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Surveyor proposes consolidating non-maintenance drains and raising assessments; board agrees to pilot test
Summary
DeKalb County surveyor staff presented an organized list of non-maintenance laterals and recommended combining some laterals into parent drains and adjusting per-acre assessments to fund maintenance; the board agreed to pilot the approach on drains under full county control (candidate: Solomon Shank lateral) and to pursue engineering estimates for longstanding flooding on County Road 41.
DeKalb County's surveyor's office told the Drainage Board on April 16 that the county needs a clearer, funded approach to maintain numerous non-maintenance drains and laterals. The office provided an organized table grouping non-maintenance laterals under parent drains, showing current base/minimum assessment rates and account balances, and proposed a pilot to combine laterals into parent-drain accounts and shift to a per-acre rate where appropriate to cover maintenance costs.
"I provided you guys... Becky helped make this list," the surveyor's office said, describing a tablet-sized sheet that groups laterals by parent drain and offers figures for base rates and balances. The staff suggested examples such as…
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