Lehman: Next is Business from the County Attorney, Reports and Inquiries.

County Attorney J. Patrick White: I’ll just as a report remind you we’re still planning for the Courthouse rededication on June 10th. We’re still trying to raise some funds and if anybody is listening or watching who would be inclined to contribute, they could send a check to the Courthouse Centenary Fund in care of Post Office Box 2450. If anybody has looked very closely this week, you’ll see a change in the exterior of the Courthouse. The phone booth that has been there for a number of years is gone, which makes a difference. It improves, the Committee believes, the exterior appearance of the Courthouse. Phone booths are more anachronistic with the advent of cell phones. There is still a payphone inside the building. We were cleaning up broken glass multiple times a year and so we’ll save some maintenance time with it gone as well. We’ll probably report to you a little more as we progress.

Stutsman: Where was the phone booth?

White: Right smack in front as you went up the front steps, the sidewalk along the west side of Clinton Street, it’s intersectional with the first set of steps.

Stutsman: I can’t even look for it next time I go.

White: Thank you.

Lehman: Thank you, Pat. Anything else?

Lehman: OK. Next we’ll do Business with the Board of Supervisors. Item A we discussed with the Mental Health Courts earlier. B will be, Notice of the City Development Board regarding Coralville Voluntary Annexation. We had discussed this a little bit last week and I think there was some concern about not being able to find who owned to the center of the road on the property that was going to be annexed. We just wanted to have a little discussion on that. My thoughts and I talked to a few of the other parties involved, at Pat’s recommendation we could possibly ask Coralville to do a publication. Basically, asking for someone to step forward with ownership. If they don’t in a certain amount of time…

Thompson: We did draft a letter to that effect asking them to publish and go ahead and annex to the middle of the road. But, because Carol has been out this week, it didn’t get typed up and put in our packet. But, it is ready to go.

Lehman: Does it address that publication?

Thompson: Yes.

Lehman: OK.

Harney: My question to Pat, and I think we’ve talked about it briefly before. Would it be appropriate for the Board of Supervisors to publicize the rest of that road at the same time to take possession since we don’t know whose that is, or just let it sit as has been?

White: I’m not sure I understand the question, Pat.

Harney: Well, if they don’t know who owns the road, should the County also publicize and take possession of the remainder of that roadway?

White: We know where the County’s right-of-way is. Actually, I’m reflecting Andy Chappel’s work here rather than my own. But, his conclusion is that we know the owner is one of 2 people. It’s either the City of Coralville or River Products and that grows out of the history of the properties. There is just a tiny elliptical piece that seems to have gotten lost along the way in the various legal descriptions. We’ve also spoken with the staff for the City Development Board and they understand the statute appears to require annexation to the center of the road. It looks to us like this might be a situation where they should just order that regardless of our ability or inability to determine precisely who the owner of this little elliptical piece is. It’s a piece that is so small that it’s not likely to be economically viable to engage in a quiet title action. I actually think, if the City of Coralville and River Products reached agreement, they could give one or the other a Quit Claim Deed and that would probably resolve it. It appears to me that the City of Coralville is the likely, most logical, entity to own this. But, I still think a letter to the City Development Board asserting that annexation should be to the center of the right-of-way is appropriate. I’m not sure that published notice is going to be necessary here.

Thompson: Just ask them to require annexation.

White: Yes.

Thompson: OK.

White: We’ll do that as well. We’ll work with River Products and the City to try to get that ownership question resolved. My own tentative conclusion is that, if River Products would give the City of Coralville a Quit Claim Deed, that would reestablish a chain of title and I don’t see anybody else out here who is likely to appear claiming ownership of this tiny little piece. It is an unusual situation.

Lehman: OK. Do we have a letter for action next week?

Thompson: That goes back on the agenda for next week then?

Lehman: Under Formal for action.

Neuzil: When does that Board meet?

White: They actually had a meeting, I believe, today.

Neuzil: That’s what I thought.

White: But, I’m not sure if it was to take action on this or to hear it.

Neuzil: OK. So we have time then.

Moore: I think this is the first hearing and then they wait a number of days before making a decision.

Lehman: OK. Let’s put that back on for Formal action (inaudible) letter. OK.

Tiffin Mayor Glenn Potter: May I ask something?

Lehman: Yes.

