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JEROME COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Monday, December 8, 2025
PRESENT: Ben Crouch, Chairman
Art Watkins, Commissioner
Ryan Treanor, Deputy Clerk
Commissioner Howell was absent.
Meeting convened at 9:00 am.
Commissioner Reports
Commissioner Watkins – Commissioner Watkins stated that he went to the rotary meeting. There
was a presentation by Samantha Marshall, who is a representative for Mike Crapo. Then he went
to the South Central Community Action Partnership. There was a meet and greet with the new
director.
Commissioner Crouch – Commissioner Crouch stated that he attended the airport board meeting.
They had a discussion about the individuals who are serving on the board and the potential of
adding an alternate to the board. Then he attended the rotary meeting. The presentation from
Samantha Marshall was very good. He attended the Frontier Community meeting. Later he
attended the Christmas in Jerome event.
GIS Monthly Report
Mark Reyes was present.
Mark gave a report on the GIS department. He stated that he has continued to update addressing
and scanning in new maps that are received. He met with the sign person for the Snake River
Canyon Parks board. He recreated some of the parcel layers for the parcel map. Then he worked
on the city of impact maps for planning and zoning. He also attended the GIS conference in
Pocatello. He stated that it was very beneficial.
Bids for Construction of the Shoshone Falls Overlook
Bill Bridges, Mark Reyes, Brenda Weekes, Steven Andersen, and Larry Hall were present.
Larry stated that they have been working on the overlook project for quite a while. He has
brought the bids that they received to start the work on the project. He brought Steven Anderson,
the engineer from Civil Science, to be able to go over the bids that they received. Steven stated
that the bids were all from reputable excavation companies in the area. The companies that sent
in bids were Extreme Excavation, Nix Excavating, and A&B Excavating. He stated that he
estimated the cost around $250,000 and most of the bids came in well under that amount. The
expected start time would be no later than December 31st of this year.

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Planning and Zoning Department Head Report
Kacie Buhler was present.
Kacie gave a report on the planning and zoning department. She stated that they received a total
of $18,743.64 in revenue. She stated that there was a total of 64 inspections done during the last
month. There was a total of seven residential permits, two commercial permits, and 10
mechanical permits. During the previous month there was not a lot done with code enforcement
since Deputy Ridgeway was gone for most of the month. There has been a continued effort from
her department on the energy ordinance and the area of city impact ordinance. She stated that
there was a total of 26 records requests that were worked on during the past month. Two of the
planning and zoning commissioners are set to have their terms expire at the end of the year. She
stated that she would like to see them reappointed to their positions.
Meeting recessed at 11:26 am.
Meeting reconvened at 1:15 pm.
Refuse Cancelation
Nina Lagle and Mark Swenson were present.
Nina stated that she has a refuse cancelation due to an error from the Assessor’s office. This is
for a single parcel. There was supposed to be a total of $152 charged for refuse, but it was
charged 152 times at $152. With the excess charges the amount to cancel is $22,952.00.
Commissioner Watkins moved to approve the refuse cancelation in the amount of
$22,952.00 for the Jerome Renewal Agency, for parcel RPJ1370076028B.
Seconded by Commissioner Crouch. The motion passed with a unanimous vote.
IT Purchases, Signed Agreement with ETS
Matthew McGregor and Eli Bair were present.
Matthew stated that he has a document that he wanted to go over with the Board. It is regarding
access to the buildings from ETS for fiber purposes. He wanted to make sure that the document
was ok to sign. He consulted on the document with Mike Seib and Mike stated that there were no
issues with the document. The sites that ETS was requesting access to was the airport and the
sheriff’s office. He would also like to see something that would also include the annex. He also
brought forward whether the Board would also like to include the extensions office on the list to
have fiber brought to their building.

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Commissioner Crouch moved to approve the wireless site survey/fiber right of
entry form that will allow for ETS to access the properties at the airport, sheriff’s
office, judicial complex, and the extension office, for installation of fiber services.
Seconded by Commissioner Watkins. The motion passed with a unanimous vote.
He also has an order sheet of power and DAC cables for the new server room. These cables
would allow for IT to hook up the next server rack. The cables can also allow for the servers that
are currently on hand to be physically moved to the new server room. The total cost would be
$744.50.
Commissioner Crouch moved to approve the expenditure of $744.50 for the
power cables and DAC cables to facilitate the re-homing of equipment with the
new remodel. Seconded by Commissioner Watkins. The motion passed with a
unanimous vote.
Payroll Employee Related Discussion
Cy Lootens was present.
Commissioner Crouch moved to go into executive session per Idaho Code 74-
206 (1)(b) for personnel. Seconded by Commissioner Watkins. The motion
passed with a unanimous roll call vote.
Executive session started at 2:02 pm and ended at 2:09 pm.
Energy Ordinance Discussion, Contractor Agreement, Fair Board MOU & Appointments
Steve Ricketts, Amanda Worthington, Kacie Buhler, and Ryan Christensen were present.
Kacie stated that she provided a list of updates to the chapter 7 and 11 to code. She has created
an energy ordinance for the Commissioners to review. She feels at this point the main things that
would need to take place would be for the Board to review the ordinance, legal to review and
make any updates from the Board, and have a hearing regarding the changes to sections 7 & 11
of code and the energy ordinance. She would also like to have the ordinance in front of the
planning and zoning commission at their next meeting.
Amanda stated that she has five of the fair board members that are up for the reappointment. She
stated that under Idaho Code that the appointments should be for four years and that there is
nothing under that section that states a different time length of service. The Board stated that
they had been told another section of code, by legal counsel, can allow for them to remove

