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They said was meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation District in Floyd County. 00:00:00
Did I hear approval of the last? 00:00:04
Mark Meeting. 00:00:06
Yes, a second. 00:00:10
All in favor, aye? 00:00:11
Financial Report. 00:00:16
Yes, Sir. So we started the month. 00:00:17
What $88,377.62 in checking and we ended the month with? 00:00:20
$88,976.11 did you like that wrong. You see how that went up and then we have $17,238.35 an hour. 00:00:27
Check your savings account for a grand total of. 00:00:39
$106,214.46. 00:00:41
And yes, that 15 still set in there because. 00:00:47
I'm gonna have to get with him. 00:00:50
Nissan savings account, not Laura. 00:00:52
It was about 15 I left yes and we still. 00:00:56
Cortana, you're on the savings account. 00:01:00
Yeah. 00:01:07
Alrighty, I've got quite a bit so I apologize. 00:01:08
We're here for the time. 00:01:13
So programs wise they have pre approved applications for equip. 00:01:16
In Floyd County, there were three applications approved for funding of the five applications. 00:01:22
One was Activity Plan, which is a written forestry management plan if you're not in classified forest. 00:01:28
Or you don't have an active force or management plan on hand. This is incentive payments to hire a private forester to write your 00:01:35
plans the real in depth. I've seen them up to like 8090 pages depending on the sides of the woods. It goes into everything from. 00:01:43
Invasive species. 00:01:51
The percent in your woods what your timber having 4 feet of temper you have it's really in depth plan 43rd peg per acre on that. I 00:01:52
mean it would the chip in so the payments are based off of. 00:01:59
75% of in a perfect world, what it would cost to get a written plan from a private forester. 00:02:06
Now Foresters a lot of times know what we pay and they charge along those lines, so usually you can get it. 00:02:12
Cheaper but. 00:02:18
It's they're, they're real in depth plans and, and they're the first step for someone who wants to do conservation in their woods. 00:02:20
We have a plan on hand that we know what to base the conservation off of. So there was one of those pre-approved for. 00:02:26
Funding in the county and then we had two wildlife contracts selected for funding there through the. 00:02:32
The Novo. The Northern Bobwhite. 00:02:37
Well, initiative that the state has, it's a, it's a, it's a partnership. 00:02:40
Money specifically for wildlife quail habitat. 00:02:45
Two of those, one is the establishment of Paul. 00:02:49
Pollinator habitat, I think it's. 00:02:51
6 or 9 acres. 00:02:54
Of native pollinators getting put in here in Floyd County and then the other one. 00:02:56
Is established native grasses and native flowers, but it's ranked native grasses and flowers, so the plans are to. 00:03:01
Do dormant season disc eating strips bring prescribed fire establishing some some monarch specific habitat? 00:03:08
So there's some pretty good applications. 00:03:16
Total applications, 60% of the applications in the county were selected for funding. If you take out activity plans which 00:03:21
typically get funded at 100% rate and they did again this year. 00:03:26
We have 50% of Floyd County's application selected for. 00:03:32
Funding. I was on a call this morning. 00:03:35
We had 17. 00:03:39
Or 2021 point $1 million. 00:03:40
And applications funded. 00:03:43
In the applications. 00:03:45
Submitted there was 143,000,000 worth of applications so pretty pretty low funding this year. 00:03:48
I'm currently working on quality assurance. For these I have to get all the. 00:03:56
Paperwork put together and submitted to our area office and they reviewed all to make sure I'm not. 00:04:00
You know that good old voice system giving people and and all that so. 00:04:04
I have to have those completed by the 29th of this month. I'm I'm pretty far along on those. 00:04:08
Comm. The deadline to sign applications would be June 24th. 00:04:14
I'm leaving for vacation on the 17th or 18th so I'll have them done prior to then. 00:04:19
And then they'll be signed into contract if the participants wish to proceed by July 2nd. 00:04:24
CRP wise. 00:04:30
Continuous CRP sign up 65 started on February 12th. 00:04:32
July 31st is the last day producers can submit offers for sign up 65 and these will be. 00:04:36
Obligated and started into contract after October 1st 2026. My current workload I'm working on planning and ranking CSP 00:04:42
applications. 00:04:46
Working on putting together application folders for free approved applications and getting them submitted for quality assurance 00:04:51
and working on CRP maintenance and establishment checks. 00:04:55
I know the wildlife wants to go for our biologist has already been out and he's already got those checked for this year, so. 00:05:00
We're in pretty good shape there. 00:05:05
The District or the DC talking points that our state office sends out every month for us to update the boards? 00:05:09
Farm bill programs, WISE, The agricultural conservation easement program, The wetland reserve easements. 00:05:15
There's a current sign up going on. 00:05:23
ASAP applications may be submitted to your local NRCS office at any time. However, applications for the OR. 00:05:25
However, applications for the second round of funding must be submitted. 00:05:32
On or before May 22nd, 2026. Applications received after May 22nd will be considered during the next funding period. 00:05:36
The agricultural conservation easement program. 00:05:44
The new deadline for entries to apply is May 29th, 2026. Applications received after May 29th will be considered in the next round 00:05:47
of funding. 00:05:51
The Conservation Stewardship Program. This is one I'm working on big time right now. 00:05:56
Floyd County doesn't have any applications, but I've got a few in Clark County. 00:06:00
Indiana currently has 770 applications for CSP with 16.5 million in allocation. The backlog is estimated to be a 20 million. 00:06:05
With an updated payment of 2026, that backlog would be higher due to the increased price payment of payments. 00:06:14
So it's it's good for the land owners to get selected because the prices are higher. 00:06:20
Or the. 00:06:25
Incentive payments are higher, but it means that our backlog will be bigger. 00:06:26
With the regenerative pilot program that. 00:06:30
Umm, department of. 00:06:34
DDHS I think in the USDA partnered on 25% of those funds have to go to the regenerative pilot program. So this is for. 00:06:38
Healthier foods and healthier soils, so. 00:06:45
That'll bottleneck it sound because there's some stipulations on what practices can go into those fun pools. 00:06:48
The Environmental Quality Incentive Program which I just wrapped up and I'm working on QA with. 00:06:54
Currently, Indiana has pre approved 467 equip applications totaling 21.5 million. 00:06:59
Indiana has a significant backlog totaling 120 million in the EQUIP program in 2026. Equip also has a new focus for 25% of that 00:07:05
budget going to the regenerative pilot program. 00:07:11
We, we, we funded all the applications we could through regenerative pilot program and there's an $18 billion backlog in that 00:07:17
program as well. 00:07:21
The Regional conservation Partnership program RCPP which is the farmers helping health vendors. 00:07:25
Indiana and there's there's more RPS across the state, but. 00:07:31
Indiana has pre approved 27 RCPP applications totaling 2.5 million. 00:07:35
The Mous, I know we've talked about that in the past months. 00:07:42
They said that the reviews are. 00:07:46
The the reviews will be conducted from April through July. 00:07:49
With the completion of the corrective actions targeted by September 30th. As a result, this process of this process, the timeline 00:07:52
for obligation to SWCD chair signatures. 00:07:57
On the MO, US will be moved to begin after October 1st, 2026. 00:08:02
If you all have any questions on this, you can send them to me or you can send them straight to Jared Chu at our state office. 00:08:07
Avian influenza update. 00:08:14
As of April 28th, there are currently 9 active cases the highlighted Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the state Crawford County. 00:08:16
Elkhart La Grange counties affect more in It affects more than 240,000 birds. 00:08:23
What this means is that if I have field visits and I know they have poultry or they've spread manure, I can't go on those farms. I 00:08:29
try to meet them either at the office or at the shop or something where I won't be transmitting that avian influence at other 00:08:33
farms. 00:08:38
I don't know. Did you receive? 00:08:44
The e-mail on the local working groups by chance? OK. 00:08:46
So in years past you guys have probably assisted with the local working groups. What this is, is for all of our conservation 00:08:49
programs, we want a local input on what conservation practices get put on the ground. 00:08:56
So what it is is that you get community leaders together, people interested in conservation, they fill out surveys on. 00:09:03
What resource concerns they see is the priority in the in the county. 00:09:11
When I do ranking the local work group. 00:09:16
Responses. 00:09:19
Account for 15% of the score, so it's a pretty big chunk in the score. 00:09:20
How the farm Bill designates local working group as a subcommittee of the State Technical Committee. 00:09:24
With focus on resource priority at the local community, these priority resource concerns would be used to prioritize the ranking 00:09:30
and Environmental Quality instead of program the Regional Conservation Partnership program. 00:09:36
In the Conservation Stewardship program, the local working group should consist of representatives who are able to provide input 00:09:41
to the wide range of natural resources agricultural concerns for a county. 00:09:46
Local workers who consist of a diverse group of individuals from public and private entities interested in conservation in the 00:09:51
county. 00:09:55
It is the responsibility of the local soil and water conservation district. 00:09:59
