(Corrects Vice-Chair election vote) The Cass County Board of Supervisors met this (Wednesday) morning, in the Board Room at the Courthouse in Atlantic. Board Vice-Chair Frank Waters called the meeting to order and recognized the two newest members of the board, John Hartkopf and Mark T. O’Brien, who were elected in November and take the place of Gaylord Schelling and Mark Wedemeyer, who did not run for re-election. When the 2018 session was officially declared closed by Waters, that portion of the meeting was adjourned, and the new board meeting opened.

The reorganized Board then voted to name Steve Baier as Board Chair, and Steve Green as Vice-Chair. They also voted voted 3-to 1, with Waters opposed, to move the weekly meetings to Tuesday’s, at 9-a.m., beginning January 15th, with the same exceptions as before (if the final business day falls at the end of the week, then that will be on that day). Their next meeting will be on January 9th, but at 9-a.m. instead of 8:30-a.m., as was previously the case.

They also voted 4-to 1, with O’Brien voting no, to increase the mileage reimbursement for County employees using their personal vehicle on County business, at 45-cents per mile, which is an increase of a nickel., and, a nickel increase for Sheriff’s Civil Processing transportation costs,  from 54-cents per mile to 59-cents per mile.