Saline County Study
Committee
Monday, August 7, 2000
Saline County Extension Office, Marshall
Minutes (unapproved)
Saline County Study Members Present: Mark Belwood, Kathy
Borgman, Wayne McReynolds, LeAnn Haling, Richard Clemens, Becky Plattner, Vince Buck
Saline County Study Members Absent: Ruthie Cramer, Roy Hunter, Marc Harris
Saline County Commissioners Absent: John Stouffer, Richard Pemberton
Saline County Commissioners Present: Mike Dillon
Saline County Extension Staff Present: Darin
Starr, Cynthia Crawford
Saline County Extension Staff Absent: Rachel
Miles
University Partners Absent: John Lory, Tom Johnson, Chris Barnett, Kathy Miller,
Mubarak Hamed, Chris Fulcher, Dr. Ron Powers, Jim Meyer, Jerry Organ, Wendy Pettersen,
Anna Cox
Marshall Democrat News: Bob Stewart
KMMO Radio: Ken Llewelyn
Guest: Jay Plattner, Vice-President,
Missouri Farm Bureau
Chairman Mark Belwood called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.
Mark reported Jim Meyer is working on the rural residence data layer update. Chris Fulcher reported to Mark that CARES is
making user-friendly improvements on their overall web site and adding new functions.
Minutes of the July 24 meeting were approved as distributed.
Richard Clemens introduced Jay Plattner from Saline County, the
current Vice-President of the Missouri Farm Bureau. Every
year the membership of the Farm Bureau draft their policies on numerous issues. Jay presented information on areas of interest to
the Saline County Study. On the issue of
county planning and zoning, the Farm Bureau favors regulation of agriculture on a state
level and they do not support county commissions or county health organizations regulating
agriculture. On mergers and acquisitions, the Farm Bureau believes that consolidation
within the agricultural sector is having adverse economic impact on family farmers and
they recommend creating an agricultural antitrust advisor at the US Department of Justice. Jay commented that these topics have been heavily
discussed in past years. Input can be given
through local chapters.
Mark reported he has contacted a representative from the
Missouri Farmer’s Union requesting similar information from them.
After a break, Mark noted he had wrongly reported that the
statues that are the basis of Saline County Ordinance 97.1 no longer exist, those statues
do in fact still exist.
Mark Belwood was thanked for his work preparing a written
recommendation. The draft recommendation was
discussed. Mark said he felt he should have
added more about the importance of citizen involvement and the need for planning for the
future of the county. Mark also distributed
comments made by Jerry Organ about the good neighbor policy and the health ordinance. It was generally agreed that we liked Jerry’s
suggestion that the good neighbor policy include a board of mediation with eleven
representatives, one from each township, trained as mediators. He noted it seemed to work best when there was one
mediator and the parties involved had the opportunity to select that mediator. In discussion, we felt it might be good to
recommend that commissioners appoint the mediation board as a balance to the planning and
zoning board that would be elected.
In discussion about the recommendation that we not pursue a
county health ordinance to regulate CAFOs at this time, it was agreed that we state
situations could arise where the health ordinance approach might need to be considered. Additional comments were added to the list of
items to consider if a health ordinance were to be considered. These items were the fact that a health ordinance
added another layer of regulations and Jerry Organ’s comments about what he felt
would be upheld, i.e. odor concentrations at property boundaries and water quality issues. While there were other minor changes mentioned,
these two sections received the most discussion.
Our next meeting was changed from August 14 to August 21, 7:00
p.m. to accommodate everyone’s attendance. It
was felt the draft could be finalized at this meeting.
Once finalized, we anticipate sending the recommendation to the
commissioners before a formal meeting with them. Receiving
the recommendation in advance will allow the commissioners to prepare any questions they
might have for the study group at the time of the formal meeting.
Darin reported on new EPA rules geared at controlling polluted
runoff.
Meeting adjourned 10:00 p.m.
Respectfully submitted
Kathy Borgman, recorder
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Last updated: October 13, 2000