To chair the local work group, at a minimum, the following individuals will be will be invited to participate in the local work 00:10:03
group. 00:10:07
Members of Solar Water Board NRCS designated conservationists. 00:10:12
Agriculture. 00:10:16
Producers representing a variety of crops and livestock operations in the county, including but not limited to commodity crops, 00:10:17
specialty crops, confined animal facility producers, pastoring livestock producers. 00:10:24
Historically underserved producers. 00:10:30
These individuals are not required to have a conservation expertise. 00:10:32
Non industrial private forest land owners. 00:10:36
Members of the County FSA committee, Cooperative Extension board members and other federal state representatives and professionals 00:10:40
like the Vision of Fish and Wildlife, Division of Forestry, Department of Natural or of Agriculture. 00:10:47
Watershed specialists, private contractors and consultants and non government organizations. 00:10:54
You can also consider inviting your state and local elected officials, biologists, armed Corps of Engineers, those those sorts of 00:11:00
people. 00:11:04
At a minimum, the Local Working Group meeting will be announced and published 14 days prior to the meeting and at least one or 00:11:09
more newspapers or any other suitable media circulation. 00:11:14
And I'd be more than happy to help in any way I can with getting it set up, getting people interested, and they've sent us a slide 00:11:20
deck. 00:11:24
What I try to do is look in the past and what's currently going on and seeing what practices are people are the most interested in 00:11:28
the county. 00:11:32
And going through what resource concerns are addressed this morning at the Clark County Board, I talked about if you want 00:11:37
pollinators are really. 00:11:40
Popular in this area. 00:11:44
You're improving water quality and animal terrestrial habitats. So those are two resource concerns that may be looked at by the 00:11:46
local working group. 00:11:49
How it works is everyone fills out their own survey and then I compile the data and it averages. That averages out the score. 00:11:54
For everyone who submits a. 00:12:02
For response SO. 00:12:06
I didn't know if you all were interested in getting a meeting set up here. 00:12:09
The deadline to submit them is October 9th 2026, but with the political climate and how last year I was off the whole month of 00:12:13
October. 00:12:18
To shut down, if we could do it and all that, September would be preferred. We have historically done it in September and or 00:12:22
October at the latest, but historically we do it in September and we do it before. 00:12:28
Our board meeting, but that was when our board meeting was a little bit later in the day, so we can adjust the time to whatever. 00:12:35
Uh, historically speaking. 00:12:42
We have been able to get a handful of people here. 00:12:44
But what really helped us was taking some of those surveys to one of the events that we were at, and in fact, Laura did. 00:12:47
And had people filling out the survey. 00:12:55
And while I think that was great, we also couldn't verify that all those people were Floyd County residents. So I don't know that 00:12:58
that's the best way to go about it. I've I've seen other counties when they mail out the invitations or if you. 00:13:05
You know, invite all these people, attach the local working group survey to that in, in 90% of the time they don't show up to the 00:13:12
meeting. They they, they mail it back to us. 00:13:17
So and there's a slide deck, so we're in here, I can pull it up on the big screen or something to go through and what the 00:13:23
different resource concerns are. 00:13:27
To go from there on that. So if you all if you want to. 00:13:32
At a event, have people fill it out. I can make sure I'm there. 00:13:36
Kind of answer questions or you don't have a meeting to do it as well any kind of outreach that we do between now and then if you 00:13:40
give me the form available on behalf of the. 00:13:45
Fill it out OK. 00:13:50
Sounds like a plan, all right. 00:13:51
Umm, from there upcoming events, umm, Monday, the farmers helping health vendors, spring partner meeting, umm they've they've been 00:13:53
really good in the past. I've really enjoyed going to them. There will be a Zoom option available. If you're unable to make it, 00:13:58
you can tune into the Zoom. 00:14:03
Depending on how tomorrow goes on my workload. 00:14:08
I may or may not watch the zoom or go in person, but I'll be sure to TuneIn. 00:14:11
Next Friday and Saturday, Harrison County soil and water. 00:14:17
Is having a pass to workshop and grassland contest. This is really cool opportunity. 00:14:21
It's it's, it's open to the public in the morning, anyone can come but in the afternoon. 00:14:26
Harrison County's FFA goes to Missouri every year and does a grass school judging contest. It's just like a soil judging contest, 00:14:32
but. 00:14:35
For the grazing side of it. 00:14:39
So what they'll do is they'll have a workshop in the morning and there's a whole list of speakers that are going to be there. 00:14:41
And then they'll have lunch. And then after lunch, the kids will actually go out and they'll do the the contest on the farm like 00:14:48
they'll be doing out in Missouri. 00:14:52
And after that's over? 00:14:57
Jason Tower, who's the property manager at Side Pack. 00:14:59
Robert Savanzakar, grazing specialist And then I'll be doing the wildlife side of it. 00:15:02
We'll go through and answer all the questions that are on the test. 00:15:06
Explain how he came to those answers. So they're kind of tuned up before they go in June to the. 00:15:10
To the the contest. 00:15:15
Next Wednesday I'll be on leave. 00:15:18
The Monday after that is Memorial Day. 00:15:20
And then the 28th, we have an all employee meeting with our state office scheduled for Zoom. 00:15:23
Past events was equipped with application deadline on the 17th and we had a CSP training on the 22nd and 23rd. 00:15:29
Of April. 00:15:35
My conservation talking point for the month. 00:15:37
I I was on a field visit here in Floyd County and the landowner was. 00:15:39
Really interested in. 00:15:43
In their yards trying to convert as much habitat to native. 00:15:45
Native plants native. 00:15:49
Pollinators. 00:15:51
Native trees, the whole 9 yards. 00:15:52
Doctor Doug Tallamy is an entomologist out of Delaware. 00:15:54
Pink Teller from one of the northeastern states, and he's big into turning your backyard into a National Park. 00:15:59
And he had mentioned. 00:16:05
In the I was sending them a YouTube talk he had and he had mentioned this article. 00:16:07
From EO Wilson. 00:16:12
How This was published back in 1978. He was an entomologist at the time. 00:16:14
It's a really good read. 00:16:19
It's 2 pages. It's called the The little things that run the world. The importance of conservation for invertebrates. 00:16:21
I thought it was. It was. 00:16:28
It opens your mind and makes you think a little bit, he said to start. And he's just something. Key points. 00:16:30
To start, there are vastly more kinds of invertebrates, and there are vertebrates at the present time in 1987. 00:16:37
On the basis of. 00:16:45
Tabulation that I have just compiled. 00:16:46
I've estimated a total of 42,580 vertebrate species. 00:16:49
Intent and contrast There are 990,000 species of invertebrates. 00:16:53
Have been described, of which 290,000 alone are Beatles. 00:17:00
He put as an example. 00:17:05
On one hectare in the Amazon. 00:17:08
There contain a few dozen birds and mammals. 00:17:10
A well over a billion invertebrates so. 00:17:13
They're, I mean, they're prevalent on the landscape and they're very important. 00:17:16
There are about two 2000 kilograms drive weight of animal tissue per hectare, so for 2.5 acres. 00:17:21
At which 93 percent, 93% consists of vertebrates. 00:17:28
What really got me thinking was. 00:17:33
The truth is that we need invertebrates, but they don't need us. 00:17:36
If invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months. Most of the fish and 00:17:40
amphibians and birds and mammals would crash to extinction. Extinction in the same time. 00:17:46
Next we go the bulk of the flowering plants and then the physical structure of the majority of the forests and the terrestrial 00:17:52
habitats of the world. So. 00:17:56
These invertebrates are the key to cycling nutrients. 00:18:00
Converting plant energy into into feed for. 00:18:04
For human beings, for birds, for fish, those sorts of things. So. 00:18:08
If we didn't have the inverted word cycling nutrients, the. 00:18:11
The world would go back millions of years. We would see to exist. 00:18:14
Within a few decades, the world would return to a state of a billion years ago. 00:18:18
Composed of primarily bacteria, algae, and a few other very simple multicellular plants. 00:18:22
And he talks about. 00:18:29
For the money, he explains, it's important we can serve, and we try to save threatened and endangered mammals and birds and fish 00:18:30
and those sorts of things, but it's just as important that we can serve. 00:18:36
The the invertebrate species as well. 00:18:41
He talks about on. 00:18:44
10 hectare plots a 25 acres is likely enough to sustain a butterfly or crustacean species indefinitely. 00:18:46
The same mature for at least some plant species. 00:18:54
Whereas we're doing large scale conservation for like the modern butterflies and all that. So. 00:18:59
The same importance we put on vertebrates we put on micro invertebrate species, so it's a really good read. 00:19:04
In a lot of its political today. 00:19:12
I think that's all I had. 00:19:15
Thank you, Drew. 00:19:21
Get me a planned Outback. 00:19:22
I see Cole went out of the room. I don't know if he had anything to share this morning. So yeah. 00:19:27
And Morgan, would you like to share anything or just tell a little bit about what you're going to be doing in your new rope, Umm. 00:19:33
Yeah. 00:19:39
My name is Morgan Apple. I am. 00:19:41
Previously was the administrative coordinator for Clark County's Warm Water Conservation District. 00:19:44
And before that, I worked with the DNR as the property manager at Falls of the Ohio State Park. 00:19:50
