The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting on Thursday, this week. During their 8:30-a.m. session in their Board room at the Courthouse, the Board is expected to act on a request from the Atlantic Parks & Recreation Department, for a commitment of $40,000 to help secure a $360,000 Vision Iowa CAT (Community Attraction and Tourism) Grant for improvements to the Schildberg Recreation Area. The Board had twice previously tabled action on the matter.

During their meeting last week, the Supervisors mentioned the constituents in some of their districts were opposed to the County committing tax dollars. The idea of using Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) monies was brought-up, as the project might be considered a “Rural/County Betterment/Development” project, but it was also pointed out that the Board preferred to use LOST dollars to reduce debt and focus more on the county’s roads and bridges. The Board asked Parks and Rec Director Roger Herring to bring information to their next meeting, on the potential economic benefit to the County from tourism dollars.

In other business, the Board will likely act on establishing the rate of compensation for Precinct election officials, and the appointment of a Grove Township Trustee, to fill a vacancy term that will end Dec. 31st, 2018.