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County staff: tax statements mailed March 13; road crews urge motorists to avoid travel amid whiteout conditions
Summary
A county employee told supervisors tax statements were mailed March 13; county roads staff reported "whiteout conditions," drifting and motor graders clearing drifts and advised residents to avoid travel where possible.
A county employee told the Muscatine County Board of Supervisors on March 16 that tax statements notifying residents of upcoming public hearings for city, school and county budgets were mailed on Friday, March 13, and that residents should expect them in the mail that week.
When the chair asked for reports from county employees, the staff member said: "the tax statements that note the public hearings for all entities within our county, meaning city schools and the county, did were mailed out on Friday, March 13. So citizens can expect those in their mail this week." The comment was offered during the board’s regular receipt of county-employee information.
Board members also asked about road conditions after reports that Interstate 80 had been closed in places. Brian, the county roads representative who was addressed by name during the meeting, described difficult driving conditions: "It is it's pretty nasty out there, though, whiteout conditions... We do we do have some drifting... we have motor graders out busting drifts." He urged residents to avoid travel where possible, saying, "if people can stay off the roads, that'd be great." Brian said crews had not yet observed substantial runaround traffic on county roads between Coralville and Davenport resulting from the I-80 closure.
The chair solicited public comment and none was received before the board adjourned.
The roads update serves as a near-term travel advisory; the tax-statement mailing is an administrative notification for residents ahead of public hearings.
