WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.000 Alright, let's get going with the Meeting of the Administration Legal Affairs Committee, Wednesday, June 10th at 5 p.m. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:12.000 Two-point prayer. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 Steve, if you want to go ahead. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:17.000 Okay, thank you. 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.760 Jesus, we just thank you for this day you've given us. 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:24.320 We ask that you would be with us here this evening, 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:28.800 help us to accomplish the business of our county 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:30.480 in the best manner possible. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:32.039 We thank you for each one of the members here 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:33.960 and ask that you would bless them as well. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:35.000 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:35.840 Amen. 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:36.960 Thank you for the rain. 00:00:38.780 --> 00:00:39.620 All right. 00:00:39.620 --> 00:00:42.920 Let's go on to approval of the generous new vinyl. 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:43.960 Move the roof. 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:46.039 And accept this as to Frisch. 00:00:46.039 --> 00:00:47.359 All those in favor say aye. 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:48.179 Aye. 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:54.119 4.0 approval of meeting minutes from May 13th, 2026. 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:55.340 Move to approve. 00:00:55.340 --> 00:00:56.920 I'll second. 00:00:56.920 --> 00:00:58.719 Say's, say's. 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:01.240 All those in favor say aye. 00:01:01.240 --> 00:01:02.719 Aye. 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:04.960 Managers, okay, a little bit of frames. 00:01:04.960 --> 00:01:09.960 I've got a cash requirements of $42,293.29. 00:01:11.960 --> 00:01:13.039 And that's the total. 00:01:14.079 --> 00:01:15.219 It's the pleasure. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:28.560 and a second. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. So final public comments 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:36.680 that's saved today and let's jump down to 7.1 County Treasurer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 00:01:36.680 --> 00:01:44.120 So that plate's number, this is my biggest month of the year. So $11,572 of that was 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:47.160 is just postage for tax bills. 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:49.359 So this biggest amount you'll see coming 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.800 from my department in a year, it will go up next year, 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:54.800 just laying the groundwork for that now. 00:01:55.680 --> 00:01:58.120 Financial reports, so I hope you all had a chance 00:01:58.120 --> 00:01:59.560 to review the financial report. 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:02.700 I sent that out Saturday afternoon. 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:04.080 If you compare month over month, 00:02:04.080 --> 00:02:08.360 if you're looking sales and income tax receipts are steady. 00:02:08.360 --> 00:02:09.759 As the monthly report indicates, 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:12.800 you were up 70,000 plus over the previous month, 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.160 and so far for the year, we're in a little over 4 million 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:18.600 in those season sales and income taxes. 00:02:19.980 --> 00:02:23.760 As of the end of the month, overall funds, 00:02:23.760 --> 00:02:26.520 county funds were down just 1.79%, 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.439 again, a tiny number, 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:30.760 in a month where there are no property tax distribution, 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:33.340 so all good news there. 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:37.840 So that was just a difference of 442,000 in change. 