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Votes at a glance: Resolutions, plats, bids and project agreements approved Feb. 25
Summary
A single-item roundup of formal actions taken by the Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors, including claims approval, software MOU, roadway preconstruction agreements, subdivision plats and bid receipts.
The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors took the following recorded formal actions on Feb. 25.
Key approvals and procedural actions
- Claims and payments: Approved. Total posted at the meeting: $532,451.31 (roll call approved).
- CrowdStrike EDR MOU (Iowa Department of Management): Approved. One-year renewal funded through state-administered ARPA funds; county cost reported as $0 for the year.
- Raymond Road pre-construction agreement (project LFM503-7X07): Approved. County estimated reimbursement cited at $220,000; city council already approved the city'9s portion.
- Short Raymond Road agreement for the small segment near the fire department (project LFM5031F7X07): Approved. County share cited at $10,000; city council already approved.
- Black Hawk County Conservation Board petition to issue general obligation bonds for conservation capital projects FY25 and FY26: Placed on file as the formal petition required by Code of Iowa.
- Travel request: Approved. Travel and related reimbursement for county staff (example: Anna Napp, HR generalist) approved as listed in the agenda (amounts and attendees specified in agenda item).
- Subdivision plats (Sprague and Gahlmeier minor plats): Resolutions approving minor plats for single-family homes in agricultural-residential zoning were approved and directed to be certified by the county auditor.
- Zoning/public hearing scheduling: Public hearings were set for March 11 on proposed rezoning requests (Ordinance 77-291 and Ordinance 77-292) to change parcels from agricultural to commercial/manufacturing and from agricultural to agricultural-residential, respectively.
- Bid opening: Received one bid for steel for the Hoffer Oak Ridge bridge project from Odin Enterprises, Inc. (Wahoo, Neb.) for $50,988.76; the engineer'9s estimate was $58,650. The board placed bids on file for evaluation.
- Library funding increase: Approved an increase in county library funding to the statewide per-capita average; the board approved an additional $6,617 for that purpose.
- Cattle Congress fair marketing: Approved $25,000 for fair marketing as presented; staff noted statutory eligibility for fair funding must be observed in future years.
Other roll-call and consent items
Multiple routine items on the consent agenda (minutes approval, claims, routine resolutions and small-plats certification) were approved by roll call as part of the meeting'9s consent process. Where a roll call was read, the transcript records supervisors voting "yes" and motions carrying.
Provenance
- Topic initiation: Claims and payments (meeting time around agenda item 4) and the start of bidding and project agreements occurred in the transcript prior to the budget discussion.
- Topic finish: Final consent items and scheduling of follow-up hearings conclude the recorded formal actions.
Notes on procedure
Where the transcript records roll calls or explicit tallies, those are recorded above. For other motions the transcript records the motion, a second and "motion carries"; specific counted roll-call tallies were not always recorded in the text and are therefore summarized as approved.
