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Call meeting to order. 00:00:10
Approval of the minutes. 00:00:12
I'll make a motion to approve last month. 00:00:14
Meetings with SWPD. 00:00:17
I second. 00:00:19
Aye. 00:00:21
One moment and let me pass those around. 00:00:22
I do have the corrected copy the September meeting minutes. I incorrectly put Mr. Watson in there and he wasn't even in 00:00:25
attendance. 00:00:29
But I had him adjourning the meeting. So I corrected that to Matt Payne correctly adjourning the meeting. So Ron, Matt and Melanie 00:00:34
signed these. No, Tom. 00:00:38
You weren't here for it, so. 00:00:43
Ron gets to sign and Melanie gets a sign. 00:00:45
And then these, yes, you were here. 00:00:48
These. 00:00:51
Or, I'm sorry, these are the corrected meeting minutes. 00:00:52
That's those are October. These are the corrected September meeting minutes and. 00:00:55
Yes, you sign it. And Tom, you can sign it because this is September. 00:01:00
That's the one that Ron. 00:01:05
I incorrectly had Ron in. 00:01:07
These are the ones you can't sign because you weren't here. 00:01:11
Right, but we can get. 00:01:14
Melanie to sign them. 00:01:17
And then we'll just need Matt and Laura to take care of those. 00:01:20
Thank you, ma'am. 00:01:25
All right. 00:01:37
All right, got those done. 00:01:39
You ready for the financial report? Financial report? 00:01:42
All right, so we spent some money this past month. 00:01:46
We started the month. 00:01:52
You're very welcome to my dad. 00:01:55
Here you go, man. 00:01:58
You get one over there on the other side. Oh, you did get one, OK. 00:02:00
So, so we started the month with $73,061.22 in checking and we finished the month with $70,546.92. 00:02:03
Our savings account has. 00:02:16
17,200. 00:02:17
$37.49 for a grand total of 87,000. 00:02:19
$784.41. 00:02:25
I make a motion. We. 00:02:30
Through the financial. 00:02:31
Support all in favor. 00:02:33
Aye. 00:02:35
OK, guest report. 00:02:47
Well, because of the government shutdown, we have not received a report from Drew from NRCS. 00:02:49
The last report we got from him was for the October meeting, but of course the. 00:02:56
Shutdowns been going on since then. So no word from him, no word from Eliza. But for those that were not here last month. 00:03:01
The Hellbender Project. 00:03:10
Was. 00:03:14
Approved to be a CWI. 00:03:15
Grant recipient. 00:03:18
And so the practices that they're going to be able to offer now through that Clean Water Indiana grant will. 00:03:20
Encompass and cover all of Floyd County. In the past it had only covered a corner, but now that it's covering parts of the sinking 00:03:26
of. 00:03:31
Silver little Kentucky. Yeah, those. 00:03:37
Will include all of Floyd County, so not only are they in a good position with having received CWI funding. 00:03:40
But they also. 00:03:48
Have a possibility that some NRCS. 00:03:51
State funds. 00:03:54
Might be you know. 00:03:56
Redirected to help pay for the administrator. 00:03:57
Benefits. 00:04:02
So that's going to workout well for Elaza. 00:04:03
The only other report that I have is from. 00:04:07
District sports specialist This is Laura Frigley's report. 00:04:11
Obviously, important reminders all have to do with the upcoming elections. We have to have our nominee for election in the system 00:04:16
by December 1st. 00:04:21
Which is why we will be deciding that today at today's meeting. 00:04:26
There's also going to be an SBOA training just for solar and water conservation districts that deal with the. 00:04:31
Afr uh. 00:04:41
And capacity reports. 00:04:42
Capacity reports are those additional reports that we have to do now in order for us to receive those extra funds from the state. 00:04:45
You know, it was 10,000 and they gave us five extra 1000. 00:04:52
Well, those extra funds have to be. 00:04:56
Accounted for in a separate report which is due December 15th, so capacity reports coming up. 00:04:58
But really, beyond that, Laura's DSS reports of. 00:05:05
Just some important deadline reminders and save the dates regarding trainings. 00:05:11
And then that's the only guest reports I have, Sir. 00:05:16
What are the trainings he's mentioning? 00:05:21
They're all staff trainings and it's SBOA training for financials. 00:05:23
Very good. Yeah. And then the other one was regarding NRCS specs. They're getting ready to have like a lunch and learn, I believe 00:05:30
in Orange County for that. 00:05:35
Drew, you have a time. 00:05:42
Call. 00:05:45
Nothing really the only thing. 00:05:48
Is Washington County is having. 00:05:51
Their full health field day. 00:05:55
That'll be the day after. 00:05:58
Y'all's annual meeting. 00:06:00
Mm-hmm. Here's. 00:06:02
Couple saved the dates. 00:06:05
That should say 2026 instead of 2020. 00:06:06
5 But is that closer? 00:06:10
Correct. Yes, in fact, that is on my agenda. 00:06:12
Because they. 00:06:18
Yeah, Every year we sponsor them their regional soil health, but seldom do we ever get to make it because it's the day after our 00:06:21
annual meeting. Sometimes it's actually fallen on the annual meeting. 00:06:26
So. 00:06:33
But we'll talk about that when we get down to it. 00:06:37
Further. 00:06:44
Thank you, Cole. 00:06:45
Debate. Yep. 00:06:48
How is that coming? Sorry. 00:06:51
It's the first Monday in February, which I believe is the same day as this. I believe it's. 00:06:54
It's either February 2nd or February 3rd. 00:07:01
OK. 00:07:05
Dale, you have anything? 00:07:10
It's all good. 00:07:15
OK, old business. 00:07:18
Bored pictures. 00:07:22
Yeah, we're still, we're never gonna get that board picture taken before the years over, I'm afraid. 00:07:23
Our only hope is next month and that is if we have a full board. Otherwise we made it the entire year without. 00:07:28
Right. I'd like to, Sir. 00:07:36
Maybe we get some AI about. 00:07:41
Oh, just yeah. There you go. We're. 00:07:44
Yeah, we're going to Photoshop everybody. 00:07:48
OK, Election Committee. 00:07:53
All right, so. 00:07:56
We did decide on that. And of course, since you weren't here. 00:07:58
I did discuss it with you. I didn't volunteering or volunteer. 00:08:04
Tolling Tom is going to be the chairman of the election committee and Gina Anderson and Sarah Bacher will be the other two. 00:08:07
Who will make up the election committee for us? 00:08:15
OK, elected and appointed Supervisor. 00:08:24
So we. 00:08:29
Have no appointments this year because those are staggered. 00:08:30
The only elected position is Melanie. 00:08:34
And Melanie informed us at. 00:08:38
October's meaning that she is not going to run for reelection. 00:08:40
So when we get down to new business, we'll discuss who is. 00:08:46
So I need to turn in like a formal letter or something like that. 00:08:49
Yeah, OK. But it don't have to be until February. 00:08:54
Make you a pointer. 00:08:59
Oh, you're lucky that they didn't appoint you. 00:09:02
The more medications for you, Tom. 00:09:07
Let's see, you're the only supervisor. 00:09:21
That's up for real. It's up for election, Yeah. 00:09:24
And with them being staggered like next year. 00:09:29
One of the appointments is. 00:09:33
And then I think. 00:09:35
Laura is up for reelection. 00:09:37
Yeah. 00:09:40
OK workshops and Sismo events. 00:09:44
All right, so last month the only thing under old business that. 00:09:47
Very busy place. Yeah, it was a busy month. 00:09:55
We we built momentum all month long from having. 00:09:58
Pretty much no interaction at the library. 00:10:03
Then we have the event that Nova Park and we had about 9 folks show up out there. 00:10:05
Then we had the everything invasive that was not an insect or a plant, and Gina had another educator from another county come down 00:10:10
from Purdue. 00:10:15
That was a full house. We had 29 folks and yeah, that was a fact. 00:10:20
Actually, that one was at Gina's office in the shine room, so we had a packed house for that one. 00:10:25
And then our trunk or treat event I think we had or our. 00:10:30
Spooky hike. 00:10:35
Our haunted hike, I think we had about 14 people for that one. 00:10:36
It was. It was, and then. 00:10:41
For our actual bamboo removal on November 2nd. 00:10:43
We had a really healthy crowd come out for that, and of course Ron and I were there, chainsaws in hand. 00:10:49
Happy to be doing some cutting. 00:10:56
I bet that did feel good. 00:10:58
Oh, it did. But I'm telling you it was. 00:10:59
Who went? There's a lot of people around. Yeah. It was a lot, though, fighting that, you know, I just. I just cut them down, tried 00:11:02
to ring the pile. Yeah. And then get to mine yet, Right. So there were folks. I want to be away from our life and so. 00:11:09
Yes, yeah. 00:11:16
But yeah, good event, good event. I have some pictures I can show you. 00:11:17
The trunk or treat event was postponed. 00:11:23
And then cancelled. 00:11:26
The day they rescheduled it, we had all the wind and and the rain so. 00:11:28
The trunk or treat event for this year just did simply did not happen. 00:11:32
But we were ready for it. 00:11:36
We had seed packets to give away, we had candy to give away. We had a few other things. 00:11:38
We had some pencils give away so we were ready. 00:11:44
There was a lot of trunk or treats. 00:11:49
There were so many Trump retreats that I had. 00:11:52
3 trick or treaters. 00:11:56
And an Amazon delivery guy. 00:11:58
