01-27-2026 Commissioners [12:42-17:40]

All right, thank you all. Thank you, Brian. Well, good morning. Definitely it's been a busy last few days. Thursday night, we had our excitement of thinking we were going to have to evacuate Mitchell Manor because of a fire. It filled up with smoke, and then it ended up being a motor seized up in one of the furnaces, and so they were able to get on it right away. And we had the people moved, and we was ready. I was calling in reinforcements, but Sheriff was sending people. Thank you. Appreciate it, Greg. But they ended up telling them they didn't have to evacuate out of the building. That was what I was first told. We were removing everybody out to the church next door. So thank goodness we didn't have to take those folks out. There's 70 some residents there. And there's a lot of people to move. So that worked out real well. And then just been busy with updating information. And the big thing we have is these private roads. We probably have 25 or 30 of these private roads that where they went in and did housing additions, selling off with meats and bounds, and their gravel roads and stuff. And they want us to come and plow them. And we just can't. We're just not allowed to do that with our money. That's sympathetic to them. But that's the chance you take when you build on private road and stuff. And on the one hand, it's the way that we have these deepest snow that has made your problem. But I know Ryan was inundated yesterday. The sheriff's department was called. And so I returned calls as best I could and explained to them what we couldn't continue. And like I said, I'm sympathetic to their plight. But our hands are tied as is county. Well, I'll just say that this has been trying weekend for all of us. But for some of us older folks that were around in 1978, this has been a walk in the park. Yes. I commuted through it. I did. Yeah. Yeah. It has. But I don't want to make like the problem that it's presented us with. But I think we've done an outstanding job in getting ourselves to the point we're at today. And there are a lot of people out there that are coming out. My neighbor clears my driveway for nothing. A lot of people are helping each other to clear out. And there are a lot of resources out there for people to call if they do need assistance with their roads or their drives plowed. Thank you. Thank you, Val. Appreciate your efforts. Sheriff Greg Dey. Morning. Morning. All right, start off. I'll give you the geopopulation. I had 82 total inmates this morning. 69 males, 13 females, holding nine for DOC. Now we have one parole hole with no local charges. And we have two that are sentenced here locally to serve their time for level six felonies. And we've actually taken several people in DOC over the last month to just get sentenced pretty quickly there. And then I wanted to give some shout outs from this past weekend and into yesterday. First of all, to the deputies who are out there working. Calls don't stop just because it's snowing, unfortunately. And we had several domestics and suicides objects and things like that that we still had to get to on top of the crashes and slide off some things. And we had a couple officers get stuck. We had one that slid off and did a little damage to a car. Little were all. They did a fantastic job responding to everything they needed to. My dispatch, you can only imagine the number of calls that come into dispatch. And for them to try to get in and out, I actually had two dispatchers that worked both Saturday and Sunday. And they actually, they worked at 12-hour shift. And then they went and they slept in the training room and got up and worked another 12-hour shifts after getting some sleep, so they didn't even leave. Basically all weekend long dedicated to making sure we had people there answering the calls. And that's something that I don't think the public necessarily thinks about that much. So I greatly appreciate that. Certainly a huge shout out to Brian and his crew.