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Oh, it's green up here now. 00:00:06
Good. You're saying we're good but loose good, Vazhuska. 00:00:08
You gotta sound angry, Tom. You gotta sound angry. 00:00:12
It used to be Smith when I did it. That was quite a change. We're good. Here we go. 00:00:15
Call the meeting April 2nd. Meeting 2026 for Floyd County Soil and Water Conservation District Order. 00:00:26
Call order. 00:00:36
Last month's meetings, anybody? 00:00:37
I'll make a motion to approve March meetings. 00:00:39
Well then please sign them as you will. 00:00:43
It's anywhere. 00:00:46
Nope on the Backpage. 00:00:48
Yeah, there is a spot for everyone's signature and I usually turn to that page, so my bad. 00:00:50
Automatic messages here, so we have. 00:00:57
Jordan. 00:01:16
For report, we sure do. 00:01:19
So we started them. You're gonna like this financial report on. 00:01:22
We started the month with $86,057.25 and our checking account and ended the month with $88,377.62. 00:01:26
Our savings account has $17,238.35 for a whopping total of 10561597. How about that room? You feel good? 00:01:38
Not quite. 00:01:56
Not quite. Now that remount does not include our dues, That check hasn't cleared yet and we just. 00:01:58
Yeah. And those views were almost $4000. Yeah. 00:02:06
We're going to go under 100 because. 00:02:11
Part of the money that we received, the $7000 we received from the state for Clean Water Indiana, that was our reimbursement. 00:02:14
You know how we get part of it up front that we have to spend it and then build them and they get it back? 00:02:22
Almost 2000 of that is going to go to. 00:02:27
Washington County because that was what part they spent and then the other 5000 we shouldered so. 00:02:30
Yeah. So anyway, that is where we are with the financial report if anybody would like to accept it. 00:02:36
Aye, motion to accept it Second. 00:02:43
All in favor. 00:02:47
Crickets. Crickets. Crickets. 00:02:51
All right, cool. Yes, the phone. 00:02:54
OK. I do have a little bit for you all today and. 00:03:02
The first thing I'll talk about is the CWI, so I've got some practice guidelines if you all wanna. 00:03:05
I probably has it, yeah, I've got enough for everybody. 00:03:13
So as a reminder, these. 00:03:17
Practices are definitely more geared towards wildlife habitat and getting some vegetable cover on the landscape. This is what 00:03:20
we've come up with in terms of practice guidelines, establishing caps, things like that. 00:03:26
So if you have any questions or concerns about that, please let me know because we're about to kind of start getting nothing 00:03:33
running with. 00:03:36
Everything we've been interviewing for. 00:03:40
Project coordinators, which has been really exciting. 00:03:44
And so then the second part of this is because that project coordinator will have their benefits paid through the cash match. 00:03:46
From our partners. 00:03:55
Will ask you all if you are able to go ahead and send that whenever you can. 00:03:57
So I believe that was 2500 for this year and then 2500 for next year for you guys. 00:04:03
Can you send me an invoice by chance? 00:04:09
Uh, I'm sure we can. Yeah, I will e-mail the. 00:04:12
Business office with Purdue and see if they can't get something to you or to me that I can't get to you. Yeah, I just yeah, I need 00:04:16
something in writing because I can't write. Checks out. So totally understand. Well with the contribution letter count. 00:04:23
It's totally OK, it could be supportive. 00:04:31
But if you guys could give me an invoice, that would be fantastic, just so I don't have to explain myself to SBOA. Yeah. So we 00:04:34
want to make that easy on you guys. 00:04:39
So that kind of covers CWI for me for being right here on real quick to Kitchen and Voice. 00:04:46
And then as far as? 00:04:57
He so this is the last year of our current RCP. 00:04:59
The grant and all of the contributions have been made. I just finished recording for NRCS on our 2025 contributions. 00:05:05
And since everything's been accounted for. 00:05:15
Purdue is wanting me to basically have. 00:05:19
A new version of the original contribution letter with what was actually contributed and for you guys, since it was just cash, it 00:05:23
looks. 00:05:26
Very similar. 00:05:30
But if you all would be able to review that and sign that for our documentation purposes of. 00:05:32
Hey, this is what we gave to RCPP over the last three years. Oh, as in yeah, unfortunately she's not here to sign that, but and we 00:05:38
can. 00:05:43
If you all want to have somebody else on the board sign it as a board representative, that's fine. If we need to wait for Laura, 00:05:47
that's OK too. I'm trying to get it done sooner rather than later, just to get it off my plate. But. 00:05:53
Whatever. How about Ron signs it? 00:05:59
And then we'll just put Vice Chairman. Perfect. So that sounds great. 00:06:02
And then just, it's just documentation showing that we paid. Yeah, we, we gave them that amount of money. Uh-huh. 00:06:06
Yeah, we gave them 15,000 over the course of three years and that helped pay for allows the salary. 00:06:14
And so now that they have a new pool of money, they're hiring a new coordinator. And we're only going to, we're only going to be 00:06:22
doing 5025 hundred each year. I will make a copy of this and send it to you. Yeah. And if you just want to label this. 00:06:29
Yeah, sure. Yeah. 00:06:36
Hey there. That wraps it up for me unless you'll have any questions, but I appreciate all of your support for those who I 00:06:39
understand. 00:06:42
And I'm sorry, I'm going to miss the partner meeting. It falls on the same day that we're doing watersheds with fifth grade. 00:06:48
Because you did that with the stench. No, I don't know. You didn't do the one, I did the. 00:06:55
Master Naturalist class with you, and that was a fun little watershed game, but I think that's much different. 00:07:01
But anyway, sorry, so I'm not going to make it totally good but. 00:07:08
What's your timeline for hiring a director for CWI? 00:07:13
We're interviewing right now so we I'm checking references but all of our interviews are complete at this point. We've interviewed 00:07:16
4 people so. 00:07:21
It's it's been good. 00:07:26
I think we'll have a. 00:07:28
An offer probably made sometime next week once all the references come back. 00:07:29
This. I'm hoping to get somebody out here soon so we can get everything. 00:07:34
That's good for me. 00:07:44
Well, I'm here. 00:07:48
Encourage participation in the board leadership. 00:07:51
Program training survey. 00:07:54
This did go out to e-mail, but I know not every supervisor checks e-mail. 00:07:56
So. 00:08:00
It's it's the same survey I e-mail it. 00:08:02
You are. 00:08:05
More comfortable with a paper copy. I can fill that out. 00:08:07
Or if you want to scan it onto your phone. 00:08:10
Like if you fill that out then I would. 00:08:13
Submit it for you SO. 00:08:15
This is optional. Put them here. I can read them in their areas if you don't want them. 00:08:16
But then I wanted to kind of show what we were doing this for. So we're trying to get our board leadership program, which is the 00:08:20
website. 00:08:23
You can get. 00:08:26
Can you take courses on? 00:08:27
And you get points for doing those modules and if you come to in person events, which you guys have come to in person events too. 00:08:28
You get points for that. 00:08:35
So it's kind of a combo website and stuff, but. 00:08:36
We're trying to get that program certified nationally with the national. 00:08:39
National Association of Conservation Districts. 00:08:43
So this is the map. 00:08:46
They have the. 00:08:48
Silver, uh. 00:08:49
Gold and bronze. 00:08:50
Recognition and look. 00:08:52
Indiana's nothing, so we want to get Indiana on the map. 00:08:54
And create more modules. 00:08:58
But we need. 00:09:00
You're all help in deciding what's important. 00:09:01
Because they got like 139 different things. 00:09:03
We don't need to make 139 modules but like. 00:09:05
What do you guys need? What do you guys want? A supervisor. So this is what we're working towards and. 00:09:08
I can pick these up after the meeting if someone wants one, but. 00:09:13
Just any help you could give would be great. 00:09:16
And would you like? 00:09:19
To talk about that at all. 00:09:20
Yes, sure. 00:09:22
We are right now looking at what outreach we're going to do. 00:09:27
Concerning some. 00:09:31
So some of these I don't have any answers like the mandatory training. 00:09:32
I don't have answers on that. OK. 00:09:36
I can tell you umm. 00:09:38
Maybe the background though. 00:09:40
When new supervisors come on. 00:09:42
We have a tracking list of who's done them and we have maybe 60%. 00:09:46
Of supervisors statewide. 00:09:50
And this is just really basic stuff. 00:09:52
So. 00:09:55
We're hoping to. 00:09:56
Get more supervisors to take. 00:09:58
That training, what that is, I don't know. 00:10:00
Well, I was just getting ready to ask, will this board leadership program? 00:10:02
Suffice or meet the requirements for the mandatory training. 00:10:07
Well, we don't know what ISDA. 00:10:12
Is making entering. 00:10:15
Right now, so right now we have the new supervisor training, which is. 00:10:17
You can do that person, or you can do the modules online. That's about an hour. 00:10:20
You have to do the. 00:10:25
It's on my. 00:10:27
OK, yes. 00:10:28
The Preventing workplace and sexual harassment video. 00:10:30
And or if you do that work, that counts too, you know, you don't have to ours And then the internal controls, which state 00:10:34
warehouse does check when they do audits and that's. 00:10:39
That was just under half an hour. 00:10:43
So that's what we have right now. Is the screen required? 00:10:45
So this was also created. 00:10:49
Kind of lot higher than. 00:10:51
US as district support specialists so. 00:10:52
I don't know if it's been determined. 00:10:55
What is mandatory? But I can just tell you simply basic things. 00:10:56
Aren't being taken care of statewide. That need to be so. 00:11:01
I pushed it that direction. 00:11:05
So, alright, so I saw that come through and I was like, well, let me highlight some things. I know we're going to be, you know, 00:11:07
maybe even a question or whatever, but. 00:11:11
Umm. 00:11:16
The extra people that we have to disseminate or spread the. 00:11:20
AFR 2 OK. 00:11:26
And some background on that. 00:11:27
There are. 00:11:29
Kind of trend going on is we're not going to provide that at our annual meetings. 00:11:31
But you have to ask for it. 00:11:35
So if you think if you went to a public meeting. 00:11:38
You know, as you as a constituent should. You really have to ask. 00:11:41
Ask for that. I mean it says you have to provide it but. 00:11:44
There are not. There weren't any details of what providing it means. 00:11:47
So they're just trying. 00:11:50
Trying to make it more transparent that districts have to have that. 00:11:51
Annual Finance Report. 00:11:55
After annual meeting, no one has to ask for it. Just pretty simple. 00:11:56
So I think explaining some of these things, OK, yeah, 'cause I was like. 00:12:00
How many more people do? I mean, I make it public. It's on my website. It's on my Facebook page. 00:12:04
I have copies printed. It's there. 00:12:09
So I was just like, how many more people do I have to give it to? Yeah. So I don't know, I mean. 00:12:12
I don't go to every annual meeting every year by any means, but. 00:12:18
I see them. So it's only going to probably affect more. So those ones that are not not sharing, OK. 00:12:21
So there's reason behind some of these, yeah. 00:12:28
That it's this new trend that's expanding so. 00:12:33
I don't know even about that, but yeah, it's not in our area. 00:12:36
OK. And then the notion that they're going to straight up with? 00:12:39
Owed your money if you're AFR is late. 00:12:43
Well, and so they're kind of doing that now, so. 00:12:46
In my 20 years at work here, I've only had one district miss that deadline because everyone wants their money. 00:12:49
Course right, but you know, every few years someone misses it. So what they've been doing is. 00:12:54
You can have your $10,000 but only after you give us your AFR. Well. 00:12:59
There is nothing legally in code that says they can do that, so this is just. 00:13:04
Making it so they can do that. They're putting some legs on their table. Yeah. So no one's ever not gotten their money. Now if 00:13:09
they never turn that AFR. 00:13:13
I guess they wouldn't but we just have people wait sometimes. But this gives states report that legal. 00:13:18
Right to do so, I guess you could say. 00:13:25
So, well, there's usually always a story behind anything that comes out like that. There's usually always a reason that 00:13:28
precipitated it. So yeah. Yeah, I can. Yeah. 00:13:33
So. 00:13:39
Our team. 00:13:40
We want to do something with outreach. We're kind of leaving it to those higher than us to to help. 00:13:42
Define what that means. 00:13:46
But umm. 00:13:48
We'd like to be able to collect questions because. 00:13:50
Like I've talked with another district, she phoned the other the other day and she was bringing up questions I hadn't thought of. 00:13:53