That was that's who I got to give you to. That's the only candy I got to give away. 00:12:01
And I said hand decorated bags. 00:12:06
Yeah, if you took your kid to everyone you have. 00:12:11
Seen every night? Yes. 00:12:17
And that was just in one night alone. There were two Of Montreal. 00:12:20
There was one down by the. 00:12:23
Little shopping center and then there was another one by the Graceland Baptist Church there. 00:12:25
On the same night. 00:12:29
Just don't rock up on your feet from one another. 00:12:31
But anyway. 00:12:33
Hours cancelled due to rain, but I. 00:12:35
Kind of sad that I don't have more trick or treaters. 00:12:39
OK, I got a question on the bamboo. 00:12:43
Yup. 00:12:45
Cut that down. 00:12:46
Don't they come back up? 00:12:48
No, once you cut it. 00:12:49
It's dead. 00:12:51
Now the rhizomes that are underneath of it. 00:12:52
Those are going to have to be treated. 00:12:57
And we have talked to Matt, there's correspondence going back and forth right now over. 00:12:59
Who's gonna spray? 00:13:04
And if he's OK with spring? 00:13:06
On one of the park properties. 00:13:08
But once you cut it, even if you let it lay there. 00:13:10
It's never going to regrow or anything. Once you cut it, it's done. But all those rhizomes still grown under the ground. Oh, they 00:13:13
could still definitely produce shoots. That's going to be a project that's that's several years in the making out there that's. 00:13:19
Yeah, that we're not going to be done with that mess for years. It's going to take multi steps and we probably hit. 00:13:25
Less than 20%. 00:13:32
Really. 00:13:34
Easily. 00:13:36
Oh my goodness, like Ron said, we made a dent. But. 00:13:37
It's a lot. Everyone was working that whole time too. We weren't. 00:13:40
Yeah, no lollygagging. 00:13:43
We took one group photo in the middle of it and. 00:13:45
Other than that, we were. 00:13:48
Do whatever. 00:13:50
I had two Cuban espressos that morning. He had a hard time keeping up. 00:13:52
Yeah. 00:13:55
I was my chainsaw was a whack, whack whacking and he was trying to keep up. I was like. 00:13:58
Trying to do the work and then also like keep my head up so. 00:14:03
It was a good. 00:14:10
Good work morning, but. 00:14:12
I love that Cuban espresso. It was cool in morning but. 00:14:14
I got it, ain't really warm yet real quick that jackets hanging everywhere. 00:14:17
I was in a T-shirt before before long. 00:14:23
But. 00:14:27
Anyway, good day and. 00:14:28
I guess. 00:14:34
That same day. 00:14:35
Dawn Slack came and presented this. 00:14:36
Which is the Weed wranglers award for Sizmas? 00:14:39
Now I've got a quick question for you. You and Alisa went to the conference. 00:14:44
Were you guys not there when they gave out the awards? 00:14:49
Hammond. 00:14:55
You guys went to the top of the state for the Invasive Species Conference. 00:14:56
Yeah, and see, I feel like. 00:15:01
They either gave these away as one of the very last things at the conference and maybe before you guys. 00:15:04
Because I couldn't understand why it wasn't given to you all at the conference. I knew for a fact that you guys were there. Yeah. 00:15:11
But anyhow, they missed you, they missed you guys at conference and. 00:15:18
Misgivings to you. So anyway, uh. 00:15:23
Isn't that just awesome? Yeah, and that is garlic mustard. 00:15:26
It's toting garlic mustard. It's on walnut, right? Yes, and. 00:15:32
And we'll, we'll probably hang that, yeah. 00:15:38
But yeah, I'm actually going to get. 00:15:41
I'm going to see if I can't get the newspaper to run an article about our group being recognized by the state. 00:15:44
Because I mean, that's brilliant of all the different Sizzmas all over the state and we got the the award for the whole year. 00:15:49
Awards and things. 00:15:58
My supervisor suggested to. 00:16:00
Potentially nominate the group for a district showcase award through the state association. Is that something you guys would be? 00:16:03
Interested in receiving potentially. Yeah, help me out with it because we, we need it. 00:16:10
We really. 00:16:15
And I have not applied for district showcase award, but we need some recognition down here and I think. 00:16:16
Especially that. 00:16:21
Whole month on invasive thing fits really well. 00:16:22
Into kind of what they're wanting to showcase to folks and. 00:16:26
I would be willing to try and put in that application for you guys because I don't think you can nominate. 00:16:30
Salesforce, I can't do it. You do it for us. All right. Thank you. 00:16:35
As long as that's something you guys would be interested in and. 00:16:40
Yeah, and I know that'll. 00:16:44
They'll highlight that at the annual business meeting in January. 00:16:46
Well, and that needs to be a newspaper article too. 00:16:50
You know what I mean? Put them all in, Larry. I think this is really that's important to put it. We're making some progress. Yeah. 00:16:52
Yeah, good things are happening. 00:16:59
Old business I have. I have just two. 00:17:05
Things and it won't take long first of all, you know the succession planning that we. 00:17:08
Have discussed several times. 00:17:14
That needs to be put on hold. 00:17:19
Until Laura Fridley has been. 00:17:21
Has had several workshops and she is putting together this amazing. 00:17:24
Succession Planning workbook and it's an Excel. 00:17:28
I think we. 00:17:31
And the, you know, when we talked about succession planning, my mind was very narrow. 00:17:32
On, you know. 00:17:38
Just my position, just your position and training. 00:17:40
The new person or the, you know, potential or whatever. 00:17:44
But this thing is much broader. And The thing is, is I think. 00:17:47
I mean, there's so many other different. 00:17:52
Things that have to be considered about succession planning when someone leaves, like. 00:17:54
Angels position. 00:17:58
And I believe it's all. 00:18:00
Stuff that a new. 00:18:02
Director needs to understand and be aware of and participate in once when they're coming on board. 00:18:03
So Laura should be done, I think with those workshops. I meant to e-mail her. 00:18:10
But what I'd like to do is wait until she has a. 00:18:14
Relatively final. 00:18:17
Succession planning spreadsheet and then. 00:18:19
Walk you all through what I the way I understand it. 00:18:22
It might be better for her to be. 00:18:25
You're even online if we could do it. 00:18:27
Second thing is this trust Indiana. 00:18:29
So I went through all of this information, you know, essentially. 00:18:32
This thing is makes it so easy. 00:18:36
For us to invest. 00:18:40
This is not a. 00:18:42
FDIC secure. Insured. 00:18:45
Investment, uh. 00:18:49
Plan umm. 00:18:50
It talks about the different. 00:18:53
Kinds of municipal. 00:18:55
Businesses or that are involved in this thing. 00:18:59
The average interest. 00:19:04
Is somewhere between. 00:19:06
4 1/2. 00:19:08
To sometimes 5%. 00:19:10
You can put your money in. 00:19:12
As much as we want and that you can take, you can submit money daily, you can take it out daily. It's very. 00:19:15
User friendly. 00:19:23
I don't know a detective. 00:19:24
Technology stuff about how we do that bank transfer, but. 00:19:27
That might be something we need to think about. 00:19:31
They have a sample of the portfolio. 00:19:35
A composition in here. 00:19:38
Market marketed to market daily. 00:19:42
Seeks to maintain a stable. 00:19:45
What does NAB stand for? 00:19:47
Net asset value of a dollar per share. 00:19:49
More than 50% of the portfolio is deposited in Indiana banks in accordance with our Indiana Code Five 13911. 00:19:55
There's more performance stuff over the long term. 00:20:04
Do you want the new office? 00:20:08
No. What is? 00:20:10
He asked if there's a one of these involving and there's not. 00:20:14
I think you can put it in a. 00:20:17
Can you not transfer it from where our bank is to the trust? 00:20:19
Yes, we can transfer it from our bank to the trust, but there is not a trust anywhere near us. Yeah. 00:20:22
OK, so you didn't want to please statements? Yeah, it's not a physical. 00:20:29
Building umm. 00:20:33
24/7 online access. 00:20:33
This goes into. 00:20:37
A lot of definitions in the back. Cindy Barger again is our. 00:20:40
Point of contact. 00:20:44
So he was at Cornucopia Farm? She was, yes. 00:20:45
Investment income earned in 2024 was $176 million. 00:20:51
So I. 00:20:56
Guess I would like to make a motion or do we want to? I don't know what do we want to do about this? I mean, it looks like it's. 00:20:59
It would fit our needs. 00:21:05
In my opinion. 00:21:07
Any thoughts or? 00:21:12
Concerns. 00:21:14
It definitely earns more than like a CD, right? Yeah, and it definitely earns more than what we're currently making at the bank. 00:21:16
And as supervisors of. 00:21:23
You all are tasked with being fiduciaries. 00:21:27
And making good decisions about the finances that that the district has. 00:21:30
And, umm. 00:21:35
With that pain, better yields, yes. 00:21:36
I absolutely feel like. 00:21:39
I think it's the with other soil and water conservation districts that I know. 00:21:41
Invest in that. 00:21:47
Washington County uses it, don't there? I think they're they're one of them. There are several solar water conservation districts 00:21:49
that use them, including a couple within the Southeast region. 00:21:55
And, umm. 00:22:01
Yeah. Their yields are just so, so much better than the bank and and you know, you guys know first hand that. 00:22:03