00:02:39.480 --> 00:02:41.920 Only four investments matured in May, 00:02:41.920 --> 00:02:45.160 18,000, almost 19,000 in interest earnings. 00:02:45.160 --> 00:02:49.360 At the end of May, I had 17 investments in place 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:50.680 across nine funds, 00:02:50.680 --> 00:02:53.780 maturing between this month and next April. 00:02:54.640 --> 00:02:57.840 The first mill raise bond payment of the year was made 00:02:57.840 --> 00:02:59.280 last month, it was just interest 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:02.560 on both of the debt certificates. 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:05.600 Total was a little over $31,000. 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:09.360 After that payment, 45.99%, 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:13.600 So about 50% of all the total refinance in 2020 00:03:13.600 --> 00:03:15.440 has now been repaid. 00:03:15.440 --> 00:03:17.560 So I was kind of looking at that number 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:20.640 as kind of the guidepost to look at. 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:23.320 Just remember that that certificate A 00:03:23.320 --> 00:03:26.680 actually matures really soon, 2028, 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:30.560 and B comes into polymer only paying interest on right now. 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.200 That one matures in 2031. 00:03:33.380 --> 00:03:36.280 Any questions about the financial report itself? 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:39.160 I have a comment. 00:03:39.159 --> 00:04:09.159 Yes, ma'am. I love the tax bill. Do we? I'm going to talk about that next. Oh, okay. Yeah. My friends. I mean, people tell me, do you see for paying for school? No one really saw this before. It was really hard for them to understand when it was just a fraction. When you see it visually, because everyone is very visual. And when you see it, it's like, oh, my goodness. So I think that was a 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:21.519 I think it's just a move toward greater transparency, and if you'll notice too, I was going to say 00:04:21.519 --> 00:04:27.100 that we've had outstanding feedback, so thank you for adding to that. 00:04:27.100 --> 00:04:31.600 We did have one older woman who didn't like it, she said she had to unfold it twice, but 00:04:31.600 --> 00:04:36.720 other than that, it was great for the reasons that you mentioned, the transparency, I mean 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:42.640 We've always listed where the dollars go, but it's like I said, it's a small print. 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:47.080 It doesn't really, but when you see it graphically represented like that, I think that's a lot 00:04:47.080 --> 00:04:48.080 more impactful. 00:04:48.080 --> 00:04:55.680 One of the other benefits for us is that that penalty ladder, I don't know if you ever noticed, 00:04:55.680 --> 00:05:00.240 if you pay late, there's a ladder there that shows what your penalty would be if you pay 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:01.720 on a certain date. 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:06.500 People were always paying an amount on that instead of the amount that was due. 00:05:06.500 --> 00:05:11.139 So by using color, we're able to highlight the actual amount due, but the other stuff 00:05:11.139 --> 00:05:12.819 in black and white. 00:05:12.819 --> 00:05:16.740 So this time last year, I had 35 refunds because of that. 00:05:16.740 --> 00:05:19.439 So far this year I've had one. 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:21.660 And those are such a labor intensive task. 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:24.199 So that's saved us hours and hours and hours and hours. 00:05:24.199 --> 00:05:26.579 So we're really happy with the redesign. 00:05:26.579 --> 00:05:27.920 It seems like most people are too. 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.139 So we're going to keep doing it like that. 00:05:30.139 --> 00:05:32.019 So thank you. 00:05:32.019 --> 00:05:36.699 Also, so we are an entity into property tax collections, 00:05:36.699 --> 00:05:40.339 traffic's constant, person by phone, mail, online, 00:05:40.339 --> 00:05:42.219 usual mail complaints, of course. 