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Benton County approves FY27 community allocations; auditor files 2025 audit; regional DAP employment to shift
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Summary
The board approved FY27 allocations totaling several community grants, acknowledged the FY25 audit, set a budget-amendment date, heard a bridge right-of-way update and learned Benton County will cease being employer of record for a regional DAP employee as of July 1, 2026.
At its March 10, 2026 meeting the Benton County Board of Supervisors acknowledged and filed the 2025 fiscal year audit with the State Auditor's Office and set April 14, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. for FY26 Budget Amendment #3. The board approved FY27 allocations: $1,500 to Riverview; $5,986 to the Eastern Iowa Housing Trust Fund; $81,138 to HACAP; $2,575 to Kirkwood Community Workplace Learning; $20,000 to Benton County Volunteers; $6,000 to the Belle Plaine Community Center; $90,000 to the Benton Development Group; and $2,000 to the Middle Cedar WMA. The motions carried unanimously.
Engineer Myron Parizek reported a failed right-of-way acquisition on bridge replacement project BROS-CO06-(126)—8J-06 along 16th Ave. in Cedar Township; the board did not authorize condemnation and Supervisor Seeman will speak with the property owner. Julie Davidson, CEO of MHDS of the East Central Region Disability Access Point (DAP), informed the board that Benton County will no longer be the employer of record for Sarah Wagner as of July 1, 2026; Central Iowa Juvenile Detention has been serving that role for other DAP employees and will assume employer responsibilities for Wagner going forward.
The board also rescinded an earlier action on Resolution #26-17 after Auditor Hayley Rippel located an amendment recorded as Resolution #25-14. The meeting concluded with supervisors’ reports and adjournment at 10:45 a.m.