The Greene County Board of Supervisors met Tuesday in regular session, due to the President’s Day holiday on Monday.

County Attorney Thomas Laehn gave an update. The Board agreed to consider an engagement letter with Hoyt, Morain and Homer Law Firm, with a $200 hourly fee, to represent the county with pending litigation with the Union Pacific Railroad for not paying its portion of a drainage tile repair, with a portion being within the railroad’s easement. Laehn said the law firm would send the UP a demand letter for them to pay and if they didn’t, then the county could sue them. 

County Engineer Wade Weiss informed the Board that the Iowa Department of Transportation was going to do a cold in-place patching project along Iowa Highway 25 in Greene County, which the bid letting would take place as early as this fall for next year. 

The Board then heard an update from Boone/Greene County Probation Services Director Diane Hinderaker. She said they had 146 non-violent offenders from Greene County last year, with a recidivism rate of four percent of those that re-offended. She noted that most of the clients were from drug or alcohol-related convictions. The Board then approved the annual contract of $44,267 with no increase in funding for the 2026 calendar year. 

The Board also approved two resolutions for 28E agreements with the cities of Grand Junction and Scranton to provide recycling services. The agreements included having a dumpster located within city limits that both incorporated and unincorporated residents in those areas could use for recycling. Some of the other details included the county being charged 50 percent of the total cost per quarter from the cities or up to $4,000 annually, with the dumpsters being emptied at least once per month. The respective city councils would also need to approve the agreements before they can take effect.

The Board then approved two documents related to the Paton-Churdan Early Learning Center new building project as procedural steps, and they approved to discontinue accepting requests for Louis Dreyfus grants from non-profit organizations, with the funding being spoken for through fiscal year 2028, the final year of available grant funding as per the original agreement.