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At-a-glance: actions and votes from Black Hawk County supervisors, Jan. 28, 2025
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved routine agenda items, claims and several consent items including a construction change order, a minor plat, travel and training requests and meeting minutes; no contested roll-call battles were recorded in the transcript.
Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors, Jan. 28, 2025 — summary of motions and outcomes recorded in the meeting transcript.
Nut graf: The board approved routine agenda and consent items, several departmental travel/training requests, a construction change order for a remodel project, and a minor plat application; the meeting also included an extended budget work session but did not adopt capital appropriations.
Votes & actions (as recorded in the transcript):
- Agenda (Item 1): Motion to receive the agenda as proposed or amended. Outcome: approved on voice vote (“All in favor say aye. Aye.”). Mover/second: not specified in transcript. Vote tally: voice vote, aye recorded.
- Claims and payments resolution (Item 3): Resolution to approve expenditures; Treasurer/auditor presentation noted total bill payment of $386,147.18 and a $2,553.35 fund amount. Outcome: approved on voice vote. Mover/second: not specified in transcript.
- Change Order 4, multi-department remodel (Item 7a): Resolution to approve a change order to cover additional structural and systems work at the auditor’s office/conference room in the amount of $12,755.69; noted that the project contingency was exhausted and the change order put the contract $3,516.74 over the original amount; funding source stated as the replacement revenue pool. Vote: approved. Transcript roll call during the vote recorded: “Fran? Yes. George? Yes. Layla? Yes.” Mover/second: motion moved and seconded earlier in discussion (names not specified). Outcome: approved.
- Minor plat request (Item 7b): Resolution to approve Andrew Sherz’s minor plat (1.5-acre separation in an agricultural-residential district per code). Outcome: approved (motion moved, seconded, voice vote). Mover/second: not specified.
- Travel request (Item 7c): Approve travel of ALU IT director Connor Mork to a public-sector CIO summit in Redlands, Calif., for $1,610 (lodging, meals, airfare). Outcome: approved on voice vote. Mover/second: not specified.
- Amended travel request (Mileage): Amendment to a previously approved travel request (Dec. 10) to include $123 mileage for Justin Grant. Outcome: approved on voice vote. Mover/second: not specified.
- Training request (Item e): Approve training for Joseph Miller, financial analyst, to attend Government Finance Officers Association course on accounting for capital assets (Jan. 30–31). Outcome: approved on voice vote. Mover/second: not specified.
- Minutes (Item 5): Approve minutes for Jan. 21 and Jan. 22. Outcome: approved on voice vote.
Ending: The transcript records these approvals but does not show the board adopting any new ordinances or capital appropriations during this meeting; several work-session topics were discussed for future action.
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