Potter: What is Coralville planning on doing with this piece of property? The last few sections of property they have annexed were in the flood plain. They just keep filling the flood plain. Every time they fill a flood plain in it backs more water up from Tiffin (inaudible). There really isn’t that much (inaudible) between Oxford and Coralville. I don’t see that they did anything except fill the (inaudible). Are they wanting to fill this thing also? What’s the purpose of it?

Lehman: I know one was to access for trails and I think we asked to talk to your town of Tiffin so you matched up your trails as they joined.

Potter: We’ve asked Coralville why they didn’t come with it and they haven’t decided yet. So, (inaudible) take (inaudible) ours until they do something with theirs.

Lehman: I don’t think they gave a purpose other than…

Stutsman: I don’t know if Rick had some insight.

Planning and Zoning Administrator Rick Dvorak: The only comment I would like to make is that, as Glenn has mentioned, the purpose of this is to enhance the Clear Creek Watershed and to combine trails. According to FEMA and DNR laws, they are required to get any…in any construction and flood plains requires a permit be issued by the Department of Natural Resources. You can obtain permits from DNR for filling, obviously. You can’t do any stream changes without going through a major process. So, if Coralville and Tiffin can talk, they can find out what permits are being issued. Our fringe agreement with the City of Tiffin requires that they do notify us. I don’t know if we have the same agreement with Coralville or not. Permits are required. They are on record, they can contact with DNR, if you’d like to find out any construction in the flood plains.

Lehman: OK. I think Glenn’s idea is, if they are filling in and actually making a deeper channel, maybe it holds backwater backup…

Potter: I don’t really feel that they’ve made any deeper channels. They put roads down to the flood plains and sewer lines. They did all kinds of things. They put a lot of (inaudible). I’m (inaudible) worried about it coming back in on us. They already have (inaudible) coming (inaudible) have to fill them any higher. If they fill them any higher, they’ll still come across (inaudible).

Lehman: Would you have some contact names for Glenn, with the DNR?

Dvorak: It’s the regional office in Washington, Iowa. 65321.

Potter: (Inaudible).

Tiffin Council Member Karin Dils: Actually, the City of Coralville, I believe, approves their own flood plain permits, is what we were told.

Lehman: Interesting.

Potter: (Inaudible). I’m sure with all of the proper sources (inaudible). (Inaudible) worried about this, too, if they come out there and start filling that in also, we could have more problems. It’s like where they are building the Wal-Mart and (inaudible) going in with stuff like that. It’d be too much to hold the water back. The more the water comes out of the tap, you go down to that watershed and it eventually is going to back up on us.

Stutsman: Have you talked to Coralville about your concern?

Potter: We’ve talked to Coralville, yes, then they do what they want to.

Dils: We’ve asked Coralville for a copy of the (inaudible) permits several times and haven’t received anything.

Lehman: OK. I don’t know what direction to give you. You’re lucky you’re upstream instead of down, too. That’s the bright side of it.

Potter: We’re right up the River almost. For being up we’re still down…

Thompson: So, you will respond to the City Development Board with those concerns? Will you be responding to the City Development Board with those concerns?

Potter: Of course. Yes. I doubt it will make any difference. They pretty much did what they wanted to do.

White: We have Fringe Area Agreements with both cities and it is increasingly evident that they are not communicating real well with each other. I don’t attribute any blame for that. But, our Fringe Area Agreements might be a vehicle for us to try to get them to talk to each other. See if we could devise a 3-party agreement that would be part of our Fringe Area Agreements with the 2 cities, but would bring their interests and concerns together.

Potter: We have talked to Mayor Fawcett and we will be setting up a meeting probably within a month. The Fringe Area Agreement there now, south of Tiffin, was agreed by the County and Coralville. Until about 2 months ago we never knew that Fringe Area jumped Interstate 380 and just cut the bottom of our fire district. We were a little bit upset about that. We had no ideas even that that had happened. It happened in 98, but we didn’t know it until approximately 2 months ago. It really cuts into our fire district and cemetaries. Those are the only 2 problems. They’ll TIF it probably for some reason or another and we won’t have any school tax for the next 7 years. I don’t know.

Stutsman: School or County tax.

Potter: We feel, at the City of Tiffin, that the people out there want to come to Tiffin. (Inaudible). Get some of the property owners to come in to Tiffin. We feel obligated to bring them in. Coralville said to us, we can’t provide sewer service. We have sewer service going out to the 2 rest areas this year. Coralville has 3 subdivisions now in the past few years that run on septic tanks. I don’t think that we’re going to have the (inaudible) farmers out there right now (inaudible) going to have to put a sewer line out (inaudible), not in the near future. We wanted to keep it in our immediate growth area. (Inaudible) we annex them, they won’t be able to jump the Interstate (inaudible). Worried about what they are annexing right now.

