:31:49
	They they are working on it.	00:31:51
	Once. Once everything is done, I.	00:31:53
	I'll provide.	00:31:57
	I'm gonna send Tanya the e-mail for.	00:31:58
	The land and water.	00:32:00
	So she can also post it statewide through all my.	00:32:02
	Other counterpart offices and that stuff so.	00:32:05
	Yeah, and I did talk to Cameron be right before the meeting and we're on track and they're going to get it posted. He figures	00:32:08
	it'll take a month to get applications approx. It's a process, not going to go overnight.	00:32:13
	The only thing I didn't ask them is if the what does temporary plans are so hopefully by the next committee meeting, you know,	00:32:17
	like.	00:32:20
	How we can operate when you're gone, right?	00:32:24
	Now I know initially he had said that he wanted to fill the position before I left, so there's some crossover.	00:32:26
	But then at last month's management Council meeting, Tanya also said that.	00:32:35
	Because of Thanksgiving holiday being a Thursday and Friday, that would be their first.	00:32:41
	Start date and nobody's here to onboard them so.	00:32:46
	Their first two days of work would be a paid holidays.	00:32:51
	So I don't know how that's going to work.	00:32:54
	But that that was Cameron's intent, was to have somebody on board here.	00:32:56
	A couple weeks, but I am also.	00:33:01
	Going to Florida.	00:33:04
	The first week of December, so.	00:33:06
	Them two weeks I would be gone, one of them two weeks anyway so.	00:33:08
	OK, so I'd like to reference back to item.	00:33:13
	Sorry, go ahead.	00:33:17
	Do you know for sure if it's going to be the first week and then you're going to come back and work, or is it just going to be the	00:33:18
	second week?	00:33:21
	When I'm, when I'm on vacation, yeah.	00:33:24
	I know it's the first week of December, so like the 1st through the 7th and then you're going to be back for a couple.	00:33:26
	Wednesday, yeah, because things got to line up with pay periods. Now it's not.	00:33:35
	A random start.	00:33:40
	Stop. So it's through November.	00:33:42
	And then a week. And then Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Yep.	00:33:44
	OK, so next month we'll.	00:33:47
	To be sure to talk.	00:33:50
	Base of the camera and what what his plan is.	00:33:51
	Because we can have something.	00:33:53
	Also so.	00:33:58
	Back just for a minute, back to those other two things. We're talking about the annual work plan.	00:34:00
	And the update on the manure storage, So I would like to get, I know you're not going to be doing those, but I would.	00:34:05
	I would like to when we hire somebody new.	00:34:11
	I think it would be.	00:34:14
	Prudent for us to maybe.	00:34:15
	In the first after we hired them in the first few months, maybe go over our 10 year plan just at the meeting just to like go over	00:34:17
	it our goals and what we're.	00:34:20
	What are we would go over? You mean? Yeah, when we have our new person come on board? I'm just thinking in my head because you	00:34:24
	talked about following up with the work plan here, I think.	00:34:28
	I think that's a great idea. But that's like, really big, big, big picture. Yeah. I think what they really need is like, here's	00:34:32
	how to do my job.	00:34:36
	Right, because it's not related to the in your plan and.	00:34:40
	You you do a lot of different things. Like have you ever written up your own job description?	00:34:43
	Because if you read your job description.	00:34:49
	It's probably less than what you do. Have you looked at it? Yeah, I helped write it when when I got.	00:34:51
	On board because I was interned for almost a year because of Mark being sick, right?	00:34:57
	So yeah, I helped. I helped him write it so.	00:35:02
	No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, I just, I was just thinking as I thought about this. I thought, you	00:35:35
	know.	00:35:38
	We because what you were saying about the acres, well, your point was well taken. Well, there's a lot of other things.	00:35:41
