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.
WALKER -- Sheriff Tom Burch and Lt. Brad Rittgers presented the department's annual report to the Cass County Board Tuesday, Feb. 18. The number of initial complaints the department received in 2019 was up 1,590 over 2018, but comparable to 2016 and 2017. There were 22,449 initial complaints received in …
BACKUS -- County Engineer Darrick Anderson obtained county board approval Tuesday, Feb. 18, to continue negotiations with a private property owner for the county purchase of a parcel to improve County State Aid Highway 70 for an alternate route to Gull Dam Road.
BACKUS - Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider and Minnesota Department of Corrections District Supervisor Mark Smith presented their annual reports to Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Feb. 18. County probation monitors juvenile offenders and misdemeanor and gross misdemeanor adult offenders. Department of Corrections monitors felony adult offenders.
BACKUS -- Cass County Planning Commission has set the public hearing on proposed changes to the countywide Land Use Ordinance for 9:30 a.m. March 19 at the land department building in Backus.