Typical New River State Park in Glendale Fish and Wildlife area. 00:19:56
I. 00:20:01
Really like what? 00:20:04
Public health over. 00:20:06
Project is doing and that's what drew me to this position when I opened. 00:20:07
My position is the project coordinator with Clean Water Indiana Grant. 00:20:12
For the help the hell vendor program. 00:20:16
So it's similar to the RCPP, it just. 00:20:21
Different funding. 00:20:24
A bigger area and less money. 00:20:25
So the Clean Water grant covers. 00:20:32
Harrison, Floyd, uh, Crawford, a little bit of Orange, Washington and Clark. 00:20:36
So that is within the Blue Sinking watershed and the Silver Little Kentucky watershed. 00:20:41
We are offering. 00:20:47
Call share for practices like field border, field strip, filter strips, riparian buffers. 00:20:51
Tree trap site prep and establishment conservation cover. 00:20:58
Wildlife habitat planning. 00:21:02
Critical area planning and invasive species removal with. 00:21:05
Native planet. 00:21:09
Just. 00:21:15
Improve. 00:21:16
Habitat within the watershed. 00:21:17
Uh, potentially get more. 00:21:20
Activity from health owners in the area. 00:21:23
I will probably have more information on the next work. You know this is my first week so I appreciate you guys having. 00:21:27
So. 00:21:37
Yeah, so Elias would call me to let me know that she wasn't going to be here and she didn't have a ton of stuff because the 00:21:39
partner meeting will be on Monday. 00:21:43
And that's where Morgan's gonna make her official introduction to the whole team and and everybody else. 00:21:47
And. 00:21:52
Yeah. 00:21:55
I was planning to. 00:21:57
Zoom that, but I'm gonna. 00:21:58
Be at Highland Hills, so that's not an option. 00:22:00
But I look forward to hearing about it and I can tell Eliza if she recorded it. Please share. 00:22:02
So. 00:22:06
But thank you and congratulations. 00:22:08
Call Did you wanna share anything? 00:22:11
Umm, just kind of touch on what I've been doing for you lately, helping with the fish sale part of it these last few weeks. 00:22:14
All Angel was on vacation. I went into the office and took calls and took orders and things like that. 00:22:22
And the Today it was. 00:22:31
A success, I think we got all of our fish passed out and paid for. 00:22:33
Which is nice. Umm. 00:22:38
Pollinator day was great, looking forward to next year already I think. 00:22:40
Definitely a great opportunity for outreach and. 00:22:45
Happy to see all you guys there and. 00:22:49
Umm, not every county is lucky enough to have supervisors willing to go to a weekend event like that, so props to you guys. 00:22:52
And I think Andrew is going to touch on. 00:23:02
Something we're doing restructuring for Rita. 00:23:05
They sent out surveys. 00:23:11
And. 00:23:12
We've got like a private meeting with. 00:23:14
Our heads coming up to talk about like what's working with the program, what's not. 00:23:17
So. 00:23:23
Or so far I think. 00:23:25
I'd fit in pretty good into my counties. 00:23:27
Uh, the biggest? 00:23:30
The thing is, I just don't get a lot of time with the the NRCS folks. 00:23:32
I don't know if that's. 00:23:38
A symptom of the program being new or? 00:23:41
A symptom of. 00:23:45
We just. 00:23:48
I have a plan as far as you know how we would. 00:23:49
Use our times and then. 00:23:52
Things like that. So umm. 00:23:54
Have you filled out that survey yet? 00:23:58
That listener, I don't know that I completed Liz's survey. Meg had sent me something that that I completed, but I don't know that 00:24:00
I've. 00:24:04
Provided any feedback for that. 00:24:08
Thing that said sample across it. Uh-huh. Yeah. 00:24:10
Umm, I haven't had AI, haven't seen a survey for that. OK. 00:24:13
Yeah. And then another thing, CCSI has a. 00:24:18
Three days soil health training coming up. I don't know if anyone would be interested in that. 00:24:23
But it's open to anyone in the partnership. 00:24:28
Masters that you know, put that. 00:24:30
When is that? 00:24:35
That's mid June. 00:24:36
And it's at. 00:24:39
Purdue University. 00:24:40
So it's like an overnight stay for a couple of days kind of thing. 00:24:42
Yep, that's about it for me. 00:24:52
Thank you. 00:24:54
I think they offered some of that training in the past. 00:24:55
And they they kind of moved it around and they did a mix. 00:24:58
There was some in person, there was some online. 00:25:01
But if anybody is interested board wise and you want to take it. 00:25:05
We would obviously reimburse you for your mileage, your hotel or anything that that any cost you incur as a as a result of that. 00:25:10
But if you're interested, let me know and I can send you the emails, the CCSI emails. 00:25:16
Are everything. 00:25:23
Now the DSS report, normally they send out the DSS report like the first week of the the month. 00:25:27
But what's today only being the 7th? I haven't seen the DSS report so I did not get one. Gina wanted to let everybody know that 00:25:33
total numbers for Pollinator day. 00:25:38
2300 people. 00:25:43
2300 people. 00:25:49
In nice weather. 00:25:53
Full backup real good. We have motion except for the financial. 00:25:54
Or go ahead. 00:25:58
Can you say yeah? 00:26:01
Gotcha. I didn't think we did. 00:26:05
No, we did the approval. 00:26:12
OK. Then we go to old business here. 00:26:14
Which is the bullet pictures. 00:26:22
Nope. 00:26:23
Today you're planning to work and we're still gonna do that. We we did not adopt that. 00:26:27
I would like for. 00:26:36
More than three of you to be here, but if more than three of you aren't here next month, we're adopting. 00:26:42
Sounds good, all right. 00:26:47
June, June's the absolute last because that means we've worked half a year without it. And so I think that's what we did last 00:26:48
year, that we didn't adopt it until about June. 00:26:53
The following period, Pollinator Day. 00:26:58
We sure got lucky on the weather, I'll tell you that. 00:27:06
He couldn't been a better day at school that morning, but yeah. 00:27:09
So I didn't get a chance to. 00:27:12
Go to the. 00:27:14
SWCD booth at Pollinator Day. What all were we giving out and. 00:27:16
OK, so at our booth. 00:27:22
No, no at Aribus. 00:27:24
We had the wildlife seafood plot and I had 200 lbs of that and it went in the first hour. We gave away 200 lbs of that in the 00:27:26
first hour. Yeah. 00:27:30
We also had all of our invasive signs up. 00:27:34
So that when people ask, we kind of directed them to the CISMA to get specific. We also gave away the seed packets. 00:27:38
And then we gave away activity sheets, we gave away bookmarks. 00:27:46
And the new books that we just had printed. You bought land now what? Yeah. And then? 00:27:51
Ron built 6 bird boxes that we ended up. 00:27:58
Having people sign up for and give away. 00:28:02
So we had a pretty, we had a pretty active. 00:28:04
Uh, Booth, we had plenty of foot traffic we had. 00:28:08
Lined up at one point, everyone alive. Yeah. So there are you. You would have thought. You would have thought that that wildlife 00:28:12
seafood plot was gold bars. 00:28:16
It was nice about having to carry anything back. 00:28:22
He does because he had to pack it all over there. 00:28:27
I mean, yeah, so we had at the CISMA booth we had. 00:28:31
All all the C packets split. 00:28:34
Very quickly, Like, people were very excited about them, yeah. 00:28:37
And I have a whole tub of them. 00:28:40
And I brought them for Drew. 00:28:41
I have a tub of the. 00:28:43
4 minutes I sent her or I sent them your e-mail address, phone number. 00:28:45
They they work in Jeffersonville. I figured they could get they never come to the office. OK. 00:28:50
OK, yeah, she emailed me and asked me about water. OK. 00:28:58
I told them that you had looked into it. 00:29:03
No water, but. 00:29:07
Yes, I'll reach out to them and let them know I have the seed and they can. I told them you had it to get a hold of you. 00:29:09
And I'll, I'll be happy to, to give it to him. And if you want to take any more or you want to take anymore or you want to take 00:29:15
any more and take all you like. 00:29:19
I will take some more for this movie, OK? 00:29:23
Which is coming up right next. 00:29:26
I think it is next Monday. 00:29:28
Yeah, yeah. 00:29:32
Education and outreach events through June. 00:29:36
So the next thing we have coming up. 00:29:39
Is that house building workshop? We're going to build bad houses again May 18th. 00:29:41
It's on a Monday. 00:29:46
We'll be in the exact same spot. 00:29:47
Slapping bad houses all the. 00:29:49
Check out this bad boy. 00:29:52
You can come get any wood or you know. 00:29:54
I don't know that he will. I'm going to meet with Jay tomorrow and we are going to go by our suppliers tomorrow so that he can be 00:29:57
working on them all week. 00:30:02
Getting everything cut and ready for for the 18th. 00:30:07
So. 00:30:10
Before I go and spend any money though. 00:30:12
Are we OK with? 00:30:15
The district buying the stuff. 00:30:17
And then? 00:30:20
Billing parks because Matt did say he would pay for the. 00:30:21
One of the two househouse. 00:30:25
Workshops. We paid for everything the first go around. 00:30:26
And he's actually going to get lucky because we still have plenty of glue and I think even some screws, so he's going to be on the 00:30:29
hook for wood. 00:30:33
And either the nose or the screws will have to buy some more of those. 00:30:37
And I want to say Jay and I spent about 250 maybe. 00:30:41
Right around there. 00:30:44
So I'd say we might be looking at another $200 worth of material, if that. 00:30:45
Are you all OK with that If we go about 200, yes, OK. 00:30:51
And again. 00:30:55
We're not going to be on the hook for that. We're going to ask parts to pay for it. We'll just have to buy it, make sure it's 00:30:56
there. I'm not going to leave that to Matt. 00:31:00
Alright. 00:31:06
Any other thing under the old business? 00:31:08
Not that I can think of. I think everything has been kind of flowing. I still am flabbergasted. We're already here in May What 00:31:13
happened? 00:31:17
Where did the year go? How did it turn into May? I don't know. The Derby's over what? 00:31:21
Yeah, yeah, I have been wild. 00:31:28