Thompson: Should we note in our letter that Tiffin has concerns about the drainage?

White: Certainly could.

Dils: I think (inaudible) the County also. It affects property owners in the County as well as in the City of Tiffin.

Stutsman: I had somebody that expressed that concern to me, a rural resident. I thought, oh, well, you know. But, now I’m hearing concerns from Tiffin, so I think it would be appropriate to…

Potter: Mayor Saxton, when I talked to him (inaudible) between the City of Oxford and Tiffin (inaudible).

Neuzil: It may be time to reorganize the Clear Creek Watershed Committee that was set up awhile back to discuss some of these issues.

Stutsman: Pat, how would we use the Fringe Area Agreement to have Tiffin…

White: We could write an annexation clause or notification clause that had the effect of their cooperating more closely, communicating more closely on Land Use decisions. One of the documents that occasionally is used in annexations issues is, rather than fuss over specific annexation requests, the 2 cities would enter into an agreement that defines and creates a line. Here is the eventual line, we don’t need to argue every time somebody wants to annex a little piece. Well, Glenn goes back this far. Back in the 50’s and 60’s, Iowa City and Coralville were rushing to grab land because they were worried about each other. They eventually sat down and negotiated a contract that said we’ll agree this is the line that established where Coralville will go and where Iowa City will go. That question certainly seems to keep coming up with regard to Tiffin and Coralville.

Potter: We really have too much to lose. About 30 years ago, Coralville annexed Western Hills and the 2 feed mills, Hawkeye Wholesale and God knows what else out there, up to about 380. At that time it was in our cemetery district, school district, and they took it all. We just about lost the park because they (inaudible). This year, (inaudible) township (inaudible) City of Tiffin, (inaudible) association flipping pancakes and frying sausage for us for 2 or 3 years just to help pay for this park. We’re still going to have to finance it. (Inaudible) fire truck (inaudible). (Inaudible) they don’t have any more (inaudible).

Lehman: But, you had mentioned in the next couple of months you are scheduled to sit down with Coralville and discuss this Fringe Area Agreement between…

Potter: All that will amount to is, they’ll sit down and tell us what they’re going to do. It doesn’t seem right that the people want to do something in an annexation. They don’t want to be annexed by someone or they do want to be annexed. (Inaudible) they really don’t have a choice. We would like to have everything stay like it is out there. We really don’t want to inherit the 340th Street. That’s a real (inaudible) out there. (Inaudible).

Stutsman: How about Deer Creek?

Potter: We feel obligated to the people out in this area, too.

Lehman: Rick, did you have some input?

Dvorak: The Board may or may not be able to comment on one’s kept questions this evening. But, again, this is on your agenda for discussion, not annexation, but the Fringe Area Agreement in next month’s public hearing, which will give the Board a little time to review what the Mayor is talking about tonight and where these things are exactly and where the locations are. We’ll share that with you in the next week or so. They are proposals.

Lehman: OK.

Potter: We just need to move it along because we have development going in the Longbacher’s. They are waiting out there now getting that ready. It’s all plotted and zoned out. (Inaudible) on the south corner is ready to move on his (inaudible). The other corner is ready to move. We need the taxation. (Inaudible).

Lehman: OK. So, do we have consensus in our letter to the Development Board to mention Tiffin’s concerns and put that on next week?

Stutsman: Sounds good.

Potter: Thank you.

Lehman: Thank you for appearing and taking (inaudible).

Potter: (Inaudible).

Lehman: Always well worthwhile. OK, we have direction on that, thank you.

Lehman: Next item is Minutes Received, the Johnson County Nutritional Board Minutes for March 19, 2001. Those minutes are circulating. We haven’t seen them yet. We want to go to Reports and Inquiries from the Board. Any volunteers to start?

