The Cass County Board of Supervisors are set to discuss changing the County Attorney status from part-time county officer to a full-time county officer, and then act on Resolution providing that the County Attorney IS a Full-time County Officer. Dave Wiederstein, is the Cass County Attorney. He also serves as a private practice attorney,  Acting Audubon County Attorney, and provides services to the City of Atlantic, through the his partner law firm, Otto-Lorence-Wiederstein, P.L.L.C.

Cass County Auditor Dale Sunderman says according to Iowa Code (331.752), that “A full-time county attorney shall refrain from the private practice of law,” which mean Wiederstein would have to give-up his private practice and work full-time for the County. The Code states also, that the Board of Supervisors may provide by resolution, that the county attorney shall be a full-time county officer. Further, that “If the county attorney objects to the full-time status, the effective date of change to a full-time status shall be delayed until January 1[st] of the year following the next general election, at which a county attorney is elected.” In Wiederstein’s case, that won’t be until Jan. 2019, since his four-year term will be on the ballot in Nov. 2018.

In other business, the Cass County Supervisors will discuss and then act on changing the status of the current part-time courthouse custodian to full-time custodian. The meeting takes place 8:30-a.m. Tuesday at the courthouse, in Atlantic.