June 10, 2021 at 1:12 p.m.
Well location project comes in under budget
Payroll for the temporary workers ran $19,942, he said, compared with the $30,000 budgeted for the project.
Their assignment was to locate all 12,000 wells in the county for which the state had records. Information they developed will be used in a current geological atlas being created for the county.
Ringle said they found about 10,000 of the wells. It probably will not be possible to find the rest, he said.
Cass County Soil and Water Conservation District paid $5,000 of the well location project. The land department forest development fund pay will pay $9,942. Environmental services will pay $5,000.
Garbage haulers and their customers could see cost increases in 2016.
Tuesday, the county board referred to the citizen budget commission the issue that the county now pays more to dispose of garbage than it collects from garbage haulers.
The county's contract with Waste Management to accept Cass garbage at its Elk River landfill calls for a rate increase in 2016. This coupled with a new Elk River municipal tax has put the county's disposal cost at $68.79 per ton.
Currently, local haulers pay Cass County $65.78 per ton to dump their loads at the county's transfer station north of Pine River. From that point, the garbage then gets hauled to Elk River.
The county board is asking the budget committee to suggest an action plan to correct the shortfall for Cass County.
Cass County Board approved reimbursing the soil and water conservation district $50,539.79 for expenses through Sept. 16 to prevent aquatic invasive species infestations.
Of that, $46,871.27 went to pay trained AIS inspectors to check boats at public landings in the county and to educate boaters about keeping their boats and fishing tackle clear of invasive species.
The balance went for zebra mussel inventories, boat decontamination, employee training and Minnesota DNR brochures.
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