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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
WALKER - Cass County Board set the 2014 preliminary levy at their meeting held Tuesday, Sept. 3, at the same dollar amount as in the last five years, $20,046,613.
REMER - Chief Financial Officer Larry Wolfe reported to Cass County commissioners Tuesday on the county's financial position at the end of 2012. The state expects to complete an audit of Cass's 2012 records Friday, so numbers Wolfe presented Tuesday are unaudited. State audits in recent years have not materially …
REMER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to authorize Assistant County Engineer Kris Lyytinen to obtain competitive quotes for improvements at five county garages. Consulting project manager Mark Beard will assist with preparing specifications.
REMER - Cass County officials are looking into two new or revised easements to cover the connecting recreational trail that runs through the former Ah-Gwah-Ching property where the county and DNR currently own abutting properties.
BACKUS - The Cass County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) will be having their annual meeting on Friday, October 25th. The public is invited to attend the event that will held at the Chase Hotel in Walker.
REMER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday, Sept. 17, to authorize Assistant County Engineer Kris Lyytinen to obtain competitive quotes for improvements at five county garages. Consulting project manager Mark Beard will assist with preparing specifications.
WALKER - Unless requested by the county board later this fall to do more, the citizen budget committee concluded its work on the 2014 budget and Tuesday received approval for some final recommendations.
WALKER - On Tuesday, Oct. 1, a Cass County Jury convicted DAvid Arthur Larose, 27, of Cass Lake, Minn., on eight felony charges for his part in crimes against two victims Oct. 27 and 28, 2011.
WALKER - Tuesday, Cass commissioners approved a new three-year service agreement with Cass County Economic Development Corporation (EDC), increasing the county's annual contribution from $37,500 to $42,500 through 2016.
WALKER - It will take a minimum of two years and at least four public meetings before Cass County decides on a design and construction plan for reconstructing County State Aid Highway (CSAH) 77 in Lake Shore, County Engineer David Enblom told the county board Tuesday.
