BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to adopt budget committee recommendations to cut enough items from the proposed 2015 budget to allow for a $198,651 contingency fund to handle emergencies.
BACKUS - Assessor Mark Peterson reported Cass County foreclosures dropped significantly in the third quarter this year. In 2013, there were 31 third quarter foreclosures. That dropped to 21 this year, with the largest decline shown in non-homesteaded residential properties (vacation homes).
WALKER - Financial assistance supervisors Wanda Reed and Sarah Smythe informed the Cass County Board Tuesday the public has made good use of the county's outreach offices in Backus and Cass Lake.
WALKER - Only one property owner came to the Cass County Board 2015 budget and levy public hearing Tuesday evening, but that person had a question about their property valuation and not the budget or levy. The meeting opened at 6 p.m. and adjourned at 6:05 p.m. after the property …
WALKER - Commissioner Jim Dowson retired from the Cass County Board Tuesday. He attended the last scheduled meeting of 2014. His fellow commissioners and the Leech Lake Reservation recognized him for 47 years of service to the county in a variety of roles.
WALKER - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to form a partnership with Leech Lake Reservation and the city of Cass Lake to seek federal Environmental Protection Agency money to do a Countywide Brownfields Assessment.
Citizens interested in volunteering to discuss Leech Lake fish and habitat can apply to participate in the Leech Lake Fisheries Input Group. Applications must be completed by Wednesday, Dec. 31, and are available online at www.mndnr.gov/leechlake.
WALKER - Cass County Board approved final payment for 2014 road rebuilding and paving on County Road 143 and a recreational trail along County State Aid Highway 75 near Cass Lake. That project ran $18,000 under bid price.
WALKER - Craig Nathan, field operations director for Rural Minnesota Concentrated Employment Program (CEP), explained the work programs CEP offers as Cass County commissioners renewed their contract for services with CEP Tuesday.
BACKUS - County Engineer David Enblom obtained county board approval Tuesday to make a new agreement with the city of Longville to bid the city's sanitary sewer project at the same time as a county highway project there for work this summer.
BACKUS - Cass County Board approved contracts with two union bargaining units Tuesday, granting 2.5 percent base raises Jan. 1, 2015, and again Jan. 1, 2016.
BACKUS - Cass County commissioners Tuesday reaffirmed their policy to permit people to demonstrate in behalf of a cause on the courthouse lawn as long as demonstrators do not interfere with people doing business at the courthouse or become unruly.
