The Kossuth County Board of Supervisors carried a series of procedural and administrative actions at its organizational meeting.

Key votes and actions included: approval to proceed with arbitration in the FEMA VR 44-21 appeal; adoption of the 2026 holiday schedule; designation of The County Advance, Bancroft Register and Swea City Herald Press as official newspapers; adoption of resolution 01022601 (construction master matrix) and multiple resolutions designating depositories for county officers and authorizing the auditor to issue warrants.

The board also set the county mileage reimbursement rate at 72.5 cents per mile for 2026; approved direct billing of food and lodging for county employees; set out-of-county inmate lodging at $50 per day and court-ordered work release lodging at $60 per day; and adopted a $5,000 prior-authorization threshold requiring board approval for larger expenditures for elected officials and department heads (excluding the engineer).

Appointments and personnel actions carried included the appointment of Dr. Alan Yelley as county medical examiner and multiple deputy medical examiners and investigators; reappointment of Terry Miller to the district conservation board; dozens of committee and administrative appointments for 2026 (emergency management coordinator, EMS administrator, zoning administrator, landfill manager, veterans affairs director, safety director, engineer and others).

Each listed motion was moved, seconded, and carried as part of the board’s organizational agenda; no motions failed or were tabled during the session.