	Let's talk. Let's have a little conversation about.	00:35:46
	The plan and the things we're looking for and then yes detail two of the work, but I was just thinking in my head out loud like	00:35:48
	you were saying about the acre percentage because I know what you were going back to goals. Well, let's.	00:35:53
	We look at that, that you know, and that's what that's all I was saying and then the manure storage and we want to obviously get	00:35:58
	that. I don't know if you can get that started now.	00:36:02
	I mean, he can, we might and then that's a big thing. That's but we need to go through a process and probably have the persons,	00:36:06
	but those are things I'm that's why we're gonna go ahead.	00:36:11
	It's gonna be a big involvement, Port Council, because they're the ones who are actually revising the statue. But I didn't want	00:36:15
	you to guys, to think that we were not addressing those issues. We will, but the timing.	00:36:20
	So that may take that process from the newer storage may take six months or something, right, It could.	00:36:27
	So your your annual work plan is basically based off of your land and water plan.	00:36:31
	So that's pretty simple. I mean straightforward. I mean, to be honest, the last couple years I copied and pasted most of it.	00:36:37
	OK.	00:36:44
	Your manure storage ordinance. I would highly recommend you wait until the new person gets on board OK, because depending on who	00:36:46
	they are, where they come from.	00:36:51
	They may have.	00:36:56
	A different.	00:36:57
	Perspective.	00:36:59
	Different.	00:37:01
	Vision.	00:37:03
	Than what I have.	00:37:04
	So if I started writing something in there now.	00:37:05
	They may say that was a waste of time.	00:37:09
	So I would recommend that that part at least be be put off until the new person's on board.	00:37:13
	I think, yeah, that's fine. Yep. What I plan to do is I'm I've been slowly working through, I've been going through files, I've	00:37:18
	been going through my computer. They don't need this still that **** out.	00:37:24
	I've been doing that.	00:37:30
	I do plan on also going through everything that I do like, like the Swarm grant.	00:37:33
	Just.	00:37:38
	Right up a little thing. When's it do? How do you, how do you write it, you know, and how do you get the reimbursement?	00:37:39
	What's all involved with it?	00:37:45
	Do the same thing with land and water plan with the.	00:37:47
	Wildlife damage with the farmer LED group. Cheryl's been taking a lot of stuff over with the farmer LED group. She's been taking	00:37:52
	stuff over on our tree sale program.	00:37:56
	So so can I ask?	00:38:01
	That's what I was asking when I said your.	00:38:03
	Description.	00:38:07
	I'm asking you could almost do it because you type it up all the time, but I'm asking for the description.	00:38:11
	Beyond the job description, it's basic workload.	00:38:18
	No, but the specifics right apply for swarm grant wildlife damage.	00:38:21
	Tree sales, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Might be good to have a calendar to like is to flow. Yep, I do have a flow calendar	00:38:26
	already put up Mark stars something a while back and I've kind of advanced it. And so in January, you do this and this and this,	00:38:32
	right? February you do this. So I do already have that. I I want to break it down.	00:38:38
	In more detail that would be great. That's.	00:38:45
	What the new person needs, because that's not in the job description.	00:38:47
	In the chart, Cheryl know where things are.	00:38:51
	And and like I said, I'm I'm not moving away from the area until problem marks. So I'm around if they need something then they	00:38:55
	I'll give them a phone number. I don't care. We'll take our calls.	00:39:00
	Not yours, not mine, he's saying. Now he says he'll take their glass extension. Guys won't take my calls. I asked the question.	00:39:06
	Jeff.	00:39:15
