Welsh: In your budgeting process do you have a listing of the personnel increases that are requested for me to pick it up? The number of new employees are being suggested by the various departments so you can look at that as a total unit.

Jordahl: I asked that question of our deputy administrative assistant who is assisting us with the budget process yesterday to collect that. I don't think I have it yet but I intend to have that. Yes, it's an important piece for us.

Stutsman: The Board will have all that information.

Jordahl: Yes.

Stutsman: Yes.

Welsh: Because I think that would be something good to consider possible input on that.

Jordahl: Uh-huh. Anything else? OK. Report and inquiries from members of the Board of Supervisors.

Lehman: I'd like to report about the meeting that Jonathan and I attended at the North Liberty County and Zoning Commission on Tuesday night along with R.J. Moore and Richard Carbury of the Planning and Zoning Department. The discussion was on the fringe area agreement. I thought it was very positive and R.J. did a nice job of presenting it. And a good opening discussion. I thought they were a very open minded group and I think it paved the way for a very positive relationship in the future. This being my first week I'd like to thank Sally, Jonathan and Charlie and the staff, as well as members of the public have been real helpful about answering questions and giving me some information and guidance. I look forward to meeting the rest of the employees and a very sincere thank-you and I appreciate your cooperation. I look forward to serving out the rest of the time. Thank-you.

Jordahl: Yes, it's been a pleasure already Mike. You're a nice addition to the Board. Sally?

Stutsman: I guess I had a work group meeting with the Juvenile Justice Policy Board yesterday and talked about the meeting that we will have on January 20th when we will be incorporating the asset building concept into the Juvenile Justice Policy Board. So we just kind of formalized some plans for that. Attended the open house for Ed Steinbrech on Monday, he is leaving the Clerk of Court's Office effective at the end of the year or the end of last year. So we had a nice reception for him at the courthouse and I think that's it for right now. Oh, I had an Empowerment Board meeting on Tuesday evening and this was kind of just a meeting for the entire Empowerment Board where we just talked about what our goals are for the Empowerment Board, just laid out some basic ground rules. I think it was a real good beginning to continue the work that we'll be doing with the Empowerment Board on the local level. Two of the legislators were there, Dick Myers and Mary Masher to hear our concerns about the legislation and I think they will go back with some additional ideas on how to make it work better on the local level. We'll be having another Empowerment Board meeting on the 28th and by then we'll know whether we were successful in the second round of our grant request. So that's it for right now.

Jordahl: OK. Charlie?

Duffy: I'm going to go back about a week or 10 days ago. It isn't why I want to give this report. I want to on cable again, to thank everybody that helped with the Senior Dining program home delivered meals and especially on Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Coralville Morning Optimists Club is a big player in this game, they've been doing it for years and years and I just had to be careful I leave out some people when I start to mention names. We've got a very fine group that again helps with home delivered meals. We had a very fine dinner, prime rib, baked potato, green beans, salad and the whole works. So we're grateful for that and Reverend Bob is on the Committee with me and we surely appreciate that. I think we ought to give a lot of thanks and praise to the people that got out, our road crews that put in long hours. They were called out 24 hours a day with all this snow and bad weather we've had. They've done a really good job of clearing the roads, there's 930 miles of county roads but also the State DOT has done a real good job too. We had wind with this snow and they kept the roads open and we shouldn't forget the City Road Departments that moved a lot of snow so we can get around. Once again I think we have a good county. If we didn't have effort like this we just couldn't get along. Plus the fact there some emergency personnel that was called out. There were 2 or 3 fires around the county and accidents you have like Ambulance Service, First Responders, Sheriff's Deputies, Police, State Troopers so we have a lot going for us in this county. And once again I think they did a whale of a job clearing the snow off the streets and roads.

