WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 We're in the meeting of Planning, Development, and Committee for April 6th, 2026. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 Dale, would you like to open us with an order? 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Sure, thank you. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing this group together tonight to do the best of work for the county. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:22.000 Thank you for all the blessings and watching over our county and citizens 00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.000 and guide us through this meeting tonight. Lord, we ask this in Jesus' name, Amen. 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.000 Amen. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.000 We have approval of the agenda. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:32.000 Motion to approve. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:34.000 All in favor say aye. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:36.000 Aye. 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:41.000 Motion carries. On to the minutes from March 9th, 2026. 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.000 Motion to approve. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:45.000 Motion and second. All in favor say aye. 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 Aye. 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.000 Opposed? I believe. 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:50.000 Aye. 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.000 Motion carries. On to claims. We have a total this evening for 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.399 Planning Development, $550.89. 00:00:59.399 --> 00:01:00.399 Motion to approve. 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:01.399 Second. 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:02.399 All in favor? 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:03.399 Aye. 00:01:03.399 --> 00:01:04.400 Aye. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.400 Motion carries as well. 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:12.400 At this point, we have public comment. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:37.120 Sanuc Date Reference Act, Jeffries Quarry, located at 466 West Fairview Road, Freeport. 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:41.600 The entire eastern length of that property borders my property. 00:01:41.600 --> 00:01:46.280 At the end of this month, it's been a year since I first expressed concerns to the Zoning 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:47.280 Director. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:52.640 Per reference, Mr. Jeffrey's telling me his intentions for the quarry. 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:58.400 Mr. Fricke, your interest in the issue is appreciated and you're welcome to come out 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.000 again to update the photos you took from my property in mid-January. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:08.840 So much has changed in three months instead of planting trees. 00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:11.960 as required, Mr. Jeffrey has ripped out nearly all 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:16.560 of the mature trees that had provided partial screening. 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:18.840 From the end of February into mid-March 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:21.879 for two and a half weeks, Mr. Jeffrey had not stopped 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:24.539 unattended fires burning. 00:02:24.539 --> 00:02:27.120 Please refer to the County Burning Ordinance, 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.120 specifically 224-4B, commercial trade waste, 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:36.360 which requires him to use an air curtain incinerator 00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:41.160 instead of 24-7, unattended, open, burning. 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:44.940 There's still an extremely large pile of logs 00:02:44.940 --> 00:02:46.320 on the northeast section, 00:02:46.320 --> 00:02:49.240 very close to our shared property line. 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:53.320 He put a whole bunch more brush there again today. 00:02:53.320 --> 00:02:56.640 He's also brought in multiple loads of logs 00:02:56.640 --> 00:02:59.440 and tree trunks from other locations. 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:01.680 Over the past year, 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.360 he has had multiple fires on the property. 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:14.360 Mr. Jeffery has dug and graded the northern portion rerouting water. 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:23.360 The water runoff from the property east of me flows mostly through a drain tube under my lane and empties into this area. 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:28.360 The water used to flow westward and has been a large hot wet till. 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:35.360 It parted with this excavated dirt and rock and widened its drive on the northern end rerouting the water flow. 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:42.560 Law. Mr. Jeffrey has been in violation of a number of EPA regulations. He should also 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:50.720 be cited at the county level. Beth, as Mr. Jeffrey complied with the county's conditional 00:03:50.720 --> 00:03:59.440 use permit requirements listed in the violation notice stated January 20th of 26. Again, it's 00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:05.200 been a year since the quarry activities were brought to the county's attention. Why is 00:04:05.200 --> 00:04:10.000 Mr. Jeffrey, continually allowed to operate without compliance. 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:14.800 I don't think we can answer that tonight. 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.200 If somebody could get back to me though, I mean, that's multiple questions, please. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:29.439 Yeah, give me a call. Come out. I mean, it's from my front door. You have a beautiful, beautiful 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:33.800 of this, so, so. 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:37.879 Thank you. 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.000 Any other public comment? 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:53.000 With that, we'll move on to reports to the committee. 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:58.100 Well, we can start with the Mayor-President. 00:04:58.100 --> 00:04:59.100 Thank you. 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:02.660 Good evening, everyone, and happy Easter. 00:05:02.660 --> 00:05:06.140 I'm going to pass a couple of articles out to you 00:05:06.140 --> 00:05:08.300 and walk you through these, 00:05:08.300 --> 00:05:11.660 and then just provide some general updates. 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:18.100 But the first thing you see is kind of an outline of efforts 00:05:18.100 --> 00:05:22.100 and methodology in targeting hotel recruitment 00:05:22.100 --> 00:05:24.220 for our Freeport and Stevenson region. 00:05:24.220 --> 00:05:26.460 So, since the partnership's inception, 00:05:26.459 --> 00:05:33.019 and we've been tracking occupancy data of the three most consistently run hotels, Country 00:05:33.019 --> 00:05:35.620 Anna, Sweets, Hampton, and the Baymont. 00:05:35.620 --> 00:05:42.219 What we do know is that consistently our occupancy is 70% or higher. 00:05:42.219 --> 00:05:47.620 That's even during the midweek where we have a lot of business travel. 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:52.579 So that leads us to believe that our area would support another hotel development. 00:05:52.579 --> 00:06:01.300 Obviously with that would bring the opportunity for additional hotel tax, sales revenue, support 00:06:01.300 --> 00:06:07.620 of our tourism events, which aligns very closely with some of the other things that are happening 00:06:07.620 --> 00:06:12.379 in the area, especially thinking of Highland and their addition and support facilities and 00:06:12.379 --> 00:06:18.019 the opportunities that come along with that with potential tournaments that could be hosted 00:06:18.019 --> 00:06:19.019 here. 00:06:19.019 --> 00:06:40.019 And the other thing that we, well personally and professionally, we hear amongst businesses and we ourselves, we don't have a hotel complex that helps an event center or a conference center, which really limits our ability to host any regional or statewide conferences at different associations. 00:06:40.019 --> 00:06:43.019 We've also heard that from a number of businesses. 00:06:43.019 --> 00:06:49.019 So it would be our goal to try to attract another flagship hotel with conference space. 00:06:49.019 --> 00:06:58.019 So we're looking at the process of what data that we need to start aggregating as well as potential sites that we could try to vet. 00:06:58.019 --> 00:07:04.019 We're also exploring different funding options to make that enticing to a developer. 00:07:04.019 --> 00:07:09.019 Star Bonds is something that we are broadly examining. 00:07:09.019 --> 00:07:14.139 and this is a new program the state of Illinois has put out and it's really around development 00:07:14.139 --> 00:07:19.819 similar to a TIF district except in fact it doesn't work with property tax that works 00:07:19.819 --> 00:07:26.939 with sales tax generation and it's developed with the geography or it's outlined in geography, 00:07:26.939 --> 00:07:33.819 a specific geographic area that you're trying to target to build an event center. 