Call to order. First of all, the business is the approval of each other.
New approval. Seconded.
Seconded. All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Any opposed.
Next order is a review and approval of the minutes from March 12th.
Motion, seconded, seconded, all in favor say aye.
I have a motion to close.
All in favor say aye.
We have claims for a new manual checks of $143.15.
We have cash requirements of $188,720.79 set for a total of $188.63.94. We're sure of pleasure.
I move to approve the bills.
Because it's William's move to approve them.
That's for sure.
30 seconds.
Didn't anybody else last?
All in favor?
Aye.
Well, we have that behind us. We'll go into our departmental reports. First one is animal control.
I'm sorry, I hope a comment. No, that's fine. I'm sorry. No, you're good. Okay. Um, in March, we took seven cats in three were surrenders. Three were city streets. One was returned. It was adopted previous month.
Five were transferred to rescues, or sorry, three were transferred to rescues, four are still adoptable. Our dog intake was nine dogs, two surrendered, seven county strays.
Five of those dogs are adoptable, two were reclaimed, and two went to rescue.
Our current animal inventory is 14 adoptable cats.
Two are on hold. Dogs, we have 21 adaptable, one foster and three on hold. Two of those are
Jessica Jones' court date dogs. Today we went to court. She is claiming that the Great Dane,
the one that we were mainly charging her, was not her dog. There is no way we can prove it was her
Dog. So I asked if we could just have her at least sign the Chihuahua over. And since
she's not claiming the Great Dane, then we've had it for July of 24. Nobody's
reclaimed the dog. So he's ours then if she's claiming it's not hers. So she did
sign the Chihuahua over. So both dogs are ours now to go ahead adopt them out
Luterum, Rescue, whatever we feel fit.
It's not the outcome I would have liked,
but these dogs have been with us long enough.
We're not going to prolong it any longer.
Andrew, crisis cases were also today.
He did get a continuance on them.
I don't know the date of that.
I believe it was June for another bench trial.
Mary Mankey, which is the Cocker case.
She somehow did not do something.
I believe it might been the mental health part of the case.
So that's back in court 512.
She's been paying and I don't think she has more than two dogs.
So that's the only thing I can think of that was part of
that her order was the mental health.
Other things, unfortunately, I was in an accident with a work van, we're still waiting on insurance. However, Bakker Auto Group donated a 2007 uplander van with 94,000 miles on it.
It was originally owned by an older couple, very well maintained, I think we'll have many, many years on it. I've driven it about a week now, I think it's been licensed.
It's running good, perfect. It's basically the same as the old van, a little longer front end, I gotta get used to, but no, it's running really good. I'm very thankful for Delbert and his group for doing that.
Otherwise, in the front of your pack, this check came in yesterday, I had Stephanie look into it because of the amount.
and it's a legit tracking number and so that went in the bank yesterday we're
gonna give it a 30-day grace to make sure it's legit. Where's it from? I don't
think you've got, I don't know if I sent you a copy of it or not. Yeah so we did
some research there is an 80 year old woman with that name in Pecatonica and I
and I think that's probably where it came from.
I'm going to send her a letter to thank her.
Hopefully it's, I mean, if it's not her,
she'll obviously say it's not her,
but just because there's no way else to thank her.
And I'd like to thank her for that donation.
That was very generous and will help a lot.
14,890.
So a whole bunch of things are going to get neat.
Yes, I'm like, let's see, and she could have a whole room.
I'm thinking a bench outside.
If I figure out it's her, yes, I'm going to ask her what she would like.
Yeah, seriously. Yeah, because I like maybe the isolation room could have a nice whatever she wants to dedicate it to one of her past animals.
234,000. Yeah, we're not. We haven't got any official word, but. I don't think the adjustment went out to it, but it's rest in pieces. I thought maybe, you know, you just scraped something. No, no.
Tickets issued? What? Tickets issued? Yes, I got a ticket. So what was it that you were ticketed for?
Failure to reduce speed or avoid an accident, something like that.
It was my fault. I had a coughing fit and by the time I realized they were stopped ahead of me, there was not enough time to stop.
