(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Board of Supervisors in Montgomery County, today (Tuesday), discussed an attorney retention agreement with Hopkins and Huebner, P.C. For Human Resources and Labor legal services. Brent Hinders, an attorney and managing shareholder with the firm, was on-hand to discuss the agreement, the services for which would be paid for on an hourly basis, as needed.

After brief discussion, the Board passed a motion to approve the agreement as presented. The firm will take over following the retirement in December of the current HR/Labor Attorney. Hinders said their firm handles a wide array of HR and Labor Law services.

Those services are more important now than ever, Hinders said, when taking into consideration changes in the Open Records Law. Following discussion on that topic, the Board heard from Richard Mullen, with Resilient Recovery Counseling, a Villisca-based recovery treatment program, who provided an update on IRRT (Integrated Resource and Recovery Team) services and programs that began In Montgomery Count on Sept. 17th.

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He said also they’ve been conducting a lot of outreach effort to explain what the program is.

The counseling services are available to persons in Montgomery County who are 14-years of age and older, in conjunction with Montgomery County Public Health. Previously Mullen has stated the services are available to anybody whose life has been impacted by a substance abuse or opioid disorder.

The Board received also, a regular update from County Engineer Karen Albert.’

And, they acted on setting the November Montgomery County Board of Supervisors regular meeting dates and times, in lieu of election day and Veterans Day. The dates will be as follows:

The November 4^th regular meeting will be held the following day (Nov. 5^th), and the meeting on the 11^th will instead take place on the 12^th, both at 9-a.m.

Auditor Jill Ozuna reminded the Board and residents, that the first day for Absentee Voting in the Nov. 4^th City/School Elections, is on Wed., Oct. 15^th. The first-tier canvass of election results, she said, will be on Nov. 12^th.