00:07:33.819 --> 00:07:38.740 The idea is really trying to attract people from outside the area for tourism related 00:07:38.740 --> 00:08:08.740 So we're still doing the due diligence, learning more about the program and seeing if there would be a location that would make sense. It's a long process with the state. Again, they're developing this as a new program that they currently don't have. So there would be a letter of inquiry that we would send to the state if we were interested in the middle of the year. Then that puts us in line to file a formal application that would be, that would happen at the end of 2026 and that the state would evaluate. So there will be more to come. 00:08:08.740 --> 00:08:14.560 and Tom. And you will hear me talk about this as well. The second one, the flyer that you 00:08:14.560 --> 00:08:20.600 see, and this is, I've mentioned this before, this is the Midland CEO program. So it's creating 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:28.259 entrepreneurship opportunities. And this is a program that we didn't originate, but we're 00:08:28.259 --> 00:08:34.480 trying to develop a chapter or we are developing a chapter here in Freeport in conjunction 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.120 with Freeport High School. 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:39.840 So this is set to launch in the next school year 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:42.480 and it is targeted towards juniors and seniors 00:08:42.480 --> 00:08:47.159 and it's really, they undergo, it's a year long class, 00:08:47.159 --> 00:08:51.519 credit hour class, and they work with local businesses 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:54.399 to be mentored, to understand what it takes 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.519 to develop a business, build relationships 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.200 with existing businesses, to develop their own business 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:03.759 and both as a group and then an individual 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:06.600 and it culminates in a trade show 00:09:06.600 --> 00:09:09.799 around this time of year, time of the year. 00:09:09.799 --> 00:09:11.879 Some of you might be familiar with 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:13.360 Whiteside Area Career Center, 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:16.399 which is similar to our CareerTech host. 00:09:16.399 --> 00:09:17.919 They already have a CEO program. 00:09:17.919 --> 00:09:22.679 Actually, they have two branches of it or two cohorts. 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:24.539 And so towards the end of this month, 00:09:24.539 --> 00:09:26.720 we will go down and check out their trade show. 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:29.120 But we're in planning. 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.799 Currently, student registration at Freeport High School 00:09:31.800 --> 00:09:34.740 is ongoing for next fall. 00:09:34.740 --> 00:09:37.700 This is one of the course offerings that will be there. 00:09:37.700 --> 00:09:41.100 We're also in the process of hiring a facilitator 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:42.600 for this class. 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:46.420 This is a program that is at no cost to the district 00:09:46.420 --> 00:09:48.240 or the students that are involved 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:51.660 because it is facilitated and designed 00:09:51.660 --> 00:09:53.660 to be supported by the community, 00:09:53.660 --> 00:09:56.060 specifically the business community. 00:09:56.060 --> 00:09:58.060 So we have business investors, 00:09:58.060 --> 00:10:00.260 some of which sit on a CEO. 00:10:00.260 --> 00:10:03.260 some of which sit on a CEO board 00:10:03.260 --> 00:10:06.180 and help operate this program. 00:10:06.180 --> 00:10:08.980 The partnership sees this as a great opportunity 00:10:08.980 --> 00:10:13.980 to help create entrepreneurial skills 00:10:14.220 --> 00:10:18.340 within our young talent as well as interpersonal skills. 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:20.740 What we often hear about from our employers 00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:24.500 is those students don't have the soft skills 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:25.940 when they enter the workforce. 00:10:25.940 --> 00:10:28.560 And part of this program is 00:10:28.560 --> 00:10:30.440 They meet with businesses each week. 00:10:30.440 --> 00:10:32.600 They go out, they tour facilities. 00:10:32.600 --> 00:10:34.780 They have a business mentor themselves. 00:10:34.780 --> 00:10:39.780 So it is really developing a professional skill set as well. 00:10:40.680 --> 00:10:43.580 And also helping to create connections for that student 00:10:43.580 --> 00:10:46.980 so that they're less likely to leave the community 00:10:46.980 --> 00:10:50.280 for their career path or if they leave to return. 00:10:50.280 --> 00:10:51.420 So there will be more to come, 00:10:51.420 --> 00:10:54.360 but we were excited to launch this program next year. 00:10:55.560 --> 00:10:58.060 Some other things that are going on. 00:10:58.060 --> 00:11:00.620 You'll hear me talk about Opportunity Zones. 00:11:00.620 --> 00:11:02.820 So this is another incentive zone 00:11:02.820 --> 00:11:06.660 that was really created by the Department of Revenue 00:11:06.660 --> 00:11:08.860 at the federal level in 2017. 00:11:09.820 --> 00:11:13.280 The initial program is set to expire this year. 00:11:13.280 --> 00:11:15.360 Each state is going through a process 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:19.480 of reviewing eligible census tracts. 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:24.480 Census tracts are eligible based upon household income, 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:26.960 criteria, poverty rate, et cetera. 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.600 We have a number of census tracts in Freeport that qualify. 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:34.920 We have two currently in the existing Opportunity Zone 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:36.880 that's set to expire. 00:11:36.880 --> 00:11:40.400 We have a total of five eligible census tracts. 00:11:40.400 --> 00:11:42.680 So that's the two original census tracts 00:11:42.680 --> 00:11:45.480 and three additional census tracts. 00:11:45.480 --> 00:11:49.440 What I'm working to do is to talk to developers, 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:52.200 potential developers, property owners, 00:11:52.200 --> 00:11:54.560 to educate them on the opportunity 00:11:54.560 --> 00:11:57.960 of what an Opportunity Zone could potentially do 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:01.200 for their business or future investment 00:12:01.200 --> 00:12:04.760 and to garner a letter of support. 00:12:04.760 --> 00:12:08.520 It will be a competitive selection process through the state 00:12:08.520 --> 00:12:11.280 to have our census tracts included. 00:12:11.280 --> 00:12:12.920 And I'll back up here. 00:12:12.920 --> 00:12:16.400 Census or Opportunity Zone is really outside 00:12:16.400 --> 00:12:18.700 of any property tax or sales tax. 00:12:18.700 --> 00:12:39.700 It developed a qualified opportunity zone fund that allows somebody to, they invest in that fund, they can forego some capital gains tax or defer that capital gains tax, depending on how long they hold that investment in that property or that project. 00:12:39.700 --> 00:12:48.540 So, some companies and or developers are looking at this as a potential vehicle to reinvest 00:12:48.540 --> 00:12:54.100 while gaining those benefits. So, that's the conversation I'm having. I'm aggregating letters 00:12:54.100 --> 00:12:59.220 of support and information from both public and private partners to then send down to 00:12:59.220 --> 00:13:05.740 the state so that they, DCEO is then kind of aggregating this information and ultimately 00:13:05.740 --> 00:13:14.380 will land on the governor's desk for his selection process, but trying to create a compelling argument 00:13:14.380 --> 00:13:19.660 that our census tracts are all added because there are potential projects in the pipeline. 00:13:20.620 --> 00:13:24.540 It's a long way of saying I can be happy to provide a follow-up map as to what these 00:13:24.540 --> 00:13:31.340 census tracts are, where they are, and talk to you in more detail. But that's been, I spent a lot of 00:13:31.340 --> 00:13:33.540 and a lot of time kind of talking with developers 00:13:33.540 --> 00:13:36.220 and meeting with them in the past month. 00:13:36.220 --> 00:13:38.820 Additionally, we continue to work on enterprise zone 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:42.020 boundary extension applications for the Village of Lena 00:13:42.020 --> 00:13:43.380 and AutoSmart. 00:13:43.380 --> 00:13:45.460 We are also in the beginning stages of working 00:13:45.460 --> 00:13:50.420 with City of Freeport, developing a parcel list 00:13:50.420 --> 00:13:52.900 to talk about potential parcels to be added 00:13:52.900 --> 00:13:54.260 into the enterprise zone 00:13:54.260 --> 00:13:58.060 to help facilitate residential development. 00:13:58.060 --> 00:14:17.060 The partnership is going through a meeting with all of the village boards throughout Stevenson County, kind of giving them an update on the 2025 annual activities that went on, giving them our annual report, answering any questions they might have and or, you know, hear what's going on in their community. 00:14:17.060 --> 00:14:30.060 I know there's someone headed to Orangeville tonight, Dakota, tomorrow I'm in Rock City, and at the end of this week in German Valley, and I've already been to Cedarville and Pearl City, so we're making the rounds. 00:14:30.060 --> 00:14:46.060 We have a workforce initiative event this Wednesday morning from 730 to 9am. I encourage any of you, if you're able to attend, we have reached out to our partnership level members to have a heavy conversation with business leaders, 00:14:46.060 --> 00:14:51.700 with business leaders and educational leaders to talk about our workforce alignment issues. 00:14:51.700 --> 00:15:00.100 We know at our last Economic Development Roundtable, we talked a lot about the trends in terms of migration information, 00:15:00.100 --> 00:15:08.980 our aging workforce and how it's key to the economic vitality of this area to really make sure that we're retaining our talent, 00:15:08.980 --> 00:15:11.660 able to attract new talent. 