Our $17,000 in savings. 00:22:10
Usually earns about $1.40 all. 00:22:13
Years long. 00:22:17
At the bank. 00:22:19
Whereas it could be making you know a significant amount more so. 00:22:21
I don't know if you need to have a. 00:22:26
Full even though this is a quorum, I feel like it may be all 5 of you were here you could set the amount that you want to put in 00:22:29
there, but I absolutely feel like that's something that you guys should do but. 00:22:36
I'll leave the amount. 00:22:44
We wait till Matt. 00:22:46
I mean, 4 was I don't like the boy's gonna be gonna make it. 00:22:48
Unless, unless. Yeah, Unless something happens or. 00:22:51
Perhaps of? 00:22:55
Again, I was really kind of hoping she would be here so we could fill out what what her availability. 00:22:56
It's going to look like next year and if we need to move the time of the meeting to a better accommodator. 00:23:02
Whatever the case may be, but. 00:23:08
That, I think is a no brainer. 00:23:11
It's a no brainer. That's what I think. It's gotta figure out what we want to do. 00:23:13
Ten $20,000 or what I put our savings and I would dare say. 00:23:18
Almost all the same. That's what I was thinking, you know said. 00:23:24
Again, a suggestion, maybe leave. 00:23:27
4 or $5000 and then put the remaining what, 11 or 12? 00:23:30
1000 into savings. 00:23:35
And I don't know why we would. 00:23:37
I I don't know. I just think we ought to. 00:23:40
Kind of have leave some out and I'm not sure why. 00:23:42
It's just I have a problem with putting a number is 7. You know there's 17,000 in savings. Put 15,000 of it in there and leave 00:23:45
2000 of it in the bank. 00:23:50
Does that go, I mean we get free check and airline PNC or anything like that, You know what I'm saying? I don't know if it's 00:23:54
balanced stuff. So far we got 2 accounts, right? Yeah, we have two accounts, but we carry enough in the checking account that that 00:24:00
we don't pay any kind of service fees so. 00:24:05
Yeah, I'm OK, baby. 00:24:10
But you won't wait. 00:24:12
I think we're terribly. 00:24:13
You can also. 00:24:16
Try it out, see how easy it is to pull money in and out of the account and then decide. 00:24:17
What your final number is going to be, yes, and I think. 00:24:23
I think the nice thing about this is that it's, you know, this is kind of an, you know, this is just a test to see. 00:24:25
How? Well, explain their service. Maybe you see that it yields enough in six months to make up 10 years worth of PNC and you're 00:24:32
like. 00:24:36
Yeah, run away. Right, right. I just like. 00:24:41
The ease at which you can. 00:24:44
Access your money, you know, it's like it's never. 00:24:46
There doesn't seem to be any limitation, and from what I understood there, there's no penalty for withdrawing money, no? 00:24:50
That that was. That was my understanding too, which is again a. 00:24:57
Benefit, Yeah. 00:25:00
So anyway, OK, so it's all out there now and we can. So I guess our decision is to wait until we have. 00:25:01
At least 4 members. 00:25:10
Or supervisors here and. 00:25:12
Hopefully five. I think I agree with you. I think it would be good to have all five of us, but we'll see. 00:25:14
I'd hate to sit on it too long though, just because. 00:25:21
Yeah, don't let another year, robot. Yeah, yeah, I think we need to move out in the next three or four months, is my thought 00:25:25
Right. 00:25:28
I agree. All right. Thank you. We haven't had five. 00:25:31
In a long time, I know right? A lot of reasons. 00:25:34
And, you know, maybe we just fill her out and if she says she can't come at 3:00, we're like, OK, well, can you make it at 4:00? 00:25:44
And we? 00:25:50
Maybe we schedule a meeting for 4:00 or 4:30 just so that we can ensure all 5 of you are making it. 00:25:51
All right, sounds good. When you say her, are you talking about Laura? Laura. OK. 00:25:57
But then we have it. 00:26:03
In the past it was at six and that was miserable. So no. 00:26:06
I'm not even going to entertain that. 00:26:10
Sorry. 00:26:13
She is not open to you. No. Dinner meetings? No. 00:26:16
OK, new business board pictures. 00:26:23
It's not happening. 00:26:26
OK, the IAS WCD annual business meeting. 00:26:30
I'm delicate, that's OK. Matt absolutely said he would do that. However, we have to have an A an alternate in system. 00:26:36
You want to be an alternate. 00:26:48
All right, so Ron's our alternate. 00:26:50
And again this year, it's not the big old conference. 00:26:53
It is going to be an indie. It's going to be in the Farm Bureau building. 00:26:57
Which is free parking. 00:27:01
Exactly right. That's why it was so easy for Matt. Why Matt was like, yeah, I'll do it. 00:27:04
But again. 00:27:09
They're not holding that big conference. It's not going to be a 2 day event. They're not. 00:27:10
It's a lot of money. It's a lot of. 00:27:16
It's a huge part of their budget for the year and I don't know that they were really getting the return on the investment and I 00:27:19
think all of the. 00:27:23
The feedback exactly in that it was. 00:27:27
Yep, and it needed to be kind of moved around the state. That's why we had our regional meetings in lieu of summer sessions. 00:27:31
Umm, but anyway. 00:27:40
They're going to do it every other year, so there won't be another one until 2027. 00:27:41
So next year it's just going to be a simple business meeting. 00:27:46
A lunch and they vote on resolutions. 00:27:50
And that's going to be the extent of it. 00:27:52
So I like that. All right, so. 00:27:54
I already signed mad up. 00:27:59
But it got to the point where there was the delegate and I was like, oh. 00:28:00
I mean alternate. 00:28:04
Yeah. So you're it, Ron. I'm it. 00:28:05
Thank you. You're welcome. 00:28:08
District nominee for election. 00:28:12
Miss B back there. 00:28:16
So. 00:28:19
Obviously Melanie noticed last month that she was not going to re up for election. 00:28:23
And for the first time in the history of my tenure. 00:28:28
We have associate. 00:28:33
Supervisors. 00:28:34
Ready to step up to the call? 00:28:36
To be an elected official. Well, actually I did the same thing. 00:28:38
Yes, that's what you, but you were you were barely associate for a month as soon as soon as you said you wanted to be an associate 00:28:42
training. 00:28:46
We've had her in training now for almost a month, I mean a whole year, so. 00:28:55
Claire, what's your Cara? 00:29:02
Bazooska Vazhuska. 00:29:05
BEZUS. 00:29:08
KA that's why kids call her. 00:29:10
And there's that carrot with a C or C. 00:29:15
Yeah, that's why kids call her Miss B. 00:29:20
Very cool. I'm excited for you. Is that Italian? 00:29:23
It's like Polish or Russian or something, yeah. 00:29:27
My maiden name was Smith. 00:29:29
That's the only reason I took it. 00:29:31
I was like, well that's what I'm calling you. 00:29:32
That's why. 00:29:34
That's fine, I'll answer to it. 00:29:38
Well, cool. I'm excited. Yeah. I think that's you're going to be high energy for us. I hope so. Well, and considering she's 00:29:41
already been around for a year, she's seen how this works together. So forever grateful, right. 00:29:50
Yeah. 00:29:59
Awesome. So we have Kara then for our district nominee. 00:30:00
And she will be. 00:30:05
Our nominee, I will obviously run an announcement saying that nominations are open and we could have somebody from the floor, but 00:30:08
chances are. 00:30:12
Cara, get ready to be sworn in by this man. All right? All right. 00:30:16
He's pretty good about coming and swearing in our folks. 00:30:20
Appears, don't you? 00:30:24
Yeah. 00:30:25
And we're going to have a really good one this year because we're combining with the extension office. Yeah, yeah. 00:30:30
I think so too, Dale. 00:30:38
I think so too. 00:30:39
That's going to be at the 4H. 00:30:43
Yep Yep, same place. Don't have it for free in Newland Hall. 00:30:45
Yes, Sir. 00:30:51
6:00. 00:30:53
OK, Annual meeting recognition awards. 00:30:56
So we just need to be looking for a forestry steward to recognize because. 00:30:58
Tim Moberly. 00:31:05
We had someone reach out from the mountain, ask if we would recognize Tim for all the work that he does, and I think he's an 00:31:07
excellent person considering how many people use them out so. 00:31:12
Tim Moberly will be our conservation steward. 00:31:18
We just need. 00:31:22
A forestry steward to recognize. 00:31:24
Take me to my ****. 00:31:30
But you have a couple months to think about it. We don't have an answer today. 00:31:31
Yeah, I can't thank anybody. 00:31:46
Yeah, we have some time to think about it. Well, we'll work on it. I can go back and look to see who's ordered trees too for the 00:31:48
past few years to see if we want to recognize somebody that's. 00:31:52
Been doing that when there's somebody. 00:31:57
Order trees the last two or three years. 00:32:00
Quite a few trees. 00:32:03
I don't know the name off the top of my head, but I have his orders. 00:32:05
The bacon, Yeah. 00:32:12
OK, CWI updates. 00:32:15
As I was just explaining to you guys earlier of. 00:32:18
I have our final CW. 00:32:22
Report that's due. 00:32:25
January. 00:32:27
For the last six months of the grant. 00:32:29
And then I also have the capacity report. 00:32:31
That explains how we use the additional CWI funds on top of the AFR, so I have. 00:32:34
Three reports that I'll be getting done here. 00:32:41
