The Wright County Board of Supervisors approved several resolutions at their Monday meeting as their fiscal year draws to a close. The first was to appropriate budget money to county officers and departments. Another was to cancel outstanding warrants, which are checks that have been issued by the county but have not been cashed. Auditor Betty Ellis noted some of these go back three years. They amount to $306.
The board approved a resolution that was discussed last week to create two separate public health funds. Ellis noted other counties do this and it allows for better accounting practices and since Wright County recently began using new accounting software, it is a good time to establish a separate account. Another resolution was passed to transfer funds into the accounts in the amount of $600,000.
In the weekly COVID update, Sandy McGrath noted that the county is still seeing random positive cases, which she says are mostly related to large gatherings. She advised people who have had close contact (6 feet or closer for 15 minutes) with someone with COVID to get tested if they can or at least isolate for two weeks. She again encouraged people to wear their face coverings, though she hopes people are using their own rather than surgical masks as officials are still concerned about PPE shortages.
In the weekly conference call with ISG and Reilly Construction on the Agribusiness Park, the Reilly official said they should be wrapping up their work by the end of the week. The supervisors asked the ISG engineer to continue to work with Prairie Energy to get power to the site. A walk-through with a supervisor representative will take place next week.
Two closed sessions were again held with drainage attorney David Johnson. In the one concerning the Pogge land bridge, after the session, the board noted that Johnson would be retained for all named defendants in litigation concerning the land bridge. In the other closed session pertaining to Page Ave, no action was taken. The board also asked Johnson about the lawsuit filed against the county by Cramer and Cramer and Mennenga. Johnson said he had filed a motion to strike the case last week and expects to hear a decision from Judge Drew on it soon.
In other board business:
-McKinley Bailey with Building Families came before the board to present contracts for various programs. He noted that this is needed every three years to update the program agreements between Building Families and the county.
-The board signed a certificate of completion for the 275th Street paving project and send a final assessment notice to ReNewTrients per the development agreement. This will allow the county to collect the special assessment of $150,000 from ReNewTrients.
-They approved the fireworks application from 4G’s Pyrotechnics for the upcoming Lake Cornelia firework display.
