BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Lee County Engineer Ben Hull is concerned a proposed bill in in front of Iowa legislators could damage county bridges and roadways. Senate File 184 was passed out [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERGPCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A change in county code that would make it legal to ride ATVs and side-by-sides on county gravel roads is one step away from becoming a reality. At Tuesday’s [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Supervisors will cast their first vote on a proposed ATV/UTV county ordinance at Tuesday’s regular Board of Supervisors’ meeting. The ordinance is being proposed to control the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – After several weeks of deliberation, the Lee County Emergency Management Agency has changed the way it gathers local funding. At a meeting Monday afternoon, the board voted 5-2 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – As Lee County supervisors grapple with the next fiscal year budget, several departments including secondary roads, the sheriff’s department, and county employee hours were on the table on [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – About 10 residents who live near the 255th Street on the western edge of Lee County want supervisors to stop putting off rehabbing the road. At Tuesday’s regular [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A proposed budget for Lee County expenses for the fiscal year 2020, beginning on July 1, has expenses for the county at more than $30 million. Lee County [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – For the first time in seven years, a supervisor from the southern part of the county will chair the Lee County Board of Supervisors. Supervisor Don Hunold [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Current Des Moines County Attorney Amy Beavers will be joining the Lee County Attorney’s staff beginning March 1. Lee County Supervisors voted at Tuesday’s regular meeting to bring [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Lee County Supervisors could approve a move that would bring Fort Madison attorney Kim Auge and current Des Moines County Attorney Amy Beavers under the direction of [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – Lee County will start working on transitioning two part-time county attorney spots into full-time positions beginning in 2019. At Tuesday’s regular Board of Supervisor’s meeting, the board [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – An ordinance that would restrict the use of “jake braking” in specified areas of Lee County will be on its first reading at Tuesday’s Lee County Board [Read More…]
Lee County Supervisor Gary Folluo rubbed his head in frustration at Tuesday’s board meeting as the county leaders worked through an issue about a maintenance shed that sits between two properties in Argyle. The building [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A county shed in Argyle has been the source of some debate at county supervisor’s meetings of late, and now supervisor’s are putting together costs of a constructing [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Several residents voiced concern to county officials Tuesday about the noise associated with trucks on highways near residential areas. At Tuesday’s regular Lee County Board of Supervisors meeting, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Residents in Argyle are asking the county to clean up a storage shed that residents claim has cost them about $12,000 to maintain over the past decade. Sheryl [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A Keokuk resident told Lee County Supervisors he wants his taxes forgiven on dilapidated property he purchased in June. Dan Winn, a former city councilman and mayoral candidate [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County could have a victim/witness coordinator in place next fall if all pieces fall into place. At Tuesday’s regular meeting of the Lee County Board of Supervisors, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – The Lee County Health Department wants to make sure septic system contractors take more responsibility with work they’re doing in the county. Currently, contractors in the area not [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – After a quote to install emergency generators at the North Lee County office building and South Lee County Courthouse was published last week, supervisors now will have to [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – The Lee County Sheriff was given the nod by Lee County Supervisors Tuesday morning to go ahead with plans to equip vehicles with on-board computers that will [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County supervisors have spent more than four months deliberating over the purchase of on-board computers for the Lee County Sheriff’s department, but final approval coulcd come as [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County employees could face a significant bump in their health insurance premiums when the new fiscal year rolls around July 1 if they don’t participate in the [Read More…]
A heated conversation started last week toward the end of the Lee County Board of Supervisors meeting when Supervisor Ron Fedler suggested that the county not backfill a full-time and part-time correctional officer for the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A replacement for the Lee County correctional officer spurred a hot debate among supervisors as to how to go about controlling spending. At Tuesday’s regular meeting of the [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County Supervisors heard a brief update on a program to put computers in patrol cars beginning in July. At the Tuesday workshop following the regular Lee County [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A Lee County resident has had it with cleaning up the ditches near the county landfill and asked officials Tuesday morning to send a message that enough is [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – A new program to provide reduced cost meals to jail inmates was throttled back by Lee County supervisors Tuesday. Lee County Sheriff Stacy Weber was genuinely surprised when, [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – Four-term Lee County Supervisor Rick Larkin announced Monday that he will be running for another 4-year term on the board. The former Fort Madison City councilman and [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – After several weeks of discussion and a review of county policy regarding maintenance of county paved roads during icy weather, the county has decided to keep the status [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County Supervisor Don Hunold announced today that he will not be seeking re-election to the Board of Supervisors in this year’s election. Hunold, who spent 12 years [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – In a mid-Friday afternoon budget strategy session, Lee County officials settled on a budget that could short the county $158,000. However, during preliminary budget discussions, the county [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Lee County officials continue to trim proposed numbers for the 2018-19 fiscal year as the budget is still about $400K short of balancing. At Tuesday’s Lee County Board [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Two county supervisors are asking the county roads department to take another look at a policy that would prompt quicker responses to icy road conditions on county roads [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – District Judge John Wright, who chairs the Lee County courthouse security committee, put forth a list of recommendations to the Lee County Board of Supervisors Tuesday morning. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – An official with the company overseeing the replacement of property disrupted by the installation of the Dakota Pipeline said all work in the county is stopping this week. [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR LEE COUNTY – The Lee County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to waive remaining property taxes on abandoned nuisance homes in Keokuk, a move they hope spurs economic activity in [Read More…]
PUBLIC NOTICE Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, May 16, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – Clinton Boddicker took the oath of office as the new Lee County Attorney Tuesday at the Lee County Board of Supervisors’ meeting after supervisors approved election results from [Read More…]
PUBLIC NOTICE Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, May 9, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve [Read More…]
PUBLIC NOTICE Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, May 2, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR WEVER – Conversations between the Iowa Department of Transportation and the Iowa Fertilizer Company continued Thursday regarding the possible closure of the crossover at Hwy 61 and 180th Street. Jim [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR FORT MADISON – An official with the Iowa Department of Transportation says closing the Hwy. 61 crossing at the entrance to the Iowa Fertilizer Company is probably the safest thing [Read More…]
Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, April 25, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve Agenda Personnel [Read More…]
PCC STAFF WEVER – Iowa’s Governor Terry Branstad and Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds attended the Iowa Fertilizer Company ribbon cutting ceremony this afternoon in Wever alongside IFC CEO N.V. Nassef Sawiris and other state and [Read More…]
Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, April 11, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve Agenda 9:01 [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – According to County Engineer Ernie Steffensmeier, the Iowa Fertilizer Company wants to close an intersection to cross traffic on Hwy 61. The issue was brought up as part [Read More…]
Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda DATE: TUESDAY, April 4, 2017 MEETING CONVENING TIME: 9:00 A.M. LOCATION: Correctional Center, 2530 255th St., Montrose, IA 52639 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve Agenda Closed [Read More…]
Lee County, Iowa Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting Agenda Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Convening Time: 9:00 a.m. Location: Newberry Center, 728 Avenue G, Fort Madison, IA 52627 AGENDA Pledge of Allegiance Approve Agenda Public Hearing [Read More…]
BY CHUCK VANDENBERG PCC EDITOR MONTROSE – The Lee County Board of Supervisors took one more step to increase the minimum wage in Lee County on Tuesday morning. The board passed 4-1, the second reading [Read More…]
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