The Lincoln County Commission met Tuesday, November 26 in the Lincoln County Boardroom. With all members present, commissioners heard agenda items including lien request, 4-H Shooting Sports Raffle, and post-election audits.
Auditor Sheri Lund was present for board action regarding a request for lien compromise/settlement from #01-10480. With the applicant present, Auditor Lund let Jacob Munce introduce himself.
“I found out that there was a form called the IVC and I initially went to Minnehaha County because that’s where I reside and then figured out that I have to go here because the person that I applied for, she just moved into Lincoln County, she’s my mother in law, who has been an alcoholic for a long time, my father in law was just arrested and he’s going to be sentenced here in the next couple months, so they had a nasty divorce and my wife and I have been trying to help everybody in every situation, and it’s been a mess. She has three kids that live with her under her care currently. We have called child support services multiple times and they do nothing to protect those three young girls. My mother-in-law got a DWI and that was the last straw where the three girls were crying on the couch saying please do not let us go home with mommy. So I told them that we would do whatever we can, we found out about the IVC because when I dropped off her youngest child for her the next morning, I asked her bluntly and said we know that you have issues, do you have any plans to do anything about it and she denied the fact that she has any drinking problems at all. So I pursued the IVC, came here to Lincoln County, filled out all of the paperwork for it, the lawyer contacted me, I’d never done that whole process before and then I found out a couple days later that she was never served the papers and then I was told that the sheriff dropped the ball, they didn’t serve where they were supposed to, and the sheriff’s department went over there and asked them. They said the lawyer dropped the ball and the lawyer didn’t do whatever they needed to do so at the end of the day, the lawyer advised me to cancel because we’d passed the five-day period and that’s where this lien comes from that I now have to pay because someone else dropped the ball,” he said.
The amount of the lien is $483 dated on October 8. Tiffani Landeen made a motion to approve the request for lien compromise. Motion failed 5-0.
Commission Administrative Assistant, Paul Anderson was present to provide notice of a Lincoln County 4-H Shooting Sports Raffle per SDCL 22-25-25.
“This is a notice of an intent to hold a raffle, there is no action required unless the board objects, and this is their annual raffle that they have done for a number of years,” Anderson said.
Auditor Lund returned for a presentation from the Auditor regarding general election post-election audit results.
“On November 20 at 9 a.m., we held the post election audit. Of that, there were a couple discrepancies between the results from the tabulator to what they hand counted. We audited precinct six, the supreme court justice retention, and initiated measure 28 and precinct Sioux Falls 114 supreme court justice, retention, and constitutional amendment F. Overall, the post-election audit went very well, we still have some minor improvements that we’re working through to try to pinpoint better how to get the differences,” she said.
Lund confirmed that both boards were satisfied with the results. No action is required on the item.
Chairman Jim Jibben opened the floor for public comment on the issue. Linda Montgomery was present to give her thoughts to the board.
“One thing I want to say about this board, I was on that board, that Sheri and Kayla did an excellent job of doing this, getting it organized, and being very open and receptive to the public. The only comment I really really want to make and to be understood, this discrepancy would have been easily figured out by the three things the public can have access to, but the federal government put the CVR’s, the audit logs, and the ballot images on the machine for public use for ease of audit of the machine and I still not, after four years, cannot comprehend why our people in Pierre are not allowing us to have access to those public records,” she said.
Auditor Lund requested board action to approve and authorize the chair to execute an agreement with Tyler Technologies for payment services.
“I am requesting approval to enter into an agreement with Tyler Technologies for their Automated Payment Processing services. This agreement will result in a cost shift to the county budget. If approved, the service will enable us to establish a workflow allowing all departments to electronically request payments for goods and services incurred. Once reviewed and approved by the Auditor’s Office, payments will be processed through the automated payment system. The system will then issue payments via either check or electronic transfer, depending on the vendor’s preference. The county will incur a charge of $0.85 per check, which covers check printing and mailing costs. Electronic payments will be processed at no additional charge. This system will significantly improve payment efficiency by eliminating the need for current paper-based processes,” she said.
Motion approved unanimously.
Building Superintendent, John Rombough was present to request board action to authorize a cell phone stipend for the Senior Maintenance Worker in the Building and Grounds department.
“My Senior Maintenance Worker will be getting alarms sent to his phone just like I do from both the fire panel and the building automation systems,” he said. With no public input, the motion was approved.