00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:41.660 But one of the other things that we're identifying is when we talk to businesses, a lot of, especially our manufacturers, have great career laddering opportunities, but they're often not talking about that to their recruits or to their prospects and how can we help them become more aware of how to market that better and helping develop personas of who specifically they should be marketing to. Alongside that effort, we do offer community tours for VP level recruitment 00:15:41.660 --> 00:16:11.660 for employers. We have done this pretty frequently since Mercy Health has taken over FHN. They have been very heavy handed in our physician recruitment, which is exciting to see. And we are excited they're utilizing us to tell the story of our community, being the fact that many of them are newer to the community themselves, and may not be super familiar. So very interesting to see it through the eyes of someone who's a newcomer. 00:16:11.660 --> 00:16:18.540 and typically they seem to be more optimistic than some people who have lived here all their 00:16:18.540 --> 00:16:24.460 life or for a long period of time. We've submitted mill race crossing for two RFIs that were issued 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:30.460 by Illinois EDC. We continue to market that location to logistics companies knowing that 00:16:30.460 --> 00:16:36.940 it still has the challenges of limited utility but it does have ample land and it has great access to 00:16:36.940 --> 00:16:45.660 to Johnny. Last but not least, we will culminate Base Camp at the end of this month with our 00:16:45.660 --> 00:16:50.440 Pitch Competition. We are very appreciative from the Illinois Farm Bureau for receiving 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:56.780 a grant to help support that program and the Pitch Competition Awards. Happy to answer 00:16:56.780 --> 00:17:00.340 any questions about anything mentioned this evening. 00:17:00.340 --> 00:17:03.580 I do have a couple of questions. 00:17:03.580 --> 00:17:10.500 The first one is, and this may have happened before your time, but what happened to the 00:17:10.500 --> 00:17:11.980 trailer parks in Freeport? 00:17:11.980 --> 00:17:15.220 Why are they, well, they mostly disappeared. 00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:17.300 There's a couple of them that closed completely. 00:17:17.300 --> 00:17:22.660 There's one on Stevenson Street Road that's, you know, a quarter of what it used to be. 00:17:22.660 --> 00:17:26.260 There's one on La Della that's completely gone, I think. 00:17:26.260 --> 00:17:35.680 I'm familiar with two, the one off of Walnut, and then the other one would be kind of, part 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:44.580 of it goes behind Sullivan's, that's still there, although there are a lot of vacant lots 00:17:44.580 --> 00:17:45.580 there. 00:17:45.580 --> 00:17:49.700 If there were more than that, I'm not- 00:17:49.700 --> 00:17:53.700 There was one, used to be one down Waddell Street. 00:17:53.700 --> 00:17:55.700 Help Orient Me. Where's Waddell? 00:17:55.700 --> 00:17:57.700 Waddell is left. 00:17:57.700 --> 00:17:59.700 There were two. 00:17:59.700 --> 00:18:01.700 There was Sullivan's. 00:18:01.700 --> 00:18:03.700 Yeah, just on this side of Sullivan's. 00:18:03.700 --> 00:18:05.700 Well, yeah, you go in there by McDonald's. 00:18:05.700 --> 00:18:09.700 Right. And then there's one on the other side of Sullivan's. 00:18:09.700 --> 00:18:15.700 And I was in that one a couple years ago delivering Christmas dinners for a church or something. 00:18:15.700 --> 00:18:20.700 And there was like a third of it, like a third of the trailer park was full. 00:18:20.700 --> 00:18:50.700 and the one on Stevenson Street Road, the reason this came up is I was talking to somebody about the Pearl City School District losing census and all the children that lived in the one on Stevenson Street Road went to Pearl City Schools and that's a shell of itself and I just wondered what happened to them, if the state changed something, I talked to Beth and she said as far as she knew there was no county regulation that 00:18:50.700 --> 00:19:04.700 There's nothing that I'm aware of that was done to empty those, so I'm not sure that I can answer your question with any certitude, so yeah. 00:19:04.700 --> 00:19:10.700 Theoretically, it's affordable housing. I mean, that was a big draw back in the day, you know? 00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:11.700 Sure, sure. 00:19:11.700 --> 00:19:13.700 And I know we're looking for housing. 00:19:13.700 --> 00:19:16.620 It is, and yeah, it can be a solution. 00:19:16.620 --> 00:19:21.620 Also thinking about how it is not assessed as real property. 00:19:22.540 --> 00:19:25.220 So there's an implication or that, you know, 00:19:25.220 --> 00:19:28.500 that has ripple ties in terms of if you're creating, 00:19:28.500 --> 00:19:30.940 if families are living there and, you know, 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:33.060 there are going to be students in a school district 00:19:33.060 --> 00:19:36.660 that have a relationship to funding, 00:19:36.660 --> 00:19:39.940 not saying that that's a reason to not have them, 00:19:39.940 --> 00:19:42.780 just stating that fact, but- 00:19:42.780 --> 00:19:49.860 Check Dan and Jess and see if he has any idea. I mean, I don't really know where to go from here to find out, you know, any of these things. 00:19:49.860 --> 00:19:54.620 I don't know if there's just not, there was an interest or people moved out because they knew the debtor. 00:19:54.620 --> 00:19:59.660 Part of it had to do with Stevenson Estates was that it was always a problem getting. 00:19:59.660 --> 00:20:06.180 That was always a problem getting the owner of the facility to do the maintenance work. 00:20:06.180 --> 00:20:12.820 A lot of those mobile homes out there were owned by the owner of the facility. 00:20:12.820 --> 00:20:18.140 So they were rentals on top of being mobile homes. 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:21.540 So that was a problem to some extent. 00:20:21.540 --> 00:20:29.019 And I think we always forget about the mobile home park that's right there next to it, or 00:20:59.019 --> 00:21:07.140 You know, the maintenance might be the problem with the other two, it could have been very 00:21:07.140 --> 00:21:08.980 easily that, you know, to yarn. 00:21:08.980 --> 00:21:14.000 And I know the one up behind Sullivan's was used for when they were doing the pipeline 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:15.000 through here. 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:21.900 It was used for the workers that had their own mobile homes that they brought in, and 00:21:21.900 --> 00:21:24.300 they used that facility for that as well. 00:21:24.300 --> 00:21:25.300 Okay. 00:21:25.300 --> 00:21:27.940 But there's a lot of empty spaces out there. 00:21:27.940 --> 00:21:39.200 The other question is about employment in our county and we've been looking at the numbers 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:48.420 over several years and the open jobs seems to maintain a, you know, right around 1,100 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:55.900 and the unemployed is right around 900 and those two numbers should just equal them, you 00:21:55.900 --> 00:22:25.900 You know, write themselves off, you know, in a perfect world, but my question is, I certainly don't know individuals, but what are these 900 people that have been looking for a job for years? What are they doing? I don't understand how, I'm assuming that most of the same 900, I don't know that of course, but I can't answer that with a hundred, with, you know, yes, I'm, no, 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:55.900 that speaking from employers, there's a certain amount of churn, you know, and they see the same individual kind of work their way through the system. That's probably not the full story for all 900 individuals. I will have new data for you next month. They were going to release January. So because of the shutdown, they're still delayed and releasing 00:22:55.900 --> 00:22:59.039 on employment information. 00:22:59.039 --> 00:23:03.460 So I should get Januaries on April 8th. 00:23:04.580 --> 00:23:07.460 But yes, looking, I was just looking at this 00:23:07.460 --> 00:23:09.660 before tonight's meeting. 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:15.519 December was the lowest that we had seen in four open jobs 00:23:18.360 --> 00:23:23.280 and there was somewhere around, I want to say 900, 00:23:23.280 --> 00:23:27.060 open publicized job openings. 00:23:27.060 --> 00:23:32.060 And then by February, it had jumped back up to 1,100 and some. 00:23:32.600 --> 00:23:36.100 So, you know, you sometimes see some of that curve 00:23:36.100 --> 00:23:37.080 through the holidays. 00:23:37.080 --> 00:23:41.060 I don't think we saw as much holiday, 00:23:41.060 --> 00:23:46.060 like retail hiring as maybe we have seen in other years. 00:23:47.480 --> 00:23:48.519 There's certainly some, 00:23:48.519 --> 00:23:50.759 but maybe not as prolific as it has been. 00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:59.759 But yeah, it still seems to be, so part of the conversation on Wednesday morning is not necessarily diving into what's, what are those 900 doing? 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:11.759 But I think making sure that as we graduate, how do we make sure that those graduates aren't leaving and also knowing that some of them will pursue Highland or trades or go on, 00:24:11.759 --> 00:24:16.760 leave the community to go to school, that some of them will enter the workforce right away. 00:24:16.760 --> 00:24:32.760 And how are we making that on-ramp as easy as possible because there are some really fantastic opportunities here that you can start and make a very decent hourly wage and there are a lot of opportunities to expand. 00:24:32.760 --> 00:24:45.760 I was just visiting the local manufacturer and they talked about they will provide the education and training and even send someone to school on their dime while they work. 00:24:45.760 --> 00:24:51.880 Work. So, you know, there are good opportunities, but I don't always know that those students 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:56.080 realize that. How can we make that more stations? 