In the next month and 1/2. 00:32:44
All of them dealing with that but the. 00:32:47
CWI we have nearly spent. 00:32:49
Every. 00:32:53
Dollar, well, we spent every single dollar of our cost share. We've spent nearly every dollar of our education and outreach and 00:32:54
when we get this last. 00:32:59
Bill for the ad that we ran in the paper. 00:33:04
I think that'll use up those funds. 00:33:07
The only funds that we have remaining left with that as the book. 00:33:09
And as soon as I send that book off to Purdue? 00:33:13
There go that funds. 00:33:16
So. 00:33:18
I think this grant is a good one and. 00:33:20
One of the things that I'm going to highlight with this grant wrapping up is the fact that. 00:33:24
Our group won this award. 00:33:28
And had we not had those funds to help with education and outreach? 00:33:30
Over the last couple of years to help. 00:33:34
Keep that group going and us paying the secretary to keep. 00:33:37
Of everybody moving and momentum going with it. 00:33:41
And now Kira has completed the legwork to become a 501-C, its own entity. 00:33:45
Yeah, a lot of good outcomes with those dollars besides. 00:33:53
Just the people that. 00:33:58
They had their calorie pear trees removed. 00:33:59
This was a really good grant for us and so it's not going to be hard to. 00:34:02
To highlight. 00:34:07
Some of the the better things over the last three years, but this is obviously going to be part of the showcase for it. 00:34:09
OK, uh, supervisor. 00:34:18
All right, so I gave you guys your respective for DMS. I emailed Matt and Laura earlier today and provided their per diems 00:34:21
electronically to go over. 00:34:27
And this year, obviously, it's a little bit less money than than the last few years because as you guys remember, I was paying you 00:34:33
for anything and everything you went to and I was told that was wrong. 00:34:38
Not that it was ridiculous, but. 00:34:44
Anything that was strictly. 00:34:49
District UH. 00:34:51
Business like coming in and doing the financial audit. 00:34:52
Being the delegate at the meeting and attending the Southeast Regional meeting. 00:34:56
Those are all things I could. 00:35:01
Legit pay you for in addition to coming to board meetings. 00:35:02
So this year. 00:35:06
So there's no So attending any workshops or anything is not. 00:35:08
OK. 00:35:12
Yeah, very good. 00:35:13
Yeah, I can't pay you for those. Again, it's only stuff that pertains to doing the district, the business of the district. 00:35:15
And so. 00:35:22
That's why numbers total numbers of. 00:35:24
For the whole year. 00:35:27
Are down from last year. 00:35:29
So this year, all of you guys combined. 00:35:31
Had $17115.00 worth of per diem. 00:35:34
We get. 00:35:39
No, that's so. 00:35:40
We get $800 budgeted from the county. 00:35:42
So this year we only have to pay $915 back to the. 00:35:46
To the county to pay your alls per diem. 00:35:51
And that's a significant. 00:35:54
From Oh yeah, last year it was almost too green that I had to pay them. 00:35:56
So, umm. 00:36:00
This year it's 915 and. 00:36:01
I'll just simply go down and pay them $915 and then they will issue URLs checks. 00:36:03
Good deal and. 00:36:10
Good. Nope, you hang on to it. I have. I have copies of everybody's and again. 00:36:14
This will go in on the November 20th payroll, so this is the one that you'll get right at Thanksgiving. 00:36:19
Um, and. 00:36:26
This year, the three of you sitting here. 00:36:27
We're I think you missed one meeting there, but you, you had. 00:36:30
1313 and 12 respectively so. 00:36:34
Have a Goodyear of attendance for all three of you. 00:36:38
Thank you, but. 00:36:41
I'll get the OH real quickly. 00:36:44
Make me a motion, please let me get over here to my. 00:36:46
Make me a motion to pay the $915.00 to the county for per diem. I motion that Angel. 00:36:49
Pay the $915 for the per diem. 00:36:56
Second all in favor, aye. 00:36:59
All right. And then. 00:37:04
The Washington County soil and water of. 00:37:06
Soul Health Day. 00:37:09
They asked us to sponsor that every year. We sponsor it at $100. That just helps. 00:37:11
Cora pay for the. 00:37:16
Advertising it and. 00:37:18
The meal that they serve. 00:37:21
I'll make a motion. 00:37:23
All right. 00:37:25
Open Mail. 00:37:28
All right. And that's $100. 00:37:30
OK, how many dollars? Doesn't seem like much. I mean, they've got a lot of. 00:37:33
We're not the only county they ask, OK, They ask everybody in the southeast region. 00:37:37
So they can put our logo on this. 00:37:42
$9200. 00:37:46
If everybody did, you're right. 00:37:49
Put on pretty good feet for that. 00:37:54
That they could. 00:37:58
So let me see what else here I have for you guys. 00:38:03
I think that's about it. 00:38:06
So we. 00:38:09
Yep, we need to get the Forestry Stewart Awards. 00:38:12
Per diem is good. 00:38:15
Gosh, I think we covered everything. I wonder if we can. 00:38:18
Photoshop. 00:38:23
Well. 00:38:24
You know, I was thinking like. 00:38:26
Kids could they get on Zoom and. 00:38:28
And take pictures on zoom or. 00:38:30
Could they take a picture and send it in? I I don't know, that's probably not legal, but. 00:38:33
Well, I think what I might have to do is I might have to just go back through. 00:38:38
Photos of other events. 00:38:43
And just instead of having. 00:38:46
The photo of all of you guys up against the wall. 00:38:48
Just have you in your element individually doing. 00:38:51
Something related to the district. 00:38:55
Because I do have a picture of Laura working with Don't put in that bath. 00:38:57
Are you sure I can't put that one in? 00:39:03
It's not a good, it's not a good side of me. 00:39:06
Oh, I didn't realize there was. 00:39:09
I didn't realize I did that to you, my apologies. 00:39:12
Did I publish it? 00:39:16
The hell you got anything to report on? 00:39:21
I've got asking for a problem may or may not go over. 00:39:25
National uh, change stormwater. 00:39:27
The other night, actually. 00:39:32
Took care of agricultural pile. I know there are several people swinging. 00:39:34
Dennis Conpole That had been after that for almost a decade. 00:39:38
And it's a uniform fee for me, about $46 per month. 00:39:42
Between the 39 to 46. 00:39:47
Going to be on our agenda next week. 00:39:49
So so. 00:39:53
Farmers, Agriculture. 00:39:55
Jump all in. 00:39:56
Get your credits and all that stuff. 00:39:58
That's just a straight. 00:40:00
Residential. 00:40:01
$49.00 a year. 00:40:03
$46. 00:40:05
$26 in. 00:40:06
Every year, right? 00:40:09
Yeah, but 46 is pretty reasonable. Like Dylan, I said, We pay more than that. 00:40:11
'S more. I pay more than the city sure do. 00:40:17
Sure do. 00:40:24
Just pay my bill today. Big bribe was the Dennis Dale man and others. 00:40:25
Was the because agriculture really got treated unfairly, getting paid a lot more than residential? 00:40:30
And they're the ones that take up all the water, all the water goes to. 00:40:37
Arm every eggplant. 00:40:40
And so they they got treated a little more for everybody. 00:40:42
Just apply. 00:40:47
And we'll be sure and share that with Dennis. 00:40:49
If you have you, have you talked to him? Oh. 00:40:52
Well, why don't you call and tell him and share the good news with him? 00:40:54
Yes, I know it's been a long time coming. 00:41:00
And check out our beautiful Sizzma brochures, Dale. 00:41:07
Did you want to take some of those to share with folks? 00:41:12
It may just turn out so lovely. 00:41:17
You know what? You can actually see them in a few different places. 00:41:21
Yeah, museum and pardon too. What's that? 00:41:28
They must have a loop island. There you go. 00:41:34
Hanging around. 00:41:38
Is it possible for us to do this for? 00:41:41
Floyd County. 00:41:44
Council soil and water conservation brochure that we can make it look Thunder because we've just meter like that yeah because we 00:41:45
just. 00:41:48
We have just, you know, been popping those out and and. 00:41:52
Mind you, the difference being. 00:41:57
That was done by her. 00:41:59
Kara with the graphic design artist background. She designed those. 00:42:04
I just think quality I'm just looking for. 00:42:10
If if we can maybe get her. 00:42:15
Go over that. 00:42:17
Then we can absolutely get unfriended at the All-Star printing. 00:42:19
That's fine with me. 00:42:24
No. 00:42:30
But answer free forwards. You talk, baby. 00:42:32
But damn, you know how I feel about those nasty things. They stink and they break. 00:42:35
And they're bright. 00:42:40
Dale and I were discussing how pitiful they were, but why everybody wanted them. 00:42:42
30-40 years ago after landscape. 00:42:47
And in America, because they were still using, they were a good urban tree. 00:42:49
Before they realized that they can't escape into the wild, they sold them, thinking they're sterile. 00:42:59
I think he's took it out of the thing, right? I didn't mail the check until the 29th, and because I didn't mail it to the 29th, 00:43:07
they didn't have time to cash it. So it was written. 00:43:12
Just wasn't cash. 00:43:17
Oh well, real quickly. 00:43:20
Before you guys. 00:43:22
You get out of here. 00:43:25
We have to have a motion. 00:43:26
I'll make a motion to adjourn. 00:43:28
I second. 00:43:31
All in favor. 00:43:31
Aye. 00:43:33
I think 347. 00:43:36
Thank you, Cole. 00:43:45
So good meeting. 00:43:47
Today. 00:43:53
Yeah, I'm watching the world record. 00:44:02
