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Linn County board sets Sept. 29 public hearing on CDBG-funded Dallas Pocket Neighborhood and votes to enter closed session
Summary
At its Sept. 17 meeting, the Linn County board set a Sept. 29 public hearing on Community Development Block Grant-funded housing in the Dallas Pocket Neighborhood and voted in a roll call to recess into closed session to discuss critical infrastructure and confidential records.
The Linn County board met Sept. 17 at the Gene Noxley Public Service Center and set a public hearing for Monday, Sept. 29, at 10 a.m. to update the public on Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)–funded activities tied to the county’s Disaster Recovery new production-for-sale housing program in the Dallas Pocket Neighborhood.
Charlie Nichols of planning and development told the board the Dallas farm developer received federal CDBG funds to build housing at Dallas Farm and said the Sept. 29 hearing will include a status update on the buildings and grant funding. "Paulo Mitchell with ECCOG will come, and we'll go over the status of the buildings, the status of the grant funding, a general update on what is happening with that project, and answer any questions from the public or from the board, if there are any," Nichols said.
Unidentified Speaker 1 moved to set the public hearing for Sept. 29 at 10 a.m.; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The motion was recorded as passed; the transcript does not include a roll-call tally for that vote.
Later in the meeting, Unidentified Speaker 1 moved that the board go into closed session to discuss critical infrastructure, physical infrastructure and records the speaker described as confidential under Iowa law. The motion was seconded and the board conducted a roll-call vote; the transcript records successive "Aye" responses (ten recorded "Aye" segments) after which the chair announced a recess until 10:22 a.m. and said the board would proceed into closed session.
Other routine business during the meeting included approval of the Sept. 15 minutes, approval of claims totaling $1,016,306.56 (claims $100,195.22 and ACH $916,111.34) and approval of the consent agenda. Those motions were made, seconded and approved by voice vote as recorded in the public portion of the transcript.
No members of the public are recorded speaking during the public-comment segments in the provided transcript.
The Sept. 29 hearing, per the board’s announcement, is expected to include ECCOG participation and will review the status of buildings and grant funding for the Dallas Pocket Neighborhood project. The board recessed the public meeting at 10:22 a.m. to move into the closed session it had approved.