	Won't take my call. I had a quick question. Hoffman, that was our.	00:39:17
	We'll take my call.	00:39:21
	Retirement. Yeah, yeah, I know. But.	00:39:25
	Come on, we're we're also.	00:39:29
	Friends. I mean, we work together, we know each other. He's like, not close enough.	00:39:31
	I thought he was. It's like, it's like heart to heart talks. I'll always be there for you.	00:39:38
	No, I'm sorry.	00:39:44
	Sorry, it did. Kind of.	00:39:46
	I'm just kidding.	00:39:49
	No, but he gave me some heart to heart talks. It's like really whatever, OK, I'm just asking where something was and how we did	00:39:50
	something and because.	00:39:54
	Anyway.	00:39:59
	OK. But we appreciate that if you mean this well, you'll answer our call.	00:40:01
	I'm like he's going to be in like whatever. Some we're going to be splitting wood up northern. I don't remember. I don't get cell	00:40:07
	phone.	00:40:11
	No cell phone.	00:40:18
	And I and I actually don't.	00:40:19
	I have to walk up onto the road to get my cell phone reception.	00:40:21
	That's so funny.	00:40:29
	All right. Tonight in front of your job, you don't have staff support on where you may do it independently?	00:40:32
	So you're the only person touching that document, or?	00:40:41
	Which one?	00:40:44
	Well, I mean, wildlife damage. I do that by myself, the swarm grant. I do that by myself. This staff is aware of it, Yeah.	00:40:47
	No, no, not really. I let them do their work outside.	00:40:55
	Do you have access?	00:40:59
	See what I mean? Like.	00:41:01
	You're not on the cloud, right?	00:41:03
	Well, let's say, OK, I mean is the county storage, I thought the county storage moved to the cloud.	00:41:05
	No, I'm on here.	00:41:10
	I know. But what is that doesn't go to the cloud, that goes to the well, whatever the county does, I don't know. It goes wherever	00:41:12
	there.	00:41:15
	And if she has the password, she doesn't need your computer. It's not on your drive.	00:41:20
	What happened when? When?	00:41:25
	Mark got sick and I became the interim.	00:41:27
	They they gave me access to his emails and all his files.	00:41:31
	So I was able to go in there and figure stuff out.	00:41:36
	And I've also got a list.	00:41:39
	A full page sheet of phone numbers hanging on my wall.	00:41:41
	Of people that's.	00:41:45
	Dat cap, whoever that I call for questions. So that's there. And I tell you what, I spent a lot of time on the phone.	00:41:47
	Talking to.	00:41:55
	County Cons in Columbia County, Kirk was on speed dial.	00:41:56
	Of Green Lake County was on speed, Dale Fond du Lac and then all the dad cat personnel.	00:42:01
	They're more than willing to to help you in any way they can.	00:42:06
	Finance and HR helped me out a lot when I.	00:42:10
	Come on, because I didn't know none of that stuff.	00:42:13
	OK, but.	00:42:19
	But will she have access to your files? Some somebody will I mean if if I am not.	00:42:20
	If I'm not replaced before I leave, somebody will have access to it. If I'm replaced before I leave, that person will have access	00:42:26
	to it. OK.	00:42:30
	So yes, it'll be available for somebody.	00:42:34
	Kurt from Columbia County is one of the smartest guys I've ever met.	00:42:38
	And so I'm sure he'd be.	00:42:42
	A huge help. Oh yeah, to a new person because he's very generous.	00:42:44
	Yeah.	00:42:48
	OK.	00:42:51
	Any other on conservation staffing? I do want to talk about extension staffing. It says staffing on here, just I didn't do it when	00:42:52
	Marie was here because she was doing the way our the way our agenda was. I got the notice of resignation from Pat Malone.	00:42:59
	On in her last day will be November 7th. She's our educator for the community development and her.	00:43:07
	Position was eliminated at the end of the year, so it really won't affect us. So it'll be about.	00:43:11
	Seven weeks earlier than we had thought.	00:43:16
	So that won't affect us that much, but I just wanted you to be aware of that.	00:43:19
	The other the other updates in extension are.	00:43:23