So we're hoping to have some sort of place you can submit your questions. 00:13:58
And then have some sort of outreach, whatever that would mean. 00:14:01
Whether it be webinar or maybe just more written stuff for you all. 00:14:05
I don't know. 00:14:08
But we need more information out to districts and. 00:14:09
But if I can answer anything. 00:14:14
I can. 00:14:15
No, no, that was and and like I said, I figure. 00:14:16
I as the. 00:14:20
The same logic I use for most things that there's a sign. 00:14:21
It was probably 1 to be. 00:14:25
Yeah. And if they're doing this? 00:14:27
It was probably warranted by by somebody else's actions. A lot of these though, but not all. There's a story, so I think it once 00:14:30
this explained, it makes a little more sense. 00:14:35
All right. Well, that's good. 00:14:40
Yeah. So if you think of questions and. 00:14:42
I can't and also disclaimer that by saying. 00:14:45
This was not your official information. That'll come whatever this outreach does. Maybe something will change, I don't know, but 00:14:48
those that go from pretty much. 00:14:51
Sharing. Thank you. 00:14:56
All righty. Well, I. 00:15:04
Granted both Floyd and Clark counties and accidentally shredded Floyds. 00:15:06
Bear with me, I have your fluid right here. 00:15:12
And in case you need that too, I've got that one. 00:15:18
Not much has changed since last month. 00:15:23
Right now, we're in the heart of Equip. 00:15:26
CSP or programs? 00:15:28
The. 00:15:30
Application deadline for sign up 1 is passed. There's probably not going to be another sign up this year for our our programs 00:15:31
with. 00:15:34
Being still short staffed and everything being rolled out real late. 00:15:38
If we had another sign up, it'd be a real tight window. We get to turn around for September 30th. 00:15:42
But we are accepting applications year round so if you know people are interested, still have them see me get an application on 00:15:47
hand then we they'd be ready for next year. 00:15:51
In Floyd County, we've had four applications, 1 4th St. two wildlife, one small farm. 00:15:56
I've had several people reach out to me wanting to do stuff for next year so. 00:16:02
Should be a Goodyear next year. 00:16:07
Our funding is down this year. We have 17 million in general equipped with 21,000,000 total available when you figure in the 00:16:09
incentives. 00:16:13
They're saying one in five to one in six applications will get funded this year. 00:16:19
CSP. 00:16:24
Didn't have any applications for Floyd County this year, but the funding is up a little bit in that program. It's at 17,000,000 as 00:16:25
well. 00:16:29
CRP Wise Continuous CRP sign up started February 12th. March 20th was the end of the first batching period. 00:16:34
July 31st is the last 8. 00:16:40
Pacers to spend offers for Signup 65. There's a lot of interest. They'll have the second batch for that. 00:16:43
General CRP there are 6. 00:16:48
It general sign up 66 starts March 9th. 00:16:52
April 17th is the deadline to submit offers for General CRP. Sign up 66. 00:16:55
For both general and continuous, those contracts would start October 1st, 2026. 00:17:00
I'm in the heart of ranking for equip applications. Most of my field visits are done, it's just more. 00:17:06
I send it off the maps and payment estimators off the land owners that review one more time and they let me know if everything 00:17:13
looks good so. 00:17:16
All of next week, and probably most of the week after that, I'll have my door shut and working on ranking as long as part works. 00:17:20
Umm, the. 00:17:27
The deadlines April 17th I'm trying to get. 00:17:30
My in office deadline is next Friday the 10th. I'm trying to get them all ranked by then. 00:17:33
Those that are selected for funding. The obligation deadline is July 2nd, 2026, so it'll be a fairly quick turn around after the 00:17:38
ranking deadline. 00:17:42
Upcoming events for me. 00:17:47
They're they're holding off on field days and trainings and stuff for us this month because they know we're busy. So there's 00:17:49
really nothing out of NRCS. 00:17:52
I'm potentially going to be on leave April 22nd. That's all dependent on if I'm feeling ****** to chase a Turkey around in the 00:17:56
woods. 00:18:00
Then the 28th I'll be off as well. Those are the 2 days. 00:18:06
This last month we had that community breakfast on the 7th. 00:18:09
Southern Indiana Grazing Conference is a really good one on the 13th. 00:18:14
If you've seen Carbon Cowboys on YouTube or any social media, use the keynote speaker. 00:18:18
Big into rotational grazing and AMP grazing. He's a documentary filmmaker, not not a cattle guy. Not an AD guy at all. 00:18:23
Who's interested in carbon sequestering? And so he went down to the Southeast. 00:18:31
And he find one person in rotational grazing, the neighbor, not you just sit on their porch and talk to him, see what worked and 00:18:35
what didn't. They start bringing researchers in, biologists in and. 00:18:40
And have some some data go along with it. 00:18:45
There's a movie. It's roots so. 00:18:48
You can see Hell. It's a three-part 4 part documentary. 00:18:51
That they put out it. 00:18:55
It's I think $10 you can rent it for the month. I haven't seen it but I've seen a lot of Eclipse on YouTube. It looks really 00:18:57
interesting. 00:19:00
The We have the Clark County Solar Water Annual Meeting. 00:19:05
On the 14th. 00:19:09
It was the first real big meeting they've had in the wild. Pretty good turn out for it. 00:19:10
Uh, you don't need to know about the fact meeting. We have that. 00:19:15
Clark County and then we had an area meeting yesterday going over ranking. 00:19:18
The conservation talking point of the month This is 1. 00:19:22
Cried my favorite. 00:19:25
Animal favorite part of the job? 00:19:27
Is the Bobwhite quail this month if anyone's interested. 00:19:29
I I can get you this article, I have a whole file full of bobwhite quail stuff. 00:19:33
In the the short of it. 00:19:39
Bob White quail are what we call an indicator species. They need 3 completely different ecosystem types to complete a life cycle. 00:19:41
Most quail don't live to see their first or first birthday so it's really short life cycle. 00:19:48
I was listening to a podcast for a while I just missed it and they said everything will eat a quail they had. 00:19:54
Radio collared. 00:19:59
Quail Bullfrog 81-A Deer 81 I mean everything. I mean, they're everything. 00:20:01
Yeah, the quail chicks. Yeah, they're the size of bumblebee. 00:20:06
The reason they're an indicator is if you have them, you have good ecosystem because you have three different ecosystems on your 00:20:11
property. 00:20:14
You think in the 70s when we had the big quail numbers, were you taught you hear people say they could walk down a fence around 00:20:18
flush four or five cubbies? 00:20:21
The reason for that was they need annual. 00:20:25
Their chicks can't eat seeds until they're reaching certain maturity. So the annual weeds that used to grow in our AG fields and 00:20:28
on our edges. 00:20:32
That was brewery covering traffic bugs. The chicks would eat the bugs. 00:20:36
They need escape cover. Back then we didn't have 80 acre fields we had. 00:20:40
810 acre fields with fences all around them. 00:20:44
Those fences grew up into blackberries and short shrubby trees, so it is escaped cover of a Hawks flying over. They can get away 00:20:47
or. 00:20:50
In the summertime when it's 100° under there in the shade, it's a lot cooler and vice versa in the winter. 00:20:54
Then they need nesting cover, which are native grasses. They they nest at the bottoms of those grasses. 00:21:00
So. 00:21:06
Ideally for quail habitat. 00:21:07
Within a softball's throw range, that's pretty low. When they flush, they they fly about a softball throws distance. 00:21:10
He escaped cover. You need nesting cover and you need burger and cover. 00:21:17
So a perfect example is if you have a field. 00:21:21
About 40% of it. You want shrubs and thickets. 00:21:24
BlackBerry think it's. 00:21:28
You know any short statutory is Washington Hawthorne by Burnham Red. 00:21:30
Red, but our dogwoods, red buds, those sorts of things. 00:21:34
You want about 40% brooding cover and 10% native grasses. In this article Purdue talks about. 00:21:38
Ideally in a 10 by 10 square. 00:21:44
You want to basketball size clump of grass in the rest of that area you want. 00:21:47
Ragweed, Black Eyed susans, purple cone flowers. 00:21:53
Anything that's going to attract the insects to the field. 00:21:56
A big thick native grass stands and hay fields aren't good for quail. The. 00:22:00
The cool season, non-native grasses, their rhizobials, they form a wall where you know bumblebee sized animal. 00:22:05
It can't get through those grasses. 00:22:12
And then they're also really susceptible to hypothermia right when they hatch. So if we have a cool, you know, June morning with 00:22:14
heavy dew or late May morning with a heavy dew. 00:22:18
They brush up against that grass. So diet hypothermia. 00:22:23
Where our native grasses and native shrubs are bunch forming, so there's a clump of grass. 00:22:26
And then, you know, a flower over here and there's corridors underneath where they can get through without touching anything. 00:22:31
And then the wind can get in there and dry it out a lot quicker, so. 00:22:37
They're really neat animals. 00:22:41
I I really enjoy. 00:22:43
Working with them because if you have quail on your property, you have. 00:22:45
You have good habitat. 00:22:49
If you. 00:22:51
Put the habitat on the ground. 00:22:51
They say if you have a cubby within 2 miles, they will find it. It may take five years and maybe the next year they find it. But 00:22:54
those cubbies? 00:22:57
Every fall. So they keep their genetics diverse. They they, they scatter and they create new cubbies so as they're scattering, 00:23:01
they can find new new areas. 00:23:05
I recommend. 00:23:11
A lot of people like to put oil out. 00:23:12
And try to build their their flocks that away. 00:23:14
The downside to that is Henry's quail that we're putting out. You don't have the maternal instincts so they they don't know to get 00:23:17
their chicks away from a predator coming over. 00:23:21
And there's the potential event introducing new diseases that the wild flocks don't have that the pin raised birds do. 00:23:26
So if you know Queller about 5-6 dollars a bird, I recommend 5-6 dollars management. You can you can you can improve the habitat 00:23:33
and get the wild birds back. 00:23:37
That's all I have. 00:23:43
Or or quail I mean. 00:23:47
Very close to being a spankier. 00:23:50
They're not on the threaten or endangered species list, but they're one we're watching out for because we're losing habitat. 00:23:52
And it's not necessarily we're losing habitat. 00:23:59
Just because of. 00:24:02
Subdivisions going in it's. 00:24:03
It it's understandable it's easier to farm an 80 acre field than it is. 00:24:06
10/8 acre fields with the size equipment we have. 00:24:10
Umm. 00:24:14
You know it. 00:24:15
Compounding things are are. 00:24:16
Our chemistry is getting better where we have clean fields, so we don't have. 00:24:18
Ragweed mares, tail growing out in them. 00:24:22
We don't have **** hunters anymore. *****. 00:24:25
Possums and snakes are really hard on quail chicks in the eggs, so there's just compounding things. 00:24:28
Simple practices you can do. 00:24:34
To promote quail they like the the edge habitat, so if you have. 00:24:36
Tree lines that **** up against fields or something like that. 00:24:40
Thinning your tree line back. What that does is it stimulates the seed bank. 00:24:43
You can get a lot of the annual weeds, you can get a lot of re sprouts of trees and keep them in that 8 to 10 foot or shorter 00:24:48
height. 00:24:51
So you can create habitat on the edge for them. 00:24:54
Pretty pretty easily. 00:24:57
Seafood part three, yes. Yeah, that's really critical in the winter time. The millets, the, you know, those, those sorts of 00:25:00
plants, they're high in fats. They're really good for winter food for them. 00:25:05
In the summertime, they're real thick. It's good overhead cover, they attract a lot of bugs. It's really good habitat. 00:25:10
Put out there too. 00:25:17
A quick note on that. 00:25:19
You know, last year I did a planting at the. 00:25:21
County. 00:25:26
For Conservation Club. 00:25:28
And it was a 4H group called Conservation Group. 00:25:30
And we went out into the field. 00:25:35
And planted the gentleman. 00:25:37
Joe Prather. 00:25:40
He took his tractor and he went back and forth and just kind of roughed it up a little bit and then the kids put it in little 00:25:42
Cedars and hand seeded it everywhere. 00:25:47
He came by today. 00:25:52
Because you wanted trees. 00:25:54
But when he came up. 00:25:56
And he was like. 00:25:57
You planted this and he was like. 00:26:02
Yeah, I wish I had a better phone. 00:26:04
He said I had two turkeys and he went on to tell me about the huge turkeys that he had in the seafood plot. 00:26:06
Because I ended up giving them maybe like 3 bags to plant. 00:26:12
And so. 00:26:16
He said all that stuff's doing great now. 00:26:17
But we. 00:26:20
So. 00:26:22
He took. 00:26:23
