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Big Stone County board rescinds prior CD 30 allocation and initiates redeterminations for CD 20 and CD 30
Summary
After rescinding an Aug. 5 motion on cost allocation, the board heard draft Findings and Order from Rinke Noonan and voted to begin redeterminations of benefits for County Ditches 20 and 30 and to consider consolidation; landowners provided comments during the discussion.
The Big Stone County Board of Commissioners rescinded an Aug. 5, 2025 motion that had set CD 30 redetermination costs at $4.03 per acre and then voted to initiate redeterminations for both County Ditch (CD) 30 and CD 20.
Rinke Noonan Attorney Kale Van Bruggen presented draft Findings and Order initiating the redeterminations and a proposal to initiate consolidation of CD 20 and CD 30. Commissioner Radermacher moved to rescind the August 5 allocation motion; the board carried the rescission. After hearing landowner comments on the proposed actions, motions by Commissioner Klages to proceed with initiating the redetermination for CD 30 and for CD 20 were approved with all commissioners voting aye.
The board’s actions change the procedural posture from the earlier cost-allocation approach; the transcript records the rescission and formal motions to initiate redetermination but does not record a final adjudication of benefits or a new cost-allocation formula. The board treated the items as drainage-authority business and followed the legal presentation from the county’s counsel.
Next steps set by the board include proceeding with the redetermination process and associated notices under applicable drainage law; specific dates for hearings or cost outcomes were not specified in the meeting record.
