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Wapello County supervisors approve routine resolutions, land purchase and appointments
Summary
The Wapello County Board of Supervisors voted to approve a series of routine items including the purchase of a 17-acre addition to Garrison Rock Wildlife Area, a real-property purchase at 123 East Third Street, annual contributions to local nonprofits, multiple personnel hires and two appointments to the county EMS advisory council.
Wapello County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to approve a slate of routine motions, including two resolutions, a small land purchase for county conservation, authorization for a state road contract, yearly contributions to local nonprofits, and several personnel actions.
The board approved Resolution 52-2025 (approval of a subdivision final plat) and Resolution 53-2025 (approval of a real property purchase at 123 East Third Street). The board also approved a conservation board request to purchase a 17-acre addition to the Garrison Rock Wildlife Area for $71,859; the conservation board said the purchase is being paid initially by the county and reimbursed from grant partners.
Supervisors authorized participation in an Iowa DOT contract process for a maintenance paving project (identified in the packet as project 90, County 9113) and authorized the county engineer to sign contract documents in the DOTs new electronic contract format. County staff described the item as a routine maintenance contract routed through the DOT letting process.
The board approved the countys annual contributions to the Food Bank of Iowa and to Iowa Legal Aid. The transcript did not provide clear, unambiguous dollar amounts for the Food Bank contribution in the meeting record; the record indicates the Iowa Legal Aid contribution was the same as last year but the precise dollar figure as spoken in the meeting was not specified.
Supervisors approved a contract renewal with River Hills Community Health Center for inmate health care services at the county jail and voted to authorize participation in the Purdue opioid direct settlement to accept funds that may come to the county from that national settlement process.
Appointments and personnel actions approved included the appointment of Tom Maher and Jean Dell to two at-large seats on the countys Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council, and multiple payroll approvals: several new hires including dispatcher, food service staff, correctional officers, and a part-time correctional officer.
All motions as recorded in the meeting were adopted by voice vote with the clerk calling for "Aye"; no roll-call tallies by name were recorded in the transcript.
Ending: The supervisors closed the meeting after the routine actions and a short round of updates and adjourned.