Almost. 00:44:05

Transcript

Event transcript
Call meeting to order. 00:00:10
Approval of the minutes. 00:00:12
I'll make a motion to approve last month. 00:00:14
Meetings with SWPD. 00:00:17
I second. 00:00:19
Aye. 00:00:21
One moment and let me pass those around. 00:00:22
I do have the corrected copy the September meeting minutes. I incorrectly put Mr. Watson in there and he wasn't even in 00:00:25
attendance. 00:00:29
But I had him adjourning the meeting. So I corrected that to Matt Payne correctly adjourning the meeting. So Ron, Matt and Melanie 00:00:34
signed these. No, Tom. 00:00:38
You weren't here for it, so. 00:00:43
Ron gets to sign and Melanie gets a sign. 00:00:45
And then these, yes, you were here. 00:00:48
These. 00:00:51
Or, I'm sorry, these are the corrected meeting minutes. 00:00:52
That's those are October. These are the corrected September meeting minutes and. 00:00:55
Yes, you sign it. And Tom, you can sign it because this is September. 00:01:00
That's the one that Ron. 00:01:05
I incorrectly had Ron in. 00:01:07
These are the ones you can't sign because you weren't here. 00:01:11
Right, but we can get. 00:01:14
Melanie to sign them. 00:01:17
And then we'll just need Matt and Laura to take care of those. 00:01:20
Thank you, ma'am. 00:01:25
All right. 00:01:37
All right, got those done. 00:01:39
You ready for the financial report? Financial report? 00:01:42
All right, so we spent some money this past month. 00:01:46
We started the month. 00:01:52
You're very welcome to my dad. 00:01:55
Here you go, man. 00:01:58
You get one over there on the other side. Oh, you did get one, OK. 00:02:00
So, so we started the month with $73,061.22 in checking and we finished the month with $70,546.92. 00:02:03
Our savings account has. 00:02:16
17,200. 00:02:17
$37.49 for a grand total of 87,000. 00:02:19
$784.41. 00:02:25
I make a motion. We. 00:02:30
Through the financial. 00:02:31
Support all in favor. 00:02:33
Aye. 00:02:35
OK, guest report. 00:02:47
Well, because of the government shutdown, we have not received a report from Drew from NRCS. 00:02:49
The last report we got from him was for the October meeting, but of course the. 00:02:56
Shutdowns been going on since then. So no word from him, no word from Eliza. But for those that were not here last month. 00:03:01
The Hellbender Project. 00:03:10
Was. 00:03:14
Approved to be a CWI. 00:03:15
Grant recipient. 00:03:18
And so the practices that they're going to be able to offer now through that Clean Water Indiana grant will. 00:03:20
Encompass and cover all of Floyd County. In the past it had only covered a corner, but now that it's covering parts of the sinking 00:03:26
of. 00:03:31
Silver little Kentucky. Yeah, those. 00:03:37
Will include all of Floyd County, so not only are they in a good position with having received CWI funding. 00:03:40
But they also. 00:03:48
Have a possibility that some NRCS. 00:03:51
State funds. 00:03:54
Might be you know. 00:03:56
Redirected to help pay for the administrator. 00:03:57
Benefits. 00:04:02
So that's going to workout well for Elaza. 00:04:03
The only other report that I have is from. 00:04:07
District sports specialist This is Laura Frigley's report. 00:04:11
Obviously, important reminders all have to do with the upcoming elections. We have to have our nominee for election in the system 00:04:16
by December 1st. 00:04:21
Which is why we will be deciding that today at today's meeting. 00:04:26
There's also going to be an SBOA training just for solar and water conservation districts that deal with the. 00:04:31
Afr uh. 00:04:41
And capacity reports. 00:04:42
Capacity reports are those additional reports that we have to do now in order for us to receive those extra funds from the state. 00:04:45
You know, it was 10,000 and they gave us five extra 1000. 00:04:52
Well, those extra funds have to be. 00:04:56
Accounted for in a separate report which is due December 15th, so capacity reports coming up. 00:04:58
But really, beyond that, Laura's DSS reports of. 00:05:05
Just some important deadline reminders and save the dates regarding trainings. 00:05:11
And then that's the only guest reports I have, Sir. 00:05:16
What are the trainings he's mentioning? 00:05:21
They're all staff trainings and it's SBOA training for financials. 00:05:23
Very good. Yeah. And then the other one was regarding NRCS specs. They're getting ready to have like a lunch and learn, I believe 00:05:30
in Orange County for that. 00:05:35
Drew, you have a time. 00:05:42
Call. 00:05:45
Nothing really the only thing. 00:05:48
Is Washington County is having. 00:05:51
Their full health field day. 00:05:55
That'll be the day after. 00:05:58
Y'all's annual meeting. 00:06:00
Mm-hmm. Here's. 00:06:02
Couple saved the dates. 00:06:05
That should say 2026 instead of 2020. 00:06:06
5 But is that closer? 00:06:10
Correct. Yes, in fact, that is on my agenda. 00:06:12
Because they. 00:06:18
Yeah, Every year we sponsor them their regional soil health, but seldom do we ever get to make it because it's the day after our 00:06:21
annual meeting. Sometimes it's actually fallen on the annual meeting. 00:06:26
So. 00:06:33
But we'll talk about that when we get down to it. 00:06:37
Further. 00:06:44
Thank you, Cole. 00:06:45
Debate. Yep. 00:06:48
How is that coming? Sorry. 00:06:51
It's the first Monday in February, which I believe is the same day as this. I believe it's. 00:06:54
It's either February 2nd or February 3rd. 00:07:01
OK. 00:07:05
Dale, you have anything? 00:07:10
It's all good. 00:07:15
OK, old business. 00:07:18
Bored pictures. 00:07:22
Yeah, we're still, we're never gonna get that board picture taken before the years over, I'm afraid. 00:07:23
Our only hope is next month and that is if we have a full board. Otherwise we made it the entire year without. 00:07:28
Right. I'd like to, Sir. 00:07:36
Maybe we get some AI about. 00:07:41
Oh, just yeah. There you go. We're. 00:07:44
Yeah, we're going to Photoshop everybody. 00:07:48
OK, Election Committee. 00:07:53
All right, so. 00:07:56
We did decide on that. And of course, since you weren't here. 00:07:58
I did discuss it with you. I didn't volunteering or volunteer. 00:08:04
Tolling Tom is going to be the chairman of the election committee and Gina Anderson and Sarah Bacher will be the other two. 00:08:07
Who will make up the election committee for us? 00:08:15
OK, elected and appointed Supervisor. 00:08:24
So we. 00:08:29
Have no appointments this year because those are staggered. 00:08:30
The only elected position is Melanie. 00:08:34
And Melanie informed us at. 00:08:38
October's meaning that she is not going to run for reelection. 00:08:40
So when we get down to new business, we'll discuss who is. 00:08:46
So I need to turn in like a formal letter or something like that. 00:08:49
Yeah, OK. But it don't have to be until February. 00:08:54
Make you a pointer. 00:08:59
Oh, you're lucky that they didn't appoint you. 00:09:02
The more medications for you, Tom. 00:09:07
Let's see, you're the only supervisor. 00:09:21
That's up for real. It's up for election, Yeah. 00:09:24
And with them being staggered like next year. 00:09:29
One of the appointments is. 00:09:33
And then I think. 00:09:35
Laura is up for reelection. 00:09:37
Yeah. 00:09:40
OK workshops and Sismo events. 00:09:44
All right, so last month the only thing under old business that. 00:09:47
Very busy place. Yeah, it was a busy month. 00:09:55
We we built momentum all month long from having. 00:09:58
Pretty much no interaction at the library. 00:10:03
Then we have the event that Nova Park and we had about 9 folks show up out there. 00:10:05
Then we had the everything invasive that was not an insect or a plant, and Gina had another educator from another county come down 00:10:10
from Purdue. 00:10:15
That was a full house. We had 29 folks and yeah, that was a fact. 00:10:20
Actually, that one was at Gina's office in the shine room, so we had a packed house for that one. 00:10:25
And then our trunk or treat event I think we had or our. 00:10:30
Spooky hike. 00:10:35
Our haunted hike, I think we had about 14 people for that one. 00:10:36
It was. It was, and then. 00:10:41
For our actual bamboo removal on November 2nd. 00:10:43
We had a really healthy crowd come out for that, and of course Ron and I were there, chainsaws in hand. 00:10:49
Happy to be doing some cutting. 00:10:56
I bet that did feel good. 00:10:58
Oh, it did. But I'm telling you it was. 00:10:59
Who went? There's a lot of people around. Yeah. It was a lot, though, fighting that, you know, I just. I just cut them down, tried 00:11:02
to ring the pile. Yeah. And then get to mine yet, Right. So there were folks. I want to be away from our life and so. 00:11:09
Yes, yeah. 00:11:16
But yeah, good event, good event. I have some pictures I can show you. 00:11:17
The trunk or treat event was postponed. 00:11:23
And then cancelled. 00:11:26
The day they rescheduled it, we had all the wind and and the rain so. 00:11:28
The trunk or treat event for this year just did simply did not happen. 00:11:32
But we were ready for it. 00:11:36
We had seed packets to give away, we had candy to give away. We had a few other things. 00:11:38
We had some pencils give away so we were ready. 00:11:44
There was a lot of trunk or treats. 00:11:49
There were so many Trump retreats that I had. 00:11:52
3 trick or treaters. 00:11:56
And an Amazon delivery guy. 00:11:58
