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Des Moines County supervisors approve routine claims, depositories, contracts and personnel changes
Summary
At its May 26 meeting the Des Moines County Board of Supervisors approved a payroll reimbursement, emergency-management grant payment, an amended list of county depositories, a fireworks permit, a cost-allocation contract and personnel actions in the county attorney's office.
The Des Moines County Board of Supervisors on May 26 approved a series of routine financial and personnel actions, including a payroll reimbursement claim and payments tied to an emergency-management grant.
The board voted to approve a payroll reimbursement claim for $1,197.85. During roll call the entries recorded in the transcript show affirmative responses for Jim Perry, Tom Barker and Shane McGinn.
Shannon Prater, emergency management, told the board the county received a $90,000 IDA energy-district grant with a tight turnaround and no local match. "This grant has a very quick turnaround time. It actually needs to be closed out by the end of June," Prater said, asking the board to expedite a check so the first installment could be paid.
The board also approved an amended list of county depositories, with named banks and deposit limits read into the record and Connection Bank newly added. A fireworks permit for the Sperry July 3 show was approved after staff said the event appeared in order.
Supervisors approved a contract with Cost Advisory Services (CASI) to prepare federally compliant cost-allocation plans that allocate central-service overhead to grant-funded programs. The contract language, read at the meeting, says CASI will develop plans that conform to federal and state requirements and that reimbursement arrangements will limit county exposure.
Two personnel actions in the county attorney's office cleared the board: the hiring of Benjamin Toll as assistant county attorney at $75,718 per year effective June 1, 2026, and a pay increase for administrative assistant Mandy Spencer from $51,875 to $53,947 after completion of probation.
The board approved minutes from the May 19, 2026 meeting and closed routine business. Where the meeting transcript records roll-call answers, those responses are reflected here; where the transcript does not record full tallies, the actions are described as approved without inventing unrecorded counts.