	Cindy is retiring. She she could make it today.	00:43:27
	Umm, she's in another county, another meeting cow.	00:43:31
	That's a lot. So she she is long time planning to retire.	00:43:34
	Last month.	00:43:39
	At convention September I met with Jeremy, her boss and and I will meet him next week, actually the W.	00:43:40
	See a extension committee meets next week in person, so I will.	00:43:48
	Talked to him in person.	00:43:52
	They they when I first talked to him about.	00:43:53
	When Cindy told me this, like in August, it was planned with her planned retirement for a long time, I said that they plan and.	00:43:56
	Replace the position and then with all the funding and flux, he didn't know if they were going to do that, they were going to	00:44:02
	maybe combine more together or something.	00:44:05
	But umm.	00:44:09
	As of last month.	00:44:09
	Dean Martin, I believe, is going to replace the position.	00:44:11
	Without, with, with only like 4 counties instead of like 8 counties or, you know, whatever they're going to do, I don't know. But	00:44:16
	anyway.	00:44:19
	I don't, so we may be without one of those too.	00:44:22
	Next week I'll get a update from Jeremy.	00:44:26
	But according to Jeremy, last month when I talked to him, he said.	00:44:29
	That they were going to fund the position.	00:44:32
	That's awesome. I'm very happy that you are following up. So I am doing with extension. That's great because they you know, we get	00:44:35
	all this info and they're doing such a great job and now they're just like.	00:44:40
	Yeah. And we'll, we'll.	00:44:47
	Well, kind of like we did with this, we'll next year when we get the new person we'll probably have to go through.	00:44:50
	Plan also there left explore. We'll alternate the meeting so that we're not just planning the whole meetings. That'll be too much.	00:44:56
	But we will probably have to do the same thing again with that. But we are, yeah, we're starting with no, nobody.	00:45:02
	Was up front with us when she started that. It was going to be a very short term.	00:45:09
	And she's like super great.	00:45:13
	But alright, so that's the that's all the updates I have on on that.	00:45:15
	OK, OK, I guess that's it. Committee reports.	00:45:22
	I'm LSID.	00:45:26
	Our meeting last week it kind of interesting. We're doing a bunch of projects what we're finally doing next year.	00:45:29
	Tonight, we didn't think of this, the committee didn't think of this. We're going to have a lot of dollars flowing through for our	00:45:35
	shoreline.	00:45:38
	We're doing mapping and then we're getting the bids for the dredging project.	00:45:42
	But those are a lot of dollars, just those items, a couple $100,000, well the insurance.	00:45:46
	Our insurance is going to increase.	00:45:51
	For our little municipality like.	00:45:53
	Like 700 bucks because of that.	00:45:56
	Because of what again?	00:45:58
	Because we're increasing the volume of dollars our budget, because we're doing a couple $100,000 of like we, we waited years and	00:45:59
	years and years and then now we're pulling the trigger.	00:46:05
	For the shoreline mapping, it's like 80 grand or 100 grand. And then we're doing the dredging projects at 100, so our budgets like	00:46:10
	200 grand more or something.	00:46:14
	So then all of a sudden we get a renewal for our liability. It's like 700 more than because it's based on volume of dollars. It's	00:46:18
	like, oh crap, So we missed that. So just.	00:46:23
	I don't think there's anything we can do with this. I just thought I'd tell you that it's something to think about if you ever	00:46:28
	doing a big project that your insurance goes up. I didn't think, we didn't think of it. We made our budget up.	00:46:32
	OK, like improvements, updating, working on two things are surface water grant, we're applying for a grant to help us with that	00:46:39
	for next year, $20,000 from the DNR, they're working with us.	00:46:45