00:24:56.080 --> 00:25:03.560 Yeah, I know there's a school, I went to their, working on their mission statement, they had 00:25:03.560 --> 00:25:06.720 a couple of minutes, you were there. Yes. And that was one of the things they talked 00:25:06.720 --> 00:25:13.760 about was retaining the students and trying to bring some of them back. So they're, they're 00:25:13.760 --> 00:25:14.760 We're aware of that too. 00:25:14.760 --> 00:25:15.760 So, yeah. 00:25:15.760 --> 00:25:16.760 That's. 00:25:16.760 --> 00:25:17.760 It will take their partnership. 00:25:17.760 --> 00:25:18.760 Yeah. 00:25:18.760 --> 00:25:19.760 For sure. 00:25:19.760 --> 00:25:20.760 Yeah. 00:25:20.760 --> 00:25:21.760 Okay. 00:25:21.760 --> 00:25:22.760 All right. 00:25:22.760 --> 00:25:23.760 Well, thank you. 00:25:23.760 --> 00:25:24.760 Sure. 00:25:24.760 --> 00:25:25.760 Well, one other thing. 00:25:25.760 --> 00:25:27.320 I got a call today wanting me to go to work for some company. 00:25:27.320 --> 00:25:37.560 They said that my resume, and I'm 72 years old, I said, no, no, thank you, get rid of 00:25:37.560 --> 00:25:38.560 that resume. 00:25:38.560 --> 00:25:50.400 Steve, if I could, the whole hotel leakage data, 28,000 marine nights a year. 00:25:50.400 --> 00:25:52.560 So approximately 2,000 a month. 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:56.480 Does that mean people are coming to town, but staying elsewhere? 00:25:56.840 --> 00:25:59.040 Yeah, we often see the spillover. 00:25:59.040 --> 00:26:01.560 They're going up in a row and they're staying in Rockford. 00:26:02.040 --> 00:26:08.040 We have some information from a software we call LASER and that tracks the cell phone. 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:13.039 and we also have a call or we've purchased some STR data. 00:26:13.519 --> 00:26:16.039 And I can't tell you, I forget what STR stands for, 00:26:16.039 --> 00:26:20.200 but it's really more delving into a hotel leakage. 00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:23.519 And again, they will capture the bulk 00:26:23.519 --> 00:26:25.360 from larger chains. 00:26:25.360 --> 00:26:27.600 They're not necessarily going to the townhouse motel 00:26:27.600 --> 00:26:29.039 and finding that information. 00:26:30.240 --> 00:26:32.519 But we're looking at when someone's coming to visit 00:26:32.519 --> 00:26:35.039 an area, they're typically wanting to stay 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:36.640 in a chain they recognize. 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:53.440 Sure. And then also the Workforce Initiatives meeting on Wednesday, I got notified of this, I think, a week ago, Tuesday, was there a previous invitation sent? I looked at my email and I didn't see it. 00:26:54.840 --> 00:27:05.360 There might not have been. I think there was some delay in us getting that sent out due to some just, I think, spring break and getting that finalized in schedule. 00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:08.960 So if you can't make it or if there's someone else, you could send in a proposal. 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:15.759 If I had a little more notice, I'd probably have to rewrite my schedule, but unfortunately I can't. 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:21.840 So I was just curious about that. I looked it up. I hadn't seen it before that. So anyway, okay. 00:27:21.840 --> 00:27:27.039 We will make sure to kind of encapsulate what happened and what was discussed 00:27:27.039 --> 00:27:29.440 and send those out to the full group. 00:27:29.440 --> 00:27:31.120 Okay. Thank you. Thanks, Steve. 00:27:31.120 --> 00:27:46.600 All right, this is the deposit for the month of March totaled $11,566.78. Total deposits 00:27:46.600 --> 00:27:55.220 to date to the general fund are $135,030.97. We issued three court enforcement violations 00:27:55.220 --> 00:28:00.340 for the month of March. We closed two of the cases and one is pending. Nicole performed 00:28:00.340 --> 00:28:01.380 Nine inspections. 00:28:01.740 --> 00:28:03.180 I prefer them 12 for the month. 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:08.400 We had our monthly meeting with the representative from the IBEW, uh, Nicole 00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:11.800 completed the records disposal paperwork for the secretary of state. 00:28:12.220 --> 00:28:12.940 We met with Ms. 00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:15.460 Hummel on the 31st to review the paperwork. 00:28:15.620 --> 00:28:20.300 We are now awaiting our final approval, which will allow, then allow us to start 00:28:20.300 --> 00:28:23.019 the, um, disposal process properly. 00:28:23.660 --> 00:28:29.120 I attended the annual I FSM Illinois Association of floodplain and stormwater 00:28:29.120 --> 00:28:32.320 Management, two-day conference in Champaign. 00:28:32.320 --> 00:28:34.440 Ms. Newcomer and I met with Carrie McWright 00:28:34.440 --> 00:28:38.440 of Diamond Brothers Insurance to discuss a situation 00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:41.400 involving a property owner's failure to maintain 00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:45.960 their property and to evaluate whether to and what to extend 00:28:45.960 --> 00:28:47.880 the county should be involved in cleanup efforts 00:28:47.880 --> 00:28:49.480 if the property does not comply 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:51.280 following administrative hearing. 00:28:51.280 --> 00:28:53.680 This would be the property on 26 North. 00:28:54.680 --> 00:28:57.320 Ms. McWright did receive guidance from the insurance carrier. 00:28:57.320 --> 00:29:00.460 They stated it would be a good idea to go ahead and clean up 00:29:00.460 --> 00:29:03.019 the property and to try to recover the costs from the 00:29:03.019 --> 00:29:03.920 homeowner. 00:29:03.920 --> 00:29:08.340 It was stated this mitigates further risks and that they are 00:29:08.340 --> 00:29:10.220 generally seen with uncut properties. 00:29:10.220 --> 00:29:13.539 In addition to removing an eyesore and doing the right thing 00:29:13.539 --> 00:29:14.579 for the community. 00:29:14.579 --> 00:29:18.260 It was recommended we document everything as well. 00:29:18.260 --> 00:29:20.900 The County can hire a third party attorney or we can take 00:29:20.900 --> 00:29:21.860 this on ourselves. 00:29:21.860 --> 00:29:26.019 I also spoke with Eric Burnham and our zoning office 00:29:26.019 --> 00:29:31.539 Attorney, and he recommends continuing to send out the violation notices. 00:29:31.980 --> 00:29:36.280 Um, more than likely this individual will not comply, have another 00:29:36.280 --> 00:29:41.660 administrative hearing, then we do have, um, that on the books that we can 00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:45.340 either hire a third party to go clean up or have the County go clean up. 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:50.340 And he also is looking into a judgment of foreclosure on the property 00:29:50.340 --> 00:29:53.300 since we already have the $60,000 lead on it. 00:29:53.300 --> 00:29:59.539 I attended a conference, a seminar held in Springfield on data centers. 00:29:59.539 --> 00:30:07.819 Commissioner, Heldon Springfield on data centers and Nicole and I met with Sheriff Stovall to discuss a road use agreement related to wind, solar, and energy storage projects. 00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:13.420 He attended the Township Road Commissioners meeting that was last week where an agreement was discussed. 00:30:13.420 --> 00:30:15.460 So he came in and talked to Nicole and I about that. 00:30:16.420 --> 00:30:17.019 Questions? 00:30:18.779 --> 00:30:19.259 Yes. 00:30:21.059 --> 00:30:27.059 Why wouldn't we pursue foreclosure before we clean up and why would we clean up if we're not the owner of the property? 00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:32.059 According to liability that it's a good idea to, 00:30:32.539 --> 00:30:35.339 since it would mitigate risk to the area, 00:30:35.339 --> 00:30:37.180 that's just what we were told with them. 00:30:37.180 --> 00:30:39.500 Not necessarily the risk to the county. 00:30:39.500 --> 00:30:40.940 Correct, right. 00:30:42.940 --> 00:30:45.559 And according to our attorney, 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:48.299 he recommended having one more hearing 00:30:48.299 --> 00:30:51.220 to get that on the books so we can have that 00:30:51.220 --> 00:30:52.980 as a judgment as well. 00:30:52.980 --> 00:30:55.740 We know what the CIP year this person is. 00:30:57.059 --> 00:30:59.700 and Hotel down in Jacksonville. 00:31:03.700 --> 00:31:05.839 Before we clean anything up, 00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:07.500 can we talk about that a little more? 00:31:07.500 --> 00:31:08.339 Oh, definitely. 00:31:08.339 --> 00:31:11.180 I have to send out all the formal letters and everything. 00:31:11.180 --> 00:31:13.500 So there's the whole long process we have to go through. 00:31:13.500 --> 00:31:15.539 I would really like to pursue foreclosure. 00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:17.000 Oh, definitely. 00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:19.039 Yes, that's what Warnerman recommended. 00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:22.819 We were, I think, just getting more information, 00:31:22.819 --> 00:31:24.819 trying to figure out all scenarios. 00:31:24.819 --> 00:31:25.659 Right. 00:31:25.659 --> 00:31:26.859 and I'm sure we are covered. 00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:29.960 So I just have a question. 00:31:31.240 --> 00:31:33.839 Because we talked about this one property on 26 00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:36.899 because we see a lot of people traffic by there. 00:31:36.899 --> 00:31:40.039 But what about the junkyard that's in the middle of Winslow? 00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:41.440 You ever hear anybody talk about that? 00:31:41.440 --> 00:31:43.440 Winslow is not my territory, unfortunately. 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:44.879 And yes, I tried to help them out. 00:31:44.879 --> 00:31:46.440 You mean the Stevens and Conway? 00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:47.680 They're incorporated. 00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:49.659 The village of Scott. 00:31:49.659 --> 00:31:51.920 I have also reached out to my office 00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:53.720 and I helped them two years ago. 