A SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MURRAY COUNTY BOARD
January 16, 2018, 8:30 a.m. Pursuant to notice, the Murray County Board of Commissioners convened with the following members present: Commissioners Kluis, Gunnink, Jens and Thiner. Also present Aurora Heard and Travis Smith. Excused Absence: Commissioner Magnus.
MSP to approve the agenda as modified.
MSP to approve consent agenda item number 1.
MSP to approve the County Board meeting minutes from January 4, 2018.
MSP and carried that all claims as presented were approved for payment. The Chairman was authorized to sign the Audit List dated January 16, 2018 with fund totals as follows and warrants numbered 154931-154975:
County Revenue Fund 71,204.98
County Road & Bridge Fund 6,975.41
Sunrise Terrace 595.99
SAWS 154.00
Total 78,930.38
MSP to approve ditch contractor bills for Judicial Ditch No. 3 totaling $1,980.00.
MSP to approve ditch contractor bills for County Ditch No. 6, 21, 34, 43M, 57 and Judicial Ditch No. 8 and admin totaling $4,520.73.
MSP to accept a $1,000.00 donation from the Red Rock Sportsman Club, restricted for the purpose of offsetting future expenditures for the Lake Louisa and Buffalo Aeration Systems.
MSP to approve having a regular Commissioner meeting at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday February 22, 2018 and cancelling the Tuesday February 20, 2018 meeting.
MSP to approve Conditional Use Permit #1341, for EDF Renewable Development, Inc. to construct and operate a switching substation in the NW ¼ NE ¼ , Section 6, Chanarambie Township, with five special conditions recommended by the Planning Commission.
MSP to approve Conditional Use Permit #1340, for Great River Energy to construct and operate a 69 kV Transmission Breaker station and replace one mile of existing 69 kV transmission line with double-circuit 69kV line in the agricultural district of the NE ¼, Section 20, Leeds Township, with the four special conditions recommended by the Planning Commission, and the one year extension for the project to begin.
MSP to approve the request from Murray County Central to regrade a portion of the county parking lot.
MSP to approve the payment of $13,937 for operating share and $16,063 for the local share for a capital bus purchase to United Community Action for 2017.
MSP to approve Annette Seivert as the Interim Director of the License Center.
MSP to approve increasing Laurie Hill’s hours to 28 hours per week to cross train in the License Center.
MSP to approve and authorize the Chairman sign a letter regarding the Sheriff’s Office part time administrative assistant position.
MSP to approve and authorize the Board Chair sign and send a letter regarding the employment status of an Intermittent Deputy and to include cc’ing the Auditor/Treasurer in on the letter.
MSP to approve to request Sheriff Telkamp meet with the Personnel Committee to discuss present and future staffing/operations in the Sheriff’s Department and to request Sheriff Telkamp meet with the full County Board for the sale of surplus items and purchases and direct Coordinator Heard to send this notice via email to Sheriff Telkamp.
Open Forum/Public Comment – No members of the public were present.
MSP to approve and authorize trading in three zero turn lawn mowers from the Parks Department for three Z915E Commercial ZTrak with tweel tires in the amount of $9,900.62.
MSP to approve rescinding the following two motions because Sheriff Telkamp is going to meet with the County Board on Tuesday January 23, 2018: It was moved by Gunnink, seconded by Thiner and passed to approve and authorize the Chairman sign a letter regarding the Sheriff’s Office part time administrative assistant position. It was moved by Thiner, seconded by Kluis and passed to approve and authorize the Board Chair sign and send a letter regarding the employment status of an Intermittent Deputy and to include cc’ing the Auditor/Treasurer in on the letter.
MSP to approve selling the surplus Verizon jetpacks on E-bay furthermore authorizing selling future surplus jetpacks on E-bay.
MSP to approve the Commissioner Vouchers for the period of December 31, 2017 to January 13, 2018.
The meeting was adjourned.
ATTEST: Aurora Heard,
County Coordinator
A complete copy of these proceedings will be posted for 1 month at the Murray County Government Center, Slayton, MN. And is also available at
www.murraycountymn.com. S, 1/31/2018