	Arthur comes to our meeting every time, so it's working really well. The dredging study, that's the big one.	00:46:52
	That's to help us get bids for the dredging up.	00:46:59
	By Oxbow Marine and that that is currently under review.	00:47:02
	By the vendor and by our consultant Ron French.	00:47:07
	And so that those those are the projects that are coming together.	00:47:10
	Far as the fish stocking, I thought Bill you'd like to know this. We had, we did it, our fish stocking, we finished it up. We did	00:47:14
	370. We we added game fish this year, so we added 300, we did 370 large mouth.	00:47:20
	Bass we did 1100 small mouth.	00:47:26
	We did 2700 bluegill. Normally we did a lot more bluegill.	00:47:28
	But this year we.	00:47:32
	We cut that down. The bluegill are reproducing too, we found. We found some other ones, so they are reproducing.	00:47:34
	1800 perch and then earlier like a couple months ago we did 750 northern. So we're trying to get more game fish. So that and that	00:47:40
	we did with rock.	00:47:44
	Coalition with Rock River Rescue. Normally we did 8000 year and this year we did $13,000.	00:47:49
	With some partners, people donated from LSID and so that's kind of cool. And then we got a better deal because we partnered with	00:47:55
	Rock River Rescue out of Janesville.	00:47:59
	So, umm.	00:48:03
	Anyway, that's the update there. Umm.	00:48:04
	And then Sandy Jones from village of Hucesford came and.	00:48:08
	There are a liaison person communicating with us and they will be looking.	00:48:11
	For money to replace a couple of peers, one at Nighter Park and the other one in downtown Houston, story they want to update the	00:48:15
	Piers.	00:48:19
	They wanted to know if we could help them. I I don't think we have any money for that, but we'll help them.	00:48:24
	When their fundraising efforts through LSI and probably not LSID, probably the LSA folks more so, but we are obviously.	00:48:28
	In favor of improving our launches and that kind of thing. So that's all I have.	00:48:36
	14th.	00:48:41
	My meeting was on the 14th.	00:48:42
	Yes.	00:48:44
	The left side of this page is the DNR summary of.	00:48:46
	Fish activity.	00:48:49
	Where they were.	00:48:51
	Managing Trussell Bay Our managing Trussell Bay.	00:48:53
	Thank you.	00:48:59
	And that is the second year they've been.	00:49:03
	Working at Trussville Bay, you'll see their 2024.	00:49:05
	Completely. The number is 712 lbs per acre.	00:49:10
	So this year it's increased to £752 per acre.	00:49:14
	Which is not the desired effect.	00:49:21
	On the right side is a graph that shows in the black numbers.	00:49:24
	The US.	00:49:28
	Fish and Wildlife.	00:49:29
	Different points where £89 per acre is the target.	00:49:31
	And you reached £268, you have a concern where the official.	00:49:36
	Damage to habitat.	00:49:40
	And you'll see in 2014 the first red number.	00:49:41
	That is the biomass for Beaver Dam Lake.	00:49:46
	Back in 2014, three 3/5.	00:49:49
	So the 2024 and 2025.	00:49:52
	She has increased substantially.	00:49:58
	And then when you take the.	00:50:02
	Carb plus Buffalo fish.	00:50:04
	You have £1198 per acre.	00:50:07
	So we'll be looking at that again next year.	00:50:14
	We're also starting the first phase at Rakes Bay.	00:50:17
	And we had the exceptional support from Corey in the town of Westford.	00:50:21
	We needed access to get the test boat out there and they provided a lot of great service.	00:50:26
	Helped us out exceptionally well. What are you doing there in Rakes?	00:50:32
	We're going to put electrode DNR, it's going to launch their boat.	00:50:36
	And there's no other place, so we had to create a ramp to get in there.	00:50:39
	And the DNR sweat testing.	00:50:44
	There'll be electoral fishing to get a number of fish.	00:50:46
	Per acre.	00:50:49
	As we did in trestle back.	00:50:50
	So if we continue to see this increase.	00:50:54
	And we see rates pay increase. We're going to have to ask DNR to reconsider the plan.	00:50:57
