1. Call to order.
2. Approval of minutes of the May 3, 2011 meeting
3. Amendment of agenda to approve discussion with the assessor.
4. Approval of amended agenda.
Due to the recent federal disaster declaration, filing time for complaints to the Sac County Assessor’s Board of Review to which people can appeal the findings of the valuation on their property has been extended to June 5,2011. The board has to adjourn by June 15 unless they request an extended session.
In anticipation of next year’s probable differences in valuations due to the April 9 2011 tornados, the Sac County Assessor assembled a list of farms which have lost buildings. Though those land owners will not be able to make a challenge to their assessment based on that damage, next year they may be able to do so. A notice will be placed in the Sac Sun sometime this summer to make those people aware of that possibility.
Carnarvon Inn’s Liquor License renewed.
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Because this year’s record of claims loss was less than expected, the Iowa Community Assurance Pool (ICAP) will be giving its member entities, including Sac County, a credit against future payments. According to Sac County Supervisor Rick Hecht, last year’s credit for Sac County was between $12,000 and $15,000.
ICAP provides casualty insurance to Sac County.
Dale Roy from Feld Fire out of Carroll, Iowa appeared before the supervisors to make a proposal to put in fire alarms. Currently, there is no fire detection in the old part of the courthouse. Roy proposes putting in a separate panel that would notify at the Sac County Comm. Center.
According to Roy the most it will cost to install fire detection in both the offices and the corridors is $5,000 to $6,000 per floor.
The supervisors directed Roy to return with a bid, and directed the Sac County Auditor to seek competitive bids for them to consider at an as yet unnamed future date.
Additionally the Supervisors discussed putting panic buttons into selected rooms in the courthouse, but did not specifically give direction in this matter.
Until recently, the county was allowed to do drainage ditch cleanout work all year long. Now they are not allowed to do it during nesting season. According to Hecht, both he and Sac County Supervisor Dean Stock see this action as a killer to the buffer strip program, which keep both dirt and contaminate are kept out of the drainage districts by having an approximately one hundred foot area where grasses are grown.
According to Hecht, the engineering firm Kuehl & Payer has estimated that it will cost $20,000 more per mile to clean out these ditches as a result of not being allowed to get in there during nesting season. A very realistic consequence of this that farmers may not renew their buffer strip contracts.
According to Stock, the cleanouts, which disturb one season out of every forty, will probably continue for another ten to twenty years because of existing contracts.
Stock called this action “Bureaucratic nonsense”, and Hecht called it “Lack of common sense.”
County crew roads report:
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Project update:
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Highway 20 update:
Concerns:
- Dust control on unofficial detours around N28 needs to be addressed.
1.Secondary roads is negotiating a contract with Stratford Gravel for up to 25,000 ton of road gravel at the Luckow pit. Specs are being put together to take bids for gravel hauling at a future board meeting
2. County tractor backhoe was damaged when it rolled over coming up out of a road ditch. The employee was uninjured.
3. Engineer is trying to get the DOT to fix an intersection on N14 that is missing a chunk due to use by their contractors.
4. Tile crossing on N28 to be replaced by DOT. There is a dispute because the DOT wants to use metal, and only concrete is allowed in drainage districts.
Drainage District 73 Commissioner Ivan Droessler appeared before the Sac County Supervisors to explain the coming reclassification of Drainage District 73.
Following are a list of factors used in reclassification of drainage districts. In this particular case, only the items check marked will be considered.
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The board will hold a hearing for the public to comment on June 21, 2011 at 1:30PM at the Supervisor’s Board room in the Sac County Courthouse.
Following is the executive summary of the proposed action:
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