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Home My WebLink AboutBoard of Commissioners - Minutes - 12/20/1976MINUTES OF THE ADJOURNED MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OTTER TAIL COUNTY MINNESOTA Pursuant to adjournment, the Board of County Commissioners of Otter Tail County Minnesota met at 1: 00 P .M., : Monday, December 20, 1976, all members present .. The Personnel Committee appeared before the Board a~g reviewed the proposed salary schedules. No action taken. Motion was made by Andy Leitch, seconded by George Walter and unanimously carried, for the County Board to meet at 9:30 A.M., Wedn~sday, December 29th. Motion was made by John Snowberg, sec_onded by Bert Hovland and unanimously carried, to approve 'the payment of$910.24 out of the CoWlty Building Fund for construction, etc., of the parking lot on the corner of Mill and Junius in the City of Fergus Falls. Motion was_m~de by Andy Leitch, seconded by George Walter and unanimously ·carried, to cancel the .following over-due Highway Department state- ments: Edwin Selvaag $200.00 D. M. Noyes Construction Co. 25.50 Elizabeth Twp. (Les Thompson Driveway) 5.00 Motion was made by Andy Leitch, seconded by George Walter and unani- mously carried, to appoint Mrs. Sherrill Jacobson to the Otter Tail County Planning Advisory Commission, effective January 1, 1977-, to replace LeRoy Edlund. Motion was made by George Walter, seconded by Andy Leitch and unani- mously carried, to re-appoint EdLenius to the Otter Tail County Planning Advisory Commission. Motion was made by Andy Leitch, seconded by John Snowberg and unani- mously carried, to appoint Berton Hovland as an alternate member of the West Otter Tail County R.C. & D. Committee, with Arnold Evavold as Regular Member. Upon motion made by John Snowberg, seconded by George Walter and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Otter Tail County Minnesota, that WHEREAS on July /27, 1976, the County Board accepted the bid of Super GMC Truck Sales, Fergus Falls, Minnesota for one GMC 3/4 Ton Pickup Truck in the amount of $4,888.50, and WHEREAS the above vehicle has been received by the Highway Department, to the satisfaction of the County Board, NOW, THEREFORE, the County Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to issue a warrant in the amount of $4,888.50 payable to Super GMC Truck Sales, Fergus Falls, in full payment thereof. Dated at Fergus Falls, Minnesota this 20th day of December, 1976. Clerk I Upon motion made by Andy Leitch, seconded by Bert Hovland and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Otter Tail County Minnesota, that WHEREAS the County Board on April 20, 1976 accepted the bid of Ackling Construction Company, Frazee, Mi.nnesota for grading and aggregate sur- facing, S.A.P. 56-637-01, C.P. 76:37, in,ithe amount of $75,793.45, and WHEREAS the above contract has ·now been completed to the satis- faction of the County Board at a total cost of $72,588.46, a decrease of $3,204.99 due to a portion of the sod being deleted from the contract, NOW, THEREFORE, the County Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to issue a warrant in the amount of $9,131.47 payable to Ack ling Construction Company, Frazee, Minnesota as final payment for this work. Dated at Fergus Falls, Minnesota this. 20th day of December, 1976. Clerk Upon motion made by Andy Leitch, seconded by Bert Hovland and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Otter Tail County Minnesota, tha·t WHEREAS the CoW1ty Board, on April 20, 1976, accepted the bid of Ackling Construction Company, Fra;ee, Minnesota in the amount of $53,095.64 for grading and aggregate surfacing, :c.P. 76:116, and WHEREAS the above contract has now been completed to the satis- faction of the County Board at a total cost of $53,993.00, an increase of $897.36 due to the need for additional culverts, NOW, THEREFORE the CoW1ty Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to issue· a warrant in the amount of $13,935.32, payable to Ackling Construction Company, Frazee, Minnesota as final p~yme.nt. for this work. Dated at Fergus Falls,: Minnesota this 20th. day of December, 1976. ATTEST~ Clerk T Upon motion mad~ by Andy Leitch, seconded by John Snowberg and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: OTTER TAIL COUNTY RESOLUTION DEFICIENT BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS WHEREAS, the federal government and the state government, through the Minnesota Department of.Transportation, has provided available.funds to the various Counties and their sub-units of government for· the.re- placement of deficient bridges, and WHEREAS, the Minnesota Department of Transportation does periodically compile a list of.deficient bridges on Federal Aid Secondary County Highways, County State Aid Highways, County Highways,-County Municipal Streets and Township Roads, NOW, THEREFORE,. BE IT RESOLVED,, that o·tter Tail County shall partici- pate in all Bridge Replacement Programs-to use the_ bridge replacement funds available to the County of Otter Tail and/or its respective sub-units of government, such as Cities and Townships. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all bridge replacements shall come from a list of deficient bridges, as tabulated by the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and project priority shall be determined by. the County. