WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.000 I'm sorry about that. 00:00:04.000 --> 00:00:08.000 I already got these. 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:12.000 I got a phone too. 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:16.000 I got this new phone. 00:00:16.000 --> 00:00:20.000 Hi. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:24.000 My pleasure. I wanted to give you a call. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:28.000 Thank you. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:30.000 Wright, Department of Amnesty, 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:34.000 Alright, we're going to get started with the Administration Legal Affairs Committee, 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.000 Wednesday, February 11th, 2026 at 5 p.m. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:42.000 2.0 Prayer, I'll do that. 00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:46.000 Dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you for this opportunity 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:50.000 to serve the people of Stevenson County. We just ask you to 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:54.000 help us walk through these items on the agenda and make the right decisions for 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:59.840 County. Just want to say thank you for a beautiful day, Lord. Giving us hope for spring after all. 00:01:01.039 --> 00:01:07.920 Thank you and praise you in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. All right. How about 3.0 approval of agenda? 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:16.719 So I move. I will second. In the second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. So moved and 4.0 approval 00:01:16.719 --> 00:01:23.120 meeting minutes from January 7th, 2026. Move approval. Second. In the second. We got a routine 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:48.960 here. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. All right, approval of claims. Before me I have a total of $73,823.17. And I will make a motion to approve. I will second. Okay. All right. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Just real quick. 00:01:53.120 --> 00:02:10.879 All right, moving on. 6.0 public comment. Anyone else here? 7.1 public comment. She did send 00:02:10.879 --> 00:02:35.039 Thank you Chairman. Last month has been busy a little bit in our office. Last month I discussed 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:40.199 we had sent out the list for the statement of economic interest where all of the districts 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:46.760 have to certify the list we have as an administrator if there's new people on their board. 00:02:46.760 --> 00:02:53.280 That was due February 1st, and now it's the part where we give out the yellow forms with 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:59.440 all those individuals, and there's about 650 state and economic interest forms that go 00:02:59.440 --> 00:03:04.520 out throughout the county. 00:03:04.520 --> 00:03:06.160 So there's a lot more than you can imagine. 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:13.159 We have to thank all of the taxing districts, all of the commissions and boards, so there's a lot of individuals. 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:21.159 Those are not due until May 1st, but they should all be out and disbursed by the end of this week. 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:31.159 The levy confirmations have gone out to all the taxing districts last week. That just includes all the amounts that they have levy, that be certified to our office. 00:03:31.159 --> 00:03:40.659 It's a good time where they can look it over before they get their tax comp to see if there was any errors in their levy or the way we have imprinted it into our system. 00:03:40.659 --> 00:03:49.659 It also shows all the bonds that they have or any of the new bonds that have been filed with their office. That also appears on the levy confirmation. 00:03:49.659 --> 00:03:54.659 So getting started on the tax extension part online. 