That was that's who I got to give you to. That's the only candy I got to give away. 00:12:01
And I said hand decorated bags. 00:12:06
Yeah, if you took your kid to everyone you have. 00:12:11
Seen every night? Yes. 00:12:17
And that was just in one night alone. There were two Of Montreal. 00:12:20
There was one down by the. 00:12:23
Little shopping center and then there was another one by the Graceland Baptist Church there. 00:12:25
On the same night. 00:12:29
Just don't rock up on your feet from one another. 00:12:31
But anyway. 00:12:33
Hours cancelled due to rain, but I. 00:12:35
Kind of sad that I don't have more trick or treaters. 00:12:39
OK, I got a question on the bamboo. 00:12:43
Yup. 00:12:45
Cut that down. 00:12:46
Don't they come back up? 00:12:48
No, once you cut it. 00:12:49
It's dead. 00:12:51
Now the rhizomes that are underneath of it. 00:12:52
Those are going to have to be treated. 00:12:57
And we have talked to Matt, there's correspondence going back and forth right now over. 00:12:59
Who's gonna spray? 00:13:04
And if he's OK with spring? 00:13:06
On one of the park properties. 00:13:08
But once you cut it, even if you let it lay there. 00:13:10
It's never going to regrow or anything. Once you cut it, it's done. But all those rhizomes still grown under the ground. Oh, they 00:13:13
could still definitely produce shoots. That's going to be a project that's that's several years in the making out there that's. 00:13:19
Yeah, that we're not going to be done with that mess for years. It's going to take multi steps and we probably hit. 00:13:25
Less than 20%. 00:13:32
Really. 00:13:34
Easily. 00:13:36
Oh my goodness, like Ron said, we made a dent. But. 00:13:37
It's a lot. Everyone was working that whole time too. We weren't. 00:13:40
Yeah, no lollygagging. 00:13:43
We took one group photo in the middle of it and. 00:13:45
Other than that, we were. 00:13:48
Do whatever. 00:13:50
I had two Cuban espressos that morning. He had a hard time keeping up. 00:13:52
Yeah. 00:13:55
I was my chainsaw was a whack, whack whacking and he was trying to keep up. I was like. 00:13:58
Trying to do the work and then also like keep my head up so. 00:14:03
It was a good. 00:14:10
Good work morning, but. 00:14:12
I love that Cuban espresso. It was cool in morning but. 00:14:14
I got it, ain't really warm yet real quick that jackets hanging everywhere. 00:14:17
I was in a T-shirt before before long. 00:14:23
But. 00:14:27
Anyway, good day and. 00:14:28
I guess. 00:14:34
That same day. 00:14:35
Dawn Slack came and presented this. 00:14:36
Which is the Weed wranglers award for Sizmas? 00:14:39
Now I've got a quick question for you. You and Alisa went to the conference. 00:14:44
Were you guys not there when they gave out the awards? 00:14:49
Hammond. 00:14:55
You guys went to the top of the state for the Invasive Species Conference. 00:14:56
Yeah, and see, I feel like. 00:15:01
They either gave these away as one of the very last things at the conference and maybe before you guys. 00:15:04
Because I couldn't understand why it wasn't given to you all at the conference. I knew for a fact that you guys were there. Yeah. 00:15:11
But anyhow, they missed you, they missed you guys at conference and. 00:15:18
Misgivings to you. So anyway, uh. 00:15:23
Isn't that just awesome? Yeah, and that is garlic mustard. 00:15:26
It's toting garlic mustard. It's on walnut, right? Yes, and. 00:15:32
And we'll, we'll probably hang that, yeah. 00:15:38
But yeah, I'm actually going to get. 00:15:41
I'm going to see if I can't get the newspaper to run an article about our group being recognized by the state. 00:15:44
Because I mean, that's brilliant of all the different Sizzmas all over the state and we got the the award for the whole year. 00:15:49
Awards and things. 00:15:58
My supervisor suggested to. 00:16:00
Potentially nominate the group for a district showcase award through the state association. Is that something you guys would be? 00:16:03
Interested in receiving potentially. Yeah, help me out with it because we, we need it. 00:16:10
We really. 00:16:15
And I have not applied for district showcase award, but we need some recognition down here and I think. 00:16:16
Especially that. 00:16:21
Whole month on invasive thing fits really well. 00:16:22
Into kind of what they're wanting to showcase to folks and. 00:16:26
I would be willing to try and put in that application for you guys because I don't think you can nominate. 00:16:30
Salesforce, I can't do it. You do it for us. All right. Thank you. 00:16:35
As long as that's something you guys would be interested in and. 00:16:40
Yeah, and I know that'll. 00:16:44
They'll highlight that at the annual business meeting in January. 00:16:46
Well, and that needs to be a newspaper article too. 00:16:50
You know what I mean? Put them all in, Larry. I think this is really that's important to put it. We're making some progress. Yeah. 00:16:52
Yeah, good things are happening. 00:16:59
Old business I have. I have just two. 00:17:05
Things and it won't take long first of all, you know the succession planning that we. 00:17:08
Have discussed several times. 00:17:14
That needs to be put on hold. 00:17:19
Until Laura Fridley has been. 00:17:21
Has had several workshops and she is putting together this amazing. 00:17:24
Succession Planning workbook and it's an Excel. 00:17:28
I think we. 00:17:31
And the, you know, when we talked about succession planning, my mind was very narrow. 00:17:32
On, you know. 00:17:38
Just my position, just your position and training. 00:17:40
The new person or the, you know, potential or whatever. 00:17:44
But this thing is much broader. And The thing is, is I think. 00:17:47
I mean, there's so many other different. 00:17:52
Things that have to be considered about succession planning when someone leaves, like. 00:17:54
Angels position. 00:17:58
And I believe it's all. 00:18:00
Stuff that a new. 00:18:02
Director needs to understand and be aware of and participate in once when they're coming on board. 00:18:03
So Laura should be done, I think with those workshops. I meant to e-mail her. 00:18:10
But what I'd like to do is wait until she has a. 00:18:14
Relatively final. 00:18:17
Succession planning spreadsheet and then. 00:18:19
Walk you all through what I the way I understand it. 00:18:22
It might be better for her to be. 00:18:25
You're even online if we could do it. 00:18:27
Second thing is this trust Indiana. 00:18:29
So I went through all of this information, you know, essentially. 00:18:32
This thing is makes it so easy. 00:18:36
For us to invest. 00:18:40
This is not a. 00:18:42
FDIC secure. Insured. 00:18:45
Investment, uh. 00:18:49
Plan umm. 00:18:50
It talks about the different. 00:18:53
Kinds of municipal. 00:18:55
Businesses or that are involved in this thing. 00:18:59
The average interest. 00:19:04
Is somewhere between. 00:19:06
4 1/2. 00:19:08
To sometimes 5%. 00:19:10
You can put your money in. 00:19:12
As much as we want and that you can take, you can submit money daily, you can take it out daily. It's very. 00:19:15
User friendly. 00:19:23
I don't know a detective. 00:19:24
Technology stuff about how we do that bank transfer, but. 00:19:27
That might be something we need to think about. 00:19:31
They have a sample of the portfolio. 00:19:35
A composition in here. 00:19:38
Market marketed to market daily. 00:19:42
Seeks to maintain a stable. 00:19:45
What does NAB stand for? 00:19:47
Net asset value of a dollar per share. 00:19:49
More than 50% of the portfolio is deposited in Indiana banks in accordance with our Indiana Code Five 13911. 00:19:55
There's more performance stuff over the long term. 00:20:04
Do you want the new office? 00:20:08
No. What is? 00:20:10
He asked if there's a one of these involving and there's not. 00:20:14
I think you can put it in a. 00:20:17
Can you not transfer it from where our bank is to the trust? 00:20:19
Yes, we can transfer it from our bank to the trust, but there is not a trust anywhere near us. Yeah. 00:20:22
OK, so you didn't want to please statements? Yeah, it's not a physical. 00:20:29
Building umm. 00:20:33
24/7 online access. 00:20:33
This goes into. 00:20:37
A lot of definitions in the back. Cindy Barger again is our. 00:20:40
Point of contact. 00:20:44
So he was at Cornucopia Farm? She was, yes. 00:20:45
Investment income earned in 2024 was $176 million. 00:20:51
So I. 00:20:56
Guess I would like to make a motion or do we want to? I don't know what do we want to do about this? I mean, it looks like it's. 00:20:59
It would fit our needs. 00:21:05
In my opinion. 00:21:07
Any thoughts or? 00:21:12
Concerns. 00:21:14
It definitely earns more than like a CD, right? Yeah, and it definitely earns more than what we're currently making at the bank. 00:21:16
And as supervisors of. 00:21:23
You all are tasked with being fiduciaries. 00:21:27
And making good decisions about the finances that that the district has. 00:21:30
And, umm. 00:21:35
With that pain, better yields, yes. 00:21:36
I absolutely feel like. 00:21:39
I think it's the with other soil and water conservation districts that I know. 00:21:41
Invest in that. 00:21:47
Washington County uses it, don't there? I think they're they're one of them. There are several solar water conservation districts 00:21:49
that use them, including a couple within the Southeast region. 00:21:55
And, umm. 00:22:01
Yeah. Their yields are just so, so much better than the bank and and you know, you guys know first hand that. 00:22:03