I tried. I floored the brakes. I meant there was no time. I was crushed. I got out of the van, hobbled to the lady, and she was fine, but no, no. I had airbag related. I went to urgent care.
Jordan told me to go there just, you know, close to expo. Yeah. And I, you know, learn from the airbags, but otherwise sore, obviously. But and I called the lady that was in the accident with me and she was fine. And I called her like, think two days later and she was doing fine. And so unfortunately, trust me, that's the last thing I want to happen. I'm sure I've my record was beautiful.
Anyways, yeah, so, I mean, we got a van, got it licensed, went to Mary's and got it licensed and it's insured and everything's good on it.
Tires looked good. This is a question, I guess. Okay, we pulled the seats out.
Can we dispose of the seats or do we need to keep the seats? We're never going to use the seats. So what we did right now is we put the seats in the old van.
Plans. Because that's going to get totaled and taken away. So why not? But I didn't know.
It was donated. Don't ask, don't tell. Okay. Who's going to ever use them? It's your new
Benji. Yeah, thank you. We're in trailer. No, that's all right. I was thinking somebody had mentioned one of the bars, bobbers uses old seats. I'm like, I think we just go away. Anyways, um, the weekly intakes. Um, like I said, the pickups, we really haven't been getting
I've been picking up dogs, they just haven't been getting re-blamed, unfortunately. He's had a lot of dumped dogs.
He's had a lot of dogs. I think the one day, end of the month, I picked up three dogs one day.
One cat for bite order and nobody's coming to get these dogs. They're just, I don't know,
springtime we usually pick up on pickups, but they also get picked up by their owner. So I don't,
people are just in a rough spot that they just can't afford them anymore.
So you've got about 35 animals right now, 14 cats, 21 dogs?
Yeah, as of this report, it's gone down.
So what capacity do you have? I mean, at what point do you no longer take animals?
We're no longer taking dogs right now, other than our county strays.
So what's your total capacity right now?
We're at it right now with the, I would say 25 dogs.
Yeah.
25 dogs, 14 cats, 15 cats.
We could do more cats, but 25 dogs is the highest we can go.
So how many cats did you take?
If you can not take more than 25 dogs,
how many cats do you think?
Probably about the same.
So 50 animals, give or take? Yeah, probably.
Thank you.
But on the cats we have, we have, I think,
there's actually not even 14 cats right now.
We have four kittens,
four kittens, an adult cat born at Anderson Humane Society on Saturday, and I think
3 cats going to Iowa County Humane Society on Saturday. So we just, the cats, we can move out. Dogs, we're just, everybody's so full that for some reason, the cats are moving right now and the dogs are just sitting everywhere. Friends forever is full. I had somebody call me yesterday wanting to sign a nine month old dog over. I'm like, I can't, what am I supposed to do? I'm like, I don't know. We can't take any more in. And if we don't have room, we can't take them. Where do you take them?
Iowa County, which is Dodgeville, Wisconsin, is taking three cats and then Anderson, Cummine is in Elgin, there's transports going that way from other shelters.
Any questions on the weekly?
And then the mental stride really didn't change a whole lot.
I did have LA taxes do a 250 check for,
it's a cat condo price, but she says whatever.
She doesn't really care.
She just did the 250.
So she can, she doesn't care what it owes to.
Any other questions, guys?
Is there anyone else?
Okay, thank you.
Thank you.
All right.
We're going to go ahead and do our highway reports.
Thank you.
Oh, that's got to go first.
On the last month, I guess it started out, I think, after our last meeting, we ended
of, uh, well, I think for three days, I mean, that's most of them after we, that, that next week. Um, and then since then we've been cleaning curb and gutters in some of the smaller towns where we maintain them, uh, working on shoulders, patching potholes, started sweeping intersections this week.
and we did do some cutting brush with the boom mower, cleaned up some downed trees from high windings and started maintenance on the, or taking piles off, painting the front of them to get the trucks ready for some work.
I'm still waiting for a letting date for the Cedarville and Dakota Road projects.
