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6.DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION ON CONCURRENCE AND CONSENT TO AWARD AIRPORT SEWER PROJECT BID - Deputy County Attorney Sarah Carstensen stated that the interlocal agreement with the city and airport addressed using the ARPA funds and she is asking the board if they want to know in advance the value of the bid. Discussion was to let the market show the value. In the original interlocal they want to be able to approve or not approve the project. The bids are due and will be opened on October 19th. The city opens their bids differently than the county the Airport will meet on October 20th and the County and the City have meetings on October 26th. This could be done after we have the information from the bids. Quandt stated that the county board meeting is in the morning and the city meet in the evening and the board would know he value then. Sarah stated this would just give them the certainty that they can move forward. Sorensen stated he can see both sides but would also want to wait and protect the bidding process. He feels we should delay this for 2 weeks. Peterson stated he also agrees he does not want to put the number out there. That would just give the bidders an opportunity to bid up to the number. Lancaster said she appreciates the boards thought process and it would not be fair to the taxpayer if it was just based on dollars only. This is a vital project to the community and we have this opportunity because of the ARPA dollars. She said the city should give the county the same information. This is an important process and a lot of dollars. Quandt said this is important for all of Hall County and the community. We will all know on the 20th this is a cooperative project 5 B) DISCUSSION & POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING RECOMMENDATION TO NACO LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE - Sarah stated that she and Scott will be there to relay the board's wishes and noted the time was moved up She questioned why the 50,000 value was set this is how Hall County has done business. Before there were 2 counties Douglas and Lancaster that were at the 150,000. Peterson ask if it was 60,000 and Sarah said at one point it was changed. She noted that there are other statutes that address 100,000 it could be made the same to match them. She is not sure what number is needed, it would make sense to change it to up to 150,000 and let the counties grow to that number. The counties over the 150,000 have elected engineers but she questioned why there is such a wide gap. Peterson said it need to be eliminated completely it does not make any sense and Bredthauer agreed. 5