EAST GULL LAKE - Kerry Swenson, Cass County emergency services director, reported to the county board Tuesday Cass local government costs from the July 12 straight-line windstorm has now reached $1.6 million.
EAST GULL LAKE - Cass County commissioners took the first steps Tuesday toward purchasing new election voting equipment. The board authorized Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson to seek requests for proposal to for new voting machines.
EAST GULL LAKE - Cass County Board voted to accept the county insurance committee recommendation Tuesday to continue the county's self-insured health insurance plan at no cost increase for 2016 to either employees or the county.
WALKER - Minnesota Department of Health selected a Cass County health services nurse to be one of five in the state recognized as an Everyday Hero for their exceptional service in the Women, Infants and Children program.
WALKER - Three temporary Cass County employees finished locating wells in the county at two-thirds the expected cost, Environmental Services Director John Ringle reported to the county board Tuesday.
WALKER - Vandals appear to have used a chain saw to cut most of the way through the main timbers supporting a Cass County recreational trail bridge snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles use in Beulah Township.
BACKUS - Cass County Board voted Tuesday to authorize Sheriff Tom Burch to negotiate a contract with another county to house 20 more Cass County inmates. Currently, Cass has a contract with Crow Wing County to house 40 inmates at the jail in Brainerd.
BACKUS - Hackensack-Onigum-Walker-Akeley Family Center will wind down operations between now and the end of this year and close all operations in 2016. Tuesday, the county board referred to the budget committee an evaluation of whether the county should continue funding family centers at the same level in 2016, considering …
WALKER - To lower the 2016 property tax increase, the Cass County Citizen Budget Committee now recommends the county board use some of the county's reserve fund balance to pay for some 2016 expenses.
WALKER - Cass County has reached the point where not enough money is coming into the county to keep up with costs to maintain the roads, so County Engineer David Enblom has proposed using a state-allowed option for a half a cent county sales tax.
BACKUS-Cass County will seek people to fill vacancies on county commissions and boards for terms to begin Jan. 1, 2016. The county website-www.co.cass.mn.us-has a list of open positions and application forms.
BACKUS - Cass County Chief Financial Officer Larry Wolfe told the county board Tuesday the information property taxpayers received this week is slightly higher than the board now expects to approve for a final county levy in December.
WALKER-Auditor-Treasurer Sharon Anderson obtained county board approval Tuesday to seek requests for proposal from three Minnesota certified companies which provide election voting equipment and services.