Our $17,000 in savings. 00:22:10
Usually earns about $1.40 all. 00:22:13
Years long. 00:22:17
At the bank. 00:22:19
Whereas it could be making you know a significant amount more so. 00:22:21
I don't know if you need to have a. 00:22:26
Full even though this is a quorum, I feel like it may be all 5 of you were here you could set the amount that you want to put in 00:22:29
there, but I absolutely feel like that's something that you guys should do but. 00:22:36
I'll leave the amount. 00:22:44
We wait till Matt. 00:22:46
I mean, 4 was I don't like the boy's gonna be gonna make it. 00:22:48
Unless, unless. Yeah, Unless something happens or. 00:22:51
Perhaps of? 00:22:55
Again, I was really kind of hoping she would be here so we could fill out what what her availability. 00:22:56
It's going to look like next year and if we need to move the time of the meeting to a better accommodator. 00:23:02
Whatever the case may be, but. 00:23:08
That, I think is a no brainer. 00:23:11
It's a no brainer. That's what I think. It's gotta figure out what we want to do. 00:23:13
Ten $20,000 or what I put our savings and I would dare say. 00:23:18
Almost all the same. That's what I was thinking, you know said. 00:23:24
Again, a suggestion, maybe leave. 00:23:27
4 or $5000 and then put the remaining what, 11 or 12? 00:23:30
1000 into savings. 00:23:35
And I don't know why we would. 00:23:37
I I don't know. I just think we ought to. 00:23:40
Kind of have leave some out and I'm not sure why. 00:23:42
It's just I have a problem with putting a number is 7. You know there's 17,000 in savings. Put 15,000 of it in there and leave 00:23:45
2000 of it in the bank. 00:23:50
Does that go, I mean we get free check and airline PNC or anything like that, You know what I'm saying? I don't know if it's 00:23:54
balanced stuff. So far we got 2 accounts, right? Yeah, we have two accounts, but we carry enough in the checking account that that 00:24:00
we don't pay any kind of service fees so. 00:24:05
Yeah, I'm OK, baby. 00:24:10
But you won't wait. 00:24:12
I think we're terribly. 00:24:13
You can also. 00:24:16
Try it out, see how easy it is to pull money in and out of the account and then decide. 00:24:17
What your final number is going to be, yes, and I think. 00:24:23
I think the nice thing about this is that it's, you know, this is kind of an, you know, this is just a test to see. 00:24:25
How? Well, explain their service. Maybe you see that it yields enough in six months to make up 10 years worth of PNC and you're 00:24:32
like. 00:24:36
Yeah, run away. Right, right. I just like. 00:24:41
The ease at which you can. 00:24:44
Access your money, you know, it's like it's never. 00:24:46
There doesn't seem to be any limitation, and from what I understood there, there's no penalty for withdrawing money, no? 00:24:50
That that was. That was my understanding too, which is again a. 00:24:57
Benefit, Yeah. 00:25:00
So anyway, OK, so it's all out there now and we can. So I guess our decision is to wait until we have. 00:25:01
At least 4 members. 00:25:10
Or supervisors here and. 00:25:12
Hopefully five. I think I agree with you. I think it would be good to have all five of us, but we'll see. 00:25:14
I'd hate to sit on it too long though, just because. 00:25:21
Yeah, don't let another year, robot. Yeah, yeah, I think we need to move out in the next three or four months, is my thought 00:25:25
Right. 00:25:28
I agree. All right. Thank you. We haven't had five. 00:25:31
In a long time, I know right? A lot of reasons. 00:25:34
And, you know, maybe we just fill her out and if she says she can't come at 3:00, we're like, OK, well, can you make it at 4:00? 00:25:44
And we? 00:25:50
Maybe we schedule a meeting for 4:00 or 4:30 just so that we can ensure all 5 of you are making it. 00:25:51
All right, sounds good. When you say her, are you talking about Laura? Laura. OK. 00:25:57
But then we have it. 00:26:03
In the past it was at six and that was miserable. So no. 00:26:06
I'm not even going to entertain that. 00:26:10
Sorry. 00:26:13
She is not open to you. No. Dinner meetings? No. 00:26:16
OK, new business board pictures. 00:26:23
It's not happening. 00:26:26
OK, the IAS WCD annual business meeting. 00:26:30
I'm delicate, that's OK. Matt absolutely said he would do that. However, we have to have an A an alternate in system. 00:26:36
You want to be an alternate. 00:26:48
All right, so Ron's our alternate. 00:26:50
And again this year, it's not the big old conference. 00:26:53
It is going to be an indie. It's going to be in the Farm Bureau building. 00:26:57
Which is free parking. 00:27:01
Exactly right. That's why it was so easy for Matt. Why Matt was like, yeah, I'll do it. 00:27:04
But again. 00:27:09
They're not holding that big conference. It's not going to be a 2 day event. They're not. 00:27:10
It's a lot of money. It's a lot of. 00:27:16
It's a huge part of their budget for the year and I don't know that they were really getting the return on the investment and I 00:27:19
think all of the. 00:27:23
The feedback exactly in that it was. 00:27:27
Yep, and it needed to be kind of moved around the state. That's why we had our regional meetings in lieu of summer sessions. 00:27:31
Umm, but anyway. 00:27:40
They're going to do it every other year, so there won't be another one until 2027. 00:27:41
So next year it's just going to be a simple business meeting. 00:27:46
A lunch and they vote on resolutions. 00:27:50
And that's going to be the extent of it. 00:27:52
So I like that. All right, so. 00:27:54
I already signed mad up. 00:27:59
But it got to the point where there was the delegate and I was like, oh. 00:28:00
I mean alternate. 00:28:04
Yeah. So you're it, Ron. I'm it. 00:28:05
Thank you. You're welcome. 00:28:08
District nominee for election. 00:28:12
Miss B back there. 00:28:16
So. 00:28:19
Obviously Melanie noticed last month that she was not going to re up for election. 00:28:23
And for the first time in the history of my tenure. 00:28:28
We have associate. 00:28:33
Supervisors. 00:28:34
Ready to step up to the call? 00:28:36
To be an elected official. Well, actually I did the same thing. 00:28:38
Yes, that's what you, but you were you were barely associate for a month as soon as soon as you said you wanted to be an associate 00:28:42
training. 00:28:46
We've had her in training now for almost a month, I mean a whole year, so. 00:28:55
Claire, what's your Cara? 00:29:02
Bazooska Vazhuska. 00:29:05
BEZUS. 00:29:08
KA that's why kids call her. 00:29:10
And there's that carrot with a C or C. 00:29:15
Yeah, that's why kids call her Miss B. 00:29:20
Very cool. I'm excited for you. Is that Italian? 00:29:23
It's like Polish or Russian or something, yeah. 00:29:27
My maiden name was Smith. 00:29:29
That's the only reason I took it. 00:29:31
I was like, well that's what I'm calling you. 00:29:32
That's why. 00:29:34
That's fine, I'll answer to it. 00:29:38
Well, cool. I'm excited. Yeah. I think that's you're going to be high energy for us. I hope so. Well, and considering she's 00:29:41
already been around for a year, she's seen how this works together. So forever grateful, right. 00:29:50
Yeah. 00:29:59
Awesome. So we have Kara then for our district nominee. 00:30:00
And she will be. 00:30:05
Our nominee, I will obviously run an announcement saying that nominations are open and we could have somebody from the floor, but 00:30:08
chances are. 00:30:12
Cara, get ready to be sworn in by this man. All right? All right. 00:30:16
He's pretty good about coming and swearing in our folks. 00:30:20
Appears, don't you? 00:30:24
Yeah. 00:30:25
And we're going to have a really good one this year because we're combining with the extension office. Yeah, yeah. 00:30:30
I think so too, Dale. 00:30:38
I think so too. 00:30:39
That's going to be at the 4H. 00:30:43
Yep Yep, same place. Don't have it for free in Newland Hall. 00:30:45
Yes, Sir. 00:30:51
6:00. 00:30:53
OK, Annual meeting recognition awards. 00:30:56
So we just need to be looking for a forestry steward to recognize because. 00:30:58
Tim Moberly. 00:31:05
We had someone reach out from the mountain, ask if we would recognize Tim for all the work that he does, and I think he's an 00:31:07
excellent person considering how many people use them out so. 00:31:12
Tim Moberly will be our conservation steward. 00:31:18
We just need. 00:31:22
A forestry steward to recognize. 00:31:24
Take me to my ****. 00:31:30
But you have a couple months to think about it. We don't have an answer today. 00:31:31
Yeah, I can't thank anybody. 00:31:46
Yeah, we have some time to think about it. Well, we'll work on it. I can go back and look to see who's ordered trees too for the 00:31:48
past few years to see if we want to recognize somebody that's. 00:31:52
Been doing that when there's somebody. 00:31:57
Order trees the last two or three years. 00:32:00
Quite a few trees. 00:32:03
I don't know the name off the top of my head, but I have his orders. 00:32:05
The bacon, Yeah. 00:32:12
OK, CWI updates. 00:32:15
As I was just explaining to you guys earlier of. 00:32:18
I have our final CW. 00:32:22
Report that's due. 00:32:25
January. 00:32:27
For the last six months of the grant. 00:32:29
And then I also have the capacity report. 00:32:31
That explains how we use the additional CWI funds on top of the AFR, so I have. 00:32:34
Three reports that I'll be getting done here. 00:32:41