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.920 I sent Mr. Kramer a letter off the books stating, you know, 00:31:57.920 --> 00:32:02.039 I've been asked by the village of Winslow to help out. 00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:05.319 And he did clean up some, but he brought just much, 00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:06.700 as much back as he did. 00:32:06.700 --> 00:32:10.159 So unfortunately I can't, anything that's incorporated, 00:32:10.159 --> 00:32:14.859 even with the new statute that we, the new code, 00:32:15.879 --> 00:32:17.720 that the dangerous buildings and such, 00:32:17.720 --> 00:32:19.519 we can't touch incorporated. 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:23.039 Health department would have been able to, but we can't. 00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:26.700 I talked to somebody, so I can't remember who it was 00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:28.740 in the village and they were gonna contact 00:32:28.740 --> 00:32:30.740 the Illinois UTA about that. 00:32:30.740 --> 00:32:32.279 I don't know if they ever did. 00:32:32.279 --> 00:32:34.279 I don't remember if they have or not. 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:37.500 I know Ryan Penny is the Board President or Mayor. 00:32:37.500 --> 00:32:38.339 I don't know how they- 00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:39.700 What's the problem? 00:32:39.700 --> 00:32:41.139 There's a lady that contacts me. 00:32:41.139 --> 00:32:43.639 I can't remember her name off the top of my head. 00:32:45.159 --> 00:32:46.000 Yeah. 00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:48.299 Mr. Chairman? 00:32:48.299 --> 00:32:49.139 Yes, sir. 00:32:49.139 --> 00:32:54.139 Anything of interest from the seminar about data centers? 00:32:56.259 --> 00:32:58.460 Yes, I'm doing a lot more research. 00:32:58.460 --> 00:33:00.339 This was put on by an attorney. 00:33:00.339 --> 00:33:04.619 So he was more or less telling us how we should 00:33:04.619 --> 00:33:07.019 and what we should include in our codes 00:33:08.579 --> 00:33:11.579 that like the closed loop systems 00:33:11.579 --> 00:33:14.779 only use that amount of water. 00:33:14.779 --> 00:33:16.799 At one point in time, of course, they're going to have to, 00:33:16.799 --> 00:33:18.019 some evaporates here and there, 00:33:18.019 --> 00:33:20.019 but they're never going to have to take up 00:33:20.019 --> 00:33:23.339 that big a volume of water again. 00:33:23.339 --> 00:33:24.779 But there's a lot of things that we, 00:33:24.779 --> 00:33:26.539 he gave us that we still need to research 00:33:26.539 --> 00:33:27.579 and everything like that. 00:33:27.579 --> 00:33:29.180 So, yeah. 00:33:30.500 --> 00:33:32.579 I would comment on that as well. 00:33:32.579 --> 00:33:36.980 I attended two meetings on data centers, 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:41.980 one over in Rockford, more on AI than it was on data centers 00:33:42.440 --> 00:33:43.819 but then the question always comes up 00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:45.220 as we talk about AI. 00:33:45.220 --> 00:33:53.220 We need, if we're going to continue to expand AI, the data centers are going to be an issue that I have to deal with. 00:33:53.220 --> 00:34:03.220 But Highland did their Boyer Colloquium on AI and data centers and there was a really, one of the best crowds I've seen 00:34:03.220 --> 00:34:08.219 at the Boyer Colloquium as they talked about this and there was a lot of concern. 00:34:08.219 --> 00:34:38.219 and I think, I don't know where you get specific data and you can say exact, you hear a lot of different things on the water, whether it's a closed loop or whether it's water that comes in contact with equipment or whether it's water that just goes near equipment as it does in other cooling situations, but I think we've gotten not just our community, but I think we've gotten community 00:34:38.219 --> 00:34:46.059 and General concerned over AI. And at this point, other than those areas down around DeKalb, 00:34:46.940 --> 00:34:52.779 and some of the other areas out east where there's a lot more of them built or in process of being 00:34:52.779 --> 00:35:03.340 built is, and I already told you that I was solicited for one for looking at property form. 00:35:03.340 --> 00:35:14.340 but we're looking at, it would take 10 years to get one from think about it stage here now until it was going. 00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:21.340 We do have one that had contacted Nicole and I out by the wind towers, wind turbines and the solar. 00:35:21.340 --> 00:35:32.340 Axiona, they had discussed a smaller size adding on to the wind turbines and the solar to create the extra energy that they would need for that data center 00:35:32.340 --> 00:35:34.380 and their plan was a five year plan. 00:35:34.980 --> 00:35:38.779 The other thing creates the problem though is that we can do that. 00:35:38.779 --> 00:35:43.179 They're looking at they have some power availability because of the wind farm. 00:35:43.820 --> 00:35:48.539 As we talked at this last meeting, it was and to give you an example, 00:35:48.539 --> 00:35:52.739 we had a solar facility looking at some property and anything 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:57.260 that's on the south east or southwest side of Freeport is already out of the picture 00:35:57.260 --> 00:36:03.260 because the substations on the south side of the county can't handle any more power coming into 00:36:03.260 --> 00:36:10.539 them. So that if they built more solar facilities, they're going to sit there because they don't have 00:36:10.539 --> 00:36:16.460 a way to get in. Plus I got paid 2 million now than it is to get connected with ComEd, but 00:36:17.099 --> 00:36:22.940 that's going to be our bigger concern is how can they generate the power? Then you got to go back 00:36:22.940 --> 00:36:26.079 Director, Dale Stang, what do you want, Dale? 00:36:26.079 --> 00:36:27.380 Nuclear, man, nuclear. 00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:30.380 Right, I just have one question to ask 00:36:32.260 --> 00:36:34.360 of the committee and the Board. 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.420 If anybody ever knows of these meetings that are happening, 00:36:37.420 --> 00:36:39.559 I don't know about them, the IACBM ones, 00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:43.599 I do not get the emails, Mr. Hadley was the one 00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:45.199 that would tell me about those, 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:46.900 I know he's going to be off the Board, 00:36:46.900 --> 00:36:51.699 so any meetings, any webinars, anything that has to do 00:36:51.699 --> 00:37:01.779 Solar, Wind, Energy Storage, Data Center, Zoning, anything, please shoot them my way. So I can attend, Nicole can attend, somebody in the office can attend so we can learn more. 00:37:02.699 --> 00:37:04.139 Did you talk to Kelly Murray about it? 00:37:04.139 --> 00:37:07.539 I did. I asked her to be put on the list again and she said she'd get to it. So. 00:37:08.219 --> 00:37:09.059 Let me know if you don't. 00:37:09.099 --> 00:37:09.340 Okay. 00:37:09.380 --> 00:37:12.940 You don't see anything. So I get emails from them at least once a week. 00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:16.019 Okay, perfect. Yeah, I haven't gotten any since I went to that one. So. 00:37:17.340 --> 00:37:17.659 Yep. 00:37:17.659 --> 00:37:23.019 That's all I have. 00:37:23.019 --> 00:37:26.380 On soil and water, interesting conversation there as well when you look at data centers 00:37:26.380 --> 00:37:33.380 is that some counties and some states are wanting to employ the soil and water conservation 00:37:33.380 --> 00:37:39.820 districts to do water use studies so that they can provide that information to those 00:37:39.820 --> 00:38:09.820 companies and to those counties that had the potential to have a significant portion of their water used for those type of facilities being built. So they're concerned about what what's that mean for them? That was an interesting conversation there. They're in the process now. Springfield work is soon to be here and they're working with farmers to get their 00:38:09.820 --> 00:38:39.819 Program, Recreation and Trails, 00:38:39.819 --> 00:38:51.940 I told them that with our financial situation, you know, 16-5 is what we thought we could 00:38:51.940 --> 00:38:59.819 afford and they weren't very happy with me because I didn't communicate that to them. 00:38:59.819 --> 00:39:06.300 So anyway, I talked to Mr. Helms about it and I suggested to Steve Elbeck that someone 00:39:06.300 --> 00:39:13.559 comes to a finance meeting like many other entities do and explain to us why they need 00:39:13.559 --> 00:39:19.059 extra money, how much money they have. And Steve said that I should let him know when 00:39:19.059 --> 00:39:24.960 that opportunity arises. And I wanted to ask, do you think we should be getting a monthly 00:39:24.960 --> 00:39:29.380 statement or a quarterly statement from them? I'm assuming we don't. I mean, I see them 00:39:29.380 --> 00:39:34.260 at the meetings, but do you want to see a financial statement from them quarterly or 00:39:34.260 --> 00:39:51.500 I think it would be a good idea, so when we're talking about giving them the money, you can 00:39:51.500 --> 00:39:57.220 see what they have in reserves and just like the VAC. 00:39:57.220 --> 00:39:58.980 We're following the agreement with them. 00:39:58.980 --> 00:40:05.380 the agreement with them. I was going to say, I just wanted more. Yeah. And they assumed that they were 00:40:05.380 --> 00:40:10.019 going to get it. You know, they missed that. Well, we had an agreement. I think we had a three-year 00:40:10.019 --> 00:40:17.300 agreement. So we just renewed it automatically that, I mean, if it's a three-year agreement, 00:40:17.300 --> 00:40:21.940 I think it does. We'd have to look at it again. It's the same conversation I had with them 00:40:21.940 --> 00:40:34.820 from Pre-2022, when I was in your slide. So, it's not new to them. They may not be remembering. 00:40:34.820 --> 00:40:42.900 It's not new. I mean, I like the trail light. It's a good investment, but there's a lot 00:40:42.900 --> 00:40:48.500 of other things that we obviously need to fund. Well, maybe we'll talk to Steve about 00:40:48.500 --> 00:40:51.980 about that when it comes to, I'm assuming it will be Steve. 