Thompson: I will. I have a long report here. The Senior Center Commission met 2 weeks ago and discussed the new configuration for the Council of Elders, which was approved and will be continuing. The one change that was made from the original proposal was that the 3 committees, which will replace the Council of Elders, will be appointed by the Commission. But in the future they will be self-perpetuating, that is, when new members are needed, each Committee will be responsible for seeking its own. We thought that would give them more autonomy from the Commission. The parking rules as revised are a goal. We also had good news that the kitchen repairs are proceeding on schedule. However, the office floor project, which we talked about at some length, has been put on hold. It’s still on the list to be done, but it probably won’t be done this year. There also was discussion of having a Senior Olympics. Also, the Housing Task Force met last week, and approved some rules for contractors and talked about having a paint-a-thon and seeking a small grant for that. We also had the good news that our first grant; the 10 applications on that have been filled. We changed our meeting to quarterly and agreed to participate in a local, homeless coordinating board. Also, this week I attended about the financial software, in which we decided to select a couple of people that do this kind of service and ask them to come in and give us presentations to help the Committee get ideas about what we could put in our RFP. We also had a jail stats meeting. Are you going to talk about that? We met with the police chiefs and the University Law Enforcement person, shared the statistics that we’ve gathered and asked them to look this over and talk with their City Managers. Or who ever they talk with about this and consider whether they would be able to help us diminish the population of the Jail by making any public changes in their policy. This will be on the agenda for the next joint cities meeting. So, we’ll be talking with the individual cities and the University about what they could do to help us there.

Harney: That also was attended by University police and State Patrol. So, they got the numbers and they will be looking at those as well.

Thompson: They’ll be meeting in the meantime with Pat at the Chiefs meeting that he has and this will also be discussed there. Then, there was also a meeting at Heritage Task Force, at which the reorganization of that was discussed where the Task Force members would no longer be appointed by the County. But rather, would be appointed through Heritage because after all it is a division of Kirkwood College so their board would be approving appointments. That’s all I had.

Lehman: Pat, do you have a follow-up on that?

Harney: Yes. I have some from a couple of weeks ago since we didn’t have the reports, we cut it short last week. On March 29th, I met with the East Central Iowa Council of Governments in Cedar Rapids. For those who don’t know, Region 10 is what this is and it includes Benton, Linn, Jones, Iowa, Johnson, Cedar and Washington counties. They had a public hearing for the 02-04 transportation programs. Areas that pertained to Johnson County, and some of these are in the process is, for 02, the bridge on Eagle Avenue. The total cost is $185,000. $148,000 of that is going to be paid by federal dollars. 03, a bridge on Half Moon Avenue, total cost on that is about $300,000. They’ll be paying $240,000 towards that. In 04, a bridge on Ireland Avenue, the total cost on that is $160,000 and the feds will be giving us about $128,000 on that project. They also improved an improvement program for 02 on Mehaffey/180th, Phase II, which is in process right now. So, the federal share of that is about $850,000. It’s about $1,700,000 total cost. There is also the enhancement program for 02, which is the Dubuque Street Trail, which will be starting as well. The total cost of that is $380,000. The federal share is $304,00. So, we’ve got some good dollars coming back into the County. April 2nd, I met at Johnson County Roads. They had a recognition out there for Mark Stewart Dewey, 30 years of service with County Roads. April 9th, she said we had the Jail meeting. On Tuesday, April 9th, also, Sally and I met with Lisa Dewey, SEATS Director. Again, they are still having some unexpected expenses as far as fuel and maintenance goes to support their vehicles. But, they are able to keep that in tow. That’s about all I had.

Lehman: Thank you. Terrence?

Neuzil: It’s been a busy couple of weeks. One of the things that I know we all participated in, something I really, really, enjoyed and learned a lot from had to do with our Mock Zonings. If anyone wants to have the opportunity to kind of watch the process and see some different scenarios and learn from them, there are tapes available. I’m not sure if they are running on the government channel or not. I hope they do, but if not, you can check those out, right?

Lehman: Maybe during Sweep Week.

Neuzil: Yes, they are exciting stuff. But, it is interesting to learn a little bit about what we all go through here when it comes to Land Use decisions. I thought that the Planning and Zoning Department provided us real good opportunity to learn some of those scenarios and to also really work with our P and Z Board. I thought that was really well done, as well. I attended a Chamber Legislative breakfast. There was an opportunity to kind of get an update from the Iowa Legislature, at least our legislators locally in regards to some of the issues and some of the things that they are working on as they close out the session. And some of the impact that we are going to have here in the local community, as we talk a little bit about MH/DD, about some of those potential cuts. It’s going to be real interesting watching the next couple of weeks here of what is going to happen as far as some of our local funding. Besides that, this past couple of days, I’ve had the opportunity to go up to Kirkwood Community College to take a Grant writing class. Jeff, our Budget Coordinator, also was there. I hope that this will give me an opportunity, 1, to learn a little bit more about what grants are all about and hopefully bring some money back into the community to learn some of the styles of how to write a successful grant. I think that will be something that already, as we were just talking a little bit about some of the grants for the potential for some of the court services, maybe I will be able to contribute a little bit towards that as well. As far as the Hawkeye Friday Listening Post, I hope everyone will have a chance to come on over this Friday. That would be tomorrow, which would be the 13th. I’m going to be over at the Coralville optimist club with the Lone Star restaurant. I’ll be discussing some of Johnson County’s budget. Also, the following Friday, I’ll be at John’s Ice Cream in Tiffin.

