CASS COUNTY NEWS
Future county commissioner candidates must follow new disclosure rules
PILLAGER - Anyone wanting to run for county commissioner after Jan. 1, 2014, will have to disclose more about their personal finances and assets than in the past. These rules formerly applied only to those running for state offices or metro area positions. Legislative action this year extends the disclosure …
102 dogs seized in Pine River
Sheriff Tom Burch reports that the Cass County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on Tuesday, July 16 in the City of Pine River, pursuant to an ongoing investigation of animal cruelty. 102 dogs and 29 puppies were seized.
Crow Wing-Cass FSA County Committee Nominations deadline Aug. 1st
Farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers have until August 1 to nominate eligible candidates to serve on local Farm Service Agency county committees, announced Trisha McMonagle, County Executive Director of the Crow Wing-Cass USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA).
Cass Commissioners squeeze 2014 budget to mirror the 2009-2013 levy amounts
BACKUS - Cass County plans to try to fit the 2014 budget into the same levy dollar property tax amount the county has levied annually since 2009. That has been $20,046,613. This likely will mean the county can have no contingency fund going into 2014 to cover unexpected emergencies during …
Cass SWCD soliciting board appointment
The Cass Soil and Water Conservation District (Cass SWCD) is currently soliciting names of individuals desiring to be appointed to serve on the Cass SWCD Board of Supervisors. Due to the untimely death of David Harder, Supervisor from District 4 of Cass County, a current vacancy on the SWCD Board …
Cass Board approve business subsidy criteria policy
WALKER - Cass County commissioners voted to support two township positions on issues that came before the board Aug. 6. Shingobee Township July 10 endorsed a tax-increment financing (TIF) district for Reed's Sporting Goods to develop a distribution center in the Walker Industrial Park.
Cass Board approves new recyclables storage building at Pine River transfer site
PINE RIVER - Cass County Board approved one improvement Tuesday night in a regular meeting held in Barclay Township and tabled until 2014 another for the county's recycling and garbage transfer station, located north of Pine River.
Commissioners will tour Cloquet mill to see results of county timber sales
PINE RIVER - Cass County Commissioners will tour the Sappi Mill at Cloquet Sept. 10 to learn more about how timber the county sells is processed for markets.
Cass Board opposes petition to place in trust Antler's Ridge property
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to send a letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) opposing Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe's petition to place in trust for the band property known as Antler's Ridge abutting Leech Lake.
Foreclosures, new construction permits in Cass County down
WALKER - Cass County Assessor's Office reported Tuesday second quarter foreclosures continued a downward this year trend to only 20, compared with 26 in 2012 and down from 51 in 2010. The majority or 15 were seasonal residential properties, compared with only three homesteads and two commercial. All but three …
Cass Board to meet in closed sessions for evaluation of department heads
WALKER - Cass County Board will conduct a closed 9 a.m. meeting Oct. 22 at the courthouse in Walker to conduct annual performance evaluations on county department heads.
Open Meeting Law prompts Cass Commissioners to cancel Sappi Plant tour
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to cancel its planned Sept. 10 publicly announced tour of the Sappi wood processing plant at Cloquet. One or two members of the board might accompany land department employees on a tour that day, but the board decided against sending the whole board.
Preliminary 2014 Budget set by Cass Board
WALKER - Cass County Board set the 2014 preliminary levy Tuesday at the same dollar amount as in the last five years, $20,046,613. That levy includes $19,585,613 for county operations and $461,000, which is levied only against properties in the Longville Ambulance Service district to operate that service.
Preliminary 2014 Budget set by Cass Board
WALKER - Cass County Board set the 2014 preliminary levy Tuesday at the same dollar amount as in the last five years, $20,046,613. That levy includes $19,585,613 for county operations and $461,000, which is levied only against properties in the Longville Ambulance Service district to operate that service.
Hearing scheduled on clean-up of Cass County Ditch 9
WALKER - Forty-one Cass County property owners who potentially could be asked to share the cost of cleaning Ditch 9 and the public will be invited to a 6:30 p.m. Sept. 26 hearing at the land department in Backus to comment on the proposed project.
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