00:40:51.980 --> 00:40:53.179 He's still the Chair, I think. 00:40:53.179 --> 00:40:54.860 Yes, he is. 00:40:54.860 --> 00:40:55.699 Okay. 00:40:55.699 --> 00:40:58.860 Other than that, anything else that's going on smooth? 00:40:58.860 --> 00:41:00.340 Well, I had a tree fell over on a bridge 00:41:00.340 --> 00:41:04.179 and damaged a bridge, didn't take the bridge completely out, 00:41:04.179 --> 00:41:07.059 just took out some of the handrails and stuff. 00:41:07.059 --> 00:41:07.900 They're getting that fixed. 00:41:07.900 --> 00:41:08.980 Bridges aren't cheap. 00:41:10.059 --> 00:41:12.260 They didn't take out the bridge, just the handrails. 00:41:12.260 --> 00:41:15.099 Maybe leave with that this time. 00:41:15.099 --> 00:41:15.940 Sorry. 00:41:15.940 --> 00:41:23.940 I think we're responsible for a third of that expense, so we have to report Orangeville and not us. 00:41:23.940 --> 00:41:26.940 Okay. It did take out the budget. 00:41:26.940 --> 00:41:29.940 It's Park District. Anyway, I'll be quiet. 00:41:29.940 --> 00:41:31.940 Yeah, I think that's what it is. 00:41:31.940 --> 00:41:32.940 Okay. 00:41:32.940 --> 00:41:36.940 I don't have anything from Blackhawk Hills in last semester, Chair. 00:41:36.940 --> 00:41:37.940 No, sir. 00:41:37.940 --> 00:41:44.940 Okay. And I've already added enough in my conversations here, and I don't know if we have any report from facilities. 00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:50.199 Wally stepped in my office today just to let me know he was going to get the mower serviced 00:41:50.199 --> 00:41:52.780 and tuned up and ready to start mowing. 00:41:52.780 --> 00:42:02.179 To have some sort of an end-of-year plan for both the truck and the horse and things, so 00:42:02.179 --> 00:42:04.460 it was handled this time. 00:42:04.460 --> 00:42:09.460 If you can relay that maybe to Wally, Chadley. 00:42:09.460 --> 00:42:16.659 Okay, I have no other old business on the agenda. So with that we have New Business, which is 00:42:16.659 --> 00:42:22.619 who will have a temporary use permit for the Pearl City Historical Organization for use 00:42:22.619 --> 00:42:34.860 of black hawks. If you would like to just let us know what your plans are. 00:42:34.860 --> 00:43:03.659 I sent them in. Did you bring them forward? Yes. Well, what we would like to do is we're having a day of history in the making. I have talked to a lot of people because I didn't know we needed a permit before I started all this. But I'm going to have vendors come that will teach us skills of the past. Like there's going to be rope making. 00:43:04.860 --> 00:43:24.860 I have a rug making, I have a blacksmith coming, and he's using charcoal, because I've told all the people that are coming, there is no electric, and there's only a hand pump, there's no water hookups or anything like that, everything they have to provide themselves. 00:43:24.860 --> 00:43:25.860 Okay. 00:43:25.860 --> 00:43:27.860 Let's back up just a little bit. 00:43:27.860 --> 00:43:31.860 The idea of it is a fundraiser for our historical organization. 00:43:31.860 --> 00:43:40.860 With the new museum we have, we now have more expenses than we had, so we're exploring different areas to fundraise in. 00:43:40.860 --> 00:43:47.860 We would like to use the Black Hawk Park because of the historical significance of it. 00:43:47.860 --> 00:43:56.860 And what Lynette's talking about is the different events we want to have there, but there will be a fee to come in onto the property just as a fundraiser type thing. 00:43:56.860 --> 00:43:57.860 and others. 00:43:57.860 --> 00:43:58.860 It's a one-day event. 00:43:58.860 --> 00:44:05.220 We want to make it historically as accurate as possible with the different crafts and different 00:44:05.220 --> 00:44:11.900 skills and different talents that they had back then that we might not even have anymore. 00:44:11.900 --> 00:44:15.099 That's the basic idea of what we're trying to do here. 00:44:15.099 --> 00:44:21.179 Yeah, and most of it, like you're going to have Jake Andrews come and he's going to sit 00:44:21.179 --> 00:44:25.860 beside the monument and tell about the people that are buried there. 00:44:25.860 --> 00:44:32.179 It's a learning experience for kids and adults. We're trying to get it to be family oriented. 00:44:32.980 --> 00:44:42.099 It's from 10 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon. Well, I call them vendors, but they're classes, 00:44:42.099 --> 00:44:46.420 sort of. They're teachers, because we have Joe Wenzel is going to bring out a whole bunch of 00:44:46.420 --> 00:44:51.940 quilts and talk about her different quilt, maybe patterns. I'm not sure what all she's going to do. 00:44:51.940 --> 00:45:21.940 She's also going to have some maybe a little craft for kids to do, like some different stitches. She can show them how to do stitches and things like that. Dr. Domman from Lena has agreed to come with some of his Civil War memorabilia and medicine. He's had, I don't know if you've all heard Dr. Domman speak, but probably he's fantastic. Yes, very good. So he said he would come. We're having a lady that's from my church, her, she and her 00:45:21.940 --> 00:45:26.779 Family, are going to teach us how to do hand-dipped candles. 00:45:26.779 --> 00:45:28.179 And I said, this could be interesting 00:45:28.179 --> 00:45:31.219 in their playing around with it, because in June 30, 00:45:31.219 --> 00:45:34.659 93, hand-dipped candles may be a challenge. 00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:38.420 But she says, we're working on ice water and things like that. 00:45:38.420 --> 00:45:40.820 We have a sort of riding creature stopping by, 00:45:40.820 --> 00:45:43.300 walking through the property, because that was a very 00:45:43.300 --> 00:45:45.179 important thing at that time. 00:45:45.179 --> 00:45:48.980 I've also, we have a high-wheeled wagon at the museum. 00:45:48.980 --> 00:45:51.300 And they were talking at the meeting 00:45:51.300 --> 00:45:52.619 They Needed No Wheels Grease. 00:45:52.619 --> 00:45:54.599 And I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't be greasing those 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:57.199 before the event, because that's a big thing. 00:45:57.199 --> 00:46:00.320 How many people have seen a high-wheeled wagon 00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:03.039 take the wheels off and grease them and put them back on? 00:46:03.039 --> 00:46:05.139 So that's going to be one of the projects 00:46:05.139 --> 00:46:07.139 they're going to have that day. 00:46:07.139 --> 00:46:09.320 I've contacted some wood carvers. 00:46:09.320 --> 00:46:10.460 They're coming. 00:46:10.460 --> 00:46:15.000 And the Rock Valley Wood Carvers Group is going to come. 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.599 And some of these will have items they will sell, 00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:25.880 but most of them are teaching but we said if they're coming and they have items we will allow them to 00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:33.639 sell if they want to sell things we're charging a $20 boost fee it's not much but if they they that 00:46:33.639 --> 00:46:42.119 helps us build our things we've got a basket weaver the blacksmith uh rich Tobin is bringing a bunch 00:46:42.119 --> 00:46:48.280 of wooden games they're Indian games that for kids to play he does a lot of rendezvous he does 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:58.559 S.B.O.B. Roundaboose. And he's got a whole bunch of different games. I've got some pictures that he's going to bring. He's also going to do beadwork that he does beadworking. 00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:07.400 Ken McCleaver is going to do some Native American stuff and maybe sell some books. We also have Alan Harris. He's from 00:47:07.400 --> 00:47:20.400 Dixon, he's a teacher in Dixon and he's going to show Native American tools and weapons and spheres or life skills that were used back before the Indians even. 00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:23.400 And I have soap making. 00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:26.400 Nikki Keltler from the Extension Office wants to come. 00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:28.400 She takes care of the plants out there. 00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:30.400 I don't know if you guys knew that or not. 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:32.400 She does the flower beds and stuff out there. 00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:37.840 there, she wants to do a project with Native American Plants and she'll have the kids talk 00:47:37.840 --> 00:47:40.840 about them and show them and things like that. 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:46.480 So we have some more embroidery and needlepoint maybe too. 00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:51.720 I haven't got a, I would sort of like to get someone that would work with leather so we 00:47:51.720 --> 00:47:55.840 can show, because that was an important thing back there, you know, all your horses, harnesses 00:47:55.840 --> 00:47:57.320 and stuff like that. 00:47:57.320 --> 00:48:02.119 And also maybe a fur trader, I don't know, we've got some trappers around, they can maybe 00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:08.280 bring some traps and she'll explain why they did it and things like that. So that's why we're having 00:48:08.280 --> 00:48:18.360 this. It's our first year but a lot of people are excited about it in our group and so I don't know 00:48:18.360 --> 00:48:26.679 what do you want to know about it? Well I think I think you've done, yes go ahead Fisher. No go ahead. 00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:33.159 I have a couple of questions. Um, first, I guess you're talking about putting 00:48:33.159 --> 00:48:37.400 quarter highs out there, which I guess is great. Well, there's one there, but we're 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:41.199 going to get more. We're going to have two additional. Yes. Right. What about 00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:50.079 garbage? The trash cans from the, um, gross city. They've got a bunch of trash 00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:54.480 cans they said we can use. So we've got that. Your organization would handle. We 00:48:54.480 --> 00:48:56.480 We handle the trash sheets. 