00:03:54.659 --> 00:04:05.099 and then election, election judges. We sent out over 140 confirmation letters to our 00:04:05.099 --> 00:04:22.459 judges. We've received 15 no's back. The good thing about a lot of those no's is they are, they want to stay on and they want to be a judge in November for Victor Soutertown. So that's good news. We have some very dedicated election judges. We got 40 new 00:04:22.459 --> 00:04:29.899 Booth, you can see them if you come down to the early voting room. They came on four large 00:04:29.899 --> 00:04:38.139 pallets in boxes. So someone says there's not any manual work to my job, there's a little bit. 00:04:39.819 --> 00:04:44.939 Each one of those they had to be, some of them had to be taken off in order to come through the 00:04:44.939 --> 00:04:51.659 basement because the pallets were so tall. We had to take them out of all the boxes and then take 00:05:21.660 --> 00:05:27.860 Just so you, there's a lot of behind the scenes that I would say the public don't, doesn't 00:05:27.860 --> 00:05:31.820 always see, so I'm going to kind of talk about some of the behind the scenes that went through 00:05:31.820 --> 00:05:32.820 on my end. 00:05:32.820 --> 00:05:37.100 Everyone's always anxious to get the specimen ballot. 00:05:37.100 --> 00:05:43.220 I think I saw maybe one county have a specimen ballot out on January 26th. 00:05:43.220 --> 00:05:47.620 That was the earliest I saw a specimen ballot and I could have missed it. 00:05:47.620 --> 00:05:56.220 I set up early voting on the 26th downstairs, the machines have all the ballots voted into 00:05:56.220 --> 00:06:00.259 the system so if someone comes to vote, it's ready to go. 00:06:00.259 --> 00:06:04.980 At the end of that week, we had to have the ballots out and then mail it to the military 00:06:04.980 --> 00:06:05.980 voters. 00:06:05.980 --> 00:06:10.139 So it's a tight time frame there. 00:06:10.139 --> 00:06:18.659 On January 27th, one day later, the court ordered an updated certification to our office 00:06:18.659 --> 00:06:20.740 to everyone in the state of Illinois. 00:06:20.740 --> 00:06:23.259 So we had to reset the early vote. 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:28.139 My specimen ballot was planning to be posted on that day, so I had to update my specimen 00:06:28.139 --> 00:06:33.819 ballot to remove a candidate for governor. 00:06:33.819 --> 00:06:38.459 So we had that pending that had come from the circuit court. 00:06:38.460 --> 00:06:48.460 Well, that governor then went on to the appellate court with the objection, so February 4th comes along. 00:06:48.460 --> 00:06:56.460 A lot of clerks and election officials in the state of Illinois are trying to determine whether to start early voting on February 5th, 00:06:56.460 --> 00:07:20.460 I believe we definitely made the right decision there and then on February 6th the order was granted that that candidate was to be off the ballot and that we proceeded on February 5th because that was the most up-to-date certification that we had. 00:07:20.460 --> 00:07:28.460 Now, we proceeded on February 5th because that was the most up-to-date certification that we had from the State Board of Elections. 00:07:28.460 --> 00:07:34.460 And I think that follows suit with the majority of the election officials in the state of Illinois. 00:07:36.460 --> 00:07:45.460 As of today, we have 191 early voters and we have over 1,400 vote-by-mail ballots out of the mail. 00:07:50.460 --> 00:08:07.460 There's five districts throughout the county that have questions on the ballot, so that has also increased a little bit of pickup in questions for our office or participation in the primary. 00:08:07.460 --> 00:08:18.460 Sometimes people don't participate in the primary because they don't want to choose a party, but we are seeing individuals participate because they want to vote for our question or they just want a nonpartisan ballot. 00:08:20.460 --> 00:08:24.460 Any questions? 00:08:24.460 --> 00:08:28.460 So those 40 new booths, are those replacements or 00:08:28.460 --> 00:08:32.460 in addition to what we already have? In addition to what we have 00:08:32.460 --> 00:08:36.460 the ones that we currently have, every election 00:08:36.460 --> 00:08:40.460 some break a little through movement. They break a little 00:08:40.460 --> 00:08:44.460 bit. The new ones we have, so it's 40 voting booths, but 00:08:44.460 --> 00:08:48.460 one booth is four stations. And one of those stations 00:08:48.460 --> 00:08:55.460 is incapaccessible. In my opinion, they're more sturdy than the old boots. 00:08:55.460 --> 00:09:02.460 I ask mainly because I know schools and scout troops and whatnot, they often do like mock elections. 00:09:02.460 --> 00:09:07.460 And one thing I've been asked personally about is, oh, can we get some of the boots that you use in actual voting? 00:09:07.460 --> 00:09:12.460 I know it's kind of a touchy thing. And if anyone's going to be decommissioned, I was going to say, I know some people. 00:09:12.460 --> 00:09:19.460 Yeah, usually if they have to read the commission, they're not safe for any more than a year, so we don't lend out the account to state presidents. 00:09:19.460 --> 00:09:22.460 I totally understand. 