Benton County approves administrative items: credit-card name change, hearings scheduled

BENTON COUNTY — The Benton County board handled multiple administrative items during its meeting, approving a credit-card name change for Secondary Roads, scheduling a land-use public hearing and setting the maximum-levy/budget hearing.

The board voted to remove Deb Cummings’ name from a Secondary Roads bank card and place the card under the title “secondary road shop” so it can be used for equipment parts and online purchases; Unidentified Speaker 6 moved and the board approved the change (SEG 121–186).

Officials also set a public hearing date for a non-agricultural land-use request for a resident identified in the record as Cassandra (name variably recorded); the hearing was scheduled for March 10 at 9:15 a.m., motion carried (SEG 193–206). The board later set the county’s maximum-levy/budget hearing for March 24 at 6:00 p.m. to accommodate public comment and statutory mailing deadlines (SEG 848–924). Clerks noted that the maximum-levy hearing must be separately noticed and mailed within statutory timelines.

The meeting also included routine approvals of prior meeting minutes and a motion to accept Bonnie Ellinger’s retirement, which the board approved (SEG 104–110; SEG 220–226). The board adjourned at the meeting’s close (SEG 1513–1521).