00:48:56.480 --> 00:48:58.480 Yeah. 00:48:58.480 --> 00:49:02.480 Monument has been recently repaired, I guess. 00:49:02.480 --> 00:49:06.480 I'm only just concerned if you're going to have... 00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:08.480 Well, it's been a lot. 00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:10.480 Yeah, there's a little fence there. 00:49:10.480 --> 00:49:12.480 I just want to make sure that... 00:49:12.480 --> 00:49:14.480 No one's climbing on it. 00:49:14.480 --> 00:49:18.480 It's protected, especially it's a grave area as well. 00:49:18.480 --> 00:49:20.480 Sure. 00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:22.480 Food trucks, correct? 00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:48.279 A blacksmith looked at your Certificate of Liability. It's fairly vague, which is normal, but I'm assuming they're going to have pretty hot. 00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:58.880 He uses charcoal. He uses charcoal for his heating element. He doesn't have anything else. He might have a bellows though, to magnify it a little bit, but he's more into like... 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:41.880 have any of you been up there lately? There's like a sandbox up there too. And I thought I was going to put him close to that sandbox because that would be a good place to, you know, 00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:44.880 help extinguish any claims. 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:49.880 The Certificate of Liability of Accounting does need to be listed on that as an additional insurer. 00:50:49.880 --> 00:50:55.880 I got a new one I think that Stanley was asking, or we were told we were sent that. 00:50:55.880 --> 00:50:57.880 Yeah, that's perfect. 00:50:57.880 --> 00:51:04.599 Stevenson County, I think this is the one, I mean, this is Stevenson County and Blackhawk 00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:05.599 Mountain. 00:51:05.599 --> 00:51:07.160 The address is the correct way, yes. 00:51:07.160 --> 00:51:13.280 You just need to list the address here, 50 West Douglas Street, not the monument itself. 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:15.599 So Stevenson County needs to be listed. 00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:16.599 Okay. 00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:17.599 With our address here, which 00:51:17.599 --> 00:51:18.599 50 West Douglas Street. 00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:19.599 I know. 00:51:19.599 --> 00:51:20.599 I work here. 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:21.599 Yeah. 00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:22.599 Perfect. 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:23.599 Okay. 00:51:23.599 --> 00:51:24.599 All right. 00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:25.599 Thank you. 00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:26.599 Thank you, Steve. 00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:27.599 All right. 00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:40.320 and more questions. Have we ever had anybody this big here before? I don't know how big 00:51:40.320 --> 00:51:46.720 it's going to be. I like to think it's been a huge, but it's the first year. It's during 00:51:46.720 --> 00:51:52.880 the time, you know, and Jake will be talking throughout the afternoon and then he'll have 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:56.720 the presentation at the end, probably our ending will be the biggest. 00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:58.680 Again, it depends on the weather. 00:51:58.680 --> 00:52:00.840 We do not have a rain date or anything. 00:52:01.160 --> 00:52:05.039 So we're going to try having it no matter what. 00:52:05.119 --> 00:52:09.480 Um, but we don't really know how well it's going to go over it. 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:12.880 The people that we've contacted and talked about seem very excited about. 00:52:12.880 --> 00:52:15.920 They want to be helpful and help us with them, stuff like that. 00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:19.519 Um, I'm hoping to use that as a recruiting tool for more members. 00:52:19.519 --> 00:52:33.920 but at this point we don't know, we're hoping it'll grow as over the years and it'll be now a use of monument but educate people about the monument and what happened up there in that area and stuff like that. 00:52:33.920 --> 00:52:41.920 Okay, well parking, so if it gets to be bigger than what you expect, I get that you have the field next to it, but it can't be. 00:52:41.920 --> 00:52:46.559 We have three spots and one even on the north side of Kent where we'd have to help transport them, 00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:49.680 but we're, we're going to have plenty of parking if it got big. 00:52:49.680 --> 00:52:52.640 And then it says golf carts too, rolling them around? 00:52:52.640 --> 00:52:53.680 No, just. 00:52:53.680 --> 00:53:01.039 Just, there's a little, um, I would call it pasture to the south of Black Hawk monument. 00:53:01.039 --> 00:53:02.559 It was on your map. 00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:07.680 Where we're going to make a mock Kellogg's trail that comes up, they parked down at the farm, 00:53:07.680 --> 00:53:22.440 Riding Cart, most people will walk and many for the elderly, you know, you got his cart to be able to take up through the trail and we'd have like, well, here you go, well, pretend Buffalo Grove, Polo and stuff like that. And you'd have little stops on the Kellogg's trail as it gets to. 00:53:22.440 --> 00:53:24.440 See, we had it here on your map. 00:53:26.880 --> 00:53:36.680 And the gate to come into the park would be in the backside. There's like a fence line there. So it's got a, yeah, it's got a break in it. 00:53:36.680 --> 00:53:38.280 Back by where the cabin used to be. 00:53:39.240 --> 00:53:44.440 And the vendors that are going to provide the items are all going to park in the main 00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:50.360 lot up here and none of the people that come to the place will park there. They will all park here 00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:57.240 and there's enough cars for like 30 at the time. I think I put it into parking lot but then Kim 00:53:57.240 --> 00:54:04.039 Plans, she was like three-fourths of a mile down the road and we're working on getting, I was 00:54:04.039 --> 00:54:12.180 I was hoping to get the antique engine for those wagons and use tractors, you know, because they're enclosed and they don't run out. 00:54:12.180 --> 00:54:19.940 I just found that out today. So I'm still working on getting more transportation if we need it. 00:54:19.940 --> 00:54:23.140 We have parking spots. We have parking spots. 00:54:23.140 --> 00:54:26.539 The logistics, how to get them there from there. 00:54:26.539 --> 00:54:30.640 But because we don't want people walking. Nobody got to walk on the roads. 00:54:30.640 --> 00:54:34.480 We have to get to this part first. Let's be honest with them. 00:54:37.039 --> 00:54:41.840 I mean, I'll second it. And I still am very iffy just because it's pretty big. 00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:49.119 And we're hoping 150 at the most, probably. I don't know. You don't know. 00:54:49.119 --> 00:54:52.320 I know. Were you there for when they dedicated them? 00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:56.800 Monument? No, when they did the Lincoln Statute. 00:54:56.800 --> 00:54:59.440 I was. How many people were there? 00:54:59.440 --> 00:55:09.280 not many there is not many there i sat right in the front row maybe 50 people you were there i think 00:55:10.240 --> 00:55:13.519 maybe i don't think there were 50 there nicole has was there 00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:18.240 and i felt bigger than that i was there too but 00:55:19.440 --> 00:55:26.320 well i'll go for it to pass it to board and i'll ponder on it i'm like man that's pretty 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:35.680 I mean it sounds like a great event but it's on county property and like I'll second. 00:55:35.680 --> 00:55:40.880 I've got a question. What are you worried about the county property for? 00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:50.800 I mean this is used for smaller events and your event sounds pretty amazing and big that I don't 00:55:50.800 --> 00:55:57.600 I don't know if there's enough. I mean, I don't know. I just, and what happens if something 00:55:57.600 --> 00:55:58.600 damaged? 00:55:58.600 --> 00:56:02.600 So if the limits of liability is involved. 00:56:02.600 --> 00:56:08.840 Is there the shelter house, which the benches are not in good shape. And also, there's something 00:56:08.840 --> 00:56:14.840 you could put on the agenda sometime. That sign that tells a black pocket is just ripped 00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:16.720 into pieces. You can't even read it. 00:56:16.720 --> 00:56:17.720 That's horrible. 00:56:17.720 --> 00:56:18.720 It's horrible up there. 00:56:18.720 --> 00:56:22.720 You guys wouldn't want to own this park, would you? 00:56:22.720 --> 00:56:28.720 That's not beyond possibility. 00:56:28.720 --> 00:56:32.720 We'd be willing to entertain a discussion on it. 00:56:32.720 --> 00:56:35.720 It'll cost you a lot more than a dollar. 00:56:35.720 --> 00:56:37.720 We understand that. 00:56:37.720 --> 00:56:39.720 That's why I... 00:56:39.720 --> 00:56:41.720 We'd be willing to discuss that. 00:56:41.720 --> 00:56:43.720 How much we spent on the rehab environment itself. 00:56:43.720 --> 00:56:44.720 Sure. 00:56:44.720 --> 00:56:47.800 Well, yeah, and that is, it does look very nice. 00:56:48.760 --> 00:56:53.960 If I can, I think this might be a good test to see. 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:57.559 The park was obviously never designed for something like this. 00:56:57.559 --> 00:56:59.079 Obviously there's not parking. 00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:00.960 There's not water. 00:57:00.960 --> 00:57:05.680 There's not, I mean, there's outhouses, basically, that's all there is. 00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:09.380 If there's going to be more of these down the road and it's going to get 00:57:09.380 --> 00:57:12.800 bigger, we're going to have to figure out different logistics for them though. 