	So you're getting this data to go back to them, right? Is this data available for the other lakes to Lake Fox Lake, Mountain Lake,	00:51:04
	Innocent. No, no. This is their work on the lake over the past two years.	00:51:09
	I think they are planning to do significantly next year.	00:51:15
	OK for a mass fish population study.	00:51:19
	Obviously, our Lake Nation plan calls for increasing and changing the lake for more recreation. So we're obviously in line with	00:51:23
	this. So if anything.	00:51:27
	Anything we can do, please let me know.	00:51:31
	I and then Chris is gone, but Shane.	00:51:33
	Shane, I introduced you to him that one meeting if there's something critical.	00:51:36
	Maybe e-mail me and him It's also I can follow up with him because he I want him to be present.	00:51:41
	That may be useful for the attend one of the next meetings.	00:51:46
	To understand what their program is.	00:51:50
	Could you e-mail me information when the next Butler next meeting then I'll I'll forward it to Shane to make to follow up with him	00:51:53
	because I want him to connect otherwise.	00:51:57
	He's a really, really.	00:52:01
	Busy guy and I want to make sure that he knows.	00:52:02
	Thank you.	00:52:05
	Sure.	00:52:06
	Second page is a interesting project.	00:52:07
	Working with Bill on Deck and Jason Roy.	00:52:10
	We're looking at Dirty Park on the West side of Beaver Dam Lake.	00:52:13
	And we're going to be adding native plantings to the shoreline there.	00:52:17
	And then looking at a Prairie.	00:52:21
	The program up in the northeast corner of.	00:52:24
	Georgie Park.	00:52:29
	So on the right side, it's what we hope to see.	00:52:30
	Along the shoreline there.	00:52:32
	Right now it's pretty much rubble and weeds.	00:52:34
	So this would be a nice nicer place for people to recreate.	00:52:37
	To use it as an example of how other people on the lake.	00:52:41
	Can bring native plants to the shoreline.	00:52:45
	So we made our first walkthrough out there. We measured up the different areas.	00:52:47
	So now we're looking at different.	00:52:52
	There in rabbit resistant species that put out there.	00:52:54
	To have a better probability of success.	00:52:57
	And that's all for today. Do you guys do your water sampling through the winter months when there's ice on the lake?	00:53:04
	No, we stopped on the lake last month.	00:53:09
	And then we'll have one more in the rivers this month.	00:53:13
	Mill Creek and Beaver Creek will have one more.	00:53:16
	Start up in April.	00:53:19
	Yes.	00:53:21
	For the rivers and they also go to.	00:53:22
	Does that go to swims?	00:53:24
	OK.	00:53:25
	What do you do with that data, I can ask.	00:53:28
	Actually just went through it and I compared the upland area.	00:53:30
	To the mouth of the creeks.	00:53:34
	Then look at that compared to the in lake water.	00:53:36
	The DNR art said that they would they need that data, but we've never done anything with it, so I asked them about that.	00:53:39
	And you said they we have to have it for our grants, he said. But it's a good comparison to see where your inputs are coming from.	00:53:45
	OK, good point. So then if there's a.	00:53:50
	And I don't know.	00:53:54
	And our goal or work plan for next year.	00:53:56
	You know, I'd like to target certain like if we see one stream as too high a nutrients and do we target the farm for something	00:53:58
	there for.	00:54:02
	You know, cover crops or you know what I mean. I would like to go to the source. We found that on our, you know.	00:54:06
	Beaver.	00:54:12
	You're buffering all the way up to Hwy. 73.	00:54:13
	Mill Creek, we have one area that's right at the mouth.	00:54:17
	That we're looking at.	00:54:20
	The past, the trestle, all the way up to Fox Lake. It's buffered.	00:54:21
	And then on the shorelines of the lake, we're finding that the producers.	00:54:25
	Doing a very good job of.	00:54:29
	Controlling what's going into the Creek and in the lake.	00:54:30
	OK, so we backtracked to find out where the source may be.	00:54:34