00:09:30.460 --> 00:09:35.460 Alright, let's go to 7.3, Supervisor of Assessments. 00:09:35.460 --> 00:10:00.460 So in my office, it is, I'm done with 25 or into the board review stage. We did have four complaints. We had a few commercial complaints. And with commercial complaints, when you send out the tentative notices, you have to give them 30 days in order to meet them. 00:10:00.460 --> 00:10:05.940 in order to meet with the Board of Review if they want a hearing. 00:10:05.940 --> 00:10:07.940 So we're in that 30-day period. 00:10:07.940 --> 00:10:10.620 So we're just sort of waiting. 00:10:10.620 --> 00:10:15.940 But so far, we only have four hearings that are scheduled. 00:10:15.940 --> 00:10:17.860 And they're the end of February. 00:10:17.860 --> 00:10:21.820 So I checked with Stephanie and Jasmine. 00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:24.820 And I have everything entered, everything, whatever. 00:10:24.820 --> 00:10:29.860 So as soon as the hearings are, to just take me that afternoon 00:10:29.860 --> 00:10:38.300 to enter all the data, so my goal is to have everything over in Jasmine's hands by the 00:10:38.300 --> 00:10:45.300 first part, March, versus some Sunday, Saturday, Sunday, so March 2nd. 00:10:45.300 --> 00:10:51.340 So I'm going to be as early as I possibly can for her to get her things done with voting 00:10:51.340 --> 00:10:56.980 and up and coming wedding and all nine yards so then we can keep things on schedule. 00:10:56.980 --> 00:11:03.980 So, I'm just sort of waiting for my time period, so, that's what's going on in my office, I like quiet. 00:11:03.980 --> 00:11:10.980 Sounds good. Let's go to County Administrator. 00:11:10.980 --> 00:11:21.980 Thank you. Still, daily communications with past defenders and prioritizing settlements, speaking with them about payment amounts, that sort of thing. 00:11:21.980 --> 00:11:48.980 I had a conference call last week with the new shredding service company that will be servicing the county. They said they probably will be on site within two months. They have some procedures take care of on their end. We discussed the pickup sites, the individual departmental billing. They were supposed to send me pictures of the receptacles that they use. 00:11:48.980 --> 00:11:54.060 News, so I could discuss it this morning at the department head meeting, but I haven't 00:11:54.060 --> 00:11:56.060 gotten those pictures yet. 00:11:56.060 --> 00:12:04.420 We're trying to line up all of that, so more information on that coming. 00:12:04.420 --> 00:12:07.580 Last GFP meeting was on the 28th. 00:12:07.580 --> 00:12:16.060 There was a new board president appointed because Josh Elliott's term was completed, 00:12:16.060 --> 00:12:20.320 and two new board members were appointed at that meeting as well. 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:25.320 The annual dinner, which a couple of us at this table were at, was on the 5th. 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:30.840 Meeting for that is the 25th of this month. 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:35.259 Court was today at 1.30 for the Nursing Center. 00:12:35.259 --> 00:12:43.980 Got another continuance to March 4th, but they will be entering the summary judgment 00:12:43.980 --> 00:12:53.580 on that day. So more work coming up on that. Seems like we have had an influx of FOIAs 00:12:53.580 --> 00:13:01.820 lately. I know Jasmine has spoken to some of her counterparts and there was an influx 00:13:01.820 --> 00:13:10.060 from the same person in many different counties. So I had nine last week in my office and farmed 00:13:10.060 --> 00:13:13.740 Del, many of those two other departments as well. 00:13:13.740 --> 00:13:17.259 So we also have part of you, and I don't want to take away 00:13:17.259 --> 00:13:22.259 from Nate's report, but I've had three emails trying to, 00:13:23.340 --> 00:13:26.379 you know, fake emails trying to change direct deposits 00:13:26.379 --> 00:13:28.340 in the last week, so. 00:13:30.539 --> 00:13:33.220 January 30th, I attended the ribbon cutting out 00:13:33.220 --> 00:13:37.180 at Colblena, Percedencia, that the governor was at, 00:13:37.180 --> 00:13:39.259 very nice event put on, they were pretty excited 00:13:39.259 --> 00:13:46.660 about the new line starting up, and they're going to be manufacturing brie bites, so picture 00:13:46.660 --> 00:13:52.220 individual like the baby doe picks up their little individual brie. 00:13:52.220 --> 00:13:56.580 They will be the only one in North America making those and distributing it. 00:13:56.580 --> 00:14:03.620 And they are sending, I think, 50 employees to France to learn how to do the process, 00:14:03.620 --> 00:14:07.460 so kind of an exciting thing for everyone out there. 