The Greene County Board of Supervisors met in regular session Monday.

The meeting started with the Board hearing from Terry Dvorak, owner of Red Lion Renewables. He talked about his company of ten years and options to install, own and maintain solar panels on various county-owned properties to help save energy costs. He mentioned that there would be a purchase power agreement with net metering from Alliant Energy and he would also receive federal tax credits, if the project was under construction by the end of this June. The Board agreed to review the information and possibly consider it at a future meeting.

Then, the Board went into closed session to discuss recommendations from the Courthouse Security Committee. When the Board came back into open session, they approved the emergency action plan and expanded the security camera system. 

Next, the Board acted as the Drainage District Board of Trustees and they first considered the proposed improvement project for DD20. The Board approved replacing the main line and adding the Timmons Branch as an alternate. Board Chair John Muir said that since the vote of the landowners did not meet the remonstrative threshold of at least 50 percent of the landowners owning 70 percent of the land in the proposed area voted for or against the project, the Board determined that the main line was not meeting the purpose of having a tile, along with the Timmons Branch. 

The Board of Trustees also approved two options for the DD20 landowners to pay for the over $1.1 million project, including a stamped warrant at four percent or a waiver for up to 15 years at 6.5 percent. Additionally, they approved directing AgriVia to start reclassification of that area and appointed the engineering firm to conduct the annexation study. The Board of Trustees also approved paying AgriVia $200 and Central Iowa Drainage $3,600 for work done in DD37B. 

When the Supervisors rejoined the meeting, they approved a Louis Dreyfus funding request of $5,000 in each of the next two fiscal years to help pay for a new ambulance for the Grand Junction Fire and Rescue Unit. They also approved transferring $380,688 from the American Rescue Plan Act to the General Basic Fund to pay Graphite Construction and BBS Architects for the HVAC project on the Greene County Courthouse.