Craziness, but anyway. 00:31:30
Uh, the years flying by, right? 00:31:33
Board member picture Not today, huh? 00:31:38
Not then. We're not adopting that either. 00:31:41
Policy Committee we are meeting next week. 00:31:47
Tuesday. Tuesday. 00:31:49
May 12430. 00:31:51
Call Sweetie. 00:31:57
At Fall City and. 00:31:58
In the words of care, we're going to. 00:32:01
Policy the. 00:32:03
Feces out of it. 00:32:05
Yep, that's what I said. 00:32:08
Can I put a reminder on my calendar? 00:32:09
OK. 00:32:15
To Ding me. 00:32:17
And there's that bad house building workshop. That's going to be another one. We're going to run that one 5:30 to 7:30 like we did 00:32:19
last time. 00:32:22
I have a whole list of people that were on the waiting list and. 00:32:26
Yes, you've asked about it already. One woman come up like I. 00:32:33
Yeah, go over there. 00:32:38
He said I'm on the way, yeah. So again, we know that it's it's a in a thing, but. 00:32:39
I'm gonna call some of those people tomorrow while I have a few hours in the office. I'm gonna call and remind them and make sure. 00:32:44
Matt said he had. 00:32:52
Shelter House 1 reserved for us May 18th. But I want to, yeah, I want to make sure all of that. 00:32:53
Community Park. 00:32:59
I told everyone to keep an eye on the Facebook page you asked about. Yes, thank you for that. 00:33:01
Matt created the flyer for that. I didn't, so I'm going to ask him to. 00:33:07
Put it back up. 00:33:12
Handle the registration anybody that signs up. 00:33:14
And I want to cut it off in 25 like we did because I think we got a comfortable number of people working tables ground so. 00:33:17
Shelter outgoing. 00:33:25
Yep, as soon as you pull in, soon as you pull in, we're right there. 00:33:28
Summer hours. 00:33:33
Traditionally. 00:33:36
June and July. 00:33:37
Well. 00:33:39
Yeah. So I can come earlier. 00:33:40
Yeah. 00:33:43
What have you got? One day, baby? Well, I was going to say. 00:33:44
Would the three of you like to decide? 00:33:48
Since you are the. 00:33:50
People that are. 00:33:51
Here What time would you like to have the meeting in? What time was it last summer 10? 00:33:52
I think we did 10. 00:33:56
Was it 10? Was it 10 or 9? I thought it was nine, maybe it was 9. Elisa, do you remember? 00:33:58
No, OK, I thought it was like I can look it up too. 00:34:03
How are you OK with 10:00 meeting? I mean I can do that. 00:34:08
I like sleeping in a little bit, so. 00:34:13
What have you got? 10 o'clock 10:00 sounds? 00:34:16
Great. Alright, so. 00:34:19
For the months of June and July. 00:34:21
Our board was 9 last year AM. 00:34:23
You want to do 9. 00:34:26
Then be done by 10. 00:34:30
Why are they wearing slowly? Can't have you sleep? 00:34:32
No, we want you. We want you at your best, Princess, you know I mean. 00:34:34
It'll be fine. That we can do fine. 00:34:38
Looks like. Are you sure? 00:34:41
Yeah, this is your chance to say you don't know. 00:34:43
I mean, I don't have a strong reference. 00:34:46
Alright, let's do it at 9:00. 00:34:49
OK. So about 10:00 around here. 00:34:51
Change Plans 9:00. 00:34:53
So June 4th. 00:34:55
And then July. 00:35:00
Is is the first? 00:35:02
Let's make sure it doesn't fall on the county holiday. 00:35:04
I didn't bother to look. 00:35:07
Can you forecast for July? 00:35:10
Oh, you know what? 00:35:13
No, July 2nd we're good. 00:35:15
So the first Thursday in July is July 2nd and. 00:35:17
So our July 2nd meeting will also be at 9:00 AM. 00:35:20
Well, they give you that Monday then after. 00:35:26
No the holidays on. 00:35:29
I'll get the Friday before. OK, yeah. So I'll I'll get. 00:35:31
Friday. 00:35:37
For the evaluation. 00:35:38
Well, I would normally have that ready to hand to you, but, uh, I forgot it was on the agenda and I'll just be honest. And of 00:35:44
course. 00:35:48
Rolling in here right before 4:00, All right. 00:35:52
Now I will have the employee evaluation form ready for you guys and and you can evaluate the feces out of it. 00:36:04
There you go. 00:36:15
But I do have something for you guys. I received the. 00:36:16
Invoice from Purdue. 00:36:20
For. 00:36:22
Morgan's physician. 00:36:23
And remember, we agreed to pay. 00:36:25
2500 this year and 2500 next year. So I received the invoice for it and even though we've agreed on it, I would like to have a 00:36:27
motion in writing so that I can. 00:36:33
Pay it and send it off. 00:36:38
All right. 00:36:42
Put it in writing. 00:36:46
Motion to pay Purdue. 00:36:48
And this is for the coordinator position. 00:36:50
And we're gonna call it. 00:36:54
A sponsorship. 00:36:56
Oh, second, second. 00:37:03
Thank you, ma'am. 00:37:04
And all over in favor. 00:37:07
Aye, all right. 00:37:10
So, uh. 00:37:13
Yeah. 00:37:15
And basically what this is? 00:37:15
2500 bucks same as we did before where we wrote the check to them for like 5000 but. 00:37:21
They they listed as a contribution for ISDA, soil health, water quality. 00:37:26
Which is. 00:37:32
A mouthful, but it's all part of the firm's helping health leaders project at the end of the day, yes. 00:37:34
So. 00:37:39
All right, but anyway, I'll be writing a check for 2500. Just so you know, Ron, it's gonna be a big and. 00:37:41
And then? 00:37:47
Of breaking news. 00:37:48
We made more money. 00:37:50
On the fish sale. 00:37:51
Than we ever have since I've worked here. 00:37:53
As you guys know, we only make like. 00:37:57
$1520 at A at a time and this time. 00:37:59
We made. 00:38:03
$49.00 and change. We made almost $50 on our fish sale. 00:38:04
Raise the Rules 59. 00:38:10
Hours. We can buy appetizers. Just kidding, only half. 00:38:11
Only have only only half price, right? Yeah, happy hour. 00:38:16
But no, this fish sale that we've been doing for years, we only make like $0.05 of fish. 00:38:19
So in order for us to make. 00:38:25
$50. 00:38:27
We have so a lot of fish at $0.05 a piece. 00:38:29
So, umm. 00:38:32
Danny Well, David. 00:38:34
David Bierman David Biermann had a $600.00 order and then Jose had another $300 order. So between them we had over $1000 in fish 00:38:37
sale which. 00:38:41
We've never ever had to write a check for $1000 for fish so. 00:38:46
That's pretty cool. They went up a lot too sometimes. 00:38:51
Yes, through my leg. I bought a bunch of I'm looking. Wow. 00:38:55
They have gone up indeed now last month. 00:38:58
I forgot to give you all the April claims. There you go, Ding me again on my evaluation. I will. 00:39:02
And then that's last month's and then these are this months. 00:39:07
Which is a pretty easy one. That was Sarah's Sizzma money. 00:39:11
And then the duplicator 1. 00:39:15
So what we need to do here? You're going to sign on the corner. 00:39:16
Yeah, and then you're gonna let those guys. 00:39:20
Yup, Favour. 00:39:23
You can take that purple paper. 00:39:26
Take the purple paper clip off. 00:39:27
There's only a couple planes, so you're just gonna sign in the corner. 00:39:29
I got you. It's that fancy pin you like to sign with. 00:39:33
It's a nice pen, isn't it? It's a paper, mate. 00:39:41
I think David said he was stuck in three ponds this year. And then Jose, he had just built his ponds, just built. 00:39:45
He told me that, yeah. 00:39:52
And let me tell you about Jose. 00:39:53
Jose is the. 00:39:55
Branch. 00:39:58
Vice President. 00:39:59
I was literally in there Monday depositing checks. 00:40:01
And he saw me in line and he was like. 00:40:05
Hey, is it too late to order fish? And I was like. 00:40:07
Well, today's kind of the day, Jose. 00:40:11
I'm here to visit. 00:40:14
I'm I'm here depositing checks for the fish. 00:40:15
And he was like. 00:40:18
Oh, but I just finished filling the dinner the dinosaur and I was like. 00:40:19
Send me your order. 00:40:23
Send me your order. 00:40:24
So. 00:40:25
Get order and then Tuesday. 00:40:27
I came in. 00:40:29
Call mean. 00:40:31
Tell me me, Hey Mimi, you still want these fish that you ordered that you never paid for? 00:40:32
Then come here. 00:40:37
Amy Thursday at noon. 00:40:39
No, I'm the third. 00:40:41
Now, whether or not that registered with her, it obviously didn't. 00:40:45
But I'm just glad you need. 00:40:51
As her boy so. 00:40:52
She seemed really happy to have. 00:40:54
I'm so glad and again. 00:40:55
She was happy to hear me call her on Monday after she had already missed the the cut off point, or on Tuesday. 00:40:57
And then? 00:41:03
Thank you ma'am. I'm making sure they're all. 00:41:04
Yeah, so I had to go to the bank Tuesday and I'm like hey Jose. OK, so. 00:41:07
I got your order, you need pay me. 00:41:12
I'm not. I'm not floating $300 worth of fish. You gotta pay me. He had to leave the bank and go to the Walgreens to get a money 00:41:13
order and come back. 00:41:17
And the people in the bank were like, where did Jose go? And I'm just standing there like. 00:41:22
Oh, why do I have a receipt book? No worries. 00:41:28
Why? 00:41:32
So he literally left the bank and went. 00:41:34
Pick this thing up, came back so. 00:41:36
Tennis little stuffs. 00:41:38
And Jose, I hope, is happy. 00:41:41
And you didn't have to say no way, Jose. 00:41:44
Right. 00:41:50
I did not have to say that, Cole. 00:41:51
And then these are copies that go to the auditor, that's how. 00:42:02
When I do planes. 00:42:06
Anything we have a line item for. 00:42:07
You all signed this claim. 00:42:10
And then I fill out a claim to send to the auditor to get our money back. 00:42:11
And so that's how. 00:42:15
The fire have two planes and one always says for the auditor. 00:42:17
If you ever see anything on the corner that says for auditor of. 00:42:21
You're signing the wrong thing, OK? 00:42:25
Is anything that has that on it? 00:42:27
Means I'm sending it to the auditor to get reimbursed. Like your name tags, that's office supplies. 00:42:29
We have a line item for office supplies. I can get it reimbursed. 00:42:35
But I yeah. 00:42:39
This one's still sitting there with his chicken. 00:42:40
Going anywhere? 00:42:43
Anything else? 00:42:44
Dear Supervisors. 00:42:46
Well, you tossed my pen back down here and I'll sign. 00:42:52
Whoever's gonna make a motion to adjourn. 00:42:56
I'll make a motion. 00:42:59
I'll second it. Well, thank you, Kira. 00:43:01
Thank you so much. 00:43:09
