Rice County Working Meeting 8.19.25
AGENDA
- CALL TO ORDER AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
- OUTSIDE AGENCY:
- Prairie’s Edge Humane Society funding request
- Their 2026 levy request is $5,000.
- No questions from commissioners.
- Southern Minnesota Tourism Association funding request
- Request is .05 per capita per county. Their 2026 levy request is $ 3,355 to reflect per capita for Rice County this year.
- No questions from commissioners.
- FiftyNorth funding request
- Their 2026 levy request is $9,000.
- Presenter: Carla Johnson, Interim Executive Director
- FiftyNorth will be 50 years old next year — goal of doing more public awareness building in the 50th year.
- No questions from commissioners.
- Rice County Soil & Water Conservation District funding request
- Their 2026 levy request is $249,384.
- Purfeerst Question: State waters inventory project — are you familiar?
- Pahs Answer: No – we don’t directly get involved with that.
- SEMCAC funding request
- Provides congregant dining for seniors over 60 years old in Faribault at Buckham West.
- Last funding request at the state was not fully funded, leading to precarity for some of their programs this year.
- Their 2026 levy request is $5,000.
- No questions from commissioners.
- (9:30 am: OBSERVER HAD TO LEAVE AT THIS TIME.)
- Southeastern MN EMS funding request (Virtual presentation)
- Their 2026 levy request is $5,000.
- Buckham West
- Their 2026 levy request is $9,000.
- Prairie’s Edge Humane Society funding request
- HUMAN RESOURCE: Kari Viskocil
- Paid Family Medical Leave – Guest Speaker, Dan Ochs from Integrity
- ATTORNEY’S OFFICE: Brian Mortenson
- Conversion of Case Management Systems
- HIGHWAY: Dennis Luebbe
- Highway Updates
- COMMISSIONER’S REQUEST:
- Closed Session under MN Statute 13D.05 subd. 3 (C)(3) to develop or consider offers or counteroffers for the purchase or sale of real or personal property for the following parcel: 1836250006.
- ADJOURNMENT
