(Atlantic, Iowa) – The Cass County Board of Supervisors will hold their regular weekly meeting on Friday, beginning at 9-a.m.  During the meeting there will be two public hearing before action is taken on Resolutions pertaining to each hearing. The first is with regard to the issuance of General Obligation Capital Loan Notes not to exceed $2-million, and the authorizing of a Loan Agreement for the Notes. The hearing and Resolution are with regard to ISICS (Iowa Statewide Interoperable Communications System), a statewide radio platform that provides microwave-based radio communication to public safety agencies and others, border to border in the State of Iowa, to improve public safety across the state.  Additional communication antennas, etc. will be needed for system infrastructure and support.

The second hearing pertains to the vacating and closing about 500-feet of 570th Street under Interstate 80, north of Wiota, contained within a State of Iowa right of way. The State wants to eventually make I-80 three lanes in both directions. Closing the road is a part of that process. Some area landowners have complained closing the road would cut them off from their land and or animals, on either side of the Interstate.

In other business, the Board will act on Resolutions resetting the number of deputies and assistants in the Sheriff’s Office, and the entering into an agreement to abate the taxes, penalties, interest and costs on a County-held tax certificate for a parcel now owned by the City of Massena. The Board are also likely to approve the County Medical Examiner’s appointment of an additional Medical Examiner.

Reports are expected to be received as well, from County Veteran Affairs Director Mitch Holmes (The quarterly report was not available last week), and a regular report from County Mental Health/General Relief Coordinator Deb Schuler. The Supervisor’s meeting takes place in their Board Room at the Cass County Courthouse, and can be accessed live HERE.