And meeting his. 00:43:13

Transcript

Event transcript
They said was meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation District in Floyd County. 00:00:00
Did I hear approval of the last? 00:00:04
Mark Meeting. 00:00:06
Yes, a second. 00:00:10
All in favor, aye? 00:00:11
Financial Report. 00:00:16
Yes, Sir. So we started the month. 00:00:17
What $88,377.62 in checking and we ended the month with? 00:00:20
$88,976.11 did you like that wrong. You see how that went up and then we have $17,238.35 an hour. 00:00:27
Check your savings account for a grand total of. 00:00:39
$106,214.46. 00:00:41
And yes, that 15 still set in there because. 00:00:47
I'm gonna have to get with him. 00:00:50
Nissan savings account, not Laura. 00:00:52
It was about 15 I left yes and we still. 00:00:56
Cortana, you're on the savings account. 00:01:00
Yeah. 00:01:07
Alrighty, I've got quite a bit so I apologize. 00:01:08
We're here for the time. 00:01:13
So programs wise they have pre approved applications for equip. 00:01:16
In Floyd County, there were three applications approved for funding of the five applications. 00:01:22
One was Activity Plan, which is a written forestry management plan if you're not in classified forest. 00:01:28
Or you don't have an active force or management plan on hand. This is incentive payments to hire a private forester to write your 00:01:35
plans the real in depth. I've seen them up to like 8090 pages depending on the sides of the woods. It goes into everything from. 00:01:43
Invasive species. 00:01:51
The percent in your woods what your timber having 4 feet of temper you have it's really in depth plan 43rd peg per acre on that. I 00:01:52
mean it would the chip in so the payments are based off of. 00:01:59
75% of in a perfect world, what it would cost to get a written plan from a private forester. 00:02:06
Now Foresters a lot of times know what we pay and they charge along those lines, so usually you can get it. 00:02:12
Cheaper but. 00:02:18
It's they're, they're real in depth plans and, and they're the first step for someone who wants to do conservation in their woods. 00:02:20
We have a plan on hand that we know what to base the conservation off of. So there was one of those pre-approved for. 00:02:26
Funding in the county and then we had two wildlife contracts selected for funding there through the. 00:02:32
The Novo. The Northern Bobwhite. 00:02:37
Well, initiative that the state has, it's a, it's a, it's a partnership. 00:02:40
Money specifically for wildlife quail habitat. 00:02:45
Two of those, one is the establishment of Paul. 00:02:49
Pollinator habitat, I think it's. 00:02:51
6 or 9 acres. 00:02:54
Of native pollinators getting put in here in Floyd County and then the other one. 00:02:56
Is established native grasses and native flowers, but it's ranked native grasses and flowers, so the plans are to. 00:03:01
Do dormant season disc eating strips bring prescribed fire establishing some some monarch specific habitat? 00:03:08
So there's some pretty good applications. 00:03:16
Total applications, 60% of the applications in the county were selected for funding. If you take out activity plans which 00:03:21
typically get funded at 100% rate and they did again this year. 00:03:26
We have 50% of Floyd County's application selected for. 00:03:32
Funding. I was on a call this morning. 00:03:35
We had 17. 00:03:39
Or 2021 point $1 million. 00:03:40
And applications funded. 00:03:43
In the applications. 00:03:45
Submitted there was 143,000,000 worth of applications so pretty pretty low funding this year. 00:03:48
I'm currently working on quality assurance. For these I have to get all the. 00:03:56
Paperwork put together and submitted to our area office and they reviewed all to make sure I'm not. 00:04:00
You know that good old voice system giving people and and all that so. 00:04:04
I have to have those completed by the 29th of this month. I'm I'm pretty far along on those. 00:04:08
Comm. The deadline to sign applications would be June 24th. 00:04:14
I'm leaving for vacation on the 17th or 18th so I'll have them done prior to then. 00:04:19
And then they'll be signed into contract if the participants wish to proceed by July 2nd. 00:04:24
CRP wise. 00:04:30
Continuous CRP sign up 65 started on February 12th. 00:04:32
July 31st is the last day producers can submit offers for sign up 65 and these will be. 00:04:36
Obligated and started into contract after October 1st 2026. My current workload I'm working on planning and ranking CSP 00:04:42
applications. 00:04:46
Working on putting together application folders for free approved applications and getting them submitted for quality assurance 00:04:51
and working on CRP maintenance and establishment checks. 00:04:55
I know the wildlife wants to go for our biologist has already been out and he's already got those checked for this year, so. 00:05:00
We're in pretty good shape there. 00:05:05
The District or the DC talking points that our state office sends out every month for us to update the boards? 00:05:09
Farm bill programs, WISE, The agricultural conservation easement program, The wetland reserve easements. 00:05:15
There's a current sign up going on. 00:05:23
ASAP applications may be submitted to your local NRCS office at any time. However, applications for the OR. 00:05:25
However, applications for the second round of funding must be submitted. 00:05:32
On or before May 22nd, 2026. Applications received after May 22nd will be considered during the next funding period. 00:05:36
The agricultural conservation easement program. 00:05:44
The new deadline for entries to apply is May 29th, 2026. Applications received after May 29th will be considered in the next round 00:05:47
of funding. 00:05:51
The Conservation Stewardship Program. This is one I'm working on big time right now. 00:05:56
Floyd County doesn't have any applications, but I've got a few in Clark County. 00:06:00
Indiana currently has 770 applications for CSP with 16.5 million in allocation. The backlog is estimated to be a 20 million. 00:06:05
With an updated payment of 2026, that backlog would be higher due to the increased price payment of payments. 00:06:14
So it's it's good for the land owners to get selected because the prices are higher. 00:06:20
Or the. 00:06:25
Incentive payments are higher, but it means that our backlog will be bigger. 00:06:26
With the regenerative pilot program that. 00:06:30
Umm, department of. 00:06:34
DDHS I think in the USDA partnered on 25% of those funds have to go to the regenerative pilot program. So this is for. 00:06:38
Healthier foods and healthier soils, so. 00:06:45
That'll bottleneck it sound because there's some stipulations on what practices can go into those fun pools. 00:06:48
The Environmental Quality Incentive Program which I just wrapped up and I'm working on QA with. 00:06:54
Currently, Indiana has pre approved 467 equip applications totaling 21.5 million. 00:06:59
Indiana has a significant backlog totaling 120 million in the EQUIP program in 2026. Equip also has a new focus for 25% of that 00:07:05
budget going to the regenerative pilot program. 00:07:11
We, we, we funded all the applications we could through regenerative pilot program and there's an $18 billion backlog in that 00:07:17
program as well. 00:07:21
The Regional conservation Partnership program RCPP which is the farmers helping health vendors. 00:07:25
Indiana and there's there's more RPS across the state, but. 00:07:31
Indiana has pre approved 27 RCPP applications totaling 2.5 million. 00:07:35
The Mous, I know we've talked about that in the past months. 00:07:42
They said that the reviews are. 00:07:46
The the reviews will be conducted from April through July. 00:07:49
With the completion of the corrective actions targeted by September 30th. As a result, this process of this process, the timeline 00:07:52
for obligation to SWCD chair signatures. 00:07:57
On the MO, US will be moved to begin after October 1st, 2026. 00:08:02
If you all have any questions on this, you can send them to me or you can send them straight to Jared Chu at our state office. 00:08:07
Avian influenza update. 00:08:14
As of April 28th, there are currently 9 active cases the highlighted Pathogenic Avian Influenza in the state Crawford County. 00:08:16
Elkhart La Grange counties affect more in It affects more than 240,000 birds. 00:08:23
What this means is that if I have field visits and I know they have poultry or they've spread manure, I can't go on those farms. I 00:08:29
try to meet them either at the office or at the shop or something where I won't be transmitting that avian influence at other 00:08:33
farms. 00:08:38
I don't know. Did you receive? 00:08:44
The e-mail on the local working groups by chance? OK. 00:08:46
So in years past you guys have probably assisted with the local working groups. What this is, is for all of our conservation 00:08:49
programs, we want a local input on what conservation practices get put on the ground. 00:08:56
So what it is is that you get community leaders together, people interested in conservation, they fill out surveys on. 00:09:03
What resource concerns they see is the priority in the in the county. 00:09:11
When I do ranking the local work group. 00:09:16
Responses. 00:09:19
Account for 15% of the score, so it's a pretty big chunk in the score. 00:09:20
How the farm Bill designates local working group as a subcommittee of the State Technical Committee. 00:09:24
With focus on resource priority at the local community, these priority resource concerns would be used to prioritize the ranking 00:09:30
and Environmental Quality instead of program the Regional Conservation Partnership program. 00:09:36
In the Conservation Stewardship program, the local working group should consist of representatives who are able to provide input 00:09:41
to the wide range of natural resources agricultural concerns for a county. 00:09:46
Local workers who consist of a diverse group of individuals from public and private entities interested in conservation in the 00:09:51
county. 00:09:55
It is the responsibility of the local soil and water conservation district. 00:09:59
To chair the local work group, at a minimum, the following individuals will be will be invited to participate in the local work 00:10:03
