Summary: Approval the finish the completion of the Wellfleet project, NRCS is on a hiring freeze so they are unable to fill the Hayes County Resource Conservationist position at this time, NRCS went over the new USDA requirements for erosion control, Kaila Kressin gave a report on what the field office secretaries have been working on behalf of the MRNRD, NARD Basin Tour coming up, NNRC reported that they are working on the budget and that the State could be removing some of the funds, Another Meet & Greet will be held

Summary: NARD deadline for awards approaching, Meet & Greed with Dan Hughes on April 17 in McCook, Sign up for High Tech Program, Scholarship Awards given to Tucker Hartley & Logan Burke, Approval to give 1098 a 1 year extension, N-CORPE had a teleconference meeting over the bond refinancing and the savings for the MRNRD could be 4.1 million and RSM will be conducting the audit, Russell shared that the FCID lawsuit on the IMP is in the Supreme Court and Estermann lost his case and NE Bostwick lawsuit was dropped

Minutes: Rippen will be the NARD Treasurer, Johnson making the rounds with the legislature, logo has been completed, USGS map has been finished, Russell will be testifying as a neutral state for LB218, N-CORPE status was reported and there is an option to purchase bonding insurance that will get a better rating, Approval of paying the NCORPE quarterly bill was denied,  NCORPE is considering hiring a third-party audit and a possible land trade, Lindstrom  is reviewing the final draft of the Rules and Regulations, both contr

Summary: Audit Review in detail, NNRC will start grading the grant applications, Johnson is prepping for the Farm & Ranch show & luncheon, Basin Planning got provided a lot of information from DNR that the stakeholders had been requesting, N-CORPE Status report, discussion held about advertising cost share on decommissioning old wells that aren’t being used and staff will look into possible programs available for something like that, Merrigan went over the details of a proposed farrowing operation in Hayes County a