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Oliver County weed board seeks member and begins scrub of 900+ page landowner mailing list
Summary
The board authorized county staff to post an opening for one weed-board position and began reviewing a lengthy landowner mailing list to remove deceased, moved or incorrect entries; members discussed plat-book currency and plans to update contacts before next round of mailings.
Oliver County’s Weed Board voted to ask county staff to post an opening and accept applications for one additional weed-board seat, and then proceeded to review and begin scrubbing a large landowner mailing list used for notices and cost-share chemical mailings.
A board member moved to ask staff (Alice/Jaden) to place an advertisement and accept applications; the motion was seconded and carried. Members noted that any appointment to the board must be approved by the county commission.
Board members then reviewed what they described as an approximately 900+-page mailing list and plat book, identifying numerous issues: missing owners, entries for people who are deceased, incorrect addresses and entities that should be excluded (for example, government entities previously removed from a cost-share program). Members discussed the plat-book publication cycle (roughly every three years), local methods for updating addresses and the need to scrub the list so that cost-share mailings and other notices go to current landowners.
The group agreed to continue the list review and to use newspaper and social-media notices to capture new landowners and prompt updates. Staff said corrected contact information and revised wording for board actions would be returned to the board before its next meeting.
Next steps: staff to post the opening and accept applications; board members will continue updating the mailing list and follow up with corrected contact information.