10 trees. 00:26:24
And 20 lbs of wildlife seeds. 00:26:26
Feet seafood flat, so I was like, well, here you go put some more out. But he's planting trees with the. 00:26:28
Conservation group tomorrow. 00:26:35
And I was like, well, you come to the right place. You know everything we do. Would you like to take some work? 00:26:37
OK, because I was going to say we, we have some left 23. 00:26:44
I got something more for foundation. I've got any mortars. 00:26:48
I have red oak. 00:26:51
Swamp white oak. 00:26:53
Black walnut. 00:26:54
And Tulip. 00:26:55
I only have like 4 tulips left. Those are really popular. I had 25 of each of the other species and they're going pretty fast. But 00:26:58
they're they're right there. Office is up and we'll we'll go over. 00:27:03
In the same principles apply for turkeys, too. It's hard to believe here in Floyd County because it seems like you're where you 00:27:08
look. There's turkeys, but their numbers are on the beak line, too. 00:27:12
30 yeah, I don't know. 00:27:17
It's in areas they're they're in like as it stays whole we're having less nesting ends. 00:27:21
Same reasons. 00:27:27
They like that shrubby escape cover their chicks need. 00:27:28
Add the bugs too. 00:27:31
So you'll get chiggers doing it. But if you want to see if you have good habitat, if you lay on the ground, put your head on the 00:27:33
ground. Your bottom eye is what a quail chick sees, your top eyes what a Turkey chick sees. So if you can't get through your 00:27:37
cover, it's it's too thick. 00:27:41
You'll get a lot of chiggers, but. 00:27:46
What a great. 00:27:50
Whale chicks, Turkey chick OK and if you want a tree, wide oak white oaks are the They are the host plant to the most loved 00:27:53
outdoor which are butterflies, monarchs and skippers. 00:27:59
Yep, and they love to eat them. But. 00:28:09
They're low in tannins, yeah. 00:28:11
Well, I don't know how different the swamp light oak is, but the species that I have that that was all the the oaks. 00:28:13
The only white oak they have left was the small white oak. 00:28:20
That semblance reflects wetter areas. We have a little bitter. 00:28:24
Upturn we turned probably 100 or so quail each other round. Never. 00:28:32
More favorite, you know, for profound neighbors. 00:28:36
Yeah, I didn't spray or use chemicals, anything. And course there's that. Goats, you get seed, you've got cattle. 00:28:40
And that man privilege, I mean, that **** is everywhere. 00:28:48
No more field is that firm. Say get high now. 00:28:52
And they said you. 00:28:55
So the baby. 00:28:57
Those and sheep were kind of got troubled. 00:28:59
They're not figured in play. We'll go run. 00:29:01
But the Turkey's over. They roosted in cedar trees all, all the time. 00:29:04
The in groups edge is the best. 00:29:08
Native grass for and it's not grass to sage, but it's the best one for habitat is a safe standing. All our other native grasses 00:29:11
lodge in winter time so they stay standing and. 00:29:16
Keep that corridors on the ground throughout the winter. 00:29:21
Drew, have you ever laid down and tested your? I have, that's why I know you get checked. 00:29:25
Hasn't to the job right? 00:29:34
I hope it would be as bad as Texas here because we had pretty good one, yeah. 00:29:38
As someone who ended up in a small. 00:29:44
Tick infestation. 00:29:48
Gina and I ended up. 00:29:49
In a whole nest of. 00:29:51
Ticks and that happened. We were out at the Jensen Park. 00:29:55
And we left in some park to go release hellbenders. That's why you didn't have. 00:30:01
Spray on and that's why I had no spray because we were going to leave hell vendors so we couldn't have anything on us and. 00:30:06
Yeah, when I went to change my clothes from being in the water, from releasing hellbenders is when I found all the ticks. 00:30:12
Slow seat ticks. 00:30:20
Those ones get in your socks. 00:30:23
How many pounds do you have for this spring? Oh wow, I know that I had one. 00:30:26
And it bit me, did it. I'm still crawling. 00:30:32
Mine fit me on my leg. 00:30:36
Does the world today I'll give him a big drink. Alcohol. 00:30:37
100% alcohol. I bet they do. 00:30:42
Gotta be careful with about certain areas. 00:30:48
All right. 00:30:53
Go Nothing much for me. Unfortunately I haven't been around this office as of late. 00:30:57
That is Clark County under my. 00:31:06
Our wing of places I'm going to. 00:31:08
A little bit more stretched thin. 00:31:11
But looking forward to helping out with Pollinator Day. 00:31:14
And. 00:31:19
So you're I've been going to lots of trainings lately, went to the Southern Indiana Integration Conference. 00:31:22
Went to you, uh, something that. 00:31:29
Muscatta took Wildlife Refuge SE conservation happenings. 00:31:31
I got to hear from a lot of Forest Service being our folks there. 00:31:36
And really just trying to. 00:31:42
You know. 00:31:44
Being on top of things, helping with. 00:31:45
Kills transects, I know. 00:31:49
He has ended years but. 00:31:51
Just yeah, keeping an eye out for things and then I don't know if there's. 00:31:55
Any interest but Orange County has a. 00:32:00
Event coming up May 1st. It's called dealing with damage. 00:32:04
Talks about. 00:32:07
The wind damage in. 00:32:10
Doing the salvage harvest, especially after. 00:32:13
Your woods are in Orange County. Orange County. 00:32:16
May 3rd, May 1st it's it'll be in the Paoli Experimental Forest. 00:32:19
And then they're also going to talk a little bit about log landings and. 00:32:26
Doing some plantings in log landings after you've done harvest so that. 00:32:31
Biosphere kind of gets. 00:32:36
Injection of life. 00:32:38
Paoli Experimental forest. 00:32:41
Just sat there, 137. 00:32:44
337 uh. 00:32:46
Yeah, South of 37. So if you take 150 over your. 00:32:49
Pretty much there. 00:32:55
Are you going to Gina? 00:32:59
Or good good. 00:33:05
All right. You're moving on the whole business then? 00:33:08
Review meeting. 00:33:12
Nothing to review. 00:33:15
You don't get it right. 00:33:16
Election of offices. 00:33:18
We'll get that one. I'm not here right now. 00:33:20
Spending investment amount. 00:33:24
So Yep, you all agreed to 15. Just to update to everybody, Laura did meet me at the bank. She is now on the checking account. 00:33:27
However, our savings account is different account. 00:33:34
So we have to get it authorized on that one too, before we can move some money. 00:33:39
But 15 gig is going to come out of the savings account and go into Trust Indiana just as soon as all the As are dotted and T's are 00:33:44
crossed. 00:33:48
The existing policies we still haven't met. 00:33:54
We haven't met, but anytime you guys would like to meet, I know it's probably gonna be more optimal for you. 00:33:57
After May. 00:34:03
Yeah. 00:34:05
Or in the. 00:34:06
Afternoons like this, yeah. 00:34:07
Yeah. Well, I mean, is that something? 00:34:10
Whatever, it's great, girl. I can. I can probably work in anything. 00:34:16
Would it be helpful? 00:34:21
Sorry for. 00:34:23
Would be helpful to have something. 00:34:24
To look at like a starting point. 00:34:27
Mm-hmm. OK. 00:34:29
OK, you OK? I was like I could. 00:34:31
No, no, What I what I will do is I will gather examples of policies from other SWCES. 00:34:35
And we have plenty of those on Conservation Link where policies are already there. I can just download copies of them and then. 00:34:41
We can talk about what policies we want to develop and then go from there once we determine. 00:34:49
What policies we actually want to put in place. 00:34:55
Yeah, yeah. And like I said, I can bring examples. They're all on conservation links. So I can download examples and we just need 00:34:58
pick date to. 00:35:02
Great. Together we want to do that now. 00:35:07
I'm a I'm a fan. 00:35:09
Of not kicking things down the road. 00:35:11
Well, I'm all about putting a date on the calendar. 00:35:12
Probably I'm just gonna pull it up. 00:35:17
The last week of April, I'm going to take some time off. 00:35:31
Yeah, I won't be here last week. 00:35:36
OK, I'll get everything situated for May, but. 00:35:39
Well, you want to do it early May. 00:35:45
We can do it early May or we can do it in the next couple of weeks, whatever. The next couple of weeks, that's fine too. 00:35:48
Yeah. How about in the next couple of weeks? Let's yeah, let's do next couple of weeks. 00:35:54
In the evening, right? 00:36:03
Or after 4. 00:36:05
Yeah, that's fine. That's OK. 00:36:08
Is that evening. 00:36:12
Happy hour, matter of fact. Well, there's an idea. 00:36:17
I don't, I mean if you guys would like to meet outside of business hours, we can absolutely meet outside of 4:00 and have a social 00:36:23
gathering. 00:36:28
I mean, I don't drink, but I will. 00:36:34
Absolutely partake of a mocktail. 00:36:36
I like my mocktails. 00:36:41
What days of the week? 00:36:45
Alright, so in looking at the rest of my calendar days, that would work. 00:36:46
Good for me. 00:36:51
Pretty much for Tuesdays. 00:36:53
OK. 00:36:54
So in looking at this, uh. 00:36:58
I could do the 7th, 14th. 00:37:02
Or 21st. 00:37:04
I am. 00:37:07
Doing Master Gardener and Pollinator day stuff on the 7th so. 00:37:09
Looks like the. 00:37:14
14th. 00:37:15
No, it's 25th, 25th, but there's like a booth chair meeting and then a master gardener meeting. 00:37:18
On the 7th so I could do 14. 00:37:24
OK, alright, 14th. 00:37:26
April 14th. 00:37:32
Sooner we get the policies in place, the sooner we can get a ship. 00:37:34
Yeah. 00:37:38
You can't buy a shirt without policy. 00:37:40
I haven't heard that one until recently. Yeah. Ohh. About the having a closing policy, yeah. 00:37:42
Yeah, and again, it turns out that literally you can spend money on any. 00:37:48
Anything you want, as long as you have a policy to cover. 00:37:53
SBOA will not take exceptions. Seems that way. 00:37:57
It really is. I mean whether we want to provide. 00:38:00
Meals at other events beyond the annual meeting if you have a policy to cover. 00:38:03
You're good to go. 00:38:08
You want to buy shirts and boots? 00:38:09
You're good to go, you just have to have a policy to cover it. 00:38:11
I don't think we need all that, but I think we absolutely need some basic policy. So April 14th, what's good for you? 00:38:14
It's 4 OK. 00:38:22
4:00. 00:38:25
Do we want to meet here? Do we want to meet elsewhere? 00:38:26
I mean, you're having to come the farthest. She and I live literally like a couple blocks from another. 00:38:30
Where we all want to. 00:38:35
I'm gonna remind me to go along the way. Y'all want me? 00:38:37
Immediately all city kitchen, whatever. 00:38:40
Go back. 00:38:44
Fall City Kitchen. Sounds good. Sounds great. 00:38:46
4:00 All right, so there it is, 4:00. 00:38:51
False City. 00:38:58
Over 14, right? 00:39:01
Yeah, 414, there you go. 00:39:02
Perfect. 00:39:05
4/14 at 4:00. 00:39:08
There we go. 00:39:11
Get all the floors. 00:39:13
And Falsi Brewery, OK. 00:39:14
And we're gonna have a. 00:39:17
Policy Committee meeting. 00:39:18
Was Laura gonna be on that? And. 00:39:23
No, it was just going to be the three of us. 00:39:25
Wanted to volunteer to be on that with us. 00:39:31
Alright, next thing here. 00:39:36
2026 Annual plan of work. 00:39:38
Yep, so. 00:39:40
I think we have a couple more things to add to that, including some dates for our bat house workshop. 00:39:43
And then Adam Carr said something today about doing a pasture workshop in the fall. You gotta do a follow up on the Kingston time. 00:39:50
And we're definitely going to do a follow up on the Jensen Bamboo. 00:39:57
And I am re tweaking the thing, the plan of work and I've added a. 00:40:01
Completion column. I think Laura and Melanie asked for completion column. 00:40:07
So I'm having to reformat the thing and start over from scratch because that one was created with the old space bar. 00:40:11
Do you need help? 00:40:22
No, I I I'm putting everything in tables. 00:40:24
But I've just recreated the tables but I can't copy and paste it because of all of the spaces and it won't. 00:40:27
Copy and paste into my. 00:40:35
Table columns. 00:40:36
Have you tried ChatGPT? 00:40:38
I have not because. 00:40:40
I don't so no. I am recreating the document in a table so that. 00:40:44
Whoever follows me don't have to. 00:40:49
Takeouts. 00:40:51
Faces on the space. You all know what I'm talking about, don't you? 00:40:52
Yes, yes. 00:40:56
When you've put spaces instead of using the tab button and you've used the spacebar. 00:40:58
Yes. 00:41:04
Yes, that's how this it's old it's but anyway. 00:41:05
I'm recreating the wheel. 00:41:08
And so we're probably going to have to adopt it next month. That's what I was working on when Co came in, so. 00:41:10
In addition to adding a couple of more things. 00:41:17
Yeah, well. 00:41:21
Oh, I'm sure, yes, we have a lot coming up. 00:41:25
OK, All right. Well, I'm free pick up and pick them up. 00:41:29
March 20th. 00:41:34
Done. 00:41:35
No more not your dog. 00:41:36
There's gonna be a guy come back next week. 00:41:43
Whole bag, Charlie. 00:41:45
But. 00:41:47
We'll send you back. 00:41:48
Of the original bud. 00:41:49
Yeah, he he's the only one still alive. 00:41:51
What is another note still alive and she? 00:41:54
Yeah, yeah, the the Buddha, Bud Rd. The two of them are still alive, fam. 00:42:02
