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F'aoooo358 Jeffries made a motion and Lancaster seconded to approve Resolution #00-0065 to establish the Rural Road Improvement District No. 2000-1 and approve Resolution # 00-0066 to appoint Dick Bass, Gene Groff and Gary Soden to the Advisory Committee for the Rural Road Improvement District # 2000-1 Arnold, Hartman, Humiston, Jeffries, Lancaster, Landis and Logan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. 11 :50 a.m. Sheila Bjerrum interlocal agreement from health department amendment to interlocal agreement allow board of health to have statutory authority over the health department separate 900 fund to control payroll activities everything is handled separately statutory authority of the board of health in 15 of the agreements coming from board of health as well employees of the department of health instead of the city of Grand Island at the health joint city county meeting county of city purchasing rules would be in effect use own internal control not present in the interlocal following purchasing rules does not specify either follow city or county purchasing rules left up to the health department follow the city rules now can choose board of health will approve the claims and the city will pay the claims statute provides that board of health will improve Paul Muller from city finance department better for hall county health department health dept claims are approved by city council and they should be approved by the health dept Arnold made motion to approve bud second 7 yes 8 TROY CHANDLER DISCUSS JUVENILE ACCOUNTABLlTY BLOCKGRANT: Troy Chandler stated that he has reapplied for the juvenile accountability block grant and there will be an additional $7,000.00 available to the city and county. Mr. Chandler stated that they would be starting drug and alcohol testing for the juveniles. The state patrol supply the equipment and police department will provide the training. The also intend to develop a curfew system. The curfew paging system will track juveniles to make sure they are not violating curfew. New program dollars will be in the grant to pay for these hours. Again ten percent of the money will be retained for grant administration. Mr. Chandler stated that Todd Usury is helping Troy with the number of referrals and he carries pager two weeks out of the month. He has received his training and he works the offenders program on a weekly basis in schools, at home, in the office and at their place of employment, There has been a good response to the program. Lancaster made a motion and Jeffries seconded to approve the juvenile accountability block grant. Arnold, Hartman, Humiston, Jeffries, Lancaster, Landis and Logan all voted yes and none voted no. Motion carried. 11 11 :45 a.m. Phyllis Chambers with Hartford Insurance out of Lincoln, requested to present information on a deferred compensation plan that they have. This program is used in 68 counties in Nebraska. It is an old company that was established in 1810 and is the nations largest insurer. It has $172 billion in assets and is one of the top five providers of compensation plans. Hall County now uses Nationwide Deferred Compensation plan. It purchased PEBSCO and they have made changes. They have terminated the local representations. County clerks are concerned with the amount of service the counties will receive. Hartford can also coexist with other plans. They specialize in 457 government deferred plans and they will work with clerks and employees to offer personal service. There is no cost to county to adopt plan and no cost to the county for maintenance fees. There are 23 choices of investment funds. They have quarterly statements and quarterly newsletters. They offer a toll free service number and also personal calls to the employees and they also have a web site. She would like to offer this to the county employees. Jeffries made a motion and Lancaster