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Commission Minutes--January 7,2002 2401 At Commissioner Wagner's request, Mrs. Hogan helped draft a revised Grant Agreement using language similar to sponsorship grants within her agency, which include scope of services, accountability and some type of budgeting. The revised agreement was reviewed by Birch Burdick, State's Attorney, and Mr. Grindberg also had an opportunity to read it today. The grant agreement is for a period of one year and provides that compensation will be made in four quarterly payments of $25,000 each for Cass County's $100,000 share in the project costs. Mr. Grindberg requested additional time to review the language further, and asked to appear before the Board at the January 22nd meeting with an official response on the grant agreement. Mr. Wieland requested that all Commissioners review the contract and have their questions answered before the next meeting. Mr. Grindberg will submit a format of a quarterly report before the meeting on January 22, 2002. 19. EXTENSION SERVICES, TemDorarv Dart-time lob reassianment for Brad Coadill Brad Cogdill, Extension AgenUChair, and Dr. Sharon Anderson, Extension Service Director, were present today concerning Mr. Cogdill's letter of December 21,2001, requesting approval for a temporary, part-time job reassignment within the NDSU Extension Service. He has been asked to serve as Interim Chair of the Center for 4-H Youth Development on the NDSU campus for a period of one year at a half-time appointment. Dr. Anderson indicated that a full-time Extension Agent will be placed in Cass County during this reassignment, and no additional costs will be associated with this arrangement. Mr. Cogdill's office chair/department head duties will not change during this part-time/interim appointment. The new agent would be located at a work station in the main outer office area, which was originally set up for an intern. The Board views this as an opportunity for the county, and it offers leadership experience for Mr. Cogdill in a state-wide extension program. MOTION, passed Mr. Wagner moved and Mrs. Schneider seconded to support the reassignment of 50% of Extension Agent Brad Cogdill's job responsibilities with the NDSU Extension Service for a period of one year. This includes approval to recruit and hire a temporary, full-time Extension Agent to assume educational program responsibilities identified in this request. On roll call vote, the motion carried unanimously. 20. ELECTION PRECINCTS, ADDroval of Drecinct boundaries Michael Montplaisir, County Auditor, provided additional information dated January 4, 2002, concerning suggested precinct boundary changes for the 2002 elections. Due to the redistricting plan approved by the North Dakota Legislature, he has met with both the Fargo and West Fargo City Auditors to adjust precinct boundaries within the new legislative districts. The precinct plan presented today contains 66 precincts in Cass County, which is an increase from 57 total precincts in the last election. Mr. Montplaisir said some of the growth is due to an increase in population over the past ten years and some is due to the redistricting plan. The plan was forwarded to the Democrat and to the Republican contact people in each legislative district and some of their suggestions were incorporated into this plan. The plan was also forwarded to the other cities and townships in Cass County fortheir review. Mr. Montplaisir said the Cass County Redistricting Board has met and approved the commission district boundaries, with almost equal population in each district.