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members of the fair board if the Commissioners feel that is necessary. The Board also stated that
they wanted to have their legal counsel present to further discuss this matter.
Sam Beus was late due to court obligations.
The Board wanted to discuss the fair board appointments with Sam as well. The Board appointed
two of the members for just a year instead of the traditional four-year term. They wanted to see
how this should be handled. Sam stated that they can appoint them to the four-year term and that
under the previous MOU that they can lower that term if the Board feels it is necessary. The
Board wanted to see where the new MOU is at in the process from the fair side. Amanda stated
that they have drafted it and are waiting to hear back from their legal counsel on any updates that
need to be done.
Sam stated that they have been looking for a new individual to come into their office. There was
an applicant that applied and he has decided to hire this individual. He also has another new
employee that just finished their probationary time and that he wants to give them the traditional
dollar raise to incentivize them to stay. He also stated that this would keep him within his budget
for this. He also wanted to go over a case that is ongoing that Shayne Nope will continue to help
with even though he has finished his time with the county. He stated that this is due to a conflict
he has in the case and so he has discussed this with Shayne and been able to help get this case
covered in the ways that it needs to going forward.
Commissioner Crouch moved to approve the contract from the prosecutor’s
office, on behalf of Shayne Nope, and that the Board authorizes Commissioner
Crouch to sign the document, once it is received, to allow Shayne Nope to
continue to prosecute on a case that Shayne is currently involved in. Seconded
by Commissioner Watkins. The motion passed with a unanimous vote.
The Board wanted to discuss the by laws for the airport advisory board. Part of the by laws state
that they would have to go through the city council to appoint a new member to the board. There
was also an update to the county that was previously listed incorrectly. The other idea that the
airport board wanted to discuss was including an alternate to the board in case someone is gone
for some reason.
Sign and Approve Claims
Commissioner Watkins moved to approve the claims as presented by staff.
Seconded by Commissioner Crouch. The motion passed with a unanimous vote.

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To see an image of the report please see page 6 of the minutes.
Read and Approve Minutes
The Board decided to wait until Commissioner Howell returned to approve the minutes to allow
for him to review the minutes.
Approval of Updated By Laws for Airport Advisory Board
The Board decided to wait until Commissioner Howell returned before approving the updates to
the by laws of the airport advisory board.
Meeting adjourned at 3:13 pm.
________________________
______________________________
Ryan Treanor, Deputy Clerk
A. Ben Crouch, Chairman
______________________________
Charles M. Howell, Commissioner
______________________________
Art Watkins, Commissioner

BUDGET TOTALS

Sub Total $53,484.81

DEPARTMENT PAYROLL ACCT PAY GRAND TOTAL
1/CLERK $ 42,802.10 | $ 102.73 | $ 42,904.83.
3|TREASURER |S 7,676.74 | $7,676.74
4|HUMAN RESOURCES _[$ _3,30230[ —=«([S_~—_—~3,302.30,
S|COMMISSIONERS |S 7,950.00/$ ——650.00|$ _ 8,600.00 |
6ICORONER CT S__1,019.22 | $1,019.22

10
11 $2,120.00
13 $3,776.29
14
(SELECTIONS | COT TTCCSC~—SC
16|CHARITY $ -
is|GENERAL | 56,355.75] 3 —izoat35 [s —7a,096-701
21/PLANNING & ZONING $ 14,489.77 | $ 1,039.06 | $ 15,528.83
29/GENERAL FUND RESERVE $ -
S0|VETERANS | | 5
5|/SHERIFF-DETENTION $ 96,784.03 | $ 2,246.42 | $ 99,030.45
S{aDULT PROBATION ——[$—To-taa.00-[ "| 3 —to-448.00-
7|/PROSECUTOR $ 33,662.33 |$ 617.80 | $ 34,480.13
s[PUBLIC DEFENDERS ——[$— 830.00, [$1890.00
Q/JUVENILE PROBATION _|$__12,619.70|$ 8 45376|$ 21,073.46
18 $34,746.29 169,083.04

15/ELECTION CONSOLIDATION $ 3,333.36 $ 3,333.36
2O|REVALUATION ts 21 57607 [6 ——7aa.i0}s —21 760 17
23|SOLID WASTE $ 883,917.94 |$ 883,917.94
27|\WEED $ -
29|/AMBULANCE $ -
38|WATERWAYSBOARD |

$ 909,701.76 | $ 963,186.57

GRAND TOTAL $ 613,534.93

$ 980,879.66 | $ 1,594,414.59

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