(Radio Iowa) – The Pottawattamie Board of Supervisors has set next Friday at 4:30 p.m. as the deadline for any county resident to submit a letter of interest in filling a vacancy on the board.

Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson reports.

(As said) – Scott Belt was temporarily removed from the board last month. After a two-day trial this week, a judge ruled Belt cannot serve on the board because he was intoxicated during official county business. Belt was accused of being intoxicated when county officials met with residents in Carson on November 5th. An attorney for Belt argued it was not an official meeting of the board. Video shown in court showed Belt drinking in a bar and others who were in the bar testified Belt was drunk when he left to attend the meeting. Belt served on the Council Bluffs City Council before his election to the county board of supervisors in 2008. He was reelected in 2022 to a term that will expire in 2026.

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Pottawattamie County officials plan to appoint a replacement for the last year of Belt’s term rather than hold a special election to fill the vacancy.