00:05:44.099 --> 00:05:46.219 There's been the use of color, like I said, 00:05:46.219 --> 00:05:48.659 it allows us to highlight a lot of stuff on our bills, 00:05:48.659 --> 00:05:50.219 so we're really happy with that. 00:05:50.219 --> 00:05:52.459 Electronic payments, I want to mention this, 00:05:52.459 --> 00:05:55.659 have always been, they've been steadily rising every year. 00:05:55.659 --> 00:05:58.779 Through Monday, they had 1.3 million 00:05:58.779 --> 00:06:00.659 submitted electronically, wow. 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:05.480 and thus far, EFT or electronic checks are three to one 00:06:05.480 --> 00:06:07.260 over credit and debit, 00:06:07.260 --> 00:06:09.560 which I thought we were on the rise there, 00:06:09.560 --> 00:06:12.439 but I was very surprised when I ran those numbers. 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:14.960 I think it's probably largely due to the fee, 00:06:14.960 --> 00:06:16.080 because if you use a card, 00:06:16.080 --> 00:06:19.760 even a debit card is a three and a quarter percent fee, 00:06:19.760 --> 00:06:24.120 but if you use EFT, you pay a flat $2.95 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.560 and you can pay up to 99 parcels for that fee. 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.440 So a lot of the mortgage holders have been doing that. 00:06:30.439 --> 00:06:33.540 So people who have larger portfolios, 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:37.279 certain recent property owners who have acquired 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:39.779 more than 200 parcels have started to do that. 00:06:39.779 --> 00:06:41.379 So that's been great, I think. 00:06:41.379 --> 00:06:44.779 So you're not bouncing those checks. 00:06:44.779 --> 00:06:45.819 So those are great. 00:06:47.819 --> 00:06:49.860 So just a couple of reminders, 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:51.939 that first installment is due June 26th, 00:06:51.939 --> 00:06:55.019 so I'll be able to give you a report on that next month. 00:06:55.019 --> 00:06:57.779 Second, September 4th, and the first distribution 00:06:57.780 --> 00:07:02.780 and all the taxing districts will be Monday, July 13th. 00:07:03.240 --> 00:07:05.560 I am still hoping to schedule a tax cycle, 00:07:05.560 --> 00:07:08.440 a public presentation to spend a challenge finding a date 00:07:08.440 --> 00:07:09.960 and a place to kind of align. 00:07:09.960 --> 00:07:12.140 But it's going to happen this time of summer, 00:07:12.140 --> 00:07:14.520 just probably not before that first due date, 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:15.360 as I had hoped. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:16.680 But still want to do that 00:07:16.680 --> 00:07:18.000 because there's still a lot of questions, 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.440 a lot of misinformation, 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:22.040 no matter how much information you put on the bill, 00:07:23.320 --> 00:07:25.900 there's still a lot of misunderstandings 00:07:25.900 --> 00:07:32.620 that it would be nice to be able to help address that is all unless you have any questions. 00:07:32.620 --> 00:07:38.300 I have a question. Sure. When did the kittens come? You know, we do not need the kittens 00:07:38.300 --> 00:07:43.300 this year because I think for the most part, people have been very civil. Good. Although 00:07:43.300 --> 00:07:51.020 from what I understand though, Animal Control has a lot. They do. They had another 11. So 00:07:51.019 --> 00:07:55.659 So, you know, we might do it anyway. I mean, it was a great way to expose people to adoptable 00:07:55.659 --> 00:07:59.959 kittens and make people really nice when they walked in the door, seeing fuzzy little animals 00:07:59.959 --> 00:08:00.959 instead of angry. 00:08:00.959 --> 00:08:07.019 I think Kristen would like that because she did end up with one just over the gap. 00:08:07.019 --> 00:08:12.359 I'm all in favor of that. It's a, it's a great thinking outside the box kind of partnership. 00:08:12.359 --> 00:08:13.359 So no, 00:08:13.359 --> 00:08:14.359 Sure. 00:08:14.359 --> 00:08:15.359 That three that was just first and then. 00:08:15.359 --> 00:08:19.779 It's probably, we'll probably do it more toward the second installment. We'll see. But yeah, 00:08:19.780 --> 00:08:23.780 Did you want to add something to the kitty condom? 