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

During open forum, County Attorney Thomas Laehn commended the Greene County Sheriff’s Office for their investigative work last week of the bank robbery in Scranton. He said the case was intense and they were able to make an arrest and charge the individual for the alleged incident. 

Laehn also mentioned that during a recent meeting with the Bell Tower Community Foundation and the committee for the music policy of the Mahanay Memorial Carillon Tower, it was recommended that no outside group or individual could make a music request. The Board agreed with the recommendation and Laehn will draft the new policy. He anticipated having the Board appoint the music maestros and then during an event, the maestros could play whatever music they wished. The Bell Tower Community Foundation could nominate individuals to be maestros.

During a report from Central Iowa Community Services CFO Patti Treibel-Leeds, she asked the Board if the county’s website could be updated to include a link to the CICS main webpage and have a fillable application for those needing services. The Board agreed with the request.

County Engineer Wade Weiss spoke about the cold storage unit in Scranton. He wanted to vacate the location, due to inefficiencies. He mentioned the location of the former Alliant Energy building near Sparky’s on Highway 30 in Jefferson. Weiss said the list price was over $1 million, which he noted that the price came down once he inquired about it and feels it could be a positive step forward. The Board agreed to discuss the matter further next Monday.

The Board then approved the placement of four 45,000-gallon propane tanks to the east of the construction of the feed mill for New Cooperative at their Cooper location. Then, they approved to disallow 20 applications for ag land and family farm property tax credit. It was mentioned that the parcels didn’t meet the criteria to be awarded the tax credits. Finally, the Board approved a service agreement with Professional Office Services for the 2020 property tax statements. County Treasurer Katlynn Mechaelsen said there was a $100-200 difference between handling tax statements internally and outsourcing it. She noted the major benefit of using Professional Office Services is they could run tax information through a national database and contact those who were delinquent and lost their property to a tax sale.