group. 00:10:07
Members of Solar Water Board NRCS designated conservationists. 00:10:12
Agriculture. 00:10:16
Producers representing a variety of crops and livestock operations in the county, including but not limited to commodity crops, 00:10:17
specialty crops, confined animal facility producers, pastoring livestock producers. 00:10:24
Historically underserved producers. 00:10:30
These individuals are not required to have a conservation expertise. 00:10:32
Non industrial private forest land owners. 00:10:36
Members of the County FSA committee, Cooperative Extension board members and other federal state representatives and professionals 00:10:40
like the Vision of Fish and Wildlife, Division of Forestry, Department of Natural or of Agriculture. 00:10:47
Watershed specialists, private contractors and consultants and non government organizations. 00:10:54
You can also consider inviting your state and local elected officials, biologists, armed Corps of Engineers, those those sorts of 00:11:00
people. 00:11:04
At a minimum, the Local Working Group meeting will be announced and published 14 days prior to the meeting and at least one or 00:11:09
more newspapers or any other suitable media circulation. 00:11:14
And I'd be more than happy to help in any way I can with getting it set up, getting people interested, and they've sent us a slide 00:11:20
deck. 00:11:24
What I try to do is look in the past and what's currently going on and seeing what practices are people are the most interested in 00:11:28
the county. 00:11:32
And going through what resource concerns are addressed this morning at the Clark County Board, I talked about if you want 00:11:37
pollinators are really. 00:11:40
Popular in this area. 00:11:44
You're improving water quality and animal terrestrial habitats. So those are two resource concerns that may be looked at by the 00:11:46
local working group. 00:11:49
How it works is everyone fills out their own survey and then I compile the data and it averages. That averages out the score. 00:11:54
For everyone who submits a. 00:12:02
For response SO. 00:12:06
I didn't know if you all were interested in getting a meeting set up here. 00:12:09
The deadline to submit them is October 9th 2026, but with the political climate and how last year I was off the whole month of 00:12:13
October. 00:12:18
To shut down, if we could do it and all that, September would be preferred. We have historically done it in September and or 00:12:22
October at the latest, but historically we do it in September and we do it before. 00:12:28
Our board meeting, but that was when our board meeting was a little bit later in the day, so we can adjust the time to whatever. 00:12:35
Uh, historically speaking. 00:12:42
We have been able to get a handful of people here. 00:12:44
But what really helped us was taking some of those surveys to one of the events that we were at, and in fact, Laura did. 00:12:47
And had people filling out the survey. 00:12:55
And while I think that was great, we also couldn't verify that all those people were Floyd County residents. So I don't know that 00:12:58
that's the best way to go about it. I've I've seen other counties when they mail out the invitations or if you. 00:13:05
You know, invite all these people, attach the local working group survey to that in, in 90% of the time they don't show up to the 00:13:12
meeting. They they, they mail it back to us. 00:13:17
So and there's a slide deck, so we're in here, I can pull it up on the big screen or something to go through and what the 00:13:23
different resource concerns are. 00:13:27
To go from there on that. So if you all if you want to. 00:13:32
At a event, have people fill it out. I can make sure I'm there. 00:13:36
Kind of answer questions or you don't have a meeting to do it as well any kind of outreach that we do between now and then if you 00:13:40
give me the form available on behalf of the. 00:13:45
Fill it out OK. 00:13:50
Sounds like a plan, all right. 00:13:51
Umm, from there upcoming events, umm, Monday, the farmers helping health vendors, spring partner meeting, umm they've they've been 00:13:53
really good in the past. I've really enjoyed going to them. There will be a Zoom option available. If you're unable to make it, 00:13:58
you can tune into the Zoom. 00:14:03
Depending on how tomorrow goes on my workload. 00:14:08
I may or may not watch the zoom or go in person, but I'll be sure to TuneIn. 00:14:11
Next Friday and Saturday, Harrison County soil and water. 00:14:17
Is having a pass to workshop and grassland contest. This is really cool opportunity. 00:14:21
It's it's, it's open to the public in the morning, anyone can come but in the afternoon. 00:14:26
Harrison County's FFA goes to Missouri every year and does a grass school judging contest. It's just like a soil judging contest, 00:14:32
but. 00:14:35
For the grazing side of it. 00:14:39
So what they'll do is they'll have a workshop in the morning and there's a whole list of speakers that are going to be there. 00:14:41
And then they'll have lunch. And then after lunch, the kids will actually go out and they'll do the the contest on the farm like 00:14:48
they'll be doing out in Missouri. 00:14:52
And after that's over? 00:14:57
Jason Tower, who's the property manager at Side Pack. 00:14:59
Robert Savanzakar, grazing specialist And then I'll be doing the wildlife side of it. 00:15:02
We'll go through and answer all the questions that are on the test. 00:15:06
Explain how he came to those answers. So they're kind of tuned up before they go in June to the. 00:15:10
To the the contest. 00:15:15
Next Wednesday I'll be on leave. 00:15:18
The Monday after that is Memorial Day. 00:15:20
And then the 28th, we have an all employee meeting with our state office scheduled for Zoom. 00:15:23
Past events was equipped with application deadline on the 17th and we had a CSP training on the 22nd and 23rd. 00:15:29
Of April. 00:15:35
My conservation talking point for the month. 00:15:37
I I was on a field visit here in Floyd County and the landowner was. 00:15:39
Really interested in. 00:15:43
In their yards trying to convert as much habitat to native. 00:15:45
Native plants native. 00:15:49
Pollinators. 00:15:51
Native trees, the whole 9 yards. 00:15:52
Doctor Doug Tallamy is an entomologist out of Delaware. 00:15:54
Pink Teller from one of the northeastern states, and he's big into turning your backyard into a National Park. 00:15:59
And he had mentioned. 00:16:05
In the I was sending them a YouTube talk he had and he had mentioned this article. 00:16:07
From EO Wilson. 00:16:12
How This was published back in 1978. He was an entomologist at the time. 00:16:14
It's a really good read. 00:16:19
It's 2 pages. It's called the The little things that run the world. The importance of conservation for invertebrates. 00:16:21
I thought it was. It was. 00:16:28
It opens your mind and makes you think a little bit, he said to start. And he's just something. Key points. 00:16:30
To start, there are vastly more kinds of invertebrates, and there are vertebrates at the present time in 1987. 00:16:37
On the basis of. 00:16:45
Tabulation that I have just compiled. 00:16:46
I've estimated a total of 42,580 vertebrate species. 00:16:49
Intent and contrast There are 990,000 species of invertebrates. 00:16:53
Have been described, of which 290,000 alone are Beatles. 00:17:00
He put as an example. 00:17:05
On one hectare in the Amazon. 00:17:08
There contain a few dozen birds and mammals. 00:17:10
A well over a billion invertebrates so. 00:17:13
They're, I mean, they're prevalent on the landscape and they're very important. 00:17:16
There are about two 2000 kilograms drive weight of animal tissue per hectare, so for 2.5 acres. 00:17:21
At which 93 percent, 93% consists of vertebrates. 00:17:28
What really got me thinking was. 00:17:33
The truth is that we need invertebrates, but they don't need us. 00:17:36
If invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months. Most of the fish and 00:17:40
amphibians and birds and mammals would crash to extinction. Extinction in the same time. 00:17:46
Next we go the bulk of the flowering plants and then the physical structure of the majority of the forests and the terrestrial 00:17:52
habitats of the world. So. 00:17:56
These invertebrates are the key to cycling nutrients. 00:18:00
Converting plant energy into into feed for. 00:18:04
For human beings, for birds, for fish, those sorts of things. So. 00:18:08
If we didn't have the inverted word cycling nutrients, the. 00:18:11
The world would go back millions of years. We would see to exist. 00:18:14
Within a few decades, the world would return to a state of a billion years ago. 00:18:18
Composed of primarily bacteria, algae, and a few other very simple multicellular plants. 00:18:22
And he talks about. 00:18:29
For the money, he explains, it's important we can serve, and we try to save threatened and endangered mammals and birds and fish 00:18:30
and those sorts of things, but it's just as important that we can serve. 00:18:36
The the invertebrate species as well. 00:18:41
He talks about on. 00:18:44
10 hectare plots a 25 acres is likely enough to sustain a butterfly or crustacean species indefinitely. 00:18:46
The same mature for at least some plant species. 00:18:54
Whereas we're doing large scale conservation for like the modern butterflies and all that. So. 00:18:59
The same importance we put on vertebrates we put on micro invertebrate species, so it's a really good read. 00:19:04
In a lot of its political today. 00:19:12
I think that's all I had. 00:19:15
Thank you, Drew. 00:19:21
Get me a planned Outback. 00:19:22
I see Cole went out of the room. I don't know if he had anything to share this morning. So yeah. 00:19:27
And Morgan, would you like to share anything or just tell a little bit about what you're going to be doing in your new rope, Umm. 00:19:33
Yeah. 00:19:39
My name is Morgan Apple. I am. 00:19:41
Previously was the administrative coordinator for Clark County's Warm Water Conservation District. 00:19:44
And before that, I worked with the DNR as the property manager at Falls of the Ohio State Park. 00:19:50
