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has been taking his time hiring another employee until they can carry out all of the duties of his full time job. It would be difficult to put them in another position there is a learning curve and he has a lot of other responsibilities to handle. The GIS Department would suffer and we need to look at what is good for Hall County. The committee would like to look into raising the population requirements from 60,000 to 100,000 or 150,000. The 150,000 reference the big 3 counties. This needs to be fixed for Hall County and work on some possible legislation to make the population change. This is the time to work on it. Peterson made a motion and Sorensen seconded to ask Sarah Carstensen and the committee to prepare proposed legislation for introduction to raise the population level. Bredthauer, Hurst, Lancaster, Quandt, Peterson, Richardson and Sorensen all voted yes and no one voted no. Motion carried. 15B) DISCUSS & TAKE ACTION TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE POPULATION THRESHOLD FOR COUNTY ROAD SUPERINTENDENT BY 2022 Lancaster do not have to comply at this point but come into compliance by the 2022 election she understands some people are going to Scott for Guidance now and that is unfair, the county will come into compliance in 2022. Peterson made a motion and Sorensen seconded that the county will come into compliance based on the 2022 election by January 2023. Election Commissioner Tracy Overstreet to address the board regarding certain deadlines. By January 5, 2022 the county has to certify the county surveyor position. January 15, 2022 the county has to set the salary and that is stated in the Nebraska Constitution. She noted that salaries for county officers cannot be changed during the term so if here are different job descriptions the salary deadline will be sooner than the results of the election. Deputy County Attorney Sarah Carstensen stated that she talked to NACO and they need to consider the value of the positions. There are separate line items in the budgets for the positions. The legislative session is on October 14 and this would be a good opportunity to propose legislation and having a board member present would be a good answer. The salary survey will also come out then. Lancaster said the salary survey will be presented at this time and the county may have to have 2 job descriptions depending on the proposed legislation. This would just be an amendment to the current legislation so they should be able to accomplish this. There are currently job descriptions that are acceptable. If the board supports the current position it should not be elected it should be appointed by the county board. The vote on the motion was taken. Bredthauer, Hurst, Lancaster, Quandt, Peterson, Richardson and Sorensen all voted yes and no one voted no. Motion carried. 8