We executed a joint agreement on February 19th at Stout and Springfield and on a desk waiting
for them to fully execute it so we can let the project, and I've been on the district and they just say, they're waiting for, they're waiting to sign a flexible. So I don't know what that means. So, so as soon as they sign the agreement that we can go to letting on the city bill and I'm packaging Dakota Road with it. That's totally local funding, but I want to do them both together because they're both full debt reclamation jobs. So I will get better days if we get them.
both at the same time.
The West Point Bridge was let earlier this week,
and then we got a second one.
The preliminary plans were submitted,
and we're gonna have another leg spring
letting for that project.
So I can't let them at the same time
because they're in the same road.
We have to open up the one before we can let the,
open up the other one, otherwise we'll landlock somebody.
So, monthly or yearly overweight permits,
right now the only permit process we have
is per use permit, and it hasn't been a problem to date
until we got a phone call this week from Safe Place
about somebody who's overweight,
how we're hauling raw milk products to a kid,
two trips a day, six days a week,
he's hauling 110 to $120 a bottle.
He just called, the state cop had stopped in earlier, late last year at one point, we're just kind of curious on the permit process, because he stopped a trucker, a milk hauler, and said that they're hauling two times a day, six days a week, and when they're loaded, they're about 110, 120,000 pounds.
and up until this time they said which contractor it was and we had never gotten a permit from them and so it had gone basically to October and I didn't know, I can't contact, he didn't have any information on who the contractor was or anything like that and then he came in earlier and brought in like the permit that they get from the state which is $1,000 a year
Per Truck, and it's supposed to be only on highway or state roads, not local roads, and so I contact, I went off the permit, so I contacted that, it's TIA Trucking, so I contacted them, and his first response was they have basically have a permit for state roads, and I was like, well, that's the state road, that doesn't include
does it include the local roads and he's like so then he replied to that he's like after more
looking into it you're I was incorrect it doesn't it's not included in the the price because he
thought it was if you're delivering within so far of a state road it's included on the permit
now it's in full type on the state permit says this does not include local roads yeah you have
to contact local authorities and they just a lot of them they just ignore it they think it's good
Yeah, so I guess the question is, do we want to do some go through trying to set up a monthly or yearly permit process, or do I just say he has to follow the same procedure as everybody else and because we have local contractors that like Fisher, for example, they do quite a few each year.
And if we're, I guess if we're going to do this for a non-local contractor, we would do it for a local contractor.
And so, and that size of a load is $300 a permit.
And realistically, that doesn't cover the damage that it's probably doing to the road.
and you're saying three sounds a year? No, no, no. And he's been, I mean, he's got, and the state count basically said when he was talking to this trucker, there was another one that was coming through and they were going on 20. And I'm assuming they go 20 to 10. And this one was coming off of 73, going on doubling. So this company is just doing
Twice a day, six days a week. What's that? What's that? What's that? Contractor tiffage. No, I don't. He was not. I think that's $3,600 a week. But how did they know how they were being bought? Because the officers spoke with them, like talked to them, like they pulled them over and just gave them a warning. So he gave them that information voluntarily. He didn't have to weigh the truck. Yeah. I mean, like the permit that was sent that they had.
I was sent that they had said it was like 110,000 pounds or whatever, but the guy, the officer told me that the guy basically said it was around 104 to 110,000 pounds.
So it's like three truckloads instead of him doing it twice, they need to be like having a truck.
Generalistically, I mean like the talent doubled in Canada, I mean, those are 80,000 pounds, but, or 73,280. 73,280, so they're not designed to handle 110, 120,000 pounds.
And you're permitting local companies know that they have to get permits.
Yeah. So when Fishery asks for a permit, we give them for use permits. So every time he hauls, he gets a permit.
Permanent, but this is kind of an unusual situation where he reads 12 permits per week and he
hasn't, he's got one permit and he hasn't gotten anything else.
He's got his load down.
Was that the other day?
He's got to cut his load down.
Yeah, that's the other option is just don't go overweight.
And how do you monitor this?
Yeah, you're sticking with the road saying, okay, you can't go over there.