Wanna take care of her 105 acres next to my property. 00:42:08
Yeah, 105 See, she wouldn't miss 5. 00:42:12
Oh well, that's it's a shame to let the old house go. 00:42:17
You say it's got a hole in the roof up right now and and then. 00:42:21
Play Buzzard's Rent. 00:42:24
Got The White Stripes on. 00:42:25
They can't take care of them. 00:42:27
There you go. 00:42:37
I like the spring fish sale. We're still doing that right? We are indeed. I have not set the since the press release because the. 00:42:42
Sale is not actually going to start until like the second week of April. 00:42:49
I'm going to send a press release to the paper. I have it ready to go. I just haven't sent it because I know as soon as I send it 00:42:57
people go start calling and I'm not ready for that right now. 00:43:01
Yeah, just a minute called 2000 minutes. 00:43:07
Are they shipped in a container like oil too? 00:43:30
No, I've had this out on the board, but again. 00:43:36
I'm not gonna open the sale until like the 22nd, but yeah, 12/12/25 for a pound. 00:43:39
On board 2 so fish sounds good. It's this month, right? 00:43:56
Uh, delivery will be on May 7th. 00:44:01
Uh, any other thing on an old old business? Any other thing? 00:44:18
No old business. 00:44:28
Novak Djokovic. 00:44:29
Forward picture we will be tabling that. 00:44:32
The bank or anything? 00:44:36
He did not. He did not and I didn't seem last month and I'm about to. 00:44:38
Diminishing. Uh-huh. I think so too. 00:44:44
Mm-hmm. OK. 00:44:50
A review and the golf annual plan at work. 00:44:51
I just told you we're we'll be doing that next month too. 00:44:54
In the following day next booth and April 25th. 00:44:58
All right, who was scum and hang out because. 00:45:02
And I know you have obligations. 00:45:07
You have obligations for Pollinator Day, so should we do? Are you going to do that? 00:45:11
I don't know if I'm going to be on Bat Booth or if I'm gonna be on. I mean, I'm giving 2 talks. 00:45:17
So that's. 00:45:23
You're doing the Pollinator Pocket pocket, Yes, Pollinator Pocket talks. And then I'm going to be, I think I'm going to be setting 00:45:24
up the bat booth. 00:45:28
And I might be at the. 00:45:32
Native Floyd pregnant Habitat booth as well. 00:45:34
So. 00:45:38
Riding around, yeah. 00:45:40
You think you could be there? Yep, I should be able to make it OK. 00:45:41
We'll plan to hang out in our booth because. 00:45:46
Ron will be there and Tom will be there. 00:45:50
Kara's gonna be. 00:45:53
Otherwise involved. Laura will be otherwise involved. 00:45:55
Of course she'll be there with. 00:45:58
Picard Valley Nursery. 00:46:01
So if Lisa wants to come, please. She was there last year. Oh good. 00:46:04
And then? 00:46:08
We still have the. 00:46:11
Seed food plot to give away, which I figure we'll still have some to give away then. And we have our books that we can give away. 00:46:13
So, and we have our seeds that we can give away if anybody wants those. 00:46:20
So we have plenty of things to to keep in the the booth. I guess The thing is, do you want to be there the entire day or do you 00:46:24
wanna work? 00:46:28
Half the time and split it up. 00:46:32
What we do last year, Tom. 00:46:35
I think we were there the whole time, all of us, because I have a picture of all of us there together. 00:46:37
What? And we hung out, and we we gave away them. 00:46:42
Or 930? 00:46:45
No, 1010, I think it 10 is when it opens to the public. 00:46:48
Yes, you can set up starting at 8:30 because you'll probably be there for all vendors. Yeah. 00:46:52
Yeah, Gmail includes us and under the Big 10, so we don't have to do our own. And then if you're going to do. 00:46:57
Birdhouses. I'll bring the tub again and we can get people to sign up like we did last year. 00:47:04
Because that was really fine. It was a great way to get people. 00:47:09
And engaged in in talking to us. 00:47:12
Ron makes bird houses that he gives away. And so we just had a sign that said, you know, if you want to win a free birdhouse, sign 00:47:14
up. 00:47:18
And so every. 00:47:22
Hour. I think every hour we gave one away. 00:47:23
And I will let him pull one out and call him. You want to work house? And they come back real excited. I think it kind of irked 00:47:26
the guy that was selling birdhouses a little bit away, but. 00:47:31
Yeah, very good. Yeah, well, we gotta buy yours. I gotta get rid of some. Are we gonna have the date for the bat workshop? 00:47:37
Bath house workshop. 00:47:45
It is May 18th. 00:47:47
Tentatively. 00:47:50
OK. Because we could get sign ups for that? 00:47:51
We already have people on the right list from the last go around and I have a list of names and I put myself on that, Yes, and 00:47:55
Eliza must be on there too. 00:47:59
But yeah, and I had a lady e-mail me this week and say hey, I'm just touching base. See if you're still around that bad house. 00:48:04
Yeah, that was one of the most popular Dagger workshops that we have hosted in the last few years. I mean, that sign up was done 00:48:09
in 2 days. 00:48:13
We. We should. 00:48:18
Ask for a donation. 00:48:20
My suggestion on. 00:48:22
Or should we? 00:48:25
Ask for like a donation. 00:48:26
For it, so people show up. 00:48:30
When they sign up. 00:48:31
Because we, I know when we went, when we had it last fall, there were some people that didn't. 00:48:32
But only a couple of them. But everybody signed up through the park. 00:48:37
Oh, I didn't have. OK, OK, so you're going to do that. 00:48:42
Same way again, OK. 00:48:45
I'll let I'll let him do it that way and that way we're actually. 00:48:46
They were calling me. 00:48:50
But they were getting their info from the parks flyer. I did in fact keep the list because if you didn't talk to me, you weren't 00:48:52
on the list, OK? 00:48:55
I was the list keeper. 00:49:03
Keeper of the loose. 00:49:04
I thought the amount of people there this last time was a good amount though, yes. 00:49:06
Yeah, kind of have some more one-on-one interaction with the instructor and people were working on the ground. Yeah, yeah. 00:49:10
But um. 00:49:18
We can advertise it at Pollinator Day. How about that? There you go. 00:49:20
Will advertise it and tell people that they must call to register otherwise you don't have a spot because I. 00:49:24
Have to cut it off. 00:49:30
Sure. 00:49:32
You're good and you're older and then I'll get with Jay and, uh. 00:49:33
Do the whole thing. We will probably well this go around. 00:49:37
Now remind you we spent the money last time and Matt agreed that we would have see it. So I told him he could pay for the supplies 00:49:41
in the next 1. So let me talk to Matt first. 00:49:47
And see if he's willing to pony it up. And if not, then we'll have to make a motion for that at our May meeting to pay for that. 00:49:52
But. 00:49:56
I guess more importantly is I need to get Jay. 00:50:00
Make sure Jason good. 00:50:02
Is Jade's bat house friend? 00:50:04
Jay has become a. 00:50:11
Fixture in all of our lives and when I say that like. 00:50:14
He started working on Gina's house. 00:50:19
And he's been renovating and doing projects Gene's house for three years, OK. 00:50:22
He he's done stuff at my house. 00:50:27
He's done stuff at my parents house, he's done stuff for people that live around the corner, he's done stuff for other. 00:50:29
Master Gardeners, because there was one that was just at a meeting there that was there for Betty's retirement party. And she 00:50:38
asked Gina about Jay. And she was like, oh, yeah, Jay's gonna work for her. Yeah. Good, good. 00:50:43
Great person, salt in the earth, and he's a magnificent woodworker. 00:50:50
And we got education outreach events through June. 00:51:14
Yeah, so again, Pollinator Day is going to be in April. The bathhouse workshop is May. 00:51:18
And then? 00:51:23
Off the top of my head, I can't remember what June is. I don't have it written down. 00:51:24
Uh, it's probably on my genome. 00:51:28
Thing Gina and I have planning days where. 00:51:31
Let me just write down all the things we're going to do for the next couple of months and, uh. 00:51:35
I don't remember what genius, I'm sorry. 00:51:41
This meeting I don't have a breakdown. I gave the number, sorry. 00:51:44
Bring other new businesses. I was gonna say, do you remember what we were doing? 00:51:48
Did you since you were gone? 00:51:51
Yeah, there will be a wee break. 00:51:54
I know we got some of this. 00:51:57
Yes, in Clark County has some that I want to go help them with too. 00:51:59
And I love that they have. 00:52:05
We started there. 00:52:06
Is anyone on the Greenway? 00:52:08
Origin Park, yes, they're going to do one at Origin Park. They're also going to do one at Charlestown State Park. They're going to 00:52:10
do one at Falls in the Ohio, so. 00:52:14
Yeah, I'm, I'm who is. 00:52:19
Kind of starting that group back up. 00:52:21
Do you know who's Morgan Apple Morgan is? So Morgan is the new employee in Clark County? 00:52:24
So it's it used to be called chirp. You want to take a photo and now? 00:52:30
It's. 00:52:34
Of what are they calling themselves now? It's not chirp anymore, it's something. There's an extra C in it. 00:52:36
I think now. 00:52:42
Might be Clark County instead of just Clark. 00:52:44
So let's just chirp. But now it's a new name. 00:52:47
Oh yeah. So, um. 00:52:50
One of them is gonna be. 00:52:55
At Clark State Forest and one of them is going to be at Origin Park. 00:52:56
Mm-hmm. That's coming right up. I was thinking that was. 00:53:06
Is we're going to work with them, our system is going to work with them on the Origin Park, right? 00:53:12
Right. 00:53:17
I'm just trying to remember the dates though, yeah. 00:53:19
So thank you. 00:53:22
Any other? 00:53:29
No, no, nothing else that I can think of. 00:53:31
Again, as Gina and I've. 00:53:38
Are going to be doing watersheds with the 5th grades. 00:53:40
Coming up in May, next month, we're going to hit all three fifth grade or all three schools. 00:53:45
Where fifth grades are, and we're planning to see every fifth grade class. 00:53:51
To teach them watersheds like we teach 3rd grade about habitat and weather. 00:53:56
So. 00:54:00
That'll be going on besides. 00:54:00
That they have their garden clean up. That was when we had our weed wrangle because we just did a weed wrangle at Hammersmith. 00:54:03
Myself and Rosa. 00:54:12
And Nat and. 00:54:14
Dean and Dave Bryant. 00:54:17
Awesome. Yeah, so it turns out Dean is running for some New Albany. 00:54:19
Ship something? Another. 00:54:23
So. 00:54:25
What's his last name? Brian. 00:54:27
OK, it's it's. 00:54:29
Oh. 00:54:31
That's great. 00:54:34
Bryant, last name's Brian. 00:54:37
Dina. 00:54:39
Tina Bryant and she's running for like the, I think the oven council or something. 00:54:40
I digress. 00:54:45
I can't think of anything else that's going on. 00:54:47
Things are good. Things are moving right along here. April is never really busy. That's why you know, obviously our our list of 00:54:54
things pretty short. 00:54:58
I do need you got a sign Claims, Yeah. 00:55:03
Laura's not here, so. 00:55:06
Check don't get signed. 00:55:08
You sign it anywhere. 00:55:15
Oh no, no. What? What? What? 00:55:17
Yup. What? 00:55:23
I infringe claims. 00:55:27
Oh, hey. 00:55:28
Remember Me telling you about Minna Fog? 00:55:30
It's a real thing. It's a very real thing. Umm. 00:55:32
No, I didn't print claims. 00:55:39
I made your claims but I didn't print claims and I'm sorry about that. You'll have to sign all of them next month. 00:55:41
OK. 00:55:48
Well, no. 00:55:53
Three people have to sign the claims, yeah. 00:55:56
Now the good thing is, is that you all made motions to cover all these and you. 00:55:59
You've done the finances for the month, so you know these were it. 00:56:04
But. 00:56:07
Yeah. 00:56:08
I I made you planes I didn't know. 00:56:09
And then make this out. 00:56:13
This I had to order your all's badges through. 00:56:15
My Amazon account. 00:56:18
Because. 00:56:21
The. 00:56:22
Individual. 00:56:23
Badge. I personalized each individual badge and when I did that. 00:56:24
I couldn't send the cart to Susanna. 00:56:28
You know how you can send your whole Amazon card to someone? Yep. Well normally what I do is I put things in the Amazon cart and 00:56:31
then I send them to Susanna because the county has a an Amazon account. 00:56:37
That's tax free and all the things. 00:56:43
Well, I kept trying to send her my card. I couldn't link it to her. There was no way for her to get my customized badges out of my 00:56:46
card. 00:56:50
So I had to pay for him with my own Amazon account. 00:56:54
Which is why they went to my house and. 00:56:57
Yes, there is. 00:57:00
Taxes, but I'm not asking for the taxes back so. 00:57:01
But anyway. 00:57:05
When Laura gets here, she can sign them. 00:57:06
Ron can't sign that either. 00:57:08
He's not on the account. 00:57:11
Only the person on the account can sign it. 00:57:14
Do you have two people? 00:57:17
Well, myself and Laura. 00:57:20
Are the only two people who are authorized on the account you got removed? 00:57:22
I believe that is the next item of business, Sir. 00:57:33
Adjourned. I second. 00:57:37
Everybody say aye. 00:57:38
All right, one hour. I love you people. 00:57:42

