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ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

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The public is invited to join the meeting remotely by phone call:

  • Phone: 1-415-655-0001
  • Access Code: 2554 310 0280
  • Meeting Password: 7282

9:00 AM

1) J. Mark Wedel - County Board Chair
  1. Call to Order
  2. Pledge of Allegiance
  3. Approval of Agenda
  4. Health & Human Services (see separate HHS Agenda)
  5. Citizens’ Public Comment – Comments from visitors must be informational in nature and not exceed (5) minutes per person (when there is a large number of speakers to be heard, the Board of Commissioners may shorted this time). The County Board generally will not engage in a discussion or debate in those five minutes but will take the information and find answers if that is appropriate. As part of the County Board protocol, it is unacceptable for any speaker to slander or engage in character assassination at a public Board meeting.

    Anyone attending virtually wishing to speak during the public comment period should notify the County Administrator’s office at 218-927-7276 option 7 no later than 2:30 P.M. on the Monday before the meeting.
2) Consent Agenda – All items on the Consent Agenda are considered to be routine and have been made available to the County Board at least two days prior to the meeting; the items will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Board member or citizen so requests, in which event the item will be removed from this Agenda and considered under separate motion.
  1. Correspondence File: August 9, 2023 — August 22, 2023
  2. Approve County Board Minutes - August 8, 2023
  3. Approve Electronic Funds Transfers
  4. Approve Auditor Vouchers - Auditor Warrants - Sales-Use Tax & Diesel Tax, July 2023
  5. Approve Auditor Vouchers - Property Tax Overpayments 8-11-2023
  6. Approve Manual Warrants - ELAN 8-3-2023
  7. Approve Manual Warrants - Manual Warrants 8-10-2023
  8. Approve Auditor Vouchers - R&B Contract 8-11-2023
  9. Approve Commissioner's Vouchers - Commissioner Warrants 8-18-2023
  10. Adopt Resolution - Approve Large Assembly License - White Pine Logging & Threshing Show
  11. Approve Affidavit for Duplicate of Lost Warrant
  12. Adopt Resolution - Set Unorganized Township Levies for 2024

10:05 AM

3) Dennis Thompson - Land Commissioner
  1. Approve Public Hearing Date - Heur Land Exchange
  2. Adopt Resolution - Letter of Support for Outdoor School for All Minnesota

10:15 AM

4) Andrew Carlstrom - Environmental Services Director
  1. Approve Expansion of Aitkin Recycling Center

10:30 AM

5) Mark Jeffers - Economic Development Coordinator
  1. Public Hearing - INH Properties Tax Abatement Request
  2. Adopt Resolution - INH Properties Tax Abatement Senior Housing Units
  3. Adopt Resolution - INH Properties Tax Abatement Workforce Housing Units

11:20 AM

6) John Welle - County Engineer
  1. Discussion Only - Presentation of Highway Department 2024 Budget
  2. Approve Equipment Purchase - Four Tandem Plow Trucks

12:05 PM

7) Dan Guida - County Sheriff
  1. Discussion Only - Presentation of 2024 Sheriff's Office Budget

12:25 PM

8) Jessica Seibert - County Administrator
  1. Discussion Only - Dr. Bill Brendel Provide Update on Revitalization Initiative
  2. Approve Public Hearing Date - Cannabis Public Use Ordinance
  3. Administrator Updates

12:50 PM

9) Board of Commissioners
  1. Commissioners Committee Reports

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