Jordahl: Well amen to that. I would like to express appreciation to our Planning and Zoning staff for putting together the draft fringe area agreement with North Liberty. It was a very interesting conversation we had up there and I think there's some really good progress being made in working together with the cities. Picking up the note of collaboration, through the fringe area agreement process and the most heartening aspect of that to me is the idea of joint transportation planning at the County along with Johnson County Council of Governments going to be sitting down with their planning staff and their elected bodies to look at looking way forward to the network of arterial streets and collector streets that will flesh out the areas of rural Johnson County as these cities grow and as rural Johnson County may continue to develop. Particularly in the North Corridor where we have so many acres already zoned to residential development that we're going to be looking at where should the roads be and what form should develop and take to accommodate that so that as things grow we're going to have an opportunity for the emergency personnel, for firetrucks, ambulance and law enforcement and so forth have easy access back and forth to get from one part of the county to another. That I think was very well received by the Zoning Commission there in North Liberty. And in addition they were also positive about trying to limit the impact of annexation on rural residents who may be incorporated into the cities both through requiring the infrastructure be put in place. Point of development goes in within their fringe area at the time of development and through some sort of a central funding mechanism that would not place undo burden on rural residents who may be annexed. So I really appreciate being welcome into that discussion as well. Coming up in the future we have on the 12th I believe we're do to see an appointment to the Board of Supervisors to fill our 5th seat, that will be Tuesday the 12th of January.

Welsh: Jonathan that' s been changed.

Jordahl: Has it been changed?

Welsh: At the meeting yesterday they are going to meet today at 1:30 to discuss questions to the candidates. They are planning on interviewing the candidates on the 13th from 8:00 to 12:00 and from 4:00 to 8:00 on the 13th, and again on the 14th from 8:00 to 12:00 and then they'll meet from 12:00 to 1:30 to make their decision if they feel comfortable doing so and if not they will at that time schedule another time for a meeting.

Jordahl: So the anticipated date of appointment would then be the 14th or 15th?

Welsh: At the present time it's the 14th.

Jordahl: OK. All right, thank-you for that update Bob. Also on the 13th we have a joint meeting of Coralville, Iowa City, Johnson County, North Liberty now having been added to that list, and the Iowa City Community School District. This will take place at 4:00 on Wednesday the 13th in North Liberty. Carol do we know precisely where in North Liberty?

Peters: City hall.

Jordahl: At North Liberty City Hall so not the community center but the city hall.

Peters: When the final agenda comes I'll make sure everybody gets a copy of it and that it is also routed to the media and the (inaudible).

Jordahl: Uh-huh. So that's coming up in just a few days, the 13th of January. And then our monthly evening meeting shall be televised live the following day Thursday the 14th starting at 5:30 with our formal meeting and then the public hearing on zonings and plattings beginning at 6:00. Another item coming down the month at I believe at 4:30 on Tuesday the 19th they will have a meeting of the Mental Health Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities and Brain Injury Planning Council where we've been discussing the funding to those programs earlier in this meeting today. And by the 19th we will have this local option sales tax language finalized one way or the other, probably to be finalized on the 14th. So a week from today where all of these discussions and thoughts and clarifications and so forth will have been resolved through one means or another so I encourage the Board to keep focused on that. Anything else?

Duffy: Yes, one thing. You've mentioned annexation in the cities.

Jordahl: Uh-huh.

Duffy: And I think that some of this will probably be a State issue.

Jordahl: Yes.

Duffy: I think they will talk again about what some folks think is forced annexation the right to vote with their group and the cities can vote with their group in order to be annexed or not. So I'm sure that will be coming up because it passed the house last year.

Jordahl: Yes and there's the further the report and proposals from the Commission on Land Use Urban Sprawl Farmland Protection and so forth looking at, going beyond just annexation questions to the state wide land use policy and that's I'd be very interested in as the session goes forward. Anything else? Member of the public it's time to talk. Nobody wants to talk. OK good. I've entertained a motion to adjourn then.

Stutsman: I second.

Jordahl: We don't need any motion here do we? I'll just adjourn. We're out of here.

Adjourned at 10:40 a.m.

Attest: Tom Slockett, Auditor

By Casie Parkins, Recording Secretary

Sent to the Board of Supervisors on February 2, 1999 at 4:15 p.m.