00:08:23.780 --> 00:08:27.780 Yeah, we found kittens in our garage. 00:08:35.779 --> 00:08:41.779 Hopefully, if you remember, Mr. Zimmerman, before that we brought in kittens one year to kind of 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:45.779 earn the temperature down of people, because if we had a rough year, 00:08:45.779 --> 00:09:14.419 You'll see the recordings were up on in May versus April last. Tax dollars were brought in. 00:09:14.419 --> 00:09:22.659 So, just for comparison, we are getting more recordings that varies on the property that is being sold for the tax dollars we're bringing in there. 00:09:23.699 --> 00:09:29.459 Tearing up for the November elections, still a little bit away, but there's a lot of preparation at times. 00:09:30.179 --> 00:09:33.620 Election judges have been in contact with both of the party chairs. 00:09:34.219 --> 00:09:39.819 They're aware that in July, the election judges will be before the board for approval. 00:09:39.820 --> 00:09:44.820 and then once approved by the board and we'll go to the servant part of the judge. 00:09:44.820 --> 00:09:53.820 So we send out over 200 letters to election judges that have served in the past or ones that may be interested in serving. 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:59.820 So when you get that list in July, hopefully we hear back and it's updated with people we know. 00:09:59.820 --> 00:10:05.180 and it's updated with people we know that want to participate in the training in August but know that 00:10:05.980 --> 00:10:11.740 if that list seems like a lot of people there's people that drop out last minute, emergencies arise 00:10:12.780 --> 00:10:17.580 so it's not like we have a great abundance of election judges so but I think we're in good 00:10:17.580 --> 00:10:22.940 shape if you know anyone that wants to be a judge of their reach out to our office the training will 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:52.780 Is it possible to do assimilation at the training of closing out at night, like physically like 00:10:52.780 --> 00:11:00.620 who signed what where does this go how does this box go or how to just physical simulation of that 00:11:01.259 --> 00:11:09.020 because I think that is where our group got discombobulated that night. Yeah we can do a 00:11:09.020 --> 00:11:14.780 physical simulation a lot of it's in the instructions that usually aren't read but I understand 00:11:14.780 --> 00:11:20.620 everyone everyone learns differently some people can read instructions some people want to physically 00:11:20.620 --> 00:11:26.380 do it the way I learned wouldn't be best doing it so on that is something we plan to incorporate 00:11:26.380 --> 00:11:30.860 more this year is I just think it's a call and I know at the end of the night it's been a long 00:11:30.860 --> 00:11:36.460 day so actually going through a replication of that and where the ballots go so they are coming 00:11:36.460 --> 00:11:41.660 back to us in the right box yes that's something important that we want to incorporate this year 00:11:41.660 --> 00:11:55.420 I will be out of office on Friday. I'll be in late afternoon. I will be at the Zoom meeting. 00:11:55.420 --> 00:11:58.780 Get started coming with other book-related folders within ourselves. 00:12:00.780 --> 00:12:05.900 All right, very good. Thank you. Thank you. All right, let's move on to 7.3. 00:12:05.900 --> 00:12:08.540 and Assessments. 00:12:08.540 --> 00:12:10.300 I'm going to start with apologizing 00:12:10.300 --> 00:12:12.280 of not getting our report out. 00:12:12.280 --> 00:12:15.660 I had my zone meeting and we did zones one and three 00:12:15.660 --> 00:12:19.340 on Friday, so I did not get my agenda to 00:12:19.340 --> 00:12:21.380 or my little letter to Georgia. 00:12:22.540 --> 00:12:24.780 What's happening in my office, obviously, 00:12:24.780 --> 00:12:29.780 if I'm taking the blunt of the phone calls 00:12:30.220 --> 00:12:35.220 of being not happy, for the most part, 00:12:35.900 --> 00:12:40.060 It has been fairly calm. 00:12:40.060 --> 00:12:42.820 I've only been spore out twice this year 00:12:42.820 --> 00:12:47.820 and I've been cried on three times, so not too terrible. 00:12:48.860 --> 00:12:52.500 A lot of people I understand are struggling, 00:12:52.500 --> 00:12:56.980 but they understand, as long as they understand the process, 00:12:56.980 --> 00:13:01.980 it's better that, you know, it's a whole big thing 00:13:01.980 --> 00:13:06.660 It's a whole big thing. And the tax bills have helped immensely. 