Cass County Supervisors to act on SWI Egg grant application & other matters, Tuesday morning (1/21)

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January 20th, 2025 by Ric Hanson

(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors have a full agenda for their meeting at 9-a.m. Tuesday, in Atlantic. First-up, the Board is slated to receive a monthly report from Jotham Arber, Executive Director of the Cass/Guthrie County Environmental Health Department. They will also receive an update from Diane Schultz with the Iowa Morman Trails Association, with regard to replacing directional signs along the Morman Trail.

Afterward, the Board will consider a request from Graydon Schmidt, to define a resident of the county, with regard to county burial and cremation, under General Relief. They’re expected to set Christmas Eve hours for county employees not covered by bargaining agreements, as Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2025. The Cass County Supervisors will act on appointing Spencer Walton as Jail Administrator, with an annual salary of nearly $4,286. And, they will likely act to approve a letter of support for Southwest Iowa Egg (SWI Egg), with regard to their grant application from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS).

Other business includes approving renewal of a 28-E agreement with the Southwest Iowa Juvenile Detention Center, and setting the date and time for a Public Hearing with the Audubon County Board of Supervisors, to consider vacating and closing a section of Audubon/Cass County Secondary Road. The road is described as being 350th Street/Akron Road (established in March, 1899). The aforementioned road is 40-feet wide, and contains a little more than 3-acres of road right-of-way in Audubon County, and just under 3-acres of right-of-way in Cass County, for a total length to be vacated, of just under 5,000-feet (or slightly less than one-mile).

The Supervisors will hear a regular report from Cass County Engineer Trent Wolken, a Quarterly Report from Cass County Conservation Director Micah Lee, and a monthly report from Debbie Schuler, Cass County Community Services Director/Mental Health Advocate. They will then move to accept the resignation of Ray Schellenberg – Grant Township Trustee, and the appointments of Adam Akers as Grant Township Trustee, and Patrick Hoffman, to the Board of Health.