The Greene County Board of Supervisors met yesterday in regular session.

During the open forum, Greene County resident George Naylor addressed the Board about the growing number of hog confinements in the northwest part of the County and the Raccoon River nitrite lawsuit from the Des Moines Water Works.  Due to Iowa Department of Natural Resources guidelines and regulations, the Supervisors couldn’t do anything about the increasing hog confinements.  Naylor also knew that since the County wasn’t named in the nitrite lawsuit.  The Supervisors took Naylor’s comments under advisement and took no formal action on either topic.

The Supervisors then heard a presentation from Cargill General Manager Jane Fallon.  She said that Cargill has begun preliminary discussions about establishing a feed mill near Grand Junction.  The feed mill would create 10-15 jobs and produce 350,000 tons of feed per year.  The potential location would be at the southwest corner of County Road P-46 and US Highway 30.  Fallon noted that they would purchase 5-6 million bushels of corn per year from local clients to turn into feed for livestock.  Currently, there is no timeline for the project and Cargill doesn’t have full funding.  Fallon asked for the Supervisors support of the project and the Supervisors took no formal action on the request.

The Board approved a beer permit for Lakeside Golf Club and the County Treasurer’s investment report of $5,320,176.73 and issuing 241 driver’s licenses, both for February.

The Supervisors denied a request by the Bayard Fire Department to use Greene County’s portable stage for one of their events.  The Board did approve County Engineer Wade Weiss’s recommendation to amend this fiscal year’s budget to include purchasing a maintainer.  The Secondary Roads Department will trade in a 1994 for $75,000 from Caterpillar for a newer model.