Meeting intelligence · Minutes
Menard County Underground Water District
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Date context: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
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Meeting summary
August 12 minutes record a completed budget hearing and adoption of the 2026–2027 budget, a proposed voter-approval tax rate for public hearing, ongoing Hickory Well grant information gathering and monitoring reports. Office-lease counteroffer discussion is expressly no action.
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- 2026-08-12
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- 2026-09-18
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Matters, observations and decisions
Requests, recommendations and approvals retain their recorded labels. A passed motion is a procedural result; conditions are requirements, not proof of fulfillment. Repeated quantities are not added together.
Hearing and board sequence
recorded event
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- Hearing and board sequence
- stage
- recorded event
- statement
- Budget hearing opened 1 PM, no public comments, adjourned 1:15 PM. Board meeting called 1:15 PM though introductory notice text says held at 1 PM; adjourned 2:08 PM.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Budget
approval
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- Budget
- stage
- approval
- statement
- Lisa Brown moved and Jim Wright seconded approval/adoption of 2026–2027 budget as presented; unanimous.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Proposed tax rate
approval to propose
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- Proposed tax rate
- stage
- approval to propose
- statement
- Jay Kothmann moved and Jim Wright seconded approval of voter-approval rate $0.065594 and setting it for public hearing; unanimous. No final levy adoption is stated.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Prior minutes and finances
approval
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- Prior minutes and finances
- stage
- approval
- statement
- July 15 minutes approved Kothmann/Brown; financial report approved Winters/Brown; previous-month expenses approved Wright/Brown; all unanimous.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Office lease
direction no action
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- Office lease
- stage
- direction no action
- statement
- Board directed Meredith Allen to draft rent counteroffer letter to county officials and offer discussion; requested draft review; explicitly no action taken.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Monitoring and Hickory grant
report
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- Monitoring and Hickory grant
- stage
- report
- statement
- Monthly monitor-well report reviewed and quarterly sensor data downloaded; no action required. Hickory Well information still being gathered for TWDB grant application; more expected September.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Future participation
scheduled
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- Future participation
- stage
- scheduled
- statement
- GMA7 next meeting October 22, 2026 at 10:30 AM Sonora Civic Center; Meredith and Lydia to attend TAGD summit September 1–3.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Quantities, roles and time bases · 1 values
Quantities, roles and time bases
Requested, recommended, historic, modeled and approved values retain their separate roles. A null time basis does not remove a time dimension already present in the unit.
Voter-approval rate set for hearing · proposed
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- Voter-approval rate set for hearing
- role
- proposed
- value
- 0.065594
- unit
- USD; valuation denominator not printed
- time basis
- tax proposal at August 12 meeting
- unit note
- Do not infer per-$100 denominator.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: proposed
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Wells, permits and water-domain objects
Hickory Well project
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- Hickory Well project
- type
- project
- stage
- grant application information gathering
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: grant application information gathering
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Unresolved questions
No additional unresolved questions recorded. This does not establish completeness.
Named entities and meeting-local relationships
Names remain as stated in each source. Similar names across meetings are not merged. Candidate relationships remain hypotheses.
Menard County Underground Water District
Link to this item- name
- Menard County Underground Water District
- type
- organization
- roles 1
- issuing district
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Dr. Sheridan Duncan
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- Dr. Sheridan Duncan
- type
- person
- roles 1
- director present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Jim Wright
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- Jim Wright
- type
- person
- roles 1
- director present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Jay Kothmann
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- Jay Kothmann
- type
- person
- roles 1
- director present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Lisa Brown
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- Lisa Brown
- type
- person
- roles 1
- director present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
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Dick Winters
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- Dick Winters
- type
- person
- roles 1
- director present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Meredith Allen
Link to this item- name
- Meredith Allen
- type
- person
- roles 1
- staff present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Lydia Damon
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- Lydia Damon
- type
- person
- roles 1
- staff present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Thomas Michalewicz
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- Thomas Michalewicz
- type
- person
- roles 1
- guest present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Caroline Runge
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- Caroline Runge
- type
- person
- roles 1
- guest present
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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TWDB
Link to this item- name
- TWDB
- type
- organization
- roles 1
- Hickory Well grant application
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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GMA 7
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- GMA 7
- type
- organization
- roles 1
- future meeting referenced
- identity scope
- source-local; no cross-document identity merge
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-local; no cross-document identity merge
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Unavailable referenced material
Unavailable reference
Link to this item- description
- Budget, tax worksheet, monitoring/sensor values, office lease proposal and Hickory grant application not attached.
- Date context
- Document context only: Signed combined hearing/meeting minutes
- Document / item context date
- 2026-08-12
Statement basis: source-linked item
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