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COOK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

REGULAR MEETING COURT HOUSE, GRAND MARAIS, MN AUGUST 10, 2010
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NOTE: This meeting will be held in the Court Room located on the second floor of the Courthouse, as the Commissioner's Room is being used as a polling place for the Primary Election
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8:30 a.m. 1. Call regular meeting to order
Pledge of Allegiance
Make adjustment to agenda

8:35 a.m. 2. Brian Silence, Maintenance Director
A. Storage building site; old jail

B. Attorney's Office remodeling

C. Emergency Capital purchase

9:00 a.m. 3. Tim Scannell, County Attorney
A. Lance Johnson vs. Cook County MN Supreme Court decision

9:15 a.m. 4. George Wilkes, Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP)
A. CCLEP Update

B. Grant Contract

C. Energy Plan Committee

9:30 a.m. 4.1 Paul Nelson, Cook County Local Energy Project (CCLEP)
A. District Heating Feasibility Study

9:45 a.m. 5. Jim Wiinanen, Emergency Management
A. FEMA Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Application

B. 2010 Update Cook County All-Hazard Mitigation Plan

10:00 a.m. B R E A K

10:15 a.m. 6. Mary Black, County Assessor/Land Commissioner
A. Arrowhead Electric Easement

B. Secure Rural School (SRS) Funding

C. Abatement applications

10:30 a.m. 7. Braidy Powers, Auditor-Treasurer
A. Claims

B. 2011 Cross Country Ski Agreement

C. 2011 Capital Improvement Ski and Snowmobile Grants

D. Corporate Resolution

E. Temporary liquor license and Gambling Permit

F. Reimbursement Declaration

10:45 a.m. 8. Cindy Gentz, Water Plan Coordinator
A. Request for Cook County to be fiscal agent for SWCD for a grant application to the MN Pollution Control Agency

11:00 a.m. 9. Employee Concerns
Commissioner Concerns
A. 1% project updates

B. Meetings to note

11:15a.m. 10. Correspondence-Memos
A. U.S. Forest Service Schedule of Proposed Action, 7/1/2010 - 9/30/2010. Information.

B. MN Dept. of Natural Resources Forest Insect & Disease Newsletter, 6/28/10. Information.

C. MN Transportation Alliance Legislative Update, 7/27/10 and 7/30/10. Information.

D. MN Rural Counties Caucus Updates, 7/27/10. Information.

E. Letter from MN Counties Intergovernmental Trust, 7/28/10, re: 2010 Dividend Notice. Information.

F. Cook County Board of Commissioner meeting minutes from June 15 - June 29, 2010. Motion.

G. Materials for 8/9/10 meeting of Cook County Historical Society Board. Information.

H. NASASP Membership

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