Typical New River State Park in Glendale Fish and Wildlife area. 00:19:56
I. 00:20:01
Really like what? 00:20:04
Public health over. 00:20:06
Project is doing and that's what drew me to this position when I opened. 00:20:07
My position is the project coordinator with Clean Water Indiana Grant. 00:20:12
For the help the hell vendor program. 00:20:16
So it's similar to the RCPP, it just. 00:20:21
Different funding. 00:20:24
A bigger area and less money. 00:20:25
So the Clean Water grant covers. 00:20:32
Harrison, Floyd, uh, Crawford, a little bit of Orange, Washington and Clark. 00:20:36
So that is within the Blue Sinking watershed and the Silver Little Kentucky watershed. 00:20:41
We are offering. 00:20:47
Call share for practices like field border, field strip, filter strips, riparian buffers. 00:20:51
Tree trap site prep and establishment conservation cover. 00:20:58
Wildlife habitat planning. 00:21:02
Critical area planning and invasive species removal with. 00:21:05
Native planet. 00:21:09
Just. 00:21:15
Improve. 00:21:16
Habitat within the watershed. 00:21:17
Uh, potentially get more. 00:21:20
Activity from health owners in the area. 00:21:23
I will probably have more information on the next work. You know this is my first week so I appreciate you guys having. 00:21:27
So. 00:21:37
Yeah, so Elias would call me to let me know that she wasn't going to be here and she didn't have a ton of stuff because the 00:21:39
partner meeting will be on Monday. 00:21:43
And that's where Morgan's gonna make her official introduction to the whole team and and everybody else. 00:21:47
And. 00:21:52
Yeah. 00:21:55
I was planning to. 00:21:57
Zoom that, but I'm gonna. 00:21:58
Be at Highland Hills, so that's not an option. 00:22:00
But I look forward to hearing about it and I can tell Eliza if she recorded it. Please share. 00:22:02
So. 00:22:06
But thank you and congratulations. 00:22:08
Call Did you wanna share anything? 00:22:11
Umm, just kind of touch on what I've been doing for you lately, helping with the fish sale part of it these last few weeks. 00:22:14
All Angel was on vacation. I went into the office and took calls and took orders and things like that. 00:22:22
And the Today it was. 00:22:31
A success, I think we got all of our fish passed out and paid for. 00:22:33
Which is nice. Umm. 00:22:38
Pollinator day was great, looking forward to next year already I think. 00:22:40
Definitely a great opportunity for outreach and. 00:22:45
Happy to see all you guys there and. 00:22:49
Umm, not every county is lucky enough to have supervisors willing to go to a weekend event like that, so props to you guys. 00:22:52
And I think Andrew is going to touch on. 00:23:02
Something we're doing restructuring for Rita. 00:23:05
They sent out surveys. 00:23:11
And. 00:23:12
We've got like a private meeting with. 00:23:14
Our heads coming up to talk about like what's working with the program, what's not. 00:23:17
So. 00:23:23
Or so far I think. 00:23:25
I'd fit in pretty good into my counties. 00:23:27
Uh, the biggest? 00:23:30
The thing is, I just don't get a lot of time with the the NRCS folks. 00:23:32
I don't know if that's. 00:23:38
A symptom of the program being new or? 00:23:41
A symptom of. 00:23:45
We just. 00:23:48
I have a plan as far as you know how we would. 00:23:49
Use our times and then. 00:23:52
Things like that. So umm. 00:23:54
Have you filled out that survey yet? 00:23:58
That listener, I don't know that I completed Liz's survey. Meg had sent me something that that I completed, but I don't know that 00:24:00
I've. 00:24:04
Provided any feedback for that. 00:24:08
Thing that said sample across it. Uh-huh. Yeah. 00:24:10
Umm, I haven't had AI, haven't seen a survey for that. OK. 00:24:13
Yeah. And then another thing, CCSI has a. 00:24:18
Three days soil health training coming up. I don't know if anyone would be interested in that. 00:24:23
But it's open to anyone in the partnership. 00:24:28
Masters that you know, put that. 00:24:30
When is that? 00:24:35
That's mid June. 00:24:36
And it's at. 00:24:39
Purdue University. 00:24:40
So it's like an overnight stay for a couple of days kind of thing. 00:24:42
Yep, that's about it for me. 00:24:52
Thank you. 00:24:54
I think they offered some of that training in the past. 00:24:55
And they they kind of moved it around and they did a mix. 00:24:58
There was some in person, there was some online. 00:25:01
But if anybody is interested board wise and you want to take it. 00:25:05
We would obviously reimburse you for your mileage, your hotel or anything that that any cost you incur as a as a result of that. 00:25:10
But if you're interested, let me know and I can send you the emails, the CCSI emails. 00:25:16
Are everything. 00:25:23
Now the DSS report, normally they send out the DSS report like the first week of the the month. 00:25:27
But what's today only being the 7th? I haven't seen the DSS report so I did not get one. Gina wanted to let everybody know that 00:25:33
total numbers for Pollinator day. 00:25:38
2300 people. 00:25:43
2300 people. 00:25:49
In nice weather. 00:25:53
Full backup real good. We have motion except for the financial. 00:25:54
Or go ahead. 00:25:58
Can you say yeah? 00:26:01
Gotcha. I didn't think we did. 00:26:05
No, we did the approval. 00:26:12
OK. Then we go to old business here. 00:26:14
Which is the bullet pictures. 00:26:22
Nope. 00:26:23
Today you're planning to work and we're still gonna do that. We we did not adopt that. 00:26:27
I would like for. 00:26:36
More than three of you to be here, but if more than three of you aren't here next month, we're adopting. 00:26:42
Sounds good, all right. 00:26:47
June, June's the absolute last because that means we've worked half a year without it. And so I think that's what we did last 00:26:48
year, that we didn't adopt it until about June. 00:26:53
The following period, Pollinator Day. 00:26:58
We sure got lucky on the weather, I'll tell you that. 00:27:06
He couldn't been a better day at school that morning, but yeah. 00:27:09
So I didn't get a chance to. 00:27:12
Go to the. 00:27:14
SWCD booth at Pollinator Day. What all were we giving out and. 00:27:16
OK, so at our booth. 00:27:22
No, no at Aribus. 00:27:24
We had the wildlife seafood plot and I had 200 lbs of that and it went in the first hour. We gave away 200 lbs of that in the 00:27:26
first hour. Yeah. 00:27:30
We also had all of our invasive signs up. 00:27:34
So that when people ask, we kind of directed them to the CISMA to get specific. We also gave away the seed packets. 00:27:38
And then we gave away activity sheets, we gave away bookmarks. 00:27:46
And the new books that we just had printed. You bought land now what? Yeah. And then? 00:27:51
Ron built 6 bird boxes that we ended up. 00:27:58
Having people sign up for and give away. 00:28:02
So we had a pretty, we had a pretty active. 00:28:04
Uh, Booth, we had plenty of foot traffic we had. 00:28:08
Lined up at one point, everyone alive. Yeah. So there are you. You would have thought. You would have thought that that wildlife 00:28:12
seafood plot was gold bars. 00:28:16
It was nice about having to carry anything back. 00:28:22
He does because he had to pack it all over there. 00:28:27
I mean, yeah, so we had at the CISMA booth we had. 00:28:31
All all the C packets split. 00:28:34
Very quickly, Like, people were very excited about them, yeah. 00:28:37
And I have a whole tub of them. 00:28:40
And I brought them for Drew. 00:28:41
I have a tub of the. 00:28:43
4 minutes I sent her or I sent them your e-mail address, phone number. 00:28:45
They they work in Jeffersonville. I figured they could get they never come to the office. OK. 00:28:50
OK, yeah, she emailed me and asked me about water. OK. 00:28:58
I told them that you had looked into it. 00:29:03
No water, but. 00:29:07
Yes, I'll reach out to them and let them know I have the seed and they can. I told them you had it to get a hold of you. 00:29:09
And I'll, I'll be happy to, to give it to him. And if you want to take any more or you want to take anymore or you want to take 00:29:15
any more and take all you like. 00:29:19
I will take some more for this movie, OK? 00:29:23
Which is coming up right next. 00:29:26
I think it is next Monday. 00:29:28
Yeah, yeah. 00:29:32
Education and outreach events through June. 00:29:36
So the next thing we have coming up. 00:29:39
Is that house building workshop? We're going to build bad houses again May 18th. 00:29:41
It's on a Monday. 00:29:46
We'll be in the exact same spot. 00:29:47
Slapping bad houses all the. 00:29:49
Check out this bad boy. 00:29:52
You can come get any wood or you know. 00:29:54
I don't know that he will. I'm going to meet with Jay tomorrow and we are going to go by our suppliers tomorrow so that he can be 00:29:57
working on them all week. 00:30:02
Getting everything cut and ready for for the 18th. 00:30:07
So. 00:30:10
Before I go and spend any money though. 00:30:12
Are we OK with? 00:30:15
The district buying the stuff. 00:30:17
And then? 00:30:20
Billing parks because Matt did say he would pay for the. 00:30:21
One of the two househouse. 00:30:25
Workshops. We paid for everything the first go around. 00:30:26
And he's actually going to get lucky because we still have plenty of glue and I think even some screws, so he's going to be on the 00:30:29
hook for wood. 00:30:33
And either the nose or the screws will have to buy some more of those. 00:30:37
And I want to say Jay and I spent about 250 maybe. 00:30:41
Right around there. 00:30:44
So I'd say we might be looking at another $200 worth of material, if that. 00:30:45
Are you all OK with that If we go about 200, yes, OK. 00:30:51
And again. 00:30:55
We're not going to be on the hook for that. We're going to ask parts to pay for it. We'll just have to buy it, make sure it's 00:30:56
there. I'm not going to leave that to Matt. 00:31:00
Alright. 00:31:06
Any other thing under the old business? 00:31:08
Not that I can think of. I think everything has been kind of flowing. I still am flabbergasted. We're already here in May What 00:31:13
happened? 00:31:17
Where did the year go? How did it turn into May? I don't know. The Derby's over what? 00:31:21
Yeah, yeah, I have been wild. 00:31:28
Craziness, but anyway. 00:31:30
