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Board offers City of Glenwood $170,000 over five years for communications services, asks for service clarification
Summary
After extended discussion of call volumes, services and equipment costs, Mills County supervisors voted to offer the City of Glenwood $170,000 for five years (no annual increase) as the county's formal offer for a 28E communications agreement; the motion includes a follow-up meeting for both parties to define which services are included.
The Mills County Board of Supervisors advanced a formal offer to the City of Glenwood for the county's communications services under a 28E intergovernmental agreement.
Staff and board members described previous rounds of negotiations, noting that Glenwood accounts for an estimated 35% of call volume and that agreements across counties are not uniform. The proposed offer is $170,000 for a five-year term with no annual increase; the board stressed that both parties must meet to clarify exactly which administrative and equipment services are included under that fee.
Board members raised questions about how the proposed figure relates to call volume and the county's overall communications budget. Staff estimated the consolidated communications system costs at roughly $2,000,000 across multiple funds and noted that the county funds operations from surcharges, operational funds and bond payments for fixed-system maintenance. The offer is intended as the county’s formal starting point, not final contract approval; the board instructed staff to use the offer to continue negotiations and to work through specific language updates before executing a final agreement.
A motion to deliver the $170,000, five-year offer to Glenwood was made, read back for the record, and then put to a roll-call vote; the motion carried. Several supervisors emphasized the need to meet with Glenwood staff to define required services and to confirm what the municipality would pay for beyond statutorily required emergency-dispatch functions.