00:13:08.220 --> 00:13:20.700 Like Stephanie says, I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from the tax bill also, not that I have anything to do with it. But it was a good thing because like people are more visual and, and things like that. 00:13:20.700 --> 00:13:41.700 So, in doing that, unfortunately, I started the 26th tax year off, so whatever, I think we discussed this before, I have seven townships, our office, my office ended up with all seven of them instead of having Sandy Davis do four of them, which has helped immensely. 00:13:41.700 --> 00:13:46.700 We have four of them already done, the fieldwork already done. 00:13:46.700 --> 00:13:50.460 and three of those four have been already valued. 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:52.700 So we are ahead of schedule. 00:13:54.340 --> 00:13:58.460 And so we're just plugging away at that. 00:13:58.460 --> 00:14:01.500 And with that being said, 00:14:01.500 --> 00:14:04.460 Freeport's going to do some of their revaluing 00:14:04.460 --> 00:14:07.740 because unfortunately of the values and things going. 00:14:07.740 --> 00:14:12.380 So as it stands right now, by the fall, 00:14:12.380 --> 00:14:17.040 and I will be sending out about 13,000 assessment notices 00:14:17.040 --> 00:14:17.880 this year. 00:14:27.160 --> 00:14:32.160 It's about half, because the county has 27,160 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:33.700 or extra. 00:14:35.900 --> 00:14:37.060 Didn't realize that. 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:40.759 Right, I guess, thank you. 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:54.240 Land Bank, there were surveys sent out to the participants for any identifiable properties 00:14:54.240 --> 00:14:55.840 to be sent back in. 00:14:55.840 --> 00:15:02.560 We don't have a meeting currently scheduled, but the notice came out for, you know, a survey 00:15:02.560 --> 00:15:08.640 of when we would be available, so I assume we'll have one coming up here shortly. 00:15:08.640 --> 00:15:16.640 I'm also working on wrapping up a lot of information and hoping to work with the nursing home on getting their information completed. 00:15:16.640 --> 00:15:24.640 We have a call with them on Friday, so hopefully that will get wrapped up shortly. 00:15:24.640 --> 00:15:30.640 I did attend the GFPs Rise and Shine at the Winnipeg Playhouse. 00:15:30.640 --> 00:15:35.640 They did a presentation on some of the programming that they are rolling out. 00:15:35.640 --> 00:15:41.080 It seems like they are really trying to get more youth programming and involvement. 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:46.920 So I wouldn't be surprised if we saw maybe a youth diversion application coming from them next year. 00:15:46.920 --> 00:15:53.080 But they do have a lot of summer programming and a few things going on in the fall specifically for youth. 00:15:53.080 --> 00:15:56.600 So it's interesting. 00:15:56.600 --> 00:16:04.279 I learned a lot at that one because I haven't been really involved with much or knew what was going on. 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:15.640 So, had a conference call with a vendor that is saying they can lower our job and internet costs. 00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:21.080 We're doing some research and maybe I'll probably talk to you before I follow up with them, but 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:26.759 it's that time of year when a bunch of vendors are reaching out trying to do things. Yeah. 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:34.880 Yeah. Our next Greater Free Partnership meeting is on the 24th. I did have the wrap-up call 00:16:34.880 --> 00:16:40.800 from the wellness screenings. They saw some pretty good trends of things being identified 00:16:40.800 --> 00:16:49.560 through the wellness screenings, so we went over that report that they went, that has 00:16:49.560 --> 00:16:58.759 has been sent to Gary McBride, and we'll discuss that at Finance College. 