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Woodbury County Board elects Dan Bittinger chair, adopts bylaws and meeting rules
Summary
At its 2025 organizational meeting the Woodbury County Board of Supervisors adopted updated bylaws, kept its public-comment rules that place citizen remarks at the end of meetings, and elected Dan Bittinger chair and Mark Nelson vice chair.
The Woodbury County Board of Supervisors reorganized at its 2025 organizational meeting, adopting its bylaws and rules for public participation and electing Supervisor Dan Bittinger as chair by a 4-1 vote; Supervisor Mark Nelson was elected vice chair unanimously.
The board unanimously approved its current bylaws, which the presiding officer described as taking precedence after the Iowa Code and as subject to a two-meeting amendment process. Outgoing chair Matthew Ong asked the board to adopt the rules to allow the new supervisors to proceed. "They are required to be adopted in the first meeting of the year after every general election and they can be amended in a two-step process at any time," Ong said.
The bylaws motion passed on a voice vote, 5-0. The board then elected a…
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