Yeah, that comes down to an enforcement. That's a Sheriff's Office.
Now we have, we have the scales and we, yeah, yeah, we have the scale for it.
So, so let me ask, do you anticipate that there are many other companies
that are doing the same thing and you need to put in a new permit?
I mean, I have no idea.
No, there might be other, there might be other ones doing the same thing.
What happens when they get a state permit? I'll get like, not these yearly ones. I don't get notification for this. But if they, if somebody gets a state permit and it's going on a township road or a county road, I'll get like an email from the state, like showing me the permit. And then if I notice that they don't, if I have time and notice that they haven't gotten a local permit, I'll send an email to the contact on the
The Permanent, three times out of 10, maybe they'll get a permit. But realistically, we have no, I can't, we can't enforce it. So you can't drive this road without getting a permit.
Until they get caught.
And even then, oh, sorry, if they'll give a ticket, if they get caught. I mean, this contractor got caught and still hasn't, twice, and he still hasn't gotten a ticket.
So you say the Sheriff, I'm not understanding if they can enforce this, so does the Sheriff write
overweight tickets? Sheriff can write them, state police can write them?
They can write them, but didn't write this guy wrong. They did, but they haven't asked.
Two separate issues though, right? It is, right. So you definitely, we definitely do not want
overweight trucks on our roads and roads are bad enough as they are severely underfunded to repair.
My personal opinion is absolutely there needs to be permits, because you're trying to get people to not do what they're doing.
The other side of it, that's public property and safety, that's talking to the Sheriff, who's an elected official and asking them to be looking for this type of thing.
There are two separate issues.
Well, so am I understanding correctly, you, we already have a policy in place, but it's been kind of used as needed point by point, because this would be such a continuous use, that's what makes the situation unique?
Correct, I mean, his, in reality, he'd have to get 12 permits
per week, at 300 a pop, so 3600.
It would be.
So, he won't do it because his state permit is $1,000. So, he'll just have to hold $80,000 dollars.
Which is very gross.
Right.
At the end of the day, we want to make money off of this.
I'm trying to keep the policy as it is, but I just wonder, I want to see your feelings on what to do with it.
Leaving it alone, can I just say this, leaving it alone seems to be more of a
partnership to make a new right. If we can then talk to our public safety about doing a few checks
to put some pressure on. That's not putting any pressure on by making it yearly, but we can
talk to our other department about doing a few courtesy checks that might help them to put that
from the Cheese Factory, and actually even the state police have been very cooperative
ones.
If we let them know that somebody's run overloaded, they'll get out there and check it.
They'll need a couple of tickets.
It's not going to take much.
There was a super load that went through Micot Township and Sheriff stated, please pull him
over.
And I got a phone call from the turkey company the next day asking if there's anything I can
Doob, about his $30,000 ticket. Because he was running $190,000.
I think it was like $250,000. Yeah, I think it was like $200,000.
And I think there was a couple of them. I think there was one that had already gone through the township.
This one actually got stuck. Yeah. So there was multiple. It wasn't just that long.
These guys know what you're doing. They do. They try to pull their...
I think the policy probably checks out, and again, the inconvenience of it is more the
incentive than anything else.
you know what that continuous is going to cost us loans and you know all right okay big tabs I think you've got them in your packet we had a letting for the first West Point Bound Set Brinch we have one two three five bidders a low bid was six hundred fifty fifty five thousand four hundred thirty which is about three percent over the engineer's estimate so it's thumbs are within five percent you're and it's it's a little
and so we had some good vids for that bridge and then we had on the same day we had our material letting for our favorite preservation project on Orangeville Road and we had good vids for that and they're under the engineer's estimate so that material will be as awardable.
Last thing was the good news for the county. We received a Rural and Tribal Assistance Grant for $523,915. That was for preliminary engineering for the roundabout at Cedarville Road in Toledo.
The grant is only for preliminary engineering work. It was one of 50 projects awarded in the country.
And there were two of them. Boone County got one for some bridge-bundling project, and we got ours for Roundabout.
