BACKUS - Cass County will send property taxpayers a notice this week to estimate 2012 taxes. Actual bills will not be sent until next spring.Those notices may be of particular interest to Cass County residents who live in the Brainerd School District in light of the recent approval of the …
Filing of a homestead application may affect the amount of property tax you pay in the coming year. Homestead applications are available through your county assessor on or before December 15, 2011, if one of the following applies:
Why is it important? A growing concern is the abuse, by youth and others, of medications not prescribed for them. Safe disposal makes medicines less available. Evidence is increasing of the damage to the environment due to unsafe disposal of medications. Proper disposal helps protect our soil and water.Environmental Importance:
WALKER - Cass County Board membersreported Thursday that performance evaluations they conducted in closed session Nov. 29 with all appointed department heads found that each official has achieved the requirements of their position in the last year.
WALKER - Only six people turned out to ask questions at Cass County's annual public hearing Thursday, Dec. 8, on the proposed 2012 budget and tax levy. One asked about the county's funding sources beyond property tax levies. These would include such sources as state and federal grants, donations, timber …
WALKER - Cass County land use ordinance revisions could be ready for a public hearing before the planning commission by February and for consideration for final adoption before the county board by March, Environmental Services Director John Ringle said Thursday, Dec. 8.
WALKER - Only six people turned out to ask questions at Cass County's annual public hearing Thursday, Dec. 8, on the proposed 2012 budget and tax levy. One asked about the county's funding sources beyond property tax levies. These would include such sources as state and federal grants, donations, timber …
WALKER - Sheriff Tom Burch obtained county board approval Tuesday to spend up to $25,000 to update the county's building security systems. While these updates had been under consideration for some time, the need for swifter action follows a recent shooting incident at Cook County Courthouse.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to adopt the 2012 levy and budget as presented at the Dec. 8 Truth in Taxation public hearing. The levy will be $20,046,613, with the assumption that the county will still receive $359,016 in state program aids in 2012. The budget calls for …
WALKER - Bruce London knows what it is like to be a police officer. He spent 30 years in that line of work, retiring from the Brainerd Police Department. When he and his neighbors in Loon Lake Township had a problem with teen parties involving alcohol in their neighborhood this …
WALKER - Cass County Board Tuesday approved an agreement for the land department to lease two drags, a snowmobile and a trailer to Lake Country Nordic Ski Club for five years at no cost to the club. Minnesota DNR will pay the county up to $9,300 from grant-in-aid ski permits …
WALKER - Cass County commissioners appealed to their state legislators Tuesday to make some changes in the 2012 session that ultimately could benefit county government and local citizens. Sen. John Carlson, Rep. Larry Howes and Rep. John Percell attended the county board meeting to discuss the upcoming session.
BACKUS - Cass County Board meet from 9 a.m. to noon Jan. 24 at the courthouse in Walker with the citizen budget committee, the planning commission and Cass County Economic Development Corporation representatives. It will be a work session (open to the public) to review the budget, discuss any changes …
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to pay the city of East Gull Lake $173,058.81 to reimburse the city for costs incurred to install a recreational trail system extension in 2011.