In the next month and 1/2. 00:32:44
All of them dealing with that but the. 00:32:47
CWI we have nearly spent. 00:32:49
Every. 00:32:53
Dollar, well, we spent every single dollar of our cost share. We've spent nearly every dollar of our education and outreach and 00:32:54
when we get this last. 00:32:59
Bill for the ad that we ran in the paper. 00:33:04
I think that'll use up those funds. 00:33:07
The only funds that we have remaining left with that as the book. 00:33:09
And as soon as I send that book off to Purdue? 00:33:13
There go that funds. 00:33:16
So. 00:33:18
I think this grant is a good one and. 00:33:20
One of the things that I'm going to highlight with this grant wrapping up is the fact that. 00:33:24
Our group won this award. 00:33:28
And had we not had those funds to help with education and outreach? 00:33:30
Over the last couple of years to help. 00:33:34
Keep that group going and us paying the secretary to keep. 00:33:37
Of everybody moving and momentum going with it. 00:33:41
And now Kira has completed the legwork to become a 501-C, its own entity. 00:33:45
Yeah, a lot of good outcomes with those dollars besides. 00:33:53
Just the people that. 00:33:58
They had their calorie pear trees removed. 00:33:59
This was a really good grant for us and so it's not going to be hard to. 00:34:02
To highlight. 00:34:07
Some of the the better things over the last three years, but this is obviously going to be part of the showcase for it. 00:34:09
OK, uh, supervisor. 00:34:18
All right, so I gave you guys your respective for DMS. I emailed Matt and Laura earlier today and provided their per diems 00:34:21
electronically to go over. 00:34:27
And this year, obviously, it's a little bit less money than than the last few years because as you guys remember, I was paying you 00:34:33
for anything and everything you went to and I was told that was wrong. 00:34:38
Not that it was ridiculous, but. 00:34:44
Anything that was strictly. 00:34:49
District UH. 00:34:51
Business like coming in and doing the financial audit. 00:34:52
Being the delegate at the meeting and attending the Southeast Regional meeting. 00:34:56
Those are all things I could. 00:35:01
Legit pay you for in addition to coming to board meetings. 00:35:02
So this year. 00:35:06
So there's no So attending any workshops or anything is not. 00:35:08
OK. 00:35:12
Yeah, very good. 00:35:13
Yeah, I can't pay you for those. Again, it's only stuff that pertains to doing the district, the business of the district. 00:35:15
And so. 00:35:22
That's why numbers total numbers of. 00:35:24
For the whole year. 00:35:27
Are down from last year. 00:35:29
So this year, all of you guys combined. 00:35:31
Had $17115.00 worth of per diem. 00:35:34
We get. 00:35:39
No, that's so. 00:35:40
We get $800 budgeted from the county. 00:35:42
So this year we only have to pay $915 back to the. 00:35:46
To the county to pay your alls per diem. 00:35:51
And that's a significant. 00:35:54
From Oh yeah, last year it was almost too green that I had to pay them. 00:35:56
So, umm. 00:36:00
This year it's 915 and. 00:36:01
I'll just simply go down and pay them $915 and then they will issue URLs checks. 00:36:03
Good deal and. 00:36:10
Good. Nope, you hang on to it. I have. I have copies of everybody's and again. 00:36:14
This will go in on the November 20th payroll, so this is the one that you'll get right at Thanksgiving. 00:36:19
Um, and. 00:36:26
This year, the three of you sitting here. 00:36:27
We're I think you missed one meeting there, but you, you had. 00:36:30
1313 and 12 respectively so. 00:36:34
Have a Goodyear of attendance for all three of you. 00:36:38
Thank you, but. 00:36:41
I'll get the OH real quickly. 00:36:44
Make me a motion, please let me get over here to my. 00:36:46
Make me a motion to pay the $915.00 to the county for per diem. I motion that Angel. 00:36:49
Pay the $915 for the per diem. 00:36:56
Second all in favor, aye. 00:36:59
All right. And then. 00:37:04
The Washington County soil and water of. 00:37:06
Soul Health Day. 00:37:09
They asked us to sponsor that every year. We sponsor it at $100. That just helps. 00:37:11
Cora pay for the. 00:37:16
Advertising it and. 00:37:18
The meal that they serve. 00:37:21
I'll make a motion. 00:37:23
All right. 00:37:25
Open Mail. 00:37:28
All right. And that's $100. 00:37:30
OK, how many dollars? Doesn't seem like much. I mean, they've got a lot of. 00:37:33
We're not the only county they ask, OK, They ask everybody in the southeast region. 00:37:37
So they can put our logo on this. 00:37:42
$9200. 00:37:46
If everybody did, you're right. 00:37:49
Put on pretty good feet for that. 00:37:54
That they could. 00:37:58
So let me see what else here I have for you guys. 00:38:03
I think that's about it. 00:38:06
So we. 00:38:09
Yep, we need to get the Forestry Stewart Awards. 00:38:12
Per diem is good. 00:38:15
Gosh, I think we covered everything. I wonder if we can. 00:38:18
Photoshop. 00:38:23
Well. 00:38:24
You know, I was thinking like. 00:38:26
Kids could they get on Zoom and. 00:38:28
And take pictures on zoom or. 00:38:30
Could they take a picture and send it in? I I don't know, that's probably not legal, but. 00:38:33
Well, I think what I might have to do is I might have to just go back through. 00:38:38
Photos of other events. 00:38:43
And just instead of having. 00:38:46
The photo of all of you guys up against the wall. 00:38:48
Just have you in your element individually doing. 00:38:51
Something related to the district. 00:38:55
Because I do have a picture of Laura working with Don't put in that bath. 00:38:57
Are you sure I can't put that one in? 00:39:03
It's not a good, it's not a good side of me. 00:39:06
Oh, I didn't realize there was. 00:39:09
I didn't realize I did that to you, my apologies. 00:39:12
Did I publish it? 00:39:16
The hell you got anything to report on? 00:39:21
I've got asking for a problem may or may not go over. 00:39:25
National uh, change stormwater. 00:39:27
The other night, actually. 00:39:32
Took care of agricultural pile. I know there are several people swinging. 00:39:34
Dennis Conpole That had been after that for almost a decade. 00:39:38
And it's a uniform fee for me, about $46 per month. 00:39:42
Between the 39 to 46. 00:39:47
Going to be on our agenda next week. 00:39:49
So so. 00:39:53
Farmers, Agriculture. 00:39:55
Jump all in. 00:39:56
Get your credits and all that stuff. 00:39:58
That's just a straight. 00:40:00
Residential. 00:40:01
$49.00 a year. 00:40:03
$46. 00:40:05
$26 in. 00:40:06
Every year, right? 00:40:09
Yeah, but 46 is pretty reasonable. Like Dylan, I said, We pay more than that. 00:40:11
'S more. I pay more than the city sure do. 00:40:17
Sure do. 00:40:24
Just pay my bill today. Big bribe was the Dennis Dale man and others. 00:40:25
Was the because agriculture really got treated unfairly, getting paid a lot more than residential? 00:40:30
And they're the ones that take up all the water, all the water goes to. 00:40:37
Arm every eggplant. 00:40:40
And so they they got treated a little more for everybody. 00:40:42
Just apply. 00:40:47
And we'll be sure and share that with Dennis. 00:40:49
If you have you, have you talked to him? Oh. 00:40:52
Well, why don't you call and tell him and share the good news with him? 00:40:54
Yes, I know it's been a long time coming. 00:41:00
And check out our beautiful Sizzma brochures, Dale. 00:41:07
Did you want to take some of those to share with folks? 00:41:12
It may just turn out so lovely. 00:41:17
You know what? You can actually see them in a few different places. 00:41:21
Yeah, museum and pardon too. What's that? 00:41:28
They must have a loop island. There you go. 00:41:34
Hanging around. 00:41:38
Is it possible for us to do this for? 00:41:41
Floyd County. 00:41:44
Council soil and water conservation brochure that we can make it look Thunder because we've just meter like that yeah because we 00:41:45
just. 00:41:48
We have just, you know, been popping those out and and. 00:41:52
Mind you, the difference being. 00:41:57
That was done by her. 00:41:59
Kara with the graphic design artist background. She designed those. 00:42:04
I just think quality I'm just looking for. 00:42:10
If if we can maybe get her. 00:42:15
Go over that. 00:42:17
Then we can absolutely get unfriended at the All-Star printing. 00:42:19
That's fine with me. 00:42:24
No. 00:42:30
But answer free forwards. You talk, baby. 00:42:32
But damn, you know how I feel about those nasty things. They stink and they break. 00:42:35
And they're bright. 00:42:40
Dale and I were discussing how pitiful they were, but why everybody wanted them. 00:42:42
30-40 years ago after landscape. 00:42:47
And in America, because they were still using, they were a good urban tree. 00:42:49
Before they realized that they can't escape into the wild, they sold them, thinking they're sterile. 00:42:59
I think he's took it out of the thing, right? I didn't mail the check until the 29th, and because I didn't mail it to the 29th, 00:43:07
they didn't have time to cash it. So it was written. 00:43:12
Just wasn't cash. 00:43:17
Oh well, real quickly. 00:43:20
Before you guys. 00:43:22
You get out of here. 00:43:25
We have to have a motion. 00:43:26
I'll make a motion to adjourn. 00:43:28
I second. 00:43:31
All in favor. 00:43:31
Aye. 00:43:33
I think 347. 00:43:36
Thank you, Cole. 00:43:45
So good meeting. 00:43:47
Today. 00:43:53
Yeah, I'm watching the world record. 00:44:02
Almost. 00:44:05