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:06.740 We had representatives from Integrity Financial, which is who has two of our deferred compensation 00:17:06.740 --> 00:17:13.320 programs for the county, that came in with Ryan and I, and are doing an onsite check-in 00:17:13.320 --> 00:17:19.539 for any employees that maybe have questions about that, want to make any changes in their 00:17:19.539 --> 00:17:26.180 and things. So they will be set up here all day on July 29th to meet with employees. Department 00:17:26.180 --> 00:17:34.100 Head meeting this morning, I shared with them a benefit that is available through our health 00:17:34.100 --> 00:17:41.539 insurance. There is every now and then members look at postcards of, you know, hey, you might 00:17:41.539 --> 00:17:46.900 want to reply to this or scan this QR code and there's a supplemental program that can offer you. 00:17:46.900 --> 00:18:06.900 Thank you. So I was selected as one that is called TwinHealth. And I would say a few people know what it is, but the resources that are sent to you and offered to you, if you take part in it, were really kind of amazing to me. 00:18:06.900 --> 00:18:24.900 It came included with a biometric digital scale, activity tracker, glucose monitor, blood pressure cup that will read and send to them so they monitor everything for you. 00:18:24.900 --> 00:18:54.900 for you. There's free app for like a food journal and logging. But you know, you can take a picture of your thing, you can confirm what it is. Usually things you would have to pay a subscription to be able to have as long as you couldn't do it through the insurance program. It is free. And then of course, the Cross Blue Shield knows that they don't get any of the information, but they know that a participant in this plan is taking part in this this 00:18:54.900 --> 00:19:00.940 on a bed, also sent me a free subscription to the Peloton app through it too. 00:19:00.980 --> 00:19:05.740 So there's, there's a lot of perks involved with our health insurance. 00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:11.820 But I got that letter also, but it said you had to be diabetic in order to 00:19:11.820 --> 00:19:13.300 take advantage of that program. 00:19:13.340 --> 00:19:16.579 So I think you do have to go through a screen because I have talked to 00:19:16.579 --> 00:19:18.620 a couple of people that were turned down. 00:19:18.660 --> 00:19:20.860 I am not diabetic, but I have precursors. 00:19:20.860 --> 00:19:22.820 So, um, and family history. 00:19:22.820 --> 00:19:33.300 Yes, you do have to go to Rockford and they pay for it, but you do have to have that. 00:19:33.300 --> 00:19:42.340 Yeah, that was the thing I'm like, nope, nope, I agree, but nope. 00:19:42.340 --> 00:19:50.300 So you know, that kind of led to a discussion, but I have heard a lot of positive feedback 00:19:50.300 --> 00:19:56.460 I thought the step problem really seemed to get people moving and we had a lot of conversation 00:19:56.460 --> 00:19:59.820 and you know, you look outside and see. 00:19:59.820 --> 00:20:29.820 You look outside and see someone walking. So you're like, Oh, I got to go out and walk, or I got to get my steps in. And a lot of people have said that, you know, they haven't been moving or doing that and have not that they did it for a month. It's kind of a habit. So they're trying to stay on those healthy habits. We did discuss, I had some challenges and some things that I spoke to a couple people about the logging in and syncing process. And apparently, there is a 00:20:29.820 --> 00:20:59.820 I think the STEP program overall will be something hopefully we will continue because it did really seem to garner interest. But they have to do some research on maybe apps for that or different things. But all in all, you know, a couple of the department had shared comments from their teams for employees. And it seemed like everyone was really excited about it and interested in it. So I think that's a good thing. 00:20:59.820 --> 00:21:17.420 So I just want to share, I took a walk last night with my family and my watch said I set 00:21:17.420 --> 00:21:23.220 a new record, so I don't know what that means, I must not walk very else. 00:21:23.220 --> 00:21:28.340 I was so happy with the progress, I went and celebrated with a blizzard. 00:21:28.340 --> 00:21:42.380 Some of the projects we currently have going on, and I say we history rock ourselves with some of the stuff. 00:21:42.380 --> 00:21:47.420 So animal control paperwork was signed today by the landlord. 00:21:47.420 --> 00:21:55.420 So we are finally able to move forward with an install date for the fiber arrow has to get some permits and stuff approved. 00:21:55.420 --> 00:21:58.560 Once they do, we will get an install date hammered down. 00:21:58.560 --> 00:22:01.720 And I hope to get all that done the same day that they're installing. 