00:14:07.460 --> 00:14:18.460 They'll take us on a short tour of where the rebates will be made and stuff out there too, so, and, you know, we'll be expanding with that too, so. 00:14:18.460 --> 00:14:27.460 Empower Health, the company that we have a couple things later on in the agenda, but they are the company that does the annual wellness screenings for employees. 00:14:27.460 --> 00:14:35.420 I had the conference to set up the dates for the screenings as well as this year we are 00:14:35.420 --> 00:14:40.220 offering a walking program to get employees moving. 00:14:40.220 --> 00:14:45.259 So I had a demonstration conference call about how that will be set up which was distributed 00:14:45.259 --> 00:14:49.019 to the department heads as well for input. 00:14:49.019 --> 00:14:54.220 The two wellness screening dates are April 2nd and 9th for the employees and we're going 00:14:54.220 --> 00:15:01.180 to do the walking program in the month of April is hopefully the weather will break for us and be 00:15:01.180 --> 00:15:07.820 good for everyone to get their steps in. February 4th, Mark Bell from IPMG came and met with me. 00:15:09.019 --> 00:15:12.539 He wanted to discuss there's a new portal that their company is moving to. 00:15:14.700 --> 00:15:18.779 It's just how we'll be submitting claims and different things through that will be 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:33.299 went over county's open claims and discussed the NeoGov portal where there's online trainings and he'll be coming to the department head meeting in April to kind of do a refresher for department heads on that. 00:15:33.300 --> 00:15:50.300 Yesterday we had Caitlin on site. She was contracted through IPMG to do reappraisals on all of the county owned buildings and the monument and different things. 00:15:50.300 --> 00:16:01.300 So she was on site, reached out a couple times with questions and touched base with all of the departments. So that is what I have. Any questions? 00:16:01.300 --> 00:16:06.300 I have a question. Sure. Can the county board do the logging program? 00:16:10.300 --> 00:16:16.300 You know, I will look into that. Maybe we could have, we decided to do teams by department. 00:16:16.300 --> 00:16:21.300 So maybe the county, a county board get, get to be one of the teams. Yeah. 00:16:21.300 --> 00:16:25.300 I just want to point out, I tried to get you all off to the half marathon. 00:16:25.300 --> 00:16:39.300 We could log an April that we might be doing half Marist time. 00:16:39.300 --> 00:16:45.620 And we did talk with the department heads to try and get some ideas and brainstorming around 00:16:45.620 --> 00:16:51.780 motivation for engagement and of course ran those through our younger and she thought it 00:16:51.779 --> 00:16:57.779 I wouldn't want to lose to the county board. 00:16:57.779 --> 00:17:01.779 I don't like the idea. 00:17:01.779 --> 00:17:05.779 That might actually be a good motivation. 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:13.779 Question on the cold cheese thing. Did they say that was due to the tear thing at all or just a new business? 00:17:13.779 --> 00:17:21.539 I think they just, they said the technology behind the process is an older technology 00:17:21.539 --> 00:17:28.019 that they finally caught up with the equipment and there's been kind of the demand, a need 00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:32.980 now, and the stability, the shelf life for them I believe is a year, where most free 00:17:32.980 --> 00:17:38.220 is like 90 days, so it's a good alternative. 00:17:38.220 --> 00:17:43.019 She talked about how they would be doing it, production of that throughout the months where 00:17:43.019 --> 00:18:13.019 Director, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, 00:18:13.019 --> 00:18:17.299 Department, with the courthouse being closed, it was just the easiest way to swap out a lot 00:18:17.299 --> 00:18:23.940 of phones or not cause disruption that will have us with everything done except for the 00:18:23.940 --> 00:18:24.940 health department. 00:18:24.940 --> 00:18:29.779 They will be our last site to get fully installed, which will probably happen in the next week 00:18:29.779 --> 00:18:33.460 or two. 00:18:33.460 --> 00:18:37.860 Working on some grant projects, Chanel got, the grant wasn't as much as what it's been 00:18:37.860 --> 00:18:38.860 in the past. 00:18:38.860 --> 00:18:44.340 A lot smaller, so I'm doing some laptop projects and new workstations for a few people. 