	And we're finding some good results.	00:54:38
	That's good. Thank you.	00:54:43
	OK. And yeah, we'll update us next month on his.	00:54:46
	OK. I guess that's it for today by.	00:54:49
	Completion of the agenda. I call the meeting. We have preacher agenda items. Oh, I'm sorry. You get two other things. There's	00:54:52
	Southern.	00:54:55
	All right. I'm sorry, a few more things. November 24th. Is that OK?	00:54:59
	Once. Once. When's Thanksgiving is that close? That's the following Thursday.	00:55:03
	Is that there?	00:55:07
	Following Thursday? No, it's the same week. We have a meeting, committee meeting on Monday and then Thursdays Thanksgiving.	00:55:09
	I'm going to find.	00:55:15
	Calendar. So you going with you. I will be here.	00:55:16
	All right.	00:55:20
	Sorry guys.	00:55:23
	OK, so wake up Thanksgiving.	00:55:24
	Yep, House.	00:55:26
	The following week I'm gone so.	00:55:28
	Works for me. Anyone. Is everyone OK with that? Just give me a second, sorry.	00:55:30
	OK.	00:55:34
	November.	00:55:37
	24th that week.	00:55:39
	So I have the land and water meeting.	00:55:41
	And then?	00:55:44
	Can everybody else come that day?	00:55:47
	I can too.	00:55:50
	I'm gonna have company, but they can live.	00:55:51
	No, OK.	00:55:54
	24.	00:55:57
	24th.	00:55:58
	24th at 8:30.	00:55:59
	Yep, that'll be John's last meeting.	00:56:01
	Upcoming events you have Southern Areas Association meeting.	00:56:03
	Are you going to be able to attend that?	00:56:06
	That's Monday next week.	00:56:09
	I wanted to ask you last time we went there, it was kind of a morning meeting.	00:56:10
	Yeah, this is an all day. It's two things we can talk offline is all day.	00:56:14
	Yeah, I thought it was just a morning meeting. We can talk offline about this. Bye.	00:56:17
	Move to adjourn. Sorry, OK.	00:56:22
	Well, future agenda items.	00:56:25
	Many of you, I think we kind of incorporated them.	00:56:27
	Yeah.	00:56:29
	OK. All right.	00:56:31
	Did we cover those then the future what we.	00:56:32
	Well, like John's going to be telling us some a couple things about his leaving and then.	00:56:35
	We're not going to really be starting.	00:56:41
	You have the plans.	00:56:44
	The next meeting.	00:56:46
	So the only the big thing will be the update.	00:56:48
	Right. That's really, but you don't as far as conservation, is there any big thing happening?	00:56:51
	I'll go through and see. You know, I can give you an update to what's been going on this. The only other thing I can think of is	00:56:56
	if this if this federal shutdown goes extended.	00:57:01
	Yeah. How does that affect our relationship with?	00:57:05
	FSA and.	00:57:10
	You know, it's just dormant.	00:57:12
	It just but, but I mean, I mean like when it comes back, are we gonna have to?	00:57:14
	No.	00:57:18
	What? What's affecting us now?	00:57:20
	Is all the standards and specs we use.	00:57:23
	Or on a government website.	00:57:26
	That website shut down.	00:57:28
	So we can't go on, check the website down, they shut it down. They're not maintaining it. Yes, there's nobody there.	00:57:30
	So we've been able to go to the decap engineers and get our information from them.	00:57:36
	But right now, that's.	00:57:43
	The biggest thing that affects our offices?	00:57:44
	Is the website that we used to use all time is shut down?	00:57:48
	All of our economic.	00:57:51
	Nationwide data is coming out, except for the labor report. That's the only thing coming out.	00:57:53
	Is a labor report right that sets interest rates like?	00:57:57
	All over the world. So like, you know.	00:57:59
	It's not just affecting.	00:58:02
	US so it's a great workaround.	00:58:03
	Next job.	00:58:07
	It might be a short meeting next month then.	00:58:08
	So.	00:58:11
	All right, I call the meeting adjourned by finishing them.	00:58:12
	Completing the agenda. Thank you. I'll quick sign Cheryl, we give me the minutes.	00:58:15
	Before you go.	00:58:20
	No quick sign this.	00:58:22