Boone County approves consent items, OKs Illegal Dumping Policy; camera purchase tabled

At the April 15 meeting Boone County supervisors approved the consent agenda and several policy and administrative items.

The consent agenda included acceptance of the resignation of Reece Bryant, full-time jailer effective April 16; approval of a pay adjustment for full-time dispatcher Madison Gafkjen to $30.06 per hour (6-month step, effective April 14); approval of an Application for Change in Ownership for Ottawa Vineyards LLC (The Cellar Winery); and county claims totaling $92,278.29 with warrants issued as listed on the agenda. Supervisors Longhorn and Bryant moved and seconded the consent approvals as recorded.

Tim McGlynn presented an Illegal Dumping Policy; the board approved the policy on a recorded motion (moved Bryant, second Longhorn). Separately, a motion to purchase security cameras for the courthouse and Human Services building using jail-rent funds failed for lack of a second; the board then voted to table the camera purchase to verify whether the Human Services building is eligible to receive jail-rent funding (motion Longhorn, second Bryant).

What’s next: the county will post the recorded claims and follow up on the camera funding eligibility; the Illegal Dumping Policy is in effect per the board vote.