00:18:45.099 --> 00:18:50.380 Um, and then on top of that, uh, that notification last night that there was a 00:18:50.380 --> 00:18:55.599 vulnerability, uh, the new firewalls we have in place, let's everybody know when 00:18:55.599 --> 00:19:00.820 they have an issue somewhere else, uh, required an upgrade and in that upgrade, 00:19:00.820 --> 00:19:03.340 it broke our current VPN configuration. 00:19:03.340 --> 00:19:19.340 So I've got four offices to reconfigure VPNs on. It took me most of the day today to figure out how to work around and recreate the wheel to have a more secure VPN because the technology we were using was phased out. 00:19:19.340 --> 00:19:49.180 out. So I expected to hear from more people on that. I really didn't. But that'll be my next. I worked on it from home the other night. Hopefully by the end of the week, have them all back up and going. Once you get one, which we got the one today, I'm trying to figure out how I can export the configuration. So most of the work is done. But other than that, that's pretty much my life right now between the phones and the routers and such. 00:19:49.340 --> 00:19:54.559 I will be scheduling a recycle day as well, because all the old phones are creating 00:19:55.039 --> 00:19:56.660 havoc everywhere that they are. 00:19:57.660 --> 00:20:00.280 So I really don't have a place for 300 phones. 00:20:00.280 --> 00:20:30.280 have a place for 300 phones. So I've kind of got each department hanging on to them until I can get that scheduled. And then I might see if they can come early and just kind of give us one of those boxes that they set up on a pallet and then we can just start throwing stuff in there and really come back. So that's on, I'll probably have that next month at some point, just want the weather to be a little nicer. So people might have enough us around and although it hasn't really snowed in a while. So with that, that's 00:20:30.280 --> 00:20:36.280 Pretty much it for now, I know EMA has some projects for me, they're waiting for my slate to clean up a little bit, so. 00:20:38.280 --> 00:20:40.280 That's plenty for Adam. 00:20:40.280 --> 00:20:42.280 Thank you. 00:20:42.280 --> 00:20:44.280 Any questions before we move on? 00:20:44.280 --> 00:20:45.280 Okay. 00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:47.280 Alright, let's move on here. 00:20:47.280 --> 00:20:53.280 I was told the AI policy for 8.1 is not quite ready, so we'll just... 00:20:53.280 --> 00:21:02.280 No, Mark Bell, we referred it to him for an opinion and he referred us to someone else 00:21:02.280 --> 00:21:04.160 that we supposedly have an account for. 00:21:04.160 --> 00:21:07.160 We've been blocked in every avenue of trying to get that opinion. 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:10.400 So he went to bat for us and he's having trouble. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:15.000 So as soon as we hear back or we get some clarification, I will be ready to move forward 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:16.000 on that. 00:21:16.000 --> 00:21:19.240 But unfortunately, it's stuck in another liability. 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:21.840 Just leave it on there until we have a way to deal with it. 00:21:21.840 --> 00:21:34.820 Okay, let's go 9.1, Approval of Agreement with Demnet and CAMA, with Edge, License, Make 00:21:34.820 --> 00:21:35.820 Incentive Support. 00:21:35.820 --> 00:21:45.320 So, George just gave you guys a copy of the contract, it's just a continuation of the 00:21:45.320 --> 00:22:14.320 that we've had for the last, I think Ron set it up in 2011 to 2012. My office uses it for the drawing program and DevNet, and then Stephanie's office and Jasmine's office uses it for text inquiry. So it needed to be approved in January. It came into my email a little later than I thought it would. 00:22:45.320 --> 00:22:49.320 they do a percentage or whatever, but roughly. 00:22:49.320 --> 00:22:51.120 All right, but you got it covered in the budget, 00:22:51.120 --> 00:22:53.120 that's good, good job. 00:22:53.120 --> 00:22:58.120 Okay, all right, any other questions? 00:23:04.200 --> 00:23:05.520 Church wants over there or something? 00:23:05.520 --> 00:23:06.360 Well, I know. 00:23:09.040 --> 00:23:12.120 Okay, well, it sounds like we need it, 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:13.800 so we've got it budgeted. 00:23:15.320 --> 00:23:20.320 I'll make a motion that we accept the contract. 00:23:24.320 --> 00:23:28.320 We'll have a conversation, otherwise we'll vote. All in favor say aye. 00:23:28.320 --> 00:23:29.320 Aye. 00:23:30.320 --> 00:23:31.320 Thank you. 00:23:31.320 --> 00:23:32.320 Thank you. 00:23:32.320 --> 00:23:39.320 Alright, let's go to 9.2, approval of in-power health services for employee wellness screenings. 