Votes at a glance: Koochiching County Board actions, March 11, 2025

The Koochiching County Board of Commissioners took the following formal actions during its March 11, 2025 regular meeting. Where the meeting record did not show a roll-call tally, the transcript records motion and voice approval.

Votes at a glance (motion outcome):

- Approve agenda with addition (approved by voice vote). - Approve minutes of Feb. 25, 2025 regular meeting (approved by voice vote). - Approve financial business (February summaries, payroll/ACH vendor payments, courthouse and highway claims) (approved by voice vote). - Approve warrant voids (five warrants: $10; $473.50; $709.80; $110; $2,612.50) (approved by voice vote). - Authorize posting of three summer seasonal highway student positions (approved by voice vote). - Authorize posting/backfill of full-time/part-time highway labor (approved by voice vote). - Approve temporary seasonal transfer station laborer postings (two positions) (approved by voice vote). - Approve wage adjustments and temporary-rate increases as recommended by personnel committee (effective April 21) (approved by voice vote). - Ratify corrections bargaining-unit contract (LELS 102) for 2025–2027 (approved by voice vote). - Approve special-schedule agreement associated with corrections contract (approved by voice vote). - Ratify deputy bargaining-unit contract and related special-schedule agreement (approved by voice vote). - Acknowledge city of Rainier resolution delegating cannabis authority to the county (acknowledgment approved by voice vote). - Approve 2025 seasonal liquor licenses for Island View, Hagmeister Management Inc. and CheyShea Resort (approved by voice vote). - Approve letter of support for proposed butcher/hothouse/retail (Rob Christiansen) (approved by voice vote). - Direct county space committee to keep LEC space available for planning/possible use for approximately one year (approved by voice vote). - Ratify contract acceptance of grant funding for border security-related equipment and operations (presentation notes indicated acceptance; motion carried by voice vote). - Approve repurchase request for recently forfeited property (former owner repurchase after payment of delinquent taxes) (approved by voice vote). - Approve siting of a three-sided snowmobile trail shelter on county-administered tax-forfeited land (approved by voice vote). - Approve public-health conference-room audiovisual upgrade using COVID-recovery funds ($36,006.49) (approved by voice vote). - Approve annual sponsorship of local snowmobile/cross-country/ATV clubs for Minnesota Trail Assistance Grant Aid FY2026 (approved by voice vote). - Approve renewal of MnDOT Limited Use Permits LUP 360621 and LUP 360022 for recreational trails adjacent to Highway 11 (approved by voice vote); county chair and engineer authorized to sign. - Authorize county chair, auditor and engineer to sign MnDOT local-bridge replacement grant agreement for SAP 036598032 (County Road 101 bridge replacement) (approved by voice vote). - Authorize solicitation/advertising for bids: hired trucks, propane, nuisance beaver services; CP2025-01 (crack-seal/mastic preservation) and CP2025-02 (2025 striping contract) (approved by voice vote). - Approve inclusion of courthouse paving in 2025 paving bid package and exclude the Forestland storm-sewer alternate from that bid package (approved by voice vote). - Approve annual agreements for AIS staffing (seasonal watercraft inspectors) with contracted staffing firm (approved by voice vote). - Approve memorandum of cooperative agreement to implement the Rainy River–Rainy Lake comprehensive watershed management plan and reaffirm appointment of Commissioner Hill and an alternate to the policy committee (approved by voice vote). - Approve memoranda of agreement to begin planning for the Little Fork watershed and the Big Fork watershed and appoint commissioners and alternates to their policy committees (approved by voice vote). - Adjourn (approved by voice vote).

Notes: Many routine approvals were carried by voice; the transcript does not provide roll-call tallies for the motions listed above. Where staff provided numerical estimates or funding figures during presentations those numbers were captured in meeting discussion but are not included here when the board did not take a separate formal vote tied to a precise dollar authorization beyond the AV upgrade and grant agreement steps noted above.