Neuzil: Bring your fishing poles. We’re going to go out to Kent Park fishing afterwards. Besides that, to be as politically incorrect as possible, I hope everyone has a very safe and happy Easter.

Lehman: Thank you Terrence.

Lehman: Sally?

Stutsman: A couple of things. Carol Peters and I met with representatives from the Extension Service this week to begin formulating a proposal for the meeting with the new members of Boards and Commissions. They had some good ideas and so they are going to put a proposal together and that will be on our agenda for Thursday, for the Board to review. I’m kind of thinking about a maybe 2-part meeting. One with how to run and effective meeting and the 2nd part maybe talking some about what it means to be on a Board of Commission, what’s proper etiquette, how you work with the public and things. I think that will be some good ideas that they’ll present to the Board. Have attended a few DECAT meetings since we last met. We did have an Executive DECAT meeting this afternoon and we approved the request for summer funding and also had some concerns expressed about cuts in the Child Welfare budget. To show how these are cuts are going to impact, we did approve $20,000 worth of funding for summer programs. But, we’re not going to have the contract signed until we have a better handle on where we are at on that Child Welfare budget. All of these talks on the State level about budget cuts are really starting to be felt here on a local level. Hopefully, we can go ahead with these summer programs, but we just need to wait and see, to see what is going to happen with these budgets before we sign off on any of these contracts. Like Pat said, we met with Lisa. Carol and I had a Supervisor meeting with Lora, talked about some of the things that are happening with the Human Resource Department. I can’t think of anything significant that the Board needed to be informed about. Maybe some revisions in the Alcohol Policy, but, I think other than that there wasn’t anything real…

Thompson: Everything else will be coming before the Board.

Stutsman: I think that is it for right now.

Lehman: OK, thank you.

Lehman: Monday I got to visit with a Senator from Poland. I didn’t bring his card, with which I probably couldn’t pronounce his name anyway. But, he had a translator and he was making the rounds Monday and Tuesday to different government officials, as well as business people, to get a flavor for what we do over here and how we do it. He was questioning and wanted to know information on what our departments did, what their responsibilities were. Jo Hogarty, our Secretary, provided me with some information so that he was able to look at that and not have to go into a lot of translation. I wished I had more time to ask him questions. They reorganized over there in the last 2 years. His constituency was only a little over a million. So, it just kind of puts things in perspective. I didn’t get a chance to ask him as much as what his responsibilities are as I would have liked. But, he invited me to come over and find out. Also, Ag Chamber, I visited with them and gave our update. Some of the things they mentioned were the extension building. If you haven’t been down there on the 4-H grounds they are doing some construction and expansion on their office building. They will be moving into that here shortly. Also, the World Plotting Expo was also discussed. Prospects for that didn’t seem very positive since Wendy Ford will be leaving the Coralville Convention Center. She was going to be a real major factor in helping pull that off here in a few years if that happened. That’s all I have to report.

Lehman: I would like to touch under other here. Carol and I have been visiting with the staff of Heritage for our Senior Dining. We are scheduled tentatively a week from tomorrow to meet with some of their staff and discuss the future of Senior Dining as far as our budget and also the personnel. I wanted to clarify the Board thought we needed a work session to get clarified. Or what options we might have or would we rather have Carol and I visit with them and discuss what we think some of those options and get some feedback from them what their options are going to propose to us.

Thompson: I was thinking the work session might be more important after we meet with them.

Stutsman: I think so, too, so we have a clearer idea of where they are coming from and then we can make some decision where we want to go.

Lehman: OK. Well, we’ll proceed that way, Carol and I, till we have a…

Neuzil: Yes. If we have any questions we’ll just give them to you like we always do.

Lehman: OK. Like Carol said, we may have more information afterwards than we have now. We’ll proceed that way. Thank you. Anything else under other, Jeff?

Horne: I have a couple of things to report.

Lehman: OK, Jeff Horne, our Budget Coordinator.

