The Dallas County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Tuesday.

During open forum, local resident Doug Nichols said he wanted to talk about the lack of maintenance on 288th Trail.  He says the City says it’s the County’s responsibility and the County says it’s the responsibility of the City.  He said no one has plowed the street after the recent snowfall.  He was asked to leave his contact information with the Board’s administrative assistant and they will look into the issue.

Payroll change notices were then approved for the case management, facilities and sheriff’s offices. The board then voted to have Alhers and Cooney destroy records of two general obligation capital loan notes from 1999 that were stored at their location.

A public hearing was then set in regards to to an Adel Bear Estates bike trail access easement, followed by approval of operating transfers, fiscal year 2016 appropriations for the annual Urban Renewal Report and Tax Increment Financing forms.

Architect Jerry Purdy then gave the Board an update on the human services campus renovation project.  He says the contractor worked on the punch list last week and the project is wrapping up.  Purdy says the parking lot has also been striped and backfilled, though lights are not up as of yet.

James Miller was then re-appointed to the Conservation Board.  Supervisor Mark Hanson said Miller is a trail advocate and a great person to have on the Board.

Purdy then shared plans for the administration, or human services campus.  He presented sketches for usage of the space, in terms of which department will go where and what will be used for common or meeting space.

Next the Board held a long range planning workshop with officials from the City of Perry.  Following introductions, Mayor Jay Pattee kicked off the conversation talking about Perry and travel patterns for residents.  He then spoke about road improvements the City has made over the years.  Property owner and developer Kirk Van Kirk then shared the master plan that he has been working with City representatives on for a few years.  The Beaver Creek Estates development has room for around 235 housing lots on the northeast corner of 18th Street and Park Street.  Van Kirk has annexed the property into the City of Perry within the last few months as he says Perry is in desperate need of a new housing development.  He noted that Perry has a poor tax base and by bringing this into the City limits, it will help boost that.  Just this last year, he said 11 new teachers in the Perry Community School District could not live within the city limits because there were no homes for them. Perry’s goal is to have Park Street paved from 16th Street east to Highway 169.  Superintendent Lynn Ubben then stated that having a paved road would be beneficial for buses as they run to Bouton, plus activities coming in and out town to the high school could use that route.  Patttee said having this paved will benefit not only Perry but Bouton, local farmers and all of Dallas County.  Conservation Director Mike Wallace stated that having Park Street paved would be a positive for efforts to connect the Raccoon River Valley Trail in Perry to the High Trestle Trail in Woodward.  Board Chair Brad Golightly stated that there’s always an edge of town somewhere and a paved road will always end somewhere, and this is not the first time the County has been approached by a City to have a road on the end of their town.  When asked about timeline for the housing development, Van Kirk says they are currently looking at financing options but he figures they will start moving dirt within the next year.  Engineer Al Miller says a rough estimate on the cost to pave the road would be around $750,000 per mile and the stretch of road is around 3.2 miles.  No official action was taken on the topic.