BACKUS - Cass County Board approved a two-year contract Tuesday with Teamsters General Local Union 346 representing dispatch and records personnel in the sheriff's department.
BACKUS - Merritt Bussiere, University of Minnesota Extension educator, presented an eight-county analysis of second homeowners from a survey extension conducted. The counties include Cass, Crow Wing, Hubbard, Aitkin, Wadena, Todd, Morrison and Benton.
WALKER - Cass County Board members decided Tuesday to begin replacing county highway garage buildings in four cities. Two more garages still would be replaced 10 to 15 years from now.
WALKER - Human Resource Director Joshua Stevenson presented a chart to Cass County Board Tuesday listing potential key position retirements over the next five years. Though the commissioners took no immediate action on the proposed timetable for seeking replacements, they did indicate board action will be likely later this year …
WALKER - Probation Director Jim Schneider obtained Cass County Board approval Tuesday to apply for a MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge Grant.
WALKER - Townships will have to provide a building with a modern electrical system, heated to at least 55 degrees and free of mice, skunks and other creatures if they want to continue to use county voting equipment for elections.
BACKUS - Veterans services and Longville Ambulance Service presented their annual reports to Cass County commissioners Tuesday. Veterans Services Officer Jeff Woodford said the number of veterans coming to the Backus office and satellite offices in Cass Lake, Remer and Pillager rose significantly in 2014, though about seven fewer vets …
BACKUS - It looks like it is more cost effective to pave roads than to repeatedly re-gravel and apply chloride to gravel surfaced roads, County Engineer David Enblom told the county board Tuesday.
BACKUS - Cass County Board approved the last of labor agreements Tuesday to cover Cass's employees through Dec. 31, 2016. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees bargaining unit for health, human and veterans services have approved the agreement.
BACKUS - Frank Sherf, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, presented five alcohol breath testing devices to Cass County Sheriff's Department at Tuesday's county board meeting.
WALKER - Cass County Probation Director Jim Schneider called the recidivism rate for teenagers assigned to Northwest Minnesota Juvenile Center (NMJC) "a challenge needing to be addressed." He cited the 2014 annual report from NMJC showing 758 teen admissions, with 458 of those being re-admissions.
WALKER - Cass County Board selected low bidder of six, Tri-City Paving, to reconstruct about four blocks of municipal state aid streets in Pine River for $893,285 this summer. This approval is contingent on the city of Pine River also approving the contract winner. Engineering estimates had anticipated the cost …