00:57:12.800 --> 00:57:22.800 I don't know how realistic it is to have people parking at farms, and I think it'd be great if that's a good problem to have, I guess, right? 00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:32.800 If you're getting all of that, but it just, I echo your concerns. It was just never designed for what may be coming, I guess. 00:57:32.800 --> 00:57:37.800 It's amazing how many people do come to this park. 00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:44.079 You probably don't know it, but every time I'm up there, there's people there. 00:57:44.079 --> 00:57:46.800 Well, if they're reserving it, we absolutely know. 00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:52.640 Well, but, I mean, it's a public park, so people, like I went up the other day to look 00:57:52.640 --> 00:57:57.920 at some different measurements to figure out how I was going to hook stuff, and there's 00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.160 this car comes in and, well, they were from Savannah. 00:58:01.160 --> 00:58:04.160 They just hadn't been up here before and they wanted to come see it. 00:58:04.160 --> 00:58:11.039 and I'm between Colvin, my mom and my family is five of us there so we went out there for a picnic. 00:58:11.039 --> 00:58:17.519 There was three other families having a picnic out there that day and it's like you know so it is used 00:58:17.519 --> 00:58:23.200 a lot more than you probably realize. Well locals even like being up and taking photographs on 00:58:23.200 --> 00:58:30.960 sunrise and stuff like that because it is a beautiful location and the view is so great so 00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:50.960 My last question was when you signed up did you ask in advance before or did you just say oh we're going to have it here like did you reach out to the Stevenson County to say hey we want to have this and we're looking at it? 00:58:50.960 --> 00:58:56.800 I didn't know we needed a permit until I started with the advertising. I sent something to Greater 00:58:56.800 --> 00:59:04.480 Port Partnership because we are a partner. And she says, oh, do you have a permit for 00:59:04.480 --> 00:59:08.000 this? And it's like, huh? I didn't know I did. 00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:09.680 Sorry, this is the first one and they're all... 00:59:09.680 --> 00:59:16.160 That was actually me because we were responding to the email asking about the industrial port 00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:24.000 Lepotty's. So then we were like, oh my gosh, because I had all the letters, I still have them 00:59:24.720 --> 00:59:29.119 to send out to the vendors to have them, you know, like contracts this summer. 00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:35.680 And I still have them because... We put the brakes on real quick once we realized some of our mistakes. 00:59:35.680 --> 00:59:43.840 Awesome. All right, I'll second it. Any questions? No. Any other questions? There's no service. 00:59:43.840 --> 00:59:58.840 All those in favor of granting the permit, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much for coming. We'll go to the County Board next week. 00:59:58.840 --> 01:00:03.720 to the County Board next week, right? Right. And we should show up there too. More than 01:00:03.720 --> 01:00:13.720 welcome to the first time people ever do. Well, we've got it on our calendar. Yeah, we've got it on every time, too, so you know. 01:00:13.720 --> 01:00:17.720 My daughter did that in Pearl City. I don't know this, but we have these every time. 01:00:17.720 --> 01:00:47.480 Okay, I just passed out some, I don't know if you want to see this. 01:00:47.480 --> 01:01:01.160 These are just some pictures from this office building that Newell has, they're going to 01:01:01.160 --> 01:01:02.160 have for sale. 01:01:02.160 --> 01:01:07.640 That wouldn't say that I did a good job of taking the best representative pictures. 01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:12.000 There's trouble there that show how the office area looks now. 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.400 I was really looking at some of the other areas 01:01:14.400 --> 01:01:17.880 that were not out there to the public 01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:21.800 where if we were to look at potentially using it 01:01:21.800 --> 01:01:25.800 for County Office and should come with access to. 01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:28.600 Thank you, yes. 01:01:28.600 --> 01:01:33.600 Access to computer space and networking areas 01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:35.400 and that sort of thing. 01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:37.600 So that's what those pictures are. 01:01:37.600 --> 01:01:39.400 The reason it's on the agenda here 01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:52.760 is that we have this available, we had a price of 250 on that, I'm sorry, 350 on that. The 01:01:52.760 --> 01:02:00.440 question is, are we even interested in pursuing this any further? Or maybe we should talk 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:07.440 to them about, you know, are there other alternatives that they would have to make it less expensive 01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:20.000 Forest, or are we content with where we are because of our track record of building maintenance 01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:28.400 and so forth? So that's why it's here tonight, because we have the opportunity, but if we're 01:02:28.400 --> 01:02:35.519 just... I think it's worth looking into. The building is telling one story, right? So the 01:02:35.519 --> 01:03:00.519 Well there's no money in the budget to purchase a building, right? 26. 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.519 Right. Right. And their representative knows that. 01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:11.079 Ideally, I think what we looked at the on-trend and currently have runs through 29, I believe. 01:03:11.079 --> 01:03:12.760 Yes, April 30th. 01:03:12.760 --> 01:03:20.840 Yeah. I've been talking to someone else about another building, but that's been very slow going. 01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:27.559 It's not even, it's hardly even worth mentioning, I guess, how slow it's going. 01:03:27.559 --> 01:03:35.160 but we probably need to do an assessment of what needs the 10th floor, the 5th floor, 01:03:35.960 --> 01:03:41.240 and our storage that we utilize here. What that actually is, yes, try to find a space 01:03:42.200 --> 01:03:48.440 and maybe this is, maybe this works. Find out what the build out would be, how much that would cost 01:03:50.120 --> 01:03:57.079 and then plan for it in future budget. Now that means the building may be gone too 01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:03.320 by the time you get there. But I don't know that we have a good idea beyond what's here right now, 01:04:03.320 --> 01:04:12.440 what the needs are. I have no idea for IT infrastructure, you know, what that's like 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:17.640 in that building. That's probably, I shouldn't say it's the biggest issue, but it is an issue. 01:04:17.640 --> 01:04:27.519 Yeah, I just want to know what kind of shape the roof's in, the HVAC, well, I think I'll 01:04:27.519 --> 01:04:29.519 need to know what our needs are before we get real. 01:04:29.519 --> 01:04:34.079 You probably got to know what the needs are anyway, to ensure the reference, you know. 01:04:34.079 --> 01:04:35.079 Sure. 01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:37.160 Well, we do know that the roof is new. 01:04:37.160 --> 01:04:38.380 Perfect. 01:04:38.380 --> 01:04:42.300 We do know that the exterior is basically new. 01:04:42.300 --> 01:04:48.500 We do know that the heating and air conditioning units are less than five years old. 01:04:48.500 --> 01:04:54.700 So there's a N, whatever you want that's inside it is included. 01:04:54.700 --> 01:04:55.700 If you... 01:04:55.700 --> 01:04:57.260 That's good. 01:04:57.260 --> 01:04:58.260 That's all there. 01:04:58.260 --> 01:05:06.380 Plus, it's designed since it was redone on the inside for easy access for IT. 01:05:06.380 --> 01:05:08.180 That's why it's set up the way it is. 01:05:08.180 --> 01:05:09.180 It's pretty open right now. 01:05:09.180 --> 01:05:30.539 I mean, it's an open room, except for the spaces on the outside where there would be rooms large enough for conference rooms, which I think there's three meeting rooms, plus a room that would be large enough for a board to meet in, not this size, bigger space than this. So I didn't have that one in my pictures. 01:05:31.340 --> 01:05:33.180 Parking seems to be adequate, isn't it? 01:05:33.180 --> 01:05:44.140 You hit, you did that whole parking except for about the front door of the ice cream place. 01:05:44.140 --> 01:05:52.340 Why can't I think about the front door, east that belongs to the cleaners. 01:05:53.100 --> 01:05:57.240 I think there's a hundred and some spaces. 01:05:57.240 --> 01:06:14.520 and it does have access, front and rear, so it doesn't have to be just one spot on exchange 01:06:14.520 --> 01:06:27.020 or just an opportunity to take a long, I don't know where we go from here as far as asking 01:06:27.019 --> 01:06:31.100 I would have George and put together some sort of assessment for the needs for the 01:06:31.100 --> 01:06:35.260 10th floor and the 5th floor and figure out the space size wise and I mean we 01:06:35.260 --> 01:06:39.660 think I'm pretty simple to figure out what space we currently have. I have no 01:06:39.660 --> 01:06:43.640 idea of the 5th floor if it works for everybody. I assume it does. Nobody's told 01:06:43.640 --> 01:06:49.740 me it doesn't. Having the Assessor and Clerk all together like that. I would 01:06:49.740 --> 01:06:54.740 assume if it's been working and nobody said anything it is working and we know 01:06:54.740 --> 01:07:19.380 That's the discussion. That's all I've had. We can at least go from there. See what's available. 01:07:19.380 --> 01:07:49.380 anybody have anything else for the pause then? Motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.