Transcript

Event transcript
Oh, it's green up here now. 00:00:06
Good. You're saying we're good but loose good, Vazhuska. 00:00:08
You gotta sound angry, Tom. You gotta sound angry. 00:00:12
It used to be Smith when I did it. That was quite a change. We're good. Here we go. 00:00:15
Call the meeting April 2nd. Meeting 2026 for Floyd County Soil and Water Conservation District Order. 00:00:26
Call order. 00:00:36
Last month's meetings, anybody? 00:00:37
I'll make a motion to approve March meetings. 00:00:39
Well then please sign them as you will. 00:00:43
It's anywhere. 00:00:46
Nope on the Backpage. 00:00:48
Yeah, there is a spot for everyone's signature and I usually turn to that page, so my bad. 00:00:50
Automatic messages here, so we have. 00:00:57
Jordan. 00:01:16
For report, we sure do. 00:01:19
So we started them. You're gonna like this financial report on. 00:01:22
We started the month with $86,057.25 and our checking account and ended the month with $88,377.62. 00:01:26
Our savings account has $17,238.35 for a whopping total of 10561597. How about that room? You feel good? 00:01:38
Not quite. 00:01:56
Not quite. Now that remount does not include our dues, That check hasn't cleared yet and we just. 00:01:58
Yeah. And those views were almost $4000. Yeah. 00:02:06
We're going to go under 100 because. 00:02:11
Part of the money that we received, the $7000 we received from the state for Clean Water Indiana, that was our reimbursement. 00:02:14
You know how we get part of it up front that we have to spend it and then build them and they get it back? 00:02:22
Almost 2000 of that is going to go to. 00:02:27
Washington County because that was what part they spent and then the other 5000 we shouldered so. 00:02:30
Yeah. So anyway, that is where we are with the financial report if anybody would like to accept it. 00:02:36
Aye, motion to accept it Second. 00:02:43
All in favor. 00:02:47
Crickets. Crickets. Crickets. 00:02:51
All right, cool. Yes, the phone. 00:02:54
OK. I do have a little bit for you all today and. 00:03:02
The first thing I'll talk about is the CWI, so I've got some practice guidelines if you all wanna. 00:03:05
I probably has it, yeah, I've got enough for everybody. 00:03:13
So as a reminder, these. 00:03:17
Practices are definitely more geared towards wildlife habitat and getting some vegetable cover on the landscape. This is what 00:03:20
we've come up with in terms of practice guidelines, establishing caps, things like that. 00:03:26
So if you have any questions or concerns about that, please let me know because we're about to kind of start getting nothing 00:03:33
running with. 00:03:36
Everything we've been interviewing for. 00:03:40
Project coordinators, which has been really exciting. 00:03:44
And so then the second part of this is because that project coordinator will have their benefits paid through the cash match. 00:03:46
From our partners. 00:03:55
Will ask you all if you are able to go ahead and send that whenever you can. 00:03:57
So I believe that was 2500 for this year and then 2500 for next year for you guys. 00:04:03
Can you send me an invoice by chance? 00:04:09
Uh, I'm sure we can. Yeah, I will e-mail the. 00:04:12
Business office with Purdue and see if they can't get something to you or to me that I can't get to you. Yeah, I just yeah, I need 00:04:16
something in writing because I can't write. Checks out. So totally understand. Well with the contribution letter count. 00:04:23
It's totally OK, it could be supportive. 00:04:31
But if you guys could give me an invoice, that would be fantastic, just so I don't have to explain myself to SBOA. Yeah. So we 00:04:34
want to make that easy on you guys. 00:04:39
So that kind of covers CWI for me for being right here on real quick to Kitchen and Voice. 00:04:46
And then as far as? 00:04:57
He so this is the last year of our current RCP. 00:04:59
The grant and all of the contributions have been made. I just finished recording for NRCS on our 2025 contributions. 00:05:05
And since everything's been accounted for. 00:05:15
Purdue is wanting me to basically have. 00:05:19
A new version of the original contribution letter with what was actually contributed and for you guys, since it was just cash, it 00:05:23
looks. 00:05:26
Very similar. 00:05:30
But if you all would be able to review that and sign that for our documentation purposes of. 00:05:32
Hey, this is what we gave to RCPP over the last three years. Oh, as in yeah, unfortunately she's not here to sign that, but and we 00:05:38
can. 00:05:43
If you all want to have somebody else on the board sign it as a board representative, that's fine. If we need to wait for Laura, 00:05:47
that's OK too. I'm trying to get it done sooner rather than later, just to get it off my plate. But. 00:05:53
Whatever. How about Ron signs it? 00:05:59
And then we'll just put Vice Chairman. Perfect. So that sounds great. 00:06:02
And then just, it's just documentation showing that we paid. Yeah, we, we gave them that amount of money. Uh-huh. 00:06:06
Yeah, we gave them 15,000 over the course of three years and that helped pay for allows the salary. 00:06:14
And so now that they have a new pool of money, they're hiring a new coordinator. And we're only going to, we're only going to be 00:06:22
doing 5025 hundred each year. I will make a copy of this and send it to you. Yeah. And if you just want to label this. 00:06:29
Yeah, sure. Yeah. 00:06:36
Hey there. That wraps it up for me unless you'll have any questions, but I appreciate all of your support for those who I 00:06:39
understand. 00:06:42
And I'm sorry, I'm going to miss the partner meeting. It falls on the same day that we're doing watersheds with fifth grade. 00:06:48
Because you did that with the stench. No, I don't know. You didn't do the one, I did the. 00:06:55
Master Naturalist class with you, and that was a fun little watershed game, but I think that's much different. 00:07:01
But anyway, sorry, so I'm not going to make it totally good but. 00:07:08
What's your timeline for hiring a director for CWI? 00:07:13
We're interviewing right now so we I'm checking references but all of our interviews are complete at this point. We've interviewed 00:07:16
4 people so. 00:07:21
It's it's been good. 00:07:26
I think we'll have a. 00:07:28
An offer probably made sometime next week once all the references come back. 00:07:29
This. I'm hoping to get somebody out here soon so we can get everything. 00:07:34
That's good for me. 00:07:44
Well, I'm here. 00:07:48
Encourage participation in the board leadership. 00:07:51
Program training survey. 00:07:54
This did go out to e-mail, but I know not every supervisor checks e-mail. 00:07:56
So. 00:08:00
It's it's the same survey I e-mail it. 00:08:02
You are. 00:08:05
More comfortable with a paper copy. I can fill that out. 00:08:07
Or if you want to scan it onto your phone. 00:08:10
Like if you fill that out then I would. 00:08:13
Submit it for you SO. 00:08:15
This is optional. Put them here. I can read them in their areas if you don't want them. 00:08:16
But then I wanted to kind of show what we were doing this for. So we're trying to get our board leadership program, which is the 00:08:20
website. 00:08:23
You can get. 00:08:26
Can you take courses on? 00:08:27
And you get points for doing those modules and if you come to in person events, which you guys have come to in person events too. 00:08:28
You get points for that. 00:08:35
So it's kind of a combo website and stuff, but. 00:08:36
We're trying to get that program certified nationally with the national. 00:08:39
National Association of Conservation Districts. 00:08:43
So this is the map. 00:08:46
They have the. 00:08:48
Silver, uh. 00:08:49
Gold and bronze. 00:08:50
Recognition and look. 00:08:52
Indiana's nothing, so we want to get Indiana on the map. 00:08:54
And create more modules. 00:08:58
But we need. 00:09:00
You're all help in deciding what's important. 00:09:01
Because they got like 139 different things. 00:09:03
We don't need to make 139 modules but like. 00:09:05
What do you guys need? What do you guys want? A supervisor. So this is what we're working towards and. 00:09:08
I can pick these up after the meeting if someone wants one, but. 00:09:13
Just any help you could give would be great. 00:09:16
And would you like? 00:09:19
To talk about that at all. 00:09:20
Yes, sure. 00:09:22
We are right now looking at what outreach we're going to do. 00:09:27
Concerning some. 00:09:31
So some of these I don't have any answers like the mandatory training. 00:09:32
I don't have answers on that. OK. 00:09:36
I can tell you umm. 00:09:38
Maybe the background though. 00:09:40
When new supervisors come on. 00:09:42
We have a tracking list of who's done them and we have maybe 60%. 00:09:46
Of supervisors statewide. 00:09:50
And this is just really basic stuff. 00:09:52
So. 00:09:55
We're hoping to. 00:09:56
Get more supervisors to take. 00:09:58
That training, what that is, I don't know. 00:10:00
Well, I was just getting ready to ask, will this board leadership program? 00:10:02
Suffice or meet the requirements for the mandatory training. 00:10:07
Well, we don't know what ISDA. 00:10:12
Is making entering. 00:10:15
Right now, so right now we have the new supervisor training, which is. 00:10:17
You can do that person, or you can do the modules online. That's about an hour. 00:10:20
You have to do the. 00:10:25
It's on my. 00:10:27
OK, yes. 00:10:28
The Preventing workplace and sexual harassment video. 00:10:30
And or if you do that work, that counts too, you know, you don't have to ours And then the internal controls, which state 00:10:34
warehouse does check when they do audits and that's. 00:10:39
That was just under half an hour. 00:10:43
So that's what we have right now. Is the screen required? 00:10:45
So this was also created. 00:10:49
Kind of lot higher than. 00:10:51
US as district support specialists so. 00:10:52
I don't know if it's been determined. 00:10:55
What is mandatory? But I can just tell you simply basic things. 00:10:56
Aren't being taken care of statewide. That need to be so. 00:11:01
I pushed it that direction. 00:11:05
So, alright, so I saw that come through and I was like, well, let me highlight some things. I know we're going to be, you know, 00:11:07
maybe even a question or whatever, but. 00:11:11
Umm. 00:11:16
The extra people that we have to disseminate or spread the. 00:11:20
AFR 2 OK. 00:11:26
And some background on that. 00:11:27
There are. 00:11:29
Kind of trend going on is we're not going to provide that at our annual meetings. 00:11:31
But you have to ask for it. 00:11:35
So if you think if you went to a public meeting. 00:11:38
You know, as you as a constituent should. You really have to ask. 00:11:41
Ask for that. I mean it says you have to provide it but. 00:11:44
There are not. There weren't any details of what providing it means. 00:11:47
So they're just trying. 00:11:50
Trying to make it more transparent that districts have to have that. 00:11:51
Annual Finance Report. 00:11:55
After annual meeting, no one has to ask for it. Just pretty simple. 00:11:56
So I think explaining some of these things, OK, yeah, 'cause I was like. 00:12:00
How many more people do? I mean, I make it public. It's on my website. It's on my Facebook page. 00:12:04
I have copies printed. It's there. 00:12:09
So I was just like, how many more people do I have to give it to? Yeah. So I don't know, I mean. 00:12:12
I don't go to every annual meeting every year by any means, but. 00:12:18
I see them. So it's only going to probably affect more. So those ones that are not not sharing, OK. 00:12:21
So there's reason behind some of these, yeah. 00:12:28
That it's this new trend that's expanding so. 00:12:33
I don't know even about that, but yeah, it's not in our area. 00:12:36
OK. And then the notion that they're going to straight up with? 00:12:39
Owed your money if you're AFR is late. 00:12:43
Well, and so they're kind of doing that now, so. 00:12:46
In my 20 years at work here, I've only had one district miss that deadline because everyone wants their money. 00:12:49
Course right, but you know, every few years someone misses it. So what they've been doing is. 00:12:54
You can have your $10,000 but only after you give us your AFR. Well. 00:12:59
There is nothing legally in code that says they can do that, so this is just. 00:13:04
Making it so they can do that. They're putting some legs on their table. Yeah. So no one's ever not gotten their money. Now if 00:13:09
they never turn that AFR. 00:13:13
I guess they wouldn't but we just have people wait sometimes. But this gives states report that legal. 00:13:18
Right to do so, I guess you could say. 00:13:25
So, well, there's usually always a story behind anything that comes out like that. There's usually always a reason that 00:13:28
precipitated it. So yeah. Yeah, I can. Yeah. 00:13:33
So. 00:13:39
Our team. 00:13:40
We want to do something with outreach. We're kind of leaving it to those higher than us to to help. 00:13:42
Define what that means. 00:13:46
But umm. 00:13:48
We'd like to be able to collect questions because. 00:13:50
Like I've talked with another district, she phoned the other the other day and she was bringing up questions I hadn't thought of. 00:13:53
