WALKER -- Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Sept. 3, set the county's 2020 preliminary tax levy at 3.4% above the 2019 levy, but with the stipulation the citizen budget committee must cut that increase to no more than 3% before the board sets the final levy in December.
THUNDER LAKE TOWNSHIP -- A new Cass County committee will draft a county policy on tax abatements before the county board will decide whether to grant an abatement to a business at Pine River.
THUNDER LAKE TOWNSHIP -- Receiving public input, researching and drafting the Leech Lake River One Watershed One Plan cost a total of $191,001.45. Cass County Board approved the final $13,426 payment Tuesday, Aug. 20, during its meeting at Thunder Lake Town Hall. RESPEC of Rapid City, S.D., prepared the plan …
HACKENSACK -- Cass County Commissioners Scott Bruns and Jeff Peterson met with Walker Mayor Jed Shaw Sept. 10 to look at a new overall layout for reusing the former Ah-Gwah-Ching property.
HACKENSACK -- Cass County Board voted unanimously Tuesday, Sept. 17, to purchase the county's next generation enhanced 911 emergency radio system from its current supplier rather than Motorola.
WALKER -- Cass County Land Commissioner Kirk Titus obtained county board approval Tuesday, Oct. 1, to sign a Federal Recreational Trail Program grant application. He will submit that before March, with approval or denial known about June of 2020.
WALKER -- The city of Walker hopes to run a connection through the city along the former railroad line for recreational trails entering the city, then build public bathrooms beside that connection.
BACKUS -- Cass County commissioners voted Tuesday, Oct. 15, to award a $157,040 contract to Young Excavating, the lower of two bidders, to replace two culverts under County State Aid Highway 3 in the unorganized township area.
BACKUS -- For the second meeting in a row, Cass County commissioners Tuesday, Oct. 15, sent people seeking money from the county environmental trust fund to instead raise money locally before appealing to the county.
BACKUS -- Cass County Environmental Services Department issued 93 more land use permits the first three quarters of 2019 than in 2018, for a 7.45% increase. Total permit revenue received was up 11.18%.
BACKUS -- Rachel Zetah, community development with Central Minnesota Council on Aging, informed Cass County commissioners about homelessness in rural Minnesota Tuesday, Oct. 15.
BACKUS -- Cass County Environmental Services Department started a program to test private wells where people have expressed concern about potential groundwater contamination from agricultural activity.
BACKUS -- Walker and Cass County officials met Oct. 31 to lay the groundwork to set a joint policy to minimize garbage and bathroom residue from going into lakes.
