The Greene County Board of Supervisors met on Monday for the final time in 2025.

According to County Auditor Billie Jo Hoskins, the meeting started with the Board amending a previous meeting on December 18th to correct that County Recorder Deb McDonald had requested a three percent salary increase instead of 3.5 percent. 

Then the preliminary minutes report showed that County Attorney Thomas Laehn gave an update. He reminded the Board that there was going to be a jury trial on January 27th. Then, he told the Board that the Polk County District Court granted Summit Carbon Solution’s request to amend its Phase 1 permit to the Iowa Utilities Commission. Summit is seeking to build an underground liquid carbon dioxide pipeline that would stretch across several other states. Laehn said that the request by Summit is to ask the IUC to allow them to no longer have the route go through South Dakota. 

Laehn also voiced a concern about a Memorandum of Understanding that Assistant County Attorney Laura Snider received from the Iowa Attorney General’s Office. The AG is proposed a change that would allow the AG’s Office to assume representation of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services in Child in Need of Assistance and Termination of Parent-Child Relationship when there is a disagreement between the county attorney and DHHS. Laehn was concerned that the MOU was sent to juvenile attorneys and did not include county attorneys, which if approved would bind future county attorneys to. He refused to sign the current draft until the AG’s Office affirmed the revisions he had sent.

Finally, the Board tabled the New Opportunities and Greene County Development Corporation 2027 fiscal year budget requests to January 5th.