So we're hoping to have some sort of place you can submit your questions. 00:13:58
And then have some sort of outreach, whatever that would mean. 00:14:01
Whether it be webinar or maybe just more written stuff for you all. 00:14:05
I don't know. 00:14:08
But we need more information out to districts and. 00:14:09
But if I can answer anything. 00:14:14
I can. 00:14:15
No, no, that was and and like I said, I figure. 00:14:16
I as the. 00:14:20
The same logic I use for most things that there's a sign. 00:14:21
It was probably 1 to be. 00:14:25
Yeah. And if they're doing this? 00:14:27
It was probably warranted by by somebody else's actions. A lot of these though, but not all. There's a story, so I think it once 00:14:30
this explained, it makes a little more sense. 00:14:35
All right. Well, that's good. 00:14:40
Yeah. So if you think of questions and. 00:14:42
I can't and also disclaimer that by saying. 00:14:45
This was not your official information. That'll come whatever this outreach does. Maybe something will change, I don't know, but 00:14:48
those that go from pretty much. 00:14:51
Sharing. Thank you. 00:14:56
All righty. Well, I. 00:15:04
Granted both Floyd and Clark counties and accidentally shredded Floyds. 00:15:06
Bear with me, I have your fluid right here. 00:15:12
And in case you need that too, I've got that one. 00:15:18
Not much has changed since last month. 00:15:23
Right now, we're in the heart of Equip. 00:15:26
CSP or programs? 00:15:28
The. 00:15:30
Application deadline for sign up 1 is passed. There's probably not going to be another sign up this year for our our programs 00:15:31
with. 00:15:34
Being still short staffed and everything being rolled out real late. 00:15:38
If we had another sign up, it'd be a real tight window. We get to turn around for September 30th. 00:15:42
But we are accepting applications year round so if you know people are interested, still have them see me get an application on 00:15:47
hand then we they'd be ready for next year. 00:15:51
In Floyd County, we've had four applications, 1 4th St. two wildlife, one small farm. 00:15:56
I've had several people reach out to me wanting to do stuff for next year so. 00:16:02
Should be a Goodyear next year. 00:16:07
Our funding is down this year. We have 17 million in general equipped with 21,000,000 total available when you figure in the 00:16:09
incentives. 00:16:13
They're saying one in five to one in six applications will get funded this year. 00:16:19
CSP. 00:16:24
Didn't have any applications for Floyd County this year, but the funding is up a little bit in that program. It's at 17,000,000 as 00:16:25
well. 00:16:29
CRP Wise Continuous CRP sign up started February 12th. March 20th was the end of the first batching period. 00:16:34
July 31st is the last 8. 00:16:40
Pacers to spend offers for Signup 65. There's a lot of interest. They'll have the second batch for that. 00:16:43
General CRP there are 6. 00:16:48
It general sign up 66 starts March 9th. 00:16:52
April 17th is the deadline to submit offers for General CRP. Sign up 66. 00:16:55
For both general and continuous, those contracts would start October 1st, 2026. 00:17:00
I'm in the heart of ranking for equip applications. Most of my field visits are done, it's just more. 00:17:06
I send it off the maps and payment estimators off the land owners that review one more time and they let me know if everything 00:17:13
looks good so. 00:17:16
All of next week, and probably most of the week after that, I'll have my door shut and working on ranking as long as part works. 00:17:20
Umm, the. 00:17:27
The deadlines April 17th I'm trying to get. 00:17:30
My in office deadline is next Friday the 10th. I'm trying to get them all ranked by then. 00:17:33
Those that are selected for funding. The obligation deadline is July 2nd, 2026, so it'll be a fairly quick turn around after the 00:17:38
ranking deadline. 00:17:42
Upcoming events for me. 00:17:47
They're they're holding off on field days and trainings and stuff for us this month because they know we're busy. So there's 00:17:49
really nothing out of NRCS. 00:17:52
I'm potentially going to be on leave April 22nd. That's all dependent on if I'm feeling ****** to chase a Turkey around in the 00:17:56
woods. 00:18:00
Then the 28th I'll be off as well. Those are the 2 days. 00:18:06
This last month we had that community breakfast on the 7th. 00:18:09
Southern Indiana Grazing Conference is a really good one on the 13th. 00:18:14
If you've seen Carbon Cowboys on YouTube or any social media, use the keynote speaker. 00:18:18
Big into rotational grazing and AMP grazing. He's a documentary filmmaker, not not a cattle guy. Not an AD guy at all. 00:18:23
Who's interested in carbon sequestering? And so he went down to the Southeast. 00:18:31
And he find one person in rotational grazing, the neighbor, not you just sit on their porch and talk to him, see what worked and 00:18:35
what didn't. They start bringing researchers in, biologists in and. 00:18:40
And have some some data go along with it. 00:18:45
There's a movie. It's roots so. 00:18:48
You can see Hell. It's a three-part 4 part documentary. 00:18:51
That they put out it. 00:18:55
It's I think $10 you can rent it for the month. I haven't seen it but I've seen a lot of Eclipse on YouTube. It looks really 00:18:57
interesting. 00:19:00
The We have the Clark County Solar Water Annual Meeting. 00:19:05
On the 14th. 00:19:09
It was the first real big meeting they've had in the wild. Pretty good turn out for it. 00:19:10
Uh, you don't need to know about the fact meeting. We have that. 00:19:15
Clark County and then we had an area meeting yesterday going over ranking. 00:19:18
The conservation talking point of the month This is 1. 00:19:22
Cried my favorite. 00:19:25
Animal favorite part of the job? 00:19:27
Is the Bobwhite quail this month if anyone's interested. 00:19:29
I I can get you this article, I have a whole file full of bobwhite quail stuff. 00:19:33
In the the short of it. 00:19:39
Bob White quail are what we call an indicator species. They need 3 completely different ecosystem types to complete a life cycle. 00:19:41
Most quail don't live to see their first or first birthday so it's really short life cycle. 00:19:48
I was listening to a podcast for a while I just missed it and they said everything will eat a quail they had. 00:19:54
Radio collared. 00:19:59
Quail Bullfrog 81-A Deer 81 I mean everything. I mean, they're everything. 00:20:01
Yeah, the quail chicks. Yeah, they're the size of bumblebee. 00:20:06
The reason they're an indicator is if you have them, you have good ecosystem because you have three different ecosystems on your 00:20:11
property. 00:20:14
You think in the 70s when we had the big quail numbers, were you taught you hear people say they could walk down a fence around 00:20:18
flush four or five cubbies? 00:20:21
The reason for that was they need annual. 00:20:25
Their chicks can't eat seeds until they're reaching certain maturity. So the annual weeds that used to grow in our AG fields and 00:20:28
on our edges. 00:20:32
That was brewery covering traffic bugs. The chicks would eat the bugs. 00:20:36
They need escape cover. Back then we didn't have 80 acre fields we had. 00:20:40
810 acre fields with fences all around them. 00:20:44
Those fences grew up into blackberries and short shrubby trees, so it is escaped cover of a Hawks flying over. They can get away 00:20:47
or. 00:20:50
In the summertime when it's 100° under there in the shade, it's a lot cooler and vice versa in the winter. 00:20:54
Then they need nesting cover, which are native grasses. They they nest at the bottoms of those grasses. 00:21:00
So. 00:21:06
Ideally for quail habitat. 00:21:07
Within a softball's throw range, that's pretty low. When they flush, they they fly about a softball throws distance. 00:21:10
He escaped cover. You need nesting cover and you need burger and cover. 00:21:17
So a perfect example is if you have a field. 00:21:21
About 40% of it. You want shrubs and thickets. 00:21:24
BlackBerry think it's. 00:21:28
You know any short statutory is Washington Hawthorne by Burnham Red. 00:21:30
Red, but our dogwoods, red buds, those sorts of things. 00:21:34
You want about 40% brooding cover and 10% native grasses. In this article Purdue talks about. 00:21:38
Ideally in a 10 by 10 square. 00:21:44
You want to basketball size clump of grass in the rest of that area you want. 00:21:47
Ragweed, Black Eyed susans, purple cone flowers. 00:21:53
Anything that's going to attract the insects to the field. 00:21:56
A big thick native grass stands and hay fields aren't good for quail. The. 00:22:00
The cool season, non-native grasses, their rhizobials, they form a wall where you know bumblebee sized animal. 00:22:05
It can't get through those grasses. 00:22:12
And then they're also really susceptible to hypothermia right when they hatch. So if we have a cool, you know, June morning with 00:22:14
heavy dew or late May morning with a heavy dew. 00:22:18
They brush up against that grass. So diet hypothermia. 00:22:23
Where our native grasses and native shrubs are bunch forming, so there's a clump of grass. 00:22:26
And then, you know, a flower over here and there's corridors underneath where they can get through without touching anything. 00:22:31
And then the wind can get in there and dry it out a lot quicker, so. 00:22:37
They're really neat animals. 00:22:41
I I really enjoy. 00:22:43
Working with them because if you have quail on your property, you have. 00:22:45
You have good habitat. 00:22:49
If you. 00:22:51
Put the habitat on the ground. 00:22:51
They say if you have a cubby within 2 miles, they will find it. It may take five years and maybe the next year they find it. But 00:22:54
those cubbies? 00:22:57
Every fall. So they keep their genetics diverse. They they, they scatter and they create new cubbies so as they're scattering, 00:23:01
they can find new new areas. 00:23:05
I recommend. 00:23:11
A lot of people like to put oil out. 00:23:12
And try to build their their flocks that away. 00:23:14
The downside to that is Henry's quail that we're putting out. You don't have the maternal instincts so they they don't know to get 00:23:17
their chicks away from a predator coming over. 00:23:21
And there's the potential event introducing new diseases that the wild flocks don't have that the pin raised birds do. 00:23:26
So if you know Queller about 5-6 dollars a bird, I recommend 5-6 dollars management. You can you can you can improve the habitat 00:23:33
and get the wild birds back. 00:23:37
That's all I have. 00:23:43
Or or quail I mean. 00:23:47
Very close to being a spankier. 00:23:50
They're not on the threaten or endangered species list, but they're one we're watching out for because we're losing habitat. 00:23:52
And it's not necessarily we're losing habitat. 00:23:59
Just because of. 00:24:02
Subdivisions going in it's. 00:24:03
It it's understandable it's easier to farm an 80 acre field than it is. 00:24:06
10/8 acre fields with the size equipment we have. 00:24:10
Umm. 00:24:14
You know it. 00:24:15
Compounding things are are. 00:24:16
Our chemistry is getting better where we have clean fields, so we don't have. 00:24:18
Ragweed mares, tail growing out in them. 00:24:22
We don't have **** hunters anymore. *****. 00:24:25
Possums and snakes are really hard on quail chicks in the eggs, so there's just compounding things. 00:24:28
Simple practices you can do. 00:24:34
To promote quail they like the the edge habitat, so if you have. 00:24:36
Tree lines that **** up against fields or something like that. 00:24:40
Thinning your tree line back. What that does is it stimulates the seed bank. 00:24:43
You can get a lot of the annual weeds, you can get a lot of re sprouts of trees and keep them in that 8 to 10 foot or shorter 00:24:48
height. 00:24:51
So you can create habitat on the edge for them. 00:24:54
Pretty pretty easily. 00:24:57
Seafood part three, yes. Yeah, that's really critical in the winter time. The millets, the, you know, those, those sorts of 00:25:00
plants, they're high in fats. They're really good for winter food for them. 00:25:05
In the summertime, they're real thick. It's good overhead cover, they attract a lot of bugs. It's really good habitat. 00:25:10
Put out there too. 00:25:17
A quick note on that. 00:25:19
You know, last year I did a planting at the. 00:25:21
County. 00:25:26
For Conservation Club. 00:25:28
And it was a 4H group called Conservation Group. 00:25:30
And we went out into the field. 00:25:35
And planted the gentleman. 00:25:37
Joe Prather. 00:25:40
He took his tractor and he went back and forth and just kind of roughed it up a little bit and then the kids put it in little 00:25:42
Cedars and hand seeded it everywhere. 00:25:47
He came by today. 00:25:52
Because you wanted trees. 00:25:54
But when he came up. 00:25:56
And he was like. 00:25:57
You planted this and he was like. 00:26:02
Yeah, I wish I had a better phone. 00:26:04
He said I had two turkeys and he went on to tell me about the huge turkeys that he had in the seafood plot. 00:26:06
Because I ended up giving them maybe like 3 bags to plant. 00:26:12
And so. 00:26:16
He said all that stuff's doing great now. 00:26:17
But we. 00:26:20
So. 00:26:22
He took. 00:26:23
