The Greene County Board of Supervisors met yesterday in regular session.
The Supervisors approved the official totals from the special election held last week for the Greene County School District. Officially, there was 116 “yes” to 20 “no” votes about spending money from the state’s Secure and Advanced Vision fund.
The Board discussed an annexation request for Drainage District 190. After much consideration, Donald Dunlop and Meryl Youngblood have applied to be voluntarily annexed into the drainage district along with Bruce Youngblood. Chair John Muir said the next step is to approach MHF Engineering about the annexation request to keep the current tile that was privately installed by the Youngbloods.
Muir added that no additional cost would go to the other members of the current district, just on the three involved parties.
In other business, the Board set 9am on Monday, April 21st for a public hearing about Greene Valley, Incorporated’s hog expansion in the Hardin Township and the auditor’s quarterly passport report of 52 passports at a cost of $1,300 and the recorder’s report of fees for March of $5,978.55.
During the open forum, Grand Junction Mayor Gerald Herrick spoke to the Board about a truck that the County wanted to sell to the City. He said he would need to direct it to the Council, but that they City wouldn’t mind purchasing a 1992 dump truck from the County with a snow blade for $10,000. He requested the Board’s help for a payment plan so that the City wouldn’t have to pay for it all upfront. Vice-Chair Guy Richardson said the County would be willing to do that. No action on formally taken on the issue.
Greene County Historical Society Director Roger Aegerter requested the Board’s help with funding for their building at the county fairgrounds. He said part of the roof is loose, causing leaking and that they needed additional funding to cover some of the cost of the repairs. The Board told him to apply for Louis Dreyfus funds to help offset the cost.
Greene County Conservation Director Dan Towers gave the Board an update about some maintenance projects on the Raccoon River Valley Trail. He said that the grant funds they received from the Greene County Community Foundation will be used to help pave the 11 gravel intersections on the trail. His estimate of the project would be about $50,000 and wanted recommendations about other sources of funding because he felt the trail needed to be updated to get people to come to the Greene County part of the trail since the loop doesn’t really go up that way. The Board asked him for a complete comprehensive plan of all the maintenance issues on the trail before they can address funding options.