Horne: I wanted to report to the Board that I have a set a due date for requests for budget amendments in the spring is next Friday the 20th. I have received a request from several departments. I’ll be getting that on the agenda to set a date for a hearing for the Board shortly after that. I went to the Grant Workshop with Terrence the last 2 days, which I found very enlightening and very informative. I think we’ve got a lot of good information that we can pass along to department heads in helping them seeking grants and where to look for grants and how to present them. That was very good, for Ron Murr. I have spoken with Cathy Fitzmaurice and David Rust. The Empowerment Funds for now seem to be fairly secure, given the State budget. There was some concern about that. I also wanted to thank the Board and everyone that worked for the County that sent me good wishes while I was out sick. I appreciate that very much. It’s a good thing to have when you feel pretty bad, like I was feeling. So, thank you again.

Neuzil: Glad to have you back.

Lehman: Thank you Jeff.

Stutsman: Mike, can I…there is one more.

Lehman: Go ahead, Sally.

Stutsman: I had a call from an individual from the Alternative to the Iowa Child Project. They were wondering if the Board is interested in a presentation from that group about the Iowa Child proposal.

Lehman: That’s the alternative to it?

Stutsman: Yes.

Lehman: I had a chance to see one of the meetings that they put on at Coralville. I don’t know if anyone else had access to that.

Stutsman: I’ll just throw that out and maybe individual Board Members can talk to me about it if there is interest to hear from them. Let me know if there is.

Lehman: Pat?

Harney: I would like to publicly recognize the Emergency Services for the performance they gave yesterday during the storms. I think they kept the public well-informed and I think it just goes to show how professional of a group we do have in this area. It even goes as far as the news media. The coverage that they gave on the television was great and the services from the Sheriff’s Department, Law Enforcement, Fire, everyone as they went through, even Ambulance. Getting involved and being ready for such a situation I think is a compliment to the services that we have in Johnson County.

Lehman: Good point. Thank you. Anyone else have anything they’d like to add? OK.

Lehman said Thompson pointed out that the Board needs to take action on Strategic Planning because there will be a County-wide Strategic Planning Meeting coming up and the Board needs to be able to pass their thoughts on. Thompson mentioned that the Italics in the document are where she made additions or changes. Lehman said that in February the Board discussed a prior meeting they held about short-term visions and long-term visions, being 7-8 years down the road. He said they discussed projects and things they want to address. He said this doesn’t mean they will be solved, but they are there as reminders that they need to be looked at and action taken on some of them. He said they are not acting on the document today but seeing if they want to approve it.

Neuzil said that once the Economic Development Committee was put together, Harney and him received good suggestions from Planning and Zoning. He said that once they figure out a few identified areas around Iowa City as far as what kind of growth they want then they hope to work closely with Iowa City on the Fringe Area Agreement. Thompson asked if he is close to drafting a policy. Neuzil said that for now it should just be left as a working paper. He said what kind of development and what is best for a particular area will be identified later after meeting with Iowa City later in April and hearing their thoughts.

Lehman said Harney and himself are both involved with ECICOG and still trying to learn their way with transportation there, so not too much has been done with this yet but they will keep at it. Neuzil asked if trails are in the document under transportation or somewhere else. Lehman suggested putting trails under transportation and economic development. Lehman suggested noting in the document to participate with adjoining counties on trails. Thompson asked if this is assigned to the Conservation Board or if Neuzil is talking with them about it. Neuzil said he has met with the Trails Committee, but feels it belongs in Transportation because Gardner needs to be a part of it and Conservation is interested in connecting all of the parks. Thompson said this should be assigned to a department because things move faster this way.

The Board discussed changing the wording under Comprehensive Plan to review North Corridor Plan or just Plan. The Board decided to leave it as Plan. The Board decided to change the wording review study, under Human Services, to United Way and JCCOG Study. The Board discussed other word changes and made changes as they saw necessary.

Thompson mentioned that Lehman is assigned to most of the committees and is also the Chair this year and didn’t know if that is fair. Lehman said that if anyone has an interest to be on one that he is on to talk to him. Neuzil said he is interested in the one for transportation. Stutsman said this balances it out better. She reminded everyone that the changes just need to be made and ready by Tuesday. Lehman said if there is nothing else then the meeting is adjourned and thanked the Board.

Adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

Attest: Tom Slockett, Auditor

By Casie Parkins, Recording Secretary

Sent to the Board of Supervisors on April 16, 2001 at 1:30 p.m.