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9:05 held a board of equalization meeting 9:07 a.m. returned to the regular meeting PUBLIC PARTICIPATION — Chair Lancaster called for public participation and no one responded. 6 PUBLIC WORKS UPDATE - Mr. Riehle stated he ask to rearrange some agenda items. He reported that they are currently routing the road cracks and sealing them. The time to do this is when it is cold so it sets up. They are wrapping up the North Road ditch cleaning and put up a berm on the west to prevent water and also cleaned out the ditch and installed the pipes. He stated his management team is looking at the equipment. They have used the shredder on the track loader to shred volunteer trees in the ditches. It will do 4 or 5 inch trees. They used to have 2 grad-ails and used them and 2 dump trucks to keep ditches clean and he would like to consider purchasing a grade all and also look at the motor graders next year. Bredthauer noted she had heard she was a committee of one and wanted to give the board information. They met with all of the staff and are trying to make things the most effective. The staff has some concerns that they do not have the right equipment. The rubber tire excavator does not do the job, the zipper has not been used and they cannot do every bridge project and may consider subletting them out. They have discussed issues and need to make it better. Mr. Riehle stated that the state has raised the bar regarding critical bridges. They have soft match dollars to build them. They have built the bridges in the past. In 2021 the bridges will need to be inspected and he would like to train an emp0loyee to do these he is currently the only one that can do the bridge inspections. Richardson ask when the meet and Bredthauer stated they meet Monday morning at 7:00 a.m. Bredthauer stated that there was discussion in the past that public works did not need new equipment but they have fallen behind. They have to live with decision made by the past administration. There needs to be a better way to get things done. She provided information on the cold planer this is a used unit that has 82 hours on it and is priced at $19,000.00 Richardson noted that they used to have committees and they had a set meeting time. Then they were abolished and a point person was assigned and Karen was appointed to replace Mr. Hartman. She noted that the point person was to prevent 7 board members going to a departments with questions. The questions were to be funneled 3