BACKUS -- Rachel Zetah, community development with Central Minnesota Council on Aging, informed Cass County commissioners about homelessness in rural Minnesota Tuesday, Oct. 15.
BACKUS -- Cass County Environmental Services Department started a program to test private wells where people have expressed concern about potential groundwater contamination from agricultural activity.
BACKUS -- Walker and Cass County officials met Oct. 31 to lay the groundwork to set a joint policy to minimize garbage and bathroom residue from going into lakes.
BACKUS -- Having Sourcewell license child day care services for Cass County has saved the county money and provided more educational services for providers, Michele Piprude, Cass County Health, Human and Veterans Services director, told the county board Tuesday, Nov. 19.
BACKUS -- Minnesota Department of Revenue mailed a directive to county assessors May 21 to identify and classify as commercial all short-term vacation rental properties in the county.
BACKUS - Cass County received a net $58,339.23 by selling surplus equipment through an online auction this fall. The county board announced Tuesday, Nov. 19, the results of department head evaluations conducted in closed session Nov. 5.
WALKER -- Cass County Board voted Tuesday, Dec. 17, to approve the 2020 levy, budget, fees and most county employee wages. The $23,193,072 county share of the levy will be 3.01% higher than 2019.
WALKER -- Cass County commissioners voted Tuesday, Dec. 17, to not provide repayments to Minnesota Department of Human Services for the state's overpayment of federal dollars for mental health services.
WALKER - Cass County Human Services authorizes payments to funeral homes for an average of 11 to 13 indigent people annually who are cremated or buried and do not have assets to pay for final services.
WALKER -- What has changed in recycling? What is being revised in the land use ordinance? What is different about this year's election cycle? How does the 2020 census work? Where will county roads be rebuilt in 2020? These are among the topics planned for the 2020 county newsletter to …
WALKER -- Cass County commissioners elected Commissioner Neal Gaalswyk chair and Commissioner Jeff Peterson as vice chair for 2020 during their first meeting of the year, Jan. 7, 2020.
WALKER - Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Feb. 4, approved extending the county's lease for the U.S. Postal Service to use 4,500 square feet of a county-owned building at Pine River for the post office through 2031.
WALKER - Two-thirds of the 73 clients Cass County Economic Development Corp. provided with education, consultation and technical assistance services in 2019 are existing business owners inside the county, according to Executive Director Mike Paulus.
WALKER - The Cass County Board voted Tuesday, Feb. 4, to refer a reorganized and revised version of the Cass County Land Use Ordinance to the planning commission for a public hearing.
