Supervisors continue drainage repairs discussion from last week

At the Wright County Board of Supervisors Monday meeting, the public hearing from last week regarding drainage district #107 was continued. This week, Dan Wiedmeier of McClure Engineering showed the breakdown of costs that landowners would be responsible for depending if they own land in Wright or Hancock County. Hancock landowners are only responsible for some costs including excavation, spoil leveling and band seeding as they don’t benefit from some of the other repairs. The final breakdown with that considered is that Wright Co. landowners will pay 80% and Hancock 20%. Bid letting for the project will take place in the near future.

The board reviewed the contract with Cost Advisory Services, Inc. to develop an annual central service cost allocation plan for the next three fiscal years. This company works with the county to review records in order to get reimbursed for state and federal programs. The county pays them $4,125 per year and have in the past been reimbursed close to $20,000. The board elected to stay with that company at the same cost.

They also reviewed fuel bids for the next fiscal year. They went with the low bidder, AgVantage FS, who bid 7.5 cents over the rack price. The rack price includes the cost of the gas itself, as well as transportation, overhead, and profit costs. Assistant County Engineer Jeremy Abbas noted that this price is pretty consistent with last year.

In other business:

-The canvass of votes for last Tuesday’s primary was moved from the supervisors meeting to the next morning.

-Drainage attorney David Johnson appeared to discuss two topics. The board went into closed session for both, per Iowa code, to discuss strategy with counsel in matters that are presently in litigation or where litigation in imminent.

-Sandy McGrath gave the weekly update from the Emergency Operations Center on COVID-19 in Wright County. She said they completed major industry testing in the county on Friday and noted there are still positive cases out in the community. She expects that numbers could still go up. See page # for more county COVID-19 coverage.

-The board also took some time to recognize Larry Olson, who died last week. Olson was a Wright County Supervisor for 32 years.

 

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