June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
Cass board seeks applicants to fill vacancies on board
The county website-www.co.cass.mn.us-has a list of open positions and application forms.
The deadline to submit an application form is Nov. 30. The commissioners will consider making appointments at their Dec. 1 regular meeting at the courthouse in Walker.
Completed applications may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Linda Husby, Administrator's Office, P.O. Box 3000, Walker, MN, 56484.
Tuesday, the county board authorized paying Paul Bunyan Communications $4,207.42 to replace the main control system for the 7-year-old land department telephone system. The company which made the system was sold to another company, which, in turn, chose not to continue making the model of controls the county had purchased or to make parts for it.
Land department personnel were having trouble with dropped phone calls, lost voice mails and generally unpredictable service as the control system deteriorated. Actual cost to replace the controls ran about $1,000 under estimates.
Sheriff Tom Burch obtained board approval to order six four-door pickups and two sport utility squad cars from the state bid. The purchases are part of the county's 2016 capital budget. Burch reported he has hired a former Longville police officer and entered into a contract with the city of Longville for that officer to continue providing part-time service to Longville in his capacity as a sheriff's deputy.
The city will transfer a 2016 SUV squad car to the county in lieu of paying $20,000 a year for the contracted deputy's time patrolling in Longville until the $29,000 value of the vehicle has been expended.
The board authorized sending Lt. Scott Thompson to The Lifesavers Conference in April in California. The state's Toward Zero Deaths program will pay for all costs except wages. Cass received in October $32,671 additional federal payment in lieu of taxes, plus $14,000 to be distributed to townships within the Chippewa National Forest. Those townships are located along and north of Highway 200.
The board approved placing a tax-forfeited parcel in Haining's First Addition, Woodrow Township, on an alternate land sale. Three neighboring properties will be eligible to bid. The .04-acre parcel is by Big Deep Lake. The successful bidder must combine the lot with the lot they now own and cannot be built on separately from the bidder's current lot.
James Adrian will inspect for asbestos and other hazardous materials a small log cabin on a tax-forfeited parcel in Pike Bay Township at a cost not to exceed $400.
Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson reported the county earned through October 94 percent of expected total budgeted interest on investments through October or $847,627.05. That compares with $648,750.11 in the same period of 2014.
Hackensack American Legion donated $250 to the veterans transportation program, which takes veterans to medical appointments.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development notified the county the state has written off as uncollectable $7,205.90 of a loan made through Cass County Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the county in 1985 to Nodak Lodge.
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