- I would like to call this meeting to order. It's the Monroe County stormwater management board. The
- date is Wednesday, November 5th, 2025. It's now 3.34 PM. And so the first agenda is public input for
- items not on the agenda. So we have actually no one here in the NatU Hill meeting room and looking for
- folks online. I do not see
- any raised hands. So I will move on to the second item on the agenda. Approval of minutes for October
- 1st, 2025. I move approval of minutes for October 1st, 2025. Second. Do either of you guys have any
- comments on the minutes? All right. Any public comment? I would like to
- we have to do a roll call? No. Okay. All those in favor of approving the minutes for October 1st, 2025,
- say aye. Aye. Aye. Moving on to agenda item four, the stormwater expenditure report for September 2025.
- So Tina is not here to give her usual update for you all, so I will try to do as well as she does. So
- September we had our NAFSA conference, so we had
- One more one new staff member that we had to pay for their conference registration for and then
- you'll start to see some stiff road expenditures coming in. So those are gonna be some of our larger
- bills coming in. And then one other item of note is the logjam removal we paid for through Bluestone.
- So we submitted the paperwork to get that grant reimbursement. So very, very happy to have those logjams
- over on Promise Creek, the two locations both removed. Any other questions about the expenditure report?
- I actually did not have any. Commissioner Thomas? I guess the log jam removal and I guess just the status
- of our goals of kind of targeting the Clear Creek area. Was that part of you said two or? This
- was specifically a layer grant only for two locations on Brummets Creek. The Clear Creek one is separate
- and I can give you an update under the staff report section for that.
- wondering real brief status, like if we're still ongoing with it or not. So we're looking into it. OK.
- Excellent. Thank you. I would like to move on to new business. First, we have a contract with MSI Security
- for flagging and traffic control. Yes. So we regularly re-evaluate all of our contracts.
- we wanted to have a kind of a backup slash alternate primary flagging and traffic control contract.
- And so we met with Marshall Security, and they are very happy to work with us. So this is also going
- to the commissioners tomorrow for approval. Excellent. Is there a not to exceed, or is this just basically
- having one on retainer, I guess?
- on retainer. Just as we're doing work throughout the county, we may or may not need flaggers, and so
- we coordinate with them on a week by week basis. So we'll start figuring out that expenditure through
- the monthly reports and things of that nature. Okay, I just was curious. Not to exceed equals the budget.
- Yeah, exactly. I'm going to move approval of the master service agreement between Marshall Security
- LLC and Monroe County Highway Department stormwater program.
- All right, we have a motion and a second. Do we have any other comments on that? All right, do we have
- any public comment on that contract? Seeing no hands online, I would like to vote all in favor of approving
- the contract with MSI Security for flagging and traffic control, say aye. Aye. And that is unanimous.
- Our second item of new business is GPRS incorporated pipe televising services contract. Yes. So as we're
- moving through working through our infrastructure, we are recognizing the need for televising before
- paving projects to really identify pipes or other stormwater infrastructure that might need replacement.
- before we pave these nice roads. And so having an on-call contract with GPRS would aid in our ability
- to adequately replace this infrastructure prior to these major paving projects. First piece of business
- would be having Curry Pike televised, a section of Curry Pike prior to some upcoming repaving and work
- over there.
- Same question, is there a not to exceed on this? No, it's just an on-call. It's also so that we can
- kind of see how much we're using the service and if it would justify needing our own equipment in the
- future. So we can start to kind of plan for that in the long run. Before you make the motion,
- I was just wanting to give a shout out to Paul Sarley, our highway engineer, with upping his coordination
- with our PLSS side of work in the surveyor's office and making sure that we preserve those monuments
- and location. It was really nice to see the two offices start working in tandem to preserve that as
- much as make sure that we're not paving over things that we need to dig into.
