June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
Cass County Board: Last of labor agreements approved through 2016
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees bargaining unit for health, human and veterans services have approved the agreement.
Like agreements approved earlier this year, it calls for 2.5 percent raises in 2015 and 2016, plus a mid-year step increase that will be about 3 percent.
People who have worked for the county 10 years and reached top step will receive, instead of the step increase, a lump sum longevity payment in December. Longevity pay will equal 1.75 percent of monthly base pay multiplied by total full years with the county as of Dec. 1.
Cass County Board set a public hearing for the 9 a.m. April 7 regular commissioners meeting to hear comments on a plan to issue an off-sale liquor license to Arthur's Restaurant along Highway 371 on Ten Mile Lake north of Hackensack.
Cass commissioners approved a resolution to support Beltrami County's application for a MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice grant. Beltrami County was asked to give similar support to Cass County's application for the same grant.
Cass Board Chair Neal Gaalswyk said the hope is that at least one county in the neighborhood will get this grant, so the program can be implemented and copied. This is the grant Cass probation department seeks to identify people who might be released pending court hearings without risk to the public, thus cutting the number of pre-trial inmates.
Minnesota Department of Revenue has notified Cass the county will receive $117,558 as the county's share this year of revenue the state collected last year from Leech Lake Band.
Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson reported the county earned $132,336.97 interest on investments the first two months this year. That is up from $110,791.72 in the same period of 2013.
The commissioners awarded a contract to Superior Forestry Services Inc. at $87 per thousand to plant 20,800 trees on county managed land this summer.
They awarded contracts to surveyors to identify property lines where the county land department plans future timber cutting projects on county managed land. Nine firms bid on each project.
Stonemark Land Surveying will survey a project in Powers Township for $44,500 and one in north May Township for $19,600. Kohout Surveying will do a project in East Gull Lake for $3,830. Clark Engineering Corp. won the contract in Bungo Township for $5,840.
Cass County will allow U.S. Forest Service to burn a portion of county land in the unorganized townships when they burn Chippewa Forest land to create wildlife opening areas. The site, known as Mud-Goose, generally is burned annually.
Gail Leverson, Cass County Economic Development Corporation director, reported she has completed assisting Ron and Melanie Burns with their plans to open this summer Hillcrest Assisted Living in Walker. The couple expects to hire seven to nine employees, she reported.
Of the 34 people who requested applications for Backus and Longville small cities grants to improve their properties, 21 have returned their application, Leverson reported.
She currently is working with 19 businesses interested in starting or expanding a business in the county. Of those, 10 would be manufacturers.
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