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Steve Riehle stated the safety committee met December 15th, safety is now a bigger part of our culture. The safety committee is a working committee addressing functions beyond safety. They are addressing safety footwear and these will be road department issue. The committee has equipment operator representatives, Grand Island shop representatives. Will Rudolf is the safety committee chair, Craig Harrenstein, Shawn Kenny and Karen Bredthauer is also on the committee. Steve noted that the safety policy encourage driver training safety for any employee that drives a county vehicle. Lancaster ask if the committee members wanted to come forward Will Rudolph was elected by his peers. He stated they are working on projects that they want to get accomplished including the shop floor concrete, addressing the parking area and the fuel area and there are several other little projects. Will stated they are working on the job safety analysis form that will address gas or electrical lines when they start working on a job, Will stated this will be very helpful. Lancaster noted they are getting a lot accomplished 6. PUBLIC WORKS EMPLOYEE C.L. STEVENSON REQUEST TO ADDRESS COUNTY BOARD - C.L. Stevenson, 3121 Garland requested to address the board. He expressed concern on the policies that they are adopting. He feels that these things are being shoved down their throats. He expressed concern on the hard hats and the steel toed shoes if you ae sitting in a truck or walking down a road why do you need steel toed shoes. He checked with some other businesses and they do not require safety shoes. He stated this is overkill and if all of this is adopted do they have to follow it they need to use some common sense. He has issues with management he has submitted requests in the suggestion box and has only received 2 back. There are other employees that have concerns but they are afraid of repercussions. He welcomed to board to come out and work with him. Lancaster thanked him for coming. 8. PUBLIC WORKS —A) DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING J.I.L ROAD BOND/CONTRACT— Steve Riehle provided copies of the pilograph reports J.I.L had made arrangement to do the new testing this report is more accurate and gives good information. The contractor worked with Steve and different vendors regarding the roughness of the road. They had sub-contractors to do the grinding and the diamond grinding does a better job. The computer print provides information on the roughness of the road or just driving the road. They used a bump buggy and used a report that had the stations of the location of the bumps. J.I.L stated they wanted to make sure the road was right. They tried using the rolling straight edge but could not find the bumps so used the pilograph. Steve reviewed the reports the IRI is the International Roughness Index the IRI shows anything over 100 has to be ground. J.I.L hired a contractor and they are building a rolling straight edge to determine the smoothness. Steve recommends to have J.I.L lease a grinder and he is comfortable that they want to do the right thing he would recommend a drop dead of May 1st for completion. March and April would be good time to grind. They have a report that identifies the places that need to be ground he propose to determine how many places to grind and then do the 5