BACKUS-Cass County Board approved a resolution Tuesday calling for the Minnesota Legislature to fund "regional behavioral health crisis program facilities and permanent supportive housing for people with behavioral health needs."
BACKUS-Cass County will receive $135,635 from the state toward purchasing new voting equipment before this fall's elections, Election Administrator Sharon Anderson reported Tuesday to the county board.
BACKUS-Cass County Planning Director Paul Fairbanks reported Tuesday to the county board that 1,105 land use zoning permits issued in 2017 topped the 974 issued in 2016.
WALKER-Six people who use Plantain Trail Northwest in Pine Lake Township to access their property Tuesday asked the county board to order their town board to improve the road.
WALKER-Cass County commissioners Tuesday approved a 10-year contract with K.R. Drenth Trucking Inc. to operate the county's garbage and recycling disposal program.
WALKER-The Cass County Board voted Tuesday to permit the Minnesota Department of Transportation to use County Highway 40 as part of a detour during resurfacing on Highway 371 from Hackensack to Backus this summer.
WALKER-The Cass County Board voted Tuesday to participate in one state program, but to delay action until its March 20 meeting on another, because commissioners Scott Bruns and Dick Downham were absent from Tuesday's meeting.
WALKER-Woodrow Township Board Chair Myles Wagner asked the Cass County Board to call a moratorium on new cellphone towers in the county during Tuesday's commissioners' meeting.
WALKER-Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider and Minnesota Department of Corrections District Supervisor Victor Moen presented their annual reports to the Cass County Board Tuesday.
BACKUS-Cass County commissioners voted Tuesday to nominate portions of two state highways in the county for Minnesota Department of Transportation's Corridors of Commerce program.
BACKUS-Allegations of child maltreatment and children in need of protection rose last year, but confirmed maltreatment is about steady, said Michelle Piprude, Health, Human and Veterans Services director, at the Cass County Board meeting.
BACKUS-Chief Financial Officer Sandra Norikane, who also is now auditor-treasurer, presented her annual report to the county board Tuesday. She noted additional changes in that office have included appointing former Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson as elections administrator and combining the payroll and human resources duties into one position.
WALKER-Everyone soon will be able to get any public information Cass County has about each land parcel in the county on its website at www.co.cass.mn.us.
