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

The Board heard an update from Jefferson City Administrator Mike Palmer. He said the property the City’s owns at 111 East Lincoln Way is ready for someone to bid on and make improvements to the building. He added that they are also going to replace the roof on another property at 200 East State Street and will install new windows at 205 North Wilson Avenue in order to put those properties back on the market. They are also looking at the east entrance to the City and trying to create a more appealing entrance.

The Board then met the new Greene County Chamber Director Roccie Hill, who started with the Chamber on September 1st.

Next, the Board held a public hearing on the new submission for Greene County Pigs LLC and Eric Chrystal in section five of Franklin Township. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources already issued the permit for Chrystal to expand to a second building, which is already in operation. However, because he wanted to make a change to his original plans of using composting to installing trees for landscaping instead, he had to go back through the master matrix process and hold another public hearing.

At the hearing, there were several concerns made by the public. The concerns included how to get rid of additional hog carcasses, impeding on environmental rights, quality of life issues and determining when there’s enough hog confinements in the county. Following the hearing, the Board approved the application for the change to the matrix, which lowered the score from 450 to 440.

The Board then approved to hire Joshua Derry as a full-time jailer for the Sheriff’s office and a $3,449 Louis Dreyfus request to replace the garage door at the law enforcement center.

The Supervisors then held a public hearing on the completion report for work done to clean out an open ditch in drainage district 150-86 with Carroll County. The Supervisors reviewed two damage claims from the project that was completed earlier this summer. After using information from ISU Extension’s cost of production estimates, the total amount the Supervisors approved from the claims were over $2,600 and paying the final five percent retainer to the contractor Leroy and Sons as presented. The Supervisors also changed the assessment rate for the drainage from 143 percent to 125 percent.

Finally, Greene County Engineer Wade Weiss gave an update to the Board. He said work will start on the Mahanay Bell Tower next week to remove the bells to modify and paint the current structure. The bells will be removed with a crane for one day next week.