June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
County Board working with Walker on sewer project
Fifth Street is a municipal state aid highway, so would be a county project. The county also plans to pave its gravel south parking lot across the street from the courthouse in 2016.
Walker is working on a storm water retention plan in connection with this sewer and paving project. The county also planned a storm water retention project for the parking lot.
Both are seeking grants for the storm water retention, which now might be coordinated as a single project. The city seeks a Mississippi Headwaters grant. The county seeks a Clean Water Funds grant.
Enblom reported the city of Bena is in the process of surveying all the roads in its jurisdiction in preparation for designing (in 2016) a paving project, which will be constructed in 2017 to pave all city streets.
The county and Leech Lake Reservation have joint jurisdiction on several roads, some of which are some Bena streets, Enblom said. This enables the county and Leech Lake each to obtain funding toward the joint projects, he said.
The Bena improvement includes Unorganized Township Road 140, which runs from Highway 2 at Bena, north toward Lake Winnibigoshish. As an unorganized townships road it is under county board jurisdiction.
Tuesday, Doug Carpenter, who owns property along that road, asked that the county use a 1994 survey he presented to locate Unorganized Road 140, which he also claims the county does not have legal right to convert from a county road to a township road as it previously did.
County Board Chair Neal Gaalswyk told Carpenter to wait until Leech Lake Reservation completes its survey, then see whether it may, in fact, match his survey before he objects to the new survey location of the road.
Cass County Board voted Tuesday to cancel the county's live auction to sell surplus county property in 2015, but to sell seven used county vehicles through an Internet auction service instead.
Chief Financial Officer Larry Wolfe said there is little value in office equipment the county could sell. The highway department has had success selling used equipment through online auctions, so the county plans to sell used vehicles by that method this year.
There will be a link to the online auction on the county website at www.co.cass.mn.us. It also will be advertised in area newspapers. Anyone can bid online on the vehicles.
They include two 2010 Ford Crown Victoria sedans (one with 179,863 miles, one with 168,884 miles, but smashed front and side), one 2009 Ford Crown Victoria (130,000 miles), one 2008 Ford Crown Victoria (150,829 miles), one Ford extended cab short box pickup (147,952 miles), one 2003 Ford Taurus SE (152,287, bad transmission) and one 2002 Ford extended cab short box pickup (142,756). All are good condition except as indicated.
McLaughlin Auctioneer service of Dilworth will conduct the auction. The only cost to the county will be for advertising. McLaughlin charges buyers a 10 to 13 percent premium above the bid prices.
Cass County hopes to partner with other neighboring counties to control its costs by sharing advertising expenses.
The county board also authorized the sheriff's department to sell three or four seized or donated boats from the water patrol program to the public through the county website. Profits from those sales will be used to purchase one new boat for the water patrol, Sheriff Tom Burch said.
Sylvan Township has donated $850 to the sheriff's water patrol.
The board authorized Sgt. Scott Thompson to seek a $54,645 Toward Zero Deaths enforcement grant from Minnesota Department of Public Safety to be used from Oct. 1, 2015, to Sept. 30, 2016.
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