00:23:39.320 --> 00:24:02.120 Yes, so this is, I think, year four now with the wellness screenings. We do an annual agreement with them. There's a slight change in what the Blue Shield plans cover, so there's a minimal increase per participant that the county would be covering. 00:24:02.120 --> 00:24:09.000 We planned a cushion in the budget for an increase. 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:16.360 We also narrowed it down to two locations as opposed to the three that we did last year. 00:24:16.360 --> 00:24:18.640 The year before we did four locations. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.840 We were trying to get one at remote buildings and things, but I think having the two locations 00:24:25.840 --> 00:24:34.080 and starting at the courthouse an hour before the courthouse opens, we'll be able to hit 00:24:34.080 --> 00:24:39.440 our minimums at two locations which will decrease the cost of having the three sites, should 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:42.440 offset pretty well. 00:24:42.440 --> 00:25:02.680 I told them once we have the approval of the board, then they'll send out the advertisement 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:04.680 information for our dates. 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:18.680 Alright, I was hoping it was going to be a wrap, but we've got it covered in the budget, so alright, I guess I'll make a motion to approve it as presented. 00:25:18.680 --> 00:25:20.680 I and I will second. 00:25:20.680 --> 00:25:22.680 Yes, Chairman. 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:25.680 Opinion similar to the employees we've done previously? 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:32.680 We had budgeted for similar to what we had done last year at the department head meeting. 00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:39.680 I think pretty much everyone said that cash in hand is what will motivate their people to take place. 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:46.680 So unless the board feels differently, that was our intent was to proceed as we had planned. 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:56.680 My other question is, non-insured individuals such as County Board members, can they participate as long as they pay the full cost? 00:25:56.680 --> 00:26:01.680 Yes, they can and once we get the informational flyers, it will have the costs listed. 00:26:01.680 --> 00:26:03.680 Okay, thanks. 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:05.680 Let's send that out. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:09.680 They won't release those until I send back the contracts. 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:13.680 I have another question. 00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:28.680 Last, whenever, we approved on the board for that screening for people who had cancer or chronic diseases. 00:26:28.680 --> 00:26:29.680 The RxMapper? 00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:30.680 Yeah. 00:26:30.680 --> 00:26:32.680 Has that been rolled out yet? 00:26:32.680 --> 00:26:33.680 Yes, yes. 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:38.680 And I know Carrie will be presenting information on that Friday at Finance. 00:26:38.680 --> 00:26:40.680 It has been rolled out. 00:26:40.680 --> 00:26:45.520 I think I can get an updated count and let you know. 00:26:45.520 --> 00:26:46.440 I've been screened. 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:51.080 I got the kit to submit my DNA, so I have not sent it yet. 00:26:51.080 --> 00:26:53.880 But I believe that there was a pretty good, I 00:26:53.880 --> 00:26:57.480 want to say seven or eight people that had already 00:26:57.480 --> 00:27:00.720 been screened to the point where they would be sent the kits. 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.120 So I can remind Ron that off. 00:27:03.120 --> 00:27:06.840 I'll ask for an update, because we're 00:27:06.840 --> 00:27:10.640 going to have to pay more if there's a lot of people. 00:27:10.640 --> 00:27:13.640 I do it. 00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:17.640 Yeah, I mean, it's just, it is what it is, but we got rid of it. 00:27:17.640 --> 00:27:20.640 It heads off to future costs, the higher future costs. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:21.640 Right. 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:29.640 I mean, the goal of all of these things are to try to keep the annual renewals, yeah, contained, 00:27:29.640 --> 00:27:30.640 so. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:36.640 This was just discussion, sorry. 