(Red Oak, Iowa) – The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors, Wednesday morning, received an update from Jim Richardson with the County Secondary Roads Department, while Engineer Karen Albert was attending the 2025 Traffic and Safety Forum, in Ames.

The Board also received an Information Technology (IT) update from Beau Boeye (Boeye Tech and Design) – IT Point of Contact for Montgomery County – with regard to AI (Artificial Intelligence) Pilot Project. He said anywhere you go, in any industry, the big topic is AI. At a IT Director conference last month, the topic of discussion was with regard to having an AI policy in-place. That sparked discussions between his department and Montgomery County Auditor Jill Ozuna.

He said as the directors at the conference discussed, “You can’t block AI.”

He said they especially want to have a policy in-place in Montgomery County to help protect any sort of PII (Personally Identifiable Information).

He said they want to use the tools correctly to protect the data correctly and give useful information to the other department heads.