CASS COUNTY NEWS
Cass settles 3-year contract with sheriff's department union
WALKER-The Cass County Board Tuesday approved the last three-year union agreement with county employees to cover wages and employment terms through 2019.
Piprude named permanent director of Cass County HHVS
WALKER-Michelle Piprude, who has served as interim Cass County Health, Human and Veterans Services director since Reno Wells retired in December 2016, was formally named the permanent director Tuesday.
Revolving door in SHIP grant administration concerns Cass Board
WOODROW TOWNSHIP-Cass County has struggled to keep a trained person to oversee a Minnesota Department of Health Statewide Health Improvement Project grant.
Land reclassifications gain approval
WOODROW TOWNSHIP-Cass County commissioners approved several land reclassifications at their meeting Tuesday night in Woodrow Township, east of Hackensack.
Cass County flu shot clinics announced
WALKER-Cass County will offer flu shot clinics at the following locations:
Committee formed to find new county attorney
WOODROW TOWNSHIP - Cass County Board appointed commissioners Bob Kangas and Dick Downham to serve as a committee of the board to recommend an appointment to county attorney following Christopher Strandlie's resignation.
Commissioners approve digitizing complex OSHA requirements
WALKER-The Occupational Safety and Health Administration requires counties to maintain a material safety data sheet on each product a county department uses in the course of its operation.
Commissioners update on county economic development efforts
WALKER - Mike Paulus gave the county board a report Tuesday on what Cass County Economic Development has accomplished in the last year since he took over as director of the nonprofit corporation.
County could qualify for emergency assistance for storm damage
WALKER-Preliminary reports indicate Cass County will exceed the $51,420 minimum required to qualify for state emergency assistance from the Sept. 20 windstorm that blew through Cass and Crow Wing counties.
Employee health insurance rates to stay the same
WALKER-Cass County commissioners voted Tuesday to keep the county's major medical charges to the county and employees the same in 2018 as in 2017.
Cass to advertise for vacant county attorney position
BACKUS-Cass County will publicly advertise for applicants from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3 to fill Cass's vacant county attorney position. Interviews will be Nov. 15 or 16. A committee consisting of commissioners Dick Downham and Bob Kangas; Health, Human and Veterans Services Director Michelle Piprude; Probation Director Jim Schneider; and …
Cass Board takes first steps toward buffer ordinance
BACKUS-Cass County Board took first steps Tuesday toward adopting a local Buffer Law Ordinance to manage vegetative buffers along the edge of farm fields, which abut waterways.
Medical assistance tops social service costs
BACKUS-Sarah Smythe, income maintenance supervisor, reported to the Cass County Board Tuesday on client use of social services financial support programs.
Grant sought for county's first roundabout
BACKUS-Cass County could install its first county road roundabout east of Pine River if the county's grant application to the Minnesota Department of Transportation is successful.
Cass County Auditor-Treasurer Anderson to switch to new position
BACKUS - Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson will step away from her current multi-assignment duties in that office to use her over 30 years of experience to become the county's new election administrator.
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