00:22:02.200 --> 00:22:07.020 We'll see if that looks like, you know, how much digging they have to do for the fiber. 00:22:09.620 --> 00:22:12.800 The AI policy we'll talk about here in a little bit. 00:22:13.400 --> 00:22:16.860 The ADA compliance I shared last month, they moved that out a year. 00:22:17.520 --> 00:22:22.000 So that's just going to give us the opportunity to review multiple vendors 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:24.620 and try to find the best fit for the county. 00:22:24.620 --> 00:22:46.380 So I've got a few vendors that are hitting me up, I just don't want to start the process too early here. So that's still in the works. The jail has a key box project that got added to our list this week that is they have key boxes that require network connectivity. 00:22:46.380 --> 00:23:16.380 So there's an audit and a log of who's getting what he's out and when they're using them. That way if something goes awry they have reports and things. And I think they have to do state reporting as well that this will help with. So we're currently in the middle of that. We had to spin up a new server for that because it's going to run on its own box. So that's in the works. County Boardroom. Been working on that the last couple of months. There have been improvements. 00:23:16.380 --> 00:23:21.260 and we haven't had the meeting drop out on video so we're making progress. 00:23:21.260 --> 00:23:28.380 The next thing that I did is I hardwired both spots up there for the PC so they can be hardwired 00:23:28.380 --> 00:23:32.220 that way they don't lose connectivity and I'm still trying to figure out what some of the 00:23:32.220 --> 00:23:38.220 Wi-Fi interference is. Sometimes it works great and then other days it's just cranky so I've been 00:23:38.220 --> 00:23:42.780 working through different frequencies and kind of testing that out and seeing if I can just stabilize 00:23:42.780 --> 00:23:53.780 I don't know that I'm there yet, but I test it probably once or twice a week, and I just run different tests and have multiple laptops and iPads and stuff in there just to see what's going on. 00:23:53.780 --> 00:24:05.780 So still moving forward with that. The break fix, which is our everyday stuff, was pretty quiet for a little bit, but I feel like it's being made up for now. 00:24:05.780 --> 00:24:10.780 We've had a lot of tickets here lately, just with different things that are going on. 00:24:10.780 --> 00:24:19.780 We had a website issue on Friday that caused some posting issues that hit me on the phone with a revise at like 10 o'clock at night trying to get something resolved. 00:24:19.780 --> 00:24:22.780 I learned that their help desk is not very proactive on the weekends. 00:24:22.780 --> 00:24:27.780 So I had to go through some of my email contacts and hunt people down. 00:24:27.780 --> 00:24:32.780 And then I finally got a call back and I think we got it resolved about 7 a.m. on Saturday. 00:24:32.780 --> 00:24:38.860 Now I did sleep. It's not like I was up all night. When I got up, they had let me know they thought 00:24:38.860 --> 00:24:43.420 they had it. So I went out there and everything seemed to be working and we got the stuff posted. 00:24:45.820 --> 00:24:50.140 The annual Goodins update for the courthouse was done in the last month. That's our annual 00:24:51.020 --> 00:24:56.380 big system update for everybody that runs the PC gyms, softwares, public defender of the state's 00:24:56.380 --> 00:25:02.700 attorney, judges, everything operates on those modules or programs over there. So we got that 00:25:02.700 --> 00:25:32.700 there were some hiccups that came with that but was able to work through those for the most part the day after just about everything was up and going did have an issue with some of the public defender module that took us a few days because we had, it just wasn't agreeing with the update so other than that just full speed ahead with you know our normal break fix we got some health department projects coming up and things of that nature 00:25:32.700 --> 00:25:40.500 Manager, so, seems like there's never a shortage of projects, so, any questions? 00:25:40.500 --> 00:25:50.020 All right, let's go down to 8.1, Approval of the AI Use Policy. 00:25:50.020 --> 00:25:55.660 Do you want to speak to that name, or was it that video, right? 00:25:55.660 --> 00:26:02.100 Oh, yeah, according to, that's the most flawless reply I've gotten from that yet, and I do 00:26:02.100 --> 00:26:08.500 have to thank our Treasurer here because there was another county that had this already approved. 