10 trees. 00:26:24
And 20 lbs of wildlife seeds. 00:26:26
Feet seafood flat, so I was like, well, here you go put some more out. But he's planting trees with the. 00:26:28
Conservation group tomorrow. 00:26:35
And I was like, well, you come to the right place. You know everything we do. Would you like to take some work? 00:26:37
OK, because I was going to say we, we have some left 23. 00:26:44
I got something more for foundation. I've got any mortars. 00:26:48
I have red oak. 00:26:51
Swamp white oak. 00:26:53
Black walnut. 00:26:54
And Tulip. 00:26:55
I only have like 4 tulips left. Those are really popular. I had 25 of each of the other species and they're going pretty fast. But 00:26:58
they're they're right there. Office is up and we'll we'll go over. 00:27:03
In the same principles apply for turkeys, too. It's hard to believe here in Floyd County because it seems like you're where you 00:27:08
look. There's turkeys, but their numbers are on the beak line, too. 00:27:12
30 yeah, I don't know. 00:27:17
It's in areas they're they're in like as it stays whole we're having less nesting ends. 00:27:21
Same reasons. 00:27:27
They like that shrubby escape cover their chicks need. 00:27:28
Add the bugs too. 00:27:31
So you'll get chiggers doing it. But if you want to see if you have good habitat, if you lay on the ground, put your head on the 00:27:33
ground. Your bottom eye is what a quail chick sees, your top eyes what a Turkey chick sees. So if you can't get through your 00:27:37
cover, it's it's too thick. 00:27:41
You'll get a lot of chiggers, but. 00:27:46
What a great. 00:27:50
Whale chicks, Turkey chick OK and if you want a tree, wide oak white oaks are the They are the host plant to the most loved 00:27:53
outdoor which are butterflies, monarchs and skippers. 00:27:59
Yep, and they love to eat them. But. 00:28:09
They're low in tannins, yeah. 00:28:11
Well, I don't know how different the swamp light oak is, but the species that I have that that was all the the oaks. 00:28:13
The only white oak they have left was the small white oak. 00:28:20
That semblance reflects wetter areas. We have a little bitter. 00:28:24
Upturn we turned probably 100 or so quail each other round. Never. 00:28:32
More favorite, you know, for profound neighbors. 00:28:36
Yeah, I didn't spray or use chemicals, anything. And course there's that. Goats, you get seed, you've got cattle. 00:28:40
And that man privilege, I mean, that **** is everywhere. 00:28:48
No more field is that firm. Say get high now. 00:28:52
And they said you. 00:28:55
So the baby. 00:28:57
Those and sheep were kind of got troubled. 00:28:59
They're not figured in play. We'll go run. 00:29:01
But the Turkey's over. They roosted in cedar trees all, all the time. 00:29:04
The in groups edge is the best. 00:29:08
Native grass for and it's not grass to sage, but it's the best one for habitat is a safe standing. All our other native grasses 00:29:11
lodge in winter time so they stay standing and. 00:29:16
Keep that corridors on the ground throughout the winter. 00:29:21
Drew, have you ever laid down and tested your? I have, that's why I know you get checked. 00:29:25
Hasn't to the job right? 00:29:34
I hope it would be as bad as Texas here because we had pretty good one, yeah. 00:29:38
As someone who ended up in a small. 00:29:44
Tick infestation. 00:29:48
Gina and I ended up. 00:29:49
In a whole nest of. 00:29:51
Ticks and that happened. We were out at the Jensen Park. 00:29:55
And we left in some park to go release hellbenders. That's why you didn't have. 00:30:01
Spray on and that's why I had no spray because we were going to leave hell vendors so we couldn't have anything on us and. 00:30:06
Yeah, when I went to change my clothes from being in the water, from releasing hellbenders is when I found all the ticks. 00:30:12
Slow seat ticks. 00:30:20
Those ones get in your socks. 00:30:23
How many pounds do you have for this spring? Oh wow, I know that I had one. 00:30:26
And it bit me, did it. I'm still crawling. 00:30:32
Mine fit me on my leg. 00:30:36
Does the world today I'll give him a big drink. Alcohol. 00:30:37
100% alcohol. I bet they do. 00:30:42
Gotta be careful with about certain areas. 00:30:48
All right. 00:30:53
Go Nothing much for me. Unfortunately I haven't been around this office as of late. 00:30:57
That is Clark County under my. 00:31:06
Our wing of places I'm going to. 00:31:08
A little bit more stretched thin. 00:31:11
But looking forward to helping out with Pollinator Day. 00:31:14
And. 00:31:19
So you're I've been going to lots of trainings lately, went to the Southern Indiana Integration Conference. 00:31:22
Went to you, uh, something that. 00:31:29
Muscatta took Wildlife Refuge SE conservation happenings. 00:31:31
I got to hear from a lot of Forest Service being our folks there. 00:31:36
And really just trying to. 00:31:42
You know. 00:31:44
Being on top of things, helping with. 00:31:45
Kills transects, I know. 00:31:49
He has ended years but. 00:31:51
Just yeah, keeping an eye out for things and then I don't know if there's. 00:31:55
Any interest but Orange County has a. 00:32:00
Event coming up May 1st. It's called dealing with damage. 00:32:04
Talks about. 00:32:07
The wind damage in. 00:32:10
Doing the salvage harvest, especially after. 00:32:13
Your woods are in Orange County. Orange County. 00:32:16
May 3rd, May 1st it's it'll be in the Paoli Experimental Forest. 00:32:19
And then they're also going to talk a little bit about log landings and. 00:32:26
Doing some plantings in log landings after you've done harvest so that. 00:32:31
Biosphere kind of gets. 00:32:36
Injection of life. 00:32:38
Paoli Experimental forest. 00:32:41
Just sat there, 137. 00:32:44
337 uh. 00:32:46
Yeah, South of 37. So if you take 150 over your. 00:32:49
Pretty much there. 00:32:55
Are you going to Gina? 00:32:59
Or good good. 00:33:05
All right. You're moving on the whole business then? 00:33:08
Review meeting. 00:33:12
Nothing to review. 00:33:15
You don't get it right. 00:33:16
Election of offices. 00:33:18
We'll get that one. I'm not here right now. 00:33:20
Spending investment amount. 00:33:24
So Yep, you all agreed to 15. Just to update to everybody, Laura did meet me at the bank. She is now on the checking account. 00:33:27
However, our savings account is different account. 00:33:34
So we have to get it authorized on that one too, before we can move some money. 00:33:39
But 15 gig is going to come out of the savings account and go into Trust Indiana just as soon as all the As are dotted and T's are 00:33:44
crossed. 00:33:48
The existing policies we still haven't met. 00:33:54
We haven't met, but anytime you guys would like to meet, I know it's probably gonna be more optimal for you. 00:33:57
After May. 00:34:03
Yeah. 00:34:05
Or in the. 00:34:06
Afternoons like this, yeah. 00:34:07
Yeah. Well, I mean, is that something? 00:34:10
Whatever, it's great, girl. I can. I can probably work in anything. 00:34:16
Would it be helpful? 00:34:21
Sorry for. 00:34:23
Would be helpful to have something. 00:34:24
To look at like a starting point. 00:34:27
Mm-hmm. OK. 00:34:29
OK, you OK? I was like I could. 00:34:31
No, no, What I what I will do is I will gather examples of policies from other SWCES. 00:34:35
And we have plenty of those on Conservation Link where policies are already there. I can just download copies of them and then. 00:34:41
We can talk about what policies we want to develop and then go from there once we determine. 00:34:49
What policies we actually want to put in place. 00:34:55
Yeah, yeah. And like I said, I can bring examples. They're all on conservation links. So I can download examples and we just need 00:34:58
pick date to. 00:35:02
Great. Together we want to do that now. 00:35:07
I'm a I'm a fan. 00:35:09
Of not kicking things down the road. 00:35:11
Well, I'm all about putting a date on the calendar. 00:35:12
Probably I'm just gonna pull it up. 00:35:17
The last week of April, I'm going to take some time off. 00:35:31
Yeah, I won't be here last week. 00:35:36
OK, I'll get everything situated for May, but. 00:35:39
Well, you want to do it early May. 00:35:45
We can do it early May or we can do it in the next couple of weeks, whatever. The next couple of weeks, that's fine too. 00:35:48
Yeah. How about in the next couple of weeks? Let's yeah, let's do next couple of weeks. 00:35:54
In the evening, right? 00:36:03
Or after 4. 00:36:05
Yeah, that's fine. That's OK. 00:36:08
Is that evening. 00:36:12
Happy hour, matter of fact. Well, there's an idea. 00:36:17
I don't, I mean if you guys would like to meet outside of business hours, we can absolutely meet outside of 4:00 and have a social 00:36:23
gathering. 00:36:28
I mean, I don't drink, but I will. 00:36:34
Absolutely partake of a mocktail. 00:36:36
I like my mocktails. 00:36:41
What days of the week? 00:36:45
Alright, so in looking at the rest of my calendar days, that would work. 00:36:46
Good for me. 00:36:51
Pretty much for Tuesdays. 00:36:53
OK. 00:36:54
So in looking at this, uh. 00:36:58
I could do the 7th, 14th. 00:37:02
Or 21st. 00:37:04
I am. 00:37:07
Doing Master Gardener and Pollinator day stuff on the 7th so. 00:37:09
Looks like the. 00:37:14
14th. 00:37:15
No, it's 25th, 25th, but there's like a booth chair meeting and then a master gardener meeting. 00:37:18
On the 7th so I could do 14. 00:37:24
OK, alright, 14th. 00:37:26
April 14th. 00:37:32
Sooner we get the policies in place, the sooner we can get a ship. 00:37:34
Yeah. 00:37:38
You can't buy a shirt without policy. 00:37:40
I haven't heard that one until recently. Yeah. Ohh. About the having a closing policy, yeah. 00:37:42
Yeah, and again, it turns out that literally you can spend money on any. 00:37:48
Anything you want, as long as you have a policy to cover. 00:37:53
SBOA will not take exceptions. Seems that way. 00:37:57
It really is. I mean whether we want to provide. 00:38:00
Meals at other events beyond the annual meeting if you have a policy to cover. 00:38:03
You're good to go. 00:38:08
You want to buy shirts and boots? 00:38:09
You're good to go, you just have to have a policy to cover it. 00:38:11
I don't think we need all that, but I think we absolutely need some basic policy. So April 14th, what's good for you? 00:38:14
It's 4 OK. 00:38:22
4:00. 00:38:25
Do we want to meet here? Do we want to meet elsewhere? 00:38:26
I mean, you're having to come the farthest. She and I live literally like a couple blocks from another. 00:38:30
Where we all want to. 00:38:35
I'm gonna remind me to go along the way. Y'all want me? 00:38:37
Immediately all city kitchen, whatever. 00:38:40
Go back. 00:38:44
Fall City Kitchen. Sounds good. Sounds great. 00:38:46
4:00 All right, so there it is, 4:00. 00:38:51
False City. 00:38:58
Over 14, right? 00:39:01
Yeah, 414, there you go. 00:39:02
Perfect. 00:39:05
4/14 at 4:00. 00:39:08
There we go. 00:39:11
Get all the floors. 00:39:13
And Falsi Brewery, OK. 00:39:14
And we're gonna have a. 00:39:17
Policy Committee meeting. 00:39:18
Was Laura gonna be on that? And. 00:39:23
No, it was just going to be the three of us. 00:39:25
Wanted to volunteer to be on that with us. 00:39:31
Alright, next thing here. 00:39:36
2026 Annual plan of work. 00:39:38
Yep, so. 00:39:40
I think we have a couple more things to add to that, including some dates for our bat house workshop. 00:39:43
And then Adam Carr said something today about doing a pasture workshop in the fall. You gotta do a follow up on the Kingston time. 00:39:50
And we're definitely going to do a follow up on the Jensen Bamboo. 00:39:57
And I am re tweaking the thing, the plan of work and I've added a. 00:40:01
Completion column. I think Laura and Melanie asked for completion column. 00:40:07
So I'm having to reformat the thing and start over from scratch because that one was created with the old space bar. 00:40:11
Do you need help? 00:40:22
No, I I I'm putting everything in tables. 00:40:24
But I've just recreated the tables but I can't copy and paste it because of all of the spaces and it won't. 00:40:27
Copy and paste into my. 00:40:35
Table columns. 00:40:36
Have you tried ChatGPT? 00:40:38
I have not because. 00:40:40
I don't so no. I am recreating the document in a table so that. 00:40:44
Whoever follows me don't have to. 00:40:49
Takeouts. 00:40:51
Faces on the space. You all know what I'm talking about, don't you? 00:40:52
Yes, yes. 00:40:56
When you've put spaces instead of using the tab button and you've used the spacebar. 00:40:58
Yes. 00:41:04
Yes, that's how this it's old it's but anyway. 00:41:05
I'm recreating the wheel. 00:41:08
And so we're probably going to have to adopt it next month. That's what I was working on when Co came in, so. 00:41:10
In addition to adding a couple of more things. 00:41:17
Yeah, well. 00:41:21
Oh, I'm sure, yes, we have a lot coming up. 00:41:25
OK, All right. Well, I'm free pick up and pick them up. 00:41:29
March 20th. 00:41:34
Done. 00:41:35
No more not your dog. 00:41:36
There's gonna be a guy come back next week. 00:41:43
Whole bag, Charlie. 00:41:45
But. 00:41:47
We'll send you back. 00:41:48
Of the original bud. 00:41:49
Yeah, he he's the only one still alive. 00:41:51
What is another note still alive and she? 00:41:54
Yeah, yeah, the the Buddha, Bud Rd. The two of them are still alive, fam. 00:42:02
