June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
Shifting of Cass County district lines reviewed
The board will decide on an option to present to the public Aug. 30.
Because population shifts between the 2000 and 2010 censuses left greater than 5 percent population differential between all commissioner districts, all five commissioners will have to run for re-election in 2012, Anderson said.
Two of the proposed plans call for shifting only a few voter precincts between commissioner districts. The third plan would make major shifts, but provide the most even number of voters per district. That plan, though, would leave some existing commissioners running against each other and would make a major shift in areas their districts cover.
In other action,
Recorder Katy Norby obtained board approval to spend an additional $20,000 on the contract to have all old tax records that had been stored in the courthouse dungeon digitized. She said there were more books than they thought they had and copying some required making two images rather than one to cover the full area of pages.[[In-content Ad]]
The board also authorized providing a CD or DVD of those records to townships and the historical society and properly recycling the old books once they have been copied. The public will be able to search these old records, dating back to the 1800s, on the county website on or before Jan. 1, 2012.
Norby said a few years for some townships are missing, because they had been stored in an old shed at one time where they got damaged by water beyond being readable.
Land Commissioner Joshua Stevenson obtained board approval for Over The Hills Gang all terrain vehicle club to submit an application to Minnesota DNR for a state grant-in aid trail system in the Outing area.
Beulah and Crooked Lake Townships support the plan, including using town roads, Stevenson said. Thunder Lake Township asked that no town roads be used. Smokey Hollow Township asked that only roads that have been used in the past be used in the future. The plan observes those requests, Stevenson said.
Commissioner Bob Kangas said he and Commissioner Jeff Peterson rode the proposed trail system with club members. He said he was surprised at the time and money the club already has put into developing the trails.
"We set a high standard for the process and they met this standard," Peterson said.
The DNR will hold public hearings and may make changes before approving the trail system and authorizing funding for it, Stevenson said.
A & M Forestry was the low bidder of three to mow the following Cass forest trails: Hiram and Cut Lake at $1,420, Snowflea and Mayo Creek at $985, and Vermillion, Thunder Hollow, Washburn and the Old Grade at $2,840.
In 2010, Cass took in $1,201,930 from timber and land sales from county tax forfeited property. Of that, $330,531 will go toward reforestation, $120,193 toward trails, $300,482 to the county general fund and the balance divided among cities, townships and school districts where the land is located.
Sheriff Tom Burch obtained board approval to increase the fee charged to serve civil papers from $50 to $75.
The commissioners approved the county's second-half 2011 payments of $2,500 each to Cass County Historical Society, Cass County Agricultural Society at Pine River, Pillager Fair Board and an $8175 payment to the Initiative Foundation.
They approved $2,250 per diem and $1,050 mileage January through June payments to Cass County Housing and Redevelopment Authority board members.
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