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Board declines automatic burn‑ban language, agrees to allow manager and chair to lift bans after local consultation
Summary
Kingsbury County emergency manager proposed adding an automatic burn ban tied to red‑flag warnings; the board declined that automatic trigger but agreed to allow the Emergency Manager and Chairman to lift a burn ban after consulting local fire departments. County will host Crisis Track training around April 1.
Emergency Manager Kristen Longville asked the Board to revise the county’s burn‑ban policy to add an automatic ban when the county is under a red‑flag warning and to allow the Emergency Manager and the Chairman to lift a ban after consulting local fire departments.
The Board declined to add an automatic trigger but agreed to the narrower change permitting the Emergency Manager and the Chairman to remove a burn ban after consultation. Longville said Kingsbury County would host Crisis Track training and urged commissioners to complete Incident Command System training; the meeting record shows the planned local training on April 1 (transcript date coded 2025; meeting date March 17, 2026, suggests the intended date is April 1, 2026). Longville will bring a revised resolution to the April 9 meeting for formal adoption.
