Board of Supervisors
Location: 200 E. Bridge St., Elkader
Position: Elected to four year terms
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Name
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Term Expiration
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| Gary Bowden, Chairman | 12/31/2014 |
| Ron McCartney, Vice-Chair | 12/31/2014 |
| Larry Gibbs | 12/31/2012 |
The Board of Supervisors is the legislative body of the County and the following are some of its duties and powers:
- Approves bonds of county officials
- Establishes and vacates public highways
- Levies taxes to produce revenue for county purposes
- Allows claims against the county and orders them paid
- Allows applications for Homestead, Military, and Family Farm Credit
- Fills vacancies in county offices, except members of its own body
- Canvasses the vote totals of elections
- Approves all budgets of county
- Appoints a County Engineer to supervise the county road system
- Oversees the maintenance of the county buildings
- Appoints all members to the following county boards: Conservation, Health, Zoning, Board of Adjustment, Care Review
- Appoints individual members to the following boards: Civil Service, Compensation, Judicial Magistrate Appointing Commission, Eminent Domain Compensation Commission
Boards they serve on:
Larry Gibbs:
- Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission-Business
- Upper Explorerland Transportation Board - Policy
- Northeast Iowa Juvenile Detention Board
- Regional DHS Advisory Board
- 1st Judicial Department of Corrections Board
- Resource Conservation and Development Board
- Enterprise Zone Board
- Revolving Loan Fund Board
- County Courthouse & Office Buildings
- Clayton County Disaster Recovery Committee
- ISAC District 6 Supervisors Chairman
Gary Bowden:
- Scenic Acres
- Northeast Iowa Agency on Aging
- Aging Building Board
- Solid Waste – Landfill
- Clayton County Economic Development Board
- Clayton County Revolving Loan Board
- Clayton County Housing Advisory Committee
- Northeast Iowa Regional Housing Trust Board
- Upper Explorerland Housing Commission
- Clayton County Substance Abuse Board
- Food + Fitness / Kellogg
- Clayton County Communication Board
- E-911 Board
- Emergency Management Agency
- Hazard Mitigation Commission
- Iowa Workforce Development Board
Ron McCartney:
- Law Enforcement Center Building
- Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission
- Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission - Executive Board
- Upper Explorerland Transportation Board – Advisory
- Turkey River Recreational Corridor (Trails)
- REAP
- Northeast Iowa Mental Health Board
- Northeast Iowa Community Action Board
- DeCat Advisory Board
- Empowerment Board – HAWC
- Iowa Workforce Development Board – Alternate
- Juvenile Hold-Over Facility – Alternate
- 1st Judicial District Department of Corrections – Alternate
Board of Supervisors Agenda
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All meetings are to be held in the Supervisors Office, 200 E Bridge St, Elkader, Iowa, unless otherwise stated. The board meets on Wednesday from 9 AM to 4 PM. Non scheduled time is spent in workshops or available for public comment limited to 10 minutes per individual. Each meeting agenda includes approval of previous meeting(s) minutes.
Wed., May 23, 2012
1:00 PM Bid opening for RISE project
Remodel Progress
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Office Building Progress - 5/11/2012
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Board of Supervisors Minutes - March 21, 2012
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Present: Larry Gibbs, Gary Bowden, Ron McCartney
Motion by McCartney, seconded by Gibbs, to approve the claims for payment as presented. Ayes: Gibbs, McCartney, Bowden
Merry French, Substance Abuse Services for Clayton County, requested to be the substance abuse prevention services provider for Clayton County. Motion by Gibbs, seconded by McCartney, to approve the Substance Abuse Services for Clayton County RFP and apply for the state grant for substance abuse prevention. Ayes: Gibbs, McCartney, Bowden
Motion by Gibbs, seconded by McCartney, to approve an addendum to the subrecipient agreement with RISE, Ltd. for the CDBG grant regarding occupation of the current workshop building in the future and authorize the Chairman and County Auditor to sign the addendum. Ayes: Gibbs, Bowden, McCartney
Kathy Jordan and Linda Shaw, DHS Targeted Case Management, discussed the rental contract for the new offices and arrangements for phone service, signage and a new rental contract. They also made a presentation on the case management services they provided in FY 11 and 10 with statistical information explaining usage and costs. Motion by McCartney, seconded by Gibbs, to enter into a contract for targeted case management services with DHS for the next three fiscal years beginning with FY 2013.
Motion by Gibbs, seconded by McCartney, to approve the Secondary Road DOT Budget and Construction Program for FY 2013 and authorize the Chairman and County Auditor to sign the document for the same. Ayes: Gibbs, McCartney, Bowden
Motion by McCartney, seconded by Gibbs, to approve the Secondary Road Gunder Road project and authorize the Chairman to sign the document for the same. Ayes: Gibbs, Bowden, McCartney
Motion by Gibbs, seconded by McCartney, to approve the minutes of March 7, 12 and 21, 2012. Ayes: Gibbs, McCartney, Bowden
The County Engineer and Board travelled to and inspected roads in the Osterdock area.
/s/ Gary Bowden, Chairman
/s/ Dennis Freitag, County Auditor
Board of Supervisors Minutes - March 12, 2012
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Present: Larry Gibbs, Ron McCartney, Gary Bowden
The Board and the County Engineer met with Clayton County Corn Growers at Johnson’s Restaurant for a discussion on county issues.
The FY 2013 County Budget hearing was conducted with ten people attending. The proposed budget had been revised since the publication. The Governor has signed an additional appropriation bill for mental health funding which reduces the tax asking for the Mental Health-DD Services Fund and adds equal amount to intergovernmental revenues. The Engineer revised the revenue estimates up for his department, also. In summary, from publication the tax asking went down and revenues we increased. The County Auditor and the Board gave an explanation of the budget from both a departmental budget and program prospectus. A pie charts showing the distribution of the current property tax collections between the schools, cities, county, community college, townships, County Assessor and Ag Extension tax levying entities was presented. Pie charts showing the distribution of expenditures by service area and the source of revenues for the county budget were also presented. Questions from the attendees were answered. The budget hearing was declared closed.
Motion by McCartney, seconded by Gibbs, that resolution # 7-2012 is approved regarding the adoption of the Clayton County Budget for fiscal year ending June 30, 2013. Ayes: Gibbs, Bowden, McCartney
Resolution # 7-2012
RE: FYE 6-30-2013 County Budget Adoption
WHEREAS, annually the county is required to prepare a budget for the upcoming fiscal year,
WHEREAS, a budget hearing notice was published in the official newspapers of the county on February 29, 2012, for a hearing to be held on March 12, 2012, at 1:30 PM in the County Supervisors’ Office,
WHEREAS, a budget hearing was held with no oral or written objections to the proposed budget,
WHEREAS, revisions were made from the published amounts of tax asking (lowered by $48,401) and revenues (increased by $52,870) which are of favorable results,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Clayton County Board of Supervisors that the FYE 6-30-2013 County Budget be adopted with property taxes levied in the amount of $7,573,634; total budgeted revenue in the amount of $17,458,331; and total budgeted expenditures in the amount of $19,356,309.
/s/ Gary Bowden, Chairman
/s/ Dennis Freitag, County Auditor