Wanna take care of her 105 acres next to my property. 00:42:08
Yeah, 105 See, she wouldn't miss 5. 00:42:12
Oh well, that's it's a shame to let the old house go. 00:42:17
You say it's got a hole in the roof up right now and and then. 00:42:21
Play Buzzard's Rent. 00:42:24
Got The White Stripes on. 00:42:25
They can't take care of them. 00:42:27
There you go. 00:42:37
I like the spring fish sale. We're still doing that right? We are indeed. I have not set the since the press release because the. 00:42:42
Sale is not actually going to start until like the second week of April. 00:42:49
I'm going to send a press release to the paper. I have it ready to go. I just haven't sent it because I know as soon as I send it 00:42:57
people go start calling and I'm not ready for that right now. 00:43:01
Yeah, just a minute called 2000 minutes. 00:43:07
Are they shipped in a container like oil too? 00:43:30
No, I've had this out on the board, but again. 00:43:36
I'm not gonna open the sale until like the 22nd, but yeah, 12/12/25 for a pound. 00:43:39
On board 2 so fish sounds good. It's this month, right? 00:43:56
Uh, delivery will be on May 7th. 00:44:01
Uh, any other thing on an old old business? Any other thing? 00:44:18
No old business. 00:44:28
Novak Djokovic. 00:44:29
Forward picture we will be tabling that. 00:44:32
The bank or anything? 00:44:36
He did not. He did not and I didn't seem last month and I'm about to. 00:44:38
Diminishing. Uh-huh. I think so too. 00:44:44
Mm-hmm. OK. 00:44:50
A review and the golf annual plan at work. 00:44:51
I just told you we're we'll be doing that next month too. 00:44:54
In the following day next booth and April 25th. 00:44:58
All right, who was scum and hang out because. 00:45:02
And I know you have obligations. 00:45:07
You have obligations for Pollinator Day, so should we do? Are you going to do that? 00:45:11
I don't know if I'm going to be on Bat Booth or if I'm gonna be on. I mean, I'm giving 2 talks. 00:45:17
So that's. 00:45:23
You're doing the Pollinator Pocket pocket, Yes, Pollinator Pocket talks. And then I'm going to be, I think I'm going to be setting 00:45:24
up the bat booth. 00:45:28
And I might be at the. 00:45:32
Native Floyd pregnant Habitat booth as well. 00:45:34
So. 00:45:38
Riding around, yeah. 00:45:40
You think you could be there? Yep, I should be able to make it OK. 00:45:41
We'll plan to hang out in our booth because. 00:45:46
Ron will be there and Tom will be there. 00:45:50
Kara's gonna be. 00:45:53
Otherwise involved. Laura will be otherwise involved. 00:45:55
Of course she'll be there with. 00:45:58
Picard Valley Nursery. 00:46:01
So if Lisa wants to come, please. She was there last year. Oh good. 00:46:04
And then? 00:46:08
We still have the. 00:46:11
Seed food plot to give away, which I figure we'll still have some to give away then. And we have our books that we can give away. 00:46:13
So, and we have our seeds that we can give away if anybody wants those. 00:46:20
So we have plenty of things to to keep in the the booth. I guess The thing is, do you want to be there the entire day or do you 00:46:24
wanna work? 00:46:28
Half the time and split it up. 00:46:32
What we do last year, Tom. 00:46:35
I think we were there the whole time, all of us, because I have a picture of all of us there together. 00:46:37
What? And we hung out, and we we gave away them. 00:46:42
Or 930? 00:46:45
No, 1010, I think it 10 is when it opens to the public. 00:46:48
Yes, you can set up starting at 8:30 because you'll probably be there for all vendors. Yeah. 00:46:52
Yeah, Gmail includes us and under the Big 10, so we don't have to do our own. And then if you're going to do. 00:46:57
Birdhouses. I'll bring the tub again and we can get people to sign up like we did last year. 00:47:04
Because that was really fine. It was a great way to get people. 00:47:09
And engaged in in talking to us. 00:47:12
Ron makes bird houses that he gives away. And so we just had a sign that said, you know, if you want to win a free birdhouse, sign 00:47:14
up. 00:47:18
And so every. 00:47:22
Hour. I think every hour we gave one away. 00:47:23
And I will let him pull one out and call him. You want to work house? And they come back real excited. I think it kind of irked 00:47:26
the guy that was selling birdhouses a little bit away, but. 00:47:31
Yeah, very good. Yeah, well, we gotta buy yours. I gotta get rid of some. Are we gonna have the date for the bat workshop? 00:47:37
Bath house workshop. 00:47:45
It is May 18th. 00:47:47
Tentatively. 00:47:50
OK. Because we could get sign ups for that? 00:47:51
We already have people on the right list from the last go around and I have a list of names and I put myself on that, Yes, and 00:47:55
Eliza must be on there too. 00:47:59
But yeah, and I had a lady e-mail me this week and say hey, I'm just touching base. See if you're still around that bad house. 00:48:04
Yeah, that was one of the most popular Dagger workshops that we have hosted in the last few years. I mean, that sign up was done 00:48:09
in 2 days. 00:48:13
We. We should. 00:48:18
Ask for a donation. 00:48:20
My suggestion on. 00:48:22
Or should we? 00:48:25
Ask for like a donation. 00:48:26
For it, so people show up. 00:48:30
When they sign up. 00:48:31
Because we, I know when we went, when we had it last fall, there were some people that didn't. 00:48:32
But only a couple of them. But everybody signed up through the park. 00:48:37
Oh, I didn't have. OK, OK, so you're going to do that. 00:48:42
Same way again, OK. 00:48:45
I'll let I'll let him do it that way and that way we're actually. 00:48:46
They were calling me. 00:48:50
But they were getting their info from the parks flyer. I did in fact keep the list because if you didn't talk to me, you weren't 00:48:52
on the list, OK? 00:48:55
I was the list keeper. 00:49:03
Keeper of the loose. 00:49:04
I thought the amount of people there this last time was a good amount though, yes. 00:49:06
Yeah, kind of have some more one-on-one interaction with the instructor and people were working on the ground. Yeah, yeah. 00:49:10
But um. 00:49:18
We can advertise it at Pollinator Day. How about that? There you go. 00:49:20
Will advertise it and tell people that they must call to register otherwise you don't have a spot because I. 00:49:24
Have to cut it off. 00:49:30
Sure. 00:49:32
You're good and you're older and then I'll get with Jay and, uh. 00:49:33
Do the whole thing. We will probably well this go around. 00:49:37
Now remind you we spent the money last time and Matt agreed that we would have see it. So I told him he could pay for the supplies 00:49:41
in the next 1. So let me talk to Matt first. 00:49:47
And see if he's willing to pony it up. And if not, then we'll have to make a motion for that at our May meeting to pay for that. 00:49:52
But. 00:49:56
I guess more importantly is I need to get Jay. 00:50:00
Make sure Jason good. 00:50:02
Is Jade's bat house friend? 00:50:04
Jay has become a. 00:50:11
Fixture in all of our lives and when I say that like. 00:50:14
He started working on Gina's house. 00:50:19
And he's been renovating and doing projects Gene's house for three years, OK. 00:50:22
He he's done stuff at my house. 00:50:27
He's done stuff at my parents house, he's done stuff for people that live around the corner, he's done stuff for other. 00:50:29
Master Gardeners, because there was one that was just at a meeting there that was there for Betty's retirement party. And she 00:50:38
asked Gina about Jay. And she was like, oh, yeah, Jay's gonna work for her. Yeah. Good, good. 00:50:43
Great person, salt in the earth, and he's a magnificent woodworker. 00:50:50
And we got education outreach events through June. 00:51:14
Yeah, so again, Pollinator Day is going to be in April. The bathhouse workshop is May. 00:51:18
And then? 00:51:23
Off the top of my head, I can't remember what June is. I don't have it written down. 00:51:24
Uh, it's probably on my genome. 00:51:28
Thing Gina and I have planning days where. 00:51:31
Let me just write down all the things we're going to do for the next couple of months and, uh. 00:51:35
I don't remember what genius, I'm sorry. 00:51:41
This meeting I don't have a breakdown. I gave the number, sorry. 00:51:44
Bring other new businesses. I was gonna say, do you remember what we were doing? 00:51:48
Did you since you were gone? 00:51:51
Yeah, there will be a wee break. 00:51:54
I know we got some of this. 00:51:57
Yes, in Clark County has some that I want to go help them with too. 00:51:59
And I love that they have. 00:52:05
We started there. 00:52:06
Is anyone on the Greenway? 00:52:08
Origin Park, yes, they're going to do one at Origin Park. They're also going to do one at Charlestown State Park. They're going to 00:52:10
do one at Falls in the Ohio, so. 00:52:14
Yeah, I'm, I'm who is. 00:52:19
Kind of starting that group back up. 00:52:21
Do you know who's Morgan Apple Morgan is? So Morgan is the new employee in Clark County? 00:52:24
So it's it used to be called chirp. You want to take a photo and now? 00:52:30
It's. 00:52:34
Of what are they calling themselves now? It's not chirp anymore, it's something. There's an extra C in it. 00:52:36
I think now. 00:52:42
Might be Clark County instead of just Clark. 00:52:44
So let's just chirp. But now it's a new name. 00:52:47
Oh yeah. So, um. 00:52:50
One of them is gonna be. 00:52:55
At Clark State Forest and one of them is going to be at Origin Park. 00:52:56
Mm-hmm. That's coming right up. I was thinking that was. 00:53:06
Is we're going to work with them, our system is going to work with them on the Origin Park, right? 00:53:12
Right. 00:53:17
I'm just trying to remember the dates though, yeah. 00:53:19
So thank you. 00:53:22
Any other? 00:53:29
No, no, nothing else that I can think of. 00:53:31
Again, as Gina and I've. 00:53:38
Are going to be doing watersheds with the 5th grades. 00:53:40
Coming up in May, next month, we're going to hit all three fifth grade or all three schools. 00:53:45
Where fifth grades are, and we're planning to see every fifth grade class. 00:53:51
To teach them watersheds like we teach 3rd grade about habitat and weather. 00:53:56
So. 00:54:00
That'll be going on besides. 00:54:00
That they have their garden clean up. That was when we had our weed wrangle because we just did a weed wrangle at Hammersmith. 00:54:03
Myself and Rosa. 00:54:12
And Nat and. 00:54:14
Dean and Dave Bryant. 00:54:17
Awesome. Yeah, so it turns out Dean is running for some New Albany. 00:54:19
Ship something? Another. 00:54:23
So. 00:54:25
What's his last name? Brian. 00:54:27
OK, it's it's. 00:54:29
Oh. 00:54:31
That's great. 00:54:34
Bryant, last name's Brian. 00:54:37
Dina. 00:54:39
Tina Bryant and she's running for like the, I think the oven council or something. 00:54:40
I digress. 00:54:45
I can't think of anything else that's going on. 00:54:47
Things are good. Things are moving right along here. April is never really busy. That's why you know, obviously our our list of 00:54:54
things pretty short. 00:54:58
I do need you got a sign Claims, Yeah. 00:55:03
Laura's not here, so. 00:55:06
Check don't get signed. 00:55:08
You sign it anywhere. 00:55:15
Oh no, no. What? What? What? 00:55:17
Yup. What? 00:55:23
I infringe claims. 00:55:27
Oh, hey. 00:55:28
Remember Me telling you about Minna Fog? 00:55:30
It's a real thing. It's a very real thing. Umm. 00:55:32
No, I didn't print claims. 00:55:39
I made your claims but I didn't print claims and I'm sorry about that. You'll have to sign all of them next month. 00:55:41
OK. 00:55:48
Well, no. 00:55:53
Three people have to sign the claims, yeah. 00:55:56
Now the good thing is, is that you all made motions to cover all these and you. 00:55:59
You've done the finances for the month, so you know these were it. 00:56:04
But. 00:56:07
Yeah. 00:56:08
I I made you planes I didn't know. 00:56:09
And then make this out. 00:56:13
This I had to order your all's badges through. 00:56:15
My Amazon account. 00:56:18
Because. 00:56:21
The. 00:56:22
Individual. 00:56:23
Badge. I personalized each individual badge and when I did that. 00:56:24
I couldn't send the cart to Susanna. 00:56:28
You know how you can send your whole Amazon card to someone? Yep. Well normally what I do is I put things in the Amazon cart and 00:56:31
then I send them to Susanna because the county has a an Amazon account. 00:56:37
That's tax free and all the things. 00:56:43
Well, I kept trying to send her my card. I couldn't link it to her. There was no way for her to get my customized badges out of my 00:56:46
card. 00:56:50
So I had to pay for him with my own Amazon account. 00:56:54
Which is why they went to my house and. 00:56:57
Yes, there is. 00:57:00
Taxes, but I'm not asking for the taxes back so. 00:57:01
But anyway. 00:57:05
When Laura gets here, she can sign them. 00:57:06
Ron can't sign that either. 00:57:08
He's not on the account. 00:57:11
Only the person on the account can sign it. 00:57:14
Do you have two people? 00:57:17
Well, myself and Laura. 00:57:20
Are the only two people who are authorized on the account you got removed? 00:57:22
I believe that is the next item of business, Sir. 00:57:33
Adjourned. I second. 00:57:37
Everybody say aye. 00:57:38
All right, one hour. I love you people. 00:57:42