00:26:08.500 --> 00:26:12.740 So I was like, well, if we got approved for them, you know, and it touched all the same bullet points 00:26:12.740 --> 00:26:19.540 that we had before. So if it's not broke, don't fix it. I went through and submitted it on our behalf 00:26:19.540 --> 00:26:26.100 and it works. I think I had one question. Did I answer your question for the most part? Yeah. So 00:26:26.100 --> 00:26:29.120 So to me, it's pretty flawless. 00:26:29.120 --> 00:26:34.260 They do want me to make sure that I extenuate some of the points like in a training. 00:26:34.260 --> 00:26:37.460 So I'm going to figure out how to roll that out or how to do that because the county is 00:26:37.460 --> 00:26:42.660 not something that you can specifically pull everybody in for training all at once. 00:26:42.660 --> 00:26:45.540 So I don't know if I'm going to try to do a video of some sort. 00:26:45.540 --> 00:26:46.540 I don't know yet. 00:26:46.540 --> 00:26:51.140 I got to figure out how to do an interactive training that everybody touches, you know, 00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:52.820 at some point. 00:26:52.820 --> 00:26:55.220 If that's scheduling times with each department, 00:26:55.220 --> 00:26:58.200 then that's what it will be, but we'll figure that out. 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.300 Any questions on that? 00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:08.140 I think the biggest thing to get people to understand 00:27:08.140 --> 00:27:10.080 is that it's not foolproof. 00:27:10.080 --> 00:27:13.640 And even when you get the information back, 00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:15.820 you need to be double checking the information 00:27:15.820 --> 00:27:18.580 and not just taking it at its word. 00:27:18.580 --> 00:27:22.020 You know, there's still a responsibility to verify 00:27:22.020 --> 00:27:24.020 and kind of do your homework. 00:27:24.020 --> 00:27:27.100 So it's a very helpful tool. 00:27:27.100 --> 00:27:27.940 And the other thing is, 00:27:27.940 --> 00:27:30.220 is not putting any personalized information 00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:31.780 out there whatsoever. 00:27:31.780 --> 00:27:35.220 So it's pretty much just for generic instances 00:27:35.220 --> 00:27:36.800 or different things, 00:27:36.800 --> 00:27:40.320 but no personal information should ever be entered into it. 00:27:41.420 --> 00:27:44.820 I know a lot of our previous concerns were, 00:27:44.820 --> 00:27:47.140 where's the vagueness that can be exploited? 00:27:47.140 --> 00:27:49.020 But like the email said, 00:27:49.020 --> 00:27:50.540 you guys have really nice definitions there. 00:27:50.540 --> 00:27:53.900 I think that's that more than most of this other stuff is going to be. 00:27:54.100 --> 00:27:58.460 Well, yeah, unfortunately, you still it still comes down to the user error. 00:27:58.660 --> 00:27:59.820 That's the biggest thing. 00:28:00.020 --> 00:28:02.540 And there's so many different modules. 00:28:02.740 --> 00:28:04.380 And I mean, they're all helpful. 00:28:04.580 --> 00:28:05.540 You just have to be. 00:28:05.740 --> 00:28:10.060 And I've been I sat in a webinar today with the state cyber unit and they were kind 00:28:10.260 --> 00:28:13.940 of going over the different things of what I could do. 00:28:14.140 --> 00:28:17.740 But it's all they said sometimes users are their own worst enemy. 00:28:17.740 --> 00:28:19.340 There's just certain things they shouldn't do. 00:28:19.340 --> 00:28:21.820 and that's why you need a policy to cover it. 00:28:21.820 --> 00:28:26.820 So, I'll make a motion to approve it as submitted here. 00:28:30.060 --> 00:28:30.900 One second. 00:28:30.900 --> 00:28:32.180 It's okay. 00:28:32.180 --> 00:28:33.740 Any further conversation? 00:28:34.740 --> 00:28:36.260 All those in favor say aye. 00:28:36.260 --> 00:28:37.100 Aye. 00:28:37.100 --> 00:28:37.920 Aye. 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:38.760 Thank you. 00:28:40.220 --> 00:28:43.980 All right, we're visiting new business 00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:47.320 and tends to point out any comments from the committee. 00:28:49.340 --> 00:28:56.340 All right, let's move to promotion. 00:28:56.340 --> 00:29:04.340 All those in favor say aye. 00:29:04.340 --> 00:29:07.340 Thanks everyone.