And it's 100% funding. So it'll cover all of the Phase 1 and Phase 2 for the design of the new Roundabout.
Roundabout. So then, and this is, it's a federal fund, so that takes about two years. So for FYA 2028, we'll pursue safety funds for the construction of it.
HSIP loves, the federal safety funds love roundabouts, so I think we'll have a good shot at it.
Askment, I think it's inflated, but the preliminary engineering, the askment was for the exact amount for construction, the round about 3.4 million, so I think it'll come in a little bit less than that, but I've got an engineer's
S.T.E.S.T.E.M.E.T. for the construction. So somewhere around 2028, we'll try to get funds to build it. So everything's moving pretty good along for that.
I was going to say, I would follow the stage.
Uh, no, it's, um, uh, Linear Road and Cedarville Road, Cedarville Road, yeah, it's, um, kind of a skewed intersection and, um, we run into wetlands, so, uh, it looks like roundabout is the most feasible alternative for that because you have to try to fit it, be, stay away from the solar farm, the railroad tracks, the wetlands, the, uh, storage, uh, place right there, so, and there's, there's a tall, uh,
Power Pole right there, too.
Everything is looking good. We haven't gotten into the construction season yet. So everything
is on line with that so far.
So I'll see if anybody else sees anything
that there's no...
Construction season hasn't really started yet, so we're all.
I should.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you.
We're all business.
So we'll move to 8.0, new business,
Sam, 8.1 is HD2646, the other one.
Yeah, this is at West Point Township Bridge, it's a township, it's a TPP project, and so
that's 80-20 funding, and now it's 100% now, 100%, yeah, so.
Engineering is?
Engineering is 80-10-10.
What construction is?
Construction is 100% so 655,000 is low bidder, construction is the contractor and they've
done work for it before and they've been doing a good job so I recommend awarding it.
I'd like to make a motion to approve the policy by Larry, second by Moderow, all in favor say aye, aye, any opposed?
All right, good.
We'll sound it over in a second.
Thank you, Dr. Wyeth.
and the Chair.
Can you give us some information?
I'm good.
Thank you.
It takes us to the point of two,
approval of the bids for the kennels
and that's all.
It's a picture.
Information,
sharing of the kennels
and the
information
that we have
in the
So we only got one bid that came in and actually I compared it to the company I was originally
looking at and they are actually under that company by the fact that the amount they quoted
us was with shipping and the amount that I was looking at the other place was 16,000
Without Shipping, so I had three companies contact me, only one sent the vet though, and
this company actually works with government animal controls, so they know what the kennels
need to be, they have everything that the other kennels were going to have in it, including
like the bulls that swivel in that way you don't have to you can feed without actually
going into the kennels the special anti-fight design so the dogs aren't fence fighting yeah
so I did send them a diagram to all three companies that reached out of the kennels
we were kind of looking at and so they had kind of an idea of what we were looking for
North. They're based out of Texas. The only thing I have to change, they think they're
shipping them to the Lamb Road, which I'll get that fixed before we get into it. So they
understand they're not shipping them there.
Is there a satisfaction for the two of you? Yes.
Do you think it was a pleasure with one proposal that we have for this evening?
I have a question to approve. Williams motions. Is there a second?
One second.
Mr. Margo seconds.
Mr. Chair?
Yes.
At least it.
They know we don't get sales tax, right?
I believe so. Please make sure and we'll have to pay that. And does this increase your capacity or is it still going to be? No, it will be the same. Thank you. I'll give them the text itself. Yeah, I got that.
Pat.
Does anybody else on the committee have something to answer their own passing questions?
All right.
Well, in all the favor, say aye.
Aye.
In favor, follow the same sign.
Follow.
Follow that.
That is accepted.
That brings us to the end of our meeting.
Any comments from committee members at this time?
Thank you everyone for getting in here. I'm going to entertain a motion for adjournment.
I'll make a second to adjourn.
It's been moved and seconded.
Do you want to have a good evening?
Yes, thank you.
And both.
I don't care.
That's a variety of people.
You know, I know that's good.
All right.