Madison County supervisors approve hires, planning, road resolutions and task-force changes; multiple routine votes carried
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At its Oct. 14 meeting the Madison County Board of Supervisors approved a set of routine personnel hires and administrative resolutions — including a temporary custodian hire, approval of the 7 Oaks subdivision plat, expansion and appointments to the opioid-settlement task force, and several roads-related resolutions — and set a public hearing on sale of the Public Health building for Oct. 28.
Madison County supervisors on Oct. 14 approved a series of routine but consequential administrative actions, including personnel hires, land-use approvals and several secondary-roads resolutions.
The board amended its agenda to add a corrected custodian-hire resolution and then approved the consent agenda after one supervisor recorded a dissent on a $7,838.50 outside-counsel claim. The board approved HR resolution HR101425 as amended to hire a temporary part-time custodian at $19.47 per hour, effective Oct. 15, 2025.
On zoning matters, the board held and closed a public hearing on the 7 Oaks Subdivision Plat No. 2 and then voted to approve the minor subdivision that divides Lot 3 into two lots. Zoning Administrator Ryan Lamar told the board the 13.7-acre property is in an agricultural zone, abuts the Winterset city limits and had extraterritorial review; staff recommended approval.
The board approved several secondary-roads resolutions (grouped A, C and E), adopted a separate hiring resolution for Jason Endell as a full-time equipment operator/drainage crew, and renewed an Adopt-a-Highway agreement with the Scottish Farm Feeders 4-H.
On the county’s opioid-settlement oversight, supervisors amended the task force’s duties to add explicit oversight and recommendation authority and expanded the task force from four to seven members. The board appointed Natalie Montross, Sadie Ramey and Tanya McLaughlin to the three at-large seats the board filled that night.
Other approved items included an extension of a short-term loan to the Bridal Nature Center to cover a closing gap, payment of membership dues to the Central Iowa Council of Governments (CCOG) with an accounting re-code to follow, and formal designation of the county auditor as custodian of the courthouse and annex (subject to supervisory direction).
A public hearing was set for Oct. 28 at 9:30 a.m. for the planned sale/auction of the Public Health building. The meeting record shows multiple other routine administrative approvals and departmental hires were carried without recorded roll-call tallies; minutes record the motions, seconds and the board’s standard “motion carries” outcome.
The board adjourned following member reports and scheduling of a budget work session for Nov. 11.