Uh, the years flying by, right? 00:31:33
Board member picture Not today, huh? 00:31:38
Not then. We're not adopting that either. 00:31:41
Policy Committee we are meeting next week. 00:31:47
Tuesday. Tuesday. 00:31:49
May 12430. 00:31:51
Call Sweetie. 00:31:57
At Fall City and. 00:31:58
In the words of care, we're going to. 00:32:01
Policy the. 00:32:03
Feces out of it. 00:32:05
Yep, that's what I said. 00:32:08
Can I put a reminder on my calendar? 00:32:09
OK. 00:32:15
To Ding me. 00:32:17
And there's that bad house building workshop. That's going to be another one. We're going to run that one 5:30 to 7:30 like we did 00:32:19
last time. 00:32:22
I have a whole list of people that were on the waiting list and. 00:32:26
Yes, you've asked about it already. One woman come up like I. 00:32:33
Yeah, go over there. 00:32:38
He said I'm on the way, yeah. So again, we know that it's it's a in a thing, but. 00:32:39
I'm gonna call some of those people tomorrow while I have a few hours in the office. I'm gonna call and remind them and make sure. 00:32:44
Matt said he had. 00:32:52
Shelter House 1 reserved for us May 18th. But I want to, yeah, I want to make sure all of that. 00:32:53
Community Park. 00:32:59
I told everyone to keep an eye on the Facebook page you asked about. Yes, thank you for that. 00:33:01
Matt created the flyer for that. I didn't, so I'm going to ask him to. 00:33:07
Put it back up. 00:33:12
Handle the registration anybody that signs up. 00:33:14
And I want to cut it off in 25 like we did because I think we got a comfortable number of people working tables ground so. 00:33:17
Shelter outgoing. 00:33:25
Yep, as soon as you pull in, soon as you pull in, we're right there. 00:33:28
Summer hours. 00:33:33
Traditionally. 00:33:36
June and July. 00:33:37
Well. 00:33:39
Yeah. So I can come earlier. 00:33:40
Yeah. 00:33:43
What have you got? One day, baby? Well, I was going to say. 00:33:44
Would the three of you like to decide? 00:33:48
Since you are the. 00:33:50
People that are. 00:33:51
Here What time would you like to have the meeting in? What time was it last summer 10? 00:33:52
I think we did 10. 00:33:56
Was it 10? Was it 10 or 9? I thought it was nine, maybe it was 9. Elisa, do you remember? 00:33:58
No, OK, I thought it was like I can look it up too. 00:34:03
How are you OK with 10:00 meeting? I mean I can do that. 00:34:08
I like sleeping in a little bit, so. 00:34:13
What have you got? 10 o'clock 10:00 sounds? 00:34:16
Great. Alright, so. 00:34:19
For the months of June and July. 00:34:21
Our board was 9 last year AM. 00:34:23
You want to do 9. 00:34:26
Then be done by 10. 00:34:30
Why are they wearing slowly? Can't have you sleep? 00:34:32
No, we want you. We want you at your best, Princess, you know I mean. 00:34:34
It'll be fine. That we can do fine. 00:34:38
Looks like. Are you sure? 00:34:41
Yeah, this is your chance to say you don't know. 00:34:43
I mean, I don't have a strong reference. 00:34:46
Alright, let's do it at 9:00. 00:34:49
OK. So about 10:00 around here. 00:34:51
Change Plans 9:00. 00:34:53
So June 4th. 00:34:55
And then July. 00:35:00
Is is the first? 00:35:02
Let's make sure it doesn't fall on the county holiday. 00:35:04
I didn't bother to look. 00:35:07
Can you forecast for July? 00:35:10
Oh, you know what? 00:35:13
No, July 2nd we're good. 00:35:15
So the first Thursday in July is July 2nd and. 00:35:17
So our July 2nd meeting will also be at 9:00 AM. 00:35:20
Well, they give you that Monday then after. 00:35:26
No the holidays on. 00:35:29
I'll get the Friday before. OK, yeah. So I'll I'll get. 00:35:31
Friday. 00:35:37
For the evaluation. 00:35:38
Well, I would normally have that ready to hand to you, but, uh, I forgot it was on the agenda and I'll just be honest. And of 00:35:44
course. 00:35:48
Rolling in here right before 4:00, All right. 00:35:52
Now I will have the employee evaluation form ready for you guys and and you can evaluate the feces out of it. 00:36:04
There you go. 00:36:15
But I do have something for you guys. I received the. 00:36:16
Invoice from Purdue. 00:36:20
For. 00:36:22
Morgan's physician. 00:36:23
And remember, we agreed to pay. 00:36:25
2500 this year and 2500 next year. So I received the invoice for it and even though we've agreed on it, I would like to have a 00:36:27
motion in writing so that I can. 00:36:33
Pay it and send it off. 00:36:38
All right. 00:36:42
Put it in writing. 00:36:46
Motion to pay Purdue. 00:36:48
And this is for the coordinator position. 00:36:50
And we're gonna call it. 00:36:54
A sponsorship. 00:36:56
Oh, second, second. 00:37:03
Thank you, ma'am. 00:37:04
And all over in favor. 00:37:07
Aye, all right. 00:37:10
So, uh. 00:37:13
Yeah. 00:37:15
And basically what this is? 00:37:15
2500 bucks same as we did before where we wrote the check to them for like 5000 but. 00:37:21
They they listed as a contribution for ISDA, soil health, water quality. 00:37:26
Which is. 00:37:32
A mouthful, but it's all part of the firm's helping health leaders project at the end of the day, yes. 00:37:34
So. 00:37:39
All right, but anyway, I'll be writing a check for 2500. Just so you know, Ron, it's gonna be a big and. 00:37:41
And then? 00:37:47
Of breaking news. 00:37:48
We made more money. 00:37:50
On the fish sale. 00:37:51
Than we ever have since I've worked here. 00:37:53
As you guys know, we only make like. 00:37:57
$1520 at A at a time and this time. 00:37:59
We made. 00:38:03
$49.00 and change. We made almost $50 on our fish sale. 00:38:04
Raise the Rules 59. 00:38:10
Hours. We can buy appetizers. Just kidding, only half. 00:38:11
Only have only only half price, right? Yeah, happy hour. 00:38:16
But no, this fish sale that we've been doing for years, we only make like $0.05 of fish. 00:38:19
So in order for us to make. 00:38:25
$50. 00:38:27
We have so a lot of fish at $0.05 a piece. 00:38:29
So, umm. 00:38:32
Danny Well, David. 00:38:34
David Bierman David Biermann had a $600.00 order and then Jose had another $300 order. So between them we had over $1000 in fish 00:38:37
sale which. 00:38:41
We've never ever had to write a check for $1000 for fish so. 00:38:46
That's pretty cool. They went up a lot too sometimes. 00:38:51
Yes, through my leg. I bought a bunch of I'm looking. Wow. 00:38:55
They have gone up indeed now last month. 00:38:58
I forgot to give you all the April claims. There you go, Ding me again on my evaluation. I will. 00:39:02
And then that's last month's and then these are this months. 00:39:07
Which is a pretty easy one. That was Sarah's Sizzma money. 00:39:11
And then the duplicator 1. 00:39:15
So what we need to do here? You're going to sign on the corner. 00:39:16
Yeah, and then you're gonna let those guys. 00:39:20
Yup, Favour. 00:39:23
You can take that purple paper. 00:39:26
Take the purple paper clip off. 00:39:27
There's only a couple planes, so you're just gonna sign in the corner. 00:39:29
I got you. It's that fancy pin you like to sign with. 00:39:33
It's a nice pen, isn't it? It's a paper, mate. 00:39:41
I think David said he was stuck in three ponds this year. And then Jose, he had just built his ponds, just built. 00:39:45
He told me that, yeah. 00:39:52
And let me tell you about Jose. 00:39:53
Jose is the. 00:39:55
Branch. 00:39:58
Vice President. 00:39:59
I was literally in there Monday depositing checks. 00:40:01
And he saw me in line and he was like. 00:40:05
Hey, is it too late to order fish? And I was like. 00:40:07
Well, today's kind of the day, Jose. 00:40:11
I'm here to visit. 00:40:14
I'm I'm here depositing checks for the fish. 00:40:15
And he was like. 00:40:18
Oh, but I just finished filling the dinner the dinosaur and I was like. 00:40:19
Send me your order. 00:40:23
Send me your order. 00:40:24
So. 00:40:25
Get order and then Tuesday. 00:40:27
I came in. 00:40:29
Call mean. 00:40:31
Tell me me, Hey Mimi, you still want these fish that you ordered that you never paid for? 00:40:32
Then come here. 00:40:37
Amy Thursday at noon. 00:40:39
No, I'm the third. 00:40:41
Now, whether or not that registered with her, it obviously didn't. 00:40:45
But I'm just glad you need. 00:40:51
As her boy so. 00:40:52
She seemed really happy to have. 00:40:54
I'm so glad and again. 00:40:55
She was happy to hear me call her on Monday after she had already missed the the cut off point, or on Tuesday. 00:40:57
And then? 00:41:03
Thank you ma'am. I'm making sure they're all. 00:41:04
Yeah, so I had to go to the bank Tuesday and I'm like hey Jose. OK, so. 00:41:07
I got your order, you need pay me. 00:41:12
I'm not. I'm not floating $300 worth of fish. You gotta pay me. He had to leave the bank and go to the Walgreens to get a money 00:41:13
order and come back. 00:41:17
And the people in the bank were like, where did Jose go? And I'm just standing there like. 00:41:22
Oh, why do I have a receipt book? No worries. 00:41:28
Why? 00:41:32
So he literally left the bank and went. 00:41:34
Pick this thing up, came back so. 00:41:36
Tennis little stuffs. 00:41:38
And Jose, I hope, is happy. 00:41:41
And you didn't have to say no way, Jose. 00:41:44
Right. 00:41:50
I did not have to say that, Cole. 00:41:51
And then these are copies that go to the auditor, that's how. 00:42:02
When I do planes. 00:42:06
Anything we have a line item for. 00:42:07
You all signed this claim. 00:42:10
And then I fill out a claim to send to the auditor to get our money back. 00:42:11
And so that's how. 00:42:15
The fire have two planes and one always says for the auditor. 00:42:17
If you ever see anything on the corner that says for auditor of. 00:42:21
You're signing the wrong thing, OK? 00:42:25
Is anything that has that on it? 00:42:27
Means I'm sending it to the auditor to get reimbursed. Like your name tags, that's office supplies. 00:42:29
We have a line item for office supplies. I can get it reimbursed. 00:42:35
But I yeah. 00:42:39
This one's still sitting there with his chicken. 00:42:40
Going anywhere? 00:42:43
Anything else? 00:42:44
Dear Supervisors. 00:42:46
Well, you tossed my pen back down here and I'll sign. 00:42:52
Whoever's gonna make a motion to adjourn. 00:42:56
I'll make a motion. 00:42:59
I'll second it. Well, thank you, Kira. 00:43:01
Thank you so much. 00:43:09
And meeting his. 00:43:13