- I'd like to make a motion. I think we're voting to make a positive recommendation to the commissioners
- to approve the GPRS agreement with Monroe County Stormwater and Highway. Second. All right, we have
- a motion and a second. Any further comments?
- Do we have any public comment? Again, no one here in the NetEU Hill meeting room. Do we have any public
- comment online? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving the GPR's incorporated pipe televising
- services contract, say aye. Aye. It is unanimous. And our final item of new business is the 2026 meeting dates.
- Yes, so I was not sure if we would have a December meeting, so I wanted to bring these to you sooner
- rather than later. We don't have the books together for this room for 2026 yet, so we can't necessarily
- confirm that the room will itself will be available. But we can always set our January meeting date
- and then in January confirm the rest of the meeting dates for the rest of the year if you'd like to
- take that route.
- I think that would be a wise move. We have to look at this with the holiday schedule and with the room
- schedule and put it all together. So I will make a motion that our first meeting of 2026 should be January
- 7th at, do we want to say 3.30? Does that work? 3.30 p.m. That was Nat U Hill room. I'll second.
- All right. So we have a motion and a second.
- I don't think we need to have public comment on that. So all those in favor of having our first meeting
- for 2026 on January 7th, 3.30 in the NatU Hill meeting room, say aye. Aye. Again, unanimous. Thank you.
- So that concludes all of our items of new business. We are now on to staff reports.
- So I'll keep this brief. I did speak with Martha Miller at the Soil and Water Conservation District
- and let her know that we probably would not have a December meeting. So she's prepared to come to you
- in January with a 2025 year-end update report. She did say that the major update right now is that they've
- allocated all but $5,000 of what we've provided to them, but they do have two pending applications and
- expect approval of one at their meeting next week, which would be about $3,000.
- So they've got a few other projects in the queue. So they'll have some people ready to go for 2026.
- And then from the stormwater program, Stipp Road is underway and on schedule to be paved before Thanksgiving.
- So that's great. South Shore, those crews are wrapping up over there. I believe the road should be open now.
- So they're just doing all the finishing touches. And then we did put the Redbud Heights drainage improvement
- project out to bid. We will be opening those bids next week on Thursday the 13th out at the highway
- garage. And that'll be for spring 2026 construction. Excellent. Did you want to mention anything else
- about the? Oh, yes. So the emergency watershed protection program that we had submitted the application
- for. With the government shutdown,
- we're not hearing anything. It's kind of all on pause. So the Clear Creek logjam was part of that submittal.
- So we're hoping that the government shutdown ends soon and we can hear something shortly thereafter.
- If not, we are keeping it in mind for a potential 2026 logjam project. Well, thanks for the update.
- I was just kind of curious.
- you have any concerns about the bids being opened on the red bud uh and then we're not meeting is that
- is that going to put anything off if we wait until january to approve a contract or anything or That's
- a great point um okay i hope not okay well keep that in mind
- I would I guess just for scheduling convenience. If it's only one item and if the rooms available, maybe
- after a commissioner meeting if they're able to stick around for a couple more minutes, we could. Yes,
- we make so much more sense. Yeah, we could just try to do a special meeting. We just need that 48 hours
- so OK. Make sure that it gets done. I don't want to put that one off. Yeah, it just one other shot out
- to I guess your.
- PR I can't think of a better term right now of putting stuff on Instagram on our social platforms. I
- watched the South Shore video and I thought that was really cool because it showed a lot of like.
- equipment and work getting done, and it's just kind of something I think is kind of neat to watch. Are
- you referencing the drone footage? It could, yeah. OK, because that was not us. That's a private citizen
- that has a drone, and they like to go out over Lake Lemon and capture footage. And so that was their
- own prerogative to... But you picked it up. Yeah. Well, I thought I liked it on this stormwater page.
- We shared it. Oh, you did share it. OK, cool. Anyways, shout out to that. I thought that was really
- great. Yeah, very cool.
- All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you. We are adjourned. Yay. Thank you. Thank you.