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Kossuth County supervisors approve routine business, leases and a stop-sign resolution
Summary
At their Oct. 28 meeting the Kossuth County Board of Supervisors approved multiple routine items including claims and quarterly reports, authorized handbook signature and effective date, adopted a stop-sign resolution requested by Swea City and awarded two gravel‑pit leases.
Kossuth County supervisors voted on a package of routine items and specific actions during their Oct. 28 meeting at the county courthouse, approving claims and quarterly reports, authorizing signatures on a personnel handbook acknowledgment page, adopting a stop‑sign resolution requested by Swea City and awarding two gravel‑pit agricultural leases.
The board approved the Oct. 21 minutes, the county claims (including drainage claims) and quarterly reports from the auditor, recorder, sheriff and veterans affairs by voice vote. The board also voted to authorize the chair and the county auditor to sign the handbook acknowledgment page, establishing an effective date of Nov. 1.
On a separate motion, the board adopted Resolution 10-28-25-01 to establish a stop sign at the entrance to Swea City on the county route (80th Avenue at Ash Avenue East) after a staff presentation describing safety concerns and the city council’s prior action. Supervisors approved the resolution by roll call.
The board awarded a three‑year agricultural lease for the East Cylinder gravel pit to Todd Schneiders at $122.75 per acre; the county packet lists the parcel at about 14.4 acres and the lease is payable half in the spring and half in the fall. The board also awarded a three‑year lease for the Hutchins pit to Katie Patton at $3,000 per year. Both lease awards were approved by motion.
Other routine administrative business — including a short public safety and roads update — was heard and staff reported pending items for future agendas: a road vacation, engine‑braking ordinance locations, a preconstruction meeting for a secondary road project and a potential three‑year extension of the county’s waste‑transportation agreement with Patton Enterprises, which staff said would include a Consumer Price Index adjustment reflecting roughly a 30% increase from 2020 to 2025.
The meeting closed with standard housekeeping and adjourned just under an hour after it began.
