May 9th, 2025
OLIVER COUNTY COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS were called to order at 8:26 AM with all members present.
Conditional Use Permit #1057 for Treavor & Jayme Hendrickson to build a house within the SW ¼ of Section 18, Township 142, Range 85 was presented. Rob Schmidt moved and Dave Berger seconded the motion to approve CUP #1057. A roll call vote was held; Rob Schmidt-Aye, Dave Berger-Aye, Lee Husfloen-Aye. Motion carried.
Building permit #1058 for Treavor & Jayme Hendrickson to build a house within the SW ¼ of Section 18, Township 142, Range 85 was presented. Dave Berger moved and Rob Schmidt seconded the motion to approve Building permit #1058. A roll call vote was held; Dave Berger-Aye, Rob Schmidt-Aye, Lee Husfloen-Aye. Motion carried.
Discussion was held on assessing the cost of the special meeting for permits to the requestor. Lee Husfloen stated that no one has ever requested a special meeting for a permit before and that the county should assess the cost to the meeting fees to the requestor. Rob Schmidt agreed with this statement.
Dave Berger moved and Rob Schmidt seconded the motion to assess the cost of the special Planning & Zoning meeting to the requestor of the meeting.
Treavor Hendrickson requested that he only pay 50% of the fee due to the other county business being discussed.
The motion remained the same. All in favor, none opposed; motion carried.
Discussion was held on enforcement of building violations.
Alice Grinsteinner, Oliver/Mercer HR/EM, presented the Hazard Mitigation plan proposal. Nexus proposed a plan for both Oliver and Mercer counties with one renewal date. The total cost would be $33,000 but would have no cost to the county due to there being a grant available to cover that cost. The Hazard Mitigation plan is a requirement by the federal government. It would renew ever 5 years.
Dave Berger moved and Rob Schmidt seconded the motion accept the proposal for the Hazard Mitigation Plan from Nexus. All in favor, none opposed; motion carried.
Discussion was held on the County Weed Board. Dave Berger presented a hand out with discussion points. He attended the County Weed Board meeting the previous day. Berger stated that the weed board does not know their districts and that most people in the county do not know their districts either without calling the Extension office. He also stated that if a resident has issues with weeds or have questions about weeds, they call the Extension office also to ask Rick Schmidt or Brittany Price for help rather than a weed board member.
Dave Berger moved to eliminate the weed board districts. There was a lack of a second so the motion failed.
Dave Berger stated that due to several weed board members raising complaints of having a county commissioner on the weed board, he would be willing to step down, but only if the Commission would accept Daryn Karges’ application and appoint him to fill the open position. There were no other applications at the time of the meeting aside from Daryn Karges.
Dave Berger resigned from the county weed board. Rob Schmidt moved and Lee Husfloen seconded the motion to appoint Daryn Karges to the County weed board. All in favor, none opposed; motion carried.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:07 am.
The next meeting of the Oliver County Commission will be at 1:00 PM, June 10th, 2025 at the Oliver County Courthouse meeting room.
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Jaden Schmidt, Oliver County Auditor Lee Husfloen, Chairman of the Board