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Otter Tail County,· or the State of Minne- sota, shall be the contracting agency.for work done under all eligible bridge replacement programs and that concurrence froma governmental sub-unit will be obtained if and when a project directly involves that governmental sub-unit. Adopted this · 20th · day of December, 1976-. ATTEST:. County.Auditor (SEAL) \ Upon motion made by George Walter, seconded by Bert Hovland and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: AGREEMENT NO. COUNTY. OF·. ENTERED R E S O L U T I O N ETA 1056 OTTER TAIL BE IT RESOLVED, that pursuant to statutory authority, the County Engineer for and on behalf of the County of Otter Tail is hereby authorized to request and obtain from the Minnesota Depart- ment of Transpor.tation, needed engineering and. technical services during the year 1977, · for which payment will be inade by the County upon receipt of verified claims from the Connnissioner of Transpor- tation. Adopted this 20th day of December, 1976. County Auditor (SEAL) Upon motion made by George Walter, seconded by Bert Hovland and unanimously carried, the following resolution was adopted: RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Otter Tail County Minnesota, that WHEREAS the Otter Tail County Board fully agrees with the overall general concept of the Minnesota Open Meeting Law, and WHEREAS there are occasionally problems and situations where private or closed door executive meetings could achieve more efficiency in government, NOW, HEREBY, be it re soi ve·d that the Otter Tail County Board of Commissioners urges the legislature to amend the OPen Meeting Law to allow executive meetings when discussing t.he. following matters: a. Planning and discussing negotiation str~tegy in public employment relations, b. Discussion of present or anticipated. county litigation, c. Personal problems in employee relations unless the employee re- quests that matters be discussed in an open meeting, d. Real estate acquisition. When an executive meeting is called, an impartial observer shall be present who shall be called upon to certify to the public that business trans- acted in executive session is limited to the above-described matters and only the abQve described matters. Dated at Fergus Falls, Minnesota this 20th day of December, 1976. ATTEST,: ~ / ,, ~~~ Clerk Motion was made by George 'Walter, seconded by John Snowberg and unanimously carried, to approve a partial payment, Est. No. 11, to Traffic . . Marking Service, Inc., Buffalo, Minnesota in the amount of $9,937.32 for high- way striping. Motion was made by John Snowberg, seconded by Andy Leitch and unanimously carried, to approve the Minnesota Department _of Transportation Agency Contract, and the Chairman of the Board and the County Auditor were authorized to sign the agreement on behalf of Otter Tail County. Motion was made by Hub Nordgren, seconded by Andy Leitch and unanimously carried, to approve the solid waste stipulation agreement for the City of Ottertail, Area Solid Waste Disposal Facility, and the Chairman of· the Board and the County Auditor were authorized to execute agreements on behalf of Otter Tail County. Motion was made by Bert Hovland, seconded by Andy Leitch and unanimously carried, to remove sheriff's costs from certain citations recently served and paid without the additional sheriff's costs being included on the citations. Upon motion made by Bert Hovland, seconded by George Walter and carried, Andy Leitch voting ''no", the following applications for foregiveness · of penalty were approved: Richard E. Dillon Fritz Lemke James Ouren Elizabeth Erhard Erhard Upon motion made by George Walter, seconded by John Snowberg · and unanimously carried, the foll~wing bills were allowed: I ROAD & BRIDGE Champion Auto Store Coast to Coast Store Perham General Trading Co Hall Equipment Helle International Homelite The Parts House Pat McGrath Inc. Uselman's Inc. Battle Lake Electric Curt's Repairs Gaylord Matson Repair Kotz Bros Blacksmith Shop Overhead Door Company Coast to Coast Parkers Prairie H & LOK Hardware Knutson ·Htg & Air Cond Lawson Products Peavey Lumber Service Sigelman Steel & Salvage Welding Supplies & Fire Equip. Paper Calmenson & Co Elk River Concrete Products Stan Morrill Farmers Grain & Feed Duininck Bros & Gilchrist City of Henning F.R. Steuart Co Commissioner of Transportation Twin City Testing & Eng. Lab Inc Douglas Weiszhaar Northwestern Bell Tlephone Co Pelican Telephone Co Boyer's D-A Lubricant Co Inc Arrow Petroleum Penrose Oil Co Consumers Co-op Oil Dick's Standard Kirchoff Perkins Buds Mobil Dent Oil Co Farmers Co-op Assn Jim's Service · Mel's Service · North Union Champlin Otter Tail Co-op Oils Perham Co-op Oil Vergus Oil Co West Side Service Bill Shamp Timothy Johnson Paul Nelson Clarence Paurus Michael Hilden Wesley Haatja MISC REVENUE EXPENSE 38.48 110.33 231.64 130.68 578.11 11.98 86.77 170.27 5.41 30.55 55.20 218.50 15.00 554.17 53.82 4.20 1.20 120.76 8.19 9.90 3.95 1,194.28 523.64 31.32 20.25 2,168.95 457.29 35.00 380.08 18.00 227.52 46.31 13.35 870.00 207.90 383.23 141.56 359.13 229.05 378.00 122.81 180.46 456.79 132.09 237.23 210.34 957.36 10.03 · 244.32 206.45 41.60 17.20 58.40 105.04 103.60 20.96 I Wesley Ervasti Normandy Cafe Tom Speed June Ryan Charles Beck Berton Hovland Andy Leitch A. Hubert Nordgren Darel Jacobson Construction Ernie's Foods 58.40 26.26 53.00 6o.oo 30.00 117.40 78.90 202.79 462.00 269,18 Upon motion made by George \Val ter, seconded by Andy Leitch and unanimously carried, the meeting was adjourned Wltil 9:30 A.M., Wednesday, December 29, 1976. Chairman ATTEST:~· Clerk