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.640 Okay, need more discussion. 00:27:39.640 --> 00:27:46.680 Hi. All those in favor say hi. Hi. So moved. All right. Let's do the last one here. 9.3 00:27:46.680 --> 00:27:52.600 Approval Agreement with Empower Health Services for a walking program. Yes. So the walking program 00:27:52.600 --> 00:27:59.000 was something that through discussions last year between our insurance broker and the wellness 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:05.400 screenings, we discussed movement and getting people moving. Empower Health offers this program. 00:28:05.400 --> 00:28:35.400 I thought the cost was very reasonable. Ms. McWright thought it was a good idea, what it will be is we'll come up with a theme, they will create a virtual map that as you log your steps, you can track where you're at, compared to where your team is, compared to others, it is an app you put on your phone, so you don't have to have a tracking device or anything like that, and 00:28:35.400 --> 00:28:38.880 and as long as you carry your phone with you, 00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:41.160 it will automatically upload your information 00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:46.160 into the app and into the walking program. 00:28:47.720 --> 00:28:51.080 So the little demonstration video looked really cool. 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:54.040 There was a lot of discussion about incentives 00:28:54.040 --> 00:28:56.400 for involvement with that. 00:28:58.640 --> 00:29:01.860 Obviously, we talked about one in two people departments, 00:29:01.860 --> 00:29:05.040 how they compete against departments 00:29:05.040 --> 00:29:08.320 of the Highway Department that has how many people out there. 00:29:08.320 --> 00:29:12.480 So they talked about how you do averages. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:18.080 And we talked about some people that 00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:23.780 may feel beaten before they actually start the program, 00:29:23.780 --> 00:29:28.360 maybe doing an individual prize and then a team prize, 00:29:28.360 --> 00:29:30.720 but also doing all participants that 00:29:30.720 --> 00:29:33.960 didn't win either the team or the individual, 00:29:33.960 --> 00:29:54.960 I would think for a prize for that, like a hundred dollar gift card to Brown Shoes to buy new tennis shoes. 00:29:54.960 --> 00:29:58.960 She was asking for ideas. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:24.520 You know, because of course, our office, we came up with, you know, different things and we were talking about how, you know, if you already feel discouraged, how can we get you to buy in? And it's like, well, as long as you did it and met your goals, then randomly drop her like a big prize or bigger or something. That's a great idea for everyone loves new shoes. 00:30:24.520 --> 00:30:33.520 But the consensus there was cash or gift cards is probably the most motivator. 00:30:33.520 --> 00:30:36.520 I like the showing. 00:30:36.520 --> 00:30:39.520 We're at local. 00:30:39.520 --> 00:30:44.520 So it's 700 bucks for the plan to do everybody. 00:30:44.520 --> 00:30:49.520 So that's reasonable, right? 00:30:49.520 --> 00:30:53.520 Anybody want to make a motion? 00:30:53.520 --> 00:30:54.180 and 00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:57.580 I'm going to say hi. 00:30:57.580 --> 00:30:58.220 Hi. 00:30:58.220 --> 00:30:58.720 All right. 00:30:58.720 --> 00:31:00.720 Okay. 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:01.720 About 10.0. 00:31:01.720 --> 00:31:03.720 Any comments from the committee members? 00:31:03.720 --> 00:31:06.720 Good to go. 00:31:06.720 --> 00:31:08.720 How about 11.1 German? 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:09.720 I make a motion. 00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:10.720 You do? 00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:11.720 Yeah. 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:12.720 Oh, you can second it. 00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:13.720 Adam seconds it. 00:31:13.720 --> 00:31:14.720 Adam seconds it. 00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:15.720 All those in favor say hi. 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:16.720 Hi. 00:31:16.720 --> 00:31:17.720 All right. 00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:18.720 Thank you. 00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:19.720 Thank